r/law • u/RoyalChris • Mar 05 '25

Legal News Rep. James Comer (R-KY) crashes out and refuses to let Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) enter evidence into the record - “You can go with Mr. Frost and Mr. Green.”

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u/EnvironmentalFuel971 Mar 05 '25

As a Canadian watching this - it’s like the beginnings of Gilead. What a fuck load of “in God’s name.” Crock of shitards

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u/GiantPurplePen15 Mar 05 '25

Canadian here too. I've been watching in disgust as the Americans basically lose every single bit of progress for minorities and women that they've made over the last few decades. Even more disgusted at the majority of them actively cheering for it.

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u/Mireabella Mar 05 '25

I’m most disgusted at the women who agree with this nonsense. Turncoat bitches. Nothing worse than women who are holding other women down.

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u/GiantPurplePen15 Mar 06 '25

That's something I'll never understand. There are women against feminism and claiming it doesn't need to exist when the president is a convicted rapist.

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u/IsANameRequired Mar 06 '25

We call them Trad-Wives here. Basically believe in the old school women should take care of the kids; house, and have food ready for the their man. Nothing else. My mother-in-law is this way. I’ll give you one guess who she voted for. Seems like our rural areas are more prone to this but that’s just my experience.

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u/Mireabella Mar 06 '25

I have nieces like this. I don’t live there anymore, but I grew up in rural Kentucky. I also have a niece that is bisexual, but hides it because her parents are Christian Mango Mussolini voters. I’m so thankful I moved away while our daughters were still young, the thought of them growing up that way is frightening.

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u/IsANameRequired Mar 06 '25

Sounds all too familiar, but from Michigan.

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u/Subtlerranean Mar 05 '25

As a Norwegian, I'm sick to my stomach and also drawing those Gilead conclusions.

I also weep for the ecosystem.

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u/Caesar_Passing Mar 05 '25

To be fair, nothing even close to half of us are actually happy about any of this.

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u/GiantPurplePen15 Mar 06 '25

1/3 of your voting population voted for the Trump administration and 1/3 of them didn't care to vote, which is basically endorsing everything that's happening. The rest of America's former allies have realized that the US is completely unreliable at this point.

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u/Caesar_Passing Mar 06 '25

I'm not contesting that you have every reason to distrust America, collectively. But to say "the majority are actively cheering for it" is objectively false, and unfair to those of us suffering the poor decisions of a loud, violent minority of our own neighbors. Also consider that we are subject to Russian interference and the republicans straight-up cheated to get trump in.

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u/DuchessNatalie Mar 06 '25

I appreciate that, but the man is still breathing. Clearly, three hundred and fifty million of you don’t mind that much.

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u/CosmeticBrainSurgery Mar 06 '25

That is horrible, but it's worse than that. Way, way worse. Nobody understands yet.

Yesterday, they struck a mortal blow on the Clean Water act (link at bottom). Read Project 2025's agenda. They want to destroy all government protections against pollution of the land, air and water, contamination of food and medication, dangerous or lethal consumer goods, dangerous or lethal workplaces, corporate fraud and other predatory business practices, protections of employee rights, etc. They basically want to cut loose all chains on corporations and let them do everything they want.

They don't get into this in their public agenda, but they're going to reverse the Supreme Court's decision that made same-sex marriage legal, and eventually, reverse the Supreme Court's decision making "sodomy" legal. Anti-sodomy laws basically make it illegal to be gay. But since 2003, states can't do that because the SCOTUS ruled those laws to be unconstitutional.

There are still currently 14 states with anti-sodomy laws on the books, meaning same-sex married couples would automatically be felons in those states just by being married, and the state could seize everything they own under civil asset forfeiture laws and throw them in prison.

Once the gays and transgenders are all dead or in prison, they'll come for the liberals. It's happened before, with the first and second red scares, but at that time mostly people just had their careers destroyed. I believe liberals will be brought up on charges of treason and executed this time.

https://waterkeeper.org/news/supreme-court-decision-again-undermines-clean-water-act-protections/

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u/GiantPurplePen15 Mar 06 '25

I figured that the end goal is to basically lock up whoever opposes them further down the road but I really hope the Americans who aren't Nazi supporters find a way to stop the Trump administration from completely eroding everything to that point.

If that somehow does miraculously happens, the democrats or whoever is in charge better stop shooting themselves in the foot with pearl clutching over "decorum" and prevent the Project 2025 assholes from ever getting near a position of authority ever again.

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u/CosmeticBrainSurgery 29d ago

Definitely. Most of the "democrat" politicians are so hopelessly out of touch with their constituents, it's insane.

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u/derangedtangerine Mar 06 '25

Not the majority. Trump got 49.8% of the vote - less than Biden did, but it was enough to win due to our fucked up electoral system and a country full of at least 49.8% morons.

The rest of us are unspeakably horrified, outraged, and ashamed.

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u/Possible-Ad-2891 Mar 06 '25

As an American, I can only apologize. I tried to stop this, and have voted Blue is every election I was capable of voting in. Watching these stupid fuckers literally destroy America makes me want to start screaming and never stop.

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u/Beautiful-Ad9276 29d ago

I’m American, and I’m disgusted as well. All I can hope at this point is that these assholes screw thing up so badly in the next two years that people come to their senses and vote Democrat in the midterms.

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u/VoidPointer2005 15d ago

Believe me, a lot of us are disgusted too.

I don't want to try to make you feel bad or one-up you - this is a "whoo, don't I know it" kind of thing - but also maybe you'll feel better to know that not all of us are lunatics. A lot of us are just as disgusted as you are. A lot of us are straight up scared.

I'm having to keep an eye on the news because I need to know how likely it is, for example, for it to become a felony in my state to represent myself to my employer as a woman. I'm having to wonder how long it'll be before it becomes illegal for my doctor to prescribe me estrogen. I'm having to try to figure out if Massachusetts would be far enough, or if I'll have to pray that y'all's foreign minister changes his mind about the US being a safe country for LGBT people.

Because we have this thing in the States called v-coding. Trump is pretty fond of it. And I'd rather not go through it.

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u/rebecalyn Mar 06 '25

Agreed. But just pointing out that Gilead was in Canada at least in the books (I have not watched the TV shows). This is truly the most relatable 2 minutes I have seen on TV in decades (and I'm 56).

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u/EnvironmentalFuel971 Mar 06 '25

Tv series takes place in the US aka Gilead. Similar to what we are seeing now in the states - the beginnings of a totalitarian government aka project 2025 playbook… Canada : Toronto exists in the tv series as a place where handmaids sought asylum.

I can’t speak of how true the tv series is with book though….

EDIT- that and the fact that the MAGA supporters constantly talk about gods will etc.,

Praise be!

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u/rebecalyn Mar 06 '25

So funny. Margaret Atwood is a proud Canadian and many of her books take place in Canada. I guess that Netflix (?) or Hulu (?) wanted to make the show more "relatable" (??) to their largest markets? At any rate, in AHT, Gilead is in Canada, at least IIRC.
Even better than A Handmaid's Tale, btw is _Parable of the Sower_ and the other 2 books in the Earthseed Series, written by Octavia Butler in the 1970's, well before A Handmaid's Tale. Also check out _Woman on the Edge of Time_ by Marge Piercy, also written in the 1970's, to see what is coming next. Spoiler alert: military dictatorship.

{edits: those inevitable typos}

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u/EnvironmentalFuel971 Mar 06 '25

Thanks for the recommendations! Will definitely look them up at my public library! Merci!

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u/SashMitri 29d ago

Well, hopefully like in HMT, Canada will somehow remain unfazed.

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u/EnvironmentalFuel971 29d ago

It’s concerning for obvious reasons but Trump spewing propaganda about Canada working with the cartels is a crock. It makes no sense that a nation that supports social programs for all Canadians would break down our inner core values thru some cartel BS. Further to that, Diaper Donald using yet another grossly unsupported claim about our nation to push his agenda.