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The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Come on, man.

This fight is for everything.

Everybody saw this coming.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

A consequence of cucumbers

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

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Late Night Open Thread: GOP, the ‘Groomers Or Perverts’ Party

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  1. 1.

    Chetan Murthy

    My acronym for those bastards is “GrOP” as in “the GrOPers”.  Rapists, pedophiles, and their enablers, the lot of ’em.

  2. 2.

    tECHIDNA

    The KS GOP overrode a governor’s veto to “inspect” the genitals of children.

    The KS GOP overrode a governor’s veto to “inspect” the genitals of children.

    The KS GOP overrode a governor’s veto to “inspect” the genitals of children.

    Yeah, the GOP standing for “Groomers Or Perverts” works for me.

    Also, Martin Niemöller’s poem is right, again. It was never just about the transgender children.
    Now the Kansas GOP is like that dive bar that accepted folks with Nazi flair for the money and is now known as the town Nazi bar.

  3. 3.

    eclare

    I know I keep saying this, it’s all so weird.  Got the expected here in Memphis, glad the national media is paying attention.  If it happens here, it can happen anywhere where Republicans are let loose.

  4. 4.

    Mike G

    Republicans spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the genitals of strangers and what they do with them.

    The Republican Genital Police, recruiting now at an evangelical church near you!

  5. 5.

    ColoradoGuy

    The only thing separating the GOP from actual Nazis is dress sense.

    And they would have made Auschwitz into a reality-TV show, in sparkling color and glorious high-definition. They wouldn’t try to hide it.

  6. 6.

    patrick II

    I am not sure what the relationship is between fundamentalist religion, sex, and children, and not to go all Q — but it seems dark.

  8. 8.

    Tony Jay

    Genitals On Parade works for me.

    It’s what they always circle back to and why the helots of the Right are happy to take orders from dolts who buy their rank with money stolen from their own troops.

    Who has them, what you do with them, what you don’t get to do with them, whether you can keep them, how you can talk about them, when you can and cant talk about them. Etc. Etc.

    They are all about the genitals. Which is an odd foundational belief but those people be weird as fuck at the best of times.

  9. 9.

    Betty Cracker

    The red states are in a race to the bottom. The problem is, there is no bottom.

  10. 10.

    Aussie Sheila

    @Tony Jay:

    But normal adjusted people think it is weird and scary. That has to be the meme going forward-‘republicans, weird and scary, think of the children!’

  12. 12.

    lowtechcyclist

    The Rethugs are now the Panty-Sniffers Party. That’s what we should call them.

    Sure, they can explain, “we’re not actually sniffing their panties, we’re…”

    But as the old saying goes, when you’re explaining, you’re losing.

    Not that there are any decent explanations anyway, just indecent filthy ones.

  13. 13.

    Gvg

    If I was a parent in Kansas I would be pulling my kids out of sports. If I was a coach in Kansas I would be quitting or leaving. If I was a school board lawyer I would be in a nightmare about the potential lawsuits which could still be brought decades later and the cost, and wondering if there was some way to make the legislature have to pay instead of the school district. Talk about unfounded mandate.

  20. 20.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @Betty Cracker: There is no bottom, but there is an event horizon past which there is no return, and the GOP is skating on its edge if it hasn’t already crossed it.

  21. 21.

    SFAW

    @Tony Jay: ​
     

    Genitals On Parade works for me.

    No disrespect to our outstanding political correspondent from Old Blighty, but “Groomers Or Perverts” is, in my useless opinion, much better; it puts the burden on the GrOPers, rather than on some non-focused concept. As many others have said: make them explain/lie about how they’re not.

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    mrmoshpotato

    I just want to remind everyone that “Groomers Or Pedophiles” is also out there.

  25. 25.

    cmorenc

    What are the actual numbers of (originally) biological males seeking to play women’s sports?  What % of folks playing women’s sports are trans males?  I suspect the numbers are extremely small, just above vanishingly small.

    Even approaching the alleged “problem” on the GOP’s own terms, why not handle it the same way as when e.g. a little-league baseball team is suspected of having an overage player on its roster – discreetly demand *that* one player provide proof of age, and not subject every 11 year old player to an “excess puberty development” exam?

    And why are the criteria to play kid’s sports vastly more demanding than the requisites to purchase lethal firearms?  What % of females have been killed because a trans male is playing sports with girls?

  26. 26.

    Matt McIrvin

    I saw someone in YouTube comments opining that it was “hmmm… curious” that the opposite NEVER happened–that there were NO “biological women” seeking to play men’s sports.

    It took about ten seconds to Google it and get evidence that he was wrong, but I don’t suppose it mattered. (Most of the people cheering him in the thread seemed to equate “men’s sports” with American football specifically, which is kind of an unusual sport. Lots of chortling about how trans men would just be killed on the gridiron.)

  27. 27.

    SFAW

    @cmorenc:

    And why are the criteria to play kid’s sports vastly more demanding than the requisites to purchase lethal firearms?

    If we had non-subservient media, they would be asking that question weekly, if not daily.

  28. 28.

    Tarragon

    @cmorenc:
    Anecdote not data:

    I was a referee for Women’s Roller Derby for a bunch of years. During this time they added a policy of explicitly allowing transgender athletes.

    At the time I knew of just a couple skaters nationwide who were openly transgender. WFTDA didn’t ask and doesn’t keep stats so I doubt anyone knows what the actual number was.

    In that same time frame Men’s Roller Derby allowed anyone to skate. There were more than twice as many cisgender women playing on the <local city> mens team than there were transgender athletes in women’s derby nation wide.

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