Gosh, it seems like a sweeps-centered plan to get people into shelter isn’t working. Maybe of we do more sweeps, we can crack the code.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
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House and Senate Democrats should unify with those willing Republicans to support passage of a moderate bipartisan bill protecting minimal access to abortion and birth control nationwide, that also grants protections to marital choice.
Such a vote serves as a framework surrounding the issue heading into the midterm elections. Give your members and your party’s challengers a bill that they can carry into their campaigns wherever they may be. Let the GOP further define themselves as a radical party of zealous extremists bent on stripping human rights. While letting Democrats define themselves as protectors and defenders of basic human rights that everyone supports like a minimal right to privacy.
Force Republican candidates to either repudiate their last fifty years cozying up to religious extremists or admit that they support intrusive, invasive GIANT government intervention into private lives.
Contrast such a proposed bill protecting minimal human rights with the GOP:
McConnell is proposing nationwide abortion ban.
Sen Marsha Blackburn is proposing a nationwide bill restricting birth control to married couples.
Blake Masters, Trump/Thiel preferred challenger to Arizona Senator Mark Kelly is calling for a nationwide ban on condoms.
Don’t use a “symbolic” vote to set your party aspirations. It isn’t about “representing” in Blue states. It isn’t about “you”. It isn’t going to pass either way. Use it to help you retain and expand your majority by crafting it to help you in swing states and districts.
The Republicans aren’t smart enough to realize that having abortions available in the US is actually good for the Republicans. It’s also good for those young women hoping to avoid a life of insecurity, poverty and struggle.
Let’s just keep abortion legal and widely available. We’ll all be better off.
Helping Social Security stay solvent.
Former metro-east police chief, strip club owner and ‘Grim Reaper of Radio’ has died
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article261230712.html
@3. If you believe that, then voting for and electing Democrats up and down the ticket is your only option at this time.
Get to work.
@5 I believe your last post from Friday’s thread belongs here.
Hey, you low IQ fascist traitor, he who has never been fucked by anything but a horse, campaign on this, you stupid fucking idiot. Tell us more about how you believe women won’t turn out en masse to kick your misogynistic fucking fascist ass.
Nicely done, Bono and the Edge.
U2 members perform at Kyiv subway station turned bomb shelter
God bless Raw Story, the news aggregator web site that causes low IQ fascist heads to explode.
Alito expressly says that states are free to impose any restrictions they want not expressly forbidden by the Constitution.
Let that sink in.
8,
I promise you, the very moment some state somewhere proposes any restriction on an employer’s options for fucking over employees, or a lender’s options for fucking over borrowers, or a police officer’s options for fucking over an unarmed Black guy holding a hat, Alito will discover it to be “deeply rooted in our nation’s history and traditions” and “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty” such that “neither liberty nor justice would exist” without it.
Five people nobody ever voted for, including three people appointed by a guy who ordered nuclear strikes on hurricanes, get to decide what our rights are. And they get to make it up as they go. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have a very clear and specific agenda.
King – not sure you realize this, maybe you’ve been asleep for the past 400 years, but Repukes don’t do what is good for the people or what the people want. They just know how to use phrases like “the Peipld have spoken” to legitimize their delusions.
You should post that she somewhere where it will matter (or matter a tiny, tiny, tiny bit more).
King – not sure you realize this, maybe you’ve been asleep for the past 400 years, but Repukes don’t do what is good for the people or what the people want. They just know how to use phrases like “the Peipld have spoken” to legitimize their delusions.
You should post that shit somewhere where it will matter (or matter a tiny, tiny, tiny bit more).
It’s now crystal clear that we were absolutely wrong about the GOP wanting to drag America back into the pre-industrial 19th century. We were off by five centuries.
@1 One of those extremists is Tate Reeves of Mississippi, a Trumpist election and Covid denier who celebrates Confederate heritage, and was shoved through a cheese shredder yesterday by Jake Tapper on the fact that Mississippi doesn’t allow abortions of dead fetuses or for underage incest victims. His defense? Twofold. One, don’t look at me, the legislature did it back in 2007 and I didn’t become governor until last year. Two, those are only a couple percent of all abortions, so no big deal. What a fucking weasel. And then there’s this:
“Tapper also pointed out that Mississippi has the nation’s highest rate of infant mortality and the highest rate of child poverty. It has no guaranteed paid maternity leave, and recently rejected extending postpartum Medicaid coverage, he added. The state’s foster care system is also the target of a federal lawsuit for its alleged failure to protect children from abuse. Reeves said his state is trying to do better.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/no-abortion-incest-victims-mississippi-tate-reeves-jake-tapper_n_627852a8e4b046ad0d7da7b7
Better at what? Extermination? No wonder Mississippi, a hot and humid sinkhole, is a deeply impoverished, dying state. The entire state is an open-air jail. Everybody there sleeps with his mother, and all the kids have one leg and three arms. Cottonmouths are allowed to vote, black people are not. The only road hasn’t been paved yet. Economy? They don’t have one, and never will. Afghanistan is more advanced. And more humane.
Mississippi holds the record for the lowest maximum weekly unemployment benefit ($235/wk), the highest poverty rate, and is tied for the lowest minimum wage ($7.25/hr). A true shithole, and a perfect place for Walmart stores and Amazon warehouses.
Ouch!!
“Your 401k misses President Trump,” Jordan tweeted on Monday.
The brief comment prompted a response from Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime was killed during the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018.
“Actually, I miss my daughter who was murdered because ignorant a**holes like you refuse to address gun violence @Jim_Jordan,” he wrote on Twitter. “As for my 401k, still higher today than it was on the last day of the other guy. Instead of Soviet inspired tweets, do something worthwhile or shut up.”
Eat my shit, Gym Jordan.
A link the low IQ traitor will not appreciate seeing.
God bless Raw Story.
Still stupid. In fact, nearly as stupid as our low IQ traitor.
Twitter erupts after Marjorie Taylor Greene likens pro-choice protesters to Jan. 6 rioters
Ted Crud called the peaceful protests “mob violence.”
For the record, I’m not in favor of protesting at public figures’ homes. Leave them the fuck alone in their private space, but make yourself heard in public spaces — and, above all, at the ballot box.
Speaking of ballot boxes, in Colorado, which has the most secure elections in the country, honest election officials (Tina Peters is not in this category) now must wear bulletproof vests, move their desks away from windows, drive varying routes to and from work, and undergo active shooter training because of “Stop the Steal” assholes.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/colorado-voting-officials-adopt-safety-measures-state-target/story?id=84546801
MTG and TC are all for this.
And they’re complaining about peaceful protesters outside rogue justices’ homes?*
* I’m not endorsing these protests, merely pointing out the hypocrisy of MAGA “Stop the Steal” Republicans criticizing them.
Where’s doc today? Standing on Deception Pass Bridge staring down at the water after looking at his stocks this morning?
He got his correction, so he should be happy now.
Now that capital gains are going in reverse, I’ll bet dividends look better even to him, although those aren’t bombproof either. Still better than bonds or CDs, which pay negative real interest.
Why not?
It isn’t as if they have an “unenumerated substantive due process right” to privacy guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.
Maybe somebody ought to fix that?
First somebody will have to create a useful, meaningful, legal definition for “private space”. And from a purely practical perspective, if that definition doesn’t include a uterus, it probably doesn’t include a public right of way or sidewalk.
Did it wipe out the last five months of gains yet?
Because he put himself in Krugerrands and “Bored Apes” back in December.
Bill Kristol
Jen Henry
It’s OK to murder Doctors who perform abortion, but don’t annoy the 5 people hellbent on taking rights away from women.
“Proper” protest involves raising and spending immense sums of money for over fifty years on “non-profit” foundations, think tanks, funded chairs in law schools, and PACs to drive influence into the Senate in order to seize just enough court seats to change things to your benefit./s
People should pay attention. Wise up for fuck’s sake and ask yourself what’s in it for them?
This bizarre twisting and backward transformation of substantive due process is for reasons that go way the fuck beyond lady parts and rubbers.
Good buying opportunities these days! I’m taking advantage of the sales.
I apologize for my worthless son. He knows absolutely nothing about investing and has no money. The only money he’s ever had was stolen from my purse. He’s also not well and was receiving inpatient treatment at Cascade Behavioral Health Hospital until he escaped yesterday.
“Proper” protest
There’s actually a book called Proper Etiquette for Violent Protest.
Kidding.
This who they are.
GOP House candidate who denies promoting QAnon said he believes ‘everything’ in it
Protests? How about putting them all in Walmart FEMA camps with no food or water and let them die and then rot.
When Newsmax and Fox both show a conservative the door and give him a kick in the ass, that person must really fucking suck.
Newsmax and Fox host refuse to promote conservative’s ‘election fraud’ flick: doc maker
@25 Don’t cut yourself on that falling knife.
Shot of a family, father, mother, two teenage daughters, happily planning a vacation and packing…
but then the mother freezes!
She says, “Did you register with the Republican administration that we were going to Disneyland?”
And the father goes wide eyed and shakes his head no.
The family sadly unpacks their things.
Voiceover: “Remember to register your travel plans with the Ministry of Life. All females must have on record a negative pregnancy test within 48 hours of travel. The life you could possibly carry, is more important than you are. “
Of course they did.
Steve Schmidt explains how Paul Manafort and Rick Davis worked for Russian clients to influence the 2008 election
Could it be that the horse finally decided to trample the low IQ traitor to death instead of fucking him?
Of course they are are.
Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS
@RepGosar
The men holding rosaries, Bibles, and wearing America First hats bravely defending their churches against the abortionist horde are heroes, every single one of them. Heroes.
More footage of the asswipes.
Danesh
@thatdaneshguy
The guy @RepGosar calls a hero
Jesus liked give people the finger too.
@ 1
House and Senate Democrats should unify with those willing Republicans to support passage of a moderate bipartisan bill protecting minimal access to abortion and birth control nationwide, that also grants protections to marital choice.
There’s nothing moderate about what’s being written. It’s why it won’t tempt Manchin, and probably not Sinema. As long as it doesn’t hit the floor, Kelly can play coy, but he won’t want it, either.
Marital choice doesn’t necessarily involve the death of the unborn. You’re trying to figure out how to preserve some of Roe, not rewrite BBB. Stick with Roe. Ya dumbass.
Less than a week ago Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit was claiming that the DJIA was barely in a correction zone.
Today the S&P 500 index closed at 3,991, down 132 points on the day. If it falls another 120 points the most important equities index in the US will meet the definition of a bear market.
CPI is updated on Wednesday. Oh, and the market’s still factoring in a high likelihood of a 75 basis point increase in the Fed’s rate in June. Gas prices are higher than they were last week.
There’s plenty of pain still to come.
If Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit @ 20 was honest, he’d admit that dividends aren’t keeping up with inflation, either. At least CDs don’t lose nearly 20% of face value when the market takes a downturn.
Ask Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit how his investments in 3M, AT&T, and Citigroup are doing. They pay dividends. Are they keeping him even, or is he down 20+%.
He’s down 20+% on those investments. So is his family.
There’s plenty of pain still to come.
Yes, there is. You’re going to lose in November and you’re to lose in 2024. You’re going to lose big. You have infuriated America’s women and they’re going to beat the holy fuck out of you for trying to turn them into chattel. Your underestimation of American women will do to you is on par with the way your fucking hero Putin underestimated Ukraine.
You have truly fucked up and now you’re going to pay for your fucking sins. You blew it, you fucking low IQ traitor. You really blew it.
It’s kind of obvious now. You fucked up low IQ fascist traitors hate American black people and women. It was only last week that you informed us that you intend to turn back the clock and turn them slaves and chattel.
That’s some plan you got there, you low IQ fucking traitor. Think that up yourself?
Is the bold font getting to you yet? I couldn’t help but notice how you thought your use of bold font would get to us. It didn’t. But seeing how wing projection cannot be stopped, it being a Psych 101 thing, I knew bold font would get to you.
Thanks for letting me know, you stupid fucking low IQ traitor.
@37 As of today, the DJIA was barely in a correction zone a week ago, and that will still be true a month from now, a year from now, and 10,000 years from now.
@37 Go ahead and put your money in CDs. You have my permission. It’s your money, you can do what you want with it.
@38 He’s probably losing his ass in the stock market, too. He was right about the 10%-15% correction; he was just 6 months early, that’s all, and probably shorted the market a couple thousand points ago.
I can predict corrections, too. I just can’t tell you when they’ll happen.
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.
Texas isn’t ready to support more parents and kids in a post-Roe world, advocates warn
More than a quarter of women of childbearing age are uninsured in Texas, the highest rate in the nation, and the state has chosen to cap Medicaid benefits for new moms earlier than other states.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/09/texas-abortion-law-medicaid-contraception/
Maternal mortality and morbidity — death or serious illness or injury — disproportionately impact Black women. The state’s Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee found that Black women made up 31% of pregnancy-related deaths, but only 11% of live births.
Texas conservatives never intended to. Cruelty to the poorest was the purpose of this. Their voters approved.
What about adoption?
Republicans want a “Domestic supply of infants”.
I read that as wanting more infant white girls, though they will probably take a white boy. The rest are considered “hard to place”.
“Social workers are often called upon to assess a newborn’s skin color, because skin color influences potential for placement. As a 2013 NPR investigation found, dark-skinned black children cost less to adopt than light-skinned white children, as they are often ranked by social workers and the public as less preferred.”
Finally, research shows that it costs more to adopt a white child in the US than it does to adopt a black child. According to the NPR investigation, it costs about US$35,000 to adopt a white child, absent legal fees. Meanwhile, a black child cost $18,000.
https://theworld.org/stories/2019-02-21/us-adoption-system-discriminates-against-darker-skinned-children
But I repeat myself. You all knew this.
Texas foster care children exposed to sexual abuse, given wrong medication and neglected in unlicensed placements, new report says
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/14/texas-foster-care-children/
Republicans don’t care about children. But you knew that.
@ 1, again:
House and Senate Democrats should unify with those willing Republicans to support passage of a moderate bipartisan bill protecting minimal access to abortion and birth control nationwide, that also grants protections to marital choice.
Two of those willing Republicans are Murkowski and Collins, and they are writing a bill. Not about marital choice, but about the abortion issue. The Democrat response?
It’s not about unification. Schumer’s always been an asshole. It’s about him – always has been.
If Schumer brings a bill to the floor that doesn’t have 50 Democrat votes, there’s no point talking about unifying with Republicans.
Schumer’s bill is said to risk losing the support of 10 Democrat senators.
It will be nice to see the House GOP go all Adam Schiff over Hunter Biden in 2023 and 2024.
Hollywood lawyer paid off over $2M of Hunter Biden’s delinquent taxes
@48 49 Republicans do not want to go on record saying they want to take away a woman’s rights
50 please pay attention to the fake laptop propaganda and not that Republicans are forced Birthers
You never did answer do you support 11-year-old girls who get abortions do you support the death penalty or life in prison?
48,
You’re somehow, at least partly right.
Some Senate and House Democrats need to learn how to get the fuck out of their own way. The point being that no such bill, no matter who introduces it or sponsors it, is going to get 60 votes.
So Democrats should put to a vote the bill that does the most electoral harm to Republicans. And that would be a moderate bill that in limited form restores basic protections to the privacy rights of all Americans. Because it forces stupid, gullible, superstitious asshats like you to defend your secret dream of an aggressive, intrusive, giant government that imposes your religious mythology on your neighbors.
Although low IQ fascist traitors won’t like it, being that they love Russia, this is video is quite educational. And funny.
‘David Attenborough’: After Arriving In Ukraine, All Species Of Russian Tanks Die
“This is a Russian tank. Like the Pacific salmon, Russian tanks migrate long distances from the abyss of Russia to end their lives in Ukraine’s beautiful fields.
Driven by an evolutionary desire to end their life somewhere better, after reaching Ukraine, all species of Russian tank die.
The 2022 run was a major event for predators, such as Ukrainian special forces teams (Bayraktar TB2 drones) and local farmers on tractors.
Most tank species pop their turrets to celebrate the end of their life cycles.”
It will be nice to see the House GOP go all Adam Schiff over Hunter Biden in 2023 and 2024.
Kind of hard to do when Republicans are going to still be in the minority after America’s women hand your woman-hating asses to you for trying to turn them all into chattel.
Happy birthday, Puddy!
Want to win in November? Want to retain the House and gain seats in the Senate? Do you?
Propose a bill that prohibits states from limiting access to contraceptives, prohibits states from limiting access to marriage, and prohibits states from limiting access to abortion before “a fetal heartbeat” is present.
Remember: it still won’t pass.
You don’t have to even consider the consequences of such a bill being signed into law. However much some “conservatives” would welcome binding agreement on that framework, they will still kill it. And the point is not to argue that “fetal heartbeat” is a legitimate or reasonable standard for limitation. The point is to demonstrate just how extreme and just how absolutist the Republican position really is. And in doing so, you not only drive turnout, you turn squish voters against the Republican party.
No other form of legislation stands to do as much for Democrats in November. It is irresponsible to do anything else.
So naturally, Democrats will.
Koochie koochie coo!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bc-us-subway-spokesmans-associate_n_627a75f4e4b00fbab634142d
Fudge cake for Puffy!?
I had never heard of Reynolds v. Sims in which the Court ruled that the electoral districts of state legislative chambers must be roughly equal in population. It would be an excellent way to keep republican minorities in power.
Any buzz about that going away, given the activist 5 justices?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/south-carolina-republicans-gerrymandering-malapportionment.html
59,
The court ends up drawing the maps for them.
Functionally what happens is the opposing parties all anticipate this outcome and have properly apportioned maps ready to be presented to the court. In the event that such a decision and the resulting maps are appealed, ultimately to the SCOTUS, the Court is bound to hear it (that’s in the Constitution). They can’t decline the writ.
However, that still leaves the issue of how the Court regards claims on appeal coming before them under these conditions, wherein the appellant party is more or less entirely responsible for their own predicament. That would not create grounds under which you can reverse standing precedent. So while the Five obviously believe they can pretty much do whatever the fuck they like, that would be a legally indefensible position. They couldn’t even produce a cogent argument to justify overturning the precedent under those circumstances. Doing so would in essence be overturning important standards for appellate review and create legal chaos.
Stern points out the more plausible outcome which would be SCOTUS staying the lower court and leaving the current maps in place, arguing that the case is “not ripe”. But the problem with that is there’s nothing legally novel about South Carolina’s Republicans hoping to retain their preferred old maps. There isn’t any colorable argument about uniformity when it comes to population. They could always pretend. But that’s all it would be. And that’s what everyone would see.
Highest likely outcome is that South Carolina gets new maps issued by a court. But coming at the last minute and surrounded by lots of uncertainty, it favors incumbents over challengers which is probably the true intent here.
Breeding will not save them
@ 60
…it favors incumbents over challengers which is probably the true intent here.
It is the true intent in all states. Both parties.
One reason there will be fewer flips is that incumbency is more ingrained after this redistricting. Over time there are fewer competitive districts.
Fudge cake for Puffy!?
It would be fudge for Pudge. Remember that stupid troll? I’d throw it at him and hope it’d hit his face.
I’ve learned Puddy’s an ice cream addict like me, so I posted a pic of a bowl of ice cream with a single lit birthday candle stuck in it on his FB page.
“It is the true intent in all states. Both parties.”
This is not true.
Not in all states. States with independent redistricting commissions manage to substantially eliminate this bias.
In states where legislatures draw their own maps to favor incumbents, what seems to differ consistently is how they go about seeking that outcome.
Republican legislatures empowered to draw their own maps are for some reason inordinately preoccupied with GIS data for sales of Afro Sheen™ and subscriptions to Ebony.
The universe looks on in wonder and confusion./s
63,
Steve, since strawberry season is looming, and since you and Puddy are ice cream “addicts” let me offer a recommendation:
The Bon Appétit recipe for Roasted Strawberry-Buttermilk Sherbet by Susan Spungen published almost ten years ago.
It’s incredibly easy and can be successful with or without a churn. And it is remarkably adaptable to other fruits, generally working best with fleshy/pulpy fruits that are not too high in liquid. So it seems work out beautifully with peaches, apricots, plums, and pears (I’m going to be trying it with Marion berries this summer).
With summer fruit on the way, it’s great to have the basic formula on hand. And the simple fruit and sugar oven roasted jam that it begins with can be made ahead and kept as preserves for weeks or even months in the freezer without suffering, then mixed with the dairy and prepared as directed. It’s why farm stands were invented.
@ 64
Google “redistricting commission deadlock”.
NY has an indy redistricting commission. QoS McHillbilly, how well did that work out?
Look at the OH commission news, today.
It’s bullshit and you know it’s bullshit. NY is the example of the worst behavior but the GOP is nearly as bad.
The trick is to look at what happens if a commission deadlocks. What is the alternative, and which side benefits, if the commission cannot reach agreement?
If the alternative favors one party, that party’s reps on the commission will strive to deadlock it.
@44 It always was, and still is, about keeping women in their place. Can’t do that by letting them be governors, legislators, or CEOs. “Their place” is motherhood, cooking, sweeping, and washing dishes.
This last week has been revealing. We assumed Republicans wanted to drag us back to the social practices and mores of the 19th century. We were off by 6 centuries.
Witches, beware. There’s a noose or pile of firewood waiting for you.
@45 “Cruelty to the poorest was the purpose of this.”
I disagree. The purpose of this is genocide. The aim is to kill off the black population.
Being cruel to the poor is just a hobby on the side.
@48 A Republican preaching about “refusal to compromise.” How cute. You first.
@60 “that would be a legally indefensible position”
This is a problem for them? I mean, do they even care about the court’s legitimacy anymore, now that they’ve got it between their jaws?
https://media.tenor.com/images/abf632dd4d2a2615dd41a9ccf24bcb2a/tenor.gif
This is not true.
As always.
Incidentally, and not that’s true in this incident, but if I were to stray out of my professional lane and offer opinions, it’s a misdemeanor offence. Same with “fabricating a falsehood”, as the state law governing the profession puts it.
I’d bet he did that every day of his fucking career. Neural surgeons would see him coming and say to themselves, “Good grief, him again.”, then lock the fucking door.
Incidentally, and not that’s true in this incident, but
I should have said, “and not that I know that’s true or not in this instance, but”
My bad.
Porn? These people are not what they claim to be. They’re sick in the fucking head.
Watch: Conservative school board member hammered by parents for her ‘repugnant’ attacks
As WLWT points out, Boddy was served a notice of trespassing last week after she entered two district schools without notice. Now she is barred from school property unless she’s invited for board-related business.
A week before, Boddy said she inadvertently posted a link to pornography on her Facebook page
Good grief.
Mike Flynn believes he’s being ‘persecuted’ because he’s getting fined by the US Army for being on Russia’s payroll.