Miserable
Posted June 25, 2022
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The liberals made my life miserable for 43 years. And I’m going to make their lives miserable for 43 years.
Clarence Thomas to his clerks in 1993
This is the petty schmuck who has led the charge to make all the people he hates – women, LGBTQ+, and non-Christofascists in general – into property of the State. I say “the State” because the federal government, in the person of six ideologues who never should have been confirmed to the Supreme Court, has removed basic privacy protections from all of us.
The State has decided that only women who live in blue states will have rights to their own bodies. In essence, when one person is denied the guarantee of freedom, it opens up the precedent that everyone can be denied the guarantee of freedom. Thomas and the five ChristoClowns have decided that no one has rights to their own bodies except white, straight, Christian men. (I think Clarence Thomas counts himself as white – that’s the only explanation for his buying in to this anti-American bullsh*t.)
As Quixote pointed out in comments, this is the re-establishment of slavery; but Slavery 2.0 casts a much wider net than the original. Friday’s decision removed basic human rights from 166 million women and girls. And each of those women and girls has many people that love her and will grieve her pain along with her. So when she is raped and has to bear her rapist’s child, or dies in childbirth, or dies from an ectopic pregnancy, or lives in poverty and misery because she can’t afford a child, this suffering doesn’t just impact her. It impacts everyone around her.
The horrors that will spread from this decision are unimaginable, and I think we are all incredulous that no one could see it coming in 2016. Young white people in particular should have come out in droves to vote for Hillary, but no. They couldn’t be bothered because “both parties are the same” and “Bernie woulda won.” Do y’all get it now, Gen Z and Millennials? You’re the ones who will actually be impacted by this. I’m going to be 55 this year and can no longer get pregnant, which oddly, makes me feel guilty that I won’t be directly miserable along with so many others. (Jewish guilt is rough.)
For those who say this will only impact women of color, and wealthy white women in red states will be fine because they can travel to other states, I think they’re in for a surprise. The Christofascists have thought of that loophole. They want to test women for pregnancy before allowing them to travel out of state. And, they want to criminalize miscarriages. Sounds like Slavery 1.0, doesn’t it? Will they be sending bounty hunters to capture runaway pregnant women if they cross the border “illegally” to states where they’re not considered property?
Based on the wave of protests that started on Friday and will likely continue, as well as the vast majority of Americans who disagree with SCOTUS, this terrible decision will drive enormous turnout in 2022 and the Democrats will increase their majorities in the House and Senate. (This doesn’t even count the impact the J6 hearings have had on the QOP – but that’s for another post. That will also be quite significant.) Nevertheless, I agree with Quixote, DYB and other Widdershins that every Democrat running for office in 2022 needs to be on message as to what they are going to do to fix this. I’d like to hear them say three things: 1) I will vote to amend the filibuster to make progress on legislation the Republicans are blocking; 2) I will vote to expand the Supreme Court and 3) I will vote “yes” on the Women’s Health Protection Act. None of these things can happen without two more Senate Democrats to nullify Manchinema’s inconsistent insistence on keeping the filibuster sacrosanct sometimes, whatever whatever.
The QOP has massively overstepped both their power and their mandate. They may be celebrating now, but they will be crying in November, and for decades to come. And Clarence Thomas, you will be f*cking miserable for the rest of your disgusting, pathetic life.
144 Responses to "Miserable"

Great post MB.
I wrote a fairly long comment and WP decided to dump it in the trash.
I might try again later…


Great post, MB.
Trump made it ok to be racist again. To be openly, rawly, racist. Now SCOTUS has done the same thing to women. All of that pent up hatred towards women – that’s been building since Roe V Wade – can finally be let out of the bag. Yikes it’s ugly. But I suppose it’s a relief for them.
I think the QOP has done a good job of placing bombs around themselves and now those bombs are armed. I’ll be very disappointed if they don’t go off.


@15 Unfortunately, quixote, those women are a dime a dozen here. You don’t have to look very hard.
@14 You’re absolutely right, quixote. Dump deserves all the credit. It’s his SCOTUS after all. And he did make it ok to hate women before that. Not just ok – MANLY. (barf)


“both parties are the same”
It worries me that that same rhetoric is getting popular again on the Left. It’s bullshit and it’s destructive. It gave us W and it gave us Dump. (I was spouting the same crap calling Obama “Republican in Dem’s clothing” so I’m not innocent).
But I do agree with what you said @13, quixote. Dems are not meeting the challenge as well as they need to. Like DYB was talking about. They don’t have the sense of urgency that’s needed.


@18 That attitude is sick and disturbing, but it really is common in red states. You know, I really had high hopes in 2016 that there were a lot of red state white women like me. Keeping their real opinions to themselves, but in the privacy of the voting booth, would pull the lever for Hillary. Nope. Too many are brain-dead true believers. That’s what white women get rewarded for by white men in red states. And they definitely get punished for not toeing that line. Woo-eee. Can’t you just hear all the silent “good girl”s being said by the men and women around her? I might get clobbered for saying this, but other women here are just as good about keeping women in line as the men. Ginni Thomas es.
“Madam, there is a special place in hell awaiting you.” Yes! It might be a bit crowded…


I agree with all of you. The Dems want to be the ‘White Hats’, the ‘Good Guys and Gals, the ones walking around with tilted halos.
Most of them are cowards when it comes to a fight.
Congress needs to get real, to not be the ones that bring a pepper shaker to a damn gun fight. They don’t want to break any rules while they and the majority of American’s get trampled.
Just talking doesn’t win, putting up your dukes and brains and outsmarting the deplorables is the only way they can save women and contraception, and the right to love and marry the person that makes you happy.
Until I see some real fighting going on, I will not hold my breath for Dems.
Fight like Hillary did, like RBG did and like the suffragettes did.
Keep your hollow words to yourself, sit in the corner until you get the courage to fight !


@24, Luna I love that idea! Even if such actions go nowhere, the bell would be loudly rung and you can’t unhear it. Schumer needs to go. I think Amy Klobuchar would be a great Senate Leader, but I guess that is yet another political process that needs to be revisited….
This morning I heard two young women at a demonstration interviewed. One said you have to get rid of all the old white people (not old white males) in Congress. My first thought was, does that purge include Bernie? My second thought was, does that mean we older voters need to go as well to get what they want? There is much talk about the rising tide of young voters. Are we going to have an expansion of The Squad? One thing is certain, we need more women in both houses. The infusion of young ideas and energy is a good thing but I would hope the majority of the new order would be mature enough to understand the levers of power and how to work them to advantage.
I would like to see Pelosi groom Katie Porter to succeed her along with Hakeem Jeffries (I heard he was the current heir apparent). I love her brand of kick ass.
Warren is an exceptional advocate for whatever issue lights her up. She is succinct, energized and focused on both problem and solution. I think she can be utilized as a face of the new Dem Party, assuming there is going to be one….


Don’t even get me started on kicking out old white women.
The young voted for damn Bernie over Hillary, and stayed home because Bernie did not win the nomination.


Republicans were bad before, but they’re downright terrifying now. I was a PUMA. The avalanche of misogyny from the Left in 2008 did me in. It was like an oil spill that kept gushing and gushing day after day. I still have PTSD from it. But I got to “meet” a lot of great people who are still going! 🙂
I don’t know. Maybe Berniebros feel the same way about not having their college tuition paid for.


“The QOP has massively overstepped both their power and their mandate. They may be celebrating now, but they will be crying in November, and for decades to come. And Clarence Thomas, you will be f*cking miserable for the rest of your disgusting, pathetic life.”
YES! As Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones) said:
“I will hurt you for this. A day will come when you think you are safe and happy, and your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth. And you will know the debt is paid.”


@40 OMG, I love that!!


@45 Wow.


@52 It’s kind of a mixed bag. I know some who are total hypocrites and wouldn’t hesitate to assist their daughter or granddaughter in getting an abortion if needed (and some have – that I know of). They’re like Jeffrey Clark answering the question of how would you feel if Gore had done that… Like, “if you want that choice for you and yours, why shouldn’t other women have the same choice”? Nada connection there. Fine for them, bad for others, end of story. I think they’re iffy on believing it’s murder – they’re mostly just being good tribe members in their anti-choice-ness.
But we also have the psycho insane zealots. Scary women. Who do believe it is murder and would never take any part in it. One such lady had an unmarried adult daughter (in her mid-twenties) who got pregnant and this lady was merciless in shaming her daughter for it – for bringing shame to HER. You would have thought it was the end of the world. I don’t know how things eventually turned out because I lost touch with the family. I would be shocked if the story had a happy ending.


I do think there are anti-choice women who do believe it is murder and have abortions anyway. Or assist someone having an abortion.
“they’re saying they’re murderers and it’s okay.” Yes. When they do it, it’s ok. That’s just how right wingers roll.
I’m curious how men are going to react to this decision. They’re not big on unwanted babies. I watch too much of the ID channel, but there have been several cases of men killing their pregnant girlfriends because the woman refused to have an abortion and the man didn’t want to pay child support.


Great points, MB!
“It just goes to show that the basis of this anti-choice zealotry is a pure, bone deep hatred of women.”
Absolutely. This is about hurting women. However, in their zeal to hurt women, I think they underestimated the potential harm to themselves.
There’s a scene in “West World III” where Jerry is going after Dolores with a golf club looking to bash her head in and just as he’s swinging, she disappears. She was a hologram. The follow through of the swing lands Jerry in the swimming pool, busting his own head on the edge of the pool and dying.
Things could go something like that for the GOP. The law of unintended consequences.


Democrats need a strong voice ready to fight to restore women’s rights, now that the Supreme Court has struck down Roe v. Wade.
There’s only one Hillary Clinton.
Right-wingers on the Supreme Court rescinding the constitutional right to abortion “is incredibly dangerous and it is not just about a woman’s right to choose. It is about much more than that,” Clinton told CBS News back in May, when a draft version of Friday’s decision emerged.
“Any American who says, ‘Look, I’m not a woman, this doesn’t affect me. I’m not Black, that doesn’t affect me. I’m not gay, that doesn’t affect me’ — once you allow this kind of extreme power to take hold, you have no idea who they will come for next,” she said.
Go, Hillary.
Unlike most Democrats at a loss for a midterms message, Clinton knows how to deal with the far right’s bullying.
The GOP’s media echo chamber long ago demonized her. She still beat Donald Trump in the popular vote in 2016.
Now it is her turn to lash the GOP extremists for ending nationwide abortion rights, putting more guns on the streets, punishing corporations for supporting gay rights and dismissing history lessons on race as upsetting to white children.
Clinton is exactly the right person to put steel in the Democrats’ spine and bring attention to the reality that “ultra-MAGA” Republicans, as President Biden calls them, are tearing apart the nation.
The Supreme Court justices last week acted as political enforcers for extremist views that are far out of line with public opinion on abortion and gun safety.
They opened the door to women losing control over their lives without the right to have an abortion. They also gave a pass to more violent shootings on the streets by striking down a New York safeguard that required people who want to carry a firearm in public to demonstrate a specific need.
These decisions amount to a political powerplay by former President Trump’s three nominees.
Biden measures his words about the far right out of fear of being charged with further polarizing the country.
So let Hillary roar her message to suburban white women who will be key to deciding the outcome of the midterms.
She already bragged back in April that Biden and congressional Democrats have had a “lot of good accomplishments” in the last two years, including passage of a long-delayed infrastructure bill to strengthen America’s roads, bridges and electricity grids.
She is pumping up Democrats for passing the financial aid package that kept many families afloat through the pandemic.
Without a strong voice like Clinton’s, those Democratic accomplishments get drowned out by Republican culture wars centered on hatred of transgender children, fictions about whites being replaced and the embrace of the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
Clinton has the added potential to change the national conversation by scolding social media sites, newspapers and television networks for attempting even-handed treatment of both parties, even though one party is now an autocratic cult complicit in a violent insurrection against the U.S. government.
“I don’t think the media is doing its job, to be honest,” she recently told Harry Lambert of the British publication The New Statesman.
She added, “The mainstream media hasn’t yet caught up to the reality we live in. They are much too reluctant to stand up for the truth in the face of massive lying — to call a lie a lie — to be on record as saying that we are in a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism, and it can’t just be business as usual.”
In a separate interview with Edward Luce of the Financial Times, Clinton even called out fellow Democrats for the excesses of “woke politics.” She labeled it as a distraction that feeds right-wing media’s distorted image of mainstream Democrats.
“We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy, and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window,” Clinton said.
“Look, the most important thing is to win the next election. The alternative is so frightening that whatever does not help you win should not be a priority.”
The U.S. needs “leaders who endeavor to bring out the best in us, not the worst, who don’t play to our fears, but help us address them,” Clinton said in Britain.
(snip)
(The Hill, Juan Williams)


MB thanks for the heads up on tomorrow’s hearing at 10 AM West Coast time. 😉


I love her.
All the time, I wish she hadn’t been so atrociously treated that she’ll never run again.
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Me too, Q.


The DOJ, (some FBI people), took John Eastman’s phone, had him unlock it.
This info came from Eastman’s attempt in court to block the DOJ from getting info from his iPhone.


I think WP is run by a bunch of Rethugs.
I just wrote a fairly short response to GAgal and the RatFcukers…and it got dumped by the dumpers.
Hell if I am going to copy every damn post so the RFers don’t shred it.
F WP!!!


GAgal, just keep RatF-ing the tiny red brains in your state.


I think we need a name for non-christian Christian Fundamentalists. Falsies?


@71 Great point, but HOLY SHIT on the Boy Scouts.


77 GAgal
My posts get dropped all of a sudden after months of everything going through, then out of nowhere, it starts up again…but not for every post. It used to be that short posts made it though, but I can’t count on that either.
Most of the time I refuse to say the same thing twice, and now I don’t want to copy/paste either.
I don’t know the logic of how this software works, unless there are built in word triggers.


This ight be the reason for the hearing tomorrow –
Former Meadows aide will testify before January 6 committee on Tuesday, sources say –
Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and a witness to many critical events and conversations, is expected to testify publicly on Tuesday before the select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack, according to two sources familiar with the matter.


*might


@78 It’s frustrating. I copy, but if a comment gets rejected, it usually gets rejected the second time too. I’ve even tried changing words I thought might be trigger words, but it didn’t work. I also take it personally when it happens.
@84 I totally agree, quixote. Well said.
Really looking forward to today’s hearing!


Wow, this hearing is damning for Dump. More proof of a crime.


Amazing hearing today. Worth watching.


I’d like to know…
Number of children sexually assaulted by Catholic nuns:
Number of children sexually assaulted in the Girl Scouts:
Number of children sexually assaulted by drag kings:
Just pointing out the common denominator here…


I haven’t been able to watch any of the J6 hearing today. Bummer! I have everything recorded – the actual hearing and the MSNBC recap. Maybe I’ll save it to watch July 4th. 🙂


105
Good for Nancy giving the middle finger to her local priest.


108
Clearly the Archbishop is a misogynist and has no right refusing for her to receive communion for her belief that women’s health is not up to a church, a random man nor any political beliefs. Imagine how many other women and girls he has hurt by this bs.
My last long term relationship ended when we argued over a woman’s right to choose and I told him that his opinion and any other random man’s opinion on the subject was none of their business. Only the father of the child and the woman’s doctor mattered.
We had a huge fight and I told him to leave my home and I refused to ever see, speak or write him again.


How’s about this one? John Dean has a good suggestion.
Remember Cippolloni said-we’ll have blood on our hands.


In a setback for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican lawmakers, a Florida judge has ruled that a new state law banning abortions at 15 weeks is unconstitutional and he intends to block it from taking effect on Friday.
In a verbal ruling on Thursday, Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge John Cooper said he would be issuing a temporary statewide injunction that will go into effect once he signs the written order in the challenge brought by some Florida abortion providers.
The decision is a short-term victory for abortion rights advocates in Florida and it comes a week after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated a constitutional right that had existed for half a century. For the time being, abortion in Florida will remain legal until 24 weeks into a pregnancy, making the state one of the most permissive in the south.
CNN


@108 Put that way, it is hilarious! But to me it just goes to show that the Catholic Church, or any religion really, operates on the whims of men. Always has, always will. And SCOTUS has decided to treat the Constitution in the same way.


This is only relevant to MSNBC watchers and maybe not even to them.
I’ve had an epiphany. Joe and Mika are a vaudeville act (or what I think of by the word vaudeville). Joe misbehaves. He says something naughty. Mika pooh poohs. Oh Joe, you shouldn’t say that. The same thing over and over and over. It used to be I could pay attention to the discussion – which is sometimes quite good – but now I can’t get past it.
It’s like Bill Maher’s show when I realized it wasn’t possible for me to drink the punch without tasting the turd in it.


Super cute Corn-Dog.


Ha ha ha, Shadow. I’d love a corndog like that!


What really galls me is that I’m a taxpayer. I’m paying for the salaries of these supreme assholes and I don’t even have the choice to vote them out.
I choose not to belong to the Catholic Church. I don’t support it in any way and they can do as they please to women (and children) – that’s religion. Ok, not children. They should be prosecuted for that.


I wonder if vasectomies will some day be banned as a form of birth control, and Viagra will be added into the US constitution for white men’s health and pleasure.


@130 That’s a step in the right direction for sure.
@132 Yes, another thing the Catholic Church is against. The Church is against any kind of responsible adult behavior regarding reproduction. The rabbit should be their mascot.


@134 Yeah, they started out little in Game of Thrones too. 🙂
Seriously, they’re fascinating. I’ve never seen one before.


Two things I have recently learned about Pat Cipollone:
He was/is a Rush Limpdick dittohead.
He and his wife are good rabbits. 10 children!
Neither of which are relevant to his yellowbelly hiding from the J6 committee.


@139 Ha! That’s incredible. Go New York! Could they do something like that in Washington DC I wonder?
I agree, socal. Extremely brave. She makes the rest of them look so pathetic, including the secret service.

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