When life gives you lemons, how 'bout some boobs?
Or we could make rape the law of the land...'cuz men deserve sex, don'tchaknow??
O.J. Simpson, Legendary Football Player Famously Acquitted Of Double Murder, Dead At 76:
It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving asshole, eh? Yeah, yeah, I know. We shouldn’t speak ill of the dead, but I said similar things when Simpson was alive. And I have to love my wife’s reaction upon hearing the news of Simpson’s passing: “Wherever he is, I hope Nicole is kicking his ass.”
What she said.
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- I couldn’t agree more. As a longtime fan of the female breast, I’m all about celebrating them. Party on, Garth!And that’s all I’m going to say before I get myself into trouble.
The Delusions Of Tulsi Gabbard:
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- Remember when Tulsi Gabbard was a hot Democratic Congresswoman from Hawaii that kinda, sorta made sense? Or was I listening to her with the wrong head, ‘cuz now she’s been traveling on the same crazy train as Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ)?Now trapped in her own self-invented reality, where she ignores Donald Trump’s crimes, makes regular appearances on Fox News, reveres Elon Musk, and lives in a Cloudcuckooland only she calls home, no one knows what she stands for anymore. That’s probably just as well because there’s no way either party would want her to represent them in ANY capacity.
Talk about a very special brand of delusions.
Trump's deeply misogynist lie about moms killing babies:
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- Though the rabid Evangelical support of Donald Trump is a puzzling thing to rationalize, much less understand to any degree, there is one thing Trump shares with the American Taliban- a fear of women’s empowerment.Neither Trump nor the American Taliban can tolerate a world in which women are free agents and independent of the control and influence of men regarding the direction and decisions concerning their lives.
On Monday, Donald Trump released a video announcing his much heralded abortion “policy.” The statement was typically garbled, deliberately vague, and chock full of absurd assertions.
For example, Trump bizarrely asserted that that “both sides wanted and, in fact, demanded” that Roe v. Wade be “ended.” His suggestion is that the entire nation was clamoring for the end of reproductive rights that he engineered with his Supreme Court nominations, when in fact national polling shows that a solid majority supports legal abortion. (If you can stomach it, you can watch Trump’s entire video statement below.)
As has long been typical, many in the press misreported the gist of the statement. A New York Times headline declared that Trump had said “Abortion Restrictions Should Be Left to the States.” This is incorrect, and gives Trump undeserved credit for his typical, and deliberate, ambiguity.
Trump did not say he would refuse to sign a federal abortion ban into law, and his record is to the contrary. He supported a federal 20-week ban when he was in the White House and said was “disappoint[ed]” when it was filibustered in the Senate.
But the headlines not only misstated what Trump said, they also omitted the most repugnant and revealing portion of his presentation — his repulsive lie that women have been “execut[ing]” their own children “after birth,” with the assistance of doctors.
Trump and the American Taliban will do anything, even lie as required, to ensure that women remain in a legally and practically subservient position. They’re just that scared of the power of women.
As well they should be. Given half a chance, women will kick their sorry asses.
Is this what the GOP end game is?:
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“The most basic human right?” Sorry, y’all, but NO MAN has a fundamental human right to any woman’s body if she doesn’t consent. That’s the textbook-and legal- definition of “rape.” This belief is beyond reprehensible.
People who believe this don’t deserve to be given the time of day by a woman.
That's How It Works When You're a Woman on the Internet:
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- “[T]here’s nothing the internet hates more than a woman who doesn’t hate herself.”
Jesus, guys, are y’all’s egos really that fragile? Are you so brittle inside that an attractive and intelligent woman who happens NOT to hate herself and isn’t looking for validation in a relationship with you threatens you?
Get a freakin’ grip. If you can’t handle a woman who’s attractive, strong, intelligent, confident, and knows what she wants, I genuinely feel sorry for you. A woman like that is far more likely to be involved in a healthy relationship because she knows what she wants, needs, and is willing to give.
If you want a wounded bird who will entirely depend upon you for emotional sustenance, that’s pathetic. It will be challenging to have a healthy, mutually satisfying relationship if one or both of you are emotionally damaged.
She’s a human being, not a trophy, a China doll, or a plaything. Try something you might not be used to- treating a woman with respect, like she’s an equal. See how far that gets you.
You might be surprised.
Republican leaders go to the mat to protect judge shopping:
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- During Donald Trump’s Reign of Error ©, Conservatives made out like bandits when it came to the federal judiciary. Not only did Donny Diaperfull pack the federal bench with MAGA loyalists- many utterly unqualified to manage a Dairy Queen, much less serve as a federal judge- but there was another powerful tool Conservatives used.Yes, the Far-Right discovered the joys of rampant judge shopping. If this sounds like Conservatives might have been looking for favorable justices who would render favorable decisions, that’s precisely what it was, and Conservatives remain shameless about it.
The Judicial Conference of the United States, the congressionally authorized rule-making body for federal courts, recently issued new policy guidance that would curb this practice, but conservative judges and legislators simply said they will refuse to follow it.
It’s a profoundly undemocratic stance, highlighting the complete breakdown of checks and balances in the Trump era.
Judge shopping is exactly what it sounds like — the practice of picking the judge most likely to rule in your favor. Conservatives have successfully used this practice not just to obtain a victory in the jurisdiction where they brought the case but also to get their preferred judges to issue nationwide injunctions. That’s where a lone judge issues a decision that blocks a law nationwide. The GOP used to decry the practice as unconstitutional judicial overreach. But unsurprisingly, once President Joe Biden took office, they became big fans of it….
And they became very adept at playing the judicial system to their advantage.
[C]onservatives have cast their concerns about judge shopping aside these days because they know that they can get the results they want by bringing cases in front of the right judges. These aren’t typically cases seeking any sort of economic recovery. Rather, they are cases that attack Obamacare, literally any executive action President Biden tries to bring, and any laws that favors LGBTQ rights.
For years, red state attorneys general and conservative activists have tried to eliminate Obamacare. They’ve consistently brought cases in the Fort Worth Division of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas. There’s only one judge there, Judge Reed O’Connor, who threw out Obamacare entirely in 2018, saying the law was unconstitutional. When that didn’t succeed, plaintiffs continued to file cases in O’Connor’s court to chip away at Obamacare piece by piece.
In 2023, O’Connor issued a nationwide injunction that eliminated most preventative care provisions in Obamacare. Those provisions made health insurers cover vital healthcare for free, including things like colorectal scanning and prescribing statins for people at risk for heart attacks. But conservative Christians were mad that the preventative care also included screenings for STDs and coverage for PrEP, the drug that stops the transmission of HIV. So, they brought it to O’Connor, who promptly agreed that requiring health insurance that covered those things violated the plaintiffs’ religious freedom, eliminating most preventative care in the process.
Conservatives have gone “judge shopping” in cases involving the abortion pill and other hot-button issues. It’s become a strategy for them to get precisely the result they desired, and it’s been surprisingly successful.
So much for justice being blind.
Arizona GOP lawmaker lashes out at "god-haters" who criticized abortion ban prayer:
When you believe that your god is the one, true, and ONLY supreme being and that the separation of Church and State doesn’t apply to you because you’re just that righteous, you’re Anthony Kern. I wish the arrogant asshole would eat a bag of dicks, but what do I know?
Whatever the case, if Kern and his “prayer warriors” are going to pray in public like the hypocrites they are, they shouldn’t be doing it on the floor of the Arizona legislature.
Obviously, the prayer didn’t have any effect on the ruling. And the prayers didn’t stir up “god-haters.” It stirred up anyone who thinks the government ought to be run by sensible people who care about their constituents instead of lunatics who want to burn the Constitution and replace it with the KJV Bible. The problem isn’t that Kern is a Christian; it’s that he’s a Christian Nationalist who wants to appease his god instead of the people he represents.
The ruling occurred because former Republican Governor Doug Ducey expanded the state’s Supreme Court to seven justices, appointing five of them by the end of his time in office, in order to give Republicans whatever results they wanted. The Court’s 4-2 ruling occurred even after one justice recused himself from the case because his anti-abortion rhetoric was a little too public. Even the 15-week ban that the decision overturned was enacted in 2022 under Ducey and his GOP allies.
That’s not God at work. That’s the end result of a broken political system celebrated by Republicans.
Kern should know about broken political systems, too, since he was one of Arizona’s fake electors in 2020 and is currently under investigation. He’s also the sort of politician who thinks he can fix education by putting a copy of the Ten Commandments in every school. (That bill, which he sponsored, narrowly passed through both GOP-led chambers. It now sits in front of Gov. Katie Hobbs, who has not yet signed it into law or vetoed it.)
That’s not Christianity. That’s arrogance, hypocrisy, and believing that your faith makes you superior, which it most definitely does not.
Eat a bag of dicks, Tony. You’re a waste of a meat sack.
Post-Dobbs, Republicans Would Have Murdered My Wife:
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- Republicans in red states love to proclaim how banning abortions will save the lives of babies. But what about the lives of women who experience complications and may need an abortion to survive? If the law requires that a woman be on death’s door to obtain an abortion so courts don’t hold doctors criminally liable, how far must women be pushed? And how many must die as doctors fear for their livelihoods and their lives?Justin Rosario relates a very close-to-home story of what happened to his wife in 2006 and discusses her back-to-back miscarriages in light of today’s misogynistic legal climate.
It’s not a pleasant read, but it is an important one.
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