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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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[–] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 144 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“Democrats are trying to scare women into thinking Republicans don’t want abortion legal under any circumstances.”

  • Sean Hannity

I think the GOP did that themselves last year in regards to the 10 year old girl who had to cross state lines into Indiana to get an abortion.

[–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And don't forget the "life of the mother" exceptions in places like Texas that can only be triggered if the woman is actively dying. If she's not close enough to death, it is still "carry it to term or else."

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, but the doctor and all the medical staff could bet their medical licenses that the legal gray area would favor them in a particular case.

Of course it might be harder to practice medicine after the hospital execs consult with legal and fire your ass.

But hey, there's an off chance that legally you could get away with saving the life of the mother before death was imminent. Well, depending on the judge in Texas that day.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Of course it might be harder to practice medicine after the hospital execs consult with legal and fire your ass.

Its also going to be hard to practice medicine when a distraught husband pays a visit to your office to discuss why you let their wife die. It's Texas, too. So not only will a doctor have to get yelled at and threatened, he will be yelled at and threatened by the hysterically upset and armed man in his office who has nothing to lose.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember they were trying to push that moron Herschel Walker on people? That idiot straight up said that no exceptions were acceptable for abortion

[–] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I mean I could post the quotes of him supporting a no-exception national abortion ban and the quote of him saying that if he really paid for an abortion that there's no shame in that. But that's low hanging fruit. Instead, I'm just going for the fruit that already fell on the ground:

I’m this country boy. I’m not that smart.

  • Herschel Walker

And people say, ‘Herschel, you played football.’ But I said, ‘Guys, I also was valedictorian of my class. I also was in the top 1% of my graduating class in college.

  • Also Herschel Walker

So what we do is we’re going to put, from the ‘Green New Deal,’ millions or billions of dollars cleaning our good air up. So all of a sudden China and India ain’t putting nothing in there – cleaning that situation up. So all with that bad air, it’s still there. But since we don’t control the air, our good air decide to float over to China, bad air. So when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. And now we’ve got to clean that back up.

  • Herschel Walker again. This isn't a joke.
[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have so many questions about the school he went to where he was in the top 1%.

[–] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

He didn't even graduate. He wasn't smart when he entered UGA and after 2 decades of football, he has that football brain injury thing.

[–] jballs@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Jesus, that good air / bad air quote was hard to read. If I'm following him, and I might have too many braincells to do this correctly, he's arguing that we shouldn't have clean air because then someone else might benefit from our clean air? So we should just pollute the shit out of our air, because then at least the Chinese won't have a shot at getting any of our sweet, sweet clean air?

That's like saying you're not going to put indoor plumbing in your house, because your neighbor might not put indoor plumbing in their house. And if they're going to live up to their necks in shit, you'll be god-damned if you're not gonna live neck-deep in your own shit too! Otherwise, if you weren't absolutely drowning in your own shit, there's a chance that you might catch a whiff of your neighbor's shit, and ain't no way are you gonna let that happen.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Herschel Walker reminds me of Floyd whetherton from family guy

https://youtu.be/9J1HU0HyrSQ?si=RqJ_8CmK6HKFnG2l

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

100% him. God damn that is some funny shit.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure Hannity is one of the Faux News shows Indiana's AG was going on lying about it too