This Week in Stupid- GET YOUR FILTHY TYRANT HANDS OFF OF MY CEILING FANS!!
Does President Biden REALLY want to limit Americans to two beers a week?
Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, they think it is better to keep their stupidest thoughts to themselves. You, however, understand the profound truth that you must reveal your stupidity openly. To hold your stupidity inside you is to embrace it, to cling to it, to protect it. But when you expose your stupidity, you give yourself the chance to have it caught, corrected, and replaced with wisdom. Be brave, all of you, like Nero Boulanger, and when you have a thought of such surpassing ignorance that you think it's actually smart, make sure to make some noise, to let your mental limitations squeak out some whimpering fart of a thought, so that you have a chance to learn.
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
Marjorie Taylor Green can use my MyPillow code, “Loomer” at MyPillow, so that she can get herself a nice pillow for her knees to place under Kevin McCarthy’s desk.
Laura Loomer
If Republicans Think Abortion Is So Bad, Why Can't They Say One True Thing About It?
What the Democrats are trying to do on this issue is wrong, to allow abortion all the way up to the moment of birth.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL)
We cannot let states like California, New York and Illinois have abortions on demand up until the day of birth. That is immoral. It is unethical. It is wrong.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)
Wow, those would be nasty/terrible/horrible things, eh? That’s if what Gov. DeSatan and Sen Scott were talking about was true. No state in the Union allows abortion up to the moment of birth. Period. I don’t know what these two low-information assclowns are talking about, but I do know they’re lying through their portholes.
It’s true that some states don’t have specific timetables or hard cutoff dates, but that has more to do with potential maternal or fetal complications later in pregnancy. Some states are enlightened enough to recognize that women aren’t merely vessels. Americans don’t want to sentence them to serious injury or death because the letter of the law prevents them from having an abortion.
Those are medical decisions best left to medical professionals, not Right-wing legislators who know nothing of the medical implications.
You can’t just walk into an abortion clinic or hospital at nine months pregnant and say “Hey, you know what? Changed my mind, let’s abort this sucker” anymore than you can walk into a hospital and ask for an unnecessary open heart surgery. Doctors are not just going to give you any random surgery you want, for funsies.
Republicans don’t mention the part about maternal or fetal complications because they know anyone in their right mind would agree that abortion should be an option in those situations. Pretending not to understand this is why Texas is being sued for forcing women to give birth to babies with no brain and no chance of survival and why a woman in Florida had to carry a baby for 13 weeks after she found out it had no kidneys and no chance of survival.
Another big lie came from Mike Pence, who claimed that he wanted a federal 15 week abortion ban because fetuses shouldn’t be aborted when they feel pain.
"Can’t we have a minimum standard in every state in the nation thats says when a baby is capable of feeling pain, an abortion cannot be allowed?” Pence asked. “A 15-week ban is an idea whose time has come. It's supported by 70 percent of the American people, but it’s going to take unapologetic leadership.”
That statistic came from a survey sponsored by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America that incorrectly told people that a fetus can feel pain at 15 weeks, which it cannot. It is not possible for it to feel pain because the brain has not developed enough by that time to register pain.
"The best available evidence indicates that it's not possible for a fetus at 20 or 22 weeks to feel pain. The neurofibrils that connect pain receptors to the cerebral cortex are not developed, and really don't develop until the third trimester — past 26 weeks," Dr. Daniel Grossman, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California at San Francisco, told Refinery29 in 2018.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists agrees.
“The science conclusively establishes that a human fetus does not have the capacity to experience pain until after at least 24–25 weeks,” reads a fact sheet on the organization’s website. “Every major medical organization that has examined this issue and peer-reviewed studies on the matter have consistently reached the conclusion that abortion before this point does not result in the perception of pain in a fetus.”
Isn’t it about time we left medical decisions to medical professionals and told White Conservative Christian heterosexuals know-it-alls to stay in their lane?
We might be able to keep a few women alive that way.
The latest right-wing panic? Joe Biden is coming for your ceiling fans!
If not for the Random Right-wing Outrage Generator ©, Republicans would have little to fret about. But, the generator’s been operating at peak efficiency, and the low-information, high-outrage Rabid Right on Capitol Hill has had plenty to keep them exercised.
In this case, it’s Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), a Conservative blessed with the intellectual acuity of a trash panda. Rep. Jackson is convinced that President Biden’s coming for our ceiling fans. Of course, that the President isn’t doesn’t matter to Jackson, whose only concern is that he has something he can use to stoke outrage in his constituents.
Not that the truth matters to a good and faithful Republican, of course. Why ruin a good conspiracy with the truth? Rest assured, however, jackbooted government thugs won’t be stomping through Swampfuck, TX, ripping the ceiling fans out of Grandma’s trailer, knowhutimean??
Nah…they’re going to be WAY too busy coming after your gas stoves.
Wisconsin Republicans Sure Do Love Child Labor
OK, wise guys, answer me this: Why would anyone have children save for the cheap labor they can provide? Amiright?? What benefit could the little urchins POSSIBLY provide? They’re little more than spit-up and bodily fluid dispensers under the best of circumstances.
Ick….
It’s a little strange. On the one hand, we have Republican heads exploding all over the place, crying about how they just want their kids to be kids and they can’t be kids for some reason if they know that LGBTQ+ people exist.
On the other, boy are they desperate for children — other people’s children at least — to stop watching cartoons and start working (in potentially very dangerous jobs).
Earlier this year, they tried to float a bill that would make it legal for children as young as 14 to work in bars and serve alcohol, which is really not the sort of thing that is meant to happen outside of CW teen dramas.
True. And since no one watches CW teen dramas….
Now, they want to eliminate work permits entirely and just take it on the good word of those employing young people that everything is on the up and up.
As of right now, 14 and 15-year-olds who wish to join the workforce must obtain a permit. It costs $10 and requires a statement from the prospective employer explaining the nature of the job and a statement from one’s parents saying they give permission for their child to work. It’s not a big deal and can even be done online, but Republican legislators say even that is just way too much red tape for teens and anyone who might want to hire them.
Wisconsin Republicans want to be able to allow parents to teach their children the value of a hard day’s work at ANY age. So, if Dad thinks six-year-old Johnny could benefit from a stint in the salt mines, then Republicans think he should be able to do that. After all, “parental rights,” eh??
Indeed. Everyone needs to learn the value of work, no matter how young.
In a statement, [State Sen. Cory] Tomczyk, [R-Mosinee] said it’s not the government’s duty to "say who can or cannot work" and the decision should be left to parents.
"We need to motivate Wisconsin’s youth to work and prepare themselves for the real world," he said. "Everyone who wants to work, should be able to work without the government standing in their way."
So, if parents think the family needs more money to make ends meet, they should be able to put the little cretins to work. After all, a little hard work never killed anyone, right?
Well, almost never.
"Lost 2don'tnds and grew one inch": Ndon't's buying Trump's self-reported 215-pound weight
Today’s coffee spew moment:
Former President Donald Trump's self-reported height and weight during his surrender to authorities in Georgia Thursday quickly sparked questions of their validity. The quadruple indictee listed his height as 6-foot-3 and weight as 215 pounds while being booked at the Fulton County Jail, digits that varied vastly from his previously reported numbers. During Trump's Manhattan arraignment earlier this year, he told police he stood at 6-foot-2 and weighed 240 pounds. The difference between the measurements would mean he "lost 25 pounds and grew one inch since his arraignment in April," noted Mediate's Aidan McLaughlin.
The self-reported figures also butt up against his last recorded weight during his presidency, according to The Messenger. The White House physician in 2019 listed his weight as 243 pounds, which was up by four pounds from his 2018 measurement. The outlet noted that Mark Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff who is two inches shorter than the former president, reported his weight at 240 pounds during his surrender, which would make him nearly 25 pounds heavier than Trump. MSNBC's Chris Hayes noted that Trump's self-reported measurements are identical to speedy star NFL quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Yeah, if he’s the same height and weight as Lamar Jackson, I’m Randy Rainbow. And I do NOT look good in an evening dress and tiara.
‘Jesus Wasn’t a Pacifist’: Training Christian Minutemen to Remove ‘Domestic Enemies’ From Office
Not many theologians are aware of this, but Jesus Christ was actually fairly proficient in guerilla tactics, including hand-to-hand combat, survival tactics, combat engineering, and combat first aid.
The Prince of Peace? Yeah, that was just a cover story for the Quakers…they’re pacifists, don’tchaknow?
Despite obvious risks, RNC chair wants greater focus on abortion
Why does Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman Ronna McDaniel (and Republican candidates themselves) want GOP Presidential candidates to focus on abortion during the 2024 campaign? Especially when this is precisely the battle Democrats want to fight?
Hmm….
Among the most notable takeaways from this week’s Republican presidential primary debate was the degree to which the candidates talked abortion rights. As The New York Times reported, the chair of the Republican National Committee was apparently “very pleased” with what she heard.
Even as Republicans’ efforts to restrict abortion rights appear to have hurt candidates in key races over the last year, the party’s chairwoman said on Thursday morning that she welcomed the protracted — and at times, contentious — discussion of the topic in the first Republican presidential debate on Wednesday night. “I was very pleased to see them talk about abortion,” Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, said on “Fox & Friends.”
In the same interview, the RNC chair added, “If our candidates aren’t able to find a response and put out a response, we’re not going to win.”
The problem is that the GOP stance on abortion is not the winning position they think it is. Americans are overwhelmingly pro-choice, yet Republicans have convinced themselves that they’re on the winning side.
They’re not.
And they may end up getting hoisted on their own pétard.
The Washington Post published an op-ed co-authored by Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager and White House counselor, and Marjorie Dannenfelser, who leads Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. The message was unsubtle: The opinion piece encouraged Republicans to “go on offense“ when it comes to reproductive rights.
It’s likely that many Democrats hope to see GOP candidates follow the advice.
In fact, just this morning, President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign unveiled a new ad, which is part of a 16-week, $25 million advertising campaign targeting voters in several battleground states. The minute-long spot doesn’t just tout the Democratic incumbent’s support for reproductive rights, it also highlights Republican efforts to impose new restrictions on reproductive care — even using clips from this week’s primary debate.
I don’t know; maybe Republicans don’t read polls. Or perhaps they only listen to the Right-wing Echo Chamber, but out here in America-land, a woman’s right to choose is pretty popular and has been for quite some time. Those who only listen to Fox News Channel and the like seem to have convinced themselves that their talking points are, in fact, the one and only factual reality. After all, that’s what Fox News Channel says.
Good luck with that, eh?
Jim Jordan Wants To Start Sh*t With DA Fani Willis
Back in March, when Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg indicted The Former Guy, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) decided there might be politics afoot. To combat this, he made sure there was politics afoot by demanding all of the District Attorney’s office’s documentation regarding the case.
As head of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jordan believes he is all-powerful and can insert himself in any legal proceeding anywhere at any time and for any reason…or for no valid reason at all.
In March of 2023, Donald Trump was indicted by a grand jury in Manhattan. His congressional allies immediately swung into action, demanding every detail of the ongoing investigation
“Your decision to pursue such a politically motivated prosecution — while adopting progressive criminal justice policies that allow career ‘criminals [to] run[ ] the streets of Manhattan’ — requires congressional scrutiny about how public safety funds appropriated by Congress are implemented by local law-enforcement agencies,” they huffed in a nastygram ordering Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to turn over every scrap of work product and grand jury information pertaining to Trump. (The internal quote is from the respected statisticians at the Daily Mail’s opinion page.)
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan did succeed in extracting information on federal funding for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and forcing Bragg’s former deputy Mark Pomerantz to testify. But Bragg told him to pound sand with respect to the demand for documents about the ongoing investigation, so the derp squad wandered off to look at Hunter Biden’s dick pics in between Newsmax hits.
Now it is August, and Donald Trump has been indicted again, this time by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
And the odds are excellent that DA Willis will deliver exactly the same response- go pound sand- to Rep. Jordan, who has no authority in a state court proceeding.
Not that the same Congressman who ignored the sexual abuse of athletes while he was a wrestling coach at THE Ohio State University has any problem with stretching the law to suit his political agenda:
On August 14, 2023, you brought a 41-count indictment against 19 defendants— including a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office, his attorneys, a former White House Chief of Staff, and a former U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) official—related to the 2020 election for President of the United States. Among other things, you have alleged that these 19 individuals, 30 unindicted co-conspirators, and others were part of a “criminal enterprise.” And you have identified a number of acts that you claim were committed in furtherance of this purported criminal enterprise, including: (1) the then-White House Chief of Staff asking a Member of Congress for the phone number of the Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; (2) the then-President tweeting that hearings in the Georgia legislature were being aired on a news channel and commenting on those hearings; and (3) numerous acts taking place in other states not involving the conduct of the 2020 election in Georgia or the counting of the votes cast in Georgia. Your indictment and prosecution implicate substantial federal interests, and the circumstances surrounding your actions raise serious concerns about whether they are politically motivated.
So, the Congressman from Ohio wants to understand if a criminal case is politically motivated by launching a politically motivated investigation. Yeah, that sounds about right.
Sure, the letter is short on facts and long on nefarious implications, which is what Rep. Jordan has at the moment. He probably figures that the mere threat of a Congressional investigation will be enough to deter the Fulton County DA’s office.
Nice try.
Rep. Jordan seems to be seriously underestimating his adversary, however. One doesn’t rise to be the District Attorney of Georgia’s largest county without a strong backbone and a low threshold for bullshit. And I seriously doubt DA Willis will be intimidated by Rep. Jordan’s impotent saber-rattling. She no doubt recognizes the absurdity of the Congressman’s politically motivated accusations regarding the “politically motivated” nature of her case against The Former Guy.
Go pound sand, Congressman.
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Thanks for the link to American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, I collect such things so that I can have them immediately to hand. The phrase I use (which causes some delamination among the neo-fascists) is, "a parasitic blob of protoplasm with no more agency than a hair follicle."
I do love how these hypocrites are all about the widdo babies, until they actually ARE babies and then it is a unified chorus of "fuck 'em."