WhatwasIsayingJun 23, 2023
Robert Reich

Today’s Republican Party, while claiming to stand for limited government, stands for government intrusion everywhere. They are:

-Outlawing abortions.

-Prohibiting teachers from teaching about America’s racist past.

-Making it harder to vote.

This is not limited government.

Jun 22, 2023 at 7:25pmWeb
Show threadKat A KlysmJun 22, 2023
@rbreich it’s not limited government. It’s the opening credits of fascism.
Show threadNathan Lowell (he/him) 📎Jun 22, 2023

@rbreich

Well, limited to *them*, yes.

Not so much for the rest of us.

Show threadDavid Scott MoyerJun 22, 2023
@rbreich Don't be silly! When they say limited government, they mean limited government regulation of corporations and limited government taxation of the wealthy.
Show threadTracellaJun 22, 2023
@rbreich Nazzzzziiissss yes sir. I agree these are global fascists.. We stand together!
Show threadChrisJun 22, 2023
@rbreich
Also limiting how parents can raise their children as they see fit,( unless the parents agree with GOP).
Show threadCHBJun 22, 2023
@rbreich They have been utterly hijacked by Christian fanatics.
Show threadNicole ParsonsJun 22, 2023

@rbreich

An aspect that gets overlooked, is the costs of enforcement.

Are red state governments so wealthy, they can afford a massive increase in prisons, policing, and courts for the "crimes" of contraception, miscarriage, hormone treatment, abortion, voting, teaching history, reading assignments, and college AP courses?

Are taxpayers prepared to see double digit increases in taxation to fund the partisan wishlists of Republican billionaires buying the votes of evangelicals and bigots?

Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Jun 23, 2023
@Npars01 @rbreich If the current wave of reactionary hysteria isn't blunted, this will eventually morph into an argument for broad application of the death penalty.
Show threadJL RobersonJun 23, 2023
@fgbjr @Npars01 @rbreich Speaking as a former Southerner: that would decimate the intense profit center of Southern prison labor
Show threadNicole ParsonsJun 23, 2023

@jlroberson @fgbjr @rbreich

GOP billionaire donors want to re-create slavery & Jane Crow. The GOP even want the death penalty for conviction of their fake culture war crimes

Much of it is a pretext to expand felony disenfranchisement, just like the "war on drugs" was a scheme to disenfranchise POC.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/nikki-haley-abortion-death-penalty
Sentencing women to domestic penal servitude for the "crime" of teaching history, contraception, hormone treatment, voting, reading banned books, or treating a miscarriage.

Nikki Haley Generously Declares She Wouldn’t Have Women Executed for Getting an Abortion

You’re welcome.

Vanity Fair
Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Jun 23, 2023
@Npars01 @jlroberson @rbreich I was commenting based on glib Law & Economics assumptions (the optimal balance of cost and compliance is achieved with a minimal enforcement agency and occasional seizure of all "assets" for detected violations). Those assumptions are recognized to be incorrect, because the distributed cost of risk (i.e. enshittification of the social environment) overwhelms the purported gains—and also, in this case, for the reasons flagged by @jlroberson .
Show threadNicole ParsonsJun 23, 2023

@jlroberson @fgbjr @rbreich

Women who have unplanned pregnancies & can't get an abortion are liable for medical debt. It costs between 15k & 35k USD for a hospital birth.
https://www.justsecurity.org/71509/the-new-jane-crow-womens-mass-incarceration/

https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/04/jane-crow-the-life-of-pauli-murray-reviewed.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/maternal-mortality-pregnancy-deaths-overturn-roe/629816/
GOP donors create schemes to place the children of the convicted in foster care to punish women for the "crime" of abortion
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/nyregion/foster-care-nyc-jane-crow.html

The GOP are prepared to tell 10 year olds that they owe $15,000 to give birth to their rapist's child

The New Jane Crow: Women’s Mass Incarceration

Institutional and infrastructural violence against women of color in the criminal justice system are often obscured by an exclusive focus on men.

Just Security
Show threadSane ThinkerJun 23, 2023
@Npars01 @jlroberson @fgbjr @rbreich It's an unbelievable situation. The GOP needs to be abolished and replaced. They are destroying the country and destroying lives.
Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌Jun 23, 2023

@Npars01 @jlroberson @fgbjr @rbreich A fanatical extremist organization, that approves ruining the lives of women & their families cannot ever be called "pro-life", but rather *pro-terrorism*, *anti-humanity* & *anti-Constitution*.
Like the proponents of slavery, which has been abolished in 1865.

[Could the real, very own problem of so-called "pro-lifers" be, that they're either unable to distinguish between "abortion" & "abolition", or that the just don't want to? And that they're having a fundamental issue with loyalty to the United States & the U.S. Constitution?

#RuleOfLaw #DefendAmerica #DefendTheConstitution #StandWithHumanity #ReconstructionAmendments #14thAmendment #RoeVWade #ObergefellVHodges #HumanRights #CivilRights #EqualProtectionClause #Equality #BanTheGOP #DefraudingAmerica

Show threadJL RobersonJun 23, 2023
@Npars01 @fgbjr @rbreich Slavery was never stopped, just regulated so it only applied to those convicted of crimes
Show threadJL RobersonJun 23, 2023
@Npars01 @fgbjr @rbreich or in debt
Show threadNicole ParsonsJun 23, 2023

@jlroberson @fgbjr @rbreich

Debt peonage continued in the South well into the 1970's. This is the history Republican billionaire donors are funding the GOP to erase
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49476247
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/books/10masl.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/09/14/they-were-once-americas-cruelest-richest-slave-traders-why-does-no-one-know-their-names/
https://news.uark.edu/articles/63331/celebrate-black-history-month-with-the-mullins-library-multimedia-department
"Slavery by Another Name"
https://www.pbs.org/video/slavery-another-name-slavery-video/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/jim-crow-laws-created-slavery-another-name

Reminder that racists will engage in mass murder to keep Jim Crow
https://jacobin.com/2022/10/1919-elaine-massacre-arkansas-sharecropping-pfhua-race-riots
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

The hidden links between slavery and Wall Street

It is 400 years since slaves were brought to what is now the United States - and to Wall Street.

Show threadJL RobersonJun 23, 2023
@Npars01 @fgbjr @rbreich I know, many of my ancestors in SC and GA profited from this in various ways
Show threadtoxtethogradyJun 23, 2023
@Npars01 @jlroberson @fgbjr @rbreich
One need only observe Elon Musk's complaints about the term "cis" to know how the right-wingers would react to having most of their behaviors criminalized. We can always start doing that to them...
Show threadSteveBolognaJun 23, 2023
@Npars01 @jlroberson @fgbjr @rbreich
Show threadJL RobersonJun 23, 2023
@SteveBologna @Npars01 @fgbjr @rbreich (sighs in agreement) Fortunately when I grew up in SC most of it was under Democrats
Show threadSteveBolognaJun 23, 2023
@jlroberson @Npars01 @fgbjr @rbreich Southern democrats are a different democrat
Show threadJL RobersonJun 23, 2023
@SteveBologna @Npars01 @fgbjr @rbreich Not necessarily, by the time I was growing up (1969-1987). But this was Charleston, under the Rileys. I can't speak for the rest of the state, which yes, was always bad(Greenville, where half my family came from, for instance)
But I can say that my uncle was Charleston County clerk of court for decades, was very important in the party there, and there were not a bunch of blue dogs left as I recall by then.
Show threadJL RobersonJun 23, 2023
@SteveBologna @Npars01 @fgbjr @rbreich But the governor whose education policies I went to HS under was Richard Riley who you may recall was later Clinton's Sec of Education, and he did a LOT of good in SC for education during his time.
Show threadΑκαδημίαUniversityJun 24, 2023
@Npars01 @rbreich
LSD is a wonderful thing. It's amazing how blind Democrat minions are. ... BTW I'm an independent nonconformist.
Show threadWokebloke for DemocracyJun 22, 2023
@rbreich
The next step is outlawing birth control.
Show threadNoctisEqui 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇹🏳️‍🌈Jun 23, 2023

@dougiec3 @rbreich

They definitely want to do that!

Show threadtoxtethogradyJun 23, 2023
@rbreich This is much like Elon Musk claiming he wants absolute freedom of posting at Twitter, then being more censorious than the old Twitter ever was...
Show threadFoxBossJun 23, 2023
@rbreich yeah and having a gas stove fetish
Show threadMickJun 23, 2023
@rbreich This is subversion and treason by the gop to remain in power regardless who they betray, enslave, lie to, kill, and destroy. They are criminals and traitors.
Show threadiontomJun 23, 2023
@rbreich "rules for thee, not for me."
Show threadJLmatudJun 23, 2023
@rbreich nope. They are proto fascists!
Show threadEmeritus Prof Christopher MayJun 23, 2023

@rbreich

ah, but it *is* 'limiting Government'.... limiting what normal people can actually do, if they don't share Republican's 'values'

Show threadMysticalWolfJun 23, 2023

@rbreich Exactly. However their followers (trumpism) don't see it that way.

They're "saving" the country.

I wish the country would be saved from the likes of THEM though before NO ONE can vote anymore unless you're hella wealthy.

Show threadbrickbatJun 23, 2023
@rbreich It appears that the USG has reinterpreted the Constitution to favoring the wealthy over the average American and adapting regulations and legislative bodies to reflect that end.
Show threadNumber SevenJun 25, 2023
@rbreich Like Their counterparts in, 'Sewage Party La La Land' Ununited CONthem. Militant Nhilist's using the smokescreens of 'Repuplicanism' And 'Conservatism' To impose hell on those demonized'UNARIAN CHOSEN' To make a heaven for Despots, thug's & Buggerlugs, who have been Fraudulently Elected.
Show threadNumber SevenJun 27, 2023
@rbreich The difference between so signified, 'Republican Party'/'GOP'/'Proud Boys''Oath Keepers' terrorist's. And, Pouring untreated sewage into Rivers Seàs Air, Everywhere Bioterrorists, ToryBrexitfluent Fascist's, 'Thinner than a 'Elephants Wings'.
Show threadE J BarronJul 1, 2023
@rbreich it’s fascism. Plain and simple.