Days after Ohio voters passed Issue 1 and codified abortion rights into Ohio’s constitution, Republicans are not accepting the election results.
In a new, unhinged press release issued by the Ohio House Republican Committee, GOP members rant that “foreign billionaires” impacted the election results and call the results tainted by so-called “foreign interference.” It is unclear what they are referring to.
Ohio voters overwhelmingly voted ‘Yes’ on Issue 1 by a margin of 56.6% to 43.4%.
The press release further argues that the results of the election do not invalidate a 6-week abortion ban previously passed by the Ohio Legislature and that “no amendment can overturn the God given rights with which we were born.”
“no amendment can overturn the God given rights with which we were born.”
…so, no birth no problem then?
The really weird part was this:
The amendment’s language is dangerously vague and unconstrained, and can be weaponized to attack parental rights or defend rapists, pedophiles, and human traffickers.
I mean I know that they love to mix things together, but this might be the first time I’ve seen abortion linked to pedophilia and supporting rapists.
It’s just buzz phrase salad that they serve with every issue. Biden=pedo, immigrants=rapists, trans=rapist, abortion=trafficking, literally any issue=just add a,b, or c for justification. It’s a tired recipe, but their customers enjoy it.
Read the text of it.
A. Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on: contraception; fertility treatment; continuing one’s own pregnancy; miscarriage care; and abortion.
Just wait until a pedophile argues in court that having sex with a child is his own reproductive decision and that the child is an individual who made the same decision.
And they would be laughed out of court and into prison. It’s not the fault of the law if someone reads it and understands it to mean something it doesn’t say.
It doesn’t have any language repealing pedophilia laws. Just for clarity.
What a fucking ridiculous stretch. Conservatives are deranged.
I don’t see this part as vague as all.
…one’s own reproductive decisions,…
Your own, not someone elses. If you’re a kiddy diddler abusing a child, then you’re affecting their reproductive decisions since they are under the age of consent. That defense isn’t covered under this amendment. So it would go through the courts as normal. Hopefully ending in a lifetime sentence.
The interpretation of the law is up to the judicial branch and any judge who sides with the pedophile in this case is kissing his career goodbye.
I agree with you, but a law shouldn’t be worded this broadly.
I’m pretty sure they meant that line as a reference to their own god-given right to impose their will on everyone else.
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It’s really funny when they whine about outside money. I didn’t see the GOP up in arms as Citizens United passed, I don’t see them upset when they SuperPACs give money to their campaigns so it seems they only care when it affects them, big fucking shocker there….
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Something something George Soros
Soros is an American citizen, not that this would stop them.
I mean foreign influence was the story of 2016. It was comicly obvious.
I have some shit to say about Trump and Russian influence. Think they want to have that conversation?
They would say:
"Now, if your states blue
And you don’t know where to go to
Why don’t you go where fascist sits
Putin on the Ritz"
Please proceed.
You just got pounded at the polls over this issue. Please keep the rage levels high.
“Let your enemy continue to fuck themselves in the ass.”
~ Sun Tsu (paraphrased)
“We have not even begun to fuck ourselves!”
-Winston Churchill, via Last Week Tonight
They will proceed, that’s the whole idea: proceed until they are stopped.
Pay attention, people. Recognize who you need to vote for in 2024 to preserve the rights that YOU HAVE ALREADY VOTED FOR…
They already set the stage to ignore the election results next year. Look at how many STILL think the 2020 election results were stolen. They’re either enacting laws to overturn the future results they didn’t like or commandeer the offices that handle elections to ignore them.
This time next year will be a very dangerous time for the United States. Even if every sane Republican voter, who recognizes the dangers proposed, votes for a Democrat, it may not even matter. I’m not looking forward to it…
Yeah, I don’t think most people truly grok how pivotal this is going to be. Yeah, they may say the whole “this is the most important election of your life” like they say every time (and it has been every time, unfortunately), but I don’t know how many people truly understand what’s coming.
That’s why they haven’t stopped saying it about 2020. Repeat a lie enough and it becomes true…
Nah. It’s hard to ignore an election in the US because the one thing Americans hate is feeling impotent.
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WTF America. Don’t you have some sort of neutral House Constable with powers to kick out these idiots in cases like this? How can they just ignore official results without consequence?
It sounds like there needs to be a bottom-to-top reform of the law where every ‘norm’ that used to be assumed, gets new enforceable law to back it up.
Don’t you have some sort of neutral House Constable with powers to kick out these idiots in cases like this?
No, we have an impartial judiciary system that… oh wait…
The Republicans think they have a right to rule us without our consent. Sooner or later the military may have to get involved.
Most military members are actually conservative. If we get to that point we’re in big trouble.
The JCoS may be largely conservative but we have to hope they love America enough to fight for it in its intended form as a democracy rather than the fascist ethnostate the republicans want
It’s a wild card, I’m not saying otherwise. The alternative though, could very well be a right wing authoritarian take over. My hope is enough of these guys saw Iraq or Afghanistan to know what it would look like.
Why do you think Tuberville is holding 400+ appointments hostage until the GOP likely takes the senate back?
It’s part of project 2025 to have insurrectionists in the millitary who would support a theocratic coup
Conservative or not, those of us who served, and didn’t just sit behind a desk, know the oath we took. I think you would be surprised how many service members hold that shit in higher regard than a politician’s butthurt response to election results.
The military is full of poor people. What do think will happen if you start turning them on their own families?
Not saying youre wrong but makes as much sense as your “actually conservative” theory.
It’s been 6 hours. You might wait for the process to unfold.
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There is no neutral role, everything can be made partisan.
If the people don’t like the actions of an elected official, they can either try to vote them out in the next election or try to force a recall and replace them.
“No election can overturn our god given right to ignore your rights”
- Republicans
The federal Constitution prevents any state from recalling a member of congress, so your federal reps can not be recalled legally. They would have to be expelled from within the congress, you get to vote and thats it.
Our only recourse is the voters. You see how well that is going.
Don’t shrug your shoulders and say “I guess we’ll wait until the next election.” They have shown what they think of election results.
Take note of how the French do things and fucking protest!
Articles like this are just to make republican voters stop crying. Give them hope while also selling a news article.
Abortion rights will go in effect, and the election results will stay.
Based on what? This wouldn’t be the first time Republicans ignored a constitutional amendment and got away with it.
Exactly.
These chucklefucks got elected on conservative social repression. Now that it’s been rejected, this is a desperate plea to their base not to primary them out next term.
The party of Lincoln sure doesn’t seem like they want a Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
The most worrying part of this press release is the part where they’re saying they’re going to try and reign in the powers of the judiciary to enforce the abortion amendment. Sure sounds a lot like fascism to me.
Sure sounds a lot like fascism to me.
Funny thing, it also looks, smells and feels like it too! I wonder why that is? Please don’t ask me to taste it.
Don’t worry we won’t have to taste it as they forcefully face fuck it into our throat.
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Hey those brave men voted very valiantly on the beaches of Normandy that day!!
No, this is just normal dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. You’re just more politically aware now.
I’m sure some of their Republican voters will be thrilled to hear that…
Oh by the way, I thought the GOP were about state rights?
Not long ago I read the best explanation of conservative brain cancer ever. If you look at everything they say and do through this lens, it all actually makes sense. It’s insanity, but it does make sense internally.
“I get to tell you what to do; you do not get to tell me what to do.”
That’s it. That’s their insane logic. They can’t even elucidate it, but they all follow it.
Exactly. Republican legislators want to rule you, not represent you.
And religious fanaticism is the best vehicle to get that control
They are about their power and their control. Nothing else.
L’etat c’est moi.
They believe that they are the state, and that they should have absolute authority to rule over the residents without any federal government oversight.
Their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications. All that has ever mattered is ingroup loyalty. They think that’s all you’re doing, because they think that’s all there is.
Please stop asking these kind of questions, even sarcastically.
Why do they hate freedom and democracy so much?
Freedom for me, not for thee.
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This is their way of admitting to using foreign interference in our upcoming elections.
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So about those pizza parlors…
I bet Matt Gaetz likes pizza maybe he knows.
I hate the scapegoating of “foreign interference”
It is like saying the problem is Jewish capitalists instead of capitalists
The problem is the legalized buying of elections not that .2 percent of the buy was from scary foreigners.
“You lost. Get over it.” – Republicans, 2016
Hey Republicans. Prove your specific god exists, and I’ll recognize that you have god-given rights.
In the meantime, we have real, objective proof that you lost and need to STFU.
Sounds like they wanna take our freedoms. Hey, didn’t we go to literal fucking war over that once or twice?
Supreme court here we come… oh no…
Issues of State law go to the State supreme court.
Sometimes the Federal court butts in, but those cases are rare.
But this is the sort of reason the USSC was stacked the way it was.
As right-wing as they are, they’ve made a few good calls.
Here go one:
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1200906844/supreme-court-alabama-voting-case
I’m guessing any Ohio Republican that gets this case in front of this court would have his ass handed to him.
By a 5-4 margin, which is terrifying when you realize 44% of the court is totally cool with racist gerrymandering
We watch while another group tries to overthrow
antwo elections.Yes someone posted this on Lemmy so now I can say what I want…
….maybe someone needs to revoke their license to living?
If they want to rule like kings than they can be treated as such
