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🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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They’ve done it. Well, they’re about to. As much as we all knew this was coming it’s still stunning. Today’s Topical Cream presses the obvious point that we live under the tyranny of the minority. The racist, white nationalist, right-wing, Christian fucking minority that elected two illegitimate Presidents who appointed the sitting majority of the Supreme fucking Court. Max and 99 trade off thoughts on the SCOTUS leak, the awful minority and the feckless democrats elected to “protect” our interests. All of that in just one Cream.
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Pew Research Center: About six-in-ten Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases
Guttmacher Institute: Roe v. Wade in Peril: Our Latest Resources
Axios: Collins says Kavanaugh and Gorsuch possibly broke promise on Roe v. Wade
The 19th News: Jessica Cisneros takes on the last anti-abortion U.S. House Democrat
Gallup: Approval of U.S. Supreme Court Down to 40%, a New Low
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0:00.0 | Topical cream, a pod listener's dream, unfucking the news and current events. |
0:11.3 | Topical cream, yeah, you know what I mean. |
0:16.6 | A quarter of an hour gets you our two cents topical cream. |
0:29.6 | In so much as members of the court had said that the Ninth Amendment applies to rights |
0:34.6 | reserve to the people and those which were most important and certainly this is |
0:38.0 | that the ninth amendment is appropriate place in so far as the court has said that uh that life |
0:45.2 | liberty and the pursuit of happiness involved the very most fundamental things of people that |
0:50.8 | this matter is one of those most fundamental matters. |
0:55.1 | I think in as far as the court has said that there is a penumbra that exists |
0:59.4 | to encompass the entire purpose of the Constitution, |
1:04.9 | that I think one of the purposes of the Constitution was to guarantee to the individual |
1:09.3 | the right to determine the course of their own |
1:12.0 | lives, insofar as there was perhaps no compelling state interest and we elect there is none |
1:16.9 | in this case. But there again, the right fits within the framework of the previous decisions |
1:24.8 | of this court. |
1:27.3 | It's easy for me to tell you that the tide will turn again, |
1:31.7 | that someday we'll return to our senses as a nation to offer protections to the poor, |
1:37.4 | the marginalized, that will be better, kinder, moral, |
1:42.2 | that this too shall pass. |
1:48.4 | But the country was built for me. Every step of the way, |
1:55.8 | it was designed with me in mind. Moreover, I live in a blue state. I've chosen to live in an area where my daughters are afforded certain protections and given opportunities that have been denied others |
2:02.3 | and will once again be denied in certain parts of the country. Obviously, I'm speaking to the |
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