Seth Meyers: Hunter Biden Verdict Blows Up MAGA Conspiracy Theory About Trump’s Crimes
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re: #8 Backwoods Sleuth
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For years, the McIlhenney’s got bourbon casks for almost nothing because they couldn’t be exported. Now they are exported to the UK to finish polishing Scots and Irish Whiskies (which were previously polished by Port and other fortified wine barrels).
Not to worry though, huge increases in Whiskey and Bourbon production in the US means there are plenty of barrels for everybody and the McIlhenny’s can reuse theirs!
Oh, and all the McIlhenney’s served in the USMC, many of them General Officers.
They were dancing, they were celebrating Pride, and they should’ve been safe.But eight years ago, 49 beautiful lives were stolen & many more were forever impacted by the shooting at Pulse Nightclub.More than ever, we must work together to combat hate—and disarm it. pic.twitter.com/3yah7YuLdp
— Gabrielle Giffords (@GabbyGiffords) June 12, 2024
Adding:
I last posted this personal story in 2022. https://t.co/GgY4ydsNok
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) June 12, 2024
Let’s Talk About Trump’s GibberishPerhaps the greatest trick Donald Trump ever pulled was convincing millions of people—and the American media—to treat his lapses into fantasies and gibberish as a normal, meaningful form of oratory. But Trump is not a normal person, and his speeches are not normal political events
Slowly and steadily im seeing more of this type of story
GOP will ban IVF if Trump wins after Southern Baptists’ condemnation: expert
Hope this comes up in the debates. I bet Trump will say he is for IVF.
re: #5 silverdolphin
GOP will ban IVF if Trump wins after Southern Baptists’ condemnation: expert
Hope this comes up in the debates. I bet Trump will say he is for IVF.
re: #7 Dangerman
This is not a bad thing, it will result in less Southern Baptists…
re: #3 Belafon
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You can remove Battle Rifles from the buy list or you can cap bullet magazines/clips at five rounds and make possession of any mag/clip larger than that an automatic five year prison sentence in a Fed Greybar Motel. If you want to own such a thing you get to be in the Machine Gun Cue and pay huge annual fees to own such weapons or attachments.
I’m off for the rack. Night all, sweet scaly dreams.
re: #11 BeachDem
I love this.(Celtics are killing it like the Celtics of yore)
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From what I’ve read, the Celtics have many more high level players than the Mavericks, and it also seems that they figured out that rather than trying to contain Luca, they could just contain Irving.
One of our local Dallas reporters was commenting after the second Celtic win that this year’s Celtic team, based on regular season stats, ranks in the top ten teams of all time.
re: #52 Charles Johnson
What is the greatest opening lyric of all time?
A heart on the run keeps a hand on a gun
It can’t trust anyone.
I was so sure what I needed was more
Tried to shoot out the sun.
“Cover Me Up” Jason Isbell
I’m sittin alone, Saturday night, watching the Late Late Show
A bottle of wine, some cigarettes, I got no place to go
Well, I saw your other man today, he was wearing my brand new shoes
And I’m down to seeds and stems again, too
lyrics.com
re: #14 BeenHereAwhile
A heart on the run keeps a hand on a gun
It can’t trust anyone.
I was so sure what I needed was more
Tried to shoot out the sun.“Cover Me Up” Jason Isbell
I rode out of Kansas City, going south to Mexico
I was running dodging danger, left the girl that I loved so
Far behind lay Kansas City and the past that I had earned
Twenty notches on my six gun marked the lessons I had learned
“Running Gun” - Marty Robbins
(written by Jim and Tompall Glaser)
re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
“One-Pump” Trump.
NBC News (June 12, 2024)
Charlie Kirk once pushed a ‘secular worldview.’ Now he’s fighting to make America Christian again.
In 2018, Charlie Kirk pushed for the Republican Party to respect separation of state and church. Now he calls that foundational principle “a fabrication.”
As seen yesterday in Idaho’s Republican Primary, the highest-elected Republican in the nation out atheist was annihilated in the state Senate primary for the Senate district east of Boise. Millions of dollars of attack ads poured into the Boise market calling him a “liberal.” (On four bills trying to restrict LGBT+ rights, he was absent for three because he is a lawyer and was in court, and on the fourth to ban gender affirming care for minors he voted against and with the Democrats, arguing on the floor such decisions should be left up to physicians and impugns parental rights.)
The senator was also targetted specifically for his atheism. Those adverts painted atheists as evil, led by Satan, and unfit to govern. (The GOP cannot be reformed from within, as the state senator thought it could.)
Six years ago, Charlie Kirk, a right-wing provocateur who founded the conservative activist group Turning Point USA, strongly criticized the evangelical political movement he now helps lead.
Kirk, known then primarily for his work mobilizing college-age Republicans, described Jesus as welcoming and tolerant and denounced Christians’ “sanctimonious approach” to homosexuality and other issues. He argued politics should be advanced through a “secular worldview” and slammed attempts by the evangelical right, beginning in the 1970s, to “impose” their version of morality “through government policy.”
“We do have a separation of church and state,” Kirk told the conservative commentator Dave Rubin in 2018, “and we should support that.”
Kirk, now 30, has since reversed his position. It’s a transformation that, according to political and religious scholars, embodies and reinforces a growing embrace of Christian nationalist thinking within the Republican Party in the era of Donald Trump.
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Basically, Charlie Kirk figured out six yeas ago that trying to promote tolerance within the Republican Party is a futile endeavour, and since the grift is with Christian fundamentalists, that’s where he went.
re: #16 piratedan
I rode out of Kansas City, going south to Mexico
I was running dodging danger, left the girl that I loved so
Far behind lay Kansas City and the past that I had earned
Twenty notches on my six gun marked the lessons I had learned“Running Gun” - Marty Robbins
(written by Jim and Tompall Glaser)
Down the road a ways I’ve heard say
A new day’s coming on
Where the women folks are friendly
And the law leaves you alone
“Ain’t No God In Mexico”
Billy Joe Shaver
Two threads back:
re: #36 dharmamark
WAPO Gift link. Cop as sexual abusers.
Children and women being around police is nearly as dangerous as being around pastors.
The gift link does not work however. It demands I subscribe to read it.
I imagine the Post story is another series of anecdotes of child rapes and sexual assaults, with a dollop of qualified immunity and police obstruction of investigations (in a way, they’re much like a church in that regard).
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com
This is your reminder that antitrust law is a criminal offense and if anything should lead to jail time, jacking up rents across the country in unison should do it.
Landlords use RealPage to jack up rents, often with the majority of units in a city using the software, allowing it to raise rents in unison - leading to FBI raids and a criminal investigation
Turns out RealPage is the brain-child of Harlan Crow, most famous for taking Clarence Thomas on vacations
FBI raid on real estate company linked to Harlan Crow’s RealPage rental price fixing
re: #24 jaunte
Even my conservative coworker thinks that is wrong. Biden needs to make a big deal of that.
A passing of note: Neil Goldschmidt, former Mayor of Portland, OR and later Governor of Oregon, whose political and professional career was utterly derailed by revelations he’d sexually abused a teenage girl in the 1970s during his mayoral tenure, has died at the age of 83.
His obituary was written by Nigel Jaquiss, an investigate journalist for Willamette Week - the very man whose investigation not only exposed the scandal, but also won him the Pulitzer Prize.
Arm, Qualcomm legal battle seen disrupting AI-powered PC wave
So much for all those AI PCs.
re: #25 Belafon
Even my conservative coworker thinks that is wrong. Biden needs to make a big deal of that.
He should, but none of the justices palling around with Crow will recuse…
From downstairs
re: #98 Joe Bacon ✅
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Johnson’s characterization that the arrests of seniors tied to Jan. 6 doesn’t square with the data.
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I am getting beyond tired of shit like this in the media.
It is effectively false to just report that the word-vomit of a lying Republican pigfucker “doesn’t square with the data”, because there’s an implication that it could be an honest mistake.
Republicans can’t make honest mistakes, because none of them are honest. The sooner every sane person realizes that every Republican deliberately lies about absolutely everything all of the goddamn time, and repeats it over and over and over and over and over and over and over again for that depressingly large fraction of the electorate with the attention span of mayflies on meth, the better.
Sleazy E got his pay package approved…
Tesla shareholders re-approve Elon Musk’s 2018 pay package, Musk says
The Tesla CEO shared the news Wednesday night on X, his social media platform. Though the full results will not be revealed until Thursday’s shareholder meeting, the current tallies appear to resolve a dispute that has loomed over Musk’s future with the company.
Disgusting.
re: #126 Belafon
Do you have a link for those surveys? And about your comment about ransomware, do you think only 20 and 30 year olds work?
Here’s a recent article about the phenomenon. The issue is younger people fall for scams much faster, but older people when scammed lose more money (they have more to lose).
OK, Zoomer: Teens fall for online scams at faster rate than seniors, older victims lose more money (NBC News, August 17, 2023)
“People 20 or younger have fallen for more online scams than any other age group”
Like the PayPal scams mentioned in this same thread from two floors down, I have gotten PayPal scam messages. Since I’ve never used PayPal, the letter is an obvious scam to me. (Reporting it to PayPal is useless since there’s nothing they can do about it.)
I am much less likely to be scammed on-line because I do no financial stuff on-line (except the occasional purchase I initiate). I do not have on-line banking, billing, or credit which can be scammed. All of that I do through the mail with cheques or money orders.
That is not true of younger generations which do a lot of their stuff on-line. (I don’t need an app to check my bank account for example: I can [horrors!] pick up the phone and call my bank. No matter how many times CenturyLink tries to “encourage” me to use on-line billing I refuse. I even do Amazon purchases through the mail with cheques, as I don’t have a burning need to have something right now.)
Can You Guess Which Generation is Most Susceptible to Scams? (Goes to Rockland Trust, a commercial bank in Massachusetts.)
TL;DR, 18-24.
No, it’s not Baby Boomers, though they are the target of certain types of scams. The age group most vulnerable to scams is actually 18 to 24 years olds. Although those digital natives understand a lot about how technology works and can help you navigate the latest social media network, they also can fall prey to savvy scammers.
Are you in that age group? Are your students or children? Fear not! There are six simple ways to protect yourself, and your money, from fraud.
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BBB Risk Report: Adults 18-24 were highest scam risk in 2020 (Better Business Bureau, March 1, 2021)
Adults ages 18-24 reported the highest median losses ($150) and the highest likelihood of loss (56.6%) to BBB Scam TrackerSM in 2020, according to the Better Business Bureau (BBB). Previously, older age groups consistently lost higher median dollar amounts to scammers year over year, even while young adults tended to lose money more often. This year, the financial loss reported by those 18-24 was equal to that of adults 65+. Online scams rise during COVID-19 pandemic: 2020 BBB Scam Tracker Risk Report (bbb.org), focuses on the impact of scams in the wake of the pandemic and the demographic groups most at risk.
More scams were perpetrated online and yielded the highest likelihood of financial loss in 2020. This is likely connected to consumer habit shifts since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic; in a survey of over 5,000 individuals that reported scams to BBB Scam TrackerSM (bbb.org) in 2020, 43.1% said they spent more time online due to the pandemic, and 57.1% said they purchased more online because of the pandemic.
(more at the link, internal reports linked within the article)
And so on.
re: #31 Joe Bacon ✅
Stupid. When/if Musk runs Tesla into the ground, those same shareholders are gonna be crying.
That’s what’ll happen when you continue with a wannabe internet edgelord as your CEO.
re: #126 Belafon
Do you have a link for those surveys? And about your comment about ransomware, do you think only 20 and 30 year olds work?
As for only 20-30 year olds working, of course not.
That goes back to the other surveys I listed (and there are a whole lot more). Younger adults tend to be tech-savvy but scam-naïve. The longer you’ve been around, the more likely someone has tried to scam you. The only difference between scams now using the Internet and scams in the past is the Internet is a lot faster. (How many children were scammed out of money answering comic book adverts for X-ray glasses back in the Sixties for example?)
One area of scams which tends to hit older adults are Romance scams. Lonely people (maybe someone who’s spouse died for example, or who’s family doesn’t speak with them) are more likely to respond to positive messages from a person writing they’re funny or interesting and such—before the scam moves on to something like “oh no, I’m in jail and I need $1,000 bail money” or such. That sort of scam wouldn’t work on a young adult (less likely to be in that lonely position and almost certainly doesn’t have that sort of money).
re: #24 jaunte
Apparently RealPage is heavily in use in the Phoenix area, leading to massive rent increases since 2020. Our (Democratic) attorney general sued RealPage and residential landlords for what is essentially collusion.
From what I’ve read, RealPage acts like a mafia, going around to landlords or management companies and threatening to cut them off from that sweet sweet colluding data if they don’t raise rents in line with the rest of their clients. It’s a vicious cycle and provokes rent increases.
I seriously hope RealPage gets smashed into smithereens. It’s not just Harlan Crow; it’s that thousands of families in the Phoenix area are living on the edge, one paycheck away from eviction because rents keep getting jacked up.
And it’s also time to go after those companies buying single family homes and renting those out at extraordinary prices.
re: #31 Joe Bacon ✅
Sleazy E got his pay package approved…
Disgusting.
No one, and I repeat NO ONE, should be receiving a $54 billion pay package. It’s the kind of thing that has people like me thinking of Madame Lafarge and guillotines.
re: #35 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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That was the spin on Faux earlier, that the transcript was doctored/altered/edited/etc and thus the House GQP need the audio recordings to verify that it’s legit.
Newsweek, yesterday afternoon
Republican Reveals Why He Voted Against Holding Merrick Garland in Contempt
Just one Republican strayed from the rest of his party after the House voted to hold U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland contempt of Congress for his refusal to turn over audio recordings of an interview involving President Joe Biden.
The interview in question was between Biden and former special counsel Robert Hur, who led the investigation into the president’s handling of classified documents that were located at his residence in Delaware and the Penn Biden Center office in Washington, D.C.
On Wednesday, 216 Republicans voted to hold Garland in contempt for refusing to provide the audio. Only one GOP member, Ohio Representative Dave Joyce, voted against the resolution, joining 206 Democrats who also voted no. One Republican and seven Democrats did not vote on the matter.
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re: #36 mmmirele
It’s a typical thing from days of old, how lords of the land would conspire to ensure the masses did not accumulate wealth and the lords did instead.
Arizona Mirror (part of the States Mirror non-profit organisation, which reports on state-level politics), May 2, 2024:
Appeals court hears Kari Lake election case, has to remind her lawyer how appeals work (you get what you pay for)
“Even as she runs for the U.S. Senate, Lake is trying to get the courts to declare her governor of Arizona”
Appellate judges listening to arguments Thursday [April 26] in Kari Lake’s challenge to her 2022 election loss had to keep reminding her lawyer how appeals courts work.
“I’m sure you’re aware we’re not a fact finding court — we’re a court that decides questions of law, primarily,” Judge Peter Eckerstrom told Kurt Olsen, Lake’s attorney, shortly after he began his arguments.
Lake, a Republican who is now running for a U.S. Senate seat, filed her initial election challenge in December 2022 after she lost the governor’s race to Democrat Katie Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes.
An ally of fellow election denier Donald Trump, Lake never conceded to Hobbs and has continually claimed the election was stolen, despite her claims failing to convince judges in December 2022 and May 2023 trials, as well as multiple appeals in between the two.
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re: #36 mmmirele
Apparently RealPage is heavily in use in the Phoenix area, leading to massive rent increases since 2020. Our (Democratic) attorney general sued RealPage and residential landlords for what is essentially collusion.
From what I’ve read, RealPage acts like a mafia, going around to landlords or management companies and threatening to cut them off from that sweet sweet colluding data if they don’t raise rents in line with the rest of their clients. It’s a vicious cycle and provokes rent increases.
I seriously hope RealPage gets smashed into smithereens. It’s not just Harlan Crow; it’s that thousands of families in the Phoenix area are living on the edge, one paycheck away from eviction because rents keep getting jacked up.
And it’s also time to go after those companies buying single family homes and renting those out at extraordinary prices.
True rent-seeking behavior which was detested by Adam Smith. They generated income without laboring at all, without improving the land at all. He recognized that the landlord would always raise rents so that the renter was left just enough money to survive. And that this would concentrate money more and more in a few, leaving most people paupers if allowed to continue. He felt that taxing the rentiers was the best way to go to reduce income inequality.
re: #40 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s a typical thing from days of old, how lords of the land would conspire to ensure the masses did not accumulate wealth and the lords did instead.
I still remember reading Wealth of Nations where Adam Smith discussed this very thing. how the rent-seeking behavior of landlords was destined to put much of the wealth of a nation in the hands of just a few. He stated that in such a case, it would see 500 people transferring all their income left after the necessities into the pockets of 1, essentally put the wealth into the top 0.2%. That the landlords would convince the government that wages were bad and should be taxed but not the properties owned by the landlords.
We are not far from that today, mostly due to the corrupting aspects of free market capitalism. And I htink we should really look at Adam Smith’s suggested solution - tax the buggers.
Republicans corrupting another non-partisan agency, this time in my state.
The bill to do so was introduced by my state senator, Steve Erdman (R-Bayard). Sen. Erdman is term-limited; his son is now running unopposed. (I would have opposed him and lost, but my emergency trip to Texas for my brother-in-law heart attack prevented me from filing for the race.)
LINCOLN - Gov. Jim Pillen, who is soon to control the state’s historical society, wants to pick his own director.
Pillen on Wednesday called for applicants for the job of director of History Nebraska, setting a July 3rd deadline for a position that paid its last top administrator $164,800 a year.
In doing so, the governor abandoned a search process by the History Nebraska Board of Trustees that had identified four finalists by January.
The board was ready to begin interviewing finalists when a bill was introduced in the Nebraska Legislature to change History Nebraska from an independent state agency, managed by its director and board, to one overseen by the governor.
Under the measure passed by the Legislature, Legislative Bill 1169, the governor appoints the director subject to the approval of state lawmakers. The director serves at the pleasure of the governor under the bill, which becomes law on July 18.
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History Nebraska is a not-for-profit organisation. The money (through the board) will be under the direct control of our billionaire pig-farmer so that history can be presented properly corruptly. LB-1169 reduces the board of History Nebraska to an advisory role to the state governor.
Gov. Pillen, soon to control History Nebraska, wants to pick his own director (June 12, 2024, more at the link)
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Arizona Mirror (part of the States Mirror non-profit organisation, which reports on state-level politics), May 2, 2024:
Appeals court hears Kari Lake election case, has to remind her lawyer how appeals work (you get what you pay for)
“Even as she runs for the U.S. Senate, Lake is trying to get the courts to declare her governor of Arizona”
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For the party of “Law & Order” (*dundun*), these idiots sure do not understand the law at all. They seem to genuinely think that the appeals process is just a “do-over,” where they get another bite at the apple by presenting evidence the lower court wouldn’t admit or dragging in witnesses that the lower court wouldn’t allow, rather than arguing why they couldn’t bring all that in in the first place.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee, nominally constituted to elect Republicans to the US Senate, sent out an E-mail fundraising blast which declared Donald Trump to be the greatest President the USA ever had.
Even Donald Trump hasn’t claimed that (he said Abraham Lincoln was the greatest).
Don’t call them a cult though, that’s not civil.
I guess Republican stalwarts such as Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan can all step aside.
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The National Republican Senatorial Committee, nominally constituted to elect Republicans to the US Senate, sent out an E-mail fundraising blast which declared Donald Trump to be the greatest President the USA ever had.
Even Donald Trump hasn’t claimed that (he said Abraham Lincoln was the greatest).
Don’t call them a cult though, that’s not civil.
I guess Republican stalwarts such as Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan can all step aside.
Of course Trump has said he is more popular than Lincoln.
In 2018, Trump tweeted “Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. There must be something wrong, please recheck that poll!”
He told the British Tabloid The Sun: ” “You know, a poll just came out that I am the most popular person in the history of the Republican Party. Beating Lincoln. I beat our Honest Abe.”
And he did say that he would beat a ticket of George Washington, President and Abe Lincoln, VP, by 40% (a strong pollster with tears in their eyes told him “Sir,…”). And that he has been treated more poorly than any other President, even Abe Lincoln (I guess getting assassinated just cannot compare to his travails).
It is a cult. And one of the hallmarks of a cult is that they cast out anyone who is an outlier. Independent thinking is suppressed. The leader keeps putting more and more extreme lines in the sand and then removing anyone who refuses to cross the line.
re: #48 silverdolphin
Of course Trump has said he is more popular than Lincoln.
In 2018, Trump tweeted “Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. There must be something wrong, please recheck that poll!”
He told the British Tabloid The Sun: ” “You know, a poll just came out that I am the most popular person in the history of the Republican Party. Beating Lincoln. I beat our Honest Abe.”
And he did say that he would beat a ticket of George Washington, President and Abe Lincoln, VP, by 40% (a strong pollster with tears in their eyes told him “Sir,…”). And that he has been treated more poorly than any other President, even Abe Lincoln (I guess getting assassinated just cannot compare to his travails).
It is a cult. And one of the hallmarks of a cult is that they cast out anyone who is an outlier. Independent thinking is suppressed. The leader keeps putting more and more extreme lines in the sand and then removing anyone who refuses to cross the line.
So he switched his position from his interview with Bob Woodward in 2016. (Washington Post, April 2, 2016)
Transcript: Donald Trump interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
But my family said to me - and Don has said this, and Ivanka, and my wife has said this - “Be more presidential.” Because I can be very presidential. I jokingly say, I can be more presidential than any president that this country has ever had except for Abraham Lincoln, because he was [unclear]. Right? You can’t out-top Abraham Lincoln.
re: #3 Belafon
Remember how DJT jumped on the fact that the Pulse shooter was Muslim and claimed that he and his party were the “gays’ best friend”
re: #42 silverdolphin
True rent-seeking behavior which was detested by Adam Smith. They generated income without laboring at all, without improving the land at all. He recognized that the landlord would always raise rents so that the renter was left just enough money to survive. And that this would concentrate money more and more in a few, leaving most people paupers if allowed to continue. He felt that taxing the rentiers was the best way to go to reduce income inequality.
Republicans are every bit as selective with Adam Smith as they are with the Holy Scriptures.
This picture makes me wanna throw up. Trump in the tent with his feckless children, looking at 8 screens of the ellipse and other locations on January 6. It was when they were playing “Gloria” I was out front freezing my ass off while it was playing Trump was supposed to have… pic.twitter.com/c5AFCod2Vr
— Sandi Bachom 📹 (@sandibachom) June 12, 2024
re: #20 JC1
Well gash darn it’s been a while… 2/6
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Polling for the General Election in the United Kingdom consistently shows a wipeout of the Conservative Party of historic proportions, with a handful of polls showing the Liberal Democrats gaining the second-most seats after Labour, making them the official opposition rather than the Conservatives.
Nigel Farage of Reform UK has suggested that the Conservatives join them, whilst Rishi Sunak has suggested Reform UK join the Conservatives. Each told the other to get bent. (Conservatives showing how well they work together.)
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re: #37 mmmirele
No one, and I repeat NO ONE, should be receiving a $54 billion pay package. It’s the kind of thing that has people like me thinking of Madame Lafarge and guillotines.
I don’t think Tesla itself is worth $58b. They’re niche at best nowadays since the big boys (GM/Ford) have started taking EVs seriously. Think Lightning vs Incelmobile.
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Newsweek, yesterday afternoon
Republican Reveals Why He Voted Against Holding Merrick Garland in Contempt
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He’s toast.
“As a former prosecutor, I cannot in good conscience support a resolution that would further politicize our judicial system to score political points,” Joyce said. “The American people expect Congress to work for them, solve policy problems, and prioritize good governance. Enough is enough.”
Garland said in a statement that the House’s vote against him was “deeply disappointing” and accused House Republicans of turning “a serious congressional authority into a partisan weapon.”
re: #4 Dangerman
Slowly and steadily im seeing more of this type of story
If Trump takes office in 2025 for the first few months he will be everywhere gloating and preening in public with his rapidly declining mental state on full display. But MAGA won’t care about the obvious decline as they finally have their radical Christian Utopia at hand.
However quickly into the Convicted Felon’s term his live appearances will be fewer and fewer and more managed. Before long his only contact outside will be with pre-recorded heavily edited EO, personal edicts and even resorting to deep fakes produced by his handlers to keep the ruse going that he is still functional, “but too busy” to appear in public.
re: #62 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He’s toast.
Yup. There’s no room in a cult for independent thought.
It’s 5AM. The sun is coming up.
re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A dam in Australia built only nineteen years ago has been declared “doomed.” The government is building a second dam downstream of the first in a race before the first dam fails. (9:05)
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Another case where low quality initial work leads to a lot more expense. (Or perhaps simply material choices that were not appropriate for the location and climate.)
I’m curious what the protesting farmers really want at this point since not fixing or replacing the dam is not in their long term interests. And they apparently were not happy either with a smaller reservoir when the dam was razed slightly to improve safety. And I bet they were all for the project when initially proposed.
re: #60 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I don’t think Tesla itself is worth $58b. They’re niche at best nowadays since the big boys (GM/Ford) have started taking EVs seriously. Think Lightning vs Incelmobile.
Wasn’t Tesla making a bunch of their income from selling carbon credits? If the big boys go electric that income source dries up as well.
Looks like Jamaal Bowman will be out of a job.
Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is backing the primary challenger looking to take down Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman in New York this month.
The race pits Bowman, the progressive incumbent, against George Latimer, a popular county officeholder, in a race in which Bowman’s criticism of Israel in its war with Hamas has taken center stage.
“With Trump on the ballot, we need strong, principled Democrats in Congress more than ever,” said Clinton, who cast Latimer in a post on X as someone who “will protect abortion rights, stand up to the NRA, and fight for President Biden’s agenda.”
Clinton, a longtime New York resident who represented the state in the U.S. Senate, has a home in a neighboring district.
re: #20 JC1
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I believe I saw on GMA that they received upwards of 20” of rain, and it is still coming.
A tropical disturbance has brought a rare flash flood emergency to much of southern Florida as residents prepared to weather more heavy rainfall on Thursday and Friday.
Wednesday’s downpours and subsequent flooding blocked roads, floated vehicles and delayed the Florida Panthers on their way to Stanley Cup games in Canada against the Edmonton Oilers.
The disorganized storm system was pushing across Florida from the Gulf of Mexico at roughly the same time as the early June start of hurricane season, which this year is forecast to be among the most active in recent memory amid concerns that climate change is increasing storm intensity.
The disturbance has not reached cyclone status and was given only a slight chance to form into a tropical system once it emerges into the Atlantic Ocean after crossing Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center.
re: #59 Nerdy Fish
The answer was painfully obvious at the end. It was guess 3 that took forever to identify.
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It took me five guesses. (I know too many five-letter words.)
I still cannot copy the grid. It doesn’t work in Microsoft Edge either. At this point I presume one of the required script sites from the NYT is blocked by my telephone company due to state privacy law against tracking without an opt-in.
re: #66 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Traditional automakers have been pulling back recently on EV investment mainly due to shareholders and board members screaming about short term profits and the heavy investments and general disruption going EV means.
This has left China totally in the driver’s seat as overall sales in China of EVs approaches 50%. This is incredible. Chinese EVs are rapidly becoming kilometers ahead of anyone else on the planet in regard to battery and functional technology. The West and Japan are essentially handing over the long term ground transportation industry to China. The average American is totally unaware of how far ahead Chinese battery development is and how fast Chinese carmakers are advancing month by month in an all-out EV war going on inside the country right now. Already premium makes like Porsche and Mercedes are seeing rapid declines in sales simply because they can no longer compete with upstart Chinese brands on any metric other than cache. But even this is quickly eroding.
re: #69 Shropshire Slasher
I believe I saw on GMA that they received upwards of 20” of rain, and it is still coming.
In the Seven Day Graphical Tropical Outlook from the National Hurricane Center, Tropical Disturbance AL-90 is moving slowly and is nearing the Florida east coast.
In the meantime, a new area of concern is arising in the Bay of Campeche, forecast to move west, with a 40% chance of development within seven days.
re: #69 Shropshire Slasher
I believe I saw on GMA that they received upwards of 20” of rain, and it is still coming.
We did and it is
re: #66 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Wasn’t Tesla making a bunch of their income from selling carbon credits? If the big boys go electric that income source dries up as well.
And if I’m not mistaken, government handouts.
Vermont is just…different, but in a good way.
The stubbornness and eccentricity of Vermonters is on full display at the meeting. Citizens vote on everything from fire trucks to pavements. One woman stands up several times and asks: “Why do we need four snow ploughs and seven cops? We can do with two ploughs and five cops.” The officials chairing the debate provide justifications for the numbers, and the woman blankly refuses to concede her point. Between votes, the chair of the meeting mills around and chats with residents about Donald Trump and the dangers of the next presidential election.
Definitely worth reading the whole article.
Metz explains that a lot of the “Old Vermont” crowd, those who traditionally made up her Republican base, are leaving. “What’s really driving populism in Vermont are the people who have lived here for generations and can’t pay their property taxes anymore… A lot of our people are leaving the state — they’re just up and leaving. They’re moving to New Hampshire, Florida and the Carolinas because they can’t afford to live here anymore.”
Their exodus is symbolic of the wider breakdown of the Bernie Sanders compact. His vision of an affordable, independent and proudly democratic Vermont, in which Old and New coexisted peacefully, now appears a fruitless daydream. In its place is anger and resentment. The home of radical Left-wing populism has finally succumbed to the now-familiar American rot of polarisation.
“One moderate Republican summed up his views of Trump nicely, saying: “I think he’s a disgusting human being. But he has some good policies and good ideas.”
Id like this numbnutz to list those policies and ideas.
Tfg has none. And certainly not consistently. Or ones he could explain clearly.
Ukrainian Navy hasn’t sunk her, yet.
A group of Russian warships that sailed close to Florida shores, closely watched by U.S. destroyers, entered the port of Havana on Wednesday morning ahead of Russian military exercises in the Caribbean.
Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces officials, including the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Navy of Cuba, Capt. Jose Luis Souto Galindo, the Russian ambassador to Cuba Victor Koronelli and a crowd of Russian tourists and curious Cubans gathered at the Malecon, the famous Havana seaside promenade, to watch the Russian missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov enter the port amid a 21-gun salute.
Early on Wednesday, the top of the nuclear-powered submarine Kazan was visible outside Havana Harbor before it submerged again, Cuban independent media 14ymedio reported.
re: #71 Florida Panhandler
There was the report the other day that Tesla was the only auto maker seeing a decline in sales, while all of the others were seeing double digit growth.
re: #71 Florida Panhandler
Traditional automakers have been pulling back recently on EV investment mainly due to shareholders and board members screaming about short term profits and the heavy investments and general disruption going EV means.
This has left China totally in the driver’s seat as overall sales in China of EVs approaches 50%. This is incredible. Chinese EVs are rapidly becoming kilometers ahead of anyone else on the planet in regard to battery and functional technology. The West and Japan are essentially handing over the long term ground transportation industry to China. The average American is totally unaware of how far ahead Chinese battery development is and how fast Chinese carmakers are advancing month by month in an all-out EV war going on inside the country right now. Already premium makes like Porsche and Mercedes are seeing rapid declines in sales simply because they can no longer compete with upstart Chinese brands on any metric other than cache. But even this is quickly eroding.
I’m sure the USA ones will be crawling to the government for a bail-out within a decade then.
They took a beating in the 1970s due to ignoring the compact car market since larger cars were more profitable on a per unit basis. The Oil Crunch and rapid increase in gasoline prices left them well behind the curve as imports of smaller cars ate their market share and got Toyota, Honda, etc. established in the US markets.
And then they tilted towards pick-up truck production since they were more profitable on a per unit basis. Which pushed them into the SUVs since an open bed vehicle has less utility for a lot of drivers. And those have been steadily getting larger and larger in size as engine design and materials have allowed for greater fuel efficiency.
That they never learn doesn’t surprise me. Self-interest for those making the decisions is not looking long term. The current stock price is where their bonuses and judgement of their performance comes from. And trying to predict and react to future trends is risky since what happens if they are wrong?
IIRC, Ford had developed a hybrid SUV about the time the Prius came out. And had decided to not market it even though it would have been an effective design with an electric motor large enough to maintain highway speed. And so left themselves 2-3 years behind the curve in the hybrid market.
re: #76 Dangerman
“One moderate Republican summed up his views of Trump nicely, saying: “I think he’s a disgusting human being. But he has some good policies and good ideas.”
Id like this numbnutz to list those policies and ideas.
Tfg has none. And certainly not consistently. Or ones he could explain clearly.
That’s the kind of thing I see from the Facebook GQP. Insults about Biden combined with a very general approval of GQP/Trump policies without any clear indication of what the good policies are. (Beyond I presume some belief their taxes would decline while services would remain at the same level. Though I guess they believe they don’t need the services and those can go away as well since they benefit other people.)
re: #76 Dangerman
“One moderate Republican summed up his views of Trump nicely, saying: “I think he’s a disgusting human being. But he has some good policies and good ideas.”
…
That’s not a Republican who is moderate. That’s a pol who is moderate for a Republican.
re: #76 Dangerman
“One moderate Republican summed up his views of Trump nicely, saying: “I think he’s a disgusting human being. But he has some good policies and good ideas.”
Id like this numbnutz to list those policies and ideas.
Tfg has none. And certainly not consistently. Or ones he could explain clearly.
Dark Falcon?
Let’s see, perusing the last twenty-four hours of YouTube videos about atheism, to see what they’re saying about us today.
A Muslim apologist explains why atheism is dangerous.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson asserts Karl Marx was really a satanist.
Mike Winger says atheists are biased.
Christian apologist says the only thing a loving Christian can do is tell atheists every day they must repent and love (their) god or they will burn in hell forever justifiably.
Muslim on the “Speakers Corner” in Hyde Park threatens to beat down an atheist if he lies about the Qur’an.
Christian Nationalist playing Hebrew music in a YouTube short says at least he’s not as cringe as atheists “in the Year of our Lord 2024.”
Christian claims epilepsy can only be “cured” by exorcising demons.
Speaking of epilepsy, an hour long video from a Christian apologist says that Satan works through people with epilepsy.
So, a normal day in apologetics and love over there. I’m going to jump right up and find an exorcist to banish Satan. /s
re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So Labour is promising 100K chilcare places and 100K children’s dental appointments
Liberal Dems are promising an £8bn NHS aid package
Conservatives are promising 8K new police officers
Tories are promising a new Help to Buy scheme for homeowners
Those guys should hold elections more often…
re: #79 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
It also helps Chinese companies that their government has given them a whole bunch of subsidies and a cheap labor pool.
re: #78 Belafon
There was the report the other day that Tesla was the only auto maker seeing a decline in sales, while all of the others were seeing double digit growth.
Yes, but they are dragging the image of the whole industry down with them.
re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Let’s see, perusing the last twenty-four hours of YouTube videos about atheism, to see what they’re saying us today.
sick fucks all.
I can only thank our Founding Fathers for having the Divine Foresight to separate church from state and hope that barrier remains intact through the coming political and cultural clashes
Your sacrifice was not in vain.
In 1545, an outbreak of Salmonella enterica spread like wildfire across what is now Mexico. Over the next century, the disease killed up to 90 percent of the Indigenous population. Pandemics like these often leave their mark on the immune genes of survivors. To uncover this genetic legacy, Dr. Barquera and his colleagues needed to compare the DNA from the precolonial remains with that of people who were born after the calamity.
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All 64 of the skulls belonged to boys. “We kept rerunning the tests because we couldn’t believe that all of them were male,” he said. “It was just so amazing.”
Early archaeologists studying the Maya had proposed that the culture was preoccupied with sacrificing young virgin women. That theory has been challenged in recent decades with the discovery that most people sacrificed in the sacred cenote — a natural sinkhole at Chichén Itzá — were children.
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
sick fucks all.
I can only thank our Founding Fathers for having the Divine Foresight to separate church from state and hope that barrier remains intact through the coming political and cultural clashes
If the GOP regains control of the government that will be gone.
All my life Republicans have claimed there is no separation of church and state, or that the only church the I Amendment protects is Christian.
Now they are in a position with control of the courts to enforce it.
Both sides of the aisle are expressing concerns over Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s $250 million overhaul of the Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve Fund.First created in 2021 as a reaction to Ford Motor Co. moving major manufacturing to Kentucky and Tennessee, the fund has since doled out $1.7 billion to Ford and General Motors in an attempt to keep the companies away from “right to work” states.
Senate Community and Economic Development Committee Chairwoman Mallory McMorrow, (D-Royal Oak), described the SOAR fund as reactionary in a March floor speech.
“And I think sometimes we have to take hard lessons in acknowledging that sometimes even with the best intentions, things may not turn out the way that we wish,” McMorrow said.
Michigan Republicans, such as Rep. Donni Steele (R-Orion Township), have criticized SOAR spending as corporate welfare.
Interesting and unsustainable.
RUSSIAN STOCK MARKET IS COLLAPSING
Russia is big;
But the bigger they are - the harder they fall.
Goodbye, Ruble! pic.twitter.com/tdqSeYsasz— Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) June 13, 2024
re: #92 Shropshire Slasher
Bridge Michigan interviewed a wide-range of people and organisations, which leads to a more nuanced take than provided by the New York Post.
Originally, both Republicans and Democrats created the programme, for the real purpose of keeping Michigan automakers from moving out-of-state (not just to right-to-work states, but any state).
Since then, Republicans have shifted position to opposing the legislation (primarily because Democrats are now in control of the state legislature).
The Democrats who are concerned want to reform the programme, because they don’t believe tax money should be used to support or entice polluting industries in Michigan.
The Michigan Chamber of Commerce says the programme is insufficient because it does not include incentives for corporations to provide child care benefits (something Republicans viscerally hate).
The CEO of the Michigan Manufacturer’s Association says the programme is important, and should be revised to include research and other development projects to attract or keep businesses in Michigan to help the state remain competitive with other states which do the same.
The libertarian think tank Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (which allegedly researches the causes of unemployment) says administrative programmes should be restrained (because they are libertarians), including this one. Oh, and tax cuts.
No more incentives under the programme will be awarded until the reform bills in the legislature are adopted.
re: #94 Dave In Austin
Interesting and unsustainable.
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The Daily Beast reminded me that Hunter Biden will have Secret Service protection in prison if he doesn’t just get probation.
re: #98 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
The Daily Beast reminded me that Hunter Biden will have Secret Service protection in prison if he doesn’t just get probation.
Again…..
How many Cannabis users, meth heads, and Alcoholics will be purchasing firearms across America today?
re: #75 Shropshire Slasher
What you have there a good Tory looking in from the outside trying to say that the damage done by Ronnie RayGun to to the Unions and the everything else was good and that now that Vermont is being destroyed too, it’s good for the CONservative cause.
Sorry if I don’t drink that kool-aid.
re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Why is it that people who reject Evolution are fine with Social Darwinism?
And why do many of those who accept Evolution equate “survival of the fittest” with “survival of the biggest and baddest” rather than survival of those most able to adapt?
Just ask dinosaurs, saber-toothed-tigers and giant sloths.
re: #100 Dave In Austin
Again…..
How many Cannabis users, meth heads, and Alcoholics will be purchasing firearms across America today?
The right wingers are suddenly realizing that the ATF actually scrutinizing their 4473’s is NOT what they really wanted… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
RNC Preparing for Convention Trump May Not [be allowed to] Attend
BECAUSE HE’S A FELON
re: #100 Dave In Austin
Again…..
How many Cannabis users, meth heads, and Alcoholics will be purchasing firearms across America today?
I’ve been thinking about doing so. America is a mess right now thanks to our far-right.
re: #98 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
The Daily Beast reminded me that Hunter Biden will have Secret Service protection in prison if he doesn’t just get probation.
like i said yesterday, it would be a great test run / template for, you know…
Trump still appears to have possession of firearms, claiming that it was moved to Florida. That makes him engaging in a potential felony by possessing a firearm as a convicted felon after not turning it in before the criminal trial got underway.
That’s on top of his potential violations of probation (by consorting/contacting other known felons and criminals, like say Paul Manafort).
Trump keeps engaging in crimes, and he’s the one who keeps doing them. Prosecutors and investigators who keep uncovering the crimes are not the ones conspiring against him. They’re just doing their jobs - Trump keeps doing the crimes.
re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Why is it that people who reject evolution are fine with Social Darwinism?
And why do many of those who accept evolution equate “survival of the fittest” with “survival of the biggest and baddest” rather than survival of those most able to adapt?
Just ask dinosaurs, saber-toothed-tigers and giant sloths.
Social Darwinism is considered pseudoscience.
Most definitions apply survival of the fittest to politics, sociology, and economics. Thus wealth and power should increase whilst the weak should see both decrease, and this is the natural order.
Social Darwinists thus support libertarianism, racism, unrestricted capitalism, eugenics, or fascism.
Williams Jennings Bryan (D-NE1) argued it was a natural consequence of Darwin’s theory of evolution, and because he was a very prominent creationist, many Christians adopted that stance (thus fuelling anti-science sentiment in XX Century American Christianity).
Bryan also invented the national political stumping tour, and wove his ideas of Social Darwinism and creationism into politics, spreading the idea across the country.
Bryan can largely be credited with its pull now, though the idea was largely discredited in mainstream discourse at the conclusion of WW2 and the revelations about the Nazis and Imperial Japan.
re: #104 Dangerman
RNC Preparing for Convention Trump May Not [be allowed to] Attend
BECAUSE HE’S A FELON
He’s convicted in New York. Put him under house arrest in Trump Tower.
re: #108 lawhawk
Trump still appears to have possession of firearms, claiming that it was moved to Florida. That makes him engaging in a potential felony by possessing a firearm as a convicted felon after not turning it in before the criminal trial got underway.
That’s on top of his potential violations of probation (by consorting/contacting other known felons and criminals, like say Paul Manafort).
Trump keeps engaging in crimes, and he’s the one who keeps doing them. Prosecutors and investigators who keep uncovering the crimes are not the ones conspiring against him. They’re just doing their jobs - Trump keeps doing the crimes.
They’re not crimes when tfg does it. //
re: #20 JC1
Well gash darn it’s been a while… 2/6
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re: #110 darthstar
He’s convicted in New York. Put him under house arrest in Trump Tower.
It ought to be a consideration
Ny jurisdiction so they can exercise much more authority /control over him.
Like restricting movements, visitors —some of whom are sure to be felons, immediate custody for violations…
George Conway Predicts Exactly When, Where And Why Support For Trump Will Start To Drop (Huffington Post, today)
Conservative attorney George Conway on Wednesday explained why he believes Donald Trump’s hush money trial actually helped the former president “in a very funny way,” albeit only temporarily.
He also suggested why all is not what it seems in Trump’s apparent close race with President Joe Biden, and predicted when support for Trump ― who is polling ahead of Biden in multiple polls ― would start to drop off.
The trial “drew attention away from” Trump, Conway said on the MeidasTouch Network’s “Miss Trial” podcast. “It drew attention away from the crazy things he says, day in and day out when he’s out on the campaign trail.”
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re: #117 Dangerman
You are on a roll today. :)
Trump Has Evangelical Voters Locked In
The leaders certainly
The voters maybe not so much
re: #119 Dangerman
God wanted to test our faith and see what lengths we sould go to in order to ensure the election doesn’t et stolen this time.
A lot of crazy political antics in France since Macron called an election. Live Xitter thread in box for those interested.
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re: #119 Dangerman
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They believe God is a Republican, of course. They reassure themselves with some claptrap about God letting the devil have his way for a time, to test the faithful. They promise that God will win in the end, they just need to believe harder (and send more money).
re: #122 Nerdy Fish
GMTA but I beat you by nine seconds
re: #113 Dangerman
It ought to be a consideration
Ny jurisdiction so they can exercise much more authority /control over him.
Like restricting movements, visitors —some of whom are sure to be felons, immediate custody for violations…
No hanging out at the omelette bar or dropping in on wedding parties.
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Parking minimums - starting the video with the Staten Island mall.
The fact is that nearly every shopping center in the nation has more spots than they need (and built for one or two days where there might be parking needed for that number of cars - like Black Friday before the Internet was a thing).
It’s also why a bunch of shopping malls are reclaiming parking lots and doing infill with more stores or putting them to other use (like renting it out to groups for use - circuses, food truck gatherings, etc.) or getting localities to change the rules so that they can build housing or other structures.
It’s also why Trader Joes picks out locations that have smaller lots - preferring to keep a lot full instead of having a wide open lot and having to pay for all that extra square footage.
Yeah, I follow the issue.
re: #127 lawhawk
Trader Joe’s overdoes it—we’ve abandoned the trip when the lot had a one-out-one-in queue.
re: #107 jeffreyw
The best is yet to come!
GOP Senators Scramble To Find Reason To Oppose IVF Bill, Warning Of An ‘Anti-Religious Agenda’
Senate Democrats are continuing their efforts to put their colleagues across the aisle on record for their unwillingness to support reproductive rights in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, which opened the door to a flood of state-level abortion bans. Last week, Democrats brought forward a bill to protect access to contraception. This week it will be a bill to protect access to in vitro fertilization.
In response, Republicans have clung to two legislative gambits of their own that they say are just as good. Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) offered a simple resolution demonstrating the Senate’s “support for Americans who are starting and growing families through in vitro fertilization.” Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Katie Britt (R-AL) put forward a bill that would make states ineligible to receive Medicaid funding if they ban IVF.
On Wednesday afternoon, Cruz asked for unanimous consent to pass that bill.
Ahead of the vote, Cruz, somewhat comically, tried to frame it as an effort to get Democrats on the record on IVF, seemingly one upping them by getting his bill on the floor quicker.
“Understand, if the remarks end with the words ‘I object’ than Senate Democrats will have made the cynical political decision that Democrats don’t want IVF protected in federal law … because instead they want to spend millions of dollars running campaign ads suggesting the big bad Republicans want to take away IVF,” Cruz said on the Senate floor.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) blocked the Republican bill, calling it a “PR tool.”
“[This is] just another way for Republicans to pretend they are not the extremists that they keep proving they are,” Murray said on the Senate floor as she objected to unanimous consent.
“The bill allows for states to push for regulations that could severely reduce the standard of care for IVF treatment, such as restrictions on how many embryos are created and what individuals can do with these embryos — decisions that should only be made between patients and their doctors, based on science and clinical guidelines,” she added of the Cruz-Britt bill.
The Senate is expected to take up a procedural vote on Democrats’ Right to IVF Act, a bill that would protect and expand nationwide access to fertility treatment, including in vitro fertilization, on Thursday. Democrats will need 60 votes to overcome the filibuster and proceed to a vote. But just like they did in last week’s contraception vote, Senate Republicans are expected to block the consideration of the bill.
‘Holy war’: Former federal prosecutor compares evangelical Trump supporters to ISIS
When veteran Democratic strategist James Carville warned that far-right Christian nationalists in the United States are quite capable of the sort of extremism that al-Qaeda is known for, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) demanded an apology.
But Carville never backed down, refusing to apologize. And he isn’t the only one who has been pointing out the parallels between radical fundamentalist Islam and radical fundamentalist evangelical Protestant Christianity.
During a Thursday morning, June 13 broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough (a Never Trump conservative and former GOP congressman) discussed the extremism of pro-Donald Trump Christian nationalists with former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade (author of the book “Attack From Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America”) and conservative strategist Amanda Carpenter (a Never Trumper).
Scarborough told McQuade, “Barb, it’s gotten so much worse now in that Christian nationalism has taken over the Republican Party. And as you write in your book, people hide behind religion to spread disinformation. It’s almost like they’re using Jesus, in this case, and the cross as sort of a barrier between them and reality. And for me, it’s sickening, growing up as an evangelical.”
The “Morning Joe” host added, “But for America, it’s dangerous because these carnival barkers are using religion in a way that you say con artists have always used religion to get ahead politically.”
McQuade didn’t disagree with Scarborough’s points.
The MSNBC legal analyst and former federal prosecutor responded, “You know, Joe, I too am a Christian, and I talk to Christian friends who are deeply offended by the exploitation of the Christian religion as a way to hide behind calls for violence, for power, and other things that are decidedly not Christian. But Christianity aside, as a former prosecutor in national security cases, I see a lot of parallels between the way Christianity is being bastardized and the way ISIS used Islam as a way to bastardize religion.”
McQuade continued, “And some of the same tactics — you know, preying upon grievance, culture war, the idea that we need to be a Christian nation — is very similar to the way they called for an Islamic caliphate. And when it’s a holy war, then anything goes, right? Because the ends justify any means whatsoever. So, if you listen to the rhetoric of Donald Trump recently talking about how people aren’t going to stand for it if he is imprisoned — or, will there be violence if you’re not elected in the fall…. there will be bedlam, there will be a bloodbath — these things lands on people’s ears, in a way, as a call to action.”
According to McQuade, “It’s not just reckless — it’s a deliberate effort to use grievance to obtain political power.”
Oh joy i gotta go cane toad trapping
We got at least four in the pond.
Apparently you cant catch them and realse them elsewhere like a canal.
You have to “euthanize” them
Practically that means freezing them
Maybe ill wait till the rain ends
re: #134 Dangerman
Oh joy i gotta go cane toad trapping
We got at least four in the pond.
Apparently you cant catch them and realse them elsewhere like a canal.You have to “euthanize” them
Practically that means freezing them
Maybe ill wait till the rain ends
What eats them?
‘We have to overturn this’: Trump and Mike Johnson reportedly discussed sabotaging convictions
In a private call with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), former President Donald Trump reportedly launched into a profanity-laden diatribe about his 34 felony convictions in New York.
In Thursday’s edition of the Politico Playbook, writer Rachel Bade, Eugene Daniels and Ryan Lizza reported that Trump had a lengthy call with Johnson as he prepares for his first trip back to Washington, D.C. since the deadly January 6, 2021 insurrection. At one point, the subject of Trump’s guilty verdict came up, which prompted the former president to pressure the speaker to use his power and influence to minimize its impact.
“Trump, true to nature, has been obsessed in recent weeks with harnessing the powers of Congress to fight on his own behalf and go to war against the Democrats he accuses of ‘weaponizing’ the justice system against him,” Politico reported. “Trump was still angry when he made the call, according to those who have heard accounts of it from Johnson, dropping frequent F-bombs as he spoke with the soft-spoken and pious GOP leader.”
“We have to overturn this,” Trump told Johnson, according to the outlet.
The speaker was one of several high-profile GOP figures to travel to Manhattan and defend the former president outside of the courthouse where his first criminal trial took place. He notably attacked former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who, as a witness, is protected by the gag order Merchan imposed on the ex-president.
“”This is a man who is clearly on a mission for personal revenge, and who is widely known as a witness who has trouble with the truth,” Johnson said of Cohen. He added that he was there not at the ex-president’s request, but “on my own, to support President Trump, because I am one of hundreds of millions of people and one citizen who is deeply concerned about this.”
Politico reported that despite the speaker’s public show of loyalty, Trump may not be happy with Johnson’s efforts concerning his 34 felony convictions. Politico reported that Johnson’s tenuous GOP majority may not be able to do much in the way of pro-Trump resolutions, given that Republicans from competitive districts are likely hesitant about throwing their weight behind a convicted felon.
“Sympathy can only go so far,” wrote Bade, Daniels and Lizza. “With a slim majority and skittish swing-district members, Johnson is already finding it difficult to deliver for Trump.”
Trump is set to be sentenced on July 11, which is just four days before the Republican National Committee kicks off in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Republican National Committee is reportedly already making plans in the event that the presumptive nominee is unable to physically attend the convention, given that he may be under home confinement or even incarcerated.
So what decisions will come out of the corrupted court today?
SCOTUS unanimously says abortion pill can stay on the market.
re: #20 JC1
Well gash darn it’s been a while… 2/6
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re: #140 Ace Rothstein
SCOTUS unanimously says abortion pill can stay on the market.
They finally got something right. FUCK YOU, red states.
re: #140 Ace Rothstein
SCOTUS unanimously says abortion pill can stay on the market.
Our glorious Calvinball Court at work. Everyone (myself included) was SO SURE they were going to trash it because Handmaid’s Tale.
re: #134 Dangerman
Oh joy i gotta go cane toad trapping
We got at least four in the pond.
Apparently you cant catch them and realse them elsewhere like a canal.You have to “euthanize” them
Practically that means freezing them
Maybe ill wait till the rain ends
I’d previously heard cane toads were poisonous. That turns out to be a bit of an understatement. Every stage of their lifecycle is deadly from eggs to adulthood. They’re native to central and south America but, due to mankind’s persistent goal of fucking with nature, they’ve spread all through the Americas, Oceania, and Australia by virtue of someone deciding they’d be perfect for pest control in the sugar cane fields. Now, they’re out of control.
re: #135 Decatur Deb
What eats them?
that’s the problem, they are an invasive species introduced to control insect pests…
re: #23 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Two threads back:
Children and women being around police is nearly as dangerous as being around pastors.
The gift link does not work however. It demands I subscribe to read it.
I imagine the Post story is another series of anecdotes of child rapes and sexual assaults, with a dollop of qualified immunity and police obstruction of investigations (in a way, they’re much like a church in that regard).
Over 50 years ago, when we were all young and foolish, my sister went with a friend to a bar and met a former police officer. They talked about getting together— but my father checked on him and it turned out he was thrown off the force for inappropriate behavior (i.e. arresting women and then dropping charges if they — well you can guess the rest). So when he called to confirm date/time, my sister came up with an excuse not to see him.
re: #145 Nerdy Fish
Our glorious Calvinball Court at work. Everyone (myself included) was SO SURE they were going to trash it because Handmaid’s Tale.
Don’t feel confident this is settled. If there is anything we know about this corrupt court, there is no decision that has been previously made that can’t be reconsidered and thrown out based on the judge’s ideological and religious perspective that specific day. Settled law? Go on, pull the other one!
re: #149 darthstar
SCOTUS got one right!
I wonder what their thinking was. That it would be unenforceable without violating the Fourth Amendment?
re: #149 darthstar
SCOTUS got one right!
The details are extremely embarrassing for the Fifth Circus. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the plaintiffs did not have standing to bring the case in the first place. When Sam Alito, of all people, tells you that you fucked up the standing analysis, you know you done fucked up big-time.
This link allowed me to read the WaPo piece on predatory cops.
re: #134 Dangerman
Oh joy i gotta go cane toad trapping
We got at least four in the pond.
Apparently you cant catch them and realse them elsewhere like a canal.You have to “euthanize” them
Practically that means freezing them
Maybe ill wait till the rain ends
Eating cane toads a win-win solution for all, says academic
re: #134 Dangerman
Invest in a good Gamo air rifle with a scope.
Problem solved. Plus you can set up a target range from the deck pretty easily.
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re: #121 No Malarkey!
A lot of crazy political antics in France since Macron called an election. Live Xitter thread in box for those interested.
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re: #140 Ace Rothstein
SCOTUS unanimously says abortion pill can stay on the market.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Fuck the 5th Circuit
Let those hacks cry Boo-Hoo!
re: #149 darthstar
SCOTUS got one right!
The six assholes on the court read the tea leaves and knew if they banned the abortion pill they’d trigger a big-ass firestorm against them and give Democrats a winning issue to break the back of the court.
Don’t get too hopeful about this ruling. The court threw a hint. The group that brought that brought this up doesn’t have standing to question the FDA. They will find someone who does.
re: #160 GlutenFreeJesus
Don’t get too hopeful about this ruling. The court threw a hint. The group that brought the
Gotta stall it till after the election…
re: #159 Joe Bacon ✅
The six assholes on the court read the tea leaves and knew if they banned the abortion pill they’d trigger a big-ass firestorm against them and give Democrats a winning issue to break the back of the court.
Actually, I’m going to disagree. In that case, I would expect to see Alito and Thomas, and maybe Barrett, dissenting. The first two, at least, never miss an opportunity for performative grandstanding. This decision was Anti-Admin Alito and Uncle Thomas looking at each other and going, “These guys invented a doctrine of standing that is so far out there, we’ll lose all control over who can sue whom if we let it go through. We have to send a message that standing is to be taken seriously, so that we can maintain control over how that standing is determined.”
re: #144 GlutenFreeJesus
I suggest that some Democrat media house should commission the animation of the end credits of The Prisoner, specifically the scene of prison bars closing over Number Six. Of course, Number Six is replaced by Trump, and the scene is replayed and replayed as many times as necessary!
re: #137 Joe Bacon ✅
Via Scotusblog:
The court unanimously holds in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine that the plaintiffs lack a legal right to challenge the FDA’s actions regarding the regulation of mifepristone, the drug used in over half of abortion in the United States.
In Vidal v. Elster, the court holds that the Patent and Trademark Office did not violate Steve Elster’s First Amendment right when it refused to register the “Trump too small” mark.
In a win for Starbucks, the court holds in Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney that the traditional four-factor test for a preliminary injunction governs requests by the National Labor Relations Board for a preliminary injunction while administrative enforcement proceedings against employers and labor unions for engaging in unfair trade practices are taking place.
re: #165 lawhawk
Via Scotusblog:
Setting us up for the death of Chevron and declaring Republican Presidents are kings tomorrow, I guess.
re: #145 Nerdy Fish
Our glorious Calvinball Court at work. Everyone (myself included) was SO SURE they were going to trash it because Handmaid’s Tale.
They ruled explicitly on the standing to sue, leaving the issue open for others who they deem to have standing can attack and end access. Once again, the Court is providing the guidebook for the Christian fascists to run with. See Thomas’ concurrence, which neatly lays out what he wants the Christian fascists to do.
re: #164 Sherlock Hound
I suggest that some Democrat media house should commission the animation of the end credits of The Prisoner, specifically the scene of prison bars closing over Number Six. Of course, Number Six is replaced by Trump, and the scene is replayed and replayed as many times as necessary!
But Trump is so clearly the new Number 2.
that’s a poop joke.
re: #144 GlutenFreeJesus
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Wrong picture though. That one kind of does look like a protest. They should use one of breaking in, or the one of squashing the officer.
re: #168 The Ghost of a Flea
But Trump is so clearly the new Number 2.
that’s a poop joke.
Or he’s number 34. Though they might have to assign him a higher one soon.
re: #134 Dangerman
Oh joy i gotta go cane toad trapping
We got at least four in the pond.
Apparently you cant catch them and realse them elsewhere like a canal.You have to “euthanize” them
Practically that means freezing them
Maybe ill wait till the rain ends
If you have a captive awaiting euthanasia, you might try hitting it with automotive starter fluid spray—almost pure ether. Be ready for a quick merciful freeze if that goes bad. The spray is quick-dispersing, but flammable of course, but it might give you a ranged weapon.
re: #168 The Ghost of a Flea
But Trump is so clearly the new Number 2.
that’s a poop joke.
Take my upding, cammit!
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re: #168 The Ghost of a Flea
But Trump is so clearly the new Number 2.
that’s a poop joke.
Poop jokes are not my favorite kind but they are a solid number 2.
Inforum: Brandon Prichard, who organized a hate campaign against his fellow Republicans, loses reelection
Prichard was running for reelection to the North Dakota House and finished 3rd in the Republican primary. I’m going to take this as a sign of hope that MAGA extremism is running out of popular steam.
Prichard is a piece of work - a typical extreme MAGA type at age 22 years old that is anti-everything. In addition, he’s mastered the ways to puff up accomplishments such as claiming he went to the University of Minnesota Law School when, in fact, the closest he came was possibly attending a workshop for a couple of hours.
re: #174 jeffreyw
Poop jokes are not my favorite kind but they are a solid number 2.
Better than a running gag…
re: #173 Dr. Matt
As I’ve said before, I can’t wait for AI Winter 2.0…
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re: #178 jeffreyw
At least the sign guy has a sense of humor.
“Some species delicately strum the threads of other spiders’ webs to convince the arachnids they’ve caught an insect... Others mimic on a web the signature rhythms of a different spider’s courtship dance, luring would-be suitors to their deaths.”
www.sciencenews.org/article/cann...
🧪— Sensory Ecology Lab - SEL (@sensoryecology.bsky.social) 2024-06-13T14:38:49.271Z
Viral Racist TikTok [White] Trash USES N-WORD - Instantly Becomes Right-Wing Celebrity
Spoiler Alert: She was fired by her job and then double, triple, and quadrupled down.
“Kaitlin Bennett 2024”
re: #181 Dr. Matt
She looks like she is about to shoot off her foot (or something higher).
re: #181 Dr. Matt
This is a literally a career path now.
Like camming but instead of sexual performance you’re doing ideological performance.
ETA: there’s a still an erotic component, I’d argue, but the performer is engaging in something closer to roleplay fantasy than a preset tip-for-sexual-performance menu.
re: #182 PhillyPretzel ✅
She looks like she I about to shoot off her foot (or something higher).
We need a new web site for her. Only Guns.
re: #183 The Ghost of a Flea
This is a literally a career path now.
Like camming but instead of sexual performance you’re doing ideological performance.
BINGO. She is literally unemployable now and her only way to make income is OF and/or a right-wing gifter.
Elon saying shareholders are going to vote to give him his big payout. Would be funny if he’s lying about this too.
re: #186 GlutenFreeJesus
Elon saying shareholders are going to vote to give him his big payout. Would be funny if he’s lying about this too.
I thought they already did. I saw headlines from early this morning that it got approved.
re: #187 Nerdy Fish
It’s still “early this morning” for me. Give me a chance. ;)
re: #185 Dr. Matt
BINGO. She is literally unemployable now and her only way to make income is OF and/or a right-wing gifter.
Given what she was doing before, I would seriously venture that this isn’t her being forced into a career path, but a direct continuation of how tradwife and “pretty white women is performatively reactionary for a social media audience” content is an economic niche.
Not to get all philosophical but what we’re watching is the economization of the hyperreal: “hot reactionary woman willing to subject herself” is a simulacrum that shaves away all the complexity and reality of the thing it claims to represent…entirely intentionally, much like porn is hyperreal in how it presents the initiation and process of sex in a kind of “all the good bits, no awkward or disturbing detail” way.
Also, with conservatism there is a standard arc of turning ugly gaffes into celebrity that pre-existed social media, but now that you can basically make your own heat through virality.
lol, I just head Don Jr. for VP. Is this new?
Attack swing state voters….brilliant campaign approach.
🚨TRUMP TO HOUSE REPUBLICANS:
“Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city.”— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 13, 2024
re: #189 The Ghost of a Flea
Hmm. It can be interesting to make a friend on the internet of someone you’ve met via OF or even Instagram that moves beyond just the naughty pictures thing. Not common mind you, but it requires being able to see people as people rather than as things, caring about their actual lives, etc and that’s where Ms TradWife is going to run into her real hassles in life I would expect.
re: #193 Dr. Matt
“Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city.”
I am assuming it is Democrat-run which would force me to ask why the GOP then chose it.
re: #193 Dr. Matt
Attack swing state voters….brilliant campaign approach.
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Nah - it’s exactly what the base voters in Ozaukee County want to hear, about how the big city is corrupt and crime-ridden.
It’s not like he’s attacking the Packers.
re: #63 Florida Panhandler
If Trump takes office in 2025 for the first few months he will be everywhere gloating and preening in public with his rapidly declining mental state on full display. But MAGA won’t care about the obvious decline as they finally have their radical Christian Utopia at hand.
However quickly into the Convicted Felon’s term his live appearances will be fewer and fewer and more managed. Before long his only contact outside will be with pre-recorded heavily edited EO, personal edicts and even resorting to deep fakes produced by his handlers to keep the ruse going that he is still functional, “but too busy” to appear in public.
Who will be Deputy Fuhrer Malakon to Trump’s John Gill?
re: #181 Dr. Matt
“After TikTok took down her account, Gaddis wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter): “If my freedom of speech [was] taken, they’ll be coming for yours next.”
Nobody took your free speech DUNT,
But there can be consequences from your free speech, as she found out.
re: #149 darthstar
Trump was on the phone with his SCOTUS minions telling them exactly how to rule on this as to not trash his chances in November. 1000% guaranteed.
However they will revisit any and all abortion related cases starting in 2025 to finally in their eyes make abortion 100% illegal.
re: #189 The Ghost of a Flea
In other words… Conserva-porn.
Fear porn, hate porn, and add a little dab sexual role play fetish and you get the newest trend in Conservative fantasy presented as real.
re: #200 Florida Panhandler
In other words… Conserva-porn.
Fear porn, hate porn, and add a little dab sexual role play fetish and you get the newest trend in Conservative fantasy presented as real.
Their dream of the ideal stong, blonde, gun-toting Aryan-featured woman ready to subjugate herself to a True Patriot and Husband/father
re: #203 wrenchwench
Import them! Solve everything!
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Death Adders eat them in Oz. (Looked it up.) That’ll do the trick.
re: #189 The Ghost of a Flea
…
Also, with conservatism there is a standard arc of turning ugly gaffes into celebrity that pre-existed social media, but now that you can basically make your own heat through virality.
i think i heard there’s some guy ran, or may be actually running, for president whose schtick is basically that
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re: #156 Dave In Austin
Invest in a good Gamo air rifle with a scope.
Problem solved. Plus you can set up a target range from the deck pretty easily.
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Hunt them at night using a light to dazzle them & shoot them with a .22. Or since your pond & suround are relatively small, use a light & a frog gig.
The frog eyes will be white. The gator eyes will show as red.
That’s what we did in Central FL.
If cane toads are edible, cool them off in the freezer to get them torpid, but don’t freeze them, then cut their hind legs off.
re: #199 Florida Panhandler
Trump was on the phone with his SCOTUS minions telling them exactly how to rule on this as to not trash his chances in November. 1000% guaranteed.
However they will revisit any and all abortion related cases starting in 2025 to finally in their eyes make abortion 100% illegal.
second para, yeah
first assumes he’s that smart
re: #181 Dr. Matt
Trad wife with a job? That is not the way.
A record 32% of voters say they would only vote for candidates for major offices if they share their views on abortion, according to a new Gallup Poll.
re: #208 Dangerman
second para, yeah
first assumes he’s that smart
He is smart enough to know that banning abortion is hurting his chances of re-election, he has made that clear..
re: #211 Dangerman
A record 32% of voters say they would only vote for candidates for major offices if they share their views on abortion, according to a new Gallup Poll.
GOP is against Planned Parenthood because they are against the entire concept of planning parenthood.
God’s will is supposed to manifest itself in mysterious, miraculous and unexpected ways.
Or as punishment for having had extramarital sex or even enjoying sex too much within marriage.
re: #213 jaunte
That’s from the mid-60s New Yorker.
re: #215 Decatur Deb
That’s from the mid-60s New Yorker.
I thought it was from early 70’s National Lampoon
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Didn’t often read the NL, and the style is NY.
re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is smart enough to know that banning abortion is hurting his chances of re-election, he has made that clear..
yeah but not the exactly how to rule part. he wouldnt have a clue
he’d say ‘we have to fix this’ or something else innocuous
re: #217 jeffreyw
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‘she’s pregnant. you know, with a baby’
Again, this contrasts with the fact that multiple jurors felt pretty safe going to the press right after Hunter Biden’s verdict.
Remember when the most important issue was civility in politics because restaurant workers politely decline to serve Sarah Sanders and now everyone targeted by Trump or his cronies needs private security and we don’t talk about civility much anymore
Trump supporters try to dox jurors and post violent threats after his conviction
On social media and web forums, users called for jurors, judges and prosecutors to be killed after the former president was found guilty on 34 felony counts.
Olivia Beavers
@Olivia_Beavers
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Hello from outside the Capitol Hill Club where Trump will be meeting with House Rs, as I scooped earlier this week.There are protestors yelling at the Rs walking in “have you no dignity” “don’t drink the cool aid,” and “boot licker”
if they’re talkingcommunicating in any way, they’re lying
Oh dear: GOP-endorsed MN senate candidate tweeted out a map purporting to show “crime in Minneapolis… Out of control.” It was actually a map of drinking fountains in the city. pic.twitter.com/GYL7jfWBVB
— Christopher Ingraham🦗 (@_cingraham) June 12, 2024
re: #223 jaunte
Civility only applies to liberals and Democrats.
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
GOP is against Planned Parenthood because they are against the entire concept of planning parenthood.
God’s will is supposed to manifest itself in mysterious, miraculous and unexpected ways.
Or as punishment for having had extramarital sex or even enjoying sex too much within marriage.
They’re against individually planning parenthood, because that implies a kind of basic equality of kinds of people.
Authority figures forcing women to marry and reproduce…at what age, at what rate…is a form of reproductive planning. The same authorities also have license to force women to not keep a pregnancy, to take away a child, and ultimately to kill that child. Simultaneously, it is simply understood that the indulgences of better kinds of people must be indulged.
The Magdalene Laundries and the downstream institutions that beat/neglected/killed children that couldn’t be sold to good Catholics are instructive in how this kind of person views “parenting” within social conservative hierarchy.
As always, the basic assumption is that your body is not your own, it belongs to the “better” people that have been given license to restrict your autonomy but experience no restriction of their own autonomy.
Record Share of U.S. Electorate Is Pro-Choice and Voting on It
GQP is the dog that finally caught the car….
A record-high 32% of U.S. voters say they would only vote for a candidate for major office who shares their views on abortion. The importance of a candidate’s abortion stance to one’s vote is markedly higher among pro-choice voters than it was during the 2020 presidential election cycle, while pro-life voters’ intensity about voting on the abortion issue has waned. Also, voters’ greater intensity on the issue today compared with 2020 is explained mainly by Democrats, while Republicans and independents have shown little chang
mikey does a lot of false witness bearing
Q: “Trump is coming here…for the first time…since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol…have you spoken with him about not doing anything like that again and committing to…respecting the peaceful transfer of power?”
Johnson: “Of course, he respects that, and we all do.” pic.twitter.com/g22nEZukpH— Republican Voters Against Trump (@AccountableGOP) June 12, 2024
Trump stooge @SpeakerJohnson pledges to take Americans’ Social Security to help pay for tax cuts for his wealthy benefactors and America Oligarchs. Hurrah. https://t.co/DPUnTXSKCW
— Sgt Joker (@TheSGTJoker) June 13, 2024
re: #229 Dangerman
Speaker Jesusbot wants to cut Social Security.
Well I think that Speaker Jesusbot should take a 50% pay cut.
How ‘bout you?
Remember that anti-trans and anti-queer activism is not just about trans and queer people.
It’s about any gender nonconformity whatsoever.
It’s about blocking anything you can do that won’t please a very particular kind of male.
Even if it’s just a pixie cut. https://t.co/fIaL2HQUJK pic.twitter.com/PMc3kxFouP— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) June 13, 2024
The same people who say the LGBTQ misgendered themselves, are also the same people who said cis women Brittney Griner, Leslie Jones, Michelle Obama, Serena Williams are men.
re: #231 DodgerFan1988
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That pixie cut is beautiful on that person. Fucking pathetic incels and their delicate feelings.
re: #232 jaunte
It shows that truth can be stranger than fiction.
re: #233 Dr. Matt
That pixie cut is beautiful on that person. Fucking pathetic incels and their delicate feelings.
i know this whole thing is bizarrely stupid…
what if she didnt cut her hair (‘and change her look’) but had worn it short like that since she was a child?
re: #234 PhillyPretzel ✅
The average image will not be art.
What does New York gain by this?
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social
unfuckingbelievable. Hochul is proposing banning masks on subway trains, which are often poorly ventilated and jammed full of people. This is sheer fucking insanity.
re: #231 DodgerFan1988
Just sick of how these right wing Xtians want to dictate to women what they must do in the name of Jay-Zuss…
re: #233 Dr. Matt
That pixie cut is beautiful on that person. Fucking pathetic incels and their delicate feelings.
Agree with first point: she looks considerably better, IMO, with the shorter do.
Second point: if “Elijah Schaffer” is real, and this is a real post, yeah: fuck him and his stupid shit. If he’s just a bot or troll: well, fuck him anyway….
re: #143 Dr. Matt
They finally got something right. FUCK YOU, red states.
IANAL But shouldn’t they have refused to accept this case in the first place because the plaintiffs lacked standing? There is clearly something else going on here.
re: #240 Jay C
Agree with first point: she looks considerably better, IMO, with the shorter do.
Second point: if “Elijah Schaffer” is real, and this is a real post, yeah: fuck him and his stupid shit. If he’s just a bot or troll: well, fuck him anyway….
It’s a trend:
Abortion
Contraception
Haircuts
re: #242 wrenchwench
It’s a trend:
Abortion
Contraception
Haircuts
Also:
“Coloring their hair”
“not Cooking food”
“Talking to unrelated people”
“Working outside the house”
re: #242 wrenchwench
It’s a trend:
Abortion
Contraception
Haircuts
Yeah what’s next? Women have to dye their hair blond like the distorters at 19th Century Fox?
That’s probably how he got the worm
— Steve (@in_the_matrix1) June 12, 2024
re: #244 Joe Bacon ✅
Yeah what’s next? Women have to dye their hair blond like the distorters at 19th Century Fox?
High heels
Fillers in the face
Big boobs
re: #241 Hecuba’s daughter
IANAL But shouldn’t they have refused to accept this case in the first place because the plaintiffs lacked standing? There is clearly something else going on here.
They wanted to give the reich wing a hint as to how to refile it, maybe so that it gets decided after the election.
NPR’s legal analyst seemed to think that there would be very people who could show harm because others were using Mifepristone, but…
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GOP is coming for no-fault divorce, to go along with their assault on women’s rights, freedom, and right to choose. They are out to eliminate individual choice, pushing their own misogynistic and theocratic worldview on everyone else.
If they don’t want to avail themselves of abortions, divorces, or IVF, that’s their choice, but they shouldn’t impose their bans on everyone else.
And increasingly, the GOP has aligned themselves with religious extremists, while most Americans are increasingly non-religious and want access to health care like contraception, IVF, abortion, and the right to get out of marriage when things go wrong.
So fuck the GOP and Democrats should be cutting articles showing exactly how the GOP is coming for every aspect of individual right and freedom. They want to take away individual autonomy - projecting all of their claims on to Democrats.
Outside my window is a Raven or Magpie just sitting on the top of my air conditioner.
Just waiting for it to say “NEVERMORE”…
re: #232 jaunte
Photographer Miles Astray…. LMAO.
Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social
I’m not joking — headlines should read “Trump aims to increase inflation by 100s of percent”
We had a national freakout about 7-10% inflation for a few months. This would be astronomical.
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social
Trump has reportedly floated the idea of replacing income taxes with tariffs. I’ll have to write this up in detail, but my first-pass estimate is that this would require an *average* tariff rate of 133 percent.
re: #248 lawhawk
GOP is coming for no-fault divorce, to go along with their assault on women’s rights, freedom, and right to choose. They are out to eliminate individual choice, pushing their own misogynistic and theocratic worldview on everyone else.
If they don’t want to avail themselves of abortions, divorces, or IVF, that’s their choice, but they shouldn’t impose their bans on everyone else.
And increasingly, the GOP has aligned themselves with religious extremists, while most Americans are increasingly non-religious and want access to health care like contraception, IVF, abortion, and the right to get out of marriage when things go wrong.
So fuck the GOP and Democrats should be cutting articles showing exactly how the GOP is coming for every aspect of individual right and freedom. They want to take away individual autonomy - projecting all of their claims on to Democrats.
Coming soon from the GOP: Rape victims will have to marry their rapists.
re: #251 jaunte
This is similar to the whole claim about replacing the income tax with a national sales tax.
It would be a disaster, and extremely regressive (not that the GOP minds fucking the poor). It would be a hugely inflationary hit on all Americans, especially the poor, who’d see nearly everything they need to survive get taxed.
The tax base would need to be so broad, that it includes stuff that most people want/need to be tax free: food (other than prepared food - stuff bought in restaurants, which is usually taxed presently). It would also require services to get taxed.
There are states that don’t have income taxes, but there’s a federal income tax, so there’s a methodology for imposing that tax. There are states that don’t have an income tax, but this would require a tax collection system to be created that would affect every seller nationwide. It would mean that you’d have to have a consistent set of definitions and uniform taxability, which is a pipedream thus far, given that only about 20 of the states are members of the SSUTA.
There’s no one clamoring for a national sales tax.
Shifting everything to tariffs would immediately hike costs to everyone significantly, and all of those costs will be passed on to the end user. I think Krugman is low-balling the damage the tariff proposal would do to the economy.
Oh, and tariffs would wreck the economy globally, and cause massive disruptions to the supply chain and cause inflation the likes of which the nation has never seen.
re: #254 DodgerFan1988
Coming soon from the GOP: Rape victims will have to marry their rapists.
And it wasn’t rape if you marry her, down to age 15, 14, 13…..
re: #255 lawhawk
This is similar to the whole claim about replacing the income tax with a national sales tax.
It would be a disaster, and extremely regressive (not that the GOP minds fucking the poor). It would be a hugely inflationary hit on all Americans, especially the poor, who’d see nearly everything they need to survive get taxed.
The tax base would need to be so broad, that it includes stuff that most people want/need to be tax free: food (other than prepared food - stuff bought in restaurants, which is usually taxed presently). It would also require services to get taxed.
There are states that don’t have income taxes, but there’s a federal income tax, so there’s a methodology for imposing that tax. There are states that don’t have an income tax, but this would require a tax collection system to be created that would affect every seller nationwide. It would mean that you’d have to have a consistent set of definitions and uniform taxability, which is a pipedream thus far, given that only about 20 of the states are members of the SSUTA.
There’s no one clamoring for a national sales tax.
Shifting everything to tariffs would immediately hike costs to everyone significantly, and all of those costs will be passed on to the end user. I think Krugman is low-balling the damage the tariff proposal would do to the economy.
Oh, and tariffs would wreck the economy globally, and cause massive disruptions to the supply chain and cause inflation the likes of which the nation has never seen.
Introduce a sumptuary tax, set at 100% on all items retailing above an established value. Put the Puritans back in black.
re: #248 lawhawk
GOP is coming for no-fault divorce, to go along with their assault on women’s rights, freedom, and right to choose. They are out to eliminate individual choice, pushing their own misogynistic and theocratic worldview on everyone else.
If they don’t want to avail themselves of abortions, divorces, or IVF, that’s their choice, but they shouldn’t impose their bans on everyone else.
And increasingly, the GOP has aligned themselves with religious extremists, while most Americans are increasingly non-religious and want access to health care like contraception, IVF, abortion, and the right to get out of marriage when things go wrong.
So fuck the GOP and Democrats should be cutting articles showing exactly how the GOP is coming for every aspect of individual right and freedom. They want to take away individual autonomy - projecting all of their claims on to Democrats.
They are out to eliminate YOUR individual choice.
Somehow these things will still be available for them..like abortions
re: #254 DodgerFan1988
Alimony and child support are also on their target list for national elimination. Both of these make it easier for women in toxic relationships to actually leave.
re: #255 lawhawk
This is similar to the whole claim about replacing the income tax with a national sales tax.
It would be a disaster, and extremely regressive (not that the GOP minds fucking the poor). It would be a hugely inflationary hit on all Americans, especially the poor, who’d see nearly everything they need to survive get taxed.
The tax base would need to be so broad, that it includes stuff that most people want/need to be tax free: food (other than prepared food - stuff bought in restaurants, which is usually taxed presently). It would also require services to get taxed.
There are states that don’t have income taxes, but there’s a federal income tax, so there’s a methodology for imposing that tax. There are states that don’t have an income tax, but this would require a tax collection system to be created that would affect every seller nationwide. It would mean that you’d have to have a consistent set of definitions and uniform taxability, which is a pipedream thus far, given that only about 20 of the states are members of the SSUTA.
There’s no one clamoring for a national sales tax.
Shifting everything to tariffs would immediately hike costs to everyone significantly, and all of those costs will be passed on to the end user. I think Krugman is low-balling the damage the tariff proposal would do to the economy.
Oh, and tariffs would wreck the economy globally, and cause massive disruptions to the supply chain and cause inflation the likes of which the nation has never seen.
You could not instantly implement this and just scrap income tax
It would be an unmanageable unaccountable administrative nightmare in addition to the economic
You’d have to phase it in/out over years. Many years
re: #262 Dangerman
You could not instantly implement this and just scrap income tax
It would be an unmanageable unaccountable administrative nightmare in addition to the economic
You’d have to phase it in/out over years. Many years
Unless your purpose is to bring the XXI century America to it’s knees. And that’s something to investigate. (Looking at you, Prisoner Bannon.)
re: #261 Florida Panhandler
Alimony and child support are also on their target list for national elimination. Both of these make it easier for women in toxic relationships to actually leave.
This. I know a woman who stayed married to an abusive jackass for years because his job happened to offer REALLY good health insurance for her and the kids. She finally got out after the kids turned 18.
re: #260 Dangerman
Under Convicted Felon Trump, day by day, week by week, a lot of die-hard right wing voters will soon be saying “wait- I didn’t vote for THAT.”
Yes. Yes you did.
Mike Johnson says that during the House GOP meeting with Trump today, Trump "said very complementary things about all of us. We had sustained applause. He said I'm doing a very good job. We're grateful for that."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.bsky.social) 2024-06-13T17:23:45.325Z
Totally not a cult…
re: #266 Eclectic Cyborg
Johnson’s photos always looked a little weird. That one solved it. “Altar Boy”.
in his meeting with House Republicans at the Capitol Hill Club:
Trump said there should be exceptions in anti-abortion laws
he mused about having a romantic relationship with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
He said little about reconciliation
or the 2025 legislative strategy
He just spews without any thought for the GOP party line
They must be tearing their hair out
I wonder if some Republicans are to starting to genuinely realize Trump isn’t well.
I mean, they can only ignore it for so long.
Rando:
damn good thing that tfg is “stable and non volatile”
Cause if he wasn’t, he’d be dangerous.
re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg
Weekend at Bernie’s Don’s.
re: #267 Decatur Deb
Speaker Johnson’s son’s alert app must have been buzzing something fierce, being that close to a porn star adjacent person (Trump).
CNN: In his meeting with GOP lawmakers, Trump called the Department of Justice “dirty no good bastards,” according to another source in the room.
Before Trump, that would probably be the lead of the story. Now it’s normal.https://cnn.com
re: #268 Dangerman
in his meeting with House Republicans at the Capitol Hill Club:
Trump said there should be exceptions in anti-abortion laws
he mused about having a romantic relationship with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
He said little about reconciliation
or the 2025 legislative strategyHe just spews without any thought for the GOP party line
They must be tearing their hair out
His decisions will lead to a total ban on abortion, access to reproductive care, and restrict civil and voting rights. That’s *ALL* on him as the person who nominated all of these fucknuts courtesy of FedSoc, McConnell, and the extremists in the GOP.
He has no clue what he’s talking about. He has no interest in policy or substance. It’s all about soundbites, and whatever he thinks will sell to the rubes (his base).
Meanwhile, every utterance and statement is coming through as gibberish, word salad, and increasingly erratic and insane statements.
171,000 Traveled for Abortions Last Year. See Where They Went
Goes to nyt interactive map
The former president even said at one point of Hannibal Lecter: “nNice guy … he even had a friend over for dinner.”
cnn.com
Glitch faster.
“At the start of the meeting, House Republicans sang happy birthday to the former president, whose birthday is Friday, and presented him with the game ball and bat from the congressional baseball game that Republican won on Wednesday, according to a source in the room.”
Bootlickers.
re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg
I mean, they can only ignore it for so long.
I’d like to think so but fact not in evidence.
re: #275 Dangerman
By the time the map loads the NYT wants me to sign up.
re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if some Republicans are to starting to genuinely realize Trump isn’t well.
I mean, they can only ignore it for so long.
Come on- they are counting on him being either hauled off in a straighjacket or being room temperature the day after inauguration. Then they will run wild.
In election analysis land all we ever see is handwringing over Biden’s negatives.
But the negatives are actually much, much worse for the GOP
1. Convicted felon for a nominee who openly runs on being a dictator
2. Who is on video calling an insurrection to the Capitol…— Rachel Bitecofer 🗽💡🔭🦆 (@RachelBitecofer) June 13, 2024
re: #279 PhillyPretzel ✅
tl;dr version:
All but Florida of the deep South has people fleeing to the handful of states neighboring the South to gain access to abortion care. As GOPers put the screws on access to care in those border states, the distances to which women have to go to gain health care grows (as does the cost - which is also a reason/purpose - to maximize the costs and harms to these women).
re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if some Republicans are to starting to genuinely realize Trump isn’t well.
I mean, they can only ignore it for so long.
Just long enough to get him elected
re: #283 lawhawk
tl;dr version:
All but Florida of the deep South has people fleeing to the handful of states neighboring the South to gain access to abortion care. As GOPers put the screws on access to care in those border states, the distances to which women have to go to gain health care grows (as does the cost - which is also a reason/purpose - to maximize the costs and harms to these women).
How ya gonna keep them down on the farm after they’ve seen The Loop?
re: #279 PhillyPretzel ✅
By the time the map loads the NYT wants me to sign up.
Eta: best I could do
re: #286 Dangerman
Thanks. I appreciate it.
Trump: Convicted felon, legally designated rapist, led an insurrection, facing three more criminal indictments, oversaw disastrous pandemic response that killed 400,000 Americans.
Biden: Governed too successfully.
Charlie Cook’s evaluation of why the presidential race is so “stable.”
Ps..its not
re: #218 Decatur Deb
Didn’t often read the NL, and the style is NY.
S Gross worked for both, but the style is closer to National Lampoon than New Yorker
re: #225 Dangerman
if they’re
Oh dear: GOP-endorsed MN senate candidate tweeted out a map purporting to show “crime in Minneapolis… Out of control.” It was actually a map of drinking fountains in the city.
Mixed race drinking fountains!!!
re: #231 DodgerFan1988
It’s about blocking anything you can do that won’t please a very particular kind of male.
Even if it’s just a pixie cut.
I think she looks better in a pixie cut, but that is my taste (and her choice).
re: #241 Hecuba’s daughter
IANAL But shouldn’t they have refused to accept this case in the first place because the plaintiffs lacked standing? There is clearly something else going on here.
It’s called carrying water for the GOP and their candidate. It’s called blowing smoke to hide the GOP’s absolutist anti-abortion/contraception agenda.
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