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

great imagination, Aimless!

miserable failures really have to be priced in any time we start world copping. like what’s the bar for success? Libya?

yall i am solely talking about the evacuation. i very much understand that biden had no choice but to pull the troops (which i support!), but it was a failure that fucked so many women. i'm certainly not in support of world copping

It's much easier to imagine if you eliminate from consideration all the missteps and accumulated blunders from 2002 to 2021 of which the withdrawal was the culmination.

I thought people found occupying Afghanistan deeply difficult since Europeans started trying to. & the Brits had been writing about their failure to do so throughout the 19th century and fun things like that.
So continuing to try might seen a tad Quixotic but Trump didn't make things nay easier talking openly about actual gain one could expect to take home with him.

sounds like today's testimony will be particularly damning

Very interesting seeing the John Oliver piece on overcalculating how much water was being tyaken out of teh Colorado river and comparing the non mathematics with the amount of resources taht are going to be taken up by the children who will be forced to be born if nothing chnages here.

I liked that piece because it demonstrated how absolutely insane capitalism can be, the issue on its own seems manageable but it's getting complicated by the fact that they're building fucking golf courses and resorts in the desert, it's truly maddening

Hutchinson testifying that Meadows (and Trump) informed about men armed with AR-15s etc. at the 1/6 rally and had no reaction

Spears at the end of flagpoles even!

Sharks with lasers.

lol again can't believe anyone suggesting we don't pay attention to this

the antics of the SA are merely a distraction and we should only confront Herr Hitler in the marketplace of ideas

Thanks for the link Alfred. This looks promising: Over a third of Biden’s 42 2021 appointees had some public defender experience, and almost as many had at least three years’ experience. As a proportion of all appointees, they more than doubled public defenders among Obama’s appointees, and were much more than other predecessors.

Trump physically attacking his aide in the car--did this come out before?

no

fucking crazy

Jfc

And throwing his lunch against the wall, but that would surprise no one I guess.

I like the pulling off the table cloth and making everything fall on the floor move
Very rich kid

I don't buy that Trump actually used adult people's dishes when eating.

I have to say, if this is the best response they have...

Just about everything she's saying is HEARSAY. WHO CARES!!!!! Hey Cassidy, you were chosen to be a witness just like the others were. FOR OPTICS. Some "lawyer" and "investigators" like hanging out with you. GO HOME. pic.twitter.com/6XZx4Lhlii

— G Raymond Kelly (aka Greg Kelly) (@gregkellyusa) June 28, 2022

Jurors regularly have to evaluate the credibility of witnesses and their testimony. She seemed pretty damned credible to me and was very careful to confine her testimony only to what she had seen or heard.

"I like to angrily throw food at the wall! He's a regular guy, just like us!"

in Truth Social, Trump dismisses Hutchinson as something akin to a coffee boy pic.twitter.com/D4r7x0xw3M

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 28, 2022

yea this is nuts and I think it's pretty clear that these hearings are revealing quite a bit more than just what we saw

I'm still not convinced anything important is gonna happen but it seems really clear that Trump deserves to be in jail

TBH trumps fans love this kind of violent baby tantrum shit they think it’s what real manly men do and if they don’t do this themselves in real life they wish they could.

You know, doing something about this could be a positive step for Democrats to show voters they'll actually protect abortion rights before the 78 Senator threshold is met.

Viewer discretion advised. LAPD officers beat a man on the ground at the pro-choice protest and slam his head onto the cement until he shows seizure-like symptoms. I tried to give him water and LAPD smacked the water out of my hand. Then they dragged the man away on the ground. pic.twitter.com/UmXEpQuDHq

— Vishal P. Singh (they/he) 🏳️‍⚧️ (@VPS_Reports) June 25, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWXANl_UEAExU7a?format=jpg&name=medium

Donald Trump: a strange man, it must be said. Not sure what's going on there.

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) June 28, 2022

Unfortunately he missed, and his hand smashed into the tape deck, briefly interrupting the Big and Rich album

Grisham was the last White House press secretary under Trump, the one who never actually spoke to the press.

pic.twitter.com/PQXLSsv6IJ

— Stephanie Grisham (@OMGrisham) June 28, 2022

To think we never were given the joyous opportunity to have Melania as press secretary.

In Trump's 'truth' - "... after my having served a full term in office..."

Why did he feel a need to mention this? so we don't confuse him with Gerald Ford?

Because the two impeachments still sting. Everything he so obviously tries to minimize cuts him to his little baby soul.

Cheney showed samples of these messages, promising much more:

Cheney's closing is stunning: they think they have evidence of witness tampering and obstruction of justice.
There is an old maxim: it's never the crime, it's always the coverup.
Things went very badly for the former President today. My guess is that it will get worse from here

— Mick Mulvaney (@MickMulvaney) June 28, 2022

wasn't Mulvaney in on it?

they shipped him off to Ireland iirc

He’d been moved to special envoy for Northern Ireland at that point.

(On video played at hearings today:
Cheney: Do you believe in the peaceful transition of power?
Flynn: The Fifth.)
At the end, maybe as a preview, they showed so-far uncredited statements about witness-tampering, albeit in the form of "We know you'll do the right thing."
Hopefully Hutchinson's testimony will encourage others to come forward, also some of the people she named to get supoenas, oh yeah and FBI has added John Eastman's phone to their collection.

what's funny is eastman's phone (iirc) only came up in the news because he made a request to get his phone back from the FBI, who has had it for several days

it's like, buddy

And I suppose they'll try squeezing one guy to get another, standard practice for Fed criminal investigations.

Are these hearings as much to get Garland to fucking do something?

The committee played police radio transmissions describing people carrying weapons, as well as testimony from White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson describing former president Donald Trump’s urging the Secret Service to remove metal detectors rather than turn away people with weapons.

Today seems really bad.

Brainstem keeps firing:

He continues to offer live reactions: pic.twitter.com/swz5yRRYlL

— Colin Campbell (@colincampbell) June 28, 2022

Why would she have to clean it up, I hardly knew who she was?

Totally not worried

"Unselect Committee!" Whoa, 'sick' burn, bro

Not sure how I feel about these ending up on twitter

He only lets his broken dishes be cleaned up by people he knows, the best people.

Normally I don't want to see them end up on Twitter, but when Truth inevitably crashes and burns it might be a worthwhile record of additional lies.

I'm a little heartened by the totally anecdotal instances I'm seeing of MAGAs on social media being like, "Trump was great, but DeSantis is my man." Not that I think DeSantis isn't a threat, but I'm not convinced yet of his national viability. Whatever he has, he doesn't have Trump's star power.

BREAKING - U.S. Supreme Court reinstates Louisiana congressional district map that a lower court had blocked over racial bias concerns

— Andrew Chung (@andrew_chung_) June 28, 2022