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

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Here we go

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 9 June 2022 23:59 (two years ago) link

I can't watch this, it'll dredge up too much. Will gladly read the highlights

Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 June 2022 00:02 (two years ago) link

Fuckfuckityfuck.
The audio was so far out of sync in that Bill Barr clip, I could practically smell the deepfake conspiracies developing in real time...

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 10 June 2022 00:17 (two years ago) link

Lynne Cheney is kind of amazing in this hearing, she is not reading from any script but is speaking in the moment and is very articulate

Dan S, Friday, 10 June 2022 00:33 (two years ago) link

Like most Republicans, she knows how to hate.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 June 2022 00:35 (two years ago) link

I think she probably memorized this performance but it is pretty intricate and is an amazing monologue

Dan S, Friday, 10 June 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link

“Be there. Will be wild!”

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 June 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link

I'm only listening on radio, she's not reading from a teleprompter or something? pretty amazing

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 10 June 2022 00:49 (two years ago) link

Jan 6 footage.

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 June 2022 00:52 (two years ago) link

“there will come a day when Donald Trump will be gone, and you will be dishonored”

I would like to believe that will be true!

Dan S, Friday, 10 June 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link

I’m still so angry that these assholes weren’t arrested right then and there.

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 June 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link

this fucking video

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 June 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link

Oof, that final sound bite & image combo.

lol @ Tarrio and other Proud Boys admitting they sold more merch after Trump's comments at the debate.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 June 2022 01:24 (two years ago) link

I feel like it's my responsibility as a citizen to watch this and yet I know it will send me careening into hopelessness (I'm not watching it)

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 10 June 2022 01:25 (two years ago) link

It’s a lot to watch.

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 June 2022 01:26 (two years ago) link

it's better stitched together than expected

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 June 2022 01:27 (two years ago) link

The documentary filmmaker talking about the Proud Boy/Oath Keeper meeting the night before was something.

but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 10 June 2022 01:38 (two years ago) link

There’s some canny stagecraft at work here that I appreciate - a white, female representative in split screen interviewing a white Capitol police officer and this awful day.

One was trying to defend the other and was assaulted for it.

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 June 2022 01:43 (two years ago) link

I missed a word or two in that post but you get what I’m saying.

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 June 2022 01:44 (two years ago) link

“I was slipping in people’s blood.”

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 June 2022 01:48 (two years ago) link

Just heard that not only did Fox not broadcast this, they didn't even air any commercials that would risk their audience changing the channel and tuning in. That's pretty despicable, even for them.

(Top Gun was silly but very entertaining, btw.)

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 June 2022 03:00 (two years ago) link

The Newsmax lower third during the hearings has been completely unhinged. pic.twitter.com/eBS5oRXEcw

— trapezoid of discovery (@get_innocuous) June 10, 2022

Jesus christ pic.twitter.com/05xjUQe5YD

— trapezoid of discovery (@get_innocuous) June 10, 2022

.@TuckerCarlson: The truth of what happened on Jan. 6 is still unknown https://t.co/FLBpB9uGtq

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 10, 2022

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 June 2022 03:28 (two years ago) link

xposts there's your answer for why fox didn't broadcast the hearings: they'll get better ratings with tucker carlson, who will also, simultaneously, provide a different version of events for his viewers. why wouldn't they? everyone rolled their eyes when fox news was called "propaganda" during the bush administration. that's because they used to keep most of the more overt propaganda stuff on the "opinion" shows after the "news" hours were over. that line between news and propaganda was completely obliterated at some point, long before hannity was onstage with trump

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 June 2022 03:31 (two years ago) link

and yes, i know, faithful ilx readers, that none of YOU rolled your eyes at fox being called propaganda in the 2000s!

just saying, there is a difference between really bad and reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally bad, and although they're on the spectrum and all of this could be seen coming a long time ago, well, a long time has passed, and yes, this time has come

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 June 2022 03:32 (two years ago) link

"on the spectrum" should be "on the same spectrum", i'm not trying to say anything about autism.

saying things on ilx while making a bunch of typos is the most stressful

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 June 2022 03:33 (two years ago) link

they didn't even air any commercials that would risk their audience changing the channel and tuning in.

goddam they really do just want it more

OG Bob Sacamano (will), Friday, 10 June 2022 03:38 (two years ago) link

i used way too many words to make a point that didn't make any sense. i'm sorry, i'd delete if i could, not because fox isn't propaganda, but because i'm not saying anything anyone doesn't know.

i watched the new cronenberg tonight and then i came home and watched a youtube of the hearings. i'm a mess right now ok, this is more than a person should have to face in one day

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 June 2022 03:42 (two years ago) link

yesterday's hearing was upped as a podcast by MSNBC as a Rachel Maddow show. Not sre if they'll keep it permanently
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6DDbS7lZ9tPF43ZvZl48hp?si=9ecdf971b2654854

Stevolende, Friday, 10 June 2022 18:49 (two years ago) link

so far the hearings are about as good as they could be, i guess. if nothing else, i agree with the view that it is very important to document what actually happened. even if documenting is not enough, even if these hearings don't even reach most of the country and never will, other than in heavily distorted form, interpreted by people who are against the language.

if nothing else, we got our cover of Dystopia 2022

https://i.imgur.com/jnTQupK.png

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 June 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link

BIG IVANKA IS WATCHING YOU

it really is a good photo, i think. ivanka's testimony makes it pretty clear that she knew early on (likely before Barr told her it was "bullshit") that what her father was saying was complete bullshit. none of that matters. what matters is that she is large and hangs above the panel designated to investigate her family's blatant, ongoing crimes. her words go away, if they were ever there, her facial expression is blank, there's nothing in there. it's awfulness it its most pure and awful form, the banality that hannah arendt wrote about.

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 June 2022 15:43 (two years ago) link

it's possible she never developed real expressions because she has never needed them, once

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 June 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link

I like the idea of many of these assholes never being seen in person ever again, just appearing now and then from giant video screens, under duress, with pained expressions.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 June 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link

“My lawyer said I had to be here, so” *blank, almost AI-generated expression of indifference*

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 11 June 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link

Why are they doing this in prime time? Do they think people are going to tune into this shit?

You're angered because they're making information as available as possible to the nation and the world that counters the relentlessly repeated stolen-election narrative? Is it because you're missing something else in prime time that got pre-empted? Get over it.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 11 June 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link

Holy shit at this making the rounds:

Why was there no backup on January 6th?pic.twitter.com/SzQdQauOd7

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) June 10, 2022

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 June 2022 16:53 (two years ago) link

The MAGA hat is a good touch. Why do I instantly think he was a non-MAGA plant who was there for reasons other than protesting the "stolen election"?

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 11 June 2022 17:02 (two years ago) link

I guess I don’t understand about that tweet. I thought it was pretty clear that officials were trying to get the DC National Guard called up and were stymied cause the DC National Guard is controlled by the President. And that there were delays because other local law enforcement weren’t on standby, ‘cause no one planned for this thing to turn into a pudgy white riot (you can bet if it was a BLM protest every cop in the world would have been there.)

Also backup did come, I personally saw a caravan of Virginia State Police zoom down Interstate 66.

Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 11 June 2022 17:13 (two years ago) link

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/capitol-insurrection-visual-timeline/

Although the backup came really late, after Trump already did his “we love you” speech.

Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 11 June 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link

I guess I don’t understand about that tweet.

That video clip is meant to confuse the narrative. It "proves" MAGA people at the "rally" were sympathetic to the Capitol police and shocked by the violence of "these people" who wanted blood!

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 11 June 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link

I don't think it's that nefarious at all. I think the gist of the clip is that even some protestors who were there recognized the situation was out of control in real time, and that the cops were doing nothing. Like, this is a guy that dressed up and showed up but soon saw that this was not what he signed up for, that the crowd was violent/out for blood. Which yeah, we all knew/know that. But to see that contemporaneous perspective from the inside, from a person who (assuming his validity) at least started on the side of the protests and was shocked no one seemed prepared for this inevitable turn, it's useful to have, imo. Doesn't absolve him of any complicity or anything, just emphasizes how chaotic and violent the situation was even to someone sympathetic to the cause, and how Trump was just letting it happen.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 June 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link

Josh OTM

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 11 June 2022 19:25 (two years ago) link

Grimace! No!

Source: https://t.co/0ms9enEzpK pic.twitter.com/ytIL2ZpVJe

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) June 11, 2022

i'm not sure where to put this, right now, but it seems like something bad was prevented from happening today

BREAKING: Authorities have stopped this Uhaul and detained approximately 20 people. They all have the same type of clothing on. Truck was stopped about 1/8th mile from the pride event. We’re working to get more info from police. @KREM2 pic.twitter.com/bez1msBz45

— Kyle Simchuk (@KyleSimchuk) June 11, 2022

https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/police-detain-group-found-inside-uhaul-coeur-dalene/293-aa1593a5-5fd2-4ce4-b0c1-bf8edaedcfe6

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 June 2022 22:56 (two years ago) link

according to this person, they're from patriot front, which SPLC describes as "a white nationalist hate group that broke off from Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, of August 12, 2017. "

holy shit. patriot front detained pic.twitter.com/uIIZeXn6Ci

— alissa azar (@AlissaAzar) June 11, 2022

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 June 2022 23:00 (two years ago) link

twitter thread here from local eyewitness

scuttlebutt is that they got sprung bc there was a fed in their group chat & they were possibly arrested for conspiracy to riot but idk veracity of that

Patriot front arrested. they have a uhaul filled with shields and idk what else https://t.co/c8pCyd0xGW pic.twitter.com/omQuLyPpoe

— alissa azar (@AlissaAzar) June 11, 2022

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 June 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link

lol jinx <3

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 June 2022 23:03 (two years ago) link

it doesn't look like they had any guns, at least (?), but still, never a good sign when you're riding as a group in the back of a uhaul, wtf

Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 June 2022 23:10 (two years ago) link


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