Chris Cuomo is suspended by CNN, Trump was diagnosed with coronavirus three days earlier than previously known, and SCOTUS hears a major abortion case that challenges Roe v. Wade. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #COVID
not sad to see Cuomo gone from CNN. We got two for the price of one.
Chris Cuomo was terrible; he kept bringing back the same liars over and over so he could pretend to “dunk” on them. I’d say “good riddance” except CNN will only get worse.
Sigh. I find myself wishing I could lock the male conservative judges in a room for a month with a recording of a crying baby playing non-stop and a loop of Peppa Pig on a TV that can’t be turned off.
To be clear, I love kids. But I don’t think those assholes really understand the experiences of many parents.
re: #4 A Cranky One
Sigh. I find myself wishing I could lock the male conservative judges in a room for a month with a recording of a crying baby playing non-stop and a loop of Peppa Pig on a TV that can’t be turned off.
To be clear, I love kids. But I don’t think those assholes really understand the experiences of many parents.
That’s what your undocumented nanny is for. If she complains you aren’t paying her (and it has to be a her) enough (or at all), you can just call up ICE and they’ll take her inconvenient complaint of wage theft and deport it (along with her).
The price of Christianity is sometimes you have to sacrifice people.
My wanted baby, stillborn at 41wk, led to obstructed labor with damage to my pelvis. Scarring around my pelvic nerves led to foot drop & terrible neuropathic pain. These caused me to become disabled, leaving my career, schooling, and years of training in the dust. But do go on😡 https://t.co/gEwma1DKaF
— Patty Irigoyen (@PatriciaIrigo10) December 1, 2021
re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Coney Barret’s breezy assumption that people are eager to adopt is false, if the thousands of children currently waiting to be adopted in every state is any guide.
adoptuskids.org
re: #7 jaunte
Coney Barret’s breezy assumption that people are eager to adopt is false, if the thousands of children currently waiting to be adopted in every state is any guide.
adoptuskids.org
Lying for Jesus has been going on since the dawn of Christianity.
Charles, if my comment was out of line I apologize.
re: #9 A Cranky One
Sigh. I find myself wishing I could lock the male conservative judges in a room for a month with a recording of a crying baby playing non-stop and a loop of Peppa Pig on a TV that can’t be turned …
I agree, it would give them a hint of the real world.
re: #7 jaunte
Coney Barret’s breezy assumption that people are eager to adopt is false, if the thousands of children currently waiting to be adopted in every state is any guide.
adoptuskids.org
Who wants to adopt the child of a wanton whore in Christian America?
Or a meth addict! Or maybe she is her creepy uncles’ punch!
I’ll just go to China and get me some babbys.
Dr. Oz Hopes to Replace Rand Paul as Biggest Quack in Senate (The Borowitz Report at The New Yorker)
PENNSYLVANIA (The Borowitz Report)—Explaining his decision to enter the political sphere, Dr. Mehmet Oz said that he hopes to oust Rand Paul as the biggest quack in the United States Senate.
Oz said that Paul, a former ophthalmologist, has shown an impressive obliviousness about medicine while serving in Washington, but added, “I think I can out-quack him.”
“In the many times he’s grilled Dr. Fauci, has he ever asked him about the health benefits of magic coffee beans or umckaloabo-root extract?” Oz said. “I think America deserves a senator who will ask those tough questions.”
Paul, speaking to reporters, seemed unfazed by Oz’s determination to supplant him as the Senate’s top quack.
“I respect Dr. Oz as a fellow-charlatan, and the competition can only light a fire under me to become a bigger charlatan myself,” he said. “But if, in the end, he winds up besting me, I’ve had a good run.”
So if that school shooter is 15… is he allowed to own a gun under Michigan law? And if not, does that mean his parents buying it for him is a straw purchase?
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UFC president Dana White has COVID-19, called Joe Rogan for treatment advice (MMA Weekly, five hours ago)
UFC president Dana White is currently in isolation after testing positive to COVID-19 after a Thanksgiving gathering with his family.
White revealed that he and many in his family have the virus during an appearance on “The Jim Rome Podcast.”
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Donald Trump has called on someone to challenge Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE2) in next year’s primary.
Rep. Bacon was one of the Republicans who voted AYE on the infrastructure bill.
So the murderous terrorists freed in the thousands in 2020 by the Trump admin resumed murdering & terrorizing. What a surprise.
PS: takes a real piece of work to block the Auschwitz Museum after being called out for offensive/antisemitic content.https://t.co/0HIQBwooNx— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) December 2, 2021
re: #13 sagehen
So if that school shooter is 15… is he allowed to own a gun under Michigan law? And if not, does that mean his parents buying it for him is a straw purchase?
As a guardian, you can do shit for your kid that is outside what the kid can do by him/her/them selves. Think films: Under 16 not allowed unless accompanied by guardian.
With its argument, understand that Mississippi is arguing to overturn Roe and Casey (abortion), Griswold (contraception), Lawrence (right to be gay), Obergefell (marriage equality), Bostock (right to be trans at work), and Loving (right to an interracial marriage) IN ONE CASE
— Sheryl Ring: END TRANSPHOBIA IN ILLINOIS COURTS (@Ring_Sheryl) December 1, 2021
So with a single case, the far-right are looking to upend the civil rights of women, African Americans, and LGBTQ as a whole.
Given their respective populaces, this is nothing short of a declaration of war on more than 185 million Americans.
re: #15 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Donald Trump has called on someone to challenge Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE2) in next year’s primary.
Rep. Bacon was one of the Republicans who voted AYE on the infrastructure bill.
Bacon also voted to certify Biden as President. So he has 2 strikes against him.
re: #9 A Cranky One
I don’t know what happened, but I was watching the Armonica player, and wondered if there was a problem with it.
Colbert was good, not great, tonight and I’m off to the rack. Sweet scaly dreams, y’all.
Be nice to each other.
But I could have sworn I just read 1,000 articles quoting 1,000 cops saying something different… I’m sure it was just an honest mistake and in no way reflects a coordinated copaganda campaign to support the greatest bureaucracy of mass human caging in modern history. https://t.co/f2qhDgwp2i
— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) December 1, 2021
Why was Boebert not stripped of committees today?
re: #23 Dread Pirate Ron
Why was Boebert not stripped of committees today?
At this point, I think they are going to promote her.
re: #19 Hecuba’s daughter
Bacon also voted to certify Biden as President. So he has 2 strikes against him.
Bacon can’t be too much of a wingnut in NE-2. The same district went for Joe Biden. Until recently, the district was represented by Democrat Brad Ashford.
Politician targets a physician on social media… one guess how the story ends.
Sure hope the community of Latchford, ON remember this next election.https://t.co/IPyp7PkFr6— Dr. Fiona Mattatall (@FionaMattatall) December 1, 2021
It ended with her leaving her practice, the only full-time doctor in the town in northern Ontario.
Ontario doctor leaving practice after unfounded claims she denied care to unvaccinated patients
Storm of abuse on social media got ‘very nasty,’ mayor says
The only full-time family physician in a small northern Ontario town says she feels personally attacked after a spate of COVID-19 misinformation and anti-vaccination sentiment set off by a town councillor.
Dr. Gretchen Roedde, 69, says, as a result, she plans to close her practice in Latchford on March 31.
Latchford Mayor George Lefebvre says Coun. Scott Green made a mistake when he wrote a Facebook post claiming Roedde wasn’t seeing unvaccinated patients.
Lefebvre says the post was unwarranted and unleashed criticism and anger against the doctor on social media.
“It became very nasty. People should not use social media to express their concerns,” said Lefebvre.
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re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Good luck finding another doctor to move to far northeast Ontario to a town of three hundred people.
re: #7 jaunte
Coney Barret’s breezy assumption that people are eager to adopt is false, if the thousands of children currently waiting to be adopted in every state is any guide.
adoptuskids.org
No no no…they want cute white babies, not the reality. /will not bore you with the story of a traumatized cousin who was adopted out to abusive parents, not tonight.
re: #28 mmmirele
No no no…they want cute white babies, not the reality. /will not bore you with the story of a traumatized cousin who was adopted out to abusive parents, not tonight.
They often want cute non-American babies too to avoid potential legal problems that arise for American babies when the birth mother changes her mind or the father or other family member decides to seek custody.
Came across this pic of a menorah on Reddit and had to share.
Why yes, it’s a lava lamp menorah.
re: #29 Hecuba’s daughter
They often want cute non-American babies too to avoid potential legal problems that arise for American babies when the birth mother changes her mind or the father or other family member decides to seek custody.
Grandparents are a major source of these issues in American adoptions. These issues are behind some of our choice to go to Vietnam to adopt.
Eww.
I imagine Elf on the Shelf can become tedious…but ummm…No pic.twitter.com/gIQVRlff1s
— John Aquino (@DrJohnAquino) December 1, 2021
America adopts more foreign children than every other nation combined.
Please Don’t Elect Dr. Oz—He’s a Disgrace to Our Profession (Daily Beast, November 30, 2021)
Dr. Oz is running for Senate in Pennsylvania. “I greet this prospect with the same enthusiasm I’d have for contracting dysentery,” writes Dr. Daniel Summers.
What’s been even more troubling during the pandemic is his willingness to speak in favor of treatments like hydroxychloroquine that have no merit for the care of COVID patients, going as far as touting the drug on Fox & Friends. As I’ve previously written, he even appeared on Fox and “suggested that the mere 2-3 percent increase in COVID-19 mortality that would come from reopening schools nationwide might be a worthwhile trade-off.” Medical misinformation is literally killing people, and it is unconscionable that anyone who should know better would contribute to it. And Oz most certainly should and does know better.
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Maggie Haberman’s dad:
every reporter in america is lining up on social media to say “i am also a terrible person” and yeah buddy of this we are aware https://t.co/t9wh8cRU9l
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) December 1, 2021
One thing skipped right over without questioning in the Mississippi case before the Supreme Court was someone floating the idea of fifteen weeks being viable for a birth. That was not challenged.
Thread, five tweets, followed by many women’s horror stories.
The difference between 15 weeks and viability?
Let me tell you the difference between 22 1/2 weeks and viability.
I had a triplet pregnancy. My first son delivered at 22 1/2 weeks and died. My other two delivered at 26 weeks and both are filling out college applications.— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) December 1, 2021
re: #37 Belafon
Maggie Haberman’s dad:
I don’t have a brother, but if I did, regardless of the job I held I wouldn’t work to undermine people reporting a crime for my brother’s political gain.
I take it this sort of fuzzy morals is normal in the Haberman clan.
Lots of comments from people suggesting Mario Cuomo should have taken a leave of absence to destroy women’s reputations.
to be clear, you’re suggesting that if you want to dig up dirt on sexual harassment victims to protect your power wielding brother, you think you should temporarily step away from your job to do it, but otherwise it’s fine
— nutsling (@microbikinis3) December 1, 2021
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t have a brother, but if I did, regardless of the job I held I wouldn’t work to undermine people reporting a crime for my brother’s political gain.
I take it this sort of fuzzy morals is normal in the Haberman clan.
Trevor Noah touched on this tonight.
“If your brother kills somebody, you can help by getting him the best possible lawyer. Or you can help by disposing of the body. Both of these are the actions of a good brother, but only one of them gets you charged with accessory after the fact.”
The pediatrics residency interview pic.twitter.com/LNL2eaqSX9
— Dr. Glaucomflecken (@DGlaucomflecken) November 29, 2021
Major League Baseball enforced its first work stoppage in more than 25 years when the sport’s collective bargaining agreement expired Wednesday night and owners locked out players. MLB released a statement just after midnight on Thursday that said in part, “Simply put, we believe that an offseason lockout is the best mechanism to protect the 2022 season. We hope that the lockout will jumpstart the negotiations and get us to an agreement that will allow the season to start on time.” During the lockout, free agents will not be allowed to sign and teams will not be permitted to trade players who are part of the union.
MLB owners lock out players in first work stoppage since 1995 (forty-six minutes ago)
twitter.com (Twitter events)
They’ve already taken down pretty much every story about an active player.https://t.co/ank1Uxa4Ry
— Jack Baer (@JFordBaer) December 2, 2021
I hope Lenny Kravitz and/or Sammy Davis Jr are part of the remaining nights. (Bob Dylan is too obvious, right? Or Streisand?)
ETA: On further investigation, they did Dylan (Rainy Day Woman) for night 5 last year)
re: #37 Belafon
Maggie Haberman’s dad:
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Fuck that condescending piece of shit. His “superiority” is dripping in all the replies, especially his misogynistic replies to women who went after him.
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Baseball had been dying for quite some time, but with the lifting of many pandemic restrictions it seemed that the 2021 season was greeted more warmly by the public.
The playoffs did better on TV than I would have expected based on the past 10 years of decline.
Now to do this (lockout), I wonder if baseball again will slip down the list of priorities of Americans in regards to their entertainment.
re: #18 (((Archangel1)))
So with a single case, the far-right are looking to upend the civil rights of women, African Americans, and LGBTQ as a whole.
Given their respective populaces, this is nothing short of a declaration of war on more than 185 million Americans.
And to think that many of us had come to take these gains in personal liberties for granted and believe that women’s, minority, gay and LGBTQ rights were an established & done deal.
re: #42 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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when my brothers were in med school, they referred to their pediatrics rotation as veterinary medicine.
Because the patient can’t articulate what hurts, or how long it’s been hurting, or what kind of pain or discomfort, and the person who brings them in has only the vaguest description of when they noticed symptoms and why (“sometime between when I went to sleep and when I woke up he started making this noise I can’t properly imitate, and do his eyes look right, and he makes another noise when I touch him here and he didn’t want his breakfast…”)
re: #54 The Squire of Logos
The first of many Zappa Life Lessons I have taught my children
re: #50 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Baseball had been dying for quite some time, but with the lifting of many pandemic restrictions it seemed that the 2021 season was greeted more warmly by the public.
The playoffs did better on TV than I would have expected based on the past 10 years of decline.
Now to do this (lockout), I wonder if baseball again will slip down the list of priorities of Americans in regards to their entertainment.
Baseball seems to have avoided most of the Kapernickan capers that plagued major league football.
re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Baseball seems to have avoided most of the Kapernickan capers that plagued major league football.
They have two months to come up with a new agreement and not have any disruption in play. I think they will. Both sides will compromise.
re: #57 I Would Prefer Not To
They have two months to come up with a new agreement and not have any disruption in play. I think they will. Both sides will compromise.
Right now is just a good time of year for posturing and drawing lines in the sand…
re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And to think that many of us had come to take these gains in personal liberties for granted and believe that women’s, minority, gay and LGBTQ rights were an established & done deal.
I lost count of how many Berners and Rose Twitter assholes boldly declared that they couldn’t be scared by the prospects of Trump nominating one or more SCOTUS justices because all the cases they cared about (Roe, Loving, Obergefell, etc) were safe from constitutional challenge. And that there was no way that the court would ever even consider overturning them because “the public would revolt.”
I would not be surprised if the same assholes welcome the news that Roe and Casey have been overturned, believing that it means that their long hoped for “revolution” can finally begin.
re: #59 Targetpractice
. And that there was no way that the court would ever even consider overturning them because “the public would revolt.”
They seem to fail to grasp the meaning of a lifetime appointment to the highest judicial body in the USA
revolt all you want, but those judges are going to be in there making decisions for decades.
re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They seem to fail to grasp the meaning of a lifetime appointment to the highest judicial body in the USA
revolt all you want, but those people are going to be in there for decades.
I find myself this morning thinking of a quote from Dr King,
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
I think a lot of those who believed such rulings as inviolate and the suggestion that they could be overturned to be “fearmongering” will be very quickly shocked at how many around them greet the news with disinterest or even acceptance.
I honestly think the biggest worry on our minds right now should not be whether or not Roe will overturned, it’s that it is but the public backlash we’re expecting doesn’t appear. That instead of yells and screams for blood, the public greets the news with silence because they’re too wrapped up in their own lives to care. That Repubs can convince them that inflation or gas prices or even mask mandates are of greater importance than whether or not women in the next state over can find an open abortion clinic.
re: #65 Targetpractice
I honestly think the biggest worry on our minds right now should not be whether or not Roe will overturned, it’s that it is but the public backlash we’re expecting doesn’t appear. That instead of yells and screams for blood, the public greets the news with silence because they’re too wrapped up in their own lives to care. That Repubs can convince them that inflation or gas prices or even mask mandates are of greater importance than whether or not women in the next state over can find an open abortion clinic.
This is what I expect to happen. It won’t _matter_ in a real way until people start seeing women they know die from it and by then it will be far too late.
re: #66 William Lewis
This is what I expect to happen. It won’t _matter_ in a real way until people start seeing women they know die from it and by then it will be far too late.
Right. Take the example of the gubernatorial race here in VA last month, where folks decided that scaremongering over “CRITICAL RACE THEORY!!!” and anger that the state-run daycare centers we call schools were closed last year was bigger than any worry that Youngkin admitted behind closed doors that all the shit he was being tarred with was true but he couldn’t say it out in public because it would hurt his election chances.
When a person is killed on a movie set in an ACCIDENTAL shooting, the Republicans are very VOCAL on this. But when the guns are used willfully, on their partners or strangers or in school shootings- CRICKETS!!!!
Can someone just for once grow a spine?!? Talking to you, @GOP !!!!— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) December 1, 2021
re: #65 Targetpractice
I honestly think the biggest worry on our minds right now should not be whether or not Roe will overturned, it’s that it is but the public backlash we’re expecting doesn’t appear. That instead of yells and screams for blood, the public greets the news with silence because they’re too wrapped up in their own lives to care. That Repubs can convince them that inflation or gas prices or even mask mandates are of greater importance than whether or not women in the next state over can find an open abortion clinic.
That happened a year ago, when lack of voter outrage failed to crush Trump and Trumpism. Welcome to 1959.
re: #69 Decatur Deb
That happened a year ago, when lack of voter outrage failed to crush Trump and Trumpism. Welcome to 1959.
Remember that even a record voter turnout for the Democrats was not enough to bury him and that he came very close to pulling it off - had it not been for a handful of GOP state election officials with some shreds of dignity and fairness remaining.
Those people have all since been replaced by loyal party hacks.
Daddy Haberman wasn’t alone in questioning whether Cuomo should have stuck up for his brother. Mike Gallagher, one of the most asinine RW radio hosts, was doing it yesterday morning. It’s pure misogyny. They’ll go to any extreme to squeeze any situation to exploit grievances or weaponize against enemies. In this case, it’s about brotherly loyalty vs wokeness: fuck the (liberal) women. Then they’ll move right to a story about Maxwell/Epstein and make no mention of Trump’s implications. Pure evil.
Pointing out that human rights cannot be “granted” nor taken away by “the State”/government. They are intrinsic. To everyone. ie human.
What the State does at times is prevent some people from exercising theirs
re: #73 Dangerman
Pointing out that human rights cannot be “granted” nor taken away by “the State”/government. They are intrinsic. To everyone. ie human.
What the State does at times is prevent some people from exercising theirs
On that topic, read this thread. It’s relevant, and it does a nice job of elaborating the concept of “human rights” vs. “legal rights”.
This mini-thread could have probably been worded better to convey what I’m trying to say, so I’m going to make a long thread to more thoroughly hash out my point. 1/x https://t.co/4YB7bHoqC8
— Abraham Ash (Neophyte Dunehead) (@Historycourses) December 1, 2021
One thing we should bear in mind when looking at the possible political ramifications to Roe being overturned is that before Obergefell, putting gay marriage on the ballot could be a crap shoot. That Repubs showed a talent for drawing out voters who otherwise might skip elections by playing on their personal opposition to gay marriage. By contrast, convincing people with no personal investment to show up to vote for gay marriage was always a heavy lift.
re: #7 jaunte
The GOP and this Supreme Court made it harder for families to adopt. They allow religious groups to discriminate against loving families that are LGBTQ and prefer hetero couples that are Christian.
Fulton v. City of Philadelphia.
The GOP and this Court do not give a flying fuck about mothers or babies that are live born. They’ve made this explicitly clear with every policy choice and decision they’ve made for more than 40 years. They care only that they can force women to carry to term when they lack the resources to get abortions on the down low. Millionaires and billionaires will always be able to get abortions for their mistresses to avoid out of wedlock love children. For everyone else, you have to pay through the nose to travel somewhere that does allow abortions.
re: #76 lawhawk
Making the argument for women to force carry to adopt, yet making it harder to adopt, belies one thing: they want more babies that are forced to look to the church for help. It’s new prospects. This is how they make up for declining membership.
Sounds devious but convince me I’m wrong.
re: #59 Targetpractice
Horseshoe theory, since it’s the same endgame that the Christian fundamentalists seek - a revolution and End Times. Trump was their golden child because he sabotaged everything he touched and did so much damage in such a short time that it hastens the End Times in their eyes.
They think they come out on top at the end of the day, but it’s just hell awaiting all of them.
There were stories about the kids who were smart enough to not open the door for a shooter who posed as a cop, with the tell being the word “bro.” It was a cop who says “bro.”
Man Who Addressed Student as ‘Bro’ in Terrifying School Shooting Video Was Cop (Daily Beast)
re: #77 BigPapa
In the US, black women are 4 times more likely to die from childbirth than white women and up to 17 times more likely in certain states. Black children are much more likely to die during childbirth or have severe health issues than white children.
Anti-abortion efforts here are trying to eliminate black people by attrition and promote white women to have more children (quiverfull effort) in a de-facto genocide. Plain and simple.
Once again, the right wing asshole zealots here are entirely guided by abject racism and gleefully utilize useful fools like Candace Owens who attempt to ingratiate themselves into the new order that is to come.
Hypothetical question:
When Brett Kavanaugh was in high school if he’d sexually assaulted a girl while he was drunk and she got pregnant, do you think he would have tried to force her to have the child?
- asking for women who are victims of rape or incest and get pregnant.— ken olin (@kenolin1) December 2, 2021
re: #78 lawhawk
Horseshoe theory, since it’s the same endgame that the Christian fundamentalists seek - a revolution and End Times. Trump was their golden child because he sabotaged everything he touched and did so much damage in such a short time that it hastens the End Times in their eyes.
They think they come out on top at the end of the day, but it’s just hell awaiting all of them.
There were a number of hard-core Libertarian like Steve Bannon & Fourth Turning fans who supported Trump for that very reason: to bring it all crashing down so they could rebuild it in their image
re: #83 Barefoot Grin
Hypothetical question:
When Brett Kavanaugh was in high school if he’d sexually assaulted a girl while he was drunk and she got pregnant, do you think he would have tried to force her to have the child?
- asking for women who are victims of rape or incest and get pregnant.
Except that his family would have paid to have the girl go off and “visit her sick grandmother”…
re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Except that his family would have paid to have the girl go off and “visit her sick grandmother”…
Yep. It would have been interesting if Sotomayer had posed this hypothetical (of course, not using his name) in front of him to the Mississippi lawyer.
From downthread:
re: #64 gocart mozart
Christmas Thread
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So, to summarize:
12/25 (birth) and 3/25 (crucifixion) are solstice/equinox related days and lots of belief systems place significance on them…so rather than stealing Xmas from the pagans, it’s just more of a coincidence.
re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Except that his family would have paid to have the girl go off and “visit her sick grandmother”…
ARBO - Abortion Rentals By Owner - will be all the rage in a few months.
re: #87 darthstar
From downthread:
So, to summarize:
12/25 (birth) and 3/25 (crucifixion) are solstice/equinox related days and lots of belief systems place significance on them…so rather than stealing Xmas from the pagans, it’s just more of a coincidence.
Bringing a dead evergreen tree into your house at the Winter solstice was certainly stolen from the pagans…
The Seinfeld writer who gave the world Festivus reveals the origins of the holiday—invented by his father, not Frank Costanza, and featuring clocks and wailing children rather than the famous pole—which are pretty dark indeed.Dan O’Keefe, who also worked on iconic shows such as Silicon Valley and Veep, joined The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast to talk about satire in the post-Trump age. But first, he gave hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng a surrealist tour through how Festivus came to be.
“I mean this in the nicest way possible: My father was an undiagnosed bipolar, severe alcoholic who nonetheless was extremely high-functioning and held down a job as an editor at the Reader’s Digest and had an advanced degree and was extremely erudite,” O’Keefe explains, noting he “came from an extremely working-class background, which he was constantly trying to make sure no one knew about—and in so doing, he reminded everyone of it constantly. I think the phrase is, ‘came up from nothing and brought it with him.’” O’Keefe’s father invented the holiday: “At one point he said it was an anniversary for his first date with my mom, but he also said a lot of crazy shit… so who knows?
More at ‘Seinfeld’ Writer Reveals the Origins of Festivus Are Really F*cking Dark (The Daily Beast)
“I’m enraged…that this pandemic has continued so long.” Listen to these people who are doing everything they can to protect their loved ones + their communities, as they describe their anger + frustration towards those who won’t join that effort.https://t.co/xcj8emeRj8
— William Brangham (@WmBrangham) December 2, 2021
re: #64 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Drone flight over La Palma from the 30th. The latest lava delta is still expanding, but I continue to be amazed at how quickly the waves can form black sand beaches:
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Basalt is super vulnerable to chemical and mechanical weathering.
re: #88 darthstar
ARBO - Abortion Rentals By Owner - will be all the rage in a few months.
There will be an AirBnD&C app and service.
re: #79 Punish Domestic Terrorists
There were stories about the kids who were smart enough to not open the door for a shooter who posed as a cop, with the tell being the word “bro.” It was a cop who says “bro.”
Man Who Addressed Student as ‘Bro’ in Terrifying School Shooting Video Was Cop (Daily Beast)
Still the correct choice.
Good. He has every right to keep his family safe during a pandemic and if the nanny refused to vaccinate, he can and should fire them. She endangers life of his kids and family.
Screw Fox for making this a story given that Fox *checks notes* mandates vaccinations for its workers— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) December 2, 2021
re: #64 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Drone flight over La Palma from the 30th. The latest lava delta is still expanding, but I continue to be amazed at how quickly the waves can form black sand beaches:
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Awesome…from cliff face to future point break. Can’t wait until it cools…it’ll be the planet’s newest surf destination.
re: #79 Punish Domestic Terrorists
There were stories about the kids who were smart enough to not open the door for a shooter who posed as a cop, with the tell being the word “bro.” It was a cop who says “bro.”
Man Who Addressed Student as ‘Bro’ in Terrifying School Shooting Video Was Cop (Daily Beast)
Really needs to be a training subject.
Trying to sound “hip” to students who are barricaded in a mass shooting incident will backfire, and scare them off.
Speak like a professional, not a dudebro.
Texas woman arrested for pointing gun at a woman and her six month old child over a parking spot.
$60,000 bond…so at least she gets to feel a little financial consequence.
re: #100 darthstar
Texas woman arrested for pointing gun at a woman and her six month old child over a parking spot.
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$60,000 bond…so at least she gets to feel a little financial consequence.
She wore the right t-shirt for that stupid, horrible action.
re: #99 Scottish Dragon
Really needs to be a training subject.
Trying to sound “hip” to students who are barricaded in a mass shooting incident will backfire, and scare them off.
Speak like a professional, not a dudebro.
“Open the door please, this is officer Urglfrp” would probably get a positive response. The kids could have run into the shooter if they went the wrong direction.
re: #100 darthstar
Texas woman arrested for pointing gun at a woman and her six month old child over a parking spot.
$60,000 bond…so at least she gets to feel a little financial consequence.
That should be grounds for losing a weapons license, this is the very antithesis of the concept of any well regulated militia or right to self-defense.
re: #101 wrenchwench
She wore the right t-shirt for that stupid, horrible action.
And the cross is a nice touch.
re: #101 wrenchwench
She wore the right t-shirt for that stupid, horrible action.
Anybody who turns an American flag into a heart does not understand either symbol.
re: #102 darthstar
“Open the door please, this is officer Urglfrp” would probably get a positive response. The kids could have run into the shooter if they went the wrong direction.
Probably need to have female staff member with the officer. Hearing a woman on the other side would be helpful.
re: #96 lawhawk
He’s not stupid. In addition to the health risk, it would be insane to allow someone with judgement that poor to be alone with your kid. When someone in an important role tells you that they’ve lost their mind, you have to act on that information.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) December 2, 2021
Eyes are nervously on #OmicronVariant but #DeltaVariant is storming across Minnesota with ferocity. How could Omicron be worse than this?https://t.co/4BUuBFF7zJ
andhttps://t.co/jgGgdmGt1q
andhttps://t.co/EyJXA1cphI— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) December 2, 2021
Side point: Vaccine-acquired immunity is natural, according to the preexisting scientific classification scheme. https://t.co/UnMuh0pg5d
— Lindsay Beyerstein (@beyerstein) November 28, 2021
Non-natural immunity would include being infused with antibodies, as opposed to an immune response your own body mounts to the virus or a vaccine.
— Lindsay Beyerstein (@beyerstein) November 28, 2021
‘Morning, all,
I was lying in bed last night, thinking about Fox News and they lying and realizing that it’s all a really twisted form of performance art. And there was a nagging thought that Tucker Carlson reminded me of someone, but I couldn’t place who.
And then it hit me…
re: #106 Scottish Dragon
Probably need to have female staff member with the officer. Hearing a woman on the other side would be helpful.
Better still, because mass shooters are dudes.
re: #111 wrenchwench
Oh, yeah. That would make a nice shirt.
This is that with “America land that I love” added.
amazon.com
And a different heart design and no text.
antantshirt.com
I don’t see any that put an actual-size heart in the proper location.
There is testimony being taken today from lawmakers on the contempt referral. Right now, Rep. Tom Cole, R-OK, is asking Chair Thompson and Vicechair Cheney about Clark’s deposition; Thompson confirmed to Cole that Clark sat for about 90 mins.
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 2, 2021
Cheney tells Cole that assertion of executive privilege does not mean Clark is precluded from engaging with the committee altogether and the fact that he left and refused to return - an attempt to avoid that response by making broad claim of EP is outside the bounds of the law
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 2, 2021
So, the cmte won’t report a rule out on contempt referral today. They’ll wait until after Clark appears Sat.
McGovern:”If Mr. Clark does not comply on Saturday, this committee will be prepared to move forward with a vote on the House Floor holding him in contempt of Congress.”— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 2, 2021
ORKNEY LIBRARY https://t.co/pB9JnYVBbQ
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) December 2, 2021
we may never know and that’s beautifulhttps://t.co/xy88mvCPdm
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) December 2, 2021
One of the people hired to work as an investigator on the review is the head of a group that sued to overturn the results of Wisconsin’s presidential election - twice. pic.twitter.com/9XD2SdsR2u
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) December 2, 2021
lots more in the thread
CNN’s Brian Stelter says he fired nanny for refusing to get COVID vaccine: audiotape https://t.co/P5eDYTpMUc
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 2, 2021
This is the same Fox who constantly sucks the dicks of corporations who routinely engage in mass layoffs.
re: #100 darthstar
Texas woman arrested for pointing gun at a woman and her six month old child over a parking spot.
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$60,000 bond…so at least she gets to feel a little financial consequence.
Proved she can’t control her weapon
Loss of freedom..jail
Loss of finances..sue her ass*
Loss of future 2a rights
*That no one was hurt is immaterial
How hard is “Control your goddamn weapon at all times”?
Apparently too hard for most of them
re: #106 Scottish Dragon
Probably need to have female staff member with the officer. Hearing a woman on the other side would be helpful.
Brings up scenarios of shooter holding teacher at gunpoint to lure kids out…
Oh we’re not there yet?
re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Gableman was a corrupt judge and continues to be the tool of Anti-American groups. I’d say more but it’s not appropriate.
In his new memoir, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows blames just ‘a handful of fanatics’ for the 6 January attack on the Capitol - over which nearly 700 people have now been charged,” The Guardian reports.
Ok so a lot weren’t fanatics
Big deal
Plus
The Guardian is reporting that Trump’s claims that he had no role in the events that took place the afternoon of 1/6 are pure bushwah. In fact, there was a direct line from the Oval Office to the Willard Hotel and Trump was on it regularly, plotting ways that the certification of the election results could be halted.
So at least one fanatic
re: #102 darthstar
“Open the door please, this is officer Urglfrp” would probably get a positive response. The kids could have run into the shooter if they went the wrong direction.
I would call 911 and ask them to confirm that there is an officer standing outside my classroom.
When the court overturns Roe v Wade in 2022, here’s the Wisconsin statute which will immediately go back into effect.
Any termination of a pregnancy from the moment of conception is punishable by up to 15 years in jail. These include many forms of birth control and Plan B. pic.twitter.com/B4h2hE10JB— EJ Fagan (@ejfagan) December 2, 2021
re: #125 darthstar
And don’t forget that states will pass laws like Texas making it illegal to aid and abet a woman in obtaining an abortion, even in places where it is still legal.
ICYMI: The three petitioners who sought to impeach Gov. Andy Beshear earlier this year are taking on incumbent/establishment Republicans in GOP primaries for state legislative seats next year, as are other “liberty” & anti-vaxx mandate candidates : https://t.co/I2VyGuqs10
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) November 30, 2021
Her blog is… interesting. https://t.co/a01V8JpoBs
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) December 2, 2021
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And don’t forget that states will pass laws like Texas making it illegal to aid and abet a woman in obtaining an abortion, even in places where it is still legal.
And legalize bounty hunters to kidnap women and bring them back across state or even international lines for prosecution.
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And don’t forget that states will pass laws like Texas making it illegal to aid and abet a woman in obtaining an abortion, even in places where it is still legal.
I doubt that a law attempting to criminalize legal behavior in another state can withstand constitutional scrutiny. The question is can they prosecute people for say, driving their daughter to an out of state clinic, or paying for a legal out of state abortion.
re: #128 Florida Panhandler
And legalize bounty hunters to kidnap women and bring them back across state or even international lines for prosecution.
Fugitive Slave Act meets The Handmaid’s Tale
This future is bearing down on us. We thought the Culture Wars were as good as won and winding down…Just like the guys in the Ardennes in December of 1944.
Everybody Must Get Bastogned.
re: #129 No Malarkey!
I doubt that a law attempting to criminalize legal behavior in another state can withstand constitutional scrutiny. The question is can they prosecute people for say, driving their daughter to an out of state clinic, or paying for a legal out of state abortion.
Or for failing to turn her in to the authorities.
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Fugitive Slave Act meets The Handmaid’s Tale
This future is bearing down on us. We thought the Culture Wars were as good as won and winding down…Just like the guys in the Ardennes in December of 1944.
Everybody Must Get Bastogned.
I see what you did there…
Billie Jean King wrote an op-ed about her abortion experience.
Arguing to a dozen or so people I had never met why I qualified for an abortion remains one of the most degrading experiences of my life.
But there was still another indignity: The law required that my husband sign a consent form. Men remained in charge of not just financial matters but even the right to govern my own body.
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It has been proven over and over that fascists will always attempt the next step towards absolute power. Already I guarantee you that bounty hunters in Texas and wanna-be’s are already planning their next business model on exactly this scenario. Remember in Texas, $10,000 bounties already exist for informants.
re: #100 darthstar
Texas woman arrested for pointing gun at a woman and her six month old child over a parking spot.
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$60,000 bond…so at least she gets to feel a little financial consequence.
Interestingly, at the bottom of the linked page, there’s a link to a followup of a story that was discussed here. Remember the student who hit her teacher, then called her mom and said,“she’s black and she’s pissing me off?”
re: #134 Florida Panhandler
It has been proven over and over that fascists will always attempt the next step towards absolute power. Already I guarantee you that bounty hunters in Texas and wanna-be’s are already planning their next business model on exactly this scenario. Remember in Texas, $10,000 bounties already exist for informants.
And I suspect that t burden of proof will be on the defendants, not the bounty hunters.
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And don’t forget that states will pass laws like Texas making it illegal to aid and abet a woman in obtaining an abortion, even in places where it is still legal.
Texas issues arrest warrant for California doctor…I could see that happening.
re: #134 Florida Panhandler
It’s why I despise that “The arc of time bends towards justice” platitude.
It’s utter hogwash. It bends towards power.
re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And I suspect that t burden of proof will be on the defendants, not the bounty hunters.
Or it could be the last mistake the bounty hunter makes in their life.
The neon sign and the shiny table always make me think he’s sitting in a defunct piano bar https://t.co/mifGIAbGEV
— supply in a chainstack (@jesseltaylor) December 2, 2021
re: #137 darthstar
Texas issues arrest warrant for California doctor…I could see that happening.
THIS RIGHT HERE
If SCOTUS wants an event to set off the next civil war, just try this shit.
“I, the Governor of the California Republic, will not allow a lawless court in Texas or Washington DC to override our laws and harass our citizens. The laws of the California Republic will be enforced.”
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And don’t forget that states will pass laws like Texas making it illegal to aid and abet a woman in obtaining an abortion, even in places where it is still legal.
And Texas I believe ALREADY has the highest maternal mortality rate in the country.
I guess they’re prepared to run up the score a little bit.
I fucking hate this.
re: #138 Scottish Dragon
It’s why I despise that “The arc of time bends towards justice” platitude.
It’s utter hogwash. It bends towards power.
They are great inspirational and aspirational words, but they led to us growing more than a bit complacent in thinking that these gains in rights and freedoms were solidified and irreversible.
We are seeing that they are not.
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
They get very touchy about the color of imaginary elves…
Do not listen to the people who are saying the Supreme Court is not going to overturn Roe. The Supreme Court is 100% going to overturn Roe. https://t.co/u5k2hn2Luw
— 🎅🏿Imani Gandy Cane🎅🏿 (@AngryBlackLady) December 2, 2021
In other words, in order to uphold the Mississippi law, the Supreme Court NECESSARILY has to overturn Roe.
If you learn nothing else from me this year, make it this.— 🎅🏿Imani Gandy Cane🎅🏿 (@AngryBlackLady) December 2, 2021
re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They get very upset about the color of imaginary elves…
All the while humping a religious book full of stories about colored people.
Every Fire House in the nation needs to add a nursery to its footprint.
re: #124 steve_davis
I would call 911 and ask them to confirm that there is an officer standing outside my classroom.
Hope you have time to get through (with all the parents of students calling about their kids) before the kid starts shooting through the door.
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are great aspiration al words, but they led to us growing more than a bit complacent in thinking that these gains in rights and freedoms were solidified and irreversible.
We are seeing that they are not.
There is nothing in the historical record to suggest they are true in any sense.
Time and time and time again, the powerful do what they want and pay no price, while everybody else suffers for their decisions.
Justice is laughably rare, and fleeting whenever it can found.
re: #139 Eventual Carrion
Or it could be the last mistake the bounty hunter makes in their life.
Why liberals must be armed until we can civilize this continent for 1000 Alex.
McConnell on the floor blasting “government welfare for newsrooms” included in Build Back Better for local newspapers
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) December 2, 2021
“Almost” https://t.co/SJMRtEwywR
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) December 2, 2021
re: #149 Scottish Dragon
There is nothing in the historical record to suggest they are true in any sense.
Time and time and time again, the powerful do what they want and pay no price, while everybody else suffers for their decisions.
Justice is laughably rare, and fleeting whenever it can found.
I hate to say it but the simple reality is that justice does come from the barrel of a gun. Only the one who has power can define what justice is.
We must refuse to be victims and the only way to do that is to be willing to fight.
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
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But let’s keep that government welfare for fossil fuel companies that are making historical profits. Sure thing turtle man.
re: #153 William Lewis
I hate to say it but the simple reality is that justice does come from the barrel of a gun. Only the one who has power can define what justice is.
We must refuse to be victims and the only way to do that is to be willing to fight.
and to punch the occasional Nazi when it is necessary
Joe Biden wants to make the pandemic last forever?
Hey! You know what? You could screw over his evil plan! Yeah! You end the pandemic right now! Stick it right to Old Joe Biden! GET VACCINATED, WEAR A MASK, PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING! Let’s go Brandon! Ha ha! That’ll show him! https://t.co/IRAZdn62FC— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 2, 2021
re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth
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They want to kill off 2-3% of the population in the belief that this will make the virus go away.
re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hey! You know what? You could screw over his evil plan! Yeah! You end the pandemic right now! Stick it right to Old Joe Biden! GET VACCINATED, WEAR A MASK, PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING!
These people can, in the same breath, tell you that the pandemic is just a Democrat Hoax AND that Biden wants it to last forever - and it will make perfect sense to them.
re: #157 Belafon
They want to kill off 2-3% of the population in the belief that this will make the virus go away.
The Tree of Free Enterprise must be watered with the blood of the helpless…
re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth
Remember when Ted Cruz shut the government down for attention? That was a $24 billion joyride.
Susan Collins claimed yesterday that she favored a national law passed by Congress that protects a woman’s right to choose. On Lawrence last evening, Elizabeth Warren also favored that option, admitting that it does require eliminating the filibuster. There are 2 flaws with this approach:
1. The next time the GOP has control of the WH and Congress, that law would be overturned and replaced with legislation that might return the authority to the states or might ban abortion nationwide.
2. As we saw with voting rights, this SCOTUS is fine with asserting its power to declare existing legislation unconstitutional. I have no doubt that is exactly the path it would take to deprive women of their rights.
Our only hope is for at least 2 GOP justices to leave the Court and be replaced by Biden appointees before any ruling is issued. Maybe Clarence retiring as part of a plea deal to prevent Ginni from going to prison for her role in 1/6? Maybe Alito being forced to retire if it turns out that he also was involved in the plot, as liar Sydney Powell suggested ?
re: #47 sagehen
This one killed me, lol. The whole DLR moves had me laughing so hard my hubby came in to see if I was ok. I adore Dave, I wish we had more people like him in this world.
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
1. The next time the GOP has control of the WH and Congress, that law would be overturned and replaced with legislation that might return the authority to the states or might ban abortion nationwide.
This would be a problem if Democrats had 100 Senators to pass it this time, and Republicans had 50 Senators + VP the next time. That’s how government works.
re: #156 Backwoods_Sleuth
Looking forward to President Biden being asked about some Republican idiocy like this and him responding, “Let’s go Brandon!” and laughing and not taking any other questions.
re: #150 William Lewis
Why liberals must be armed until we can civilize this continent for 1000 Alex.
Yep. People are fed up. We have the advantage. The fascist right will fail for the same reason the Third Reich did: They are convinced of their superiority in the application of force, mistaking willingness for ability, and they are hell bent on forcing a violent showdown that they will lose.
re: #164 Belafon
This would be a problem if Democrats had 100 Senators to pass it this time, and Republicans had 50 Senators + VP the next time. That’s how government works.
Republicans have demonstrated that they are 1. incapable of passing laws on their own at the national level and 2. incapable of overturning popular laws implemented by Democrats (see Obamacare)
re: #142 Eclectic Cyborg
And Texas I believe ALREADY has the highest maternal mortality rate in the country.
I guess they’re prepared to run up the score a little bit.
I fucking hate this.
With the lives of Blacks and Latinos, absolutely! Not with the lives of the white and rich.
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Fugitive Slave Act meets The Handmaid’s Tale
This future is bearing down on us. We thought the Culture Wars were as good as won and winding down…Just like the guys in the Ardennes in December of 1944.
Everybody Must Get Bastogned.
There won’t be a “Republic of Gilead” overnight, but there will be mini ones popping up within a generation. Abortion bans will be first, followed soon after by bans on contraceptives because they’re “abortificants.” Healthcare providers will face requirements to report all confirmed pregnancies and live births, with any discrepancies subject to investigation and possible prosecution. Bounty hunters won’t just report abortions, they’ll be tasked with bringing back pregnant women who attempt to flee the state.
re: #167 darthstar
Republicans have demonstrated that they are 1. incapable of passing laws on their own at the national level and 2. incapable of overturning popular laws implemented by Democrats (see Obamacare)
That’s why McConnell packed the Supreme Court.
re: #166 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Yep. People are fed up. We have the advantage. The fascist right will fail for the same reason the Third Reich did: They are convinced of their superiority in the application of force, mistaking willingness for ability, and they are hell bent on forcing a violent showdown that they will lose.
Let me tell you what is coming…, the North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche; and what I fear is, they will overwhelm the South.”
Sam Houston
re: #167 darthstar
Republicans have demonstrated that they are 1. incapable of passing laws on their own at the national level and 2. incapable of overturning popular laws implemented by Democrats (see Obamacare)
They came within one vote of overturning Obamacare; it was only Trump’s overt hostility to McCain(and McCain’s knowledge of his fatal illness) that saved the legislation. McConnell allowed Susan and Lisa to vote against his bill because he was confident he had the votes to overturn the ACA; he was blindsided by McCain, who had given no prior hint of his intentions.
re: #172 Hecuba’s daughter
They came within one vote of overturning Obamacare; it was only Trump’s overt hostility to McCain(and McCain’s knowledge of his fatal illness) that saved the legislation. McConnell allowed Susan and Lisa to vote against his bill because he was confident he had the votes to overturn the ACA; he was blindsided by McCain, who had given no prior hint of his intentions.
And I wonder if SOCTUS will go after Obamacare after they dismantle Roe.
re: #173 Eclectic Cyborg
And I wonder if SOCTUS will go after Obamacare after they dismantle Roe.
This Court already had the chance to do that and they didn’t; in a 7-2 ruling they upheld the ACA. Only Gorsuch and Alito voted against it.
re: #174 Hecuba’s daughter
They might do so 20 years down the line, but Roberts isn’t going to take up additional challenges so soon after the last two Obamacare decisions.
.@SenMikeLee @RogerMarshallMD & @SenTedCruz are courageously fighting to defund the vaccine mandate in the Senate. They should not be so alone. Thank you senators!More later on why those calling for use of the congressional review act are wrong and engaged in a fake fight
— Russ Vought (@russvought) December 2, 2021
New - Manchin doesn’t rule out supporting amendment to DEFUND vaccine mandate on businesses. This is why Republican Sens. Marshall and Lee are demanding a 51-vote threshold. Says he backs mandate on feds but tells us he’s “less enthused” with business mandate
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 2, 2021
Respect. pic.twitter.com/0TOLldqSS6
— ken olin (@kenolin1) December 2, 2021
God liked my Tweet and God follows me.
“Pro Life” Christians will do what they have always done: actively oppose sex ed, contraceptives, pre-natal care, subsidized child care and healthcare. They don’t care.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) December 2, 2021
re: #173 Eclectic Cyborg
And I wonder if SOCTUS will go after Obamacare after they dismantle Roe.
Griswold, Lawrence and Obergefell are next.
re: #178 gocart mozart
“Pro Life” Christians will do what they have always done: actively oppose sex ed, contraceptives, pre-natal care, subsidized child care and healthcare. They don’t care.
The Long Game of the Conservative Culture Wars is to return America to a (Biblical) patriarchy where all babies are born to married housewives and full-time mothers.
Pelosi says she told Trump a few years ago to talk to Xi about the Uyghurs. The response is uhhh 😳 pic.twitter.com/1GBjePyJT4
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 2, 2021
re: #176 Belafon
Manchin is such a spineless hack.
re: #183 Eclectic Cyborg
Manchin is such a spineless hack.
Nah, he’s bought and paid for. Mitch has been quietly steering money to his and Sinema’s campaign funds, in exchange for his cooperation in undermining any efforts by Schumer to present a united front.
re: #185 Targetpractice
I swear I will lose my shit if Sinema gets re-elected.
re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg
I swear I will lose my shit if Sinema gets re-elected.
Way things are going, she probably won’t but that’s no guarantee that her successor will be any better
re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Way things are going, she probably won’t but that’s no guarantee that her successor will be any better
How could he/she/they possibly be much worse? (Unless of course, she gets replaced by a Republican)
The Democratic Justices all expressed their view that overturning Roe would discredit the Supreme Court as the bastion of honest judicial rulings. Sorry, guys, that was obvious over 100 years ago in 1901:
That decision prompted humorist Finley Peter Dunne to coin the line suggesting the Supreme Court really wasn’t an impartial bastion beyond politics but reflected the nation’s political mood.
Dunne wrote his Chicago newspaper pieces in the brogue of an imaginary Irish-American called Mr. Dooley. “No matter whether th’ Constitution follows th’ flag or not, ‘th Supreme Coort follows th’ iliction returns,″ he commented on a 1901 decision.
Occasionally there are justices who are concerned about true justice, but that is not the usual situation.
re: #183 Eclectic Cyborg
Manchin is such a spineless hack.
Build Back should have passed months ago. It looks like he is going to kill it just to prove he’s “independent”.
Biden’s presidency is starting to look fatally damaged now. Even after control of both houses, he has moved 2 bills through congress in 10 months, and the last one after a nightmarish extended public fight. His signature bill isn’t moving at all. Meanwhile, the GOP are getting a 50 year policy dream handed to them by their paid for black robe legislature.
Biden isn’t on TV selling BBB. Nobody is selling it. We see the public, knock down drag out fights in the Dem caucus and nothing else. The DOJ appears to be sitting on their hands WRT the Trump cabal and investigating the coup.
I had hopes for this presidency, and this isn’t what I hoped for.
We needed a Churchill. Gin and all if need be. Hell even a late 1938 Chamberlain.
I don’t know what we have now.
re: #189 Hecuba’s daughter
The Democratic Justices all expressed their view that overturning Roe would discredit the Supreme Court as the bastion of honest judicial rulings. Sorry, guys, that was obvious over 100 years ago in 1901:
Occasionally there are justices who are concerned about true justice, but that is not the usual situation.
Except they’re not reflecting the nation’s political mood, but a minority. If they were reflecting it, they wouldn’t be trying to ban abortion, allowing Trump to block immigrants, or blocking efforts to end the virus.Ex
re: #188 Eclectic Cyborg
How could he/she/they possibly be much worse? (Unless of course, she gets replaced by a Republican)
just that
re: #190 Scottish Dragon
Yeah, you’re missing most of the news then. Biden’s two big bills have totaled over $5T. Biden has been in the news touting his bills. He’s been at factories and other places touting it, and promoting BBB. He was recently in Michigan pushing how the infrastructure bill will replace the lead pipes.
re: #190 Scottish Dragon
I don’t know what we have now.
We have a President who was elected with a record popular vote turnout and who would, if the House were not so gerrymandered and the Senate over-weighted in favor of the GOP, command a large enough majority to pass whatever legislation he presented.
re: #190 Scottish Dragon
Build Back should have passed months ago. It looks like he is going to kill it just to prove he’s “independent”.
Biden’s presidency is starting to look fatally damaged now. Even after control of both houses, he has moved 2 bills through congress in 10 months, and the last one after a nightmarish extended public fight. His signature bill isn’t moving at all. Meanwhile, the GOP are getting a 50 year policy dream handed to them by their paid for black robe legislature.
Biden isn’t on TV selling BBB. Nobody is selling it. We see the public, knock down drag out fights in the Dem caucus and nothing else. The DOJ appears to be sitting on their hands WRT the Trump cabal and investigating the coup.
I had hopes for this presidency, and this isn’t what I hoped for.
We needed a Churchill. Gin and all if need be. Hell even a late 1938 Chamberlain.
I don’t know what we have now.
Chamberlain got rat fucked in the history books by Churchill. He knew they weren’t ready for WWII and bought time. If _nothing_ else, he bought enough time for the Hurricanes and Spitfires that saved Britain. He played his part and the world survived that time.
re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We have a President who was elected with a record popular vote turnout and who should, if Congress were not so gerrymandered and over-weighted to the GOP, command a large enough majority to pass whatever legislation he presented.
And therein lies the problem. Our representation is based on geography, not population. There are more red states than blue states. The math just doesn’t work.
re: #189 Hecuba’s daughter
The Democratic Justices all expressed their view that overturning Roe would discredit the Supreme Court as the bastion of honest judicial rulings. Sorry, guys, that was obvious over 100 years ago in 1901:
Occasionally there are justices who are concerned about true justice, but that is not the usual situation.
But SCOTUS isn’t even doing that now. ROE remains fairly popular. SCOTUS has become a partisan player.
re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg
And therein lies the problem. Our representation is based on geography, not population. There are more red states than blue states. The math just doesn’t work.
Tripe the size of the House. That gets rid of a lot of problems.
re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg
And therein lies the problem. Our representation is based on geography, not population. There are more red states than blue states. The math just doesn’t work.
There was also a time when “rural state” did not automatically mean “red state”.
And as for the House, just look at Ohio, where GOP won only 56% of the overall votes but carried 12 of the 16 seats.
Flu shot and Covid booster (Pfizer) this morning. Did the grocery shopping and now doing laundry and reading stuff on the computer while drinking water to remain hydrated.
Hoping for the same effect as the earlier Covid vaccine shots; some arm soreness and feely a bit more tired than usual for a day or two.
re: #195 William Lewis
Chamberlain got rat fucked in the history books by Churchill. He knew they weren’t ready for WWII and bought time. If _nothing_ else, he bought enough time for the Hurricanes and Spitfires that saved Britain. He played his part and the world survived that time.
Yep. That’s why I have a far more favorable view of Chamberlain now. He was desperately trying to rearm by late 1938, and the British public was in absolutely no mood for a war with Germany over Czech territory grabs. In any event, Britain couldn’t have done anything meaningful to stop Hitler.
re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg
And therein lies the problem. Our representation is based on geography, not population. There are more red states than blue states. The math just doesn’t work.
Our Senate is definitely based on geography and that is mandated by the Constitution. The House is based on population; it is the deliberate gerrymandering, primarily by Republicans in Republican-led states, that has led to the underrepresentation of Democrats. The fact there are more red states than blue states would be irrelevant in the House here if not for the malign gerrymandering.
re: #198 Scottish Dragon
Tripe the size of the House. That gets rid of a lot of problems.
Germans elect half of their 600 representatives (for a population of 86 million) proportionally: you vote for a particular party and they then name candidates based on the share of votes they receive.
That minimizes the ability of parties like the GOP to pack all the Democrats into a handful of districts that they win by landslides while the GOP carries the bulk by a few percent.
Religious-right pseudo-historian David Barton claims that the Second Amendment guarantees your right to own any weapon the government possess, including nuclear bombs. https://t.co/u3xwrXND1Z pic.twitter.com/drc7SzuBEC
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 2, 2021
re: #54 The Squire of Logos
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“What would you do, if someone hit your favorite baby seal with a lead filled snowshoe?”
re: #205 BeenHereAwhile
“What would you do, if someone hit your favorite baby seal with a lead filled snowshoe?”
I’d take a dog-doo filled snow cone…
@Stonekettle as long as the mother’s/child’s lifw isn’t in danger, putting up for adoption should be mandatory instead….. of course that would involve ovrhauling the adoption system :/
— Christie Lockhart (@Christiebunny) December 2, 2021
mandatory adoption…JFC
re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth
Religious-right pseudo-historian David Barton claims that the Second Amendment guarantees your right to own any weapon the government possess, including nuclear bombs.
That “well regulated militia” stuff just flies right over they pointy li’l heads, don’t it?
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
Mandatory adoption when untold thousands are in that hell system now? Are you fucking drunk? Stupid? or most likely, drunk AND stupid?
Signed: someone who’s only child is actually by adoption.— William A Lewis (@WilliamALewis4) December 2, 2021
re: #197 Scottish Dragon
But SCOTUS isn’t even doing that now. ROE remains fairly popular. SCOTUS has become a partisan player.
I guess my point really is that SCOTUS has never been seen as an objective evaluator of facts and law. We are now living in a hyper-partisan time when GOP judges represent a reactionary ideology and truth and justice are irrelevant to their decisions; and that has been true through much of our history. SCOTUS is just another front in the partisan battles; it is no different from the Senate or House and indeed, in these times, even worse, because they are lifetime appointments who cannot be evicted, except on the most heinous charges. We were spoiled because there was a time from the Warren Court through the 1990’s that most justices seemed interested in doing what was right; but the existence of the Federalist Society and its outsized legal presence ended that.
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
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mandatory adoption…JFC
That Christiebunny person is getting torn to shreds for that comment.
1,000 real Americans died *yesterday* of Covid-19. And those deaths are disproportionately coming from red states where huge numbers of unvaccinated citizens are dying because they’re being told dangerous, deadly lies by people like Jim Jordan. https://t.co/DNSAN2p56D
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) December 2, 2021
re: #211 Eclectic Cyborg
That Christiebunny person is getting torn to shreds for that comment.
she’s a real life Aunt Lydia
re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth
Again with the “Real America” crap.
So “Real America” is a bunch of red states heavily subsidized by those godless heathen blue states? Got it.
re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That “well regulated militia” stuff just passes right over they heads, don’t it?
They read it as “well-trained”, pat themselves on the back for their discipline and order, and go on their merry way.
re: #66 William Lewis
This is what I expect to happen. It won’t _matter_ in a real way until people start seeing women they know die from it and by then it will be far too late.
waitwaitwaitwait…we know people dying of Covid and the same numbnuts are persisting with their anti-Covid bullshit. We have to be prepared for the reality that Roe is going to be overturned and pregnant people are going to have to sneak over to California or Mexico or New Mexico from here in Arizona to get abortions.
re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth
You should be charged with murder for everyone who dies because of your lies about Covid.
— William A Lewis (@WilliamALewis4) December 2, 2021
Sooner or later twitter will pull the plug on me. I’ll keep telling what I see to be true until then.
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
Everyone needs to understand that “putting up for adoption” is a feel-good shorthand for the reality, which would be dumping massive numbers of children into an already over-stressed system in which there are not enough adoptive families, not enough foster families, not enough caseworkers. The “conservative” solution for this will be for-profit orphanages, where the defenseless tenants will be at the mercy of the the worst kind of predators who take the job not for the low pay but for opportunity.
re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“The lawsuit, filed in a Missouri circuit court in St. Louis, where James Hoft lives, articulates a litany of trauma the two women and their family suffered after Gateway Pundit began its campaign against them.”
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) December 2, 2021
“On Jan. 6, as thousands of Trump supporters gathered in Washington for a rally that led to the storming of the Capitol…another crowd surrounded Ms. Freeman’s home in suburban Cobb County, the suit read, “some on foot, some in vehicles, others equipped with a bullhorn.”
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) December 2, 2021
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
mandatory adoption…JFC
NPR had the general counsel for Concerned Women for America on for an interview. Motherfucker argued it wasn’t about abortion policy. It was just about the sanctity of the Constitution. Also said, with a straight face, if Roe is overturned, there won’t be outright bans at the state level—just reasonable restrictions like Mississippi’s 15 week ban.
Pelosi: This is so silly that we have people that are anti-vaccination saying they’re going to shut down government over that and you’re asking me what’s our message pic.twitter.com/oU9lFUoBSj
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 2, 2021
re: #220 Dread Pirate Ron
Oh how glorious would it be if these people took down SMOTI for good?
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
mandatory adoption…JFC
As long as the mother’s life isn’t in danger, there ought to be mandatory transfer of the fetus from the woman who doesn’t want it to one that does.
re: #225 Belafon
As long as the mother’s life isn’t in danger, there ought to be mandatory transfer of the fetus from the woman who doesn’t want it to one that does.
At 18, every woman should have to register to whether or not she is able to take on a fetus. When a woman becomes pregnant, an eligible woman will be drawn by lottery to receive the fetus if she doesn’t want it.
Ingraham says if the Supreme Court “fails to put Roe to rest” then they should expect a conservative movement to “shrink the court’s power” pic.twitter.com/f7s7nWGiqO
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 2, 2021
re: #100 darthstar
Texas woman arrested for pointing gun at a woman and her six month old child over a parking spot.
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$60,000 bond…so at least she gets to feel a little financial consequence.
Oookay, so this reminds me of a story from Christmas 1988ish in Houston. My sister, who is tiny compared to me, went out to lunch with a friend at a restaurant in a shopping mall parking lot. She had her oldest kid with her. Oh, and yes, not to forget, my sister was wearing a mink stole (gift from MIL who was into that sort of thing). There were no parking spots to be found, so they were driving around, finally saw a spot, she was driving to take it and another woman grabbed it first. My sister was so frustrated, she threw her car into park, blocking the woman from getting out, hopped out of the car, and proceeded to march over to the other woman’s car and give her a tongue-lashing through her tinted glass windows about how she had a KID and on and on and on and on. Keep in mind, she looked like a 26 year old rich girl who had her mink stole out from the storage at Neiman Marcus for the three days of the year it’s cold enough in Houston to wear such a thing.
Finally, my sister tired of yelling, hopped back into her car and proceeded to find another parking space. They went to the restaurant (where they had a reservation) and since they had a kid, of course they were seated by the kitchen. HOWEVER, the person at the table next to them was…the other woman. Who ate quickly and left.
I told my father about this and he completely lost his shit. “Suppose the other woman had had a gun?” It was similar to what he told my brother a few years before that when he got sent to the back of the school lunch line at high school for cutting. “This is to train you not to cut at the Kmart because you don’t know what people are packing.”
In other news, I come by my hot temper honestly.
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
Susan Collins claimed yesterday that she favored a national law passed by Congress that protects a woman’s right to choose. On Lawrence last evening, Elizabeth Warren also favored that option, admitting that it does require eliminating the filibuster. There are 2 flaws with this approach:
1. The next time the GOP has control of the WH and Congress, that law would be overturned and replaced with legislation that might return the authority to the states or might ban abortion nationwide.
2. As we saw with voting rights, this SCOTUS is fine with asserting its power to declare existing legislation unconstitutional. I have no doubt that is exactly the path it would take to deprive women of their rights.Our only hope is for at least 2 GOP justices to leave the Court and be replaced by Biden appointees before any ruling is issued. Maybe Clarence retiring as part of a plea deal to prevent Ginni from going to prison for her role in 1/6? Maybe Alito being forced to retire if it turns out that he also was involved in the plot, as liar Sydney Powell suggested ?
Yep, and the Democrats need to make it clear, in every single election, that if Republicans are voted back into power they will make abortion illegal nationwide. Then if the voters give the GOP power, they’ll get what they deserve.
re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is extremist libertarian Vernor Vinge stuff. Ranchers with nukes.
re: #217 William Lewis
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Sooner or later twitter will pull the plug on me. I’ll keep telling what I see to be true until then.
Oh well, FUCK TWITTER (and the same to facebook)
re: #226 Belafon
At 18, every woman should have to register to whether or not she is able to take on a fetus. When a woman becomes pregnant, an eligible woman will be drawn by lottery to receive the fetus if she doesn’t want it.
“May the odds be ever in your favor.”
re: #173 Eclectic Cyborg
And I wonder if SOCTUS will go after Obamacare after they dismantle Roe.
They chose not to when they had the chance this year.
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And don’t forget that states will pass laws like Texas making it illegal to aid and abet a woman in obtaining an abortion, even in places where it is still legal.
Fuckit, time to break the law.
re: #234 Acemarilllion
I get a real “Creepy Santa” vibe from that one.
More health news….
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re: #227 Dread Pirate Ron
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Any democracy is as strong or as weak as the institutions that underpin its edifice. When democracy is subverted it is the institutional reliability of the judicial system that is dismantled first. A grand sweep of history bears testimony to these maxims. Whenever judicial independence is undermined, tyranny, chaos and then anarchy, in that order, are its inevitable corollaries.
Why did I expect it to start flying pic.twitter.com/A3VzZVXSTM
— Filo (@filodxxn) December 1, 2021
Evangelical Christians want as many children as possible, to indoctrinate their way. This leads to political power and societal hegemony. Even better when they can get them away from people unlike themselves.
— Kari Dru (@KariDru) December 1, 2021
My Christian relatives are still shocked to this day that I left, and leaving is far from easy, or a one step process.Barrett’s whole assignment in this mess is to make sure her people have plenty of children to buy. It’s clear as day.
— Kari Dru (@KariDru) December 1, 2021
… Bethany Christian Services’ international adoption accreditation expired this year. Isn’t that INTERESTING.
— Kari Dru (@KariDru) December 1, 2021
Attn: everybody telling me “they only want white babies”… https://t.co/uc9IYcBIbN
— Kari Dru (@KariDru) December 1, 2021
re: #218 jaunte
Everyone needs to understand that “putting up for adoption” is a feel-good shorthand for the reality, which would be dumping massive numbers of children into an already over-stressed system in which there are not enough adoptive families, not enough foster families, not enough caseworkers. The “conservative” solution for this will be for-profit orphanages, where the defenseless tenants will be at the mercy of the the worst kind of predators who take the job not for the low pay but for opportunity.
A bidness opportunity! Put those kiddies to work so that they learn the value of a job!
re: #240 Backwoods_Sleuth
Except they don’t really want them or there wouldn’t be kids waiting to be adopted.
re: #242 Belafon
Except they don’t really want them or there wouldn’t be kids waiting to be adopted.
babies, they need babies
re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg
And therein lies the problem. Our representation is based on geography, not population. There are more red states than blue states. The math just doesn’t work.
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There was also a time when “rural state” did not automatically mean “red state”.
And as for the House, just look at Ohio, where GOP won only 56% of the overall votes but carried 12 of the 16 seats.
The more I think about this the more I realize that there is a real problem related to geography as EC has said. The GOP could have legitimately won all the Ohio seats if the population political preferences were evenly spread throughout the state. I’m not sure how to correct this; but there is definitely something wrong when the proportion of the legislators by party doesn’t reflect the proportion of the voters nationwide by party. And let’s never forget the monstrosity of the Electoral College where in 2 of the past 6 elections the winner of the popular vote lost; and a change of only about 40,000 votes would have resulted in a similar outcome in 2020.
re: #222 Mike Lamb
NPR had the general counsel for Concerned Women for America on for an interview. Motherfucker argued it wasn’t about abortion policy. It was just about the sanctity of the Constitution. Also said, with a straight face, if Roe is overturned, there won’t be outright bans at the state level—just reasonable restrictions like Mississippi’s 15 week ban.
Twelve states have trigger laws that will ban most abortions the day the Court reverses Roe.
re: #242 Belafon
Except they don’t really want them or there wouldn’t be kids waiting to be adopted.
Most kids get taken from their negligent or abusive parents when they are older. People want to adopt babies.
Forgot to add that the husband’s medical procedure for the pain blocking device is postponed because he’s got a really bad ear infection and is on antibiotics. He has to be a week out from the last dose before he can have that done. Doctors office is trying to fit him in before the end of the year. If not he has to go through the whole approval process again with new insurance for next year.
We live in an area dominated by one huge hospital corporation called WellStar. If you want to go outside that conglomerate you have a 40 minute ride to a hospital and many doctors outside the WellStar system are also a haul from here. WellStar no longer works with United Healthcare which is the provider for hubby’s Medicare plans. So he has til the 7th and I have til the 15th (I have Ambetter insurance and it’s crap) to find new insurance that will allow us to keep our doctors in place.
Having to deal with this while sick is not helpful. This has to be fixed, but I doubt it ever will be. I can’t get financial help because we have too much money saved up so we don’t lose our home and can meet monthly expenses. We literally can’t get help with hospital and doctor bills unless we drain our savings and are on the brink of bankruptcy. We have no retirement plan or anything but social security disability my husband gets. I was a full time parent for 20 yrs and my monthly check will be around 500 dollars a month when I turn 65.
This whole system is a clusterfuck unless you are rich and have gold plated insurance. You know, the stuff our tax dollars subsidize for our asshole elected officials. I’m in a mood.
re: #244 Hecuba’s daughter
The more I think about this the more I realize that there is a real problem related to geography as EC has said. The GOP could have legitimately won all the Ohio seats if the population political preferences were evenly spread throughout the state*. I’m not sure how to correct this; but there is definitely something wrong when the proportion of the legislators by party doesn’t reflect the proportion of the voters nationwide by party. And let’s never forget the monstrosity of the Electoral College where in 2 of the past 6 elections the winner of the popular vote lost; and a change of only about 40,000 votes would have resulted in a similar outcome in 2020.
* Massachusetts is the reverse
re: #211 Eclectic Cyborg
That Christiebunny person is getting torn to shreds for that comment.
And I helped!
*swear words* FUCK THAT NOISE. Women and girls are NOT your incubators. Plus adoption is no panacea. I had a cousin adopted out, she asked me if her schizophrenic mom would have been better than the adopted parents who abused her. I had to tell her, “I don’t know.” FUCK THAT.
— Dee *on a social media hiatus* Holmes (@mmmirele) December 2, 2021
I even brought out my swear words.
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) December 2, 2021
Man….FUCK Louis Dejoy.
I just got a notice today from my Credit Union (dated SEPTEMBER 30th) saying they are changing their terms of service of and adding a mandatory Arbitration clause. The notice goes on to say that members can opt-out of Arbitration if they notify the Credit Union…by November 30th.
re: #251 Eclectic Cyborg
Man….FUCK Louis Dejoy.
I just got a notice from my Credit Union (dated SEPTEMBER 30th) saying they are changing their terms of service of and adding a mandatory Arbitration clause. The notice goes on to say that members can opt-out of Arbitration if they notify the Credit Union…by November 30th.
I walked a 401(k) rollover check that had to be cashed by 12/8 into my HR office on 11/4. The bank called yesterday, asking if that rollover was still planned to come through.
This seems like a bit of a problem.
By a 5–2 vote, the (extremely conservative) Florida Supreme Court holds that criminal defendants who exercise their right against self-incrimination by refusing to admit guilt may be punished with higher sentences due to “lack of remorse.” https://t.co/p5XaoglWKU
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) December 2, 2021
Forgot to mention that I applied for a variance from the Return to Office policy and
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Yeah, I’m pissed off.
Making his own fun.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/9n73yZ223w
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) December 2, 2021
re: #250 No Malarkey!
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That was kinda my thoughts when that whole ‘traumatize the kids’ bullshit first started circulating around the RWNJ circuit about masks. I suggested that they only have to wear them when they are doing active shooter drills and are jammed into a closet, ‘cause that’s not traumatizing.
VIDEO: Best wrong number, ever?@NDPMA_Athletics bball team made a group chat & accidentally added a teammate’s # wrong by a digit.
The wrong # was @seanbunting_ & it all ended in a surprise group FaceTime chat w/ @TomBrady & the @Buccaneers.https://t.co/OsVLi4Bway pic.twitter.com/qUisgg1MKp— Jeanna Trotman (@JeannaTrotmanTV) December 2, 2021
re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth
babies, they need babies
Which they can indoctrinate from almost the beginning, no fussy “deprogramming” kids who are old enough to talk and teenagers.
re: #100 darthstar
Texas woman arrested for pointing gun at a woman and her six month old child over a parking spot.
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$60,000 bond…so at least she gets to feel a little financial consequence.
Unless she posted $60,000 in refundable equity to the court, her little spat cost her a $6,000 premium to the bail bondsman, plus attorney fees.
Spotted in Springdale, Arkansas yesterday. Double yucky. pic.twitter.com/0apStzBM4j
— Autumn Tolbert (@AutumnDamnIt) December 1, 2021
re: #258 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
white babies, remember the Fourteen Words
they will definitely adopt non-white babies to raise as “household help”.
re: #244 Hecuba’s daughter
And let’s never forget the monstrosity of the Electoral College where in 2 of the past 6 elections the winner of the popular vote lost; and a change of only about 40,000 votes would have resulted in a similar outcome in 2020.
I would be for keeping the EC but
a) having the electors represent the number of people in a state, not the number of legislators it sends
and
b) it would only kick in if there is no clear winner of the popular vote.
re: #240 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Consider yourselves judged, Twitter. pic.twitter.com/SJfX6mnQOQ
— Kate Bevan (@katebevan) December 2, 2021
-Can I get an abortion?
America: Lol no you’re an incubator now. whore
-Okay can I have healthcare and maternity leave and childcare and housing?
America: absolutely not.
-How are we supposed to…
America: Here’s a gun.— Lauren Hough (@laurenthehough) December 2, 2021
BREAKING NOW. Man in the red jacket is pacing in front of the UN HQ in NYC with a shotgun as police surround him. pic.twitter.com/2soHXSXntD
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 2, 2021
LOL!
Oh my god https://t.co/umYsypAtqj pic.twitter.com/o0AcV9yg6u
— Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. (@clapifyoulikeme) December 2, 2021
every reply is perfect pic.twitter.com/PUWR8M5yVD
— Melanie Bee (@m_k_blurr) December 2, 2021
I could be so fucking rich if I had no conscience… https://t.co/JssHOv45Kx
— THEE Liberal Librarian (@EstablshmentBar) December 2, 2021
win-win!
— THEE Liberal Librarian (@EstablshmentBar) December 2, 2021
We could print “Let’s Go Brandon” on fortune cookie paper and tell them the medicine was soaked into it.
All they have to do is eat their words and they’re safe.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) December 2, 2021
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Ole Jim Bob Duggar got smacked down by the federal court judge yesterday. Josh’s attorney tried to get Bobye Holt (wife of an “elder” of Jim Bob’s Independent Fundamental Baptist church, of which Jim Bob is also an “elder”) counted as “clergy” so that she couldn’t testify against Josh. Because she had the lowdown on Josh being a sex abuser against his sisters and another girl starting about when he was 12. The judge was having none of it, and in his written order allowing Bobye Holt to testify, said that Jim Bob was being “self-serving” and her testimony can be admitted. Oh yeah, Jim Bob is “not credible.”
A jury has been seated and testimony has started. Here’s an article about yesterday’s testimony, which included showing the jury graphic pictures of the child sexual abuse material downloaded. Oh, and Josh’s attorney’s defense is “Josh isn’t smart enough to partition a drive and install a second system.” My response: It’s easier than ever, we’re not talking 1996 or even 2006 and boy, this really is a smack in the face against home schooling. For her part, the federal attorney pointed out that Josh switched back and forth from the secret partition to the Windows system to send messages and suchlike.
re: #272 mmmirele
Ole Jim Bob Duggar got smacked down by the federal court judge yesterday. Josh’s attorney tried to get Bobye Holt (wife of an “elder” of Jim Bob’s Independent Fundamental Baptist church, of which Jim Bob is also an “elder”) counted as “clergy” so that she couldn’t testify against Josh. Because she had the lowdown on Josh being a sex abuser against his sisters and another girl starting about when he was 12. The judge was having none of it, and in his written order allowing Bobye Holt to testify, said that Jim Bob was being “self-serving” and her testimony can be admitted. Oh yeah, Jim Bob is “not credible.”
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You knew there was something really freaking wrong inside that family back in 2003.
A jury has been seated and testimony has started. Here’s an article about yesterday’s testimony, which included showing the jury graphic pictures of the child sexual abuse material downloaded. Oh, and Josh’s attorney’s defense is “Josh isn’t smart enough to partition a drive and install a second system.” My response: It’s easier than ever, we’re not talking 1996 or even 2006 and boy, this really is a smack in the face against home schooling. For her part, the federal attorney pointed out that Josh switched back and forth from the secret partition to the Windows system to send messages and suchlike.
You knew something was badly wrong with at least one of the kids back in 2003.
I’m as fucking annoyed as anyone else with the handmaids tale gifs in my mentions then I realized it’s fucking hilarious that anyone would think it’s realistic the handmaids are provided food and housing.
— Lauren Hough (@laurenthehough) December 2, 2021
re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I would be for keeping the EC but
a) having the electors represent the number of people in a state, not the number of legislators it sends
and
b) it would only kick in if there is no clear winner of the popular vote.
I’d say the real problem is the Senate even more than the EC.
The Senate confirms:
- All judicial nominees
- Far too many other appointments (2 thousand or so??), more than just the heads of the departments.
- All ambassadorial appointments.
And let’s not forget the idiotic filibuster which is causing states representing a minority of the voting population to soft veto everything.
This allows for “tyranny of the minority” rather than just checking “tyranny of the majority”.
All the Senate served to do for the first few decades of its existence was to force a fake parity between slave states and free states, and put a lid on the conflict over slavery through a series of compromises, until the corrupt Supreme Court overruled everything in Dredd Scott, which ultimately led to the ascendancy of the Republicans and the War of Southern Aggression.
This has actually been calculated. If we used 50 state-level electoral colleges in 2020, where each county was awarded winner-take-all, the result would have been 378-160 Biden.
WI would have flipped to Trump — but NC, FL, and TX would have flipped to Biden. https://t.co/0uGXy6ETdY— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) December 2, 2021
re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The magic dirt company (Black Oxygen Organics) closed down last week during American Thanksgiving. With a lot of people’s money, because people had prepaid to sell the dirt via a MLM. The Canadian government wasn’t letting them ship their dirt from a bog next to a landfill, and the US wasn’t letting them ship it over the border.
The next thing coming up in the wacky world of MLMs is how a whole team called “WFABB” (Work from anywhere boss babes or something) is moving from the hair and skin care MLM Monat (famous for “OMG my hair has fallen out!” “No, you’re ‘detoxing’.”) to a cryptocurrency MLM called iGenius. It’s been quite the shitshow and you can see it playing out on YouTube and Instagram. Of course, some of the WFABBers are not wanting to move from Monat, where the pay to play is a LOT less than going to a cryptocurrency scam.
re: #276 jaunte
A state level EC is still a bad idea — the Republicans would immediately rejigger county boundaries to give maximum benefits to a Republican candidate.
re: #278 aatharuv
A state level EC is still a bad idea — the Republicans would immediately rejigger county boundaries to give maximum benefits to a Republican candidate.
There is no way, no way, they would be able to shift county boundaries.
re: #268 No Malarkey!
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The UN has been targeted before, with considerably more firepower.
NYT 12 December 1964:
Bazooka Fired at U.N. as Cuban Speaks; Launched in Queens, Missile Explodes in East River
United Nations Headquarters was fired upon yesterday with a 3.5-inch bazooka from across the East River. The attack coincided with a demonstration by anti‐Communist Cubans at the front entrance against the presence of Maj. Ernesto Che Guevara of Cuba.
A single shell from the bazooka, a portable rocket launcher used by, the Army, arced across the river from Queens and fell harmlessly about 200 yards from shore. The blast sent up a geyser of water and rattled windows in the headquarters just as Major Guevara, Havana’s Minister of Industry, was denouncing the United States.
Shortly before, a hysterical woman brandishing a hunting knife with a seven‐inch blade detached herself from 50 antiGuevara pickets and tried to force her way into the front entrance. The police subdued the leather‐jacketed woman, and later quoted her as saying she intended to assassinate Major Guevara.
And a week and half later…..
Three Castro Foes Arrested in Firing Of Bazooka at U.N
Three Cubans, understood to be opponents of the regime of Premier Fidel Castro, were arrested last night in the Dee. 11 firing of a bazooka shell toward the United Nations Headquarters.
Chief of Detectives Philip J. Walsh said eactt of the three was charged with endangering life maliciously by placing an explosive near a building, and with attempting to damage a building or a vessel, both of which are felonies. They were further charged with conspiracy, a misdemeanor..
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
Susan Collins claimed yesterday that she favored a national law passed by Congress that protects a woman’s right to choose. On Lawrence last evening, Elizabeth Warren also favored that option, admitting that it does require eliminating the filibuster. There are 2 flaws with this approach:
1. The next time the GOP has control of the WH and Congress, that law would be overturned and replaced with legislation that might return the authority to the states or might ban abortion nationwide.
2. As we saw with voting rights, this SCOTUS is fine with asserting its power to declare existing legislation unconstitutional. I have no doubt that is exactly the path it would take to deprive women of their rights.Our only hope is for at least 2 GOP justices to leave the Court and be replaced by Biden appointees before any ruling is issued. Maybe Clarence retiring as part of a plea deal to prevent Ginni from going to prison for her role in 1/6? Maybe Alito being forced to retire if it turns out that he also was involved in the plot, as liar Sydney Powell suggested ?
That would be a favor for a favor, and we don’t want to go down that road. The last admin already tried it several times.
re: #226 Belafon
How about an eligible GOP congressperson?
re: #252 Dopamine Fish
I walked a 401(k) rollover check that had to be cashed by 12/8 into my HR office on 11/4. The bank called yesterday, asking if that rollover was still planned to come through.
my HR office just miscalculated how I’m supposed to get paid, so I get paid more times now in smaller increments. Yay.
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