CardinalBacker

We are sad, particularly if the miscarried one was wanted... But do you really think that a lot of young expectant unwed mothers don't breathe a sigh of relief when an unplanned/unwanted pregnancy ends spontaneously? And as far as sad, every single person's life is a tragedy if you make it to the end. "He died alone." "He died next to his wife of 53 years." "He passed in his sleep." "He died in a car wreck." All tragedies. It's this simple. I find abortion to be morally objectionable. I wish that it weren't legal.... but it is. And I'm unwilling to lose election after election going forward by hanging up on the religious beliefs of a very vocal minority of the public. The same people who say "if you don't want a gun, don't buy one" don't want to hear "if you don't want an abortion, don't get one." It's literally a bunch of old sexually repressed white people raising hell about the fun that everybody else is having in the eyes of most voters.

The first established use of the term in a political context originated in 1818 with François-René de Chateaubriand From Wiki. I have no clue what you're getting at.

Great Examples. With the exception of the fact that Casey actually strengthened Roe, not diminished it. And I'll be honest, I'm not the one defining anything. This entire post is in relation to an Oklahoma law that will criminalize the performing an abortion. If that's not overturning the Roe v Wade, I don't know what is. It's just one politician after another, going out and making these outlandish new rules (like no abortion after a heartbeat).

I’m just saying. “Thou shalt not kill” is pretty specific. Not “Thou shalt not kill (unless the person is guilty of some heinous crime). If you don’t have a problem with murder, you don’t have a problem with murder. Kinda like people who are on their second or third marriage are in no position to criticize gay marriage because God would frown upon it. God wasn’t happy with your divorce, either.

These posts are literally back to back and expose the typical hypocrisy on the Right. If the right ever got back to conservatism and away from trying force their morals, racism and phobias on everybody they'd be unbeatable.

Can you think of a time where the SC has reversed its own self? I can’t. That’s an honest question. And do we really want to live in a country where the law of the land changed course 180 degrees every time the balance of power on the SC shifts to one side or the other. People talk about activist courts and I wouldn’t blame an administration from stacking the court to achieve their means if precedent means nothing because of partisan/activist justices. Denying a woman the right to an abortion was deemed unconstitutional in 1973. Nothing has changed since, other than the balance of power on the Supreme Court. The right way to handle the matter is to amend the constitution… not continuing to take bites at the same old apple. It’s crazy how righties blood runs cold when they think of the Supreme Court re-hearing cases on gun control, etc…. But they’re all for it on this issue. Here’s another question… what happens if the SC hears arguments and decides not to overturn Roe v Wade? Are y’all all gonna take your fetus posters home and get on with your life or continue to “fight the good fight” while completely avoiding the correct solution because you know that it’ll never fly?

I’ll be honest… I doubt that he feels any differently about those unborn children than He does every time we execute a murderer here in Texas. Kinda like I doubt He’s more bothered by homosexual acts than he is bothered by my sleeping around with loose women. Or that He’s offended because two gays want to get married, but doesn’t mind all of us going down to the courthouse to tear asunder what Gawd Himself had joined together. Nothing says “marriage is between one man and one woman” quite like a third marriage. i personally find abortion to be immoral. Luckily I’ll never have to make that choice. But I’m also smart enough to understand that well over half of our population has never lived in a period where abortion wasn’t allowed. It’s what we know, and it’s what we’re used to. And now most of us don’t even bother going to church. But somehow we collectively have some new moral objection to abortion and we’re finally ready to outlaw it as a group? You’d have to be a special kind of stupid to believe that. What’s next? Wait 40 years and then try to get the Supreme Court to ban gay marriage?

No, I don’t really have a voice on the other side. But the right IS the side which I support, and I’m very comfortable calling out behavior that will lead to positions which will lead to our defeat… like nominating trump again.

Enjoy losing.

So you're arguing that slavery and women's rights should be re-examined?

The people on the extreme left AND the extreme right both fail to realize that their views aren't guiding the party, they're driving the moderates away. It's the reason that Trump got stomped in 2020 and will also get stomped again if he wins the nomination in 2024. The public literally elected a buffoon and a black woman (because face it... that's the only reason she even got on the ticket) because they hated Trump.... nothing has changed.... they still hate him. Want to lose in 2024? Keep yelling about abortion, building walls ("send 'em back") and any other platform drives the moderates away. It amazes me how the extremists on both sides believe that they can cram their garbage down everybody's throats because THEIR flavor of crazy is "right" and the other guys' is "wrong." We've literally got rampant inflation, a possible global conflict, supply chain issues, the ongoing pandemic, a crime wave, and all Republicans want to talk about is stripping a young woman's right to an abortion. Makes perfect sense. But the babies!! Face it.... nobody cares about those unborn children. And they danged sure don't care about those children who actually survive childbirth to mothers who didn't want them. What they really want is for THEIR version of morality to be enforced on everybody. How many of y'all make annual donations for poor/needy kids? Anybody here ever adopt a stranger's kid? I didn't think so.

No, sir…. If pro lifers had the support of the states, we’d have already had the amendment ratified. But pro lifers won’t even put up a bill in the house or senate because they are well aware that they can’t even get 2/3 of legislators to agree, much less 3/4 of the states to ratify. Isn’t it crazy that those “I know my rights!” voters on the right are the ones out here trying to eliminate a right that has been legal in the us for 49 years? When you sound off about taking away someone’s right to have an abortion, you sound like those yahoos that talk about repealing the second amendment. “If you don’t like guns (abortions) don’t get one!” Isn’t that what they always say?

This is one of my big fears. I can't wait to see which jerk from the Republican side starts calling for Biden to be impeached immediately after the mid-terms based not on "high crimes and misdemeanors," but rather on " because they did it to Trump two times."

And your argument means nothing to the 50% of Americans who believe it's their God-given right to do whatever they want with their own body. Has the Supreme Court ever reversed a key decision like Roe v. Wade? I can't think of a single time, so there's that. The correct way to resolve this dilemma is with a Constitutional Amendment that would ban the practice. But neither side has the voting power to do so, so the new plan will be to create new laws at the state level that will be challenged every single time there's a switch in the balance of power on the Supreme Court? That's not how this is supposed to work. We've had 49 years to legislatively correct the decision in Roe v. Wade if we felt like the decision was wrong... but the pro lifers don't (and never have had) the votes to get it done. The Supreme Court has ruled... it is what it is. There's a way to fix it, and it's not by making a run at having the Supreme Court re-hear the same old issue. I'm certain that the same people who oppose abortion are also the same ones raising hell about passing out rubbers at school, too.

I get so tired of seeing politicians whipping this dead horse just to get their supporters riled up. The people cheering this are too stupid too realize that it's no different than those whackos fighting for a woman's right to abort up until (and after, apparently) birth. Yeah, it gets your side whipped up, but it also energizes the other side to vote against you. It's a net nothing, except tying up tons of time and money to fight about a settled issue.

I'm not.... Silsbee won exactly as many playoff games as we did. Silsbee was way short on talent this year.

"THIS IS A TRAVESTY!!!!!" Sincerely, Silsbee Fan

Trump literally spent 6 years insulting Arizona's favorite son, John McCain, then couldn't believe that the state flipped to Democrat. Words and actions have consequences. And to assume that those 11,000 votes (not proven fraudulent, just missing ID... "allegedly") would have all gone either way is a pretty big stretch. The fact that there were more votes missing ID requirements for mail in voting is somehow fraudulent while overlooking the fact that more people actually voted by mail is just ignoring the truth. What happened to the big audit(s) that they did in Arizona? If I remember correctly, Biden got MORE votes after the Trump backers audited the thing. EDIT.... [Hidden Content] Yeah, that's how it happened, all right.

I hope he's working with kids. He's got a gift.

You mistakenly thought I was talking about one specific party. There's no difference between hacks calling themselves media on the left and hacks calling themselves media on the right. OAN, Newsmax, and most of those sites that Reagan links are just as biased, just in the opposite direction.

He's in his mid fifties, if I'm guessing correctly. He may have the time in, but he doesn't seem like the "pack it up and stay home" kind of guy.

The Right to Free Speech was placed first in the Constitution because it's the most important one. The right of the press of speak about government is the lynchpin of democracy... without it the rest falls apart. It's really sad because we've lost the right to speak up about the government by default. The media has chosen a side and now actively works to further the ends of one political party at the expense of the other. There's really not much difference between the state-run media in totalitarian regimes and what we have here.

What's Coach Dubois gonna be doing?

wellllllll..... what do we have here?

I find it remarkable that as the "Good ole" racism that we read about and somewhat experienced via our parents' attitudes has gone away, the animosity between the races is worse than I can remember in my lifetime. 49/male. I can honestly remember talking to guys from East Texas in the mid nineties (in the era of the James Byrd death) and them claiming that they expected a race war to follow. I thought it sounded like complete nonsense from white supremacists. It doesn't seem that far-fetched these days. My grandfather was born in 1903... he grew up in the era of lynchings. People haven't gotten away with that mess in my lifetime, but yesterday we signed a law into effect banning it. I'm unaware of a single "lynching" that has occurred in the interim. I don't understand the point of holding people today accountable for things that happened years ago. There's a very troubling show on Paramount+ that's worth a watch. It's horrible and I honestly never realized how bad it was.