April 20 Reads

Reproductive prostitution--"surrogacy"--is yet another example of male entitlement to women, rendering women things to be bought and sold, things to be used.

Too bad if gay men can't have "their own" kids.  Having children is not a right.

New York dropped the ball on this one.
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The billionaire hacks need to call off their lapdog "protesters":

MORE: The governors of Michigan and North Carolina asked Vice President Mike Pence to reiterate the need for social distancing, and Pence agreed to "make a point" to do so. https://t.co/FQG0XVPSwo

— ABC News (@ABC) April 20, 2020

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The bought-and-paid-for "protesters" have far more in common with Typhoid Mary than they do with Rosa Parks.

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The anti-quarantine protesters aren’t Rosa Parks. They’re more like Typhoid Mary.
Demonstrators protest stay-at-home orders in Denver on Sunday.
Demonstrators protest stay-at-home orders in Denver on Sunday. (Jason Connolly/Afp Via Getty Images)
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Max Boot
Columnist
April 20, 2020 at 11:34 a.m. PDT
One of the dangers of contracting covid-19 is a cytokine storm. That’s when your immune system overreacts to an infection and attacks healthy cells and tissues, with potentially fatal consequences. We are running a similar risk with our body politic. The same ideologies — freedom, federalism and free markets — that have enabled America’s rise may bring us down if they are carried too far during a deadly pandemic.

The danger is exacerbated by the right-wing crackpots who are protesting social distancing rules in states such as California, Colorado, Wisconsin, Texas and Michigan. They seek to exploit the American sympathy for freedom fighters dating all the way back to the Boston Tea Party in 1773. Trump adviser Stephen Moore even has the gall to call them “modern-day Rosa Parks” — as if the civil rights icon fought for the right to infect other people. Typhoid Mary would be a more apt comparison.

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President Trump expressed his support for the demonstrations by tweeting “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” and other states. Fox News’s Laura Ingraham demanded: “How many of those who urged our govt to help liberate the Iraqis, Syrians, Kurds, Afghanis, etc., are as committed now to liberating Virginia, Minnesota, California, etc?” This is deranged. Trump and Ingraham are misapplying the American impulse to fight for freedom in a situation where it does not belong. Saddam Hussein is not the governor of Michigan — and no Americans need “liberation” from public health guidelines issued by elected leaders.

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While the anti-quarantine protesters are a fringe movement so far, our individual-rights ideology has already hindered the battle against the pandemic. One of the most effective responses to the virus in Asian countries such as China, Singapore and South Korea has been to isolate anyone testing positive in makeshift infirmaries to avoid infecting family members. “If I was forced to select only one intervention, it would be the rapid isolation of all cases,” Bruce Aylward, who led a World Health Organization team to China, told the New York Times. But such a measure would be unthinkable to freedom-loving Americans.

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Saw this on Twitter:

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Dipshit Republicans have a death wish, not to mention contempt for the average voter.

Besides, it is the states, not the federal government, that have the power to reopen.
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The usual suspects are behind the astroturf "protests."
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