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This is all just a wedge issue to distract from the disastrous management of the US economy, the US border with Mexico, and failed COVID policies. The timing - 6 months before midterms - is deliberate.

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The final opinion would come out 2 or 3 months before midterms either way, because all opinions come out over summer.

Have you consider grasping at different straws?

But it gives time to shift the narrative-- create lots of anger and then start with the "donate to our side, we'll fight to maintain this/undo this". I mean I don't have any reason for thinking this is more likely than any other possibility, but really at this point there's not enough evidence to narrow it down at all. Hell maybe it was Putin-- who can really say at this point

there are lots of opportunities and lots of opportunists who have initially nothing to do with the action or thought process and coordination leading up to the action

there is a group of people susceptible to the idea of trying to tie them all together

and there are opportunities to lead those kind of people on too

I mainly caution against being one of the people susceptible to connecting unrelated strings, and providing an alternate framework on how random things happen in reality

It's a little early for that, IMHO. Unless they were worried the final ruling wouldn't become public until after the midterms, I rather suspect they would have preferred an August or late September release to cover up their poor polling.

OTOH, if I were motivated to prevent this from affecting the midterms, I'd want it out as soon as possible to let people blow off their steam and for the news cycle to move onto other issues before the campaign season begins again.

Although support for late term abortions is quite low, support for Roe v. Wade itself is quite high (insofar as that it legalizes abortion, in general). As an election season issue, overturning Roe v. Wade hurts the republicans more than it helps the democrats.

If the government was that competent at releasing propaganda to distract from ongoing crisises at hyper convenient moments wouldn’t you think they’d have much better ways of convincing people to mask, isolate, and vax?

Making sense in your head isn't enough to make a claim factual.

the economy was up before the war in Ukraine, dow had its best time ever even through covid, the caravans never arrived and covid killed itself. Are we living in different countries or are you just mad?

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