Days after Ohio voters passed Issue 1 and codified abortion rights into Ohio’s constitution, Republicans are not accepting the election results.
In a new, unhinged press release issued by the Ohio House Republican Committee, GOP members rant that “foreign billionaires” impacted the election results and call the results tainted by so-called “foreign interference.” It is unclear what they are referring to.
Ohio voters overwhelmingly voted ‘Yes’ on Issue 1 by a margin of 56.6% to 43.4%.
The press release further argues that the results of the election do not invalidate a 6-week abortion ban previously passed by the Ohio Legislature and that “no amendment can overturn the God given rights with which we were born.”
“no amendment can overturn the God given rights with which we were born.”
…so, no birth no problem then?
The really weird part was this:
The amendment’s language is dangerously vague and unconstrained, and can be weaponized to attack parental rights or defend rapists, pedophiles, and human traffickers.
I mean I know that they love to mix things together, but this might be the first time I’ve seen abortion linked to pedophilia and supporting rapists.
It’s just buzz phrase salad that they serve with every issue. Biden=pedo, immigrants=rapists, trans=rapist, abortion=trafficking, literally any issue=just add a,b, or c for justification. It’s a tired recipe, but their customers enjoy it.
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What a fucking ridiculous stretch. Conservatives are deranged.
And they would be laughed out of court and into prison. It’s not the fault of the law if someone reads it and understands it to mean something it doesn’t say.
It doesn’t have any language repealing pedophilia laws. Just for clarity.
I don’t see this part as vague as all.
…one’s own reproductive decisions,…
Your own, not someone elses. If you’re a kiddy diddler abusing a child, then you’re affecting their reproductive decisions since they are under the age of consent. That defense isn’t covered under this amendment. So it would go through the courts as normal. Hopefully ending in a lifetime sentence.
The interpretation of the law is up to the judicial branch and any judge who sides with the pedophile in this case is kissing his career goodbye.
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It’s really funny when they whine about outside money. I didn’t see the GOP up in arms as Citizens United passed, I don’t see them upset when they SuperPACs give money to their campaigns so it seems they only care when it affects them, big fucking shocker there….
What type of foreign interference gives a flying fuck about Ohio specifically having abortions? It’s such an unhinged thing to think foreigners would care about. But these same foreign bodies just snoozed through Ohio going mostly Red the past 6ish years?
Something something George Soros
I mean foreign influence was the story of 2016. It was comicly obvious.
I have some shit to say about Trump and Russian influence. Think they want to have that conversation?
They would say:
"Now, if your states blue
And you don’t know where to go to
Why don’t you go where fascist sits
Putin on the Ritz"
Please proceed.
You just got pounded at the polls over this issue. Please keep the rage levels high.
“Let your enemy continue to fuck themselves in the ass.”
~ Sun Tsu (paraphrased)
“We have not even begun to fuck ourselves!”
-Winston Churchill, via Last Week Tonight
Pay attention, people. Recognize who you need to vote for in 2024 to preserve the rights that YOU HAVE ALREADY VOTED FOR…
They already set the stage to ignore the election results next year. Look at how many STILL think the 2020 election results were stolen. They’re either enacting laws to overturn the future results they didn’t like or commandeer the offices that handle elections to ignore them.
This time next year will be a very dangerous time for the United States. Even if every sane Republican voter, who recognizes the dangers proposed, votes for a Democrat, it may not even matter. I’m not looking forward to it…
Yeah, I don’t think most people truly grok how pivotal this is going to be. Yeah, they may say the whole “this is the most important election of your life” like they say every time (and it has been every time, unfortunately), but I don’t know how many people truly understand what’s coming.
That’s why they haven’t stopped saying it about 2020. Repeat a lie enough and it becomes true…
Nah. It’s hard to ignore an election in the US because the one thing Americans hate is feeling impotent.
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The party of Lincoln sure doesn’t seem like they want a Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
The most worrying part of this press release is the part where they’re saying they’re going to try and reign in the powers of the judiciary to enforce the abortion amendment. Sure sounds a lot like fascism to me.
Sure sounds a lot like fascism to me.
Funny thing, it also looks, smells and feels like it too! I wonder why that is? Please don’t ask me to taste it.
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Hey those brave men voted very valiantly on the beaches of Normandy that day!!
Don’t worry we won’t have to taste it as they forcefully face fuck it into our throat.
No, this is just normal dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. You’re just more politically aware now.
Why do they hate freedom and democracy so much?
“You lost. Get over it.” – Republicans, 2016
This is their way of admitting to using foreign interference in our upcoming elections.
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So about those pizza parlors…
I bet Matt Gaetz likes pizza maybe he knows.
I hate the scapegoating of “foreign interference”
It is like saying the problem is Jewish capitalists instead of capitalists
The problem is the legalized buying of elections not that .2 percent of the buy was from scary foreigners.
Sounds like they wanna take our freedoms. Hey, didn’t we go to literal fucking war over that once or twice?
We watch while another group tries to overthrow
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I’m pretty sure after writing his Bible, Jesus spent several weeks consulting at Wharton really locking down the supply side theory.
Yes someone posted this on Lemmy so now I can say what I want…
….maybe someone needs to revoke their license to living?
If they want to rule like kings than they can be treated as such
Can the legislature be forced to follow the people’s mandate by law enforcement? We seriously need to pass laws that jail legislators who fail to act in a timely manner on the peoples will
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Time for a People V. Legislature of Ohio.
