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

Eh, Greene is one thing, I just hate that anyone is giving Milo a chance at laundering his image at this point in time. Fuck that guy forever.

Not least because he is now claiming to be an "ex gay" and is pushing conversion therapy.

the shit thing is even if she is a political albatross it's still useful for the GOP to keep her around, since every time she says something idiotic it gets a ton of media coverage and leads to people donating to unseat her, despite being in a Trump +99 district

i stumbled across a radio interview with an old high school friend today. i used to be facebook friends with him, back when i had facebook, and unfortunately he'd turned into a real classic white dude right wing / libertarian anger machine since the days i knew him. he and i had been really close. we started a band together. he was two years older than me. his name was herbie and he literally drove a beige beetle. he loved fugazi and ministry. we went to hardcore and metal shows together. i watched all kinds of "edgy" vhs tapes in his parents' rec room. clockwork orange, the wall. we both smoked camel filters. he loved to quote alastair crowley's "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". i always added "as long as it doesn't stop somebody else doing what they wilt" and he thought that was funny and agreed with it.

anyway, it turns out he ended up enlisting and going to somalia. when he came back he had ptsd. in the radio interview he said that his job was to get food and supplies to villages in somalia, and what would happen is that warlords would figure out where the drops were happening, and just clean up behind the us military, killing whoever they needed to in order to steal all the stuff. so it felt to him like his unit was basically responsible for wiping out village after village indirectly. i thought this was pretty insightful, so i looked him up on instagram. his handle is "synapticleftist" and he is now in the psychology department at the university of tennessee and specializing in PTSD and drug addiction!!! so like.. people can change. for the worse, maybe, and then for the better. i think in herbie's case it sounds like it took a lot of very hard personal experience - and then seeing exactly how republican politicians actually treat veterans - to get to a better place.

Interesting, I found out today that someone with whom I went to nerd camp as a teenager is now Curtis Yarvin’s fiancée. She even wrote a long, neoliberal Facebook post about how she was being attacked and how couples should be able to get past their political differences.

That and one of my teenage mentors ending up being a lead editor and writer for The Federalist is pretty, uh, jarring.

Great story, Tracer. Thanks.

(I should note, too, that the guy who started Facebook also went to this nerd camp at the same time as me, but i did not know him) ( Not a great record for this nerd camp)

Tracer! Wow.

Thanks for sharing.

You know, it's ironic. If @SenTedCruz put half as much effort into building a better future for all Americans as he does shitposting on Twitter, maybe his constituents wouldn't be paying so much to get around.

Let's take this latest lie apart, shall we?

1/ https://t.co/4HqJqtFjoj

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 6, 2022

Today I’m investigating Twitter for potentially misleading Texans on the number of its “bot” users. I have a duty to protect Texans if Twitter is misrepresenting how many accounts are fake to drive up their revenue.https://t.co/OZbwdV3pnY

— Texas Attorney General (@TXAG) June 6, 2022

please show me one Texan who gives one single fuck about whether Twitter misrepresents its bot count and how that hurts anyone who lives in Texas. Goddamnit fuck that whole fucking state.

please show me one Texan who gives one single fuck about whether Twitter misrepresents its bot count and how that hurts anyone who lives in Texas.

https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s---4aPFOD---/t_full/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1650904312/elon-musk-in-a-cowboy-hat.jpg

Musk has the Texas Government/GOP in his pocket.

Elon's apparent concern with the bot count is solely him seeking an exit strategy

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Wai0KpzGIPQ/SCCO3TqI8OI/AAAAAAAAAy8/0NDL9PxoRMI/s400/rick-louie-gambling.jpg

"You can't back out! On what grounds?"

"I am shocked, shocked to discover there are bots on your platform!"

Musk has the Texas Government/GOP in his pocket.

Musk was recently identified as the wealthiest human alive and probably remains within spitting distance of that status. The Texas AG, in common with the vast majority of the Texas executive and legislature, is both ambitious as hell and venal in proportion to his ambition. It isn't hard to connect the bots dots.

31k likes for someone straight up harassing this drag queen. Cool. https://t.co/yRhQ5w6gLx

— Tyler Dinucci!! (@TylerDinucci) June 6, 2022

Also in gay news:

Showing up to work on my first day & remembering at the last minute to delete my “kill all my new coworkers” tweet https://t.co/9DS8mKuh1i

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) June 7, 2022

Surely he'll keep his head down and his nose to the grindstone, doing important work for people

is that code for "blowjobs"

he’s execrable but will always prefer to see more of him and the Boeberts and the Greenes and the Cawthornes (RIP) making asses of themselves, as opposed to the Vance and Hawley types

Is the grindstone where the cocaine is?

xp would happily take neither

would happily take launching into the sun

why would you purposely cause our star to go nova, tabes??

I'm also all for blowing up the sun, fwiw.

Wellllll, not before this afternoon's Negroni.

i assume greene is just preparing for her post-elected politics career, where she gets paid to make dumb speeches in both real life and television for the next 10 years, at least. milo is a pro troll, he has connections and his friends and pals are the kind of people who would watch her show

But she's already getting paid to make dumb speeches in her pre-post-elected politics career.

yeah, but that's not going to last forever. need to start shoring up the grift for her next 10 years. she has a family to feed, and they only eat money and fresh maggots

I mentally spoonerized "fresh maggots" and understood why she hired on Milo.

:-o

what has milo even been doing the last few years?

gay conversion therapy (grifting)

normal shit:

In 2017, Y14nnopoulos was a U.S. resident alien on O-1 visa status. He reportedly married his long-term boyfriend in Hawaii in September 2017. In March 2021, during an interview with right-wing publication LifeSiteNews, Y14nnopoulos claimed to be "ex-gay" and stated his husband had been "demoted to housemate".

In August 2021, Y14nnopoulos claimed that he tested positive for COVID-19 and implied that he used ivermectin to treat himself, despite the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and medical professionals warning against using the medication as a treatment for COVID-19.

In March 2021, Y14nnopoulos declared to the LifeSiteNews website that he was an ex-gay and would begin advocating on behalf of improving the public image of gay conversion therapy. In June 2021, Y14nnopoulos announced that he was fundraising for a gay conversion therapy centre in Florida.

Of course.

i'm sorry, but i refused to believe "LifeSiteNews website" is real. again, despite evidence to the contrary, i cannot live in a world where someone thinks "i am going to read LifeSiteNews now!"

hmmm, THIS looks like a good source of information! it's got life, site, AND news!

*immediately walks into telephone pole*

top lifesitenews story right now:

(LifeSiteNews) — Five Tampa Bay Rays pitchers declined to wear rainbow-themed insignias on their hats and jerseys during the team’s “Pride Night” celebration on Saturday, citing their Christian faith.

The five pitchers — Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs, and Ryan Thompson — took a stand against the pressure being exerted within all major league sports to “celebrate” and “welcome” sodomy and gender confusion during the month of June.  

i have to say, this is actually useful news, fuck those guys

"Sodomy & Gender Confusion" sounds like an outtake from Billion Dollar Babies

Of course they're all "pitchers."

of course they're all "bitches"

97% of white guys who play pro sports are just the biggest fucking doofuses

um, I’m not trying to be a total dick, but most guys who play professional sports are incredible doofuses.

i'm always curious how these bozos like Milo and Baked Alaska survive. how are they paying their bills? I see Milo has a job now but are they basically funded by donations from horrible people?

Rewrite as statement.

Most of them started out as do-nothings with parents that paid their bills.

xp i have no evidence for this and i'm not going to look for it but i have a hunch that many of these proud boy types have support from mom and dad. you don't bootstrap yourself into being an incompetent hatemonger. i'm willing to bet that being already bootstrapped by mom and dad is part of the reason one becomes an incompetent hatemonger in the first place.

Milo was hawking Virgin Mother statues fairly recently:

https://s31242.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/milo-yiannopolous-1536x923.jpg

“There are some Marys where the face is unfortunate, they haven’t put in the work to make sure that she’s got just the right expression and features,” he says in a clip.

“This on the other hand, you can see at home it’s just, it’s just beautiful.”

He looks like Johnny Depp playing Milo.