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Трамп and His Treasonous Terrorists:

Trevor does the 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Zerlina: U.S. hits 1 million covid deaths

Supremely Fucked:

Solana Rice: Why child poverty is a policy choice

John Oliver: Environmental racism

Trevor: Nancy Pelosi surprises Zelenskyy

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Comments

  1. 1

    I say give the people what they want!

    Let this country go to shit! The people will be happy!

  2. 2

    The people have spoken!

    Now imagine that I’m Michelle Bachman voice while she admires her husband’s ferry face!

  4. 4

    I didn’t see this one coming. But it was rumored that he was a Republican and, if he was, it makes a lot of sense.

    Fred Savage fired from ‘The Wonder Years’ after inappropriate conduct claims

    The inappropriate behavior of the low IQ traitor out in the barn? That’s some very sick shit.

  6. 6

    Updates from Northern Ireland, Looks like Sinn Fein has won the most first preference votes, with counting to resume in the morning. About the only change in Northern Ireland will be who is First Minister. Won’t be an immediate referendum on joining the Republic. It appears Sinn Fein won’t be breaking through in heavily Unionist East Belfast. If they had, it would have been a Titanic sea change in that district.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-61333297

  8. 8

    If FOX and CJ Roberts spend the next ten years undermining the court’s cred by focusing on MOLE HUNT that works for me. Casting the court as “broken” feeds directly into a political narrative that it is a court “in need of repair”.

    Good.

    Change the Senate. Change the rules. Change the court.

  10. 10

    @ 8

    Change the Senate. Change the rules. Change the court.

    Change permitted speech by students.

    Nowhere is free speech more important than in our leading
    institutions of higher learning. Colleges and universities serve as
    the founts of—and the testing grounds for—new ideas. Their chief
    mission is to equip students to examine arguments critically and,
    perhaps even more importantly, to prepare young citizens to participate in the civic and political life of our democratic republic. It’s
    hardly surprising, then, that the Supreme Court has “long recognized that, given the important purpose of public education and
    the expansive freedoms of speech and thought associated with the
    university environment, universities occupy a special niche in our
    constitutional tradition.” Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306, 329
    (2003); see also Healy, 408 U.S. at 180 (“The college classroom with
    38 Opinion of the Court 21-12583
    its surrounding environs is peculiarly the ‘marketplace of ideas.’”);
    Sweezy v. State of N.H. by Wyman, 354 U.S. 234, 262 (1957)
    (Frankfurter, J., concurring) (emphasizing that a “free society” depends “on free universities”). Accordingly, it is imperative that
    colleges and universities toe the constitutional line when monitoring, supervising, and regulating student expression. Despite what
    we presume to be the very best of intentions, it seems to us substantially likely that the University of Central Florida crossed that
    line here.
    * * *
    For the foregoing reasons, we hold (1) that Speech First has
    standing to challenge both the discriminatory-harassment and biasrelated-incidents policies, (2) that the district court abused its discretion in refusing to preliminarily enjoin the discriminatory-harassment policy, and (3) that the district court should determine in
    the first instance whether Speech First is entitled to a preliminary
    injunction of the bias-related-incidents policy.
    REVERSED in part, VACATED in part, and REMANDED.

    3-0 decision.

  11. 11

    Seen elsewhere:

    Not Sure said…
    Young actress disgusted by elderly co-star’s groping, gets him fired.

    Seems like a tough “last hurrah” for Langella, but the upside is that he’ll be the obvious choice to play Joe Biden in a future biopic.

    5/6/22, 11:48 AM

    He’s already played the role of an intelligent, creepy president. He just has to pull off playing the role of an imbecilic groper when he does Biden.

  12. 12

    Voters to PP: Meh.

    Avik Roy 🇺🇦
    @Avik
    ·
    19h
    “Voters who say overturning Roe would make them ‘happy’ are nearly twice as enthusiastic about voting this fall as those who say such a ruling would leave them ‘angry’ (38% extremely enthusiastic among those happy, 20% among those angry).”
    Quote Tweet
    Jennifer Agiesta
    @jennagiesta
    · 20h
    New CNN polling: Comparing pre- and post-polling, the draft opinion does not appear to have shaken the midterm landscape. https://cnn.com/2022/05/06/politics/cnn-poll-abortion-midterms-roe-v-wade/index.html

    At least unchecked inflation is something we can all agree is bad. Fortunately, most of us know it’s Biden’s fault, too.

  14. 14

    The First Family continues to cover itself in glorySantorum.

    Jon Levine
    @LevineJonathan
    Hunter Biden’s laptop password was “analfuck69”
    nypost.com
    The night I met Hunter Biden: Mac Shop owner John Mac Isaac…
    In his book, John Paul Mac Isaac will tell his story — and here, in an exclusive first look, he describes the moment he met Hunter Biden.
    6:30 PM · May 6, 2022

  16. 16

    …decided to start by doxxing the Court’s conservative members.

    I’m of the opinion that the public has every right to know every relevant public record detail about lifetime appointed very public officials. Especially when they are endowed with universal authority over all of our laws. And I see nothing wrong with that including ownership records of multi-million dollar homes, outside sources of income, business investments, etc.

    The court isn’t magical.
    It’s just nine pretty good lawyers (soon to become eleven).
    None of them are compelled to serve. And each is free to retire at any time.

    I was very impressed recently by a school board official responding to paranoid “Groomer Rainbows” Republicans demonstrating in front of her home. She was perfectly fine with people knowing her address and demonstrating lawfully in front of her home. She was even okay with people on her lawn. She brought them coffee.

    But she drew the line when Republicans wearing ski masks and carrying assault rifles with high cap mags followed her daughter to school and threatened to slaughter her in the street.

    Seemed fair.
    And she’s absolutely right. Service is voluntary. And people have a right to express disagreement through lawful protest.

    Each and every one of those five Justices knows exactly why they were appointed, for what purpose, and all that it implies. They knew it all going in. And none of them, not a single one of them, is any better, any more “dignified” or any more important than that school board member.
    They aren’t magical. They are just lawyers.

    Change the Senate. Change the rules. Change the court.

  18. 18

    In his book, John Paul Mac Isaac will tell his story —

    Cool!
    Know what? Another Trump guy has a book coming out.
    Trump inauguration slush funder Gordon Sondland’s tell-all drops in October. In pre-pub interviews Sondland, Trump’s former Ambassador to the E.U., tries to rehabilitate his professional image by describing how he was duped/pressured by Trump/Giuliani into brokering Trump’s Ukrainian Drug Deal.

    That was the deal in 2019 where Trump was offering to trade vital defensive systems (appropriated by Congress) to Ukraine in exchange for a fabricated smear of… some random laptop guy.
    Deal fell through.

    Of course there was a plan B. Just not a very good one.

  19. 19

    Change permitted speech by students.

    Ignorance is… ignorance.

    The broad, and often expansive, exceptions to protected expression afforded to educational institutions largely date back to the 1930s. At the time, and somewhat in response to the consolidation of the Soviet Union, the expansion of socialism in Europe, and the rise of fascism in German, Italy, Spain, China, and Japan, a wave of hyper-patriotic paranoid zeal swept America in a form we are all now very familiar with (radio, newspapers, rallies, “charismatic and very colorful figures”).

    As with today, one of the places where paranoid zealots focused was schools and school boards. It was about this time that school boards began implementing regulations requiring standing flag salutes and the reciting of loyalty pledges in public school classrooms.

    Children of Jehovah’s Witnesses enrolled in public schools could not participate owing to conscientious religious stricture. Zealous, paranoid, aggressive, and religiously intolerant conservative school administrators under public pressure from conservative groups, began to expel these JW children from their schools by the thousands. Eventually lawsuits were filed and worked their way through the courts.

    The result was a broad exception especially granted to educational institutions to restrict protected forms of expression for the sake of “good order” and “discipline” in an educational setting. That exception has only been expanded in the years since. Now a public school official can expel a student for what they post on social media.

    The restrictions that Degen’s 8chan girlfriends are complaining about are all the result of their own paranoid efforts over the years to “stamp out dissent”. Reap, bitches.

  20. 20

    17,
    “Maybe lifetime appointments needs to be changed…”
    That would involve amending the constitution. Very impractical.

    Also entirely unnecessary.

    The constitution very plainly and very deliberately left all of the other granular details about the composition and operations of the federal courts up the the democratically elected Congress.

    But your suggestion makes a very good point. By politicizing the appointment process over the last 100 years the Senate has de-emphasized the significant implications of the lifetime term in pursuit of political ends. In doing so they’ve overlooked a big part of their responsibility.

    People being appointed to lifetime positions and granted universal and unlimited authority should, in my opinion, be entirely above reproach in nearly every way. The permanence and power that they are being granted demands that, at a minimum. Appointees with serious, credible personal or professional flaws in their background should be passed over every single time, regardless of whatever faction, group, or interest they represent. People who’ve been involved in shady business deals, people who have abused or exploited employees, people with substance abuse issues (even in their past), domestic abusers, people with criminal issues (even minor), and people with any record of dishonesty do not belong on the federal courts.

    Change the Senate. Change the rules. Change the courts.

  21. 21

    @ 20

    Change the Senate. Change the rules. Change the courts.

    QoS McHillbilly, y’all don’t mind if we wait until the GOP’s back in charge, right?

    Cocaine Mitch warned Harry Reid what would happen last time the Democrats changed the Senate. Harry Reid fucked around and found out.

  23. 23

    I guess what Doc is really telling us is that the young minds of his tribe should be allowed to use the “n” word in college classrooms and flip off the mathematics professor who insists 2 + 2 always = 4 while getting drowned out by them.

  24. 24

    There was no free speech in my undergraduate Money and Banking class, taught by a prominent economist. By that I mean on the first day of class I leaned over to whisper to a classmate and was immediately ejected from the class. The professor had a very neanderthal attitude, to wit: (1) it was his classroom (2) which he ran as he pleased (3) there was to be no talking at all when he was talking (4) at the point where we knew more about the subject than he did we could take over his job of teaching the class and until then shut up, listen, and take notes. It did work for learning purpose, despite its dearth of democratic principle. After crawling on hands and knees to his office, paying obsequious penance, including promising to never do it again, etc., I was allowed back in class, kept my mouth shut and took notes etc., and at the end of the term got the highest grade of the class.

    So now let’s examine the nature of “free speech on campus.” Exchange of ideas, yes; challenging concepts, yes. But you spoke in turn, and only when called on; and if you said something incredibly stupid you got taken down by the professor and/or other students. So there were disincentives to being unprepared, not knowing what you were talking about, and/or being flat-ass wrong. For example, you should not, and did not, get anywhere by arguing “two-plus-two can equal any number you want it to,” except in Advanced Quantum Physics class.

    I was in college a long time ago, and have no familiarity with current campus practices, so I’m not familiar with “free speech zones” or “we need some muscle over here.” We didn’t have that stuff in my time, and I don’t know anything about it. Takedowns were intellectual, not physical, and exercised with logical argument, not police SWAT teams snapping handcuffs on instructors (as appears to be the pending practice in Florida classrooms). It was not illegal to mention “slavery,” “systemic racism,” or “climate change” in educational settings, as appears to be the case in some places not.

    I’m 100% for academic freedom, intellectual inquiry and debate, and exploring and testing new ideas. But, liberal-minded as I am, I don’t think students (or instructors) should be allowed to use the “n” word in classrooms without consequences; and if you insist two-plus-two can equal any number you want it to, you should demonstrate your proof on the blackboard, otherwise you’re just shit-talking.

  25. 25

    I guess what Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is telling us @ 23 is that the Dumbfuck Rabbit well has gone bone-dry.

  26. 26

    …y’all don’t mind if we wait until the GOP’s back in charge, right?

    Since this decision, authored in this way, has rescued Hassan, doomed Johnson, and will undoubtedly result in at least a decade without another Republican in the White House, I don’t really see what leverage Degen thinks he has to offer. But sure. Waiting is good.

    The House may flip. It will flip back.

    I can wait.

    And having waited where will we be? More than half of Americans capable of giving birth living in states where that is no longer their decision. A dozen or so states where adult citizens are no longer free to choose who they marry. A handful of states where prescription birth control is restricted to married adults over 21. The first women waiting on death row for having terminated her pregnancy. A dozen or so state attorneys general openly ignoring their own state laws. Another dozen or so state attorneys general openly ignoring the Supreme Court and other federal judges. Public confidence in the Supreme Court in free fall. A hundred million voters eager for a fix.

    Sure thing. Waiting works. Won’t be long.

  27. 27

    @26 Here’s what you’re missing: Bob is thinking, as every Republican is, that elections will soon be non-binding advisory referenda which inform, but do not control, legislative appointments of electors.

    Alternatively, as nobody likes the archaic Electoral College system and both sides want to get rid of it, the ceremonial Senate counting of electoral votes will be dispensed with altogether and the “people’s representatives” will elect presidents, with each state having one vote as per the “deeply rooted in history” Constitution article.

  28. 28

    @12 “most of us know it’s Biden’s fault”

    Show your work, using this comment thread as a blackboard substitute.

  29. 29

    17, 20 – It’s not necessary to amend the Constitution to change lifetime tenure. Just reduce the size of the court to 7 justices and reassign the surplus justices to senior status. In that capacity, they can be called on to fill in for absent justices, somewhat similar to alternate jurors.

  30. 30

    On Fox news, the talking head asked the zealot congresswoman “where the voice of the woman who didn’t want to carry a unwanted child, was in the debate?”.
    The congresswoman responded that the woman should rejoice in being a mother, and what mattered was the voice of the unborn baby.

  31. 31

    27,
    That civil war is now a widespread GOP fantasy can’t be denied.
    But it’s a fantasy that invigorates “civil warriors” like this guy:
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-charged-capitol-riot-sobbed-talking-using-stun-gun-officer-interro-rcna7270

    I’m not particularly worried about them. Sure, they can seize a poorly protected government building for a few hours. Then they all go home as soon as their smartphone batteries run low.

  32. 32

    30,
    Rejoice.

    By the time of the next presidential election it will be the voice of the 13-year-old Florida girl with Down’s syndrome forced to “co-parent” with her father-rapist that will matter most.

    Thanks to the Trollito decision, “Florida man” will never be president.

  33. 33

    Vaccine skeptics and anti-maskers who invoked ‘my body, my choice’ in the pandemic are now lining up to support the end of Roe v. Wade
    Because of course they are.
    For fascists, language and discourse is about power and “winning”. Winning doesn’t mean coherently using logic or arguments.
    Case in point, conservatives who scream about the sacred lives of babies and how they must be protected at all costs have never voiced a single word of concern about the fact that the US has the highest infant mortality rate in the developed world. They do not give a shit about babies.

  34. 34

    @31 Does Officer Fanone receive a disability pension? He’s 41 years old, and if he gets, let’s say, $65,000 a year and lives to be 72, that’s $2,015,000 of disability benefits at taxpayer expense. Perhaps the rioters who assaulted him should be billed for it?

  35. 35

    @32. Unless the republican states nullify the vote totals in their states and send the electors who will chose “Florida Man” regardless. That’s how “Florida Man” could get elected.

  36. 36

    It just seems to me that Capitol rioters who assaulted and injured police officers are getting very light sentences compared to most felons who assault and injure police officers. Why the favorable treatment? Are they considered upstanding citizens?

  38. 38

    It doesn’t matter to republicans, it’s probably a reason to vote FOR him. He’s just being smart!
    “in the summer of 2020, Trump asked, on at least two occasions, if the military could “shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs,” saying, “They don’t have control of their own country.” The then president insisted that they could do it “quietly,” adding: “no one would know it was us.” Apparently informed that yes, in fact, people would know it was the U.S., Trump responded that he would simply lie and say we didn’t do it.
    (In a speech to Republican donors in March, Trump suggested that the U.S. should “put the Chinese flag” on its military planes, “bomb the shit” out of Russia, “and then we say, China did it, we didn’t do it, China did it, and [let them] start fighting with each other.”)”

  39. 39

    @32 “Thanks to the Trollito decision”

    What’s that? I haven’t heard of it and can’t find any reference to it.

  40. 40

    @38 Assuming the Russians didn’t see through this subterfuge, and possibly they wouldn’t — as Ukraine is demonstrating, Russia isn’t the chandelier’s brightest bulb — and a Russia-China nuclear exchange ensued, what would we get from that besides fallout and nuclear winter?

  41. 41

    36,
    I think there are two explanations, neither of which would be satisfying to those injured or the families of those killed.

    First, there appears to be a very real and very careful commitment on the part of the managing prosecutors to ensuring that all of these 800+ defendants are granted due process and equal protection. I wish that were always the case. But I’m not going to complain. It’s critical that these prosecutions move forward without a hint prosecutorial misbehavior, real or perceived. Plea agreements presented to the courts in these cases have to be above reproach.

    Secondly, there are over 800 indictments to resolve. Part of what makes the process unfold slowly is the extreme care the prosecutors are taking to fully develop all the relevant facts in each case. Because of their addictions to social media self-promotion, and their highly evolved fantasies about “patriotism” and masculine violence, that has often resulted in charging enhancements. One way or another, many of these assholes have talked their way into felonies. The true nature of the extreme violence and criminal intent that was present that day was never fully captured in media coverage in real time. But it was abundantly present in the statements and communications uncovered in the months since the terrorist attack.

    It turns out it really was worse than we thought. A sizable number of those under indictment were there for the specific purpose of violently opposing the peaceful transfer of power. And they engaged in terrible planned and coordinated violence in pursuit of that purpose. Many hundreds of others under indictment were there merely to vent their frustration in an orgy of criminal violence and rioting.

    It’s a much bigger number of much more serious criminal prosecutions than initially envisioned. And that does not even account for the complex conspiracy prosecutions. Main Justice expects to more than double the current size of the team. But I’m afraid they have to compromise around reasonable, achievable goals. And that will inevitably involve negotiating more lenient plea deals for those defendants who agree to cooperate.

  42. 42

    Republicans should be all for this.

    Overturning Roe requires another law be passed that ensures men bear equal responsibility for pregnancies. Call it the “Personal Responsibility Act.” Using DNA as a verification, paternity for every embryo should be established and the male responsible obliged by law to support the woman and the child through the child’s majority, including medical costs, living costs, education — all the costs a father normally assumes for his child. In addition, the child should have a full share of the father’s estate if and when the father dies. If women cannot decide whether or not carry a child, fathers should not be able to decide whether or not to support the woman and the child. It’s about time men assumed responsibility for the consequences of their pleasure.

    Robert Veitch, Richfield

  43. 43

    Like every other state, Missouri was late to redraw its eight congressional districts thanks to delays in U.S. Census data. But as of this week, Missouri lawmakers still haven’t come up with final lines for a multitude of reasons — from disagreements on where to put military bases, to a tussle between Republicans about how GOP-leaning to make the overall plan.
    The biggest fight, though, is what to do with the 2nd Congressional District, which contains portions of St. Louis’ metro area. Some want to keep the district primarily suburban, while others want to add rural counties that have voted decisively for Republicans in recent years.

    https://www.npr.org/2022/05/07/1097117702/missouri-congressional-primary-redistricting-confusion-republican-disagreement
    The GOP cannot decide amongst themselves on how much to cheat. This is what Missouri republican voters want. A totally corrupt dysfunctional government.

  44. 44

    35, 37,
    So, you’re basically describing Arizona and Georgia. Accounting in census changes to the electoral map, if the election were to play out exactly as in 2020, when Republicans enjoyed four years of incumbency, the assistance of Russian oligarchs, and active social media advertising campaigns fueled entirely by defaming lies, Biden still wins by three electoral votes. Because Republicans suck.

    I actually expect Biden to swing one or two more states by 2024, depending on which Florida Man the Republicans nominate. But given the results from the primaries last week, I think we have our answer.

  45. 45

    The new Louisiana bill has amended the current law’s language to make sure abortion criminalization covers ectopic pregnancies.

    Tennessee Gov. Lee signs law criminalizing mail-order abortion pills

    Republicans, Just gonna tell them to shut up and enjoy being mothers, assuming they survive the pregnancy?
    It’s going to influence the election.

  46. 46

    43,
    Happily it has more to do with changes in demographics and the steady decline of Republican influence in many of the “safe” districts their incumbents have come to depend upon.

    The suburbs are just not that white anymore. But in many instances it’s proven very hard and even risky to carve off enough very old white people from more rural districts without making those districts a lot less “safe”. So there are competing interests. Incumbent members representing very safe, nearly all white mostly rural safe districts haven’t been feeling either generous enough or safe enough. Everything Trump touches he destroys.

  47. 47

    Great Kentucky Derby this year. Plus, the cheating trainer is serving his suspension.

  48. 48

    Who the fuck triggered the low IQ fucktard traitor into having a low IQ meltdown??

    Oh, I see now. It was all of us. Well done, you guys.

  50. 50

    Good grief. The low IQ fucktard traitor and what he believes is “both sides” is truly low IQ fucking pathetic.

    We all know who the real “twat” is around here, and it’s not YLB.

  53. 53

    @42 That’s already the law, and federal law requires every state to enforce it, but enforcement is underwhelming and somewhat neglected in — you guessed it — red states.

  56. 56

    55,
    From one of the neighbors:
    “That I don’t agree with,” the man interjected. “I think you vote, and you expand the court. You don’t go to a guy’s house.”

    https://youtu.be/vgk-lA12FBk

    Change the Senate. Change the rules. Change the court.

  57. 57

    @45 In looking for more info about this, I came up with a Yahoo News story about a Missouri bill to “make it a crime to terminate ectopic pregnancies.” That story named a specific GOP legislator, so I followed that thread, and what I found is he claims to support medical treatment for ectopic pregnancies and denies the bill would prohibit that, and says he’s been misrepresented by abortion advocates.

    https://www.bransontrilakesnews.com/news/local/article_e8881adc-a6d5-11ec-bc80-876765449aea.html

    So I wonder if that’s the story with Louisiana, too? The real issue with the Louisiana law seems to be something else, i.e. this:

    “The legislation would take effect immediately even if federal abortion rights are still in place and the Supreme Court hasn’t overturned Roe v. Wade, as the bill stipulates it should be enforced ‘without regard to the opinions and judgments of the Supreme Court of the United States in Roe v. Wade’ or any other past or future abortion-related rulings, as well as any federal statutes or executive orders. Any state judge who tries to block the law should be impeached or removed, the bill states.”

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/05/05/louisiana-lawmakers-advance-bill-making-abortion-homicide-even-if-roe-v-wade-isnt-overturned/?sh=3e7936622e65

    You could write a book on what this implies about the mindsets of the legislators who voted for it.

  58. 58

    @55 I guess my reaction is the illegitimacy of his confirmation to the Supreme Court almost legitimizes it. It’s one thing if you get on the court playing by the rules. But when you lie, cheat, and steal a court seat and then exercise that power in a way that damages other people’s lives, you shouldn’t be surprised when they get upset. Also remember he volunteered for this; no one made him do it. I’m not saying it’s okay; I’m only saying he and his backers provoked it.

  59. 59

    @ 58

    Also remember he volunteered for this; no one made him do it.

    Clearly Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s perspective has matured since Gabby Giffords was shot. Or did I miss a spew in which he wrote the same thing about her?

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s intellectual tank has been dry for years now.

  60. 60

    Those five villains will still rule for Forced Births and nothing legal will change that. Use that energy to organize, get out the vote and win elections.

  63. 63

    Any guess on the dudes sexual orientation? It doesn’t matter? What do you mean it doesn’t matter,

    I believe by that you mean the victim, and in my humble opinion, it would make it worse. A lot worse, Gman.

  64. 64

    Gabby Giffords

    Does anybody have any clue what the low IQ traitor @59 is trying to say.

    I didn’t break the low IQ traitor. We all broke him.

    Interesting tweet I found.

    I can’t get passed the fact that the line “DOMESTIC SUPPLY OF INFANTS” is from a SCOTUS draft ruling and not from the script of Handmaid’s Tale. THIS IS WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST IN 2022!

    Domestic supply of infants?? WTF?

  65. 65

    I’d swear to God almighty that, once the low IQ traitor crossed Elijah’s “Orange Event Horizon”, as the stupid fuck elongates his way towards the orange singularity, he’s become more fucking stupid with each passing day.

  67. 67

    He’s working on Palin now. Ouch.

    LMFAO!!

    I’ve already forgiven Steve Schmidt for his sins, and have told him to go forth and sin no more. So far, that’s exactly what he’s done.

    The doctor’s sins are unforgivable. He will pay dearly for them.

  68. 68

    You all really should check out Schmidt’s unraveling/unloading.
    It’s quite spectacular.
    Among other things he’s doing a decent job of retroactively destroying MAVERICK and exposing him as fairly vain, petulant, and frequently cowardly.

    Like father, like daughter I guess.
    None of this is news to Democrats.

  69. 69

    @68 Yeah, I saw that he went back bashing Megan and her father. Absolutely brutal.

    He’s really on a roll. I half expect him take a lethal swing at our low IQ traitor.

  70. 70

    @66 “Palin understood the party of personal responsibility was dead and replaced by a whining victim cult of losers who routinely lied and blamed others for their failings.”

    If she did, she’s not as dumb as she looks.

  72. 72

    Very special Happy Mothers Day wishes to HA’s most precious, unserious, dumb twat, YLB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  73. 73

    @ 68

    Schmidt’s unraveling/unloading.
    It’s quite spectacular.

    You forgot to mention that Schmidt shepherded Alito through the SCOTUS confirmation hearings.

    It takes a special brand of hypocrisy to turn on the guy you’ve always known would write this opinion, but Schmidt’s that special brand of hypocrite.

  74. 74

    69,
    Towards midnight he got into Rick Davis’ financially corrupt involvement with Yanukovich in Ukraine through his partner Paul Manafort. Revealed that MAVERICK knew all about it, tolerated it because he needed the money connections.

    The GOP rot is deep, longstanding, and very fundamental.
    Today Ukraine is paying for that rot.

    *Davis, who was McCain’s 2008 campaign “CEO”, had been employed along with his partner Paul Manafort by Oleg Deripaska on behalf of Vladimir Putin to provide influence for Putin since 2005.

  75. 75

    … the guy you’ve always known would write this opinion

    The guy who directly lied to your face, your boss’ face and the chairman’s face?

    Over something as significant and important as a lifetime appointment to a position with universal and unlimited power, I’d say you absolutely turn your back.

    People with a history of that kind of lying should be disqualified from serving on that court.

  76. 76

    @ 75

    RBG knew the opinion was coming, and had no answer for it except to try to last until 2021.

    Roe was wrongly decided. So was Plessy. There’s a difference between stare decisis and correcting clear error by one’s predecessors.

    You knew it was coming and had 49 years to prepare for it. You knew it was coming and still chose to back #CrookedHillary.

    Gorsuch.

    Kavanaugh.

    Coney Barrett.

    Think on your sins. Think about what RBG was warning you would happen. It’s here.

  77. 77

    You forgot to mention that Schmidt shepherded Alito through the SCOTUS confirmation hearings.

    It would be… what’s the word?… DUMBFUCK to conclude that because I’ve enjoyed watching Schmidt eviscerate the “moral heart” of “conservatism” in America that I think highly of him.

    I’ll give him the credit he’s due, however. He’s a talented communicator with a long list of credible accomplishments in politics. And much to his credit, he has stood by John Weaver and supported him though he was not a close friend, because he knew the MAGA world attacks against him were smears. But he fundamentally misjudged the GOP and it’s ultimate direction. He clings to “conservative” principles while his party (former?) has completely abandoned them. He shamelessly promotes his own media celebrity while scorning celebrity and those who seek it. A mulit-millionaire, he obviously suffers immense jealousy of Republicans whose abandonment of principles has earned them so much more.

  78. 78

    Very special Happy Mothers Day wishes to HA’s most precious, unserious, dumb twat

    Heh.. No idea if this is the case, but I bet there’s a deceased woman out there who is blissfully free from a mother’s day call from a misogynist pos from widbee..

    As for me. I’m giving my Mom a call this afternoon to wish her nothing the best. She doesn’t have too many years left.

  80. 80

    “Roe was wrongly decided.”
    “…correcting clear error by one’s predecessors.”

    Show your work.

    I’ve never seen that from Degen. Not once in all the years. He’s a copy-pasta machine at times, pulling quotes and text from a vast array of slanted sources, some less than credible. But when cornered and confronted with reasoning and a demand to respond to reasoned argument, very consistently Degen has always fallen back on snark and rhetorical flair. Never once seen him put together an argument for anything. Only occasionally seen him quote a credible, albeit weak, argument.

    Trollito’s Dobbs decis certainly doesn’t stop short at Roe, even if Trollito claims it does. That’s just more of the gaslighting. It very clearly reverses Griswold. And Trollito points that out several time – almost like he’s drawing a map.
    And if Griswold is wrongly decided then there is no right to privacy, there are no unenumerated rights, and the ninth amendment does not exist, and instead has been replaced by something fabricated by un-elected judges that they call “substantive due process”.

    And if all this is true, and Trollito says it is, then there is no “textualism”, the court has been making law in substitution for elected law makers for more than a century, that “judicial activism” has been pursued just as aggressively in the defense of the “rights” and “privileges” of government, institutions, and corporations as it has in the defense of the rights of individuals, and the appellate process is just politics by other means.

    If so, then fuck it. Let’s change the court already.
    If majoritarianism is really all that matters, then let the majority prevail unhindered and unbound by five hand picked school marms in black robes.
    We own the court. We created it. We pay for it. And our elected lawmakers decide how it should operate. We own the law too. We make it. We can remake it. We own all of it. Let’s change the court to remove that impediment, and then change the law.

    Change the Senate. Change the rules. Change the court.

  81. 81

    79,
    Trollito claims that a “right to privacy” is not “deeply rooted in history”.

    That is laughable.

  82. 82

    Degen has always fallen back on snark and rhetorical flair.

    You’re being too kind.. psychotic babble is all it’s ever been.

  83. 83

    Think on your sins.

    Indeed.
    We all should.

    Reversing Roe and unleashing unlimited restrictions on abortion in the states, including criminal prosecutions of people seeking abortion services, is likely to have sweeping but also complex effects. States that criminalize abortions will have a struggle ahead of them to implement those laws effectively, safely, and fairly. It’ll consume a lot of resources, take a lot of time, and won’t ever be entirely effective. Never was before Roe. Won’t be now that a patient can order an abortion from Amazon using their phone.

    But it will energize and define a segment of political life in those states. The crusade to “stamp out abortion” will come to define many parts of government and civic life in those states, in very much the way “stamping out illegals” dominates some parts of government and civic life in Texas. Texas lost over $1 billion in trade value at one bridge crossing alone in their recent stunt. Going “full retard” on abortion will fuck up a lot of their shit costing them jobs and income.

    In states that retain patient rights to privacy and bodily autonomy, the needle is likely to move in the other direction. Access to low/no cost reproductive health services including birth control, medication abortions, and surgical abortions will be expanded. In many places authorization will be expanded to include NP,s nurse midwives, and PAs. And because of the sweeping and draconian nature of the Trollito decision and its impact, many objections and moderate impediments to abortion, such as notification laws, will be removed.

    The best estimates are that once fully implemented the effect of the Trollito decision won’t even accomplish a 20% reduction in the total number of abortions nationwide.

    And that prevention won’t be uniform, or equal. It will of course take place exclusively in Republican controlled states.But it will also be highly concentrated primarily among pregnant persons who are low income, younger, homeless, battered, developmentally disabled, or suffering from mental health issues and addiction. Because of that, if the decision stands for any substantial period of time, we can safely assume that in about two decades those states will be suffering a violent crime wave accompanied by an explosion of addiction, homelessness, and narcotics offenses.

  84. 84

    Seems like one of Justice Gangbang’s neighbors setting up an organized protest on his block would really intrude on his “privacy”.

    Maybe “privacy” ought to be protected.

  85. 85

    Americans won’t go back to back-room abortions again, no matter what the Republicans have talked themselves into over this issue.

    As far as I’m concerned, the abortion issue was decided nearly 50 years ago. It’s settled law.

  90. 90

    @71 Just don’t ask what she was eating. Rats.

    And don’t ask what they were eating.

  91. 91

    @76 “RBG knew the opinion was coming, and had no answer for it except to try to last until 2021.”

    RBG may have consciously tried to last until there was a Democratic president, of which there was a realistic possibility, but she had no reason to believe there was any prospect of a Democratic Senate majority; that was a gift by Trump to the Democrats after her death.

  92. 92

    @79 “Privacy is a right. The right to be left alone.”

    No. It’s not. At least, not explicitly in the Constitution, nor “deeply rooted in history.” And that puts it, too, on the chopping block.

    It’s hard to see how justices who insist rights must be explicit and historic in order to exist uphold any privacy-based right other than freedom from searches and seizures, and historically conservatives have carved out as many exceptions to that one as they can.

  93. 93

    @87 Graham is competing with Ted Crud for the title of “worst senator,” but I think he’s outclassed. Bad as he is, Ted will always be worse.

    Even Texas Republicans think Ted is a piece of shit. They put up with him because the alternative is a Democrat. That will always be a bridge too far for them, no matter how badly Ted behaves. And Ted knows it.

    MTG, Gaetz (see @88), Cawthorn, Brooks, Gomert, and others operate on the same principle. “Who you gonna vote for? A Democrat? Neener neener.”

  95. 95

    Yet more evidence that the world is going to hell in a hand basket. What on earth was Target thinking??

    8 Black-Owned Or Founded Brands You Can Shop At Target

    I believe America sorely needs a fascist president and a major fascist political party, as well as an all-fascist Supreme Court. Those folks know how to put American blacks and women back in their proper place as slaves and chattel.

    I’m sure you agree with me, Doctor.

  97. 97

    “…nor “deeply rooted in history.” “

    The right to privacy is at least as deeply rooted in history as the right to occupational employment, bodily autonomy, home schooling, marital freedom, sexual intimacy, or hiring an astrologer to advise your imbecile husband who also happens to be president.

    Part of the debate involves a fundamental argument between those who believe that the 14th amendment guarantees those unenumerated substantive rights that we all should have, and those who believe that it only protects those unenumerated substantive rights that we already have.

    If you take the latter view, then the 14th Amendment does not provide any civil rights whatsoever on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, or religion, beyond those most basic rights already previously guaranteed to persons and citizens. In 1868, as far as the majority of states were concerned, any right to “liberty” enjoyed by women, Blacks, or a Jews did not really exist and certainly did not include any of the rights we now broadly protect. All could be segregated, denied access, excluded, deprived of property, and arbitrarily disfavored and mistreated in countless ways.

    Trollito seeks to get around this by making a singular distinction. He sets all those civil rights to occupational and economic freedom, equality of access and treatment, etc. apart from abortion because…
    …
    …babies. Trollito declares that even if privacy is an unenumerated substantive right (which he clearly denies), abortion can’t be included as part of that broader right unless you can prove that it is deeply rooted in history because, unlike those other rights, abortion “destroys a fetus”. But while Trollito can reference a lot of state laws regulating abortion (which btw, he could just as easily do with laws regulating women’s smoking or riding a motherfucking bicycle), what he can’t do is show you some sweeping historical precedent for preservation of fetuses or legal precedent granting “personhood” to same. Cuz that isn’t a thing.

    Smoking destroys fetuses. Drinking destroys fetuses. Lindy-hopping destroys fetuses. Tackle football destroys fetuses. Whatevs. Moreover, the leap from his analysis of substantive due process to the avowed declaration that abortion KILLS only really brings us right back to Roe and Casey. Because nobody can tell you a scientifically meaningful objective definition for the beginning of human life. Many will lie, and say they can. But they really are lying. Even the definition of life beginning at “conception” is a fundamentally meaningless context. Not merely because of how draconian and extreme that is, but because it very, VERY much assumes a degree of certainty and finality that simply doe not exist.

    Like nearly everything else in biology, biochemistry, and mammalian reproduction, “conception” is a label we made up, arbitrarily, to refer to a very complex process. It progresses in a continuum, often lacking entirely in discrete steps or stages. It takes time. And there is no “moment”. In the end we can’t regulate it without being arbitrary. And being arbitrary is the very thing that substantive due process forbids. Government no more belongs in this arena than it belongs deciding how you can cut your hair or the proper length of a hemline.

    Trollito is substituting his own religiously derived superstition for historical analysis and he’s cherry picking in the process. Don’t believe me? Then look up the arithmetic primer that Benjamin Franklin published that included a detailed procedure for abortion.

  99. 99

    Jan. 6 Wasn’t a ‘Violent Insurrection.’ Now He Labels Peaceful Pro-Choice Protesters ‘Mob Violence’

    Much like our low IQ traitor who said it was only “a dozen cosplaying grandmothers”. Horseshit.

  100. 100

    Rude Pundit: “In no state with over 40% political representation from women is the right to abortion threatened. But those places with roughly 65% or more men in the legislature? Shit has gone mad. Men have decided to fuck up the world for women.” Approximately 12.5% of members of the Mississippi House of Representatives and about 17.6% of members of the Mississippi Senate are women. Alabama? 16.4% women. Oklahoma? 20.8% women

  102. 102

    Moscow Mitch just voiced his support for enacting a nationwide ban on abortion if he can win control of the Senate. Republicans are lining up behind him, donning Fred Perry polo shirts and lighting their Tiki torches.

    When they tell you exactly who they are…

    … believe them.

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