A year after promising viewers a āred tsunamiā 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 stateās 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 stateās General Assembly. Instead, not only were Youngkinās hopes of a Republican sweep dashed, but the Democrats now control both chambers.
The āVote NO on 1ā signs littering the chudsā yards in my neighborhood were subtitled with bullshit slogans like āprotect childrenā, āprotect parentsā rightsā and, most egregiously, āprotect them bothā (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. Theyāre craven liars.
Nothing is off the table for these psychopaths; for fuckās 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 āprotect the 2nd amendmentāā¦ but idiots will lap it up.
āChildrenās Rightsā 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?
Hunh. Genuine question: Is that a regional word, and if so what region?
Not regional as far as I know, I just picked it up a long time ago and recently reintroduced it into my vocabulary.