Head of anti-abortion group indicted on felony of tampering w/ gov record & misdemeanor related to purchasing organs https://t.co/o2Mxn1HKbl
— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) January 25, 2016
GOP spent taxpayer $ on numerous Planned Parenthood investigations only to uncover everything group did was legal https://t.co/32hiLJFXV7
— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) January 25, 2016
In other words: GOP coordinated w/ potential felon to insert this issue into the election and energize its base https://t.co/0R4W9Qqmo5
— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) January 25, 2016
As a follow-up to Cole’s post earlier, Igor Volsky’s devoted his twitter feed this evening to highlighting the duplicity of the GOP candidates (and their mouthpiece Fox News) on today’s court decision against David Daleiden and his fellow ratfvckers.
Also:
Reminder: Harris County, TX is the 12th state-level investigation of @PPact to clear the org of wrongdoing. https://t.co/zW5JLYRWFA
— Hannah Levintova (@H_Lev) January 25, 2016
Six children lost their parents on Nov. 27 b/c someone convinced Robert Dear Planned Parenthood sold "baby parts." @USATODAY @PPFA
— Dell Cameron (@dellcam) January 26, 2016
Flashback to the felony publicity tour. pic.twitter.com/Siw6bntpgu
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) January 25, 2016
Given all we know about how easy it is to get prosecutors to get grand jury to hand down indictment they want this is AMAZING
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) January 25, 2016
Despite today's decision in Harris Co. about Planned Parenthood Texas will continue to protect life & investigate @PPact practices. #txlege
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 25, 2016
Also, Benghazi. https://t.co/brxlbuRe27
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) January 25, 2016
mclaren
Bad faith? Dishonesty? Goddammit, why can’t we just say “criminality” and be straight-up about it?
Republicans committed crimes in a frantically failed and futile effort to discredit progressive policies of which the general public overwhelmingly approves.
Can’t we just say that? The only way Republicans can win nowadays is by committing crimes. Felony voter suppression. Felony fraud. Felony obstruction of justice. Felony after felony after felony. The party of Nixon has never risen above the great smash-and-grab, the ransacked jewelry store window, the flight in the night before the coppers come.
AnotherBruce
This is wonderful news! And it came out of Texas. This is why you don’t write off any state in the nation. Honest people are everywhere.
Omnes Omnibus
@mclaren: Did you notice that this very post is about Republican criminality? Felony charges and the like?
Anya
I still can’t believe Greg Abbott is a governor of a state. It’s like he’s the impediment of rightwing umbrage
PurpleGirl
@Anya: Do you mean impediment? Or do you mean something else, like epitome… a person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type.
NotMax
@PurpleGirl
Thinking what was meant was appendage.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Screw it. I’m going with the 55% wholesaler discount on Becoming Phoebe. Maybe that’s putting more faith in a featured Kirkus review than I really should, but what the hell.
Mike J
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I realise you haven’t gone the traditional publishing route, but this article I ran across the other day made me think of you. Lots of stuff about which particular walls to bang your head against until somebody notices. How to approach agents, etc. I would think a glowing review like the one you got would certainly help get attention.
cokane
ugh this shit is a new low, good to see the justice system working though
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Mike J: It’s interesting to think about whether I’d have gone down the self-publishing path if things had happened in a different order. I made the decision because I’d been unemployed for seven years and I needed to have something that not only counted as an accomplishment, but that was entirely within my own power to make happen. The job search process had been such a shit show in which I was completely at the mercy of everyone I sent my resume to that the novel had to be something I could control, not an endless parade of sending out queries trying to make someone interested in it.
Of course, it was about four months after making that decision that I finally got a job. If that had happened sooner, maybe I would have been content to try the traditional publishing route. That’s one of those things we’ll never know.
WaterGirl
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: No regrets!
For all we know, the fact that you were making things happen with the novel may have influenced the way you carried yourself in your job interview. If you hadn’t made the move on the book you might not have gotten the job, and you might still be in the job search “shit show”, as you called it.
As for going with the 55% wholesaler discount, I say good for you. If you can’t bet on yourself, who can you bet on? Plus, you get to see your book in bookstores, right?
So happy for you!
jacy
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
You’re a great writer, but more importantly, you’ve worked incredibly hard at creating what you wanted to create. In the end, I don’t think it’s going to matter what route you ended up taking — the book is going to speak for itself.
Soon enough I think “trad publishing” isn’t going to really mean anything anyway. So many writers are hybrids or indies, and then drift in and out of “trad” depending on the book. The boundaries are getting pretty blurry already, and I think that’s only going to continue to becoming truer.
MazeDancer
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
Absolute right decision to go with the 55% discount. You are setting yourself up for more opportunities, increasing the chances more stores will take a chance on you. More exposure of the first book means more chance of a second. Good long run investing in yourself.
Kathleen
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Congratulations to you! Your story is an inspiration to me.
aarrgghh
i feel a great disturbance in the Farce, as if millions of wingnuts suddenly went supernova. i fear something wonderful has happened …
Zinsky
@mclaren: mclaren – you are exactly right and I get your meaning perfectly. The GOP has been the Dirty Tricks Party since at least Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s and even further back to Father Coughlin. The reason is that they are a minority party, representing the wealthy, corporations and theocrats. They cannot win an election honestly, based on honest and open debate of issues. So, they lie, obfuscate, create fictitious scandals (see Bill and Hillary Clinton) and just flat-out make shit up, like this Planned Parenthood canard.
Schlemazel
@aarrgghh:
If only that were true. My guess is, like Gov Abbot, they will ignore the reality & the facts to continue hounding PP ans thumping the tub for money while maintaining political power as best they can. It is what they do.
VFX Lurker
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: My congrats as well. Wishing you continued success.
Mustang Bobby
I sincerely hope that Mr. Daleiden ends up — so to speak — married to the guy in Cellblock D with the most cigarettes.
Mustang Bobby
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Kudos to you, and keep going. You’re an inspiration to the rest of us writers to keep plugging away.
satby
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
Boy, ain’t that the truth! But you made a heckofa lemonade out of those lemons!
xenos
I hope this does not make it difficult for PP to get discovery on its lawsuit. A long, drawn out criminal case that ends inconclusively is an excellent way for these creeps to get away with this.
C.V. Danes
Truth occasionally wins, although it will be lost on the anti-abortion crowd, who see martyrs instead of alleged felons.
C.V. Danes
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I don’t see the book on Amazon. Who’s the publisher?
debbie
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
Glad to see this. Nothing should be dismissed, whether it’s “trad” or anything newer. Sometimes, things endure because they work.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Excellent. Here’s hoping for continued glowing reviews and a positive buzz when it hits the shelves. I’m looking forward to seeing it.
Best of luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
Iowa Old Lady
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Congratulations on the Kirkus review, which is a big deal. You’ve written a great book.
PaulW
Can the families of the victims of the PP shooting file civil court charges of Wrongful Death towards Daleidin and the Far Right media outlets that propagated their fraud? Because of their lies, a “believer” became a gunman and shot up a PP clinic over “body parts” that weren’t true.
Steeplejack (phone)
@PurpleGirl:
Embodiment.
Starfish
@C.V. Danes: I am having this problem also. I am seeing the Kickstarter. I am seeing the reviews. I am not seeing any way to purchase it. It looks like a well-written book.
Patricia Kayden
@PaulW: Hope so. They are responsible for ginning up hatred/violence against PP and deserve whatever they get.
gratuitous
Athenae at First Draft has a righteous rant. Her top shelf scorn, however, isn’t for the carnival barkers; it’s for the major media outlets (such as the Most Trusted Name in News) that fell for the CMP videos, and continued to fall for them, even when they knew the credibility of the purveyors was somewhere south of a used car salesman in the poor part of town.
WaterGirl
@Starfish: I’m pretty sure he’s waiting for his first copy to review, or he is reviewing it now. I don’t believe you can buy it just yet. But very soon!
@C.V. Danes: The book is self published, I believe.
SFAW
@Schlemazel:
Oh, please.
They wouldn’t have investigated Planned Parenthood if they didn’t have a legitimate reason for doing so, despite the result of the obviously-packed-with-libtard-transplants-from-Taxachusetts grand jury.
Meanwhile, that fine, patriotic American, Gov Greg Abbott, got another DA to empanel a GJ to investigate the Clintons’ (and Obama’s and Planned Parenthood’s) involvement in the disappearance of Judge Crater, the Crash of 1929, and the bribing of Ephialtes of Trachis.
SFAW
In the meantime, I’m expecting that Carly Fiorina will be holding a press conference to apologize for her ready-fire-aim bullshit on this whole matter.
Any day now ….
sigaba
@gratuitous: It doesn’t matter if such videos have no credibility, or even if the reporters have plain knowledge that they’re fake. They’ll still blare them all over while reporting on the “controversy.” Republicans are angry about something, therefore that something cannot be completely regarded as a lie.
Recall Anderson Cooper: “A lot of people are afraid you’re going to take their guns.” Obama: “Do you think that’s true? I’ve never tried to take anyone’s guns, I have no plans to and my actual proposals are extremely small-ball.” Cooper: “Sure but a lot of people are angry.”
boatboy_srq
One more reason I don’t pay so much to the Reichwhingeing about the Clintons: every other “vast conspiracy” they “investigate” seems to be nothing more than their imagination, and “proving” it involves so much peripheral lawbreaking that they wind up in far more trouble than their targets. At what point do they wake up to the understanding that their “victimhood” and the “oppression” they suffer are all manufactured? Not that I’m holding my breath…
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: congrats.
SFAW
@boatboy_srq:
Never. Because it’s what they do. I’m not sure if it’s a result of their projection, or the driver of that projection, but at this point it’s immaterial.
Good, because we’d hate to lose you.
boatboy_srq
@SFAW: @SFAW: More stupefactiona t the deliberate willingness of some people to be [mis]led than actual expectation that they’ll grow brainstems and start thinking for themselves. And sometimes I wonder. Respectively.
SFAW
@boatboy_srq:
Good, because you’d probably be disappointed.
gratuitous
@sigaba: “But a lot of people are angry.” Yes, a perfectly valid reason for CNN not to get too curious as to what it is they’re angry about, if the object of their anger even exists. Naturally, a lot of people are angry about efforts to restrict citizens’ voting rights, or the lead-laden water available to the people in Flint, or citizens being gunned down in the streets by the police, or (going back a little further) the prospect of invading another country. But apparently the people angry about those things – which are actual, real things instead of ginned-up falsehoods – aren’t a lot enough or the right kind of people.
I don’t know what Anderson Cooper would say about that, or if it even crosses his mind. He seems like a generally good sort, but his weak-tea defense of his employer’s assignments really should cost him a lot of sleep.
boatboy_srq
@gratuitous:
But those people are mostly Those People™, and we know they don’t count.
/snark
boatboy_srq
@SFAW: I think you just answered my second question. Bless your heart.
SFAW
@boatboy_srq:
WTF? What did I ever do to you?
boatboy_srq
@SFAW: Tagless condescending snark is (tagless) condescending snark.
SFAW
@boatboy_srq:
OK, now I’m confused.
Is this because I am “less optimistic” that the current set of wingnut voters would ever have the kind of epiphany needed to be able to consider that the Republican Party may not be doing anything to enhance the lives of their (non-wealthy) supporters, and I expressed it in a less flowery fashion than I just did?
Or was there something else I did to incur your wrath (such as it is)?
If the former: having seen the response of R voters/supporters to every new outrage or un-American pronouncement by whichever candidate the MSM is giving air time to today, one would be hard pressed to make a case that there is anything more than an infinitesimal chance of said epiphany occurring.
If the latter: I guess I need more info.
But, similar to the old line “it ain’t bragging if you’re really that good,” I would suggest that it isn’t condescending if the wingnuts really are that bad. But perhaps I’m wrong about that — perhaps we reached Peak Wingnut, and I missed it.
boatboy_srq
@SFAW:
Maybe I read too much into that, but it sounded awfully close to 1 Mammon 1:13-14: “If ye are seeking the blessings of poverty and meekness as our brethren John and Matthew have described, ye are free to depart; Do not thou permittest the gate to encounter thy posterior upon thy departure.”
We certainly don’t disagree about the wingnuts: they seem as close to irredeemable as can be and still be considered meat popsicles. I just got rubbed wrong by the way you were saying it.
SFAW
@boatboy_srq:
OK, so I had a long reply which was FYWP-eated, apparently, but the upshot of it was: I meant nothing like that, I just did a lousy job of getting my point across. Not trying to give you a hard time at all, just too abstruse for my own good sometimes.
boatboy_srq
@SFAW: [unpacking blog-lurker bags again]
We all say/write things that come out wrong.
Sister Inspired Revolver of Freedom
This whole thing is making me so gods damn happy. Goddess bless everyone on that grand jury. You’ve made my week.
SFAW
@boatboy_srq:
What the @#$%^& do you mean by THAT!!!1!2!!7
(I’m kidding, of course. Just practicing my fauxtrage for when I become a wingnut. Or a pundit. Or a moron … oh, wait)