Let’s enjoy this trip down memory lane. After several futile attempts to get Kavanaugh to give his opinion on Roe V Wade, then-Senator Harris throws him for a loop with this simple question.

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    2 months ago

    Hm, I guess you could say the selective service, no? If there’s a draft, men must present themselves (their bodies) for military service. It’s a bit of a bad faith answer, though, because there hasn’t been a draft in decades, meanwhile women’s bodily autonomy is being denied every day.

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    2 months ago

    “Can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body?”

    Saved you a click if that’s all you’re interested in. But if you want to see him flim-flam and squirm for 45 seconds, definitely click.

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    2 months ago

    Neither men nor women are allowed to sell their organs. I’m not throwing any shade on Senator Harris for her question, but I’m not a Supreme Court Justice and I thought of that example immediately. He’s not the sharpest crayon in the box.

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      No one can sell their organs, but that’s a commerce law, it doesn’t let the government decide whether or not you can remove your own organs – so far: Repubs want to change that and deny trans people the right to gender-affirming surgery.

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    2 months ago

    I guess I’m not under pressure but immediately thought of the draft, not that those two things are exactly equivalent

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    2 months ago

    God someone should have brought a breathalyzer to that hearing.

    “Sir, you’ve had multiple outbursts and nearly cried talking about drinking a few beers. Will you prove that you are not drunk right now by blowing into this breathalyzer?”

    Dude would have flipped the table.