Way to go, Okies.

@Zeusdelight It is so refreshing to hear from a Christian who is not one of those...

@Lila15 I was visiting my 90 year old father this week. He expressed the opinion (and I agree) that if a total stranger can block a woman from choosing an abortion, she should be able to sue them for the costs of prenatal care and child support ! 😳

@Lila15 In Texas they set up an anonymous "tip line" where people could leave names of women suspected of seeking abortions and people suspected of helping them travel out of state for abortions.

Needless to say, all the prominent republicans in Texas government, elected, appointed, whatever, found their names and their family names submitted repeatedly to the tip line. folks on Reddit make a sport of it
https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/pbr9v4/lets_infiltrate_texas_abortion_tip_line/

https://www.chron.com/politics/article/Texas-Right-to-Life-abortion-anonymous-tip-troll-16431881.php

@ElwoodBlues The ingenuity of people is amazing sometimes!

@Northwest I think the Founders would be shocked California only has two Senators. "You guys didn't fix that? WTF!"

@independentone
Why yes, they do. Several in fact, the most prominent of which is the University of Oklahoma in Norman. George Lynn Cross, the University of Oklahoma's president from 1943 to 1968, probably expressed the reason why best. When asked by a member of the Oklahoma State Senate appropriations committee, "Why do you need so much money?" he replied, "I would like to build a University of which the football team could be proud." You can't make this stuff up.

@windinhishair @Fukfacewillie @Northwest @independentone @luckranger71
Makin' America Great Again, since 2016.

@dontbekoi everything those crusty old law makers say is about money

@Zeusdelight I'm right there with you. 6 months ago, I was like, "Everyone calm down. No one's overturning Roe v Wade; let's not get dramatic."

Now I'm just waiting for the cascade of Handmaid's tales.

@UreBesFrend Every parasite eventually consumes what it can en masse and the starves or moves on.

@UreBesFrend If America fails, the responsibility will lie squarely on her inhabitants.

@Graylight not this inhabitant. no one listens to people who are correct and that is everywhere in the world. i know my country is ass backwards. children are treated like garbage. minorities are treated like garbage . Women are treated like garbage...and then when these groups start acting like garbage the crusty old white guys say, "see, we let them live here and see how they treat us?"

@DIABLISS All true, but... When's the last time you took a local election seriously? Not just a party line exercise, but really understood the background, histories, qualifications and ambitions of the candidates? If you do, great; most of us never take that kind of time. Those local politicians become regional politicians, and many of them go on to sit over us in the seats of Congress. They become governors and Presidential aides and influencers. And if we treat it like a punchline, a punchline it will be.

Government is an empty, useless machine kept forever at a standstill unless fueled by the very people it serves. We vote and our votes coalesce into collective choice. Every single character we complain about got to his or her spot through US voters. Nothing salacious, nothing secret. They pandered, we listened.

That's what I mean when I say the failure of government is on the people. The people are government; everything else is just machinery.

@LvChris Thank you for responding, appreciate it.