Nancy still smashin even without the gavel. https://t.co/p4Ibbkp6ze
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) June 21, 2023
Jennifer Bendry, at HuffPost:
… “Today we are on the floor of the House, where the other side has turned this chamber ― where slavery was abolished, where Medicare and Social Security and everything were instituted ― they’ve turned it into a puppet show,” Pelosi said on the House floor. “And you know what? The puppeteer, Donald Trump, is shining a light on the strings.”
“You look miserable,” the California Democrat added with a smile, turning to the GOP side of the chamber. “You look miserable.”…
It was a somewhat rare appearance from Pelosi, who has mostly become a backbencher and is otherwise living her best life since stepping back from her decadeslong leadership post last year.
But when she emerged on the House floor on Wednesday, all smiles and ready to ridicule the GOP stunt, it was as if she’d never left.
Pelosi said the only advantage to Republicans trying to punish Schiff is that “instead of reversing what we did on the [Inflation Reduction Act] to save the planet or reversing what we did to reduce the cost of prescription drugs, you’re wasting time.”…
The Lord spoke to me very audibly… Let Love Lead.
CNN's @abroaddus takes a look at a Christian family’s journey to accept their trans daughter pic.twitter.com/8OK62S8bxf
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) June 21, 2023
Today, I proudly joined Congressional Democrats to reintroduce our #EqualityAct, which would strengthen the Civil Rights Act by prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations on the basis of sex and gender identity.
We must make these protections for LGBTQ+ Americans law. pic.twitter.com/dQ2KSmg6Q3
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) June 21, 2023
If it weren’t for hypocrisy, the GOP would have no ethos at all!
Stamps are cool but also voting rights are coolhttps://t.co/tYEEBzuU6l pic.twitter.com/b0GfuJR0aD
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) June 22, 2023
I would dearly love to make this election a fight over how much Joe Biden loves his screwup son https://t.co/rwMjAX9T9A
— chatham harrison is tending his garden (@chathamharrison) June 21, 2023
Baud
I’m not a criminal but Joe Biden doesn’t love me as much as he loves his son. How is that fair, Democrats???!!!
Baud
The Republican House is giving an in-kind contribution to Schiff’s Senate campaign.
I look forward to the Democratic House nullifying yesterday’s calumny in 2025.
Anne Laurie
Fixed, for Don Jr and a boatload of his fellows whining on social media.
Guys, the fact that your father is an inadequate parent and you’re emotionally stunted man-babies is not Joe Biden’s fault!
Baud
@Anne Laurie:
Don Jr. is probably a criminal though. He’s just not a convicted criminal.
ETA: Although that’s not why Trump doesn’t love him.
Lapassionara
I have managed to avoid knowing the reason the R’s voted to censure Schiff.
Baud
@Lapassionara:
Feeding the base, mostly. But the stated reason is that Schiff went after Trump for his crimes.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Lapassionara: He forgot to return some books to the library
Geminid
@Baud: Don Jr. is likely violating the federal prohibition on possessing firearms while an illegal drug user. A lot of people are.
Baud
@Geminid:
For people upset about the pace of DOJ’s actions against Trump, this dumbass investigation of Hunter Biden took five years!
Roger Moore
@Baud:
Never forget that the right treats being a criminal as a matter of identity, not behavior. BIPOC, other than the occasional “good ones”, are criminals because that’s the way the right wingers see them; whether they’ve been convicted, or even accused, of a crime is a technicality. On the other hand, those right wingers are not criminals no matter how much time they’ve spent in prison. You can see this with how incensed January 6th rioters are about being treated like criminals just because they’ve been convicted of crimes.
Roger Moore
@Lapassionara:
It’s pure retaliation for his role in Trump’s impeachments.
Rusty
This weekend I was at the beach and an older guy with a graying beard and a beer gut was wearing a shirt that said “There are two genders”. I wanted to go up and ask him which one was he, but in a rare moment of self-restraint I let it go. I’m glad we are on the good side of this fight.
Tony Jay
@Anne Laurie:
mrmoshpotato
@Anne Laurie:
LOL! And fuck ’em!
Baud
@Roger Moore:
Very good point.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
Investigations take longer when you can’t find evidence of any real crimes, but you insist on investigating anyway.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
mrmoshpotato
@Lapassionara: Because they all suck bags of horse anuses.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
The absence of evidence just proves the extent of the cover up.
mrmoshpotato
@lowtechcyclist: Isn’t it about time for them to make up another imaginary, dead informant?
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
Things were so much simpler when they could just claim that the information came from God.
Baud
@Rusty:
“There are four lights!”
Princess
They had a really great informant. You don’t know her. She lives in Canada.
Baud
@Princess:
I don’t have a picture of my informant but trust me she’s hot.
Narya
@Rusty: I always want to ask how they classify people who are intersex.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
How do they know their “informant” is dead if they can’t find him?
Baud
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
The kid in The Sixth Sense told them.
Matt McIrvin
@Narya: The response to bringing up intersex people is usually something along the lines of “They’re people who have a terrible, tragic disorder, and it’s distasteful of you to use them to make your political point.”
MomSense
@Rusty:
It would be easier to just point and mock at them except that now they have bought in to this absolutely disgusting libel that somehow they have to take this stance to protect children. It doesn’t matter that this new rainbow scare is devoid of any bases in fact or data. The GOP checked ending Roe off their list and they need a new crusade.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Rusty: I’m sure he spells 2 – too
Baud
@Narya:
@Matt McIrvin:
How do intersex people view themselves when it comes to gender? I honestly don’t know.
Narya
@Matt McIrvin: as opposed to them being part of the glorious variety of the human experience? Oh wait, that would require an appreciation of glorious variety…
Narya
@Baud: it varies, is my understanding, and the recognition that I is part of the lgbtqia acronym provides space for them.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: My impression is that it’s all over the place, but many whose genitals were surgically “fixed” as small children, and who were arbitrarily raised as whichever gender was surgically more convenient, have never identified as that gender and object to that having been done to them.
Betty Cracker
A few moments ago, I caught a glimpse of a large object moving fast along the shoreline in front of our house. I stood up for a better view in time to see that it was a deer, and at that moment, it tripped over the nylon strap that connects our little boat to a post onshore and fell to the ground. It got up and tried to jump over the fence that keeps the dogs away from the river, but it failed to clear the fence and bounced back on its ass next to the boat. Then it regrouped and continued running along the shoreline. The dogs are going ape-shit! I hope the deer is okay. It seemed in a panic.
twbrandt
I have a feeling that if the father in the story of the Prodigal Son were a republican, he’d throw the kid out on his ass when he returned.
brantl
@Baud: No , the stated reason is that Adam Schiff supposedly lied that STrumpy did those things, when of course Schiff didn’t lie.
Matt McIrvin
@Narya: I do think that the traditional treatment of intersex kids–to surgically refashion their genitals, maybe hormonally treat them and effectively choose a gender for them–implies that all people are inherently genderfluid enough that they’ll just roll with that treatment and happily accept whichever gender they’re raised as (which, as far as I can tell, is false).
And it’s mightily strange that an ideology that emphasizes huge essential differences between men and women will just endorse that in this case, but refuse to accept trans people as the gender they say they are though they pursue a similar course of action–but voluntarily. The threat seems to be the idea that what the person in question thinks and consents to actually matters.
raven
@Betty Cracker: A person at the dog park was telling me about a deer attacking her dog and, sure enough, there are a number of YouTube vids showing deer-dog assaults!
tobie
@Baud: Joy Reid said last night that the only reason she’s not despairing about Trump seeing justice can be summed up in two words: Fani Willis. No insult to Willis, but she’s been working on the GA false electors case longer than Garland. She started before he was confirmed. This stuff takes time.
tobie
@Betty Cracker: Was your boat unmoored? What a scene. And here I thought deer were unfailingly graceful.
Anyway
oh, snap. Take that Qevin! (sadly this only resonates with our base. That vast majority of Rs and Lamestream media don’t get it.)
narya
@Matt McIrvin: There was a huge case in the 60s or 70s–a circumcision gone very wrong–where a researcher tried to make the claim that the child could be raised as a girl, etc. etc, because gender could be “assigned.” Did NOT work–he eventually found out what happened to him, identified as a man, etc. Partly as a result of that, the more common experience these days, I believe, is that parents are encouraged to, essentially, do nothing, not least because the genitalia in question may change at puberty, thereby allowing the person to figure out their own identity
ETA: and I take your other point as well. I’m gonna go back to recommending an appreciation of the glorious variety . . . though I know it won’t be successful w/ the folks you point out.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: I’ve rea stories of people being attacked by deer. Most animals will if they think they are cornered.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I’m making up a new game–Parody or Trump. Which one is this?
Anyway
@Baud:
Time to plug one of my favorite books -Middlesex-. Read it a while back but if memory serves it would hold up well in the current climate.
hells littlest angel
Logan Roy is who Republicans think of when they think of a good father.
Anyway
Has the Biden administration banned gas stoves? Had dinner with friends last night one of whom was visiting from Texas and this was the rumor/scare at the table…
Kristine
@Matt McIrvin:
One reason I’ve seen given is that “God doesn’t make mistakes.” Not sure how that explains intersex folks who are “fixed” after birth unless God somehow gets distracted during the decision-making process and lets the occasional one slip through mid-determination.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Anyway: Here’s what Snopes says:
Kay
Pelosi is right that they look miserable. A miserable, whining group of people.
OzarkHillbilly
Like conservatism in the US, Brexit can never fail, it can only be failed.
mrmoshpotato
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
They were visited by his ghost?
OzarkHillbilly
@Kristine:
To which I can’t help replying, “What’s his excuse for you?”
Anyway
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Thanks! Will send that to my friend.
ETtheLibrarian
I think the right is so het up about how the Hunter Biden thing has played out because
mrmoshpotato
@twbrandt:
Yup. Also, Rethuglican Jesus would’ve told the moneylenders to raise their rates.
OzarkHillbilly
Did not have this one on my 2023 Headline Bingo card:
Invasion of giant African land snails prompts quarantine in south Florida
(actually not at all funny, but I still have to stifle a giggle)
eta: why does God hate Florida so much?
mrmoshpotato
@Anyway: 🙄🤪
Nope. No one stole my stove in the middle of the night.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@mrmoshpotato: Only if they flew him to Alaska for a fishing trip.
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: What happened to the murder hornets?
Betty Cracker
@raven: Dang! My dogs are both ~25 lbs., so a deer could totally kick their asses. They were inside when this incident occurred, but they could see the deer and were barking their heads off. We see plenty of deer on the road out of these woods, but never one in our yard!
@tobie: The strap held, so I didn’t have to chase the boat down, whew! It’s one of those thick nylon straps with a big clip that attaches to the boat and with a crank attached to a post on shore, like the setup on a boat trailer, so it’s super sturdy. It has to be for all the storms we get!
Spanky
@OzarkHillbilly:
We all know what it did.
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: Still out prowling the streets in search of hapless victims with heads in need of being ripped off.
OzarkHillbilly
@Spanky: Elect DeSantis as Guv?
Betty Cracker
I got a weird letter in the mail yesterday from a religious fanatic who evidently Googled me so he could personally respond to a letter to the editor I wrote. My husband found it worrisome and says maybe I should use my initials so weirdos can’t clock me as female, but I think he’s overreacting.
The person who wrote didn’t identify himself, but the envelop was postmarked in an area that’s about 100 miles from where we live. The letter wasn’t at all threatening — just aggressively proselytizing, and it included a couple of religious tracts and instructions on how to tune in to a Christian radio station in our area. People are weird.
Another Scott
@Anyway: A simple Google search would tell your friends that, no, that hasn’t happened.
Your friends needs better information sources.
HTH!
Cheers,
Scott.
Frankensteinbeck
@Roger Moore:
Every word of this comment is correct. They’re the good guys, we’re the bad guys. Their actions must be good, ours must be evil. Their beliefs must be right, ours must be wrong. Facts are irrelevant and facts that prove them wrong must be lies. And so on…
@hells littlest angel:
Personally, I am reminded of the old, old space opera book series Lensman. The writer was obviously conservative. A consistent theme was the best leaders being feared by their men, but also respected and those men would do anything for him. All love is tough love, making the lovee suffer so they’ll grow.
That is, between men. Women are inherently gentler and… well, anyway, you get the idea.
Scout211
The “party of George Santos” 🤣
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: Trying to save your soul, would be my guess.
Ken
Hunter Biden’s laptop has the files on Area 51.
Betty Cracker
Dang, did y’all see Rep. Schiff interrogate Trump’s special counsel John Durham in a hearing yesterday? No wonder Repubs censured Schiff; he absolutely beclowned that hack.
MisterDancer
Coincidentally, I’m reading a work on how Intersexed people were seen by Islamic jurists and doctors over the centuries. I will say the situations documented in the sources quoted are far more nuanced and complex a set of rulings and medical practices than we’d assume from how we talk about Islamic cultures today — including, at times, just going with “whatever the person says their gender is”.
Or, for that matter, how our media talks about the topic, to be frank.
This isn’t a “they did it better back then/over there” bit; I’m learning how bad a black hole trying to compare cultures and gender understandings can be! But yeah, it would really behoove a lot of people who think they know some shit to try reading up on a lot of the more current historical research; the above really does align well with what we, here in the West, consider an oddity — that Iran is, it seems, a key place to get gender reassignment surgeries:
WaterGirl
@Baud: Hey, it takes a long time to find almost nothing!
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Glad to hear he learned something from his interactions with us jackals.
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: Must be some size hornets!
Betty Cracker
@MisterDancer: That’s unexpected!
mrmoshpotato
@Betty Cracker: Slapped Durham with his own bones, did he?
UncleEbeneezer
@Betty Cracker: I needed a cigarette after that. Like Daniel Goldman, Schiff is SO GOOD in that position. He really exposed what partisan hack Durham is.
Scout211
The GOP presidential field is getting crowded.
Baud
Fair warning: Lots of bad Supreme Court decisions expected today and tomorrow.
Ken
@Betty Cracker: And now the Republicans are accusing Durham of being part of the cover-up.
Baud
@Scout211:
Just what the GOP base is demanding: a moderate black nominee.
(I have not researched whether he can accurately be described as a moderate.)
Scout211
Another legal win, this time in Florida.
NotMax
We have (too many) Axis deer on Maui.
You can spot them by the armbands.
(Preceding sentence not meant to be true.)
Geminid
Putting the “H” in Big Gretch.
From Michigan Live:
Governor Whitmer met with Nel executives while on a January trade mission to Europe. Nel Hydrogen CEO Hakon Holldal said his company chose Michigan because of:
The factory’s location is to be determined.
Like the electrolyser production facility that recently began operating at a Cummins Energy plant in Fridley Minnesota, the projected Nel Hydrogen plant was spurred by provisions in the IRA bill enacted last August.
Baud
@Geminid: 👍
OzarkHillbilly
@Scout211: Good news indeed.
Geminid
@Scout211 My recollection is that Will Hurd and fellow Congressman Beto O’Rourke made some news when they drove from Texas to DC together in 2017. I think Hurd lost his purple-district seat the year after.
Baud
@Geminid:
If he carpooled with Beto he’s definitely a moderate.
Ken
“And the electrical grid works.”
Soprano2
@lowtechcyclist: That was my thought, they drew it out hoping to find something, anything to “get” him with. They did the same thing to Bill Clinton.
Betty Cracker
@UncleEbeneezer: Goldman is excellent on the committees too! I was especially impressed with how he took Matt Taibbi and the other “Twitter files” hack apart.
@Scout211: Fantastic news!
Kathleen
@Baud: If Joe Biden were serious about healing the country he would adopt Donald Trump Jr.
Geminid
@Baud: The role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition is still hotly debated, but the IRA ensures that for better or for worse, companies will be investing a lot in US hydrogen production and use. Cummings Energy is one of many companies ramping up production of fuel cell power trains for heavy trucks and buses. Those may be a significant part of our transport mix ten years from now.
Ken
@Kathleen: I think “You broke it, you bought it” applies there.
Steeplejack
Soprano2
@Kay: Being angry and offended all the time, and knowing the majority of the world doesn’t think like you do anymore, would tend to make one miserable.
OzarkHillbilly
@Soprano2: And Hillary.
Soprano2
@OzarkHillbilly: Yep.
mrmoshpotato
@Ken:
C’mon man! It’s too early for my eyes to roll out of my head.
James E Powell
@OzarkHillbilly:
I think it goes back to 2000.
Related thing. I’m pretty sure it was somebody here – sorry I don’t remember – who linked this Anatomy of a Murder – How the Democratic Party Crashed in Florida. It was very interesting.
I’d like to read a similar insider analysis of what happened in my beloved home state of Ohio.
OzarkHillbilly
@Soprano2: They kept making smoke saying, “See? There must be fire!”
Ken
@OzarkHillbilly: And we all know what that smoke is blowing out of.
UncleEbeneezer
Foe anyone interested, here is Schiff absolutely tearing Durham a new a-hole…
OzarkHillbilly
@Steeplejack: ROFLMAO.
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: I liked how Goldman shut down Marjorie Greene once.
Greene: “Point of Personal Inquiry!”
Goldman: “There is no such thing.”
SFAW
@Betty Cracker:
You got my letter! Cool.
Sorry, I should have added “a/k/a SFAW” to my signature, so that you wouldn’t worry.
Yes, I’m kidding. Getting a letter like that would kinda unnerve me.
mrmoshpotato
@Steeplejack: I was hoping someone finally took a jackhammer to it.
Ken
@mrmoshpotato: As I only learned recently when Carrie Fisher finally got her star, someone has to pay for them. I wonder who would step up to replace Trump’s, if it were damaged. I can’t see it coming out of his pocket.
Soprano2
We’re on our way to St. Louis. They chartered a bus to take us there. Then we fly to New York City, approx. arrival time 6:00. I’m excited! I still have no idea what we’ll do with our free time because hubby doesn’t have the energy he used to. It’s supposed to be rainy, so probably something inside.
Lyrebird
@Matt McIrvin: @Narya:
There’s been years of great work done by the ISNA, and I apologize for the lousy formatting I have done with their archived homepage below.
Because of stigma which is perpetuated or even made worse by the hate for trans people, they actually had to form a new organization that doesn’t have “intersex” in the name though. I hate the haters for making what is already tough even tougher, just to be cruel or to fly their supremacist flag. On the other hand, I have total respect for dads like Rev. Ontay!
They provide more detail. Sometimes people with disorders of sexual development really do benefit from early surgery to correct function, like if there’s no opening for pee to come out that’s a big problem. And babies born with both overies and testicles are at high risk for cancer in whichever ones don’t seem to be getting used, you don’t want to just leave that tissue lying there ready to get cancerous.
But the consensus treatment for babies with XXY etc is similar to the best treatment for kids with gender dysphoria, going with what the kids themselves report about their own identities.
Kathleen
@Ken: But if Joe REALLY cared…
Elizabelle
@Geminid: Thinking Will Hurd might be raising his hand: Biden, over here! Hurd is non-insane, so perhaps he will end up with a good job in the second Biden administration
Or maybe he’s thinking really long term, and Senate, where he could pick up some Democratic support?
mrmoshpotato
@Ken: Someone took a sledgehammer to the Soviet shitpile’s star a few years back. I doubt the orange shitstain paid to fix it himself.
UncleEbeneezer
Ken
@UncleEbeneezer: Pssst! Cornel!! Word to the wise: Daily audits.
mrmoshpotato
@Soprano2: Go to the top of the Arch?
NotMax
@Ken
“Restoration funding provided b V. V. Putin.”
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@Soprano2
NYC = museum central. Both the Museum of Chinese in America and The Tenement Museum (latter requiring a reservation for specific tours) way downtown well worth a visit, Failing that, Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan museum a cornucopia of endlessly interesting stuff.
mrmoshpotato
@UncleEbeneezer: Hahaha! Of course that grifter trash is!
Where’s Crayola’s Not Surprised crayon?
Elizabelle
@Soprano2: Have a wonderful trip!
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Believe that is included only in the deluxe box (the one with the built-in sharpener).
;)
sdhays
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Parody. It’s too well written.
gvg
@OzarkHillbilly: Actually the problem is everything loves Florida too much. They come and want to stay. We have a huge problem and always will with invasive plants and animals. Goes back quite aways. I think Hawaii might have it worse, but not a lot of the rest of the country compares.
Giant land snails sounds about 20 years ago, sigh. The damned lion fish scare me. Cuban frogs are showing up all over the place. Geckos get in the house. Even the armadillos apparently aren’t native. They walked here from Mexico/Texas. They can hold their breath and walk on river bottoms and have been migrating for decades. They were here before I was born but I have read that they weren’t originally.
Australian plants, adapted to a low rainfall climate, go crazy here, which is odd. I hear some of ours are bad there too.
jonas
@Matt McIrvin:
.
Well put. The argument seems to be that genitals are dispositive when it comes to gender, but the brain is irrelevant.
OzarkHillbilly
@Soprano2: Enjoy.
jonas
@Betty Cracker:
I forget if it was during Schiff’s questioning or not, but one of the writers over at MJ covering the Durham hearing yesterday pointed out that the jackass outright lied — under oath — on at least two different occasions during that hearing.
Soprano2
@mrmoshpotato: Won’t be there long enough for that. Maybe when we go to a Cardinal game later this summer.
Roger Moore
@Ken:
Nonsense! Daily audits will greatly increase the risk of him getting caught.
Soprano2
@gvg: There are now armadillos in the MO Ozarks. They weren’t there when I was younger; climate change definitely enabled them to survive our winters.
Geminid
@Ken: This move created some controversy within the Green Party world. I ran into it when New York commentator @TomWatson linked to a tweet by former West Virginia Senate candidate Paula Swearingin.
She was very alarmed by West’s connection to the Movement for a People’s Party (MPP). Greens were warning each other to keep the gropey, grifty MPP chief away from women and campaign funds.
Some complained that Ms. Stein was already calling West the party’s “presumptive nominee” even though others are vying for the nomination. I got the impression that this may be a takeover of the Greens by the LaRouchites.
Cheryl from Maryland
@Betty Cracker: I received several letters of that type AND phone calls offering Christian counseling after my husband died last year. I kept my birth name, which was not used in the OBIT etc. It’s pointless to censor your name as crackpots will find you as they found me. FYI, nothing happened afterward. Now all I have to do is continue blocking emails from dating services.
Jackie
Only yesterday she stated her constituents expected her to do her duty and vote…
“Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton, the wife of Attorney General Ken Paxton, is barred from voting in the impeachment trial that could lead to her husband’s permanent removal from office, the Republican-controlled Senate decided Wednesday,” the AP reports.”
jonas
@Ken:
Usually a star’s management agency picks up the tab, or a studio looking to promote them in an upcoming movie or something. In Trump’s case, it was probably Mark Burnett’s company. No idea if it was ever replaced. They probably just removed it and replaced the hole in the sidewalk with concrete. Lot cheaper than having to power-wash the urine stains off every day.
jonas
@Jackie:
As they say, shamelessness is their superpower.
Kay
RFK Jr is dumb and arrogant enough to lie about people who are still around and have the capacity and platform to call out his lies:
I think RFK Jr. is Trumplike (he even compares his campaign to Trump’s campaign) and I’m starting to think we might have gotten better at spreading the word on the lies – RFK Jr. is being called out immediately.
Anyway. Good article and good for Joan Walsh for apologizing for helping to spread RFK Jr’s lies at one point. If Republicans and media had done this with Trump we could have avoided the whole Trump disaster.
UncleEbeneezer
Two things I learned yesterday:
1.) The Olympics has allowed Transgender athletes to compete consistent with their gender identity for 20 years. Not even one has qualified to make it to the Olympics. The BS worry about Trans Women dominating sports is just that: bullshit. And people like Martina Navratilova are sickening in their willingness to spread Transphobic non-sense.
2.) Asshole Joe Rogan, who has been one of the worst offenders in spreading Transphobia takes HRT (Testosterone) himself. He claims it is only for “health reasons” and not at all related to his obsession with body-building to be a manly man, but I’m not so sure I believe him. Body-building (and MMA) for Cisgender Men, is about as Gender-Affirming a hobby as it gets.
Scout211
I posted yesterday about the former FBI analyst who was convicted of violating the Espionage Act for taking home classified documents and sentenced to prison. What the DOJ press release that I posted didn’t say is this.
She also kept classified documents in her bathroom. 🤣
Baud
@Kay:
I think we’re a lot better than we were pre-Trump. I don’t know what voters will do, but I’m a lot more satisfied with us than I was in the past.
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
That’s below our crazyfication number
Scout211
Well, now that he has hooked up with Moms for Liberty, he will be just fine. 🙄
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Geminid: a takeover of the Greens by the
LaRouchitesRussia (again)Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
Fuck Putin, fuck his war.
Kay
@Scout211:
There was some speculation around what DEMOCRATS would do with a Trump-like liar and scammer celebrity candidate and I think we’re finding out- they expose him. Good job. I’m glad we didn’t all lose our fucking minds like conservatives did.
NotMax
@UncleEbeneezer
Ground floor investor in Tuckum’s proposed nationwide chain of ball-tanning parlors?
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rikyrah
@ETtheLibrarian:
You are correct all the way.
The thing that still is like WTF to me is the right being MAD that President Biden openly loves and supports his son.
I mean, they are phucking PISSED about it.
You remember when FOX played the voicemail of 46 to Hunter expessing his love and devotion?
Hannity thought that was a ‘ A HA’ moment..while the rest of the world heard a loving and concerned father.
They are a disturbed bunch
Kay
RFK Jr. has the conspiracy theorists innumeracy too. He invents insanely big numbers and attaches them to events, much like Matt Taibbi does (and continued to do in the Twitter files reporting).
I’m glad they don’t know enough to get some sense of what a reasonable number might be to include in whatever story they are making up. The tales would be more believable.
Jackie
@Scout211: Kind of hard to claim being a Democrat when the Proud Boys join up with Moms for Liberty… RFK Jr needs to out himself:
https://twitter.com/Levitt_Matt/status/1671512657638088704
...now I try to be amused
@Soprano2:
Being a dignity wraith (TM Josh Marshall) in thrall to that ridiculous orange man who will never appreciate what they do in his service will also make one miserable.
narya
@rikyrah: Yeah, Chris Hayes played it the other night, and what comes through is love and compassion–and the pain is for his son, not for the “damage” to Joe or Joe’s reputation or politics or any other thing. His first priority is his son.
Kay
@…now I try to be amused:
I think that’s a big part of it too, They’re trapped, they resent being trapped, but they’re too cowardly to stand up to him. They’re disgusted with themselves.
Bill Arnold
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
You made me cheat! :-) Intuition was correct but didn’t trust it.
Geminid
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: Howie Hawkins, the retired Teamster who was the Green Party candidate in 2020, is running for next year’s nomination. Hawkins has come out in support of Ukraine, and some people say that is unnacceptable. So there is a Russia angle here.
Tony Jay
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Trick question. Every parody is just something he hasn’t said yet.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah:
Which just means they aren’t real Amurikans!
Gravenstone
File under “whistling past graveyard”.
Tony Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
It’s been pointed out that 18% of 52% is around 9%, which is roughly where Nigel Farage’s Reform Party has been averaging in the polls. So those people who are happy with Brexit are likely to be the same unreachable blowhards who think the UKIP/NF/BNP coalition that is the modern Conservative Party is too wishy-washy and Woke when it comes to making the UK a White Free State.
The rest of them, those Brexidiots who refuse to admit it was a terrible idea from the start and insist that ‘the politicians’ all conspired to kneecap Britain’s Greatness are just in denial. They really do know it was a scam played on them, they’re just too embarrassed and thin-skinned to admit it.
Never mind. Sir Keir Starmer’s rebranded Corporate Franchise Opportunity Formerly Known As The Labour Party is there for them, promising to ‘Make Brexit Work’ and firmly ruling out even considering a return to the Single Market or Customs Union. So there’s that to look forward to while we gradually sink to official failed state levels of misery and await the much needed Irish-Faeroe Islands intervention of 2030.
Paul in KY
@raven: Don’t ever let your dog get near a zebra. My cousin had one one time that he was trying to sell and a prospective buyer (and his dog) came to check it out. My cousin warned him to curb his dog, but the guy (always a guy) said something like ‘ole Shep will be alright’.
Well, ole Shep made the mistake of getting into the corral with the zebra and it ran over super quick and proceeded to stomp ole Shep into the dust. Was jumping up and down on his body with all 4 feet.
Sale of zebra not made that day…
Paul in KY
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m continuing to dig in this horseshit. There’s got to be a pony in there somewhere!
Paul in KY
@OzarkHillbilly: I wonder if you can cook them?
Paul in KY
@James E Powell: Boy, that’s depressing.
Kay
There is so much debunking of Joe Rogan and RFK Jr. going on. I’m so pleased our voters won’t be conned like conservative voters were and are with Trump.
RFK Jr. does all this name-dropping of scientists and others he has caught in “lies” but his problem is those people are around, you can call and ask them about what RFK Jr. said and they explain how he’s lying. There must be hundreds of hours of recorded RFK jr lies because like all of these people he has a giant ego and never shuts up. It’s like a goldmine.
Riodawg
@Anyway: Such a great novel!
Ken
I am not sure which is more disturbing, that he knows all these people who are (IMO) insane, or that he announces this as if it’s something to be proud of.
Miss Bianca
@Riodawg:
@Anyway:
Fun fact: I went to high school with Jeff Eugenides, the author of Middlesex. In fact, I used to walk by his house on Middlesex Road in Grosse Pointe Park on occasion. (It was kind of a lengthy walk from my house, but I was quite a walker back in the day.)
Alas, I’ve never made it all the way through Middlesex – I gave up somewhere in the middle and never got back to it. I very, very much liked his previous novel, The Virgin Suicides, however.
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
@Kay:
What a dunce – midichlorians was RIGHT THERE!