Random News: June 27, 2022

DISCLAIMER: Zak's Random News is very random and doesn't cover many things, and not everything may be accurate, because I'm just some guy. Go find a real news source.

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Good morning. It’s June 27, 2022, and it’s a Monday. Here is a variety of whatnot…

• There are 134 days until the 2022 Midterm elections.
• The next step on the Republican agenda is to try and outlaw abortion in all 50 states.
• If there’s a Republican majority in the House or Senate, they will do this immediately after the midterm elections. The only thing stopping them from doing it today is that Democrats hold a razor-thin majority in both chambers.
• There has never been a Supreme Court decision as measurably unpopular as the overturn of Roe v. Wade on Friday June 24.
• The only thing all citizens can do is to vote, and to convince as many people as possible why it’s essential that they also vote.
• This election in November needs to eclipse even the “Blue Wave” Midterm election of 2018. It needs to be the biggest in history.
• Keep in mind that more GOP voters will be voting this November… but also note that not all of them support the destruction of women’s rights either.
• I’m going to walk you down a short little slope. Roe is gone. The Court has stated that three other cases involved with Roe — Griswold, Lawrence, and Obegefell, which respectively allow for contraception, homosexuality, and same-sex marriage — are on the chopping block. The next steps after that would be the removal of a women’s right to vote.
• There are already states where your rapist could sue you for getting an abortion. After your right to vote is gone, you’ll just have to accept getting raped (or your wife/daughter being raped) and being forced to carry that child to term. Women will not have a say in the matter.
• See why I want you to vote while you still can?
• One more note: many friends of mine have kids and are planning ahead for their college years. Stop and ask yourself: will you send your child to school in a place where her sex life will be under constant scrutiny by the state, is not allowed to get an abortion or leave the state to do so, and will soon not be allowed to buy birth control? Ask yourself these questions before committing her to a life of misery, please.
• In case you think the Supreme Court has already done the worst it could do, they voted 6-3 this morning that public school teachers can lead their classes in prayer. I’m urging every Muslim person to do just that at the next opportunity. Wait, that’s not what you meant? Too late, you pieces of shit.
• In other news (yes, there is other news), Russia has defaulted on foreign debt for the first time since 1918 due to the economic sanctions put on them by the West after their illegal invasion of Ukraine. Sanctions do have an effect, but frankly it’s not nearly enough.
• Someone walked up to Rudy Giuliani and slapped him on the back, and said, “What’s up, scumbag?” Tough guy Giuliani had the grocery store worker arrested for assault. 
• In sports news, congrats to the Colorado Avalanche for winning the Stanley Cup championships. Well deserved. In other news, the Lakers have recruited Pippen and O’Neal… Scotty Pippen Jr. and Shareef O’Neal, the sons of Pippen Sr. and Shaq. I feel old.
• Today in history… Thirteen martyrs are burned at the stake near London for being Protestant (1556). Cherokee warriors beat the asses of British forces in present-day North Carolina (1760). Uruguay president Juan Maria Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship (1973). France grant independence to Djibouti (1977). Space Shuttle Columbia launches on its final R&D mission (1982). Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister (2007). 
• June 27 is the birthday of French king Louis XII (1462), author/activist Hellen Keller (1880), pool player Willie Mosconi (1913), businessman/politician Ross Perot (1930), fashion designer Vera Wang (1949), actor Tobey Maguire (1975), and actor Drake Bell (1986).

I urge you to fight for good things, today and every day. Fight for your own rights and for the people you love. The best thing most of you can personally do is to rally people to vote in November. Make them understand what’s on the line.