The Fall of Roe v Wade: US Politics, June 2022

Garland wimps out thanks to "partial cooperation" and fear of litigation over exec privilege

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oof

Briahna Joy Gray: Fox News is more inclined to have a leftist on than MSNBC and CNN. (MSNBC regularly hosts members of the squad)
Kim Iversen: "I used to hate Tucker Carlson... but I've grown to appreciate him... he's so anti-establishment"
Briahna Joy Gray: That's exactly right. pic.twitter.com/wtB6TvvPcI

— Matthew Dimitri 🐍🧪 (@themattdimitri) June 4, 2022

Briahna Joy Gray is a nonsense grifter who is full of shit and should be ignored

bernie's campaign retroactively tainted by association with her frankly

i read the thread and wow what an unpleasant conversation they're all having

never read the thread

It's amazing how BJG has not tried to finesse the grift at all, just went from zero to sixty on the Tucker kiss-ass career path after the Virgil Texas debacle.

she and matt christman have definitely dipped the toe into populist white grievance messaging many months ago. on one of her chapo guest appearances she lamented that covid lockdowns separated white people from their churches and families so who could blame them for their anger. to enthusiastic agreement, natch!

Members of the failed People's Convoy, now '1776 Restoration Movement', were told that locals would donate a "100 foot long" Subway sandwich for their encampment. But, it turns out, it was all a hoax, as convoy members now claim "antifa extremists" were behind the sandwich scam.

— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) June 5, 2022

Worth noting that not a single member questioned the length of the sandwich, despite a 100-foot-long sub being insanely long for a group of 20 or so people!

Questioned it hell, they were excited about those 5 feet of sandwich each. The 1776 Restoration Movement marches on its belly.

Interesting that John Oliver exposed the/a Subway scam in his last episode 2 weeks ago. How prescient.

Sounds like Antifa.

what would a 1776 Subway sandwich include? Oxen, horseradish, mincemeat & molasses on a whole rye bun

preserved rations from valley forge

NEW: Far-right provocateur and former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos has found a new gig: Capitol Hill intern for MAGA firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. https://t.co/6PH35NABnv

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 6, 2022

i hate this reality

I don't know, I think that's kinda perfect. There is no higher office to which Marjorie Taylor Greene can realistically aspire. She's stuck in that House seat for a few more years, getting on Fox News on the regular but pushing through absolutely no legislation, and...that's...it. That's her life, summed up. She'll be a political troll for a little while longer, until someone shoots her or she gets indicted for something or she just gets bored and decides to run for Senate or governor, in which case she'll get demolished. So Milo, who self-immolated beautifully once already, is currently "working" as an *intern* for a political dead-ender. Good for him. I hope he overstays his visa and gets deported and banned from the country, but in the meantime, he's got a dead-end job that might (but probably won't) get him on Tucker Carlson's show once. The stench of loser-dom in that office must be enough to make people want to cover their faces with a rag soaked in Vick's.

wasn't milo hawking catholic curios on a shopping network recently? I guess any gig is better than that, even being MTG's office boy

Eh, Greene is one thing, I just hate that anyone is giving Milo a chance at laundering his image at this point in time. Fuck that guy forever.

Not least because he is now claiming to be an "ex gay" and is pushing conversion therapy.

the shit thing is even if she is a political albatross it's still useful for the GOP to keep her around, since every time she says something idiotic it gets a ton of media coverage and leads to people donating to unseat her, despite being in a Trump +99 district

i stumbled across a radio interview with an old high school friend today. i used to be facebook friends with him, back when i had facebook, and unfortunately he'd turned into a real classic white dude right wing / libertarian anger machine since the days i knew him. he and i had been really close. we started a band together. he was two years older than me. his name was herbie and he literally drove a beige beetle. he loved fugazi and ministry. we went to hardcore and metal shows together. i watched all kinds of "edgy" vhs tapes in his parents' rec room. clockwork orange, the wall. we both smoked camel filters. he loved to quote alastair crowley's "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". i always added "as long as it doesn't stop somebody else doing what they wilt" and he thought that was funny and agreed with it.

anyway, it turns out he ended up enlisting and going to somalia. when he came back he had ptsd. in the radio interview he said that his job was to get food and supplies to villages in somalia, and what would happen is that warlords would figure out where the drops were happening, and just clean up behind the us military, killing whoever they needed to in order to steal all the stuff. so it felt to him like his unit was basically responsible for wiping out village after village indirectly. i thought this was pretty insightful, so i looked him up on instagram. his handle is "synapticleftist" and he is now in the psychology department at the university of tennessee and specializing in PTSD and drug addiction!!! so like.. people can change. for the worse, maybe, and then for the better. i think in herbie's case it sounds like it took a lot of very hard personal experience - and then seeing exactly how republican politicians actually treat veterans - to get to a better place.

Interesting, I found out today that someone with whom I went to nerd camp as a teenager is now Curtis Yarvin’s fiancée. She even wrote a long, neoliberal Facebook post about how she was being attacked and how couples should be able to get past their political differences.

That and one of my teenage mentors ending up being a lead editor and writer for The Federalist is pretty, uh, jarring.

Great story, Tracer. Thanks.

(I should note, too, that the guy who started Facebook also went to this nerd camp at the same time as me, but i did not know him) ( Not a great record for this nerd camp)

Tracer! Wow.

Thanks for sharing.

You know, it's ironic. If @SenTedCruz put half as much effort into building a better future for all Americans as he does shitposting on Twitter, maybe his constituents wouldn't be paying so much to get around.

Let's take this latest lie apart, shall we?

1/ https://t.co/4HqJqtFjoj

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 6, 2022

Today I’m investigating Twitter for potentially misleading Texans on the number of its “bot” users. I have a duty to protect Texans if Twitter is misrepresenting how many accounts are fake to drive up their revenue.https://t.co/OZbwdV3pnY

— Texas Attorney General (@TXAG) June 6, 2022

please show me one Texan who gives one single fuck about whether Twitter misrepresents its bot count and how that hurts anyone who lives in Texas. Goddamnit fuck that whole fucking state.

please show me one Texan who gives one single fuck about whether Twitter misrepresents its bot count and how that hurts anyone who lives in Texas.

https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s---4aPFOD---/t_full/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1650904312/elon-musk-in-a-cowboy-hat.jpg

Musk has the Texas Government/GOP in his pocket.

Elon's apparent concern with the bot count is solely him seeking an exit strategy

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Wai0KpzGIPQ/SCCO3TqI8OI/AAAAAAAAAy8/0NDL9PxoRMI/s400/rick-louie-gambling.jpg

"You can't back out! On what grounds?"

"I am shocked, shocked to discover there are bots on your platform!"

Musk has the Texas Government/GOP in his pocket.

Musk was recently identified as the wealthiest human alive and probably remains within spitting distance of that status. The Texas AG, in common with the vast majority of the Texas executive and legislature, is both ambitious as hell and venal in proportion to his ambition. It isn't hard to connect the bots dots.

31k likes for someone straight up harassing this drag queen. Cool. https://t.co/yRhQ5w6gLx

— Tyler Dinucci!! (@TylerDinucci) June 6, 2022

Also in gay news:

Showing up to work on my first day & remembering at the last minute to delete my “kill all my new coworkers” tweet https://t.co/9DS8mKuh1i

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) June 7, 2022

Surely he'll keep his head down and his nose to the grindstone, doing important work for people

is that code for "blowjobs"

he’s execrable but will always prefer to see more of him and the Boeberts and the Greenes and the Cawthornes (RIP) making asses of themselves, as opposed to the Vance and Hawley types

Is the grindstone where the cocaine is?

xp would happily take neither

would happily take launching into the sun

why would you purposely cause our star to go nova, tabes??

I'm also all for blowing up the sun, fwiw.

Wellllll, not before this afternoon's Negroni.

i assume greene is just preparing for her post-elected politics career, where she gets paid to make dumb speeches in both real life and television for the next 10 years, at least. milo is a pro troll, he has connections and his friends and pals are the kind of people who would watch her show

But she's already getting paid to make dumb speeches in her pre-post-elected politics career.

yeah, but that's not going to last forever. need to start shoring up the grift for her next 10 years. she has a family to feed, and they only eat money and fresh maggots

I mentally spoonerized "fresh maggots" and understood why she hired on Milo.

:-o

what has milo even been doing the last few years?