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

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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.

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— 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

yea I always assume the worst of Trump but actively trying to get metal detectors removed b/c he knew armed terrorists were coming in is the kind of shit most countries would give you the death penalty for. in this country it's really just free press for your next run for office

Wondering what he planned to do if they did let him go to the Capitol

Hang Mike Pence, duh.

he would have advised everyone to please wear a mask

Let's be real, he would have been a hyperventilating mess after 7 seconds in the crowd and had to be dragged back into his car by the nearest agent.

Probably the best, most important way to understand today’s testimony is to realize that all of this and likely much more has been known to numerous high level officials from the beginning. Some of them are purported “good guys,” Vice President Pence, the White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, etc. They all knew all of it from the very beginning. They knew it during the impeachment trial. They knew it during the initial efforts to set up a Jan. 6th Commission. And yet they’ve spent 18 months using every legal and extra-legal means to keep this all secret. Indeed, virtually all of them are refusing to testify down until today.

I know there are much bigger fish to fry right now, but this seems like a sure move to set up the next "I smell marijuana" defense for cops to harass people of color:

Streets across the state of Florida are set to get much quieter on Friday when a new law goes into effect. Beginning July 1, drivers can receive a fine of up to $114 for blasting music in their cars. The new law allows officers to ticket those playing music audible from a minimum 25-foot distance. For reference, the average car is about 15 feet long, making it within the statute for an officer to ticket the driver in front of them if their music is audible. These regulations become even stricter within close proximity of churches, schools and hospitals.

Fairly certain that even NPR at a reasonable volume can be heard 25 feet away from a car with a cracked window.

But florida is the birthplace of booty bass! this is wrong

blatantly racist law

Yeah, I doubt the cops will be pulling over any of the good ol' boys blasting Toby Keith from their pickups.

Morgan Wallen, honey. Toby Keith is so 2006!

Not honoring that law sorry FL

I know these may be famous last words but DeSantis is a short ethnic and for nationwide office Republicans love tall Aryans

maybe he just wants to be Trump's new VP, since it's such a respected position

Morgan Wallen, honey.

I had to Google him.

he had the weird haircut, and then Ted Cruz got the same cut to show his solidarity with racist behavior

dark brandon is the only man who has my back pic.twitter.com/0k4KSLF8yp

— ギンコ🐡 (@Ginko_02) June 28, 2022

Haha Jesus Christ I can’t believe that’s real. Context is better but…not that much?

shit I thought he was lying about being Irish

Speaking at a religious service Sunday in Colorado, she told worshipers: “The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. That is not how our Founding Fathers intended it.”

She added: “I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk that’s not in the Constitution. It was in a stinking letter, and it means nothing like what they say it does.” Her comments were first reported by the Denver Post.

honestly i find her honesty refreshing, even though she's being honest about being a christian nationalist. the church is supposed to direct the government. and the church is a christian one, right? i assume we're all cool with that

who is "she", you might be wondering

talkin about Boebert

Shut yo mouth

wtf was trump planning to do if they let him go to the capitol?

and could he really not overpower the secret service? i don't doubt hutchinson's testimony, but i think he was posturing and bullshitting, a kind of "don't hold me back, bro!" thing

President Bilko

if only he could have accidentally opened the door, fallen out, and his head rolled down the street like a soccer ball