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You are here: Home / Healthcare / COVID-19 / Wednesday Evening Open Thread: The GOP Death Cultists Are At It Again

Wednesday Evening Open Thread: The GOP Death Cultists Are At It Again

by Anne Laurie|  March 8, 20238:22 pm| 90 Comments

This post is in: COVID-19, GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality

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Today, a House hearing on Covid got a bit derailed because it turns out one of the GOP's witnesses wrote a outrageous, racist book speculating that Black people are more prone to violence and Jewish people more financially successful because of genetics. https://t.co/lvXLaroFDZ

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) March 8, 2023

This hearing had barely begun when the top Democrat on the committee pointed out who, exactly, Republicans had chosen to testify on the science of the coronavirus.

Wade is “dangerous” and “extreme” choice to give a platform to, said Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.).

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) March 8, 2023

You’d think the opprobrium which greeted his last book might’ve taught him better, but of course Mr. Wade could not resist a high-profile chance to blame Covid-19 on the machinations of the heathen Chinese. And the MAGAts hearing about today’s hearing via the Wingnut Wurlitzer will no doubt be thrilled to death:

… Wade, a British author and former New York Times science writer, wrote a book called “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History” that was widely denounced by the scientific community for misrepresenting research into human population genetics…

Wednesday’s hearing had barely begun when Rep. Raul Ruiz (Calif.), the top Democrat on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, denounced Wade as a “dangerous” and “extreme” pick by Republicans to feature in a hearing supposedly focused on facts and science.

“[Wade] claims that certain populations have been slower to experience an evolutionary change he has described as ‘the transformation of a population’s social traits from the violent, short-term, impulsive behavior typical of many hunter-gatherer and tribal societies’ into ‘the more disciplined, future-oriented behavior observed in other populations,’” he said.

The California Democrat said he wrote to the chairman, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), earlier Wednesday urging him to disinvite Wade from the hearing, “so as not to give legitimacy to a man of such discredited, unscientific and harmful views.”

“His participation hurts the credibility of this hearing,” added Ruiz, with Wade sitting right in front of him. “These views … have no place in a hearing examining the origins of a pandemic that has disproportionately and overwhelmingly harmed communities of color.”…

“When my book first came out, Mr. Ruiz, I think the extreme right wing thought it would help their cause,” said Wade. “But they very soon dropped referring to it because when they actually read it, as many people who talk about my book have not, they found that―”

“David Duke did read your book,” interjected Ruiz. “In fact, he had a whole radio talk show about it and described it in detail. And he did endorse your views.”…

Her takeaway:

“Wade’s book is all pseudoscientific rubbish." https://t.co/YhxtidQgWt

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) March 8, 2023

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  1. 1.

    Alison Rose

    March 8, 2023 at 8:28 pm

    former New York Times science writer

    LOLOLOL I bet they’re thrilled to see this little tidbit alongside his name now.

    In other political news that made me laugh, I only found out today that Kellyanne Conway announced last week that she and George are getting divorced. (That’s a paywall-removed link.) I’m sure I’m not the only one to have immediately thought, Well it’s about damn time!  Wonder if she’s gonna end up with some MAGA shithead next.

  2. 2.

    JaneE

    March 8, 2023 at 8:31 pm

    certain populations have been slower to experience an evolutionary change he has described as ‘the transformation of a population’s social traits from the violent, short-term, impulsive behavior typical of many hunter-gatherer and tribal societies

    Those “certain populations” also happen to be the only pure modern humans.  And the last I heard the San had less violence and conflict than modern America by far.  If you want to talk about “violent” and “impulsive” behavior look no further than Jan 6th, 2021.  Not many of those “certain populations” in that bunch.

  3. 3.

    different-church-lady

    March 8, 2023 at 8:33 pm

    former New York Times science writer

    Mama, there goes that newspaper again…

  4. 4.

    geg6

    March 8, 2023 at 8:41 pm

    FTFNYT is a complete and utter disgrace.  Jesus, they hired this asswipe to write about science?  For real?  There is no excuse to read that rag.  Fox News or the NYPost for the MOUs is all they are.

  5. 5.

    different-church-lady

    March 8, 2023 at 8:42 pm

    “[Wade] claims that certain populations have been slower to experience an evolutionary change he has described as ‘the transformation of a population’s social traits from the violent, short-term, impulsive behavior typical of many hunter-gatherer and tribal societies’ into ‘the more disciplined, future-oriented behavior observed in other populations,’”

    But enough about Trump’s voter base…

  6. 6.

    Princess

    March 8, 2023 at 8:45 pm

    This is who the GOP is.

  7. 7.

    JR

    March 8, 2023 at 8:46 pm

    In case anyone was wondering, Wade’s most recent contribution to the NYT was two years ago, one of many that came after the publication of his 2014 eugenics book.

  8. 8.

    Scout211

    March 8, 2023 at 8:46 pm

    Under the tag “proud to be a Democrat” is the news that Governor Newsom followed-up on his threat to cut business ties with Walgreen’s.
    Link

    The contract between the California Department of General Services and Walgreens allows the state of California to buy specialty pharmacy prescription drugs, mainly used by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation throughout it’s healthcare system, according to the press release.

    On Wednesday, the governor’s office instructed the Department of General Services to withdraw the planned renewal of the agreement which was meant to take effect on May 1, 2023. The state now intends to explore other options to provide this service.

    The loss of the contract could come with a hefty loss of funds, even for the pharmaceutical giant. So far under the contract Walgreens has received about $54 million from the state.

  9. 9.

    Alison Rose

    March 8, 2023 at 8:50 pm

    @JR: Guess it’s not that surprising, considering they have such a jones for giving a platform to people who advocate eugenics against trans people.

  10. 10.

    MagdaInBlack

    March 8, 2023 at 8:51 pm

    @JR: I was wondering. Thank you.

  11. 11.

    Baud

    March 8, 2023 at 8:51 pm

    I can’t help but feel genetically superior to Wade.

  12. 12.

    sdhays

    March 8, 2023 at 8:51 pm

    @Scout211: Good! Make an example before any others follow suit.

  13. 13.

    Alison Rose

    March 8, 2023 at 8:51 pm

    @Scout211: Yep! Nice to live in a state run by someone who isn’t a fucking monster. But I hate that people’s autonomy is dependent upon their zip code.

  14. 14.

    cain

    March 8, 2023 at 8:51 pm

    @Scout211: Sucks to be them – hope they enjoy that shit sandwich that Newsom gave them. It would be good for all the other blue states if they have contract to follow suite and let them make it the most painful economic decision they can make.

    It’s one thing we have over these right wing red states – they have no economic power like we do.

  15. 15.

    Alison Rose

    March 8, 2023 at 8:52 pm

    @Baud: the bug that got itself stuck in my window screen for an hour is genetically superior to him

  16. 16.

    Steve in the ATL

    March 8, 2023 at 8:53 pm

    @different-church-lady: zing!

  17. 17.

    Baud

    March 8, 2023 at 8:53 pm

    The NYT is less than garbage.

  18. 18.

    FelonyGovt

    March 8, 2023 at 8:54 pm

    Once again I’m bummed that the Jewish “financial genius” gene seems to have passed me by. Of course, I still have my space laser.

  19. 19.

    kalakal

    March 8, 2023 at 8:56 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    You beat me to it 😀

    The GOP have a remarkably shallow pool of talent to draw on.

  20. 20.

    Alison Rose

    March 8, 2023 at 8:58 pm

    @FelonyGovt: Right? Whenever that shit comes up, I’m like, LOL I am so bad with money. Defective Jew.

  21. 21.

    Fair Economist

    March 8, 2023 at 8:59 pm

    It’s not impossible that people from different ethnicities have some statistical genetically based differences (“races” are totally bogus, though) but there is big fat zero evidence for it. 100 years ago East Asians were supposed to be dumb and lazy, and now they’re supposed to be smart and industrious. And I’m sure anything *this* guy wrote is just 100% pure prejudice.

  22. 22.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 8, 2023 at 8:59 pm

    “[Wade] claims that certain populations have been slower to experience an evolutionary change he has described as ‘the transformation of a population’s social traits from the violent, short-term, impulsive behavior typical of many hunter-gatherer and tribal societies’ into ‘the more disciplined, future-oriented behavior observed in other populations,’” he said.

    Hence the proliferation of AR-15s among white people.

  23. 23.

    catod

    March 8, 2023 at 9:00 pm

    former New York Times science writer

    Granted that he is former writer, still Is anyone even surprised at this anymore?  We all know what lies under the woodwork there

    Liberal newspaper, my a$$.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    March 8, 2023 at 9:01 pm

    @Alison Rose: Maybe you were adopted.

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    March 8, 2023 at 9:01 pm

    @catod: A cross between cockroaches and termites?

  26. 26.

    Baud

    March 8, 2023 at 9:07 pm

    I want to hear what the phrenologist has to say.

  27. 27.

    Alison Rose

    March 8, 2023 at 9:07 pm

    @Baud: My Dad wasn’t Jewish…but then he did work in business management his whole life. Maybe you’re right! And they just got lucky and found a baby who looks exactly like him :P

  28. 28.

    Chief Oshkosh

    March 8, 2023 at 9:09 pm

    @Alison Rose: I’m stealing that one. :)

  29. 29.

    Baud

    March 8, 2023 at 9:11 pm

    @Alison Rose:

    Or plastic surgery.

  30. 30.

    BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️

    March 8, 2023 at 9:19 pm

    @cain: Bon Appétit mofos

  31. 31.

    Alison Rose

    March 8, 2023 at 9:36 pm

    @Chief Oshkosh: I felt a bit sorry for the thing. My cat, on the other hand, seemed determined to figure out how to eat it through the glass.

  32. 32.

    Redshift

    March 8, 2023 at 9:37 pm

    @JaneE: Yeah, in addition to being racist claptrap, everything in that description is century-old discredited science – the idea that evolution is “progress,” the idea that “primitive” people are inherently violent incapable of long-term planning. This isn’t “I’m misinterpreting some research,” it’s “I regect all of modern biology in favor of Victorian white supremacy.”

  33. 33.

    Mike in NC

    March 8, 2023 at 9:37 pm

    “Mr. Wade, your ride to Mar-A-Lago is here!”

  34. 34.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 8, 2023 at 9:40 pm

    If you want depraved people with little work ethic in Africa, you should read about Happy Valley in Kenya in the years between WWI and WWII.

  35. 35.

    randy khan

    March 8, 2023 at 9:40 pm

    And Wade is the most credible witness they have.

  36. 36.

    Anoniminous

    March 8, 2023 at 9:41 pm

    @Redshift: ​Bingo!
    Came here to say exactly this.​

  37. 37.

    zhena gogolia

    March 8, 2023 at 9:43 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m reading The Raj Quartet, and there are a lot of them in there as well.

  38. 38.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 8, 2023 at 9:43 pm

    Why are these British imports so racist. Besides Wade there is Sully and the guy who started VDARE.

  39. 39.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 8, 2023 at 9:46 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: To be fair, we have plenty of American-born racists too.

  40. 40.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 8, 2023 at 9:52 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: So we don’t really need this bonus supply of crackpots with clipped accents.

  41. 41.

    Steve in the ATL

    March 8, 2023 at 9:53 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: unrelated: is it possible to get a meal at a restaurant in your state that does not have any cheese in it?  And we both know the answer to this question….

  42. 42.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 8, 2023 at 9:55 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: ​
      Maybe they are “[t]he wretched refuse of [their] teeming shore.”

  43. 43.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 8, 2023 at 9:57 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Caspian Grill on Gammon Road in Madison.  It’s Kazakh.

    ETA:  What city are you  in?

  44. 44.

    CaseyL

    March 8, 2023 at 9:57 pm

    Hunting and gathering is hard work; I don’t think they had a lot of energy left over for ‘impulsive, random violence.”  That’s more the province of urbanized humans.

  45. 45.

    Steve in the ATL

    March 8, 2023 at 10:00 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Milwaukee

  46. 46.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 8, 2023 at 10:07 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: ​
    Downtown? Lupi and Iris. Onesto on Broadway in the Third Ward. Harbor House has both kinds of lobster rolls (Connecticut and Maine), actually any of the Bartolotta places are pretty good. Or go full German and hit Maders.

    ETA:  Some more trendy places south of the river in the Fifth Ward.  But they change so fast.

  47. 47.

    AlaskaReader

    March 8, 2023 at 10:10 pm

     

    Will ‘reporters’ never become journalists?

    It’s seldom reported who it is that is responsible for repeatedly foisting their racism on others through these ‘witnesses’.

    Yeah, I’m sure enough that it’s ‘republicans’ inviting this despicable claptrap, kind of goes without saying, …but which Republican(s) specifically would be the kind of information that journalists would report.

    ‘Reporters’ constantly giving ‘republicans’ cover by not naming them is not journalism.

  48. 48.

    JWR

    March 8, 2023 at 10:11 pm

    In case anyone missed it, Stephen Colbert really went after Tucker Carlson the other, (Tuesday?), night.

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
    Tucker’s Transparent Jan 6th Propaganda | Feds Nab Spider-Nazi | Kari Lake May Be T****’s VP Pick

  49. 49.

    Steve in the ATL

    March 8, 2023 at 10:14 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: excellent—thank you

  50. 50.

    Marmot

    March 8, 2023 at 10:22 pm

    @Redshift: What you just said.

    ETA: Back in the day — early 2000s — it was Wade all over the science section. I’d bet $1M Levenson knows him personally.

  51. 51.

    TriassicSands

    March 8, 2023 at 10:22 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    Now, c’mon, DCL, even pseudoscience needs to be represented. After all, it’s got a much wider and more receptive audience in the U.S. than actual — tedious, boring — “science.” Just as there are alternative fqcts, now there is alternative science, which is every bit as deserving of respect as all the other garbage people in this country believe.

    Everything that could be explained by science (after years of struggle) can be better and more quickly explained by pseudoscience. It doesn’t need funding and everyone can be a BS, MS, PhD (with the emphasis on BS) in pseudoscience.

    It’s also important to remember the common attribute of prominent and successful people — if they are successful at one thing that automatically means they are world class experts in every imaginable field. There have been numerous successful scientists who have gone on to utter absolute nonsense outside of their original area of expertise. We must allow them to do that, because otherwise we might hurt their feelings. In addition, we can’t have an ongoing discussion of scientific issues if the anti-science Republicans are restricted to real science, peer reviewed studies, and people who actually know what they are talking about. Our entire MSM, not just the Times, is dedicated to the profit motive and pleasing the widest possible audience.

    Esteemed former Nebraska Senator Roman Hruska said it best when referring to the hopelessly unqualified judge, G. Harold Carswell, Nixon nominated for a seat on  the Supreme Court.

     

    Even if he is mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance? We can’t all have Brandeises, Cardozos and Frankfurters…*

    And that goes for science, too! YeeHah! Otherwise, we shut the Republicans out of the discussion completely. How mean!

    This is the world we live in.

    *And, I’d like to add, Thomases, Alitos, Barretts, et al.

  52. 52.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 8, 2023 at 10:23 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:  Not at all.

  53. 53.

    Ken

    March 8, 2023 at 10:29 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Why are these British imports so racist.

    Probably something in their Pictish and Neanderthal heritage.

  54. 54.

    Mike in NC

    March 8, 2023 at 10:37 pm

    @TriassicSands:  Remember when they tried to cram Sarah Palin down our throats just because she represented mediocrity?

  55. 55.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    March 8, 2023 at 10:43 pm

    @Ken: I was today years old when I learned who the Picts were.

  56. 56.

    Tony G

    March 8, 2023 at 10:43 pm

    @OzarkHillbilly: Besides the obvious racism of this clown, his “logic” makes no sense at all.  I have never tried to survive as a hunter-gatherer in a wilderness (nor has he, I assume) but I suppose that impulsive behavior in that environment would be a good way to get yourself killed by a predator and/or to starve to death because you scared away the game.  Just idiotic.  Nice job by the New York Times giving this guy a job.

  57. 57.

    Dangerman

    March 8, 2023 at 10:48 pm

    Good Grief. This fucker needs to go where he belongs, but please flush at least twice and use a full carton of Lysol. Bullshit bilge.

  58. 58.

    James E Powell

    March 8, 2023 at 10:49 pm

    @catod:

    Re the FTFNYT

    Liberal newspaper, my a$$.

    It is liberal in the sense that liberals pay to keep it in business.

  59. 59.

    James E Powell

    March 8, 2023 at 10:52 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    If you want depraved people with little work ethic in Africa, you should read about Happy Valley in Kenya in the years between WWI and WWII.

    I never knew of the existence of that place and those people until I watched a British TV show about a London cop who gets sent there after pissing off his boss or something. The horrors of colonialism.

  60. 60.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    March 8, 2023 at 10:52 pm

    @James E Powell: It’s liberal in the sense that it’s capitalist and, furthermore, dedicated to whitewashing the excesses of modern capitalists and the traditional benefactors of American capitalism.

  61. 61.

    TriassicSands

    March 8, 2023 at 11:06 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    Yes, I remember, but I wouldn’t call Palin mediocre. She’d have to be much better than she is to reach that level.

  62. 62.

    JWR

    March 8, 2023 at 11:15 pm

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:

    I was today years old when I learned who the Picts were.

    The Picts were the Orcs of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian books, which were really gory, but a whole lotta fun!

  63. 63.

    NotMax

    March 8, 2023 at 11:20 pm

    Do not ask for whom the bell curve tolls…
    //

  64. 64.

    Steve in the ATL

    March 8, 2023 at 11:22 pm

    @NotMax: ha!

  65. 65.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 8, 2023 at 11:28 pm

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation: ​
      Did someone mention Picts?

  66. 66.

    Mai Naem mobile

    March 8, 2023 at 11:38 pm

    Do these congress critters not have staff to look these people up before they invite them to speak at these hearings?  Wade’s got a Wikipedia page that goes into his genetics book controversy. This was maybe a five minute Google search and quick read of the Wikipedia page(yes, I know Wikipedia isn’t always 100% right but its gives you a general idea.) What kind of staff are these idiots hiring who can’t even do  a simple Google search?

  67. 67.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 8, 2023 at 11:40 pm

    @Mai Naem mobile: He is exactly who they wanted.

  68. 68.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 9, 2023 at 12:17 am

    Manu Raju @mkraju 9m
    McConnell spox: “This evening, Leader McConnell tripped at a local hotel during a private dinner. He has been admitted to the hospital where he is receiving treatmet.”

    Thoughts and prayers.

    thinking… praying….

  69. 69.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 9, 2023 at 1:07 am

    Lauren Boebert, who dropped out of high school to give birth to her first son, just announced that said son is upholding the family tradition

    PatriotTakes @patriottakes 11h
    Lauren Boebert publicly announced that her 17 year old son, Tyler, will be making her “a 36 year old grandmother” in April.

    She got her GED in 2020, a month before she won the primary that would send her to Congress.

  70. 70.

    Mai Naem mobile

    March 9, 2023 at 1:26 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: some people say it was one of Fucker Charlatan’s goons who tripped Turtleman.

  71. 71.

    Mai Naem mobile

    March 9, 2023 at 1:28 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: so abstinence education doesn’t work? He’s being homeschooled by mommy right?

  72. 72.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    March 9, 2023 at 1:35 am

    I did Nazi this coming

  73. 73.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    March 9, 2023 at 1:41 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: The party of multiple family values

  74. 74.

    lgerard

    March 9, 2023 at 1:48 am

    It appears that the bigots of Tennessee not only have a drag queen for a governor, the Lt Governor is, uh, curious

    Republicans are so weird about sex

  75. 75.

    JWR

    March 9, 2023 at 2:33 am

    Good:

    The conservative grassroots group FreedomWorks laid off 40 percent of its staff on Tuesday. “It’s heartbreaking but we have to learn the lessons from what went wrong in 2022 and we can’t pretend that there weren’t systematic problems to miss that red wave,” the group’s president Adam Brandon told Daniel in an interview. Of their 50 staff, around twenty people were laid off on Tuesday, Brandon said, including executive vice president Noah Wall.

  76. 76.

    HumboldtBlue

    March 9, 2023 at 2:42 am

    Fiddler on the Roof actor Chaim Topol dies aged 87

  77. 77.

    TriassicSands

    March 9, 2023 at 2:53 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Boebert should enjoy being 36. From now on her age will be greater than her IQ

    She can hardly wait to give her new grandchild his or her first assault rifle.

  78. 78.

    JWR

    March 9, 2023 at 2:54 am

    @Mai Naem mobile:

    He’s being homeschooled by mommy right?

    Just saw a tweet from Oct 2021 claiming she was a homeschooler, which makes me wonder if we need to put more thought into whether a person is even qualified to homeschool, because I suspect that GED of hers ain’t gonna cut it.

  79. 79.

    Montanareddog

    March 9, 2023 at 2:59 am

    @schrodingers_cat:

     

     

    Why are these British imports so racist. Besides Wade there is Sully and the guy who started VDARE.

    Every nation has its racist crackpots. You might well ask why so many of them are attracted to living in the US?

  80. 80.

    Kathleen

    March 9, 2023 at 3:53 am

    @TriassicSands: Look for her to introduce “Assault Rifle Implants for Pregnant Women” bill.

  81. 81.

    Manyakitty

    March 9, 2023 at 5:44 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: love that cut! And one of the best song titles ever 😵‍💫

  82. 82.

    WereBear

    March 9, 2023 at 6:36 am

    “[Wade] claims that certain populations have been slower to experience an evolutionary change he has described as ‘the transformation of a population’s social traits from the violent, short-term, impulsive behavior typical of many hunter-gatherer and tribal societies’ into ‘the more disciplined, future-oriented behavior observed in other populations,’” he said.

    In my youth I had Baptists tell me this and I couldn’t laugh in their faces because they were in authority over me. But apparently I knew anthropology and they did not.

    Oh yes, those Southern Baptists have a grip on disciplined, future-oriented behavior. Tell me another.

  83. 83.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 9, 2023 at 7:39 am

    @Montanareddog: That is true, but the British ones seem to land media sinecures. There are a couple of British Americans at the NRO too IIRC. John Derbyshire comes to mind.

  84. 84.

    evodevo

    March 9, 2023 at 8:42 am

    @schrodingers_cat: I bet it’s that Brit accent…makes them sound so much more authoritative lol

  85. 85.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 9, 2023 at 9:12 am

    @evodevo: Despite gaining our independence from Mummy we are still suckers for the accent.

  86. 86.

    Kay

    March 9, 2023 at 9:16 am

    In response to Friday’s deadly attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs that left three dead and nine injured, pro-choice activist and abortion patient escort Michelle Kinsey Bruns took to Twitter to demonstrate that violence against abortion clinics and providers is a continuing problem in America.
    Using the hashtag #is100enough, Bruns cited at least 100 examples of threats and attacks perpetrated against abortion clinics and providers starting with the first known arson attack in 1976 to now. Below is a map of 57 of those incidents for which we were able to identify geographical data.

    If you think the people who belong to this incredibly violent and radical fundie religious movement are going to STOP at the border to NY or CA, you are not in a position to give anyone advice. You’re bad at “advice”.

  87. 87.

    Kay

    March 9, 2023 at 9:23 am

    @JWR:

    Just saw a tweet from Oct 2021 claiming she was a homeschooler

    Another “homeschooler” who isn’t home or doing any actual schooling. We have many of them in the county where I live.
    So he’s a truant. Great! That always works out really well for the kid. But she got to loudly proclaim she was “homeschooling” and own the libs so sacrificing his future is worth it, I guess.
    Do red states no longer have truancy laws? How do theu think this “we are not educating our kids at all” thing is going to work out for the country?
    Haul her into juvie court and make her explain why her kid doesn’t show up for school.

  88. 88.

    Paul in KY

    March 9, 2023 at 12:02 pm

    @Alison Rose: How about O’Keeefe?  What a duo they’d make (in an icky way).

  89. 89.

    Paul in KY

    March 9, 2023 at 12:20 pm

    @FelonyGovt: You’n uppity Jews with your fancy space lasers…(shakes fist in direction of California)!!!!

  90. 90.

    Paul in KY

    March 9, 2023 at 12:33 pm

    @lgerard: God bless Franklyn. He’s a good young man who seems to make Liberace look like Rambo. I hope the old creeper LTGov leering at him get’s raked over the coals for this. What a bunch of hypocrites!!!

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