George Takei was among the many "Star Trek" actors who united in Los Angeles for a #StarTrekDay event marking the landmark sci-fi series' 55th anniversary. William Shatner didn't attend. pic.twitter.com/5mHqbvIByE
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) September 9, 2021
President Joe Biden has directed the Justice Department to find a way to block the new Texas law that bans most abortions. But because the law leaves enforcement to private citizens, experts say it’ll be an uphill legal battle. https://t.co/iwPE9z3hVH
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 9, 2021
The Biden administration has removed 18 appointees named to U.S. military academy boards by Donald Trump in his final months as president, including high-profile Trump administration officials Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer and H.R. McMaster. https://t.co/jd4r470KAj
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 9, 2021
ETA:
The group also includes Heidi Stirrup, who was a Trump White House liaison & appointed to the Air Force Academy’s Board of Visitors the same day we reported she was banned from DOJ for trying to elicit sensitive information about election fraud cases. (https://t.co/AV62XTSop0) https://t.co/JTgXhHjmMw
— Mike Balsamo (@MikeBalsamo1) September 9, 2021
Democrats ready $450 billion plan to expand child care, pre-K as broader economic package hits new political snags https://t.co/QsI3Aa6dAa
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 8, 2021
germy
Kellyanne Conway’s angry letter to Biden is remarkable.
Baud
I caught a bit of MJ this morning where they were finally getting around to praising the feat of evacuating so many people from Afghanistan.
Baud
@germy:
Nah. It’s their typical bluster and hypocrisy.
debbie
@Baud:
Maybe, but can she be removed or is this another DeJoy situation?
germy
@debbie:
On my last utility bill, there was a note recommending I switch to paying online, as mail delivery of bills and checks are often delayed by weeks.
I’m an old check-writing fart.
Jackie
@Baud: And, they said an ADDITIONAL 200 Americans/visa holders are being allowed to leave Afghanistan today! They’re being flown to Qatar. So far – knock on wood! – the Taliban is cooperating with President Biden officials!
Kay
@germy:
Baud
@debbie:
She can be removed.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Kellyanne LiesALot is lucky she’s not in a tumbrel. If I were king…
Baud
@Jackie:
Taliban has been ok, probably because we have the country’s money. ISIS-K was the problem.
NotMax
“Yeah, it may cost a little more but is guaranteed pony free.”
;)
Baud
@NotMax:
I can’t believe they make milk out of a horse.
geg6
Not that the other two are any better (but at least they served in the military), but WTF with Kellyanne being on the board of a military academy? Is it because she wore the toy soldier outfit for his inauguration and he thought that made her a real soldier?
Baud
@germy:
While I pay bills online, they are recommending that to save themselves money. They don’t care about the mail.
Baud
@geg6:
To be fair, it’s better than having a horse trainer lead FEMA.
NotMax
@germy
A local bank accepts electric bill payments at all its branches here.
Geminid
And now Arthur Ashe is the last man standing on Richmond’s Monument Avenue. He’s not on a horse, just holding up a tennis racquet and a book.
Baud
@Geminid:
Every other monument was to a confederate?
Betty Cracker
I’m not a lawyer, but in my uninformed opinion, a legal system in which constitutional rights can be vaporized by deputizing private individuals to enforce unconstitutional laws is not a robust legal system.
debbie
@germy:
As am I. I haven’t had too many issues with mailing payments. But a couple of places won’t let me transfer payments to them. Their only option is to let them withdraw from my account. Screw that shit.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: Agreed.
Geminid
@Baud: I believe so.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I haven’t found a link to the original, but here’s an NYT headline.
Should be epic.
Baud
@Geminid:
You would think they’d throw in a Washington or Jefferson just for appearances.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ???
Baud
A politico headline for those who are interested.
Spanky
@Baud: Oh yeah. And when you consider that Ashe’s monument didn’t go up until 1996 …
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Spanky
@Baud: That one’s ripe for fat jokes, that one is.
Baud
@Spanky:
Found this.
rikyrah
@germy:
Keep on writing them??
Mary G
NotMax
@Baud
As opposed to the American-American population.
//
Baud
@NotMax:
Literally.
rikyrah
@germy:
Phuck that trifling trick ?
Baud
@Mary G:
I have a new idea for Walmart greeters.
rikyrah
@Baud:
Yeah… little matter of the funds
Betty Cracker
@Geminid: Trump went ape-shit about the Lee monument removal. I saw his dumb statement on Twitter. He called the removal a “desecration,” lauded Lee’s military prowess with one of the stupidest comments ever made about the Civil War (“except for Gettysburg, [he] would have won the war”) and topped that with even stupider speculation that if Lee had been in charge in Afghanistan, the U.S. would have emerged victorious “many years ago.”
Baud
NYT
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Betty Cracker: I wish a reporter would ask him who won the Civil War.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
They didn’t even get a hearing at the Supreme Court. Not only can any state take away a constitutional right, they can do it without their opponents getting a hearing.
Absolute failure of the legal system. No real right that anyone should rely on, no remedy for the individuals affected and no due process for the immediate harm. Utter failure as to those women affected. The rights and process they were told they had were a mirage. None of it protected them, or even heard them.
rikyrah
@Betty Cracker:
I did not realize the size of the statue. It was huge.
A Black owned company was the one to remove it.
???
rikyrah
@Baud:
Needs to drop the ???
No airplane travel
No Amtrak
No Greyhound
Without proof of vaccination ??
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
He had four years during which to appoint Lee.
//
Dorothy A. Winsor
@NotMax: I heard he’s done an exemplary job and is being recognized more and more
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Heh.
Geminid
@Baud: Besides the Arthur Ashe statue on Monument Avenue, there were statues of Confederate generals Lee, Jackson, Stuart and president Davis. A fifth was one of oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury, sitting in front of a large globe. Maury was influential in mid-19th oceanography, and represented the U.S. at an important international conference in 1853. But Maury later held the rank of admiral in the Confederate Navy, so his statue got the chop last year along with those of Jackson, Stuart and Davis.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
We won’t hear from the women affected either. The person quoted in the article at the top of the page is Jonathon Turley. There’s not even a recognition that the right is currently being denied to actual people. They’re not even part of the discussion. The system utterly failed them and if it doesn’t work for individuals it doesn’t work. There’s no point in it if it doesn’t serve them at all. It’s completely disconnected from the function it’s intended to serve. Hollow. A building with some few, chosen people in it who sometimes have debates.
WereBear
@Betty Cracker: Exactly! This whole thing was devastated on today’s episode of Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner. Constitutional rights, standing, and vigilante-ism are only the first three big problems with it.
Should never have gotten past the first gate, legally.
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
When does the collection begin for a replacement statue of “your favorite president,” valiantly posed sitting in a golf cart?
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: I’d seen it from a car several times, but I didn’t really comprehend the scale of it either until this AP photo emerged:
Maybe they’ll stick it in one of the many Confederate cemeteries in that area. Or sell it to Trump so he can put it on the lawn of his Disgraceland estate in South Florida or make it a hazard at one of his golf courses! Surely he could scam the rubes in a fundraiser for that!
I haven’t read anything about what plans the city has for Monument Avenue now. Personally, I think America needs more gargoyles and fewer statues.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Turley, OMFG, of course.
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
Gargoyle-Americans represent!
debbie
@Betty Cracker:
Ick. I’m seeing GOT’s White King more than Civil War’s Lee in that last TFG statement.
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: I liked a suggestion for disposing of Charlottesville’s Lee and Jackson statues: drop them into the Atlantic over one of the artificial reefs the state is building to enhance fish habitat.
Baud
@Kay:
I’m not usually on board with pleas that Dems should behave like Republicans, but in this case, I kind of wish we had a state that could enact the same law against a constitutional right that right wing Justices cared about.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
I like the legalistic nonsense of the legal commentary cohort. “They didn’t technically overturn Roe by decree”. As to those women in Texas who were or are seeking an abortion they sure as hell did. Was there someone else it was supposed to protect? If it doesn’t protect “women seeking an abortion” then what the fuck was it for? The right they relied on was wholly illusory. It means nothing to them. The legal system failed them and continues to fail them and not even smart well intentioned people can get them a hearing or remedy their wrong. Forget “failed”- they weren’t even heard.
rikyrah
Senator Klobuchar has breast cancer ?
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Would deputizing private citizens and gun safety advocates to enforce municipal gun laws do the trick? Bounties for each illegal gun recovered!
On a semi-related note, just got a WaPo alert that Biden’s ATF nominee (David Chipman) has been withdrawn because of “bipartisan” concern about his gun control advocacy with Gabby Giffords’ organization. JFC.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Oh no.
Baud
@Betty Cracker: Maybe.
I assume that means Manchin.
Amir Khalid
I remember reading somewhere that Shatner is not well-liked by the other surviving members of the Star Trek: TOS cast.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@rikyrah: I just read her statement. She seems to be doing well. The lumpectomy and radiation are finished. Fingers crossed for her.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
That’s good to hear.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: There weren’t any details in the WaPo piece, but that seems likely. AFAIK, Chipman is a former ATF guy who was a member of Giffords’ group, which isn’t some wild-eyed gun-grabber cabal. It’s infuriating when you think of all the not only unqualified but also disqualified morons and crooks congress green-lighted for TFG.
Jackie
@rikyrah: According to Amy, she has stage 1A and has already completed treatment and is (at this time) considered cancer-free. That’s wonderful news.
Kay
I want someone to look into what’s behind the Republican Party and anti-abortion groups dropping the rape exception in their abortion bans. Was it driven by wanting to prevent statutory rape victims from getting abortions? A lot of the far Right religious groups promote girls getting married VERY young. We see it here, where I live. We’ve had girls as young as 15 tell us they were pushed into committing themselves to older men with the intention that they marry as soon as it’s legal. Was that what drove the push in the Republican Party and far Right religious extremists (but I repeat myself) to enlarge the ban to encompass rape victims? Was it to control those girls and force them to have children?
Mike in NC
Picked up a complementary copy of USA Today in the lobby of our hotel. Cover article says, “Proud Boys Take On Masks”. What a bunch of authentic American heroes! I recall some filthy rat bastard who once advised them to ‘Stand Down and Stand By’ to serve their country. We won’t be a democracy until he and his ilk are DEAD.
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
Oh no. I’m really sorry to hear that. All best wishes to her for a speedy and full recovery.
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
At the time of his nomination, remember reading he was considered a long shot at best to squeak through, so this new wrinkle is no big surprise.
Soprano2
Joe Manchin, I bet. That’s too bad, sounds like he would have been a good head for that agency, which desperately needs one.
Soprano2
Well, it doesn’t actually have to make sense, since Greg Abbott says he can prevent rapes from happening. You might be right about the motivation, though.
Woodrow/asim
It would almost certainly be guns, and this SCOTUS’ll just claim that the 2nd Amendment stops States from enforcing laws to stop people from enforcing vigilante behavior at the end of a gun.
(That aside from the fact that 2 wrongs won’t fix this issue, frankly. These asshats are showing they’ll twist law to buttress their side, way too often.)
SiubhanDuinne
@Kay:
The question answers itself, doesn’t it.
Amir Khalid
@Spanky:
I’ll start. Bruce Springsteen went on Jimmy Fallon to publicly mock him over Bridgegate. That must have really hurt Christie, who is Bruce’s biggest fan — I mean, just look at the guy..
Steeplejack
@Baud:
Chris Christie?! “Slowly I turned . . .” Every time I see his name or, worse, his ugly mug I get a jolt of rage. Trump groveler/minion/enabler, and I’m still pissed off that he totally skated on Bridgegate.
He’s dreaming if he thinks he has any shot at the GQP nomination in 2024. Even if this is a fundraising scam, which it probably is, I can’t see it getting much traction.
P.S. And fuck Politico, too! They have taken their game to a new (low) level lately.
Baud
@Steeplejack:
Didn’t they just get bought out by some right wing Euro group.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
And such small portions!
//
WereBear
@Kay:
From my study of the Quiverfull movements and other hardcore fundamentalists which took over many denominations:
Yes.
Kay
@Soprano2:
No, the language they use is very specific to one set of rapes. That’s the “forcible” and “off the streets” language. The much larger set are the whole juvenile girl/male adult category. The girls know the perpetrators. The studies on rape and abortion focus much more on statutory rape because that category is much larger.
Baud
@Kay:
Republicans like to keep rape in the family.
Betty Cracker
@NotMax: It’s not surprising but it certainly is maddening, and maybe we shouldn’t get used to this bullshit and normalize it. Trump installed grifters and lobbyists to oversee the industries on whose behalf they ripped people off / shaped regulations that harmed public health, and that’s A-OK. But this guy joined the Giffords organization — not by any stretch a radical anti-gun group — and every Republican opposes him, and at least one nominal Democrat joins them. It’s infuriating.
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was one of over 50 members of Congress who signed onto an amicus brief supporting the plaintiff’s individual right to possess firearms in the Heller case. The NRA still gave her an “F” rating in her 2010 reelection race.
Spanky
@Baud:
And right on cue, I start seeing ads for GoDaddy. Coincidence?
Amir Khalid
@SiubhanDuinne:
In some particularly regressive societies, the remedy for rape resulting in pregnancy is often to marry the rapist to his victim. I wonder if that’s what the Republican party is working towards.
Woodrow/asim
In my research, I think the answer is that they are freer to aim for what the anti-abortion asshats really want — a total ban on Abortions.
Anti-abortion forces stated for decades — since the late 1980s when I started paying attention, and my research looking back into the start of their bullshit — their goal was to make Abortion illegal in all cases.
Because that sold badly, lobbyists and lawmakers implemented the rape/incest language exception as a legislative compromise/Trojan House. It was clear from jump that that’s all it ever was, and the only reason it ever got thru was [EDIT]inability for media to remember anything more than 10 min ago when it comes to politics, esp. right-wing (see also: Afghanistan). It’s also why they play footsie with the religious exemption bollicks, to drive a wedge for eventually getting rid of Griswold and any semblance of Reproductive Rights for people who can carry babies, but one problem at a time. :(
Anyway: Now, they have enough True Believers embedded into these State legislators + SCOTUS that it’s no longer needed.
OzarkHillbilly
So it was OK before, Greg? Why were you pro-rape till now? What finally changed your mind? How do you identify rapists before they rape?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Uncle Cosmo
@Amir Khalid: If you haven’t seen it, try to get hold of a copy of Galaxy Quest. Tim Allen (nowhere near my favorite actor) arguably deserved an Oscar for his utterly devastating smackdown of a character indistinguishable from Shatner. (The rest of the flick is pretty good too.)
Steeplejack
@Baud:
Yes!
schrodingers_cat
Every fucking thing is portrayed as a Republican win and it is not just Fox News or the MSM but many liberals and lefties do it too. Also excessive attention is paid to Republican voters and their antics to the exclusion of everyone else.
We had countless diner stories from 2016 onwards and now we have elbenty and one anti-masker stories. Even though at least 75% of Americans have had at least one shot and over 70% support masking.
How many stories have you seen of Biden voters or those affected by the capricious immigration policies of the last administration? Even on blogs such as this one?
RWNJs say jump and almost everyone says how high. From NYT to Balloon Juice and everything in between
It is relentless. Every stupid thing Rs do they are portrayed as masters of the Universe or evil geniuses. On the other hand anything Ds do they get no credit even from the so called progressives because Ds are not perfect. How many anti-war people had Biden’s back after the Afghanistan troop draw down?
Geminid
@Uncle Cosmo: Gene Roddenberry wrote a lot of Have Gun, Will Travel episodes. On a couple shows, outlaws would beat the crap out of Richard Boone, trying to get him to betray some innocent homesteader. Boone would launch into a soliloquy about the Indominatability of Man before he turned the table on the outlaws. Roddenberry recycled this story line in Star Trek, with aliens standing in for the mean outlaws.
VOR
@Geminid: Budapest, Hungary had a problem after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Hungarian Communist government. The city had a bunch of statues and monuments honoring Soviet leaders like Lenin and the heroic Soviet troops who liberated the city in 1944. What to do?
Their solution was to take down all those statues and put them in a field at the edge of the city. This is now known as Memento Park. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_Park
topclimber
@geg6: I suspect it has something to do with making sure the Air Force Academy remains the most evangelically militant of the four schools.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@schrodingers_cat: You make an excellent point. But the question remains: what do you do when every media outlet is wired – literally hard-wired – to push the fascist viewpoint?
schrodingers_cat
Biden kicking out the pompous ass, Chunky Lex Luthor, McMaster gives me joy.
schrodingers_cat
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): We can change our own behavior first and not echo the Republican talking points or portray Rs as winners no matter what they do.
Betty Cracker
@schrodingers_cat: Can you give us an example of a post or comment here that portrays something that is not a Republican win as a Republican win? I don’t want to be part of the problem, but I’m not seeing anyone praising Republicans or implying that they’re masters of the universe. There are complaints (including from me) about double standards, DINOs who are obstructing Biden’s agenda and structural advantages for Republicans, but those are real things that exist.
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat: I’m with you. It’s maddening.
leeleeFL
@Betty Cracker: i liked the Rude Pundit’s suggestion to melt it down and make urinals! Spittoons would be good, also, too!
Ben Cisco
@schrodingers_cat: Agreed.
Kay
@WereBear:
I wonder because Texas had a judicial bypass for minors to get an abortion- that (essentially) banned abortions for minors in rape and incest but now Republicans and the anti-abortion movement have made it virtually impossible.
Why did they target the group – minors- who are BY FAR the most likely to use a rape exception and why are they talking only about the group who are least likely (by the numbers) the stranger/forcible rape category? It feels deliberate, like it has a larger policy goal.
leeleeFL
@Uncle Cosmo: Great spoof movie! Tony Shaloub and Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver? What’s not to love!?
Kay
@WereBear:
And you won’t hear from any of the girls. Juvenile cases are protected for privacy. If there are girls who are forced to carry a baby to term and that baby resulted from an unlawful sexual relationship with an older man (whether “voluntary” by the girl or coerced by a religious sect) it will be hidden and it’s the most likely rape/abotion scenario, by far. There are far more statutory rape situations than there are forcible rape cases.
Soprano2
Boy, this is the truth. Look at the press obsession over the people who haven’t yet gotten out of Afghanistan. I actually heard one of them, a reporter, say on NPR the other day that Biden needs to do something to help them, that she doesn’t think he’s doing anything! There didn’t seem to be any pushback at all on this assertion. Biden got millions more votes, yet you don’t see anyone in the press interviewing people who voted for him about why they voted for him and why they still support him. Biden’s support in polling has dropped to what was the absolute top of TFG’s support for his whole term, yet they talk about it as if it’s almost a fatal blow to Biden’s agenda! Makes me absolutely crazy. I’ve also noticed that reporters often use the “try” framing when they talk about Democrats, which implies “fail” to me. I heard it this morning on NPR – “The Biden administration is trying to reunite children from Afghanistan who were separated from their parents”. How about they are “working” to do that instead? They do this over and over again. How about interview some of the vast majority of people who think kids should be wearing masks in schools, rather than all the anti-maskers? And on and on, it’s maddening. The press seems to be primed for the idea that whatever Republicans want is “normal”, and they stick to that in the face of a vast amount of evidence that even if this was once true, it’s not true anymore.
Steeplejack
I’m not sure how much “pressure” was involved, but if this is true it’s good to see.
Anyway
@schrodingers_cat:
I read LGM in addition to this blog (NO Twitter) and the posters and commenters there were completely pro-Afghanistan-withdrawal … They have been really good about the Texas pregnancy monitoring atrocity as well.
Ken
@Steeplejack: Perhaps not so much “After a week of our pressure the Justice Department agreed with us” as “After a week of studying options and relevant laws, the Justice Department determined there was a case here.”
Baud
@Steeplejack: I take complete credit for Garland’s actions.
schrodingers_cat
@Steeplejack: This is like the MSM taking credit for the withdrawal after saying that the administration would not be able evacuate even 50,000 people.
As if Garland is hanging on to every word of the Do Something Twitter Karens.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Can I take the credit for all of the witty Baudisms?
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
“Stop @’ing me!” @US_AG.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
Sure. For all anyone knows, we’re the same person.
Betty Cracker
Per the NYT, it was Manchin and Angus King who combined with unanimous Republican opposition to sink Chipman’s ATF nomination.
Matt McIrvin
@Anyway: Completely pro- but also very doomy about the political consequences.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Hmm. King was on MJ talking about Manchin and the budget negotiations and was confident they’d get something done. Leads me to speculate about senatorial back scratching.
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: We need more Democrats in the Senate. Sunrise BernieBrats have come up with a winning slogan,
Abolish the Senate, that should do the trick.
Steeplejack
Zeddary:
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: There are so many FP posts by none other than the blog father about how we are doomed. And many comments agreeing with that general premise. There was one just two days ago. A late night post IIRC. I can find a link to it if you want.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Are you in the box?
stinger
@Betty Cracker:
Well then, why didn’t you put him in charge, huh? HUH?? After all, he’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more!!
ETA: Or what NotMax @44 and Dorothy @45 said, sigh.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Yes and no.
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: Link.
FWIW, I don’t think your posts or comments are like that. You are one of the bright spots in a sea of gloom
topclimber
@schrodingers_cat: It is actually easier to abolish the Senate than to change the allocation of Senators, which can only be done by unanimous consent or (perhaps) a Constitutional Convention.
You see, it was the original intent of our Sainted Founding Fathers to allow the population disparity between the biggest and smallest states of their time (13-1, Virginia vs. Delaware) to grow into today’s 66-1 (California vs. Wyoming).
rikyrah
@Kay:
Tell it, Kay.
TELL IT.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Keep on bringing it.
I’m still enraged. It hasn’t lessened one bit.
rikyrah
@Kay:
I dunno, but, I want the answer too.
schrodingers_cat
@topclimber: Is it easier than defunding the police and abolishing ICE?
Sure Lurkalot
@Kay:
I’m not convinced that they believe in the concept of statutory rape. Look at the young men who have gotten a slap on the hand because we wouldn’t want to ruin their lives by “a little mistake” (of committing an act of violence).
See also God’s will, she shouldn’t have worn those clothes, etc.
schrodingers_cat
@Sure Lurkalot: You may have a point there. Most fundies don’t believe in marital rape either.
stinger
@Baud: And also a dog.
topclimber
@schrodingers_cat: De-funding the police via attrition and using their budgets for other ways to lower crime is the easiest. It can be done locally.
Abolishing ICE is tougher because it requires national action. I suggest turning it into a branch of the military so we get rid of their fascist unions and make them part of the Presidential chain of command.
As for abolishing the Senate, of course it is hard. But you knew that. Still, even a pragma-pony like John Dingell thought it was the way to do.
Kay
@Sure Lurkalot:
I have seen the (very young girls) marriage concept of the most extreme religious fundamentalists sort of bleed into the larger fundy megachurch people. We’re seeing them here now- women who say they were “committed” into marriages that were set up prior to the legal age. It comes up later because of the ages of their children, you do the math and think “15?”. Yup.
It’s just interesting to me that their legal strategy encompasses this and reaches that group in a really profound way. It could just be their sloppiness and really cavalier lack of interest in the mothers, but the Texas governor’s language seemed to deliberately exclude this recognized group of girls. Odd.
The Moar You Know
@Woodrow/asim: That’s not all they want.
They want an end to contraception, they are already gunning for that hard, and eventually, an end to women’s status as citizens with any rights whatsoever.
They’ve said so and I take them at their word.
pluky
@Geminid: nope. the copper in the bronze would be toxic for marine invertabrates
Kay
Guffaw. That’s all anyone should say to Larry Summers.
Kay
My youngest is at college now so I texed him yesterday and he responded “I don’t have time to play with you right now”
PLAY with me! Already insufferable.
I did want to play, though. I might have had kids so I could play with them.
James E Powell
@schrodingers_cat:
Similarly, disappointed Trump voters are the most important people in America. If memory serves, disappointed Clinton voters were told to shut the fuck up and deal with it.
Steeplejack
@Kay:
? Your dispatches about this kid have always cracked me up.
There was one about him and his friends “encountering corduroy,” and I had to bookmark this one about names:
Kay
@Steeplejack:
I miss him. I might call his former girlfriend, just see what’s she up to. I miss her too. She works at the library and has a rescue cat she named “Dewey” which she says is not after the Dewey decimal system but I don’t know. Seems like it is. I’ll let that go for now.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Awe…at college…you are an empty nester, Kay.
How’s he doing?
Is he far away from you?
How many hours does he have to drive to get home?
J R in WV
@Kay:
Of course it was. The Theocrats are all about pedophilia and control of the little girls — control them right into Preacher’s bed, or couch, or on the office floor beside his big desk. Christo-Fascists same as the Afghan Sharia-Fascists marrying little girls, just different robes.
On the way into town the other day I saw a big circus tent set up, coming home I saw it was the Local Town Tent Revival. Last night I saw they were in action, big RV parked for the preacher to rest in, generator for the bright lights, medium crowd of cars parked. SAD!
J R in WV
@Amir Khalid:
Sure and it must be~!!~ Who would want to marry a little girl without making sure it feels good for the rapist first? These people make me sick at heart, they are so disgusting, so filthy, so not Christian.
There’s a whole sub-net of internet sites revealing the so many rapists caught in the pulpit, shocking that so many of them get away with it for so long. But No one in the “church” will speak up for the little kids being molested and raped until someone on the outside learns of the abusive crimes!