How can anyone say music is ruined when Madonna just pulled a ----- out of her ass on live tv?

As barbaric as her crime was, Pike's life before the murder was a nonstop litany of physical and sexual abuse by multiple family members.

I listened to a documentary on her case and the list of abuse and rape she was subject to from when she was an infant to a teen went on for a very long time.

If anything her case is a condemnation of our system and the human condition.

A just and moral society would have spent decades helping her heal and not spent decades trying to kill her.

that'll show him

So, again, take this decision in conjunction with the Piggy immunity decision.

Presidents are above the law, and you do not have right to bodily autonomy.

This literally undoes the magna carta

There IS the 14th Amendment which states the following:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;

The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

See that is amendment that gives Congress power

BUT

Alito's decision in Dobbs specifically states that abortion is not a privilege of the citizens of the US

Thus not a right thus not something Congress can PROTECT

---- Alito said we do not have a right to privacy, but he graciously didn't attack the other privacy rights like interracial or same sex marriage, gay sex and contraceptives

Yet

He didn't attack them because abortion was unique because it destroys what the Court considers a potential fetal life

talk about legislating from the bench. Fetal life is not recognized in the constitution, full stop

He mentally gymasticed himself by saying you don't have privacy in this one instance because of a made up thing "potential fetal life"

he jujitsued himself back to saying for some reason privacy, though not a right, does protect interracial or same sex marriage, gay sex and contraceptives

because an unenumerated right (a right not explicitly written in the Constitution) must be "deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition"

Yet fails to acknowledge that there was not right to inter racial marriage in our history

He relied on a 14th century judge who believed in witches to arrive at that conclusion by the way

Here are the powers of Congress (from the Constitution)

Section 8

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the -------- of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;"And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Point to a power that would allow them to regulate abortions, and especially to affirm the right to access to an abortion.

There are certainly ways for them to LIMIT access to abortions through interstate commerce, but to defend abortion? NOPE

At this point the only way to reinstate it is for democrats to win large majorities in both chambers of Congress and pass legislation protecting abortions rights for women and protecting doctors from frivolous lawsuits.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack

There is no way to do that.

Congress can regulate interstate commerce

Congress can decide how federal money can be spent

Congress can protect people's rights

NONE of that allows "... legislation protecting abortions rights for women and protecting doctors from frivolous lawsuits."

I would love to be wrong, but I'm not

And for those naive souls who think there is any solution on the horizon, keep in mind a few simple facts.

this was a supreme court decision.

SC decisions aren't typically overturned, Dobbs was a rare dodo

It will take a constitutional amendment.

Alito wrote that abortion is not a right.

The SC decided abortion is not a right

that means the only way for abortion to be a right is through an amendment to the constitution.

Congress cannot regulate abortion since it is not a right.

BTW the Roberts court has been one of the most radical courts in our nation's history frequently legislating from the bench, ignoring basic judicial process, creating judicial doctrine (major questions doctrine) out of whole clothe and even outright lying in their decisions.

Because americans are morally bankrupt

So, yeah, don't be surprised on election night.

And the above doesn't touch on a couple of other major factors, the physical and actual disruption and shortages the war is causing AND the coming famine from the loss of fertilizer during 2 growing seasons. Many in the 3rd world will pay for this war with starvation, which will cause migration, which will cause unrest (unrest that will make what Europe saw in the 10's to be nothing).

We are depriving much of the 3rd world and many of our allies to simply not have fuel for their economies and we are seriously disrupting an incredibly fragile food growth and distribution network to poor countries.

No, the future does not look bright and dems maybe taking the house won't change that

And as an aside, the democratic party supports an evil genocide committing regime in Israel, without condition

That is gross and for many, including me, is a deciding issue. I, for one, will not support any candidate that supports giving any money or weapons to Israel.

People don't understand how dangerous the Iran war actually is and the dangers it both possesses and magnifies.

We are on the cusp of a massive economic disruption. Iran is thrusting itself into world power. We are bankrupting ourselves

People need to understand that our economy, our way of life relies on our government's ability to borrow money.

That relies on the dollar being the world's currency and the bargain we have made with most of the world, where we provide defense and they provide economic support including and most importantly buying our debt.

That is collapsing between Piggy's insane tariff policies, threats against allies and the utter embarrassment that the Iran war is.

The Iran war has shown, with indisputable evidence that America no longer has the military capability to protect our interests.

that is a massive sea change.

We can no longer project power.

Our bases, which until last winter were symbols of America's ability to project power wherever we chose, our now albatrosses, targets for cheap drones and missiles

Despite spending trillions our military is showing itself completely and utterly unprepared for modern warfare. Our enemies and allies are taking notes

And we have a Sec. of Def obsessed with testosterone, DEI and beards and NOT transforming the military to what it needs to be-securing the resources (i.e. rare earth metals) and developing weapons and strategies to fight this new war.

Our free market capitalist society is perfectly structured to cause our demise. Our military does not serve the nation's interest, but is driven by profits from a few industries. Their incentive is not to protect America but to generate profits, which means more complicated and expensive weapon systems. Systems which the Iran war have shown to be both useless and too little and all our country can do is double down on those systems, even though we are at China's whim on whether they will allow America to buy sufficient resources to build these systems.

So, with an unwinnable war, with a world wide oil market now controlled, in large part by a nation we are at war with, prices are skyrocketing. the markets are beginning to see this and long term rates are rising and there is NO PLAN to reverse that trend. There is no plan to lower global prices, which means energy and fertilizer prices will continue to rise, meaning the interest rates will rise because of the uncertainty of this economic hit. And as that interest rate increase so does our debt and we are quickly approaching a time when our debt will not be purchased, simply not purchased

I think most of the world is afraid of that happening and are buying it but soon it will become unsustainable.

And remember, Piggy has lost this war, there is NOTHING we can do to change that fact and after the election he will accelerate the war, he is holding off now to avoid yet another price shock before the election. But rest assured between the election and January the war will get really hot and I think there is a very good chance he uses a nuke or at least tries to. There are a host of reasons why he would during that time period.

But even with out a nuke, prices will continue to be out of our control, they are subject to Iran's control of the strait. the world will adjust to that toll, but Piggy needs to surrender, which he won't so the uncertainty will continue.

I disagree, I think we are nearer to collapse then many realize. Yes the pre-civil war time was bad, very bad, but there was cohesion even with the massive immigration and westward expansion on the horizon and despite the pain, the confederacy was never going to win.

We are at a point of collapse and the cohesive force is no longer there and 40trillion in debt and the world on the edge of the abyss does not speak to long term stability