The part I find surprising is that dealing with an ectopic pregnancy is very time sensitive and very unforgiving. If you wait too long, it ruptures and your patient crashes and dies, and that’s that. It’s a bit like “well, we haven’t stopped you from intervening with an aortic aneurysm, you just need two supporting opinions first lmao”.

Wait, WHAT. They need two written opinions backing up that it was necessary?

Nah, how about the US just stop finding excuses to throw away trillions of dollars getting people killed overseas for no reason.

Counterpoint: if it wasn’t nukes, there’d be some other justification. The alleged Iraqi WMD were never found, so basically we toppled their government (not that I’m exactly shedding tears over Saddam, but ISIS wasn’t great either), got a bunch of people killed, and blew two trillion dollars out of our ass for ???.

Fuckin Paul, bro. Imo, evangelicals worship him as their savior way more than Jesus

I think this has a very high chance of being exactly the case, out of all the comments in this post.

Edit: actually, IIRC, Schumer has more or less stated that it’s his plan to just let Trump off the leash, not be an opposition party at all, and let Americans get what they voted for. Basically, instead of seeing that they lost to motherfucking Trump a second time and wondering if maybe they’re the problem, they’ve decided on punishing all of the US, including their own constituents who did elect them, for not choosing the democrats.

I’d like to invoke the inverse of Hanlon’s Razor with respect to US federal politicians.

We’re an empire in decline. I imagine we’d probably feel quite a deal of spiritual kinship with Romans living under Nero or Caligula

I mean, there’s all these pictures of Trump, but not a single good shot.

Well, shit. There’s a lot to not like about Newsom, but I can think of 100 democrat politicians that would have folded like wet Kleenex by now. He could be a lot more aggressive about this, but he’s clearly trying to exhaust all the normal channels. Critical support for Gavin.

Fascists are never to be taken seriously when they say that they’re very worried about protecting anything.

Going to be watching this with great curiosity and excitement. Hopefully other places get the idea. Going to be very curious where Newsom comes down on this.

Stop taking them seriously. Stop meeting them in the middle. Pacification and reaching across the isle is over (not that they ever participated in it), and they’ve dropped any pretense of believing in the constitution; that was only ever a political expediency to keep the left in check. Start demanding real changes with teeth, and if they whine, well, piss on em, those dumb fucks want Donald Trump to be king, who gives two fucks what those jerkoffs think?

Let this be a lesson to never ever take conservatives seriously. “Nooooo, universal healthcare and trains will cost too much money, muh fiscal responsibility :(” has turned into “let’s go into more debt than anyone has ever thought of to make the poor poorer and the rich richer”

The only cope I have left is telling myself that all these dumb fucks have left the door wide open for commie mommy AOC to come in and lead us into the glorious revolutionary future. “BUT THAT JUDGE ISN’T QUALIFIED” the right screeches, as AOC smirks and says “they’ve read their theory, comrade. Have you?”

Just… I can never ever ever take another conservative seriously for the rest of my life. All their “worries” about big, unaccountable government, waste, fraud, and abuse, following the constitution, and fiscal responsibility were all just a load of bullshit. I mean, I always knew they were hypocrites, but congratulations, you blew up everything you claimed to believe in so that you could make a handful of already breathtakingly rich and powerful people even more rich and powerful at the expense of everyone else. But you managed to feed a few brown people into the shredder in the process, I guess, so I hope you’re fucking satisfied.

It’s wild that they’ve dropped all pretense of believing in any of this stuff, and it makes me hopeful that, in the future, if some new left movement arises, when the cons inevitably screech “but the constitution! But the budget!” we can just answer “lol. Lmao.” And move on with life.

“Okay, I’ll inspect your genitals, drop 'em and we’ll prove it to everyone”

I love this. This is a really good, simple, impactful strategy.

Nah, we need politicians to be able to feel fear, imo. If they never have to think “will this come back to haunt me?” then that’s going to enable a lot of awful shit.