The governor of Kansas vetoed four anti-abortion measures. Republicans rammed them through anyway.
The governor of Kansas vetoed four anti-abortion measures. Republicans rammed them through anyway.
"By continuously finding ways to raise the issue and attempting to subvert the will of Kansans, these legislators are not representing the vast majority of those who elected them to office," Gov. Laura Kelly told Mother Jones.
republicans forcing themselves up on the people, how goddamn shocking
the party of non consent and bitchy ignorance, jesus christ I despise them all
149They don’t go away if we don’t vote them out. Check the schedule for your district here.
56Oh, believe me, I plan to.
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The time-traveler John Wilkes Booth showed Abraham Lincoln a vision of the modern Republican Party; the president promptly shot himself in disgust, ironically ensuring that the events that would lead to the waking nightmare we Americans find ourselves in would certainly unfold.
"Sic semper tyrannis" was never uttered by Booth, and was only attributed to him by future Confederate apologists.
He actually said, "Time is a flat circle."
7Forcing themselves on women, in particular.
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I had the misfortune to endure living in Kansas during my adolescence. The abortion fight was really strong in the anti-choice regard. The state appears to be gently moving toward less religious bullshittery, but my adult niece lost friends in high school when she came out as an atheist.
TLDR: don’t be a free-thinking teenager in Kansas.
68The abortion fight was really strong in the anti-choice regard.
The thing is they put this to the vote almost two years ago and Kansans pretty heartily beat it down (59% voted to leave our abortion laws alone). Then they go and do this anyway because they want to.
25Because Republicans don't want to govern, they want to rule.
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but my adult niece lost friends in high school when she came out as an atheist.
The idea that atheism is so abnormal and despised that coming out as an atheist is a thing, is so foreign to me. The world is a weird place. And yeah I know that historically that was the norm, but still.
15I wouldn't say she lost any "friends" in high school.
I think the TLDR is a little misleading as well. Encourage EVERYONE to think for their selves, no matter the location.
15What is; The Definition of Pedantic
7I wouldn’t say she lost any “friends” in high school.
People you spent your teenage years doing kid-stuff with who suddenly get really weird around you, as though you're some kind of alien, because you've been outed as a heretic... its jarring. For you and for them (typically this shit comes from their parents first and involves a lot of screaming and crying).
I watched my younger sister's friend group crack in half their junior year, because it just kinda clicked in someone's head that "Oh shit, I've been hanging out with Muslims this whole time and that's why they won't come to church with me". Half the group tried to "save" the other half, tensions got really heated, and they fell apart.
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TLDR: don’t be a free-thinking teenager in Kansas.
Grew up in a Texas suburb where not being staunchly Christian was a huge problem. But as the neighborhood filled out with East Asian immigrants, it grew more liberal by degrees simply because everyone wasn't going to the same three fucking churches.
The high school I went to that had big student-led church services in the cafeteria in the mid-90s just kinda... stopped doing that by the time I graduated because it was weird and none of the new kids were into it.
Then 9/11 happened and there was a huge backswing. But it was less "be religious" and more "be into country music and hating Muslims". And then a bunch of pasty white ROTC kids went off to Afghanistan/Iraq to get their shit kicked in for years, while more East Asian Muslims moved into the neighborhood.
Now the city council is halfway to a Rainbow Coalition (of Republican-aligned real estate agents) and you'd never even know it was Tom DeLay's home base 30 years ago.
5Damn, how many times did your niece get held back to still be in high school?
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Republicans hate women having power and just want to control them. They're making that clear. They also don't give two shits about life otherwise they would support policies that actually help people live better. Clearly they don't. They don't give a shit about any of us. I feel sorry for the people that believe they do.
40Not shocked that it's Kansas doing dumb Republican shit. After all, it was only a few years ago they went full supply side economics and failed miserably
34. Three bills—which will require doctors to gather and report information from patients about why they are getting an abortion; make it a crime to force someone to obtain an abortion; and allow people to receive tax credits for donations to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers—will now become law.
Why they’re getting an abortion? What the fuck…
22Well, the ultrasound showed that the baby was leaning Republican, so ...
27I love this.
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sigh, so another state's citizenry is going to have to enact a ballot measure for possibly a State Constitutional amendment because of this?
11It is already in the constitution. But sadly, there is no way for citizens to raise bills or amendments.
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Based.
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