Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said he is going to keep going after Disney, and he’s right to do this, but, it makes some a little wonky

Why Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law feels like the clock is turning back for LGBT+ people

There’s a new front line in America‘s culture wars, and it’s pitching parents against teachers and students.

Florida has introduced a ban on teaching about gender and sexuality in the classroom to some elementary aged children. (snip)

Kris Kine has been teaching in Florida’s schools for more than 20 years. She sponsors the Gay Straight Alliance club in her school – a safe place for students to discuss issues around their sexuality they may not want to talk about at home.

The bill has been a devastating blow to Kris – herself a proud gay mum.

She says she fears that the years of painful progress in encouraging young people to be themselves and feel accepted may be ending.

First, the bill is mostly aimed at leaving young kids alone, not the older kids. Second, there’s nothing wrong with the group, the bill doesn’t block it. Except for third, schools and the school employees, who are government employees, should not be hiding things from parents. Some of the groups may be well meaning, others, not so much

(Washington Examiner) A school district in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is under fire for a drag show hosted by a teacher after hours on school property.

The show featured several scantily clad drag queens performing lewd dance moves that would be inappropriate for most adults, let alone high school students. Whatever sexually deviant lifestyle a teacher wants to live on his or her personal time is their decision, but such abhorrent content has no place in schools. Parents expressed outrage at the discovery that a teacher in the school district held the show.

“I first found out about this video and drag show Tuesday night from a video one of the school kids put out. I then asked my children about it, and they were disgusted and could not believe they would do something like that at their school,” Stacy Hernandez, a single mother of three children in the Hempfield School District, told me.

So, the parents were not told about what their kids were going to be exposed to. And that is a major point of the Florida bill

Disney Funds An Organization That Sexualizes Children Beginning In Kindergarten

Walt Disney Company has repeatedly donated to an organization that infiltrates public and private schools with LGBT ideology, according to Disney’s Pride Collection webpage.

Disney announced that it donated a portion of its 2022 “Pride Collection” funds to the organization GLSEN — pronounced “glisten” — among other global LGBT organizations. In 2020, Disney announced that it would donate $100,000 to GLSEN. Disney’s 2022 funds will reportedly create new LGBT-oriented programming.

Disney’s PRIDE page dubbed GLSEN a leader in “educational equity” and stated that the organizations have collaborated “for more than 20 years.”

GLSEN is the touchpoint between political activism and LGBT activism in K-12 public and private schools. The LGBT organization crafts school policy guides, curricula and teacher training for schools nationwide, according to an analysis from Parents Defending Education.

Lesson plans developed by GLSEN are created for students as young as kindergarten. Programming encouraged young children to discuss their identity, gender and race.

I just do not understand why groups like this want to sexualize young children, and why Disney would fund them. Can’t they just let kids be kids, and let them develop on their own? Showing support is one thing: actively sexualizing them and trying to get them to become LGBTQ is something quite different. These people, and Disney, are sick, and should not be let near children, nor provide any guidance to them.

This should sure win over people to their side, right?

Pro-Abortion Radicals to Terrorize Churches on Mother’s Day

Pro-abortion radicals plan to terrorize Catholic churches on Mother’s Day after a Supreme Court leak revealed Roe v. Wade may be overturned.

Ruth Sent Us, a radical-left organization, has sent out a notice over social media of sadistic protests occurring at unknown church locations throughout metropolitan cities.

“Whether you’re a ‘Catholic for Choice,’ ex-Catholic, of other or no faith, recognize that six extremist Catholics set out to overturn Roe. Stand at or in a local Catholic Church Sun May 8,” the radical group tweeted on May 3.

Protests on Sunday are a part of a so-called “week of action.” Ruth Sent Us has also published the justices’ supposed home addresses online for the radical protestors to locate and therefore intimidate the justices.

“Rise up May 8-15 and beyond… At the homes of the six extremist justices, three in Virginia and three in Maryland,” its website says. “Our 6-3 extremist Supreme Court routinely issues rulings that hurt women, racial minorities, LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights,” the group’s website said. “We must rise up to force accountability using a diversity of tactics.” (snip)

A second group is also planning activities during the “week of action.” Beginning on May 8, radical protestors are planning to protest outside Catholic churches. The second group’s name is Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, which is planning to wear green “Handmaid’s Tale” outfits in protest to compare pro-life laws to the rape and motherhood in Margaret Atwood’s novel.

You know this is going to go downhill very fast, particularly since these people are unhinged, crazy, wackadoodle. It may well change people’s minds the other way

CNN poll: The Supreme Court’s draft opinion on Roe v. Wade hasn’t shaken the midterm landscape

Americans remain broadly opposed to overturning the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, following the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would strike down the landmark ruling.

Sixty-six percent say Roe v. Wade should not be completely struck down, and 59% would support Congress passing legislation to establish a nationwide right to abortion, including 81% of Democrats, 65% of independents and 30% of Republicans, the survey finds.

But comparing the results of the new poll to one conducted immediately before the revelation of the draft opinion, the impact on the political landscape heading into the 2022 midterms appears fairly muted.

The share of registered voters who say they are extremely or very enthusiastic about voting this fall rose 6 points between the first survey and the second, but that increase is about even across party lines. Among Democrats, 43% now say they are extremely or very enthusiastic, up 7 points. Among Republicans, it’s 56%, up 9 points. And voters who say overturning Roe would make them “happy” are nearly twice as enthusiastic about voting this fall as those who say such a ruling would leave them “angry” (38% extremely enthusiastic among those happy, 20% among those angry).

So, really, this won’t fire up Democrats so much that they can avoid a legislative wipeout in November. If Democrats thought this would push a ton of people over to their side, they were wrong, and, when Independents and nominal Democrat voters see the unhinged gouhls doing their thing for unfettered abortion at all times, well, they might not decide to vote Republican, but, they won’t vote for Democrats.

Of course, law enforcement leaders do not want to focus on the political identities of those who could cause violence. Don’t want to expose that the violence will originate from the abortion supporters, nor did Politico consider highlighting that it will be leftists starting the violence, as has already happened in Los Angeles

Law enforcement officials brace for potential violence around SCOTUS draft opinion

Law enforcement officials across the country are preparing for unrest in the wake of the Supreme Court’s anticipated reversal of Roe v. Wade. On Wednesday, more than 150 officials nationwide joined a call to discuss concerns about growing threats in the wake of the news, including potential danger to Supreme Court justices.

The National Fusion Center Association, representing dozens of intelligence-sharing hubs around the country, hosted the call, which included state and local law enforcement officials along with officials from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. The call focused on threats that have metastasized in the wake of POLITICO’s publication of an initial draft opinion that indicates the Supreme Court could overturn federal abortion protections, according to two people on the call who described it to POLITICO.

The officials’ concerns highlight just how tense the climate has become as the national conversation about abortion rights reaches new intensity. The same fusion center association convened a similar call bracing for extremist threats just a few days before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Participants in Wednesday’s call raised concerns that protesters could clash with counter-protesters or face attacks from lone extremists. They did not focus on the ideological views of people involved in violent attacks or First Amendment-protected protesting.

If Roe is overturned, why would anti-abortion protesters get violent? Except in response to the pro-abortion “protesters” getting violent. And they will get violent. With law enforcement blowing off all the violence from BLM/Antifa they will feel emboldened to engage in plenty of violence.

But they did home in on the federal judiciary — including both the Supreme Court’s nine justices and the hundreds of federal judges around the country — as a potential increasing target of violence.

Which ideological view would attack them? Oh, wait, Politico uses far left material

And on May 4, SITE Intelligence Group — a private organization that shares threat information with a host of law enforcement agencies — released a report detailing calls for violence targeted at people protesting the expected ruling.

“Users on far-right, pro-Trump forum ‘The Donald’ encouraged members to violently oppose pro-abortion protesters demonstrating against the leaked Supreme Court draft signaling an overturn of Roe v. Wade,” reads the bulletin. “Reacting to the headline ‘Violence Breaks out at Pro-Abortion Protest After Democrat Politicians Call to ‘Fight,’’ users made threats and called for police to harm protesters.”

So, they’re going to blame the violence started by the pro-abortion crowd on Republicans. There’s your narrative.

Rita Katz, the head of SITE Intelligence Group, told POLITICO that misogyny is prevalent on the violent far right.

“For far-right extremists, the focus on Roe v. Wade isn’t simply about religion or conventional debates about ‘when life starts,’” she said. “It’s about the toxic resentment of feminism that unites the entire spectrum of these movements, from Neo-Nazis to QAnon.”

See? Of course, these folks in no way represent the Republican party. Antifa and their brethren are the Democratic Party base.

They have no one to blame but themselves. They’ve gone from “safe, rare, and legal” to unhinged, wanting zero restrictions up to and right after birth, celebrating their abortions (including those who’ve had lots of them), holding them up as triumphs

(Breitbart) No sane person, no decent person, not even someone who is pro-abortion, sees abortion as anything other than an unfortunate event. And that’s how Democrats and their corporate media allies used to discuss abortion, as an unfortunate but sometimes necessary thing. Their tone around abortion was solemn and thoughtful; this was not something to be taken lightly.

The only way to describe the left’s tone around abortion today is demonic.

What was solemn has become strident and boastful. What was not taken lightly is now championed — including the harvesting of dead baby organs. The murder of the unborn is now outright celebrated and cheered. It is beyond grotesque, and how can any person of good conscience sit back and allow such evil against helpless innocence to carry the day?

It’s worth reading the whole piece by Jon Nolte. And now

Democrats to force vote next week on Roe v. Wade decision

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will force a vote next week on legislation codifying Roe v. Wade in the wake of a leaked Supreme Court draft decision that would strike down the landmark case.

The test procedural vote is guaranteed to fall short because the bill needs 60 votes to advance, but Democrats are eager to make Republicans go on the record and show their own voters that they are fighting.

“Next week the U.S. Senate is going to vote on legislation to codify a woman’s right to seek abortion into federal law,” Schumer said from the Senate floor.

Schumer will move to tee up the bill on Monday, setting up an initial vote for Wednesday.

It will be the second vote Schumer has forced on the issue. The Senate previously rejected a similar bill in a 46-48 vote earlier this year, with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) voting with Senate Republicans.

They won’t get 60, and, if they think going on the record as being for abortion on demand, in celebrating abortion, it won’t play well for middle America. Those who aren’t pro-abortion extremists, aren’t ghouls, will see the theatrics from the elected Democrats and the crazies outside the Congressional building, and it will be a bad look.

Will they attempt to pass it by killing off the filibuster? They have to know that doing that will boomerang back in the future. And, they might not get Manchin to vote for it. Of course, there’s always lunatics like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.

A Politico-Morning Consult poll released Wednesday found that 50 percent of voters believe the landmark case that guarantees abortion access should not be overturned, while 28 percent said that it should be overturned.

We don’t run the Constitution by public opinion. And states can choose to have abortion be legal. That’s where it should be: the states.

I guess Let’s Go Brandon has given up on the whole “Putin’s price hike” shtick

‘MAGA crowd’ is Biden’s new nemesis, as Democrats confront post-Roe political reality

After a day of political tumult, President Biden had a phrase for the forces he believes are responsible for a conservative Supreme Court poised to undo the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. The forces holding back the economy from a full recovery. The forces that on Tuesday turned J.D. Vance into the GOP U.S. Senate nominee from Ohio.

“The MAGA crowd.”

There was even the “ultra-MAGA” crowd, presumably a more extreme manifestation of former President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” As far as Democrats are concerned, that is the official slogan of the Republican Party.

Democrats have a problem with American being great? Huh.

Biden used the phrase several times during Wednesday’s remarks on the economy. He had used it once before, at a fundraiser in Denver last month, but only in passing. This time, the use seemed more intentional, coming on a day when the nation’s political divides seemed as stark as ever.

It was by installing three Supreme Court justices that Trump brought the nation to the doorstep of a post-Roe world, in which women in conservative states will likely be prevented from getting abortions. Always threatened, the 1973 decision had survived until now. If the arguments in the high court’s leaked draft opinion hold, states will decide on their own whether to grant any abortion rights.

Which makes Democrats upset, because they want the Central Government to dictate everything.

“MAGA Republicans,” Biden said Wednesday, repeating the phrase several times. “I don’t want to mispronounce it,” he joked.

Like he mispronounces so many other things.

Asked by Yahoo News earlier this year about working with Republicans, the president expressed exasperation. “I, honest to God, don’t know what they’re for,” he conceded. Four months later, the president’s conclusion is that the party remains Trump’s — and likely will for many years to come, if the Vance primary victory is any indication.

We’re for most of those things you’re against, Joe. Always have been.

The president sought to deflect blame, in a potential preview of the kinds of attacks he and other Democrats will make as the midterms approach. “Let me tell you about this ultra-MAGA agenda. It’s extreme, as most MAGA things are,” he said. A deputy White House press secretary shared a cable news clip of the president’s sharp indictment.

Rather than taking the blame, as Joe said he would before the election, he must find scapegoats for his abysmal performance and horrible policies.

(Fox News) BRIAN KILMEADE: Tonight, American cities are on edge after a night of violence last night, mostly peaceful protesters right? They were up in arms over the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion, approaching it intellectually, by chucking rocks, bottles and smashing car windows and hurting police officers.

Keep in mind, the Supreme Court hasn’t even overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the abortion rights to the states. This is the left’s warning: “Do what we say, or we will burn your country down.” It’s not an exaggeration. Many of them have taken to social media to threaten exactly that.

He’s 100% correct. And, fortunately, Biden has now placed targets right on all the people he disagrees with and give the unhinged, violent left the ability to get violent with those Joe disagrees with.

Remember the days when liberals would tell us that things just aren’t black and white, that there are shades of grey? That there’s no need for absolutes? Well, then, along came George W. Bush, who drove them in Bush Derangement Syndrome. This infested the Credentialed Media. And the rise of blogs and digital media, so, rather than positioning themselves as Honest News, they went the Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars, Media Matters, and Think Progress route. Lots and lots of the bloggers moved into the Credentialed Media. And they went crazier with Obama in office, this time with their adulation. Then more insane with Trump in office. And anything that goes against their beliefs is The Worst Thing Ever

The Supreme Court Is a Tool of Tyrants

Most Americans do not want to ban abortion. About 60 percent believe the procedure should be legal in all or most cases, the Pew Research Center reported last year. Should the Supreme Court indeed overturn Roe v. Wade, as a leaked draft of the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization suggests, there is every reason to believe the decision will be unpopular. Yet public opinion matters little to the right wing and conservatives are organizing behind a national abortion ban, according to the Washington Post. “This is a whole new ballgame,” Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life Action, told the newspaper. “The 50 years of standing at the Supreme Court’s door waiting for something to happen is over.”

Public opinion means exactly zero when it comes to deciding whether something is Constitutional or not. That’s why it’s called a Constitutional Republic. BTW, some polls go the other way.

There will soon be no reason for them to linger outside the Court in hope. The right’s long war to ban abortion in the United States may be nearing its conclusion. The draft opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito, argues that “a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions.” Women should not fear, he asserts later, because they “are not without electoral or political power.” This is thin comfort. Pro-choice women can influence their fates through direct action: by breaking unjust laws, or by filling streets in the defense of their bodies. Electorally, however, their powers are limited by the influence of an anti-democratic conservative movement.

It won’t be illegal everywhere. It’s a state’s rights issue. Perhaps women will stop using abortion as contraception, and start realizing that having risky, irresponsible, unprotected sex is not a good idea. Men, too. But, men do not have to worry about a bun in their oven. And, if they do not like what the state passes, they can move to another state, or try and get people elected who will change the law.

What is happening inside the Supreme Court is not the triumph of the American people but rather the success of a well-funded minoritarian faction. The battle for abortion pits the electoral and political power of a pro-choice majority against that of conservative elites, and it is easy to see who is winning. (Conservatives have focused their attention and ire on the leaked opinion because they view it as a crime committed against them. The court is theirs; anyone who violates its sanctity is an enemy. The possibility that the leaker might be a conservative does not change this basic calculus.) Anti-abortion activists have discovered that with enough elite power at their disposal, they can comfortably ignore the wishes of the people. Their stance on abortion predisposes them to a tyrannical form of politics. If abortion kills a human being, then public opinion does not matter; in fact, to defer to the public is to become complicit in mass murder.

See? We don’t like the way the Supreme Court might rule based on the Constitution, so, it’s tyranny, and we’re going to come up with all sorts of Theories. These people are nuts, and prefer mob rule, with no guiding principles.

The piece goes on and on, but, I do have to throw this in

When the justices formally rule on Dobbs, and surely strike down Roe, they will continue a anti-democratic tradition that includes Bush v. Gore, which overruled the popular vote and put George W. Bush in office;…

They just cannot Move On. This still drives them nuts. Those who know this was the proper ruling based on the laws of Florida are fine with it. I voted for Gore in 2000, so, while I was disappointed, I understood The Law. For the moonbat BDS infused lefties, they do not care, they still lose their minds for not getting their way.

Anyhow, if a liberal within the office of the Supreme Court leaked it, they might have hurt Democrats more, because seeing them out in the streets, getting violent, protest, going full moonbat in favor of killing the unborn could swing many people over to vote Republican.

We’ve had plenty of unhinged Hot Takes over the leaked SCOTUS document on Roe v Wade. Then, we get the folks who are supposed to be allies. Here’s the NY Times’ resident Republican (who’s really a necon and inflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome)

Overturning Roe Is a Radical, Not Conservative, Choice

Dear Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Thomas:

As you’ll no doubt agree, Roe v. Wade was an ill-judged decision when it was handed down on Jan. 22, 1973.

It stood on the legal principle of a right to privacy found, at the time, mainly in the penumbras of the Constitution. It arrogated to the least democratic branch of government the power to settle a question that would have been better decided by Congress or state legislatures. It set off a culture war that polarized the country, radicalized its edges and made compromise more difficult. It helped turn confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court into the unholy death matches they are now. It diminished the standing of the court by turning it into an ever-more political branch of government.

So, it was a horrible, terrible, no good decision? Let’s get rid of it

But a half-century is a long time. America is a different place, with most of its population born after Roe was decided. And a decision to overturn Roe — which the court seems poised to do, according to the leak of a draft of a majority opinion from Justice Samuel Alito — would do more to replicate Roe’s damage than to reverse it.

That means nothing. The Constitution is the Constitution. If you do not like the words, try and change it with a Constitutional convention

It would be a radical, not conservative, choice.

What is conservative? It is, above all, the conviction that abrupt and profound changes to established laws and common expectations are utterly destructive to respect for the law and the institutions established to uphold it — especially when those changes are instigated from above, with neither democratic consent nor broad consensus.

Well, that’s the neocon view. The real view, based on the Classical Liberal/Federalist beliefs is that the Constitution is the Constitution, that the federal government’s powers should be limited to what the Constitution grants them, and everything else is held by the States and The People. Do we care if it can “cause damage”? We either do The Right Thing, the constitutional thing, or, we abandon our beliefs. Stephens continues with his idiotic pandering to the left by claiming keeping Roe would be Conservative for awhile, you’re welcome to read it.

And, then, of course we have Squishy Susan Collins

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Tuesday that if a report suggesting that the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade is accurate, she was misled in her conversations with two justices who had told her that the landmark 1973 abortion ruling was settled law. (snip)

“If this leaked draft opinion is the final decision and this reporting is accurate, it would be completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office,” Collins said in a statement. “Obviously, we won’t know each justice’s decision and reasoning until the Supreme Court officially announces its opinion in this case.”

I highly doubt either said it was settled law, because it is not law. Obviously, the argument made in the case that has SCOTUS considering overturning Roe was better than the argument in favor of keeping Roe. Here’s David Harsanyi

Senator Susan Collins says that Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade is “completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office.” Ramesh and Ed have debunked this claim. Conceding that long-established precedents should be treated with more weight does not preclude the possibility that those decisions were wrongly decided and should be overturned. Plessy was on the books for over 60 years. As Chuck Schumer noted at the time, “this is not as simple as Judge Kavanaugh saying that Roe is settled law. Everything the Supreme Court decides is settled law until it unsettles it. Saying a case is settled law is not the same thing as saying a case was correctly decided.”

With friends like Collins and Stephens, who needs enemies? And, of course

A statement from The Lincoln Project. pic.twitter.com/8DLDlHcm61

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) May 3, 2022

"We are entering a period in which the state you live in will determine more fundamental aspects of your rights…Which, in turn, seems likely to hasten our geographical self-sorting…It’s not clear to me that such an arrangement is sustainable…" https://t.co/J6KSbcpYFu

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 3, 2022

Yup, Trump broke them so much they can’t even stick with American Conservative principles and stand up for doing away with killing the unborn.