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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.

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[-] charonn0@startrek.website 182 points 1 year ago

“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.

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 128 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They've been getting vauger for decades intentionally.

Anti-abortion is going to become "childs rights" and they'll swear they'd never dream of outlawing abortion until they think they can get away with it.

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago

Anti-abortion is going to become “childs rights”

No, probably not. That too easily leads to things they're against, like funding health care and education.

[-] root_beer@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The “Vote NO on 1” signs littering the chuds’ yards in my neighborhood were subtitled with bullshit slogans like “protect children”, “protect parents’ rights” and, most egregiously, “protect them both” (complete with an illustration of a pregnant woman who is ostensibly in danger of being forced at gunpoint into an abortion?). [edit to add] I just read this morning that there were people putting out rumors that the amendment would allow minors to get gender reassignment surgery without parental consent, when all anyone needs to do is read the goddamn ballot, publicly available, to see that there is nothing there at all saying that. They’re craven liars.

Nothing is off the table for these psychopaths; for fuck’s sake, when they tried to block the measure from the ballot back in August, some of these jamokes had the gall to put up signs that said “protect the 2nd amendment”… but idiots will lap it up.

“Children’s Rights” can absolutely be their next tactic, because as long as they act in bad faith and say all kinds of shit with zero meaning behind it, why the hell not?

[-] athos77@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

jamokes

Hunh. Genuine question: Is that a regional word, and if so what region?

[-] root_beer@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Not regional as far as I know, I just picked it up a long time ago and recently reintroduced it into my vocabulary.

[-] gullible@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

As if they’re averse to hypocrisy and double-think.

[-] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago

Mark my words - if the GOP manages to gain a 2/3 majority in the house and Senate through any form of shenanigans they will pass an amendment to relegalize slavery.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

Don't disagree with your point, just want to note it's vaguer. The u is after the g to keep the g hard despite the e, and the e which is silent in vague is there to make the a long. Without the e it would be be vag, which ironically is pronounced with a soft g because of the i in vagina, even though it's been shortened.

[-] root_beer@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

When I was little, before kindygarten even, I would read books with my mom. One had the word “vague” in it, and I would pronounce it “vagh-you” because I didn’t know yet how to pronounce it. My mom would correct me, but I thought she meant that I was mispronouncing the vowel in the first syllable, and we’d go back and forth until I melted down because I was 4. It wasn’t until later on when I was actually in school that I got it because she never explained the concept of silent letters. Almost 40 years later, I’m still miffed about that.

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Rofl Fuck them babies! Power above all else!

[-] jballs@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

They are literally sounding like sith lords...

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So "killing babies" isn't okay as far as medical, financial/home stability concerns...

But it's ok if it's about winning elections...

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

You know priorities.

[-] Silverseren@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Need cognition to have cognitive dissonance.

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