re: #4 teleskiguy

I’m not impressed by Bob Corker’s come-to-Jesus moment portrayed in this New York Times piece. He and 99% of conservatives are still awful people who want to take this country back to the dark ages. Fuck ‘em. Fuck ‘em all.

An E-mail I just sent to my supposed never-Trump Senator Ben Sasse, on the topic of abortion (bold in original):

Your office’s E-mail concerning a bill to restrict abortion to twenty weeks contains a lie.

You claimed that a foetus is “pain-capable” at twenty weeks, and that is supported by scientific evidence.

That is a lie, and you know it’s a lie.

No medical or scientific organisation has ever claimed that. It is merely a way to smuggle your religious opinions into law by dressing it up as “science.” As a historian, you should be well aware of the dangers of manipulating falsehoods for a political agenda.

If you want to ban abortions after a particular time, then own your reasons to do so. But to lie about the scientific evidence only makes you morally bankrupt.

If you want to smuggle a religious position into secular law, then be honest, as your Bible tells you to (unless lying for your faith is what your religion teaches you).

You should be spending time as a Republican on fiscal conservatism and national security (such as securing our nation’s election system from Russian interference, removing a dangerous and incompetent and compromised president from office), not trying to shrink government so small it can fit in my wife’s uterus.

Do your job.