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

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

in any case her testimony illustrate that he approved of the mob and hoped something would come out of that kind of display of force. which is funny, on the one hand, because he didn't realize how impotent that riot made him look, but on the other hand it also shows, once again, that he was willing to try anything to overturn the election. it's absolutely insane that this guy is likely going to be the republican nominee again.

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

― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Tuesday, June 28, 2022 9:30 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

my point is that if he was really serious about going they'd probably stand aside

If the military hadn't told him to pound sand, he might have become President for Life.

but i think he was posturing and bullshitting, a kind of "don't hold me back, bro!" thing

i don't know, seems like more than that. here's the transcript:

So, once the president had gotten into the vehicle with Bobby, he thought that they were going up to the Capitol. And when Bobby had relayed to him we're not, we don't have the assets to do it, it's not secure, we're going back to the West Wing, the president had a very strong, a very angry response to that.

Tony described him as being irate. The president said something to the effect of I'm the f'ing president, take me up to the Capitol now, to which Bobby responded, sir, we have to go back to the West Wing. The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr. Engel grabbed his arm, said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel.

We're going back to the West Wing. We're not going to the Capitol. Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel. And Mr. — when Mr. Ornato had recounted this story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles.

yeah

seems insane

"iT's A nOtHiNgBuRgEr!"

so I'm really glad I didn't know any of this shit on 1/6 or I may have passed out

honestly i think if he could have gotten there he would have stood near his car and waved at them or something, and left shortly after, awkwardly. i'm sure he wanted to storm the capitol in his mind, or whatever. but in reality there would just be a very strange photo of him standing by his armored vehicles, waving at the proud boys and oath keepers trying to murder mike pence, per his instructions, as well as some of the worst people in the united states cheering for him.

all of that sounds really pathetic, but it perfectly fits with his self-image and what's important to him, i think. he had just lost an election, even his own cronies like barr were telling him the stolen election stuff was bullshit, and he must have known, somewhere in his head, that having rudy giulini and that one total fucking idiot, i forgot her name, be the face of his effort to steal the election would not end well. jan 6 was a shit show but it was also maybe his last chance (of that year) to double-down for the billionth time, and maybe it would work. if you always double-down, it just has to work once. and they got pretty close to what they wanted that day! i mean, a good part of the reason things didn't get any worse was _the integrity of mike pence_, and man that has to scare the living shit out of anyone who hears it

i don't mean it's a nothingburger, it's clearly MORE evidence that he led a criminal conspiracy to overturn the election that resulted, ultimately, in a deadly riot at the capitol.

i just mean it is funny to think about what was going on in his mind at that time. like, was he picturing himself marching into congress while it was in session or something?

remember that scene in the film Rudy where the whole crowd chants "Rudy! Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!" because they were so inspired by his story, caught up in his special moment? basically he wanted that, for him. A crowd of his people, the ones with really tacky taste, all together. they probably would have chanted his name, too, or said something like "we want trump". i mean, people kind of casually accept that trump is a narcissist, but that shit is real and there is no more tailor made narcissistic fantasy than being the president and having a mob of your supporters willing to kill people on your command. i guess

i think for me it's just the image of meadows on his couch, doomscrolling and doing jackshit about anything when he's the fucking chief of staff. what a towering jackass

i'm honestly surprised the secret service didn't just let him doddle over there

https://i.imgur.com/kUUQku8.png

i believe this image is the key to the united states of america and the next 250 years