[Boiler]

Pennsylvania will now charge you $20 for your miscarriage - or be a felon.

(Fee waiver for honourably discharged veterans).

Or any member of the services.

[Yug]

From the "If it weren't so pathetic it'd be hilarious" FB group

[Abernathy]

Interesting, here. Seems Trump may be legally and constitutionally ineligible to run for election as president again .

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... 02a510fdb1


Law Professor Breaks Down Why Trump Is 'Disqualified' From Becoming President Again

[Boiler]

Oh, that'll be fought tooth and nail, that one.

[Bones McCoy]

Even if it's the letter of the law, I doubt they'll have the balls to enforce it.

[Bones McCoy]

Meanwhile, our very own long headlining Mail reports:

Antivaxx spreads to pet owners: HALF of dog owners now hesitant about vaccinating their dogs (including against rabies) and a third think it could give their pooches AUTISM

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... ncern.html


It's a survey, a fairly small one.
But surveys drive political campaigns.
How many Rebubs will run with the "They'll come to vax your dogs" talking point?

[Boiler]

And this country has nukes, and no doubt an orange man wondering why they aren't nuking the hurricane currently giving Florida some grief.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Actual US Senator- soon to become the senior senator for his state, by the look of McConnell's health.

[Andy McDandy]

They've found a very good, or at least effective, talking/shouting point. Brilliant, really, because any attempt to correct the misunderstanding can be construed as them trying to silence your freeze peach. Besides, as shown in the film "Thank You for Smoking", as soon as you invoke freedom in an American political debate, you've won.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Paul is one of the biggest loons. Even most Republicans aren't going to claim that trying to rig elections is free speech. They'll keep it vague, "weaponising the Justice Department" etc.

He's missing a trick by using the word "democratic" in there. Some Republicans now avoid that word, because it makes them look bad when they gerrymander etc.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Actual Supreme Court judge.

[The Weeping Angel]

That bastard should never have been confirmed.

[Youngian]

The only people stupid enough to believe Trump would have your back in a tight corner are Trump supporters.

‘Trump isn’t funding any of us’: Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills
At least four have turned to crowdfunding online, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for defense lawyers. One now has a political action committee to help with legal fees. Another has an ally in Congress vowing to support his legal defense. While another ended up spending nearly a week in jail because he initially couldn’t afford to hire an attorney.

Trump has covered the legal bills of aides, advisers and employees during the House select committee’s probe into January 6, 2021, and federal investigations, including his two co-defendants in the classified documents case, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, both of whom work for the former president.

But there is no sign yet that Trump intends to do so for any of his co-defendants in the Georgia case, which alleges that he and others engaged in a criminal conspiracy to subvert the state’s 2020 election results. In fact, Trump has publicly distanced himself from them, telling Newsmax he doesn’t know “a lot of these people.” https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/01/politics ... index.html

[Yug]

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[kreuzberger]

Proud Boy, Enrique Tarrio, has just been sentenced to 22 years in a Federal jail.

He's quite pretty. He'll be busy, and not merely reflecting upon the asinine actions which have landed him there. And where is his sponsor? Hahafuckingha.

[MisterMuncher]

The nature of his defence was something of an eye-opener. Essentially, he admitted to being completely full of shit, knowing he was stirring the pot, but didn't expect it to get so out of hand. I wonder just how many prominent fash-adjacent wingnuts in the States are just the same, because I'm willing to bet good money it's a lot.

[Andy McDandy]

I recall a lot of "come on down, it'll be a laugh, an absolute riot" excuses given in the immediate aftermath.

Everything is a game and nothing's really serious unless I want it to be serious. Or perhaps all fun and games until someone loses an eye, at which point I was only joking, c'mon man, lighten up...

[MisterMuncher]

Put another way, I doubt any of them would have regretted or reneged on anything if it had worked

[Crabcakes]

Put another way, I doubt any of them would have regretted or reneged on anything if it had worked

From the exact same shitty school of thought of saying increasingly dreadful stuff, then claiming it’s a ‘joke’ when called out on it.

It’s never a joke. It’s never fake. It’s who they are and what they want, but they are always, always utter cowards as soon as they are away from the mob and held to account.

At the risk of invoking Godwin’s law, the similarity to the self-pitying claims of many mid/low level Nazis post WW2 who ‘didn’t really mean anything but had to go along with it’ comes to mind.

[Samanfur]

'Schroedinger's dickhead' is a common analogy.