Posted on 05/06/2022 8:55:35 AM PDT by conservative98
Is it just me, or are you sensing a surprising lack of public outrage over the news Roe v. Wade is likely to be overturned?
For the 40 years I’ve been watching politics, I’ve been repeatedly and incessantly warned by America’s so-called experts that America’s next civil war would be over the issue of abortion, most especially if the Supreme Court overturned Roe.
Well, here we are, about five days after someone leaked a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe, a leak almost certainly designed to create an explosion of fury and, well, where is this explosion of fury?
Where’s Civil War: Part Deux?
This is one of those rare moments where I find myself in agreement with that little cupcake from Who’s the Boss? On Thursday, Alyssa Milano had her own Jeb(!) please clap moment. Using her first wife voice, Milano scolded her fellow celebs over their lack of outrage and activism… “I see all of you celebrities and influencers who are too scared to use you voice on behalf of reproductive Justice,” she screeched. “I see you talking about diets and make up and your new movies as our right to bodily autonomy is being stripped away from us,” she again screeched… Then she begged, “We need you. Get engaged.”
She’s right. No one’s clapping.
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I see all of you celebrities and influencers who are too scared to use you voice on behalf of reproductive Justice.
I see you talking about diets and make up and your new movies as our right to bodily autonomy is being stripped away from us.
We need you. Get engaged.— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) May 5, 2022
IF BRAINS WERE BOOBS....................
Two clients at breakfast. Orthodox Jew and Mexican immigrant. Roe came up. Both in strong support of Alito ruling. Like “of course.”
Well, who is left in the great leftie coalition?
They have blacks (don’t care about abortion since Uncle Sam pays them to breed), queers (don’t care about abortion since they can’t breed), college-educated millennials, Gen-Zers (care about abortion but have been scolded to take a back seat to the blacks and queers and just shut up), and older suburban women (at least half of whom don’t really care about abortion despite tending to knit pink hats).
So who is there to get worked up over this?
Freewheeling Frank
15 minutes ago
The only outrage is manufactured, like the pre-printed protest signs that showed up at the court within an hour of the leak. What they are actually terrified of is when Roe is gone as an issue in federal elections and abortion laws go back to the states where they belong.
I have noticed a distinct lack of outrage among my liberal Facebook family and friends.
The only people fired up are the same people who are always fired up. And these people turn off the independents every time they act up.
I believe the majority of people are pro-life.
I also believe the majority of people voted for Trump.
I believe the media has become experts on “shaping” opinion to benefit a few self made govt millionaires, central planners, and “in-crowd” members of the political elite, all with the purpose of keeping them in power.
They accomplish this by presenting propaganda, making is seem like “everyone” thinks a certain way. And if you are actually with the majority, the media makes you think you are not and something is wrong with you. Plenty of people fall into the “get along with everything” mentality.
The most vulnerable to this brain washing are the millennials.
Where’s the energy?
Where’s the interest?
Could it be… I’m just speculating here… Could it be that maybe-possibly-perhaps-conceivably-perchance that for the last 50 years the corporate media and fake pollsters and left-wing activists and the Democrat party have been gaslighting us into believing ABORTION IS THE ONLY ISSUE THAT MATTERS!
Why the gaslight campaign? Well, think about it…
First off, the threat of Civil War: Part Deux is an effective way to intimidate the Court into not overturning Roe. Secondly, it’s a good way to fundraise and gin up votes.
I do, however, have a second theory…
What if people are at long last sick of Today’s Moral Panic.
What I mean is this…
Imagine you’re a Democrat. Imagine what your life as a Democrat’s been like for five long years. Honestly, it’s been one goddamned thing after another…
Now I have to care about this.
Now I have to care about that.
Now I have to care about this other thing.
From Merrick Garland to Susan Sarandon to #MeToo to Donald Trump to Kids-in-Cages to George Floyd to Charlottesville to Impeachment to Impeachment 2 to Russian Election Interference to Jussie Smollet to Masking Kids to Vaccine Mandates to January 6 to Kavanaugh to the Covington Kids to the Ukraine to Ending the Filibuster to Elon Musk to, to, to, to, to…
Maybe the outrage tank has finally run out of gas.
Maybe everyone other than the Alyssa Milano types, those who have no identity outside of their addiction to being besides themselves, are sick and tired of this shit and just want to go back to living normal, peaceful lives?
Honestly, what is the big deal about overturning Roe, anyway?
Abortion will not be outlawed. The issue will merely return to where it has always belonged: to We the People by way of the legislative process in each state. Any mother who wants to butcher her unborn child will still be allowed to. She might have to order an Uber or get on a bus, but the murder option will always be there… Most left-wing women live in states that will still allow them to kill their baby after it’s born…
So what’s the big deal?
Undoubtedly, we’ll see some protests over the weekend, maybe even big ones, but it’s too late to convince me those protests are organic, are anything but the usual-usual organized AstroTurf.
If overturning Roe was as big of deal as we’ve been warned, the outrage and interest would have been immediate and everywhere, and it’s just not.
You missed one group. The children who might have grown up to agree with their liberal parents, but who were aborted instead.
I’m seeing the usually insufferable virtue signaling among the Facebook Karens at epic levels.
Screeching.
I could be wrong but to me it seems the kids today are happy to fall in love and have a child.
That whole Mary Tyler Moore thing about a woman getting a job and being independent as some kind of reward has been exposed as you have to go to a job you hate and work.
Mary Tyler Moore eventually became a staunch conservative.
About ten percent of the leftists are upset. The rest don’t support the baby murder industry. Some did 30 years ago but that’s history now
Bravo, well stated.
Multiple Media Crisis Fatigue Syndrome.
Maybe Pfizer will come up with a shot for it.
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They’re not getting the outrage they were expecting, and we know this because they’re piling these fantasy issues onto the creaky cart, like “making gay marriage illegal” and “making interstate travel illegal.”
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