You know why we only hold power and never use it? Because using power makes enemies! When you do something, there's always going to be somebody who doesn't like it. And we don't like what you did! Now we're mad! Backlash time, baby! Finally enough people are going to be angry enough to vote and oh baby it's coming for you. And what are you gonna do about it? Make it impossible to vote? Lol. Stack all of us into one district? Lol. Infiltrate the bureaucracy with ideologues and administratively coup the government if you lose anyway? Lol. We're going to vote in numbers too big to steal. I've already filled out my mail-in ballot. You fucked up.
You know why we only hold power and never use it? Because using power makes enemies! When you do something, there’s always going to be somebody who doesn’t like it. And we don’t like what you did! Now we’re mad! Backlash time, baby! Finally enough people are going to be angry enough to vote and oh baby it’s coming for you. And what are you gonna do about it? Make it impossible to vote? Lol. Stack all of us into one district? Lol. Infiltrate the bureaucracy with ideologues and administratively coup the government if you lose anyway? Lol. We’re going to vote in numbers too big to steal. I’ve already filled out my mail-in ballot. You fucked up.
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I am torn between thinking this is a hilarious pasta, and wanting to find the person and bully them into a coma
It's not real; I wrote it.
I mean I probably still deserve bullying
The :LIB: singularity, when you literally can't tell what's satire and what's sincere.
If anyone has any accounts on other sites I'd like to see how this plays
Tbh I really gotta hand it to the conservative ideological project. They undoubtedly realized that a repeal of Roe in a vacuum would undoubtedly actually cause this sort of backlash the libs are imagining would happen, but they've been frog in a pot of boiling water-ing the whole thing so as to neuter any response.
Their strategists just running laps around the Dems for generations here.
Here's to a full backlash against the entire fucking government. Tired of hearing how Democrats are going to win by Republicans losing, when they're two sides of the same coin.
I should have linked the /r/politics thread
For all those saying "it was bad precedent"
Here is kavanaugh directly contradicting you and lying to Congress on top of it.
This was a decietful, ideological sabotage of the justice system that goes against the wishes of most of the country.
You have chosen conflict, not us.
Deal with it.
End of discussion.
Well, I'd like to see ol Supremey Court wriggle their way out of THIS jam!
They act so hard in their writing but then they sing Hamilton songs and take pictures of themselves crying.
FTA
Republicans, said Sarah Longwell, a moderate Republican strategist who became a vocal supporter of Joe Biden in 2020, are now “the dog that caught the car.”
“Then what? The motivation moves to the left in terms of who feels they’re the ones who have to be on offense,” she said. “People will fight harder for a thing that they want rather than reward people for a thing they already have.”
BEFORE WE DIDN'T WANT ANYTHING
NOW WE CAN WIN BECAUSE WE'RE FIGHTING FOR SOMETHING :agony-shivering:
Thank you republican turned democrat circa 2020! You got the titular line of my article!
Republican strategist
We purposely trained her wrong, as a joke
Every single person quoted in the article is either a republican or was a republican before 2020
My Conservative father in law was just talking about this. Just so everyone's clear, they think the Democrats are the ones that reversed Roe v. Wade. He legitimately blamed it on the Democrats because "They have the majority in Congress and could have stopped it if they wanted to" Like, homie, I don't know where you're getting your information from but this was the Supreme Court, not Congress. Whatever propaganda the far right is spewing on this topic is already making conservatives blame Democrats for getting conservatives way. Its just so stupid and exhausting that they spent 50 years trying to accomplish this and within a day of it happening they've already done a complete 180° and are now somehow apparently in support of abortion rights and are blaming Democrats for not stopping it from being banned. Call me crazy but it's almost like there's absolutely no issue that matters to them at all other than hating Democrats for anything and everything, even it means making up things to be mad about.
pure :brainworms:
There probably is a sizable segment of the republican base that was convinced they were just dangling all these social issues in front of their base like the democrats do, who are faffing about with each other coming up with the party line. I hope this one is the winner so liberals are getting it in both ears.
Yea, owning the libs to spite yourself isn't wildly popular or anything.
I saw this and I don't think it's saying what you're assuming it's saying
Almost no political professional — Republican or Democrat — expects the court’s decision on abortion to upend the electoral landscape severely enough to keep Republicans from winning the House in November. In recent elections, abortion has not been the motivating issue that Democrats once anticipated it might be, and even polling earlier this month, when Roe was widely expected to be overturned, had abortion falling below other concerns, including jobs and the economy, as an issue of significance to voters.
At best they are saying that democrats should fold this into an overall longer term strategy relying on backlash to overreaching Republicans.
That there might be an upshot if Democrats politic well (🤞 lol) isn't the same thing as celebrating a victory lap for losing.
What copium. I'll tell you what a dog does when it catches a car, it'll bite the people inside soon as they open the door and piss all over the damn thing.
When I first saw that article I thought it was going to be about Republicans who will come to regret the decision when they personally need an abortion.
