Why is everyone so mean?? US Politics: September 2022

Almost like it's a bad idea for health insurance coverage to be totally at the whim of employers ...

"Religious liberty" is now an all-purpose "freedom to discriminate" blanket

Not trying to be that guy here, but was it ever not this? Has the concept ever *not* been tied to doing a legal end run around anti-discrimination laws? I don't think we needed a new concept to describe not discriminating against people b/c of their religion, that's simple 1A

Well, there was Employment Division v. Smith, in which Antonin Scalia (the inspiration for the current crop of fanatics on the Court) happily decided that Native religious beliefs did not protect one from being discriminated against and/or prosecuted for using peyote.

well, we mean Real religions

good point! it's not even "all-purpose," it's explicitly christian

I don't know enough about the history of the judicial application of the Establishment Clause to have a sense of its evolution, but certainly my perception is that high-profile cases have shifted from the public sphere — is X display or demonstration of faith permissible in school/a courthouse/etc — to the private sphere, with the question mostly being "Can government tell me I can't discriminate against these people if my religion tells me too?" Not that there haven't always been both questions, but the balance seems to have shifted.

Tells me to, I mean.

Is there a religion that tells you to discriminate?

As a Suppressive Person I can confirm there is at least one.

A ha ha

The "religion" that pays.

Goddamn these clowns:

The Hunter Biden industrial complex is in boom times with little sign of a recession. Conservative groups frequently fundraise off of him. Fox Nation has a four-part docu-series on him hosted by Jeanine Pirro. There is ample Hunter Biden merchandise too. T-shirts, mugs, laptop stickers, sweatshirts, hats, and even a doll in online shops on Etsy, Redbubble, Amazon, Zazzle and more. Many of them include lurid photos from the hard drive that have been published by outlets but not independently verified by POLITICO. Some counter Hunter Biden fan pages have cropped up on the left, but without the same reach.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/06/breitbart-hunter-biden-film-00055040

It's the relentlessness that gets to me. It's not just that their ideas are demonstrably bad and stupid, it's that they never let them go, they never stop. Ever. I think I saw today that a Michigan group filed *another* suit to overturn the 2020 election. Two years later! Or that rogue Texas judge who just again and again keeps fucking with health care on a huge scale. Or the judicial terrorists trying to take away state election powers. Or Hillary, or Hunter, or Obama. They just keep at it, over and over again.

"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!"

Yeah, I wonder if the Hunter obsession is some kind of misguided payback for all the heaps of Kushner ridicule.. who was objectively corrupt in his nepotistic business dealings.

They were previously obsessed with Obama's half brother and Roger Clinton (and Chelsea) and Billy Carter, nothing new under the sun.

Everyone hates Kushner. The Hunter thing is just ... I don't know, some combination of projection and hubris and just being assholes and probably creepily envious, too.

I mean, the President's beloved son is a crackhead who enjoys taking dick pics - the most reasonable upright opposition would be feasting upon that.

Also they’ve gotten so used to being able to control the media narrative that they couldn’t stand to see THE LAPTOP not become some oversized scandal lording over everything the way ACID WASHED E-MAILS was

(granted, this is because Hunter isn’t the one running, nor was he ever gonna get some big government position the way Kushner did, so it’s not really much of a story. I don’t want to imply that the media actually learned anything from 2016)

Thank god the hollywood liberal elites didn't bother to make a horrible film about Kushner begging in Qatar

I don’t know. I’d like to see Nathan Fielder in a dramatic role.

Michael Cera could pull it off as well

But... why are those evil liberals treating the Trumps like crimes were somehow against the law? :-)

Touch this glowing orb for a chance for 2 billion dollars.

Fielder: oh. ...okay

Middle East peace. That’s kind of a hot button issue.

What the almighty fuck pic.twitter.com/E48tzttAMA

— Roy Edroso (@edroso) September 6, 2022

Generic Ballot (National)

Dem 48%
Rep 44%

8/29-9/1 by Marist College (A)
1151 RV

Arf arf! Have a nice day!

Poll #160378 #ElectionTwitter

Source: https://t.co/6QOFArNb4u

— Stella (@stella2020woof) September 8, 2022

arf arf!!

I wonder what that split would need to be for the Dems not to lose the House. A lot bigger than that I bet.

arf!

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The six-count indictment against Steve Bannon and We Build the Wall's corporate entity has been UNSEALED.

Spanning 22 pages, its charges include money laundering, conspiracy and scheme to defraud.

Story with full indictment soon, @LawCrimeNews pic.twitter.com/roVtzKFTeQ

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) September 8, 2022

These ridiculous grifters, from Trump on down, would get away with so much more imo if their egos simply allowed them to stfu.

“Arf arf” is funnier if you imagine it in the voice of DMX

These ridiculous grifters, from Trump on down, would get away with so much more imo if their egos simply allowed them to stfu.

Yeah, but part of the grift is riling up the gullible.

What Bowie called Shilling the Rubes.

the queen is nearly dead. not sure if anyone was able to read between the lines of the subtle news coverage

apparently, on the day after, this will trigger OPERATION LONDON BRIDGE, which has been in planning since the early 1960s.

It's starting

This is who is organizing the "For God and Country Patriot Roundup" QAnon convention here in Dallas in late November pic.twitter.com/qdSEMmnijl

— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) September 8, 2022

Look, if Q had the Queen whacked then maybe we need to have more of an open mind...

EXACTLY 1776 days

the patriot voice could have just said 1776 days

keep your eyes on Maricopa

You've been gone 1776 days
1776 long nights
The main drag is knowing that
You're holding someone else tight

Qanons still believe there's something in Al Capone's secret vault, just got to keep an open mind and wait for the signs

Al Capone was 48 when he died

Biden is the 46th President
When he dies Kamala will become the 47th
When she resigns Nancy Pelosi will be the 48th President

did Bashō write that

It's been 7 hours and 1776 days

Nothing Compares to Q

https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/michigan-supreme-court-says-abortion-question-must-go-on-ballot/

Good.

And didn't that come right after the courts removed the old super-draconian 1931 Michigan law outlawing abortion? Or was it the same decision?

Have any of you actually attempted to read that proposed abortion amendment?

Among the alleged run-on words: “DECISIONSABOUTALLMATTERSRELATINGTOPREGNANCY,” “ORALLEGEDPREGNANCYOUTCOMES,” “FORAIDINGORASSISTINGAPREGNANT” and “THEPOINTINPREGNANCYWHEN.”

Total gibberish, I tell you! I can't decipher a word of it! Therefore it only stands to reason: no abortions for anyone, ever!