Retire, Breyer: another September 2021 US Politics thread

Gov. Abbott in response to questions of rape & incest says that he will "eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets." I guess that takes care of that then. They're finally going to go out and arrest all those pesky street rapists, like the ones Trump said were coming in from Mexico. Then we'll know that every pregnancy is truly a gift from God.

Honestly I wrote a post but it was too bleak. Which is laughable under these truly bleak circumstances.

so they had the means to stop all rapes in their state this whole time but are now just deciding to do it? xp

Hey when a man rapes someone in the privacy of his own home, car, workplace, classroom, or anywhere really, he's just asserting his God-given right to control the bodies of all other lesser people, like the Good Lord intended. To stop it would be going against the will of God.

or anywhere really

To be fair, Abbott has vocally opposed the presence of rapists on streets. He's been clear about that.

Forcing them to stick to boulevards, lanes, courts, highways, footpaths, etc. seems like a common-sense compromise measure. Take the win, libs.

I think people are missing the far more sinister undertone to Abbot's comment about "eliminating" it. He's not going to stop it, he's just going to eliminate it as being a crime.

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Right, the emphasis on "getting them off the streets" is promoting the idea that rapists are an easily identifiable group that they can just round up and arrest, like illegal immigrants. He's also implying that rape doesn't occur in homes or workplaces, just out on the streets. So basically, if you were impregnated by someone you know, it couldn't have been rape, you must've wanted that baby.

I'm pretty sure he was speaking specifically about the "rapist" from Mexico

xp It doesn't matter what the injured party wanted or didn't want. A man forcibly implanted some cells that reacted to other cells and now are holy in the eyes of God. The person whose body it happened to is irrelevant.

Didn't some Republican elected person just go on camera calling women vessels?

may the lord open

In perfect seriousness I am taking these walking abominations 100% at their word and their words show who they are and what they really want.

Maybe it was old, but no less indicative: “However, once a child does exist in your womb, I’m not going to assume a right to kill it just because the child’s host (some refer to them as mothers) doesn’t want it.”

"child". fuck, it's not even a fetus at 6 weeks, it's an embryo.

we should also stop leading with the "but there are many good reasons for abortion, such as rape, incest, or the mother's health" argument in defense of abortion because it doesn't matter what fucking reason someone wants an abortion. they're legal, and the reason doesn't matter, and if we engage on that field alone we insinuate lack of support for other reasons, or suggest that if we made this exceptions in the law, an abortion ban would be a-ok.

just say it - women should be able to get them for whatever reason, it's their damn body. I'll leave the "when does life begin" argument to philosophers.

Unfortunately, because our Beltway press consists of cowardly prisses, there's no reason to get an abortion unless your brother rapes you.

philosopher kings say life begins the moment the chosen sperm wins the race. all other sperm and "the forgotten trillions of masturbation" were not sanctified by the holy spirit, therefore not a child.

we should also stop leading with the "but there are many good reasons for abortion, such as rape, incest, or the mother's health" argument in defense of abortion because it doesn't matter what fucking reason someone wants an abortion. they're legal, and the reason doesn't matter, and if we engage on that field alone we insinuate lack of support for other reasons, or suggest that if we made this exceptions in the law, an abortion ban would be a-ok.

yes, i saw Tim Faust and others mention this yesterday. let me see, here:

This is well-intentioned but it’s all Bill Clinton-ass bullshit. Abortion is boring. It’s a simple medical procedure. Sure, it’s for people in extreme situations, but abortion is also for people who like to fuck and simply don’t want to get pregnant pic.twitter.com/jFvGpUnx74

— kill 🇵🇸 tim 🇵🇸 faust (@crulge) September 7, 2021

it was a nice reminder. i think "abortion is boring. it's a simple medical procedure" isn't a great thing for a man to say, but what do i know

i'm in favor of people not calling it a "painful decision" when they don't know whether the person's decision was actually painful. maybe it would be less painful if people didn't act like it's more justified in the two dramatic circumstances listed above. also "assailant planted his seed"? barf emoji

notes app screenshot definitely a man, maybe marc loi

Yeah, "the infant", "planted his seed" just shut the fuck up Mr Pro-Choice

Marc Loi. wow.

takes me back

wait if you click the image there are 2 more poorly written nightmare scenarios

i'm pro-little Cathy one is THE WORST

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there are a non-zero number of people who call themselves "pro-choice" who I'd really call "pro life with caveats"

hold on, i need to make this pro-choice argument even better - you wanna know something REALLY FUCKED UP?

there are a non-zero number of people who call themselves "pro-choice" who I'd really call "pro life with caveats"

I would guess this is true of many of the people who polls identify as pro-choice

I mean that could be said about any number of non-sociopaths whose frame of mind is basically 'I would personally never do x bit I don't feel the need to legislatively impose my preferences upon every other person who isn't me'.

Millions lose unemployment benefits this weekend, in one of the largest and most abrupt ends to government assistance in American history. W/ @yjtorbati and @andrewvandam. https://t.co/gLwzcAmjYJ pic.twitter.com/W6uJDLRWdS

— Alyssa Fowers (@alyssafowers) September 5, 2021

House Dem @WhipClyburn tells Jim @Acosta the $3.5 T figure for budget reconciliation is just a "celling" and not a "floor". Clyburn says there is $2T worth of negotiating room. Worth noting that progressives like @BernieSanders & @AOC have said $3.5 T is already a compromise. pic.twitter.com/JXZiVB73iA

— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) September 8, 2021

so the “whip” is negotiating with himself on national tv? this is what makes the democratic party so unique

he's trying to reach across that aisle, see what kinds of hands may be over to shake. you know what they say about political compromise - "you have to put a blindfold on, turn the movie theater lights out, and just start walking over on the other side, even if you hear them screaming and hissing you and feel like it may get violent soon. it doesn't matter - you just have to start it off yourself even if you don't think anyone is there at all. to show the people"

the classic move

what did wee willie keeler say?

go ahead, think about it. what did wee willie keeler say?

he said "hit 'em where they ain't!"

that means hit them where they ain't looking, and THAT means negotiating when they weren't even thinking they were going to get to negotiate at all. no one's looking there, then you just SOCK 'EM!

“We believe we have compromised significantly, and we're prepared to compromise further"

- wee willie keeler

in addition to getting a bunch of their voters killed, now the GOP has to worry about this

A new study by researchers at three universities have concluded that ivermectin causes sterility in 85% of men. https://t.co/7v8bbZj91g

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 9, 2021

So-called "tort reform" has been near the top of the GOP agenda now for a couple of decades in preparation for just such eventualities.

Dr Rasmussen suggested people are greatly misunderstanding that study so I'd take witha grain of salt

yeah that headline is pretty misleading but its still pretty funny

Clyburn has been nothing but a fucking pain in the ass lately. Has he always been this annoying

Clyburn has probably always had a high level of annoyance potential, but there must be some formula that calculates effective annoyance as a ratio of potential annoyance to Congressional seniority that increases from one term in office to the next.

Whatever the science determines on Ivermectin, seems like most of the men taking it would be in their 50s+, and thus past their prime babymakin' years?

Perhaps it's an outdated assumption but my mind tends to conjure up grumpy Fox-watchin' olds in MAGA hats who already have adult children. They're not threatened by a chance of sterility.

This should not be surprising as the drug industry pretty much helped create the opioid crisis issues in the US. It's not like the Purdue Pharma people had to give back "THEIR" money. The business is gone but they have their money.

Being Ivermectin is a horse drug, I would not doubt at all that some of the fools pushing this shit for fun and profit probably donate money to clowns like curly haired Randy Paul.

Building boom in hell to house all of them...

Want a government job? There might be openings soon for positions formerly filled by anti-vax chuds.

that ivermectin story had a sample size of 37 so I'm not sure why people are claiming it's credible

hmm my fed office had to delay reopening by a month (required to be there at least 1x/week) because we had too many unvaxed and needed to establish a testing program. hoping this will delay it another month to give them a chance to get their shots.

The biggest side effect of ivermectin is schadenfreude among the vaccinated left -- the thought of these rugged, conservative individualists all taking the same horse drug, shitting their pants and turning sterile is just too great to be contained by a scientific study.

In the journalism biz we call that "too good to check."

about fuckin' time, imo:

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday plans to announce sweeping new vaccine mandates designed to ramp up pressure on the unvaccinated, putting in place additional requirements for federal employees, large employers, and health care providers that the administration said would affect around 100 million workers, more than two-thirds of the U.S. workforce.

Biden will ask the Department of Labor to issue a rule requiring all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or produce a negative Covid test at least once a week, said a senior administration official. The requirement could carry a $14,000 fine per violation and would affect two-thirds of the country's workforce, the official said.

Biden will also order that the vast majority of health care facilities require their staff be fully vaccinated as a condition of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, a move that would affect 17 million workers at 50,000 health care providers, the official said. As of July, 27 percent ofthe country's health care workers were unvaccinated, according to a study by the Covid States Project.

gonna be some epic Fox personality meltdowns tonight