A year after promising viewers a “red tsunami” in the 2022 midterms, only to be left with egg on their faces after the GOP drastically underperformed, Fox News was once again wondering what went wrong after Democrats romped to victory in statewide elections on Tuesday night.
Despite recent polls showing President Joe Biden deeply underwater with voters and even losing to Donald Trump in several battleground states, the Democratic incumbent governor easily won victory over his MAGA-endorsed opponent in deep-red Kentucky. And over in Ohio, a state Trump won by eight points in 2020, voters overwhelmingly passed an amendment ensuring access to abortion care in the state’s constitution.
The continued drag that undoing Roe v. Wade has had on the GOP was especially apparent in Virginia, where Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin had promised to implement a 15-week abortion ban if the GOP was able to gain unified control over the state’s General Assembly. Instead, not only were Youngkin’s hopes of a Republican sweep dashed, but the Democrats now control both chambers.
Hannity also groused that Republicans’ push to ban abortion in states across the country, as well as the reversal of the federal right to abortion, meant that “Democrats are trying to scare women into thinking Republicans don’t want abortion legal under any circumstances.”
When Republicans keep saying things like “total abortion ban”, yeah, we get that impression.
edit: fucking Texas is trying to make it illegal to drive to get around their abortion ban
Show us your PAPERS!!
Don’t mess with Texas, but we’ll sure as fuck mess with you.
Sometimes I wish we could go back to when they were mainly known for open beverage containers, but it was pretty fucked then too.
Fucking Texas made it so that someone that presents male, whom all of their classroom mates referred to as he, can’t participate in a high school play as a male character.
“Don’t mess with Texas, because we’re insecure about a lot of things.”
So, I went to Faux News and looked at their front page. The very top headline is GOP Flips New York Seat Democrats Held for Decades, Causing ‘Political Earthquake’.
This is followed by 29 more stories, including important stories like Couple’s Viral ‘Taylor Swift Jar’ Has Wife Paying Whenever She Mentions the Star and Global Study Names the World’s Booziest Nations - The Top Three Will Surprise You.
Finally, a full 30 stories down the front page, you eventually reach After Dismal Election Night, Republican Candidates Hammer Trump.
As an aside, it’s cute how, when they want to celebrate and promote the feeling that their party is all one big happy family, they refer to themselves as “the GOP”, but when they’re trying to distance themselves from the party, suddenly it’s “Republicans”.
Anyway, well done, everyone!
God damn dude, I’m sorry you had to look at that. Thank you for doing a dirty job so someone else didn’t have to.
“There is no defeat in Ba Sing Se.”
“Democrats are trying to scare women into thinking Republicans don’t want abortion legal under any circumstances.”
- Sean Hannity
I think the GOP did that themselves last year in regards to the 10 year old girl who had to cross state lines into Indiana to get an abortion.
And don’t forget the “life of the mother” exceptions in places like Texas that can only be triggered if the woman is actively dying. If she’s not close enough to death, it is still “carry it to term or else.”
Hey, but the doctor and all the medical staff could bet their medical licenses that the legal gray area would favor them in a particular case.
Of course it might be harder to practice medicine after the hospital execs consult with legal and fire your ass.
But hey, there’s an off chance that legally you could get away with saving the life of the mother before death was imminent. Well, depending on the judge in Texas that day.
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Of course it might be harder to practice medicine after the hospital execs consult with legal and fire your ass.
Its also going to be hard to practice medicine when a distraught husband pays a visit to your office to discuss why you let their wife die. It’s Texas, too. So not only will a doctor have to get yelled at and threatened, he will be yelled at and threatened by the hysterically upset and armed man in his office who has nothing to lose.
Maybe instead of worrying about gaining power through whatever means necessary they actually try doing what their constituents want?
They don’t have a party they have a coup in search of a country.
They don’t have a party they have a coup in search of a country.
Brilliant
That’s the thing. Republican politicians have a corporate mentality. They pretend to care about the customers, but their true allegiance is to the shareholders. And that mentality has worked surprisingly well for them for decades. Pretend to care just enough about social issues, but don’t do anything too controversial, all the while enacting legislation that disproportionately assists the 1%. They had a good thing going.
But they kept wanting more. They kept going back to the social policy well to get more voters because they weren’t getting enough buy-in on their fiscal policies. Now you’ve got more elected politicians willing to push unpopular social policy when just ten to fifteen years ago they knew better for the most part. This new batch of Republicans actually intend to enact their regressive policies when previously they were content with merely stymieing progress and loudly complaining.
Now that they’ve reached a critical mass of people who don’t know better or don’t care, they have started enacting deeply unpopular policies. They don’t know our care how unpopular they are because they can’t imagine anything outside of their echo chambers. They’re listening to the loudest 10 people in the room while ignoring the quiet 200 who will only speak at the voting booth. And voters have finally had enough. They may not love what the democrats are doing, they may even think that the democrats are doing a terrible job, but they absolutely hate what the republicans are doing even more. I’m betting that a large number of apathetic voters are starting to show up.
So republicans resort to every trick in the book to silence the majority who disagrees with them. Gerrymandering, purging voter rolls right before an election, closing poling places and limiting hours, restricting absentee voting, holding special elections during times when voter turnout has historically been very low, enacting voter ID laws… Every single trick they can think of so that only their voices count. And that still isn’t enough.
They’re doing what the people who voted put them there to do. The only problem is that those people apparently don’t actually represent the majority, and republicans absolutely refuse to accept that.
Pretend to care just enough about social issues, but don’t do anything too controversial, all the while enacting legislation that disproportionately assists the 1%. They had a good thing going.
Yeah, overturning Roe was the dog that caught the car. Now that they don’t have their main boogeyman drum (women everywhere aborting all the babies all of the time won’t someone think of the children!) to bang on they’ve got nothing. Savvy grifters like Turtle Interrupted never wanted to actually succeed in passing that kind of extremist legislation, but now the GOP balance has shifted too far down the scale of “pretending to be crazy in order to steal money vs being actually crazy”.
The problem is they are doing what their constituents want, they just don’t have enough of them to get them the power they want because they are evil bastards.
they are doing what their constituents want
It’s worth noting that their constituents are an amalgam of fringe theocratic radicals and check-writing plutocrats. The whole reason Fox exists is that they realized long ago that their policy programs aren’t popular, they instead needed to add circuses to the bread and circuses to be relevant in any way
Hannity: “Democrats are trying to scare women into thinking Republicans don’t want abortion legal under any circumstances.”
Nah, you guys are doing just fine on that without any help at all.
While the other cable news networks stuck with live special coverage for the rest of the evening, Fox News decided that its audience needed a break from the deflating electoral results for conservatives. After Hannity signed off at 10 p.m., Fox aired its regularly scheduled broadcast of “comedy” show Gutfeld!, which was pre-taped and didn’t make any mention of the elections.
Gotta protect their snowflakes from any hint of reality until they can figure out how to spin it properly.
Nah, you guys are doing just fine on that without any help at all.
“Damn, those democrats shat my pants again!”
Democrats are trying to scare women into thinking Republicans don’t want abortion legal under any circumstances
if your opposition’s propaganda consists solely of unedited video clips of you speaking, it’s not propaganda
“Republicans need to look at all of these numbers, and really think about what’s more important. Yes, most people that are Republicans are probably pro-life,” she stated. “And we love our babies. And I love being a mother. But what’s most important? Republicans taking over. And Republicans being able to keep our country!”
Wasn’t expecting them to say this part out loud.
Remember this when any future conservative (I don’t care what party flag they’re flying) tries to claim they are about any policy. If they ever attempt to come up with a policy again.
Rofl Fuck them babies! Power above all else!
Their problem is that they’ve been making abortion a wedge issue for so long, that it’s now impossible for them to back down. They’ve been catering to the religious right, pushing a message that life begins at conception and any form of abortion (and some birth control) is literally the same as murdering babies. And their base ate that shit up.
Now they’re trying to backtrack, which leads to their hilarious message of basically “look, we’re going to have to kill a few babies to get into power, because power is more important.” Good luck trying to sell that.
They are literally sounding like sith lords…
They’re being really blatant about it all of a sudden. Is this sort of statement effective on Republicans voters? Do they not have any sort of cognitive dissonance when hearing one of their beloved Fox and Friends anchors saying this?
You rightoid fuckers HAVE NO POLICIES outside of schadenfreude and bogeyman flavor of the month fearmongering. Conservatives are incapable of governance, and a lot more people are finally catching on.
Oh and tax cuts for billionaires.
While not improving any efficiencies and therefore skyrocketing debt
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In my opinion
PotatoTownTuberville and the rest of the GOP who don’t override the filibuster want to leave these positions open so they can stuff them with Christian Nationalists if they take the Senate next year.They don’t intend to let the next coup fail.
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You rightoid fuckers HAVE NO POLICIES outside of schadenfreude and bogeyman flavor of the month fearmongering.
That’s not true: they have hatred of minorities and women.
To offer my trivial little analysis:
The GOP has happily made themselves into the Trumpism party even in elections where Trump isn’t even running.
Those hard core Trump supporters are only interested in Trump himself (just like Trump is only interested in himself), and aren’t as likely to bother if he isn’t personally involved. To all but the Trump die hards, Trump is odious and that stink has rubbed off to make his detractors very active to fight the GOP at large.
I fear that next year Trump will bolster GOP votes with his fanatics.
I just want to point out that, nationwide, moms for liberty candidates lost 92% of the elections they were involved in. America HATES MAGA
Thank fucking God. They are the worst.
Their platform is literally “ban all the books that might make you, ya know, think”
Kayleigh McEnany actually seemed to correctly diagnose the problem. I was shocked. And then she started in on her solution:
Tomorrow, I want the House of Representatives passing legislation for men to pay women child support from the moment of conception, legislation to make the child tax credit apply to the unborn
Her solution to the vast majority of Americans rejecting GOP ‘fetal personhood’ extremism is to… go right back to trying to shove fetal personhood in through a back door. They really do think everyone else is even dumber than they are.
Her idea to increase SNAP funds for young mothers and add child support for pregnant women isn’t that bad. The funny thing is, Republicans will never go for it. They’re not a party of policies, they’re a party that proposes “gotcha” bills that mock government and tax cuts.
There’s no way Republicans will support any of her ideas. It’s funny that someone on Fox News doesn’t understand that.
The idea of creating pregnancy support and a tax credit for pregnant women is fine. The idea of expanding child support and the child tax credit to pregnant women is all about expanding the legal definition of “child” to include fetuses.
Calling a fetus a child makes as much sense as calling a bee a fish. Incidentally, bees are known to the state of California to be a type of fish (for the purpose of California’s endangered species act).
It is easier to expand an existing program than it is to create a new one.
They really do think everyone else is even dumber than they are.
The one thing I agree with GOP on.
it was time for the GOP to learn to love abortion.
That might be pushing it, but they can learn to get over and deal with it.
Deep-red? As in COMMUNIST?
gottem
Oh the people who make lots of money lying, are whining that their lies not working?
I have only this to say to Fox, Hannity, and Republicans:
Maybd an american can explain the abortion bans: Does 15 week ban mean no abortion after 15 weeks? That sounds reasonable. I thought the bans mean no abortions at all. In germany its no abortion after 12 weeks unless there is serious risk for the mother or the fetus is not viable.
Not an American, but from what I have heard, that along with the outright ban at 15 weeks, they also often include other inhumane things.
Making the woman listen to the fetus’s heartbeat. Forced waiting periods. Parental consent required for minors. Forced counseling. Etc.
Also, medically unnecessary transvaginal ultrasounds and doctors forced to read scripted lies to scared patients. (just thought I’d fill in some of the etc.)
Also, pregnancy is declared to have begun basically four weeks before the last missed period. So a 15 week ban is really an 11 week ban. And you only get 11 weeks if you are regular and are keeping track.
Now keeping track, in some states, is becoming a legal liability. So these antiabortion measures are just going to cause more oopies. It’s just evil for the sake of being controlling.
Yep, it’s not about saving unborn fetuses, it’s about controlling woman
And about gaining power in general. The Ainsley Earhardt quote in the article is very telling.
“Republicans need to look at all of these numbers, and really think about what’s more important. Yes, most people that are Republicans are probably pro-life,” she stated. “And we love our babies. And I love being a mother. But what’s most important? Republicans taking over. And Republicans being able to keep our country!”
She is flat out stating that they should drop the anti-abortion stance if it means gaining and keeping power. Abortion is, and has always been, nothing more than a tool the GOP uses to win elections and now that the tool is ceasing to be useful, they should discard it.
Don’t forget that good ol’ rape by instrumentation.
Part of the issue in the US is that the exceptions in these laws are made purposely vague to make it too risky for doctors to be able to help pregnant women unless they are literally about to die. Not familiar enough with the reasonableness of different week limits for abortion but the main way it’s framed here is that it’s mostly an issue between a woman and her doctor and not the business of politicians
Good video from John Oliver on this topic which just aired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eH2BItdo0M
The “unless” part is important…
The reason it’s not reasonable is based on how we age pregnancy. The counter starts at the last day of your last menstrual cycle. That means the gestational age of the egg might be two days but you’re already 4 weeks pregnant. On top of that a lot of diagnostic tests cannot be performed that early. My wife needed an amniocentesis due to possible congenital birth defects but by the time we had the initial screening, then the diagnostic test, we were at 16 weeks. Add onto that after a test like that the decision has to be made wether to terminate a pregnancy then the procedure has to be scheduled and performed. All in all you’re looking at 20 weeks or so.
A 15 week ban might as well be a total ban.
Does 15 week ban mean no abortion after 15 weeks? That sounds reasonable.
It isn’t, though: It’s forcing birth on someone who doesn’t want it, and probably forcing a child into a bad home.
The vast majority, ~96%, of abortions take place at 15 weeks or earlier. That said, conservatives in America have spent the last 50 years arguing that each individual state should decide how to handle the abortion issue themselves. Now that Roe has been overturned, they’ve immediately pivoted to pushing a federal ban, proving once again that there are no core principles in modern American conservatism.
