Well, it's official

[james_davis_nicoll]

American women are now legally livestock. I wonder how long it will take before their access to passports and foreign travel is removed.

Comments

[graydon]

In the event that the non-voting majority keeps not voting (voting being declasse and icky), they're going to have enough of a majority in Congress to just pass laws. If the Supremes say it's constitutional, it's constitutional, and they can say that in days if so inclined. They've already laid the groundwork for saying Joe is not legitimately elected (thus lacks a real veto) and they've had their practice coup.

Nobody is getting up and doing some variant on "you can't own women" or treating the problem as an access-to-agency general struggle between a "generally distributed" position and a "all the agency is mine" position, either; I do not have a lot of hope for the utility of the response.

[philrm]

I would argue that it's a bit more complicated than that - except I won't bother, because we're really just arguing about the exact timescale.

If the past couple of days aren't enough to get people to vote this November, then I don't know what will, and in any case, it won't matter: if the Democrats don't expand their hold of Congress in the upcoming midterms, they won't get another chance.

Odds are, though, that the Republicans will take control of Congress, because, evidently, the majority of voters would rather register their anger over $5/gallon gasoline than live in a democracy.