On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s Joy Reid had another freak-out on The ReidOut, this time doubling down on her false and reckless claims that the conservative-leaning Supreme Court unleashed Republican states to “literally take physical control of half the population” which she ridiculously defined as “women and queer folks with uteruses.”
“The court majority is flexing its unelected power rather brazenly to further not a judicial or a constitutional but seemingly a religious agenda. That is unprecedented in a country that's separated from the crown that leads a national church,” Reid wailed.
After falsely claiming that “the Republican Party, spent the past few days asserting that little girls, 10-year-old little girls who have been raped should bear the children of their rapists,” Reid proclaimed that “America's 10-year-olds are also at the mercy of mass shooters when they walk into their fourth-grade classrooms because this court has decreed that guns have more rights than children or women.”
Reid never explained how women and children have fewer rights than guns, when was the last time you needed to get a background check or the government’s permission to bring your wife or children out in public?
Once again lying about Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education” law, Reid, without any evidence, said that “Teachers who are gay or lesbian or bi have been forced back into the closet for fear of violating the ‘Don't say gay’ law.”
She also huffed that Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis floated the idea of investigating parents who bring their underage children to sexually explicit and inappropriate “drag queen story time” shows:
Trans people are under brazen attack with DeSantis floating the idea of ordering child protective services to investigate parents who take kids to drag queen story time. Schools are being stripped of history lessons while teachers are being told in summer training sessions in Florida, in the unfree state of Florida, that the slave-holding founding fathers actually hated slavery and that there is no separation of Christian church and state.
The deranged and vile MSNBC host ended her rant by fretting that conservatives are winning the culture war because “it is not clear that our current politics is capable of stopping any of this, of turning it around and giving us an actual Independence Day. So what are we supposed to do?”
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MSNBC’s The ReidOut
July 5, 2022
7:04:11 p.m. EasternJOY REID: All of this as more than 100 million women and queer folks with uteruses too, woke up to another day in America, basically as state property in the more than 20 fully or partially Republican-controlled states that the Supreme Court's conservative majority unleashed to literally take physical control of half the population.
And the court majority is flexing its unelected power rather brazenly to further not a judicial or a constitutional but seemingly a religious agenda. That is unprecedented in a country that's separated from the crown that leads a national church. And it's not just them. Their party, the Republican Party, spent the past few days asserting that little girls, 10-year-old little girls who have been raped should bear the children of their rapists.
This is an actual 10-year-old girl from Ohio who had been raped by a relative and who had to be taken to Indiana to terminate a pregnancy, which was the result of the abuse. Indiana has not shut abortion rights down yet.
It is still a free state for now. America's 10-year-olds are also at the mercy of mass shooters when they walk into their fourth-grade classrooms because this court has decreed that guns have more rights than children or women. While police per the court, have no affirmative obligation to save you or your kids. Just themselves. That is the excuse they used in Akron. They thought their lives were in danger.
In Florida today, college professors are required to submit to the government their political leanings so that supreme chairman Ron DeSantis can declare himself satisfied that there are enough right-thinking men and women on staff. Teachers who are gay or lesbian or bi have been forced back into the closet for fear of violating the "Don't say gay" law.
Corporations are on notice that they had better not speak up in opposition to the governor, or else. Trans people are under brazen attack with DeSantis floating the idea of ordering child protective services to investigate parents who take kids to drag queen story time. Schools are being stripped of history lessons while teachers are being told in summer training sessions in Florida, in the unfree state of Florida, that the slave-holding founding fathers actually hated slavery and that there is no separation of Christian church and state.
And Florida is just one of the red states waging this particular cultural revolution. America is in a very different place in July of 2022 than it was even a year ago. We are less free, we are less safe at the store, at school, in church, at a parade.
We are further down the road to authoritarianism and living in a constant state of terror. Oh, yes, and our former President very nearly pulled off a coup supported by a majority of his party. And the same religious arch-conservatives on the Supreme Court who now threaten the freedom to marry, to purchase birth control, to be free from religious dogma, and to vote are poised to decide a case that could make the next Republican coup legal. And now for the really bad news. It is not clear that our current politics is capable of stopping any of this, of turning it around and giving us an actual Independence Day. So what are we supposed to do?
