This is the moment, Democrats.

[lees1975]

You have just been handed the key to the motivation necessary to win an even bigger margin of control of congress than you have now.

There is no excuse for not voting for a Democrat in your district or state now.

It's a downhill coaster ride, as long as someone compenent is in charge. Here we go.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. But what about the Green New Deal? Medicare For All? Student Loans?

Are they SURE they can be bothered to vote?

[Irish_Dem]

8. We are going to spend all of our time just fighting to stay out of the dark ages.

Progressive issues will go by the wayside.

[mrsadm]

14. exactly, and we have to wait for progressive issues, because we have to stop going backwards and

losing what was settled 50 years ago, and more!

[Irish_Dem]

20. That is part of their plan I am sure.

Roll back everything so we have to focus on those issues.
And forget about progressive items on our list.

[jaxexpat]

17. They'll be on the back burner out of necessity, neither gone or forgotten.

I don't think anybody wants to live in a world where dark forces prevail over our everyday thoughts but that's just where the fascists want to put us. Looking over our shoulders at all times lest we be overcome by psychotic LEO's, enforcing rules of which we have no parenting. We're so very close to that at this moment in time.

We must, each of us, vote Democratic for the most progressive candidates who are viable to win in a general election.

viable to win in a general election, viable to win in a general election, viable to win in a general election, viable to win in a general election, viable to win in a general election, viable to win in a general election, viable to win in a general election, viable to win in a general election, viable to win in a general election, viable to win in a general election, viable to win in a general election, viable to win in a general election, viable to win in a general election,

[Irish_Dem]

24. The problem about voting is that the red states are getting control of the election systems.

The GOP does not want a democracy where all votes count.

[Volaris]

26. I suspect the SC just made that a lot harder for them...

I think turnout for this midterm will be historic.

[jaxexpat]

28. It's a problem, for sure, but it's a problem that doesn't get solved by not voting.

Persistent losers hate fair contests. Personally, I will continue to participate in such a way as to try and make my opponents dislike the results.

[Irish_Dem]

29. I agree. I have been voting for many decades.

But we cannot kid ourselves that voting is guaranteed.

[jaxexpat]

36. You're right, there is no humor in kidding ourselves.

What I can attest to is that I have cast my ballots and, so far as I can tell, they had as good a chance of being counted as anyone else voting the way I did.

There's a defiant sort of attitude which brings on a kind of swagger that goes with voting Democratic down in good old Duval County, USA. It's kinda like a gauntlet to walk thru all the conservative electioneering benchmarks and templates just to get to the kindly little Nazi man who directs me to the lady who'll look at my ID, sniff and send me on my way. He always wants to give me an "I voted" sticker as I leave. I'm not falling for that. I want to see a sticker that reads "I think I voted". I'll always vote. My Father voted in 2008. He was dying of cancer and my sister pushed him in a wheelchair. She told me that she asked him who he was voting for loud enough for the whole little crowd gathered in the Sunday school/polling place room of the Methodist church in our little 500 pop. town. She told me he shouted OBAMA. He died ten days later. He was not wealthy nor political. Yet more than 50 cars were in his parade to the cemetery. Most, I'm sure, were Republicans.

[Irish_Dem]

39. It is hard to imagine our right to vote could be taken away.

But the GOP is working on taking control of the election systems in red states.

[jaxexpat]

45. They are seeking to.make our votes useless.

Their schemes ate pretty transparent. They're opportunists, scavengers, if it's nailed down already they'll pull the nails. Until Americans overcome their innate naivety, they'll be at the mercy of these carnivorous semi sentient creatures. The Democrat's weakness may be that they refuse to publicly label the Republicans to be as bad as they really are and that may be because we don't believe it ourselves.

[Irish_Dem]

47. Yes they don't even bother to hide their ruthless methods.

And yes most of America cannot wrap their heads around such sociopathy.
And cannot understand that the GOP is going for white male christian minority rule.

[Fiendish Thingy]

37. That will guarantee young people sit on the sidelines and the dark ages return

IMO, it’s the performative centrists and pragmatic incrementalists who should be sidelined, and instead, Dems should use the momentum generated by the overturn of Roe to maximize turnout of youth voters to keep the House, and add two more seats to the senate, enabling the righteous murder of the filibuster, followed by expanding the court to 17-21 seats, codifying Roe, and passing BBB in its original form, with $500 billion allotted for climate change.

Or, Dems could continue to ask Manchin and Sinema pretty please and wait for their reply.

[choie]

15. Oh so it's the progressives that you're blaming for

getting us where we are today? It's the incompetence and apathy of our representatives who are comfortable and complacent that's the issue. Our leaders who have been sucking on the government teat for decades. They knew this was going to happen and did fucking nothing to prepare for it, like codifying choice. Do you really think they have the balls to use this ruling to win the mid-terms?

Yes I know I'm going to be flagged for actually criticizing Democrats, but I've goddamn had it today!

[BlueCheeseAgain]

18. A decision made by 5 Republican appointed Justices...

... and your reaction is to blame Democrats? That makes no sense.

Who was complacent? Our elected Democratic leaders repeatedly warned us that Roe v Wade was on the ballot in 2016. Some people very pointedly disagreed. They said we were using scare tactics, or that T**** would bring the revolution faster. It's the people who felt comfortable throwing their vote away in 2016 who were complacent.

[progressoid]

25. +1

[efhmc]

27. First do not preach to someone who lives in Texas and has worked seeklessly for more than

25 years in a small backward town and statewide for Democrats. The only time I have had any representation of any kind is when a Dem was/is president. Tried and done just about anything and am still doing everything I can to change the politics around me. Things have changed in some metropolitan areas but not nearly enough. Certain "progressive" ideas are frequently cited in my state for things that are negative. Cruz used the green new deal to promote the cause of high energy prices in Texas. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/politifact/article/Fact-check-Sen-Ted-Cruz-claims-Green-New-Deal-17257747.php
Since there is actual no GND legislation here or anywhere, this claim is nonsense but does not stop the idea from taking off. Claims about our border being overrun by "illegals" and drugs are lies stirred up by the State GQP so they can blame those "Biden liberals". https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/27/texas-operation-lone-star-greg-abbott-border/
And so it goes.

[calimary]

43. Well I'M DAMN PROUD to be a Biden liberal!

First-degree black-belt Biden liberal if you really wanna push it.

I will suffer no fools.

[flying_wahini]

2. If people don't show up and vote blue then All is Lost.

I’m being Debby Downer today.

[Irish_Dem]

9. No, you are being in touch with reality.

A reality that stinks.

[cilla4progress]

3. I completely

agree!!

[intrepidity]

4. If not now, when?

It's for all the marbles.

[Binkie The Clown]

5. People get the government they deserve.

Let's hope the people aspire to deserve a better government.

[wnylib]

23. People get the government that they vote for.

Let's hope that the people who want democracy turn out in huge numbers to vote against fascism.

We have two very good motivators - gun control and women's right to control our own bodies.

[Akakoji]

6. It's time for every registered voter or eligible voter to vote

This only happened because 80 million people registered to vote did not vote. So while we are all aware that every race in every state every race is important - I hope - we have to motivate at least 5 people per person to vote. It has to become part of our daily lives.

[Otto_Harper]

7. I'm seriously considering not voting

unless my perfect candidate who perfectly espouses my perfect causes perfectly runs.

(For those who are not equipped to read through the lines, this is an editorial comment, not a statement of intent).

[mwb970]

10. How arrogant and condescending.

[jaxexpat]

19. Apparently, there's a sale on arrogance today.

[Otto_Harper]

42. The arrogance was expressed n 2016 by the Bernie Bots and the Green Party drones.

What they have sewed has now been reaped. Actions, or inactions have consequences. Is it too much for you to understand that simple concept?

[jaxexpat]

46. Past tense of sow is sown.

Sewn is when a needle has pulled thread through cloth. Sewed?

[jaxexpat]

21. Most use the "sarcasm" smilie in these circumstances, Otto.

[Lonestarblue]

11. It's time for the Lincoln Project and Meidas Touch to crate some hard-hitting ads.

The 13 year old who has to drop out of school to raise a baby. The 15 year old raped by her stepfather and having to have his baby. The women who learns she has cancer and can’t get treatment because death is not imminent (ending with a shot of her grave site). The woman with sepsis who must wait until her body is ravaged and she is near death before she can be treated. The women who are given the horrible news around week 29 that their baby has no heart or no brain or no liver but they must carry a fetus that cannot live to term, damaging emotional and physical health. The poor woman who attempts self abortion who ends up in the hospital or dies. The poor woman who has to quit her job to take care of a severely disabled child, leaving her other children in extreme poverty. And on and on.

The inhumanity of this decision is revolting.

[NowISeetheLight]

31. I agree

With graphics movie technology you wouldn’t even need “real” children in the ads. 12 year old incest victim being forced to carry the baby. Woman raped and not able to get a morning after pill. Then the aftermath. Nine months later a 15 year old kicked out of the house living in a shelter with her newborn.

Time to get brutal and dirty.

[Lonestarblue]

38. Yes. Republicans have been using photos of fully formed fetuses for decades and lying that

they’re just embryos. It’s time to fight fire with fire.

[calimary]

44. Yes indeed. Time to get brutal and dirty.

NO MORE Mr. “Nice Dems”.

[housecat]

12. We still need non-partisan election workers if we want votes counted

[James48]

13. Every Ad

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Needs to be sensitive to a diverse opinion-

Not ads for “abortion on demand, all the time”,

But rather a message of “They demand you follow their religion. They demand you conform to ONLY their ways. America needs to respect individual differences, and keep government OUT of the decisions made by men and women most directly affected. TELL them to BUT OUT. Vote For Democrats. “

That message will go much further.

[NowISeetheLight]

33. Christian Taliban

Maybe add the show that compares the right wing religious zealots to the Taliban or the Iranian mullahs. They want a Christian Theocracy.

[cloudboy07]

34. organized religion racketeering!

[NowISeetheLight]

40. Crime Family

They are no different from the Mafia crime families in my book.

[Joinfortmill]

16. Agree

[demigoddess]

22. I always vote blue, if two democrats, I vote for the female.

[jaxexpat]

32. That's reasonable.

[Snackshack]

30. Agreed, we knew this was

Coming for the last month there should have already been a roll out of ads in key states showing clips of the justices in their confirmations lying about their respect of settle law and precedent. The Dems should also get from now till Nov. hammering the GOP & moscow mitch on the unscrupulous way he went about stealing several seats on the court that should have been filled by Dems.

Please, please, please let this finally wake up the Dems to realize the GOP is deadly serious about destroying the country as it is to make it what their fundamental federalist paper minions want. Thomas is already targeting Gay Marriage and Contraception saying the court has a duty to correct mistakes made.

Dems need to go on the offensive now. Pelosi and Schumer need to start firing the Dems

[cloudboy07]

35. Can't say what I think SCOTUS ? not favorable! I'm a vet !

[Initech]

41. We need to make Manchin, Sinema, and Collins irrelevant!

[Pluvious]

48. Our future is one the line, this November

We are a country weary of outrage,
and have just got our second wind.
The next elections will determine our future.