Days after Ohio voters passed Issue 1 and codified abortion rights into Ohio’s constitution, Republicans are not accepting the election results.

In a new, unhinged press release issued by the Ohio House Republican Committee, GOP members rant that “foreign billionaires” impacted the election results and call the results tainted by so-called “foreign interference.” It is unclear what they are referring to.

Ohio voters overwhelmingly voted ‘Yes’ on Issue 1 by a margin of 56.6% to 43.4%.

The press release further argues that the results of the election do not invalidate a 6-week abortion ban previously passed by the Ohio Legislature and that “no amendment can overturn the God given rights with which we were born.”

  • Bananigans@lemmy.ml
    1431·
    1 year ago

    “no amendment can overturn the God given rights with which we were born.”

    …so, no birth no problem then?

    • gkd@lemmy.ml
      33·
      1 year ago

      The really weird part was this:

      The amendment’s language is dangerously vague and unconstrained, and can be weaponized to attack parental rights or defend rapists, pedophiles, and human traffickers.

      I mean I know that they love to mix things together, but this might be the first time I’ve seen abortion linked to pedophilia and supporting rapists.

      • Bananigans@lemmy.ml
        23·
        1 year ago

        It’s just buzz phrase salad that they serve with every issue. Biden=pedo, immigrants=rapists, trans=rapist, abortion=trafficking, literally any issue=just add a,b, or c for justification. It’s a tired recipe, but their customers enjoy it.

          • Bananigans@lemmy.ml
            14·
            1 year ago

            And they would be laughed out of court and into prison. It’s not the fault of the law if someone reads it and understands it to mean something it doesn’t say.

            It doesn’t have any language repealing pedophilia laws. Just for clarity.

          • TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world
            9·
            1 year ago

            I don’t see this part as vague as all.

            …one’s own reproductive decisions,…

            Your own, not someone elses. If you’re a kiddy diddler abusing a child, then you’re affecting their reproductive decisions since they are under the age of consent. That defense isn’t covered under this amendment. So it would go through the courts as normal. Hopefully ending in a lifetime sentence.

          • shastaxc@lemm.ee
            5·
            1 year ago

            The interpretation of the law is up to the judicial branch and any judge who sides with the pedophile in this case is kissing his career goodbye.

  • Taco2112@lemmy.world
    127·
    1 year ago

    It’s really funny when they whine about outside money. I didn’t see the GOP up in arms as Citizens United passed, I don’t see them upset when they SuperPACs give money to their campaigns so it seems they only care when it affects them, big fucking shocker there….

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    101·
    1 year ago

    Please proceed.

    You just got pounded at the polls over this issue. Please keep the rage levels high.

  • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    761·
    1 year ago

    Pay attention, people. Recognize who you need to vote for in 2024 to preserve the rights that YOU HAVE ALREADY VOTED FOR…

    • Ænima@lemm.ee
      201·
      1 year ago

      They already set the stage to ignore the election results next year. Look at how many STILL think the 2020 election results were stolen. They’re either enacting laws to overturn the future results they didn’t like or commandeer the offices that handle elections to ignore them.

      This time next year will be a very dangerous time for the United States. Even if every sane Republican voter, who recognizes the dangers proposed, votes for a Democrat, it may not even matter. I’m not looking forward to it…

      • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I don’t think most people truly grok how pivotal this is going to be. Yeah, they may say the whole “this is the most important election of your life” like they say every time (and it has been every time, unfortunately), but I don’t know how many people truly understand what’s coming.

        • Ænima@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 year ago

          That’s why they haven’t stopped saying it about 2020. Repeat a lie enough and it becomes true…

      • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
        21·
        1 year ago

        Nah. It’s hard to ignore an election in the US because the one thing Americans hate is feeling impotent.

  • Arghblarg
    711·
    1 year ago

    WTF America. Don’t you have some sort of neutral House Constable with powers to kick out these idiots in cases like this? How can they just ignore official results without consequence?

    It sounds like there needs to be a bottom-to-top reform of the law where every ‘norm’ that used to be assumed, gets new enforceable law to back it up.

    • nul9o9@lemmy.world
      61·
      1 year ago

      Don’t you have some sort of neutral House Constable with powers to kick out these idiots in cases like this?

      No, we have an impartial judiciary system that… oh wait…

    • xenu@kbin.social
      30·
      1 year ago

      The Republicans think they have a right to rule us without our consent. Sooner or later the military may have to get involved.

        • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
          14·
          1 year ago

          The JCoS may be largely conservative but we have to hope they love America enough to fight for it in its intended form as a democracy rather than the fascist ethnostate the republicans want

        • xenu@kbin.social
          10·
          1 year ago

          It’s a wild card, I’m not saying otherwise. The alternative though, could very well be a right wing authoritarian take over. My hope is enough of these guys saw Iraq or Afghanistan to know what it would look like.

        • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          10·
          1 year ago

          Why do you think Tuberville is holding 400+ appointments hostage until the GOP likely takes the senate back?

          It’s part of project 2025 to have insurrectionists in the millitary who would support a theocratic coup

        • Ænima@lemm.ee
          5·
          1 year ago

          Conservative or not, those of us who served, and didn’t just sit behind a desk, know the oath we took. I think you would be surprised how many service members hold that shit in higher regard than a politician’s butthurt response to election results.

    • Pheonixdown@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 year ago

      There is no neutral role, everything can be made partisan.

      If the people don’t like the actions of an elected official, they can either try to vote them out in the next election or try to force a recall and replace them.

      • agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        8·
        1 year ago

        The federal Constitution prevents any state from recalling a member of congress, so your federal reps can not be recalled legally. They would have to be expelled from within the congress, you get to vote and thats it.

      • CileTheSane
        4·
        1 year ago

        Don’t shrug your shoulders and say “I guess we’ll wait until the next election.” They have shown what they think of election results.

        Take note of how the French do things and fucking protest!

    • Igloojoe@lemm.ee
      7·
      1 year ago

      Articles like this are just to make republican voters stop crying. Give them hope while also selling a news article.

      Abortion rights will go in effect, and the election results will stay.

      • rambaroo@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 year ago

        Based on what? This wouldn’t be the first time Republicans ignored a constitutional amendment and got away with it.

      • hydrospanner@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Exactly.

        These chucklefucks got elected on conservative social repression. Now that it’s been rejected, this is a desperate plea to their base not to primary them out next term.

  • evidences@lemmy.world
    55·
    1 year ago

    The party of Lincoln sure doesn’t seem like they want a Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

    The most worrying part of this press release is the part where they’re saying they’re going to try and reign in the powers of the judiciary to enforce the abortion amendment. Sure sounds a lot like fascism to me.

  • Vlhacs@reddthat.com
    541·
    1 year ago

    I’m sure some of their Republican voters will be thrilled to hear that…

    Oh by the way, I thought the GOP were about state rights?

    • Etterra@lemmy.world
      40·
      1 year ago

      Not long ago I read the best explanation of conservative brain cancer ever. If you look at everything they say and do through this lens, it all actually makes sense. It’s insanity, but it does make sense internally.

      “I get to tell you what to do; you do not get to tell me what to do.”

      That’s it. That’s their insane logic. They can’t even elucidate it, but they all follow it.

    • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
      12·
      1 year ago

      L’etat c’est moi.

      They believe that they are the state, and that they should have absolute authority to rule over the residents without any federal government oversight.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      1 year ago

      Their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications. All that has ever mattered is ingroup loyalty. They think that’s all you’re doing, because they think that’s all there is.

      Please stop asking these kind of questions, even sarcastically.

  • chuckd@lemmy.world
    44·
    1 year ago

    This is their way of admitting to using foreign interference in our upcoming elections.

    • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
      75·
      1 year ago

      I hate the scapegoating of “foreign interference”

      It is like saying the problem is Jewish capitalists instead of capitalists

      The problem is the legalized buying of elections not that .2 percent of the buy was from scary foreigners.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    341·
    1 year ago

    Hey Republicans. Prove your specific god exists, and I’ll recognize that you have god-given rights.

    In the meantime, we have real, objective proof that you lost and need to STFU.

  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    307·
    1 year ago

    Yes someone posted this on Lemmy so now I can say what I want…

    ….maybe someone needs to revoke their license to living?

    If they want to rule like kings than they can be treated as such