@Duluth said in The recent troll account:

(a mental patient who is obsessed with TSF)

who, me?

Pretty great idea.

@Nat said in US Politics:

Sad sad news, undermining decades of women's rights. Of course those most affected will likely be poorer women who can't afford to move out-of-state for an abortion - how can they manage? Even though it's been coming, the impact today feels ... shattering

It’s true. When people are spoonfed dogshit and expected to believe it’s chocolate ice-cream, news can be pretty confusing. Even shattering.

Now, back to reality.

One, it was never a “right” because it was never codified into law. Biden has the Presidency, Congress and Senate. He promised he was going to get the law codified, but like Obama before him never even attempted, and for a very good reason. The law as the abortion-rights extremists demand is that there be zero restrictions for any abortion. Zero. The only other nations on the planet that have as permissive an abortion policy to what these American whackjobs demand is China and North Korea. It’s a club of two, and American abortion activists want USA to be the third.

This is “undermining rights”? Is this really progress? Is this the future you want?

The Supreme Court threw Roe back at the legislature, arguing correctly it doesn’t belong in the judiciary branch. They don’t make laws, they interpret them; and Roe v Wade could not be propetly interpreted, it has always been a mess, as even the most celebrated liberal SCOTUS darling Ruth Bader Ginsburg insisted for 50 years.

What was being waged by this current SCOTUS was the “right” of the “baby” in Mississippi, where abortion is restricted after 15 weeks and the “baby” is protected, which puts Mississippi in the same company as the rest of the western world, rather than unrestricted abortions which the abortionists want Mississppi and other States placed in the same category as China and North Korea — unlimited abortions with zero restrictions and no questions asked.

I don’t expect the average person to understand this — even Macron and other ignorant European leaders are protesting the U.S. Supreme Court decision when their OWN abortion policies are at least and generally MORE restrictive than anything in Mississippi. If you believe there are unrestricted abortions in Europe, then you have been badly misled.

And here’s where Biden’s promise of codifying Roe into law was always a non starter:

When you ask most Americans whether they support abortion, you’ll find a majority do, usually somewhere in the 55-60% percentile.

That would be me. That’s my personal position. I believe a woman should have the right to abortion and abortion access — within reason.

See, when you poll WHEN abortions should be permitted — e.g. in a third trimester, or 8th month of pregnancy — that number collapses to 15-18%.

Again, I fall within that percentile. Is that unreasonable? Does that make me a totalitarian anti-choice fascist?

So while a majority of Americans believe in abortion rights, only a very slim minority believes in unrestricted abortions. Some extremist abortion activists — I call them psychopaths — believe a parent should even be able to dispose of a human child up to five years old. Surely, there has to be a point where a fetus becomes a viable human life. Hell, there are babies who have been delivered during a second trimester who are healthy today, so: What’s your number? Supplemental: If I support abortion rights, but do not support aborting babies at, say, 42 weeks, does that position make me pro-choice or pro-life? Serious question for somebody who is shattered.

The court has thrown the law back at the States. Those states will determine their own laws. It’s possible that a culturally conservative state like Utah will ban abortion altogether; whereas liberal states like California and Massachusetts might permit partial-birth abortions, if that’s what the voters of those states want.

And this is where the pro-choice movement is losing. Americans don’t want unrestricted abortions. Period. That’s strictly for population-control dystopian tyrannies in China and North Korea. Most Americans want SOME sane protection for the unborn. That’s not unreasonable.

And opinions are only hardening. You just have to look at the polling from the past two decades.

1. Science. Ever since advent of ultrasounds, polling for unrestricted abortions has gone down. You can call a fetus a “just a clump of cells” or call it “fetal matter” the same way you dismiss something as “fecal matter,” and people kinda believe it. But evidence has demonstrated that when you show them an ultrasound, they don’t see a clump of cells, they see themselves. Which is why many people are okay with first-trimester abortions BUT totally repulsed by third-trimester abortions.

There is nuance here; just don’t expect your activist local news media clowns to weigh any of it.

2. Immigration from South and Central America. Sure, the liberals and Democrats want them naturalized into the United States as quickly as possible, but biting them in the arse is the not-so-little-secret that a majority of them are Catholics and women inmigrants are especially disgusted by abortion. So, more ultrasounds and more immigrants means unrestricted abortion is going to be decreasing in popularity from it’s 18% high mark.

So, please, for the sake of your own sanity, tamp down the sky-is-falling hysteria. Abortion is not going away in the United States, it’s just that now it’s more likely their laws will align something closer to the laws of most of Europe and the rest of the civilized world, and not mirror what we see in North Korea. Is that really such an awful triggering tragedy that we get “shattered” by it?

We’re now a year and a half into Covid, with no end in sight.

What really annoys me about gov’t, health officials and state media regularly pointing fingers at “anti-vaxxers” is they won’t extend the same shame to obese people —who are seriously affecting fatality rates and ICUs far beyond the numbers of healthy people whose natural immunity systems offer them as much (if not more) protection than the experimental vaccines. These gov’ts and their media cohort refuse to condemn high BMIs because they have to stay in their politicially-correct lanes and refrain from fat-shaming. Evidence if any was required that our leaders can stamp their feet and blow a lot of smoke, but they’re not really serious. If we really are all in this together, than the fat-bodies need to start pulling their own weight, and our leaders need to be saying as much, pushing the message every day.

If they are vulnerable and at high-risk — and clearly they are, proven as scientific fact — they need to be getting DAILY exercise, resistance training, cardio, and dieting etc.. It’s been well over a year. There are no excuses. Covid doesn’t scare me in the slightest, but I’ve been a good citizen and vaxxed twice to protect fat-bodies and seniors. I’m still wearing a mask and nothing has changed. Fat-bodies need to protect themselves, and make necessary sacrifices for the rest of us. Put down the soda and get on a treadmill already ffs.

/End of rant.

@stodders said in US Politics:

I see Salman Rushdie has been stabbed (in the neck, but not confirmed) as he was about to give a speech in NY.

Sad day for free speech in the land of the (supposedly) free.

Much more fun in lands less free though, so at least there’s that.

Reuters  /  Aug 13

Iran's hardline newspapers praise Salman Rushdie's attacker

Several hardline Iranian newspapers heaped praise on Saturday on the person who attacked and seriously wounded author Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" had drawn death threats from Iran since 1989.

@gibbon-rib said in US Politics:

@Kid-Chocolate said in US Politics:

@gibbon-rib

Don’t have to take his word for it. It’s right there in writing.

I'm not taking his word for it, because I read the warrant, and his tweet is unquestionably absolute bullshit. I know cognitive dissonance can be a powerful thing, but it has its limits. This Sean Davis guy seems to be smart enough that he can't actually believe what he's writing, but he knows that there are many gullible and / or dim people who will.

You posted the link to the warrant - did you actually read it? Because if you really think that the warrant says that they can seize any document that Trump saw while president then please point me to those words.

Witch hunt.

Yawn

You seem to be taking a huge issue with Sean Davis, as-if he’s been more wrong about important matters on, ooooh, say, Crossfire Hurricane, the Steele Dossier, and other classic “walls closing in” bombshells from the rest of the news media the past five years, and maybe we should persecute him too, huh?. Never heard the story about the boy who cried wolf? Whay’s that? Sorry, I was too busy yawning.

The warrant says precisely what it says, that they can collect EVERYTHING related to the presidency from those four years in office, including handwritten notes.

Most persecuted leader of our lifetime will only make him the most memorable. They’ll be talking about this WITCH HUNT — which is EXACTLY what it is — for decades after we’ve all passed on.

BlueAnon was screaming for Trump to release the search warrant if he had nothing to fear. He did, called their bluff. Now they’re extra disatisfied, demanding the affadavit which he can’t do.

Nobody but the most gullible — please stop the projection, the people trashing Davis for a message are the same people who were masturbating to the Steele Dossier — nobody but the Most Gullible trusts this demonstrably corrupt FBI and DOJ, and they are doing significantly more damage trashing the Constitution and dividing The People than ANYTHING the Orange Bad Man ever tweeted to make the Ruling Class clutch their pearls.

Long-term TDS is a helluva disease, possibly incurable.

@stodders said in US Politics:

I see Salman Rushdie has been stabbed (in the neck, but not confirmed) as he was about to give a speech in NY.

Sad day for free speech in the land of the (supposedly) free.

Geezuuz, looks like he could lose an eye.

Aug 12  /  news

Salman Rushdie on a ventilator, likely to lose an eye after on-stage...

The 75-year-old writer’s agent, Andrew Wylie, told The New York Times that Rushdie is still unable to speak.

@gibbon-rib

Don’t have to take his word for it. It’s right there in writing.

Witch hunt.

Complete and utter farce.

Search warrant here:

Techno Fog

Here is the Trump Search Warrant

Hat tip to Posobiec

Elizabeth Leonard  /  People

Anne Heche, Star of Another World and Men in Trees, Dies at 53

The death of Anne Heche, an Emmy Award-winning actress and mother of two, comes a week after she crashed her car into a home in Mar Vista, California. Loved ones pay tribute

For the past few days it was one of the most fuckedup under-the-radar celebrity stories in recent memory. She was smashed on alcohol and blasted her car into a strangers house, then was filmed raising like Lazarus on an ambulance gurney from a helicopter news camera directly above. She led an interesting life, to say the least.

OK! Staff  /  Aug 12  /  EXCLUSIVE,Anne Heche

'Why I Left Steve Martin For Ellen, My Fantasy Fulfilled & The BEST SEX EVER': Anne Heche Told All Before She Died, Exposing Her Wild Hollywood Life

Anne Heche exposed her Hollywood life before she died — get the scoop on her crazy life.

@stodders

Just a flesh wound, reportedly, he’ll pull through it and I certainly hope he does. Good thing it wasn’t a handgun. Pretty sad security in NY, there’s been no moratorium on the fatwa and Rushie hasn’t stopped receiving death threats, so somebody was asleep.

Fight! Fight! Fight!!!

Gabriel Hays  /  Aug 11

Hillary Clinton rips Bernie Sanders as sexist: I know 'the kind of things he says about women'

In her new book, NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali claimed that Hillary Clinton told her about sexist comments used by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

Okay, so it’s Round 175 at this point, but it’s still a fight and is she ever bitter. She still blames Bern for losing her coronation, and she’s jockeying for position now.