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

Karl, hopefully that video gets more attention.

Not to diminish their danger, but I amuse myself by thinking of all these American nazis as “the Oath Boys” after an elderly professor from my college fumbled the two groups’ names at a brunch months ago

proud keeping oath believing bitter-clinging right-winging clingers of guns god and liberty

right-winging, bitter-clinging proud clingers of our guns, our God, and our religions, and our Constitution

oops, I forgot to delete my reference notes for that important post

religions and constitution with "liberty", just to make it rhyme. Sarah Palin did not make it rhyme.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw and his staff were violently confronted at the Republican Party of Texas convention a short time ago, when far-right social media activist Alex Stein and others whom witnesses described as Proud Boys began shouting “eyepatch McCain” at him – an attempted insult coined by Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson.

sorry, but lol.

is he going to make a marvel movie commercial about this? like he did with aNtiFa? or nah

The Dark MAGA gang is really developing a hate-on for Crenshaw.

The guy I went to high school with who tried to primary DC was easily beaten, and he's been issuing Cawthorn-esque attack statements on the reg ever since.

I gotta admit “eyepatch McCain” as a shouted taunt just cracked me up

They booed Cronyn on Friday because of that limp gun control bill that wasn't limp enough for their tastes.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2022/06/17/427222/john-cornyn-booed-at-texas-gop-convention-in-houston/

jfc

Truly monstrous stuff here 👇🏽— (scandal-plagued) GOP Missouri Senate candidate @EricGreitens says “join the MAGA crew, get a RINO hunting permit” (Republicans In Name Only)  as they break into a house…presumably to murder Republicans he disagrees with. pic.twitter.com/YLUSSIlm6k

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) June 20, 2022

Wow. GOP would lose 38 electoral votes and a net 13 lost seats in the House and 2 Senators lost. TX would stop getting Medicaid, any federal funding whatsoever, and couldn't use the $ anymore. Sounds good to me.

— Christopher Boyd (@CJBear71) June 19, 2022

(in response to this)

Texas GOP Platform also calls for full repeal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as well as for the state to hold a referendum on whether Texas should secede pic.twitter.com/oeiGjB0nys

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) June 19, 2022

I really don't want to be put into a situation where I have to move to different part of the country

twitter thread full of the usual cheerleading the downfall of Texas as if millions of amazing people horrified by their Governor/GOP Platform don't live there.

Good morning!

How the fuck does Grietens still have a career

Latest Senate polls, @FiveThirtyEight:

PA Fetterman 46-37 Oz
NC Beasley 44-40 Budd
GA Warnock 47-47 Walker
CO Bennett +13
UT Lee 41-37 McMullin
OH Ryan 44-41 Vance
WA Murray 51-40 Smiley
NV Cortez Masto 48-27 Laxalt

No red wave to be found here.

— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) June 16, 2022

huh

he's dominating the GOP primary here, too.

conservatives in Missouri are creepy as fuck, that's all i can say. look at this article from March: https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-campaigns-eric-greitens-missouri-texas-5cb2c458155b4f611b0e9a3377d9d970

whose story sounds more plausible here? background: "COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, now a leading Republican Senate candidate, was physically abusive and demonstrated such “unstable and coercive behavior” that steps were taken to limit his access to firearms, according to new allegations from his ex-wife revealed in court records on Monday.”

his ex-wife’s position:

In the affidavit, Sheena Greitens casts her ex-husband as someone who threatened to use his political connections and influence in order to destroy her reputation to win custody of the children.

“Prior to our divorce, during an argument in late April 2018, Eric knocked me down and confiscated my cell phone, wallet and keys so that I was unable to call for help or extricate myself and our children from our home,” Sheena Greitens wrote in the filing. “I became afraid for my safety and that of our children at our home,” later adding that his “behavior included physical violence toward our children, such as cuffing our then-3-year-old son across the face at the dinner table in front of me and yanking him around by his hair.”

In 2019, one of her sons came home from a visit with his dad “with a swollen face, bleeding gums and loose tooth,” she said.

“He said Dad had hit him; however, Eric said they were roughhousing and it had been an accident,” Sheena Greitens wrote, adding that the tooth eventually had to be removed.

Greiten’s position:

“I am seeking full custody of my sons, and for their sake, I will continue to pray for their mother and hope that she gets the help that she needs,” he said in a statement issued from his Twitter account.

man, if ever I wanted someone to drive into the ocean and somehow have a shark break into his submerged vehicle and eat him....

i'm glad that about the update in Caek's post, that things don't look as bleak in battleground states.

here, it's going to be senior fascist hawley and junior fascist grietens. it is bleak as fuck

looking dire in FL for Governor. but there haven't been any major polls for months.

can't believe our 'best' option is a guy who already governed our state as a Republican and switched parties.

also haven't had our primary yet for D

hoping Walker’s very obvious CTE keeps Warnock competitive there but I don’t feel great about it

but holy lord pls let Vance eat shit.

looking dire in FL for Governor. but there haven't been any major polls for months.

can't believe our 'best' option is a guy who already governed our state as a Republican and switched parties.

― Slowzy LOLtidore (Neanderthal),

South Florida market bombarded with Val Demings Senate ads this weekend. She is alas going hard on opposing defunding the police ("That's just crazy!!") and her cred as sheriff.

Also: Annette Taddeo, the best candidate in the governor's race, dropping out to run against Salazar in FL-27 looks like the smart play.

God, everything about that Texas GOP convention was bleak as fuck.

It’s a state that I would steer far clear of if I didn’t have to go there.

Greitens is such an obvious MAGA grifter, the rubes buying in would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic. He flipped a coin deciding which party to join when he went from being a corrupt SEAL to a corrupt politician.

Does the Navy (or Navy SEALS) have any position on military people using their training to break into the homes of Americans and murder them? it seems like they would care about that, but probably not

i guess that's what cops do anyway, so now it's just getting normalized through the branches of the military as well

Larry Summers -- who the president said he spoke with today -- publicly saying a 5% unemployment rate is necessary to combat inflation. To state the obvious, a 5% unemployment rate would mean devastating joblessness for millions of poor American workers pic.twitter.com/wsSB9zmBy9

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) June 20, 2022

Coincidentally it would also change the worker-friendly dynamic of the past year, where everyone was raising wages to try to attract people.

(Which I'm sure would break Larry Summers' heart.)

it's wild that these people are just out walking around in public and no one's (redacted) them

I don't have a PhD from wherever Larry went to school but I'm still unclear on how Great Recession levels of unemployment are going to stop the Ukraine war, end pandemic lockdowns in China or keep Saudi Arabia from collaborating with Russia to keep oil prices high.

these fuckin captains of industry have been spouting variations of this hideous shit for centuries & we are still have not reached a point where they are silenced with a wellplaced right-hook to the jaw, or even an airhorn

now now everybody be cool the adults are in charge

Georgia, on my mind

i guess it was probably already known that the "lie" at the heart of the big lie was that it was illegal immigrant voting (along with a smattering of dead people) that was the "fraud" in the "stolen election". but it's just gross to hear all these different instances of giuliani and jenna ellis calling the AZ and GA officials (among others) and just plainly making that the centerpiece of their allegations, the oldest fascist trick in the book, was that it was outsiders, people of color, speaking different languages, scary people, trying to take over the country. trump would be on the phone too, supporting all this and asking giuliani to give the state legislators the "evidence". it's such an obvious throughline to trump's life before 2015-16, when he had just spent half a decade promoting a racist lie about obama not being a true american, that he was actually an outsider, possibly an evil one with malign intentions. and then, of course, all the times he defrauded throughout the rest of his life. so fucking pathetic that all of this was so plainly obvious when those first little op-eds popped up in spring 2015 suggesting that trump would run for president

but he's mean on tv and he's rich!

unforgivable dipshits

KM otm

None is so blind as s/he who will not see

outsiders, people of color, speaking different languages, scary people, trying to take over the country

I mean, this has been the nativist/white supremacist platform in this country from the very beginning. This is all just the same fight we've been having forever.

And Germany.

Each hearing is even more harrowing than the last, in new ways.

Each hearing is even more harrowing than the last, in new ways.

Yeah, was just talking about this with someone. They've structured it all brilliantly. "Oh, you thought that was fucked-up and evil? Wait until tomorrow."

At the very least they've made a very strong case for his impeachment.

Ms. Moss is an _excellent_ witness.

She’s so nervous. It’s so important that she’s part of this.

She's a GA election worker, for the last 10 years, who is going to testify on the threats she received. she loved her job and said she especially liked helping the older folks, the ones who like to call on the phone and do things in person rather than online and mobile like young people, and that she liked being there for them in multiple elections, helping some of the same people year after year.

she was also nervous as hell, as any of us would be. very relatable. then it switches to a video clip of Rudy being rudy. it's just disgusting, and it throws into stark relief how baldly corrupt and scummy trump and his cronies are