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

let's not relitigate the past

I wonder if he has an earmarked account, just to pay for all the abortions.

Through the foundation. Only a chump pays for his own abortions.

“Hey MAGAland, we need $50 from all of The Donald’s biggest supporters to Stop CRT, Restore America, and offset some of these abortions.”

"Cohen, you got this? I, uh, forgot my checkbook."

"Yes, sir."

New: Jan. 6 committee teases next hearing with Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann telling John Eastman after Jan. 6: “I’m going to give you the best free legal advice you’re ever getting in your life: get a great fucking criminal defense lawyer.”

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) June 14, 2022

This oughta be fun:

South Florida synagogue sues over Florida’s new 15-week abortion ban

A South Florida Jewish congregation has challenged a new state law that blocks abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, contending the measure violates privacy and religious-freedom rights.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in Leon County circuit court by Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor, seeks to block the law from taking effect July 1. Abortion clinics also filed a lawsuit this month in Leon County challenging the constitutionality of the restriction.

Both cases include allegations that the law, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in April, violates a privacy right in the Florida Constitution that has long played a pivotal role in abortion cases in the state.

But the lawsuit filed Friday by the Boynton Beach congregation also contends that the law violates religious-freedom rights.

“For Jews, all life is precious and thus the decision to bring new life into the world is not taken lightly or determined by state fiat,” the lawsuit said. “In Jewish law, abortion is required if necessary to protect the health, mental or physical well-being of the woman, or for many other reasons not permitted under the act [the new law]. As such, the act prohibits Jewish women from practicing their faith free of government intrusion and thus violates their privacy rights and religious freedom.”

So the same group that targeted Madison Cawthorn is out with a press release saying Lauren Boebert worked as an escort, had two abortions, and met Ted Cruz through one of her escort clients. (Cruz supposedly the one who encouraged her to run for office.)

Kinda hate the idea of her being bounced because of either escort work or abortions. There are plenty of perfectly good reasons to vote her out.

All I can manage is “wow,” but also, “wow” is all I’ve been saying for the past 6-7 years. With various inflections.

Really fearful we're getting Cruz dick pics very soon.

Every picture of Ted Cruz is a dick pic.

feel like Jacob Wohl would've been so much more successful as a Dem operative - even if you were just making shit up your "investigative journalism" would probably turn up a bunch of shit anyway

Kinda hate the idea of her being bounced because of either escort work or abortions.

All is fair in love or culture war.

The timeline on this Boebert stuff seems a bit suspect: she was already pretty publicly involved in local politics in late '19, when it's claimed she was (still?) escorting and introduced to Cruz.

Why is that suspicious?

And--money woes aside--wasn't she already a bit of a local celebrity for having a gun restaurant?

XP It just seems really weird that she was known in the community AND using her real name on an escort site.

I mean, she's no rocket scientist, but...

This is one of the oldest and most effective tricks in politics. Every hack in the business has used it in times of trouble, and it has even been elevated to the level of political mythology in a story about one of Lyndon Johnson’s early campaigns in Texas. The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumor campaign about his opponent’s life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his own barnyard sows.

“Christ, we can’t get a way with calling him a pig-fucker,” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody’s going to believe a thing like that.”

“I know,” Johnson replied. “But let’s make the sonofabitch deny it.” — Hunter Thompson, Fear & Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72

I mean, she's no rocket scientist, but...

Don't put it past people with ... less than rocket scientist credentials to act the part. Isn't she a high school drop out, like Cawthorn was? Plus, Beetbort, she's been arrested a few times, right? And so has her husband (for exposing himself to minors?)? Her shittiness precedes this admittedly suspect claim, but at the same time, look at her cohort and their (track) records. Gaetz, Cawthorn, Jordan ... a bunch of sleazebag goons.

Definitely not being reported anywhere reputable, but it's awfully specific. Isn't the group behind it mostly Republicans?

Anyway even the uncontested stuff about Boebert is already high drama reality TV material.

Plenty of high school dropouts are plenty intelligent, fwiw, so not sure what that has to do with anything

Sure, there are intelligent people who couldn’t fit in with the rigors of school who dropped out, and then educated themselves via reading, museums, galleries etc. Boebert is not that person.

This attack is definitely aimed at Republicans. We already have enough reason to hate Boebert. I have to think someone wants to purge the embarrassments from the party before they take control of Congress again.

But deploying that fact as evidence of anyone’s lack of intelligence is ridiculous, is what Im trying to say, especially in the case of a fascist sociopath like Boebert.

Kinda hate the idea of her being bounced because of either escort work or abortions.

Don't waste tears on someone who'd point and laugh at your corpse lying in the street.

Yeah, sorry, I'm not going to waste an ounce of sympathy on her.

Police in Idaho said they’ve received death threats after arresting dozens of suspected members of a white supremacist group right before they allegedly planned to riot at an LGBTQ Pride event Saturday.

Coeur d’Alene police received about 150 calls in the two days after making the arrests, Chief Lee White told reporters Monday at a news conference. In about half of them, callers identified themselves and praised the police department for stopping the 31 men, who are accused of having ties to Patriot Front, which the Anti-Defamation League identifies as a hate group.

“And the other 50 percent — who are completely anonymous and want nothing more than to scream and yell at us and use some really choice words — offered death threats against myself and other members of the police department merely for doing our jobs,” White said, adding that they’ve gotten calls from as far away as Norway.

it's interesting that the police, at least in Idaho, are now being treated as malleable politicians -- people call in, registering their approval or disapproval

Aren't death threats a crime? Assuming caller ID and calls being recorded, put out warrants for those morons.

adding that they’ve gotten calls from as far away as Norway

*sigh*

the real news is that Coeur d’Alene had a pride event

Varg vikernes has a lot of free time

^^^ Was going to make the same joke about Anders Breivik.

“What up”

https://january6th.house.gov/sites/democrats.january6th.house.gov/files/2022-6-15.BGT%20Letter%20to%20Representative%20Loudermilk%20linked%5b10%5d%5b6%5d.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3uGieJmfzYLP_UuQ2KB16G4hPojVc299op2pIr-qAZiEksKIu2bZopBoc

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/election-denier-becomes-gop-nominee-for-nevadas-top-election-official

Nevada Republicans’ nominee to be the state’s next top election officials thinks Donald Trump won the 2020 election and says he would not have certified Joe Biden’s victory in the state, even though the Democrat won with more than a 2% margin.

The GOP secretary of state nominee, Jim Marchant, a former state assembly member, lost by an even worse margin in his 2020 bid for the U.S. House of Representatives — nearly 5% — but nonetheless sued to overturn the results, and still claims to be a “victim of election fraud.”

The candidate — who told an audience in February that “Your vote hasn’t counted for decades” — called his primary win a “historic night on the road for election integrity.”

Marchant was on hand for the signing of a slate of fake Trump electors in 2020, and later told The Guardian that he would support another slate of presidential electors contrary to the actual presidential election results in 2024: “That is very possible, yes,” Marchant said.

Don't waste tears on someone who'd point and laugh at your corpse lying in the street.

Oh yeah, I meant no sympathy for her at all. I just don’t like abortion or sex work being treated as disqualifying for office, on principle.

Sex workers can run for office like anyone else. It's failing to win enough votes that is disqualifying. The fact you would consider voting for a sex worker who met your other qualifications for support shows those old prejudices are fading in strength. In the meantime, prejudiced voters are gonna vote their prejudices and elections will swing on those votes.

Aimless, you know very well what tipsy meant, there’s no reason to have written what you just did

So the same group that targeted Madison Cawthorn is out with a press release saying Lauren Boebert worked as an escort, had two abortions, and met Ted Cruz through one of her escort clients.

I mean I don't have any special insight but something about the Boebert thing feels like an op to get a bunch of excited Democrat-voting social media pointing at a shiny object that turns out to be nothing

Ya.

There’s a Will Sommer article suggesting it’s fake, people in pictures are misidentified.

i agree with joan crawford re. boebert

i also don't really care if boebert was an escort and cruz paid for her services. that would be the least objectionable thing about both of them.

i also don't really care if

Then you're not the target audience, now are you?

Fwiw it sounds like the photos are probably actually her, but were ones she sent in to some modeling search agency and nothing to do with being an escort.

it’s been a while but I feel like there was something going around about a bunch of these conservative grifter spokesmodels (Tomi Lahren, Candace Owens, Boebert, etc) being listed on some talent scout site they have to pay for

Fwiw: https://www.thedailybeast.com/liberals-rush-to-spread-bogus-lauren-boebert-escort-and-abortion-rumors

Fwiw: https://www.thedailybeast.com/liberals-rush-to-spread-bogus-lauren-boebert-escort-and-abortion-rumors

Fwiw: https://www.thedailybeast.com/liberals-rush-to-spread-bogus-lauren-boebert-escort-and-abortion-rumors

Lol sorry, phone glitch.