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

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

xp

yes, the nervousness is key and so relatable. it's just like, how in the hell did we get in a situation where this person has to testify on this bullshit

“A ginger mint.”

jesus. it's enough to make you cry, it really is. i can never forgive anyone who supported trump and all of his very obviously racist and corrupt cronies. there is too much suspension of disbelief, for way too many people, that they just couldn't tell that trump was lying and that they just didn't know that. nope. fuck that, no forgiveness.

yeah, this is pretty powerful stuff

how has it her affected her life:

"i don't go the grocery store at all. i haven't been anywhere at all. i gained about 60 pounds. i don't want to go anywhere, it affects everything i do. it's affected in my life in a major way, in every way. all because of lies."

It would be great if this 20 minutes (at least) were played incessantly in prime time.

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ELECTION

"The call is coming from inside the polling place!!"

January 6 committee has obtained previously unknown film of Trump and family at time of riot

Filmmaker Alex Holder will sit for a deposition on Thursday and has provided the select committee ‘raw footage’ taken on the day of the Capitol attack

thursday.

Wasn’t it already known that he was watching the coverage on TV all day and guffawing?

Please let it be something like footage of Junior and Roger Stone doing rails.

Serious question: how are we just finding out about this filmmaker now?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/21/jan-6-committee-hearings-live-updates-day-4/#link-XH7CJMEFFNCG7G4HJGZPI2WXLI

A spokesperson for Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has disputed accusations from the committee that the senator was directly involved with a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. At the Tuesday hearing, the committee published transcripts of text messages that investigators say show a Johnson staffer asking a staffer for Vice President Mike Pence if the senator could present fake elector certifications during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.

“The senator had no involvement in the creation of an alternate slate of electors and had no foreknowledge that it was going to be delivered to our office. This was a staff to staff exchange. His new Chief of Staff contacted the Vice President’s office,” Johnson press secretary Alexa Henning wrote in a tweet Tuesday afternoon.

Henning did not contest the authenticity of the text messages, saying instead that Johnson was not involved in the “creation” of the fake elector certificates themselves. Henning’s statement does not contest the committee’s core claim, which is that Johnson lobbied the vice president to accept fake elector certificates in an effort to subvert the 2020 election.

wow, gonna be some big consequences for Johnson for THIS one!!!!

This might be the most unhinged tweet of the year

I spent Juneteenth all day in the hot sun hoeing and pulling weeds and thinking about what it would have been like to have been a slave. At the end of the day, I thought about what it would be like to be an aborted baby. I got to see the sunrise and the sunset.

— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) June 21, 2022

hey look i've spent my fair share of time wondering what it would be like if Steve King had been a aborted

https://frinkiac.com/video/S04E21/Ddi26wG-kx8zE4TFor4GLgk0iYk=.gif

It's not too late for someone to abort Steve King.

https://i.imgur.com/3vap2Ge.png

Worst vs. Worst Lean Into AL Senate Race:

The Alabama election pitted one of Donald Trump’s loyalists against the candidate the former president actually endorsed.

And today's testimony by conservative officials who are still threatened, and so are their families, for not backing the coup---the Arizona Speaker of the House ffs---should be a reminder to Senator-elect Britt, who used to seem smart when she worked her ass off for
Senator Shelby and his later generations of constituents, that it isn't enough to "support" Trump, unless that means going allll the way, babe.

(Although obvs lots of ppl have no prob w that.)

Just lose yourself, as the planet dies, jump in and looose yourself.

Too obs on the internet again, sorry.

From the guy who literally wrote the book on where the GOP bodies are buried:

Okay is no one goes to jail behind this shit I'm renouncing my citizenship.

— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) June 22, 2022

Narrator: No one is going to jail behind this shit.

At this rate no one's even going to trial.

Regardless of whether a few people here or there face any kind of sanction, the party behind the whole thing is going to be rewarded in November with control of one or both houses of Congress and will promptly resume dismantling the constitutional order (such as it is). And there’s literally nothing we can do about that in the near term.