Jesus Grandpa, What Did You Read Me This Thing For

mental illness is like what if you accidentally wrote hard cock and balls instead of good morning in that email you just sent to your boss

Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs performing Fast Car at the Grammys

after roe v wade got overturned under biden (a constitutional right we had for FIFTY years) i don’t believe any of the goofy “biden is better for domestic issues” rhetoric . you are lying to me and you are lying to yourself

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this is really ignoring how the three branches interact. Was it SCOTUS who overturned it? Yes but Congress and the Executive branch had their own checks and balances that they could have stepped in. But the threat to abortion was a huge selling point for the Democratic party, so they didn't because if it was codified, they'd lose that.

what checks are there for the supreme court? shooting a justice?

source: https://nccs.net/blogs/our-ageless-constitution/checks-and-balances#:~:text=LEGISLATIVE%20(Congress)%20has%20restraining%20power,power%20to%20nominate%20new%20judges.

And if you think that’s a rebuttal to the previous poster, then you don’t understand the thing you’re quoting here.

Here’s what those checks look like IRL:

-The legislature has the power to pass laws that limit the power of the judiciary, but they don’t currently have the ability to do that as the House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans and the Senate is controlled by the narrowest of Dem majorities which includes a Dem and one ex-Dem independent who repeatedly gum up any progressive legislation. They have been able to pass other stuff to head off potential future SCOTUS challenges — like passing a national gay marriage law — but don’t yet have the votes to do that with abortion. The way to fix this is to vote for more Democrats, especially progressive ones, in the House and Senate.

-The legislature can impeach SCOTUS judges but they need actual grounds that they’ve done things that are illegal in order to do so. “A ruling we don’t like” is not illegal. There is possibly a case to impeach some of them now because of the evidence of people like Thomas and Alito taking financial bribes from conservative activists and politicians, but again, you need votes for that. And Republicans aren’t going to impeach nor remove from office the people who handed them what they wanted on a silver platter over the screams of the populace. The way to fix this is, again, to vote for Democrats and tell them this is what you want them to do. Keep in mind that we need a supermajority in the Senate to actually remove justices from office.

-The key word there is new judges. Biden appoints people when someone resigns or dies (and the Senate plays ball with confirming them, apparently, as they stalled Obama’s appointment after Scalia’s death because… what’s that? Right, they were controlled by Republicans. It’s that pesky voting again!). Unless he decides to pack the court, a thing I personally would love for him to do, but which is unpopular to the extent that it likely lost Dems a few Senate seats in the 2020 election. The way to fix this? 1. Vote for Dems, particularly Joe Biden, because you want a Democrat packing that court, not Trump; 2. tell Biden and those Dem politicians running for Congress that you support court packing and why (directly, as in phone calls and letters, not on social media); 3. Talk to the squishy moderates in your life who just feel some kind of way about Biden having that much power but also are mad about Dobbs or worried about voting rights or sick of gun violence or whatever it is for them, about how if they truly care about the second thing they need to get over their discomfort with the first thing and why. How if things stay as they are because they don’t like the optics of a Democratic president packing the court, the reality is that the SCOTUS is the one that instead has nearly dictatorial power over a public that overwhelmingly disagrees with them. Once again, this is a thing you should be saying to them probably one-on-one, in person or texts or DMs or whatever, tailored to whatever will best convince each individual — not to your entire Twitter feed or Tumblr dash.

So yeah, “Biden can’t stop the Supreme Court as things are now” remains accurate, and you still have to fucking vote. And the OP’s takes would still fail any civics class.

The Judicial Branch has to interpret the law. The check on overturning Roe v Wade would have been simply passing a law legalizing abortion rather than upholding it as it was previously as an interpreted constitutional right. It should be but that’s not the point.

The Democrats controlled the executive and both houses at the time Roe v Wade was overturned. They had the ability to simply codify and legalize abortion. They chose not to. Biden is a catholic first and president second, as evidenced by our current disastrous foreign policy.

This is not a problem solved purely by voting democrats. But they are, unfortunately, still better than the alternative, until more options arise.

The idea that Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Gorsuch would have voted to uphold Roe if only it had been "codified" before the Dobbs decision is so comically naive it should honestly preclude you from being allowed to vote.

They are ideologues, they do not care about jurisprudence, they do not care what their role is supposed to be, they do not care about checks and balances. Their only goal is to advance the cause of evangelical Christian control of every aspect of government and the subjugation of women's bodies. The moment those three were appointed, overturning Roe became inevitable no matter what the law said, what precedent said, what human decency said, which is exactly what we were fucking telling you in 2016 before the election.

The fucking "firebomb a Walmart" crowd out here acting like there's one weird trick to make a fucking christofascist with the opportunity to accomplish the pinnacle of their life's work change their mind by passing a law that would, SURPRISE, also be subject to judicial review would be funny if it wasn't so tragically fucking stupid.

So, I follow this “bad commercial interior design” Facebook page and-

if i got jigsawed and woke up in some moldy room with a makeshift bear trap on my head or whatever i wouldn't even let it phase me. i'm not willing to be taught lessons i'm not paying attention to a puppet. i would close my eyes and visualize abstract forms in jewel tones until a machine tears me asunder. now we've both wasted our time and you won't be able to return anything in this room to ace hardware. what did YOU learn, old man

A porcupine’s Halloween present (+ original sound effects)

I had no idea giant porcupines made fucking precious sounds

THAT’S THE SOUND IT MAKES!?!?!?

UN-BE-FUCKING-LIEVABLE 

We got asked if this is cute and okay. I can very happily say yes, this is stupid cute and those are happy porcupine noises. 

One of my favorite things about doing zoo work was all the noises you never realize the animals make when they’re excited or interested in a new thing. Coatimundis squeak and snuffle, and giant porcupines make that sound. 

Omgggg the sounds.

Teddy is back on my dash and all is right with the world

WE ALMOST TO OCTOBRE POST OF PUNKINBEARS

HI TEDDY I MISSED YOU

Happy October, everyone! Have some pumpkins and a happy porcupine!

Happy Halloween Teddy, I hope you’re still getting pumpkins and other assorted gourds!

“sync your contacts” i’d rather be waterboarded to death actually tysm tho

suicide cable

love when you stop a cat from doing something and instead of understanding that they shouldnt be doing that theyre just like. ah sorry my good sir you seem to have interrupted me. no worries let me just shimmy past you and get a taste of that pan of hot oil. please.

A girl playing with her toys

Now kiss

This is what happens to characters when you write an AU fanfic

Off goes Riker, to the coffee shop.

What if it bites me and it dies?

that means you’re poisonous. jesus christ, nate, learn to read.

What if it bites itself and I die?

It’s voodoo.

What if it bites me and someone else dies?

That’s correlation, not causation.

what if we bite each other and neither of us die

that’s kinky

oh my god

I FOUND THE POST

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

This might be my favorite

This is mine