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I’m going to take a break from talking COVID with Canadians (yes, they still care about it here, and the subtext of all conversations is ”what the fuck, USA”), to make one small point about abortion and Betty’s post below. When breaking news alerts are being generated about a woman needing to travel from Louisiana to Manhattan so she can obtain an abortion for a fetus that’s missing a skull, even the usual Republican lie machine / puke funnel won’t work.

Graham and Rubio apparently think that they can sell their anti-abortion bill as a ban on late term abortions, but you can’t do that when it’s full of the same kind of horseshit “exception” language that makes hospital lawyers force women to carry deformed fetuses to term. And the sale sure doesn’t work when it’s clear that the Louisiana woman who obtained an abortion in Manhattan wouldn’t have been able to do that if the Graham/Rubio national abortion ban was in place, since she would have been past the 15 week limit of their bill.

In short, these assholes are going to keep throwing bullshit against the wall to see if it sticks, and our job is to make sure it doesn’t. I’m interested in seeing what the Demings campaign does with Rubio’s stupidity — I hope it leaves a mark.

Anyway, enough about that. The title of the post is from a Dylan song that Bettye Lavette does a great job covering. We saw her last night (unplanned, we were just walking by the theater at the right time), and she’s still got it, 61 years after she recorded her first song. Open thread.

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  2. 2.

    SpaceUnit

    Most days I get a fundraising email from the Demings campaign every couple of hours.  I haven’t gotten one in over six hours now so I’m guessing they’re working overtime on something big.

    Perhaps a giant wooden badger.  Figuratively speaking.

  6. 6.

    prostratedragon

    Ah, just saw the heading of the last post. We’ll just have to wait and se, but I’m beginning to get the same spooky feeling I had when the second R to run against Obama fo Senate blew it up and was replaced by Alan Keyes.

    Lucky mistermix, catching Bettye Levette!

  14. 14.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    In short, these assholes are going to keep throwing bullshit against the wall to see if it sticks

    Probably simpler than that. Abortion is the single issue that keeps their voters showing up to the polls so the GOP is going keep on running on abortion by pretending the bans didn’t happen.

  15. 15.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Baud: That got a lot of fainting reactions from the press. “How DARE Pelosi make fun of heartfelt positions like that? How is she going to persuade them to (do something completely unrealistic they’ll never do) if she can’t even be nice and acknowledge they’re right?”, etc.

    But it was a great line and I hope they keep using it.

  18. 18.

    MisterDancer

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: @MisterForkbeard: The old playbook  — the one I’ll confess I didn’t think ever would get thrown out, like this — has been. And thus, both the GOP, and our supine media elements, are stuck.

    They’ve gone too long drinking from this fountain of easy access and pre-written stories and bills, too many commitments to a status quo the 6 assholes on the Court blew up due to True Belief.

    And now they struggle to adapt to it, to report on it. To ignore the real cost to humans under American’s questionable care, just as they did in the decades of shredding Reproductive care and justice, prior to Dobbs.

  22. 22.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @MisterDancer: Well, their voters are a big part of the problem. Florida Republican voters in particular.  I’ve talked to quite of few of them on line and the words “idiot” is an apt description.  They go on about how the 2020 election was fixed and when asked to describe how it happened along with what is the proof, they wouldn’t understand the question and then repeat the line “2020 was fixed” over and over again.   An authority figure they trust told them the election was fixed and that is the end of it in their minds. So if the same figures tell them “Dark State’s Sekret’ Double Supreme Court overturned the Supreme Court and slutty-slut-sluts in  liberal bastions like Pensacola or Tallahassee are still aborting babies three or four times a week, so vote Republican!” these Republican voters will believe it.

    Rubio is likely quite right a stunt like this will work for him next November in Florida in getting his voters out.

  24. 24.

    Calouste

    @Baud: Nancy can barely say that without the pundits running for the fainting couches, and she certainly can’t say what the GOP really means, that life begins when the rapist feels the urge.

  26. 26.

    The Thin Black Duke

    @ruemara: Yeah, but the lies stick for the same people who want it to stick, over and over again. We can’t do nothing about those people. The people who are the problem are the people who know better but stay home anyway.

  29. 29.

    Frankensteinbeck

    Disney’s live action The Little Mermaid stars a POC as Ariel.  The usual suspects are freaking out, claiming it is not true to the original, which is in Denmark where everyone is white (their argument).

    I hate arguing in public.  Hate it.  But as one of the incredibly rare people who actually read the Hans Christian Andersen story (which is weird), I am left fighting the urge to point out that the story takes place in a mythical foreign kingdom where slavery is legal and the mermaid is the Prince’s slave.

    If you are a rational person and that makes things creepy and objectionable, welcome to the wide, wonderful world of Hans Christian Andersen.

  31. 31.

    Origuy

    I didn’t want to put this in the Kindness thread.

    ⚡️President Zelensky involved in car accident, not seriously harmed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's spokesperson Serhii Nykyforov said in a Facebook post on Sept. 15 that a car collided with the presidential car and motorcade.— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) September 14, 2022

     
    Zelensky’s driver was taken by an ambulance. He was in Izium earlier; I couldn’t find out where this happened.

  32. 32.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Baud:

    Who knows?  It’s a mythical unnamed foreign kingdom where the Prince owns slaves and the mermaid is one of them.  There is no option here that isn’t disturbing, but it blows the Hell out of the ‘culturally she must be white!’ argument.

  34. 34.

    delphinium

    @MisterForkbeard: ​
    But the positions aren’t “heartfelt”. Republicans get abortions and use birth control too. And they will switch/lie their position in a heartbeat if it means staying in power.

  37. 37.

    BruceFromOhio

    We saw her last night (unplanned, we were just walking by the theater at the right time), and she’s still got it, 61 years after she recorded her first song.

    The power of music. Glad you were there to enjoy it, this lyric is a challenge to all willing to listen.

  38. 38.

    JPL

    So a guy who could win the ugly shirt contest is upset about teens dressed as cats using a litter box.   He knows this cua someone told him.   link

  49. 49.

    Starfish

    @HumboldtBlue: This came up to the national level because Tate Reeves fired Shad White, the attorney who went after this money. There was a bunch of nefarious theft of money going on. Look up Nancy New.

  50. 50.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @JPL:

    Truly a perfect encapsulation of wingnut scientific arguments.  Not only a wild irrelevancy to justify knee-jerk bigotry, but factually wrong because they think of science in elementary school terms.  Deep sea fish tend to be black, because while there’s not much light down there, you sure as Hell don’t want to be seen by the things that can see.

  53. 53.

    J R in WV

    @HumboldtBlue: ​
     

    OK, Shannon Sharpe is now one of my favorite commenters ever. To think I was once kind of a Favre fan when he was with the Packers… no more!

    What a dick.

    A millionaire stealing from the poorest people in the poorest state!!

    OT, I got my bivalent Covid booster today… I was the first person the girl gave a Covid shot to, I asked and she said “I gave flu shots all morning!”… Hope it works! Was Pfizer, all my others were Moderna, don’t care!

  54. 54.

    p.a.

    Favre’s $5M is only part of the scandal that looks like upwards of eighty million fucking dollars was… I was going to type ‘skimmed’ but this is bulldozer bucketing… gouged from what were supposed to be support payments and programs for Mississippi’s poor.

    This is white-controlled Mississippi’s M.O. forever; suck up 90% of these funds and then point fingers, “see, those people just can’t do anything right.  We try to help them…”

  57. 57.

    JPL

    @p.a.: It’s way past time for the federal government to control funds sent to Mississippi.   I’m not sad at all that Brett’s reputation will take another hit.  the dick photo was not that impressive.

  61. 61.

    Steeplejack

    The problem is that canonically Ariel’s bottom half is cod, whereas in this new trailer she appears to be half mahi-mahi—yet another example of the Left’s “woke” anti-whitefish agenda.

    — Frank Lesser (@sadmonsters) September 13, 2022

  62. 62.

    Cameron

    Christ.  The insanity over the race/ethnicity/WTFever of mythical beings – I remember at least one All In The Family episode arguing over what race Santa Claus was/is/will be.  This country could go down the shitter on Friday if the rail workers strike, but the ethnic assignment of a cartoon character is more important.  I’m not gonna lay in a store of food; I’m getting several cases of beer.  Fuck it.

  64. 64.

    Mike in Pasadena

    Reading about the woman from Louisiana convinces me that Republicans endanger the health of every American, not only women, but all of us.

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