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Youngian wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 11:07 am Even under English libel law, Trump the Rapist is now fair comment.

Not really since the court cleared him of the rape charge.
However, "Trump the sexual abuser and defamer" is both accurate and legally bullet proof.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-u ... a-65502076

Indeed. Should you choose to call the sexual abuser Donald Trump a sexual abuser who was found by a jury of his peers of being a sexual abuser then the sexual abuser wouldn't have a leg to stand on in a libel case.

Because he is a sexual abuser. And a cunt.

There was a libel case against a paper who claimed a salty old sea captain was advertising for women to join him for sex parties on his boat. He sued because he only wanted to spank them and no sex was involved. He was libelled and judge awarded him 50p in damages.

How long until a Tory MP or peer comes out with a similar suggestion on this side of the Atlantic?

Meaniwhile in following her MAGA soul sister MTG, Lauren "Christian Values" Boebert has filed for divorce, with her now estranged husband not being too happy when served with papers...

Lauren Boebert’s Heartbroken Husband Says He Still Loves Her Despite Divorce

Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has filed to divorce her husband of two decades, according to court records obtained Tuesday by The Daily Beast.

The April 25 filing seeks to dissolve her marriage to Jayson Boebert, with whom she shares four sons. An affidavit of service, also obtained by The Daily Beast, indicate that Jayson Boebert appeared to be caught off guard by the court proceedings. He chased away a process server with an expletive-laden tirade and let his dogs loose when he was served with the divorce papers, the affidavit said.

“Once he learned that he was being served with Dissolution of Marriage papers he was extremely angry,” the process server wrote. “I tried to hand him the documents but [he] did not take them. He started yelling and using profanities, and told me that I was trespassing, and that he was calling the Sheriff’s Office. I told him I was leaving the documents on the chair outside of the door, he closed the door then let the dogs out.”

The document noted that Jayson was cleaning a gun and drinking a “tall glass of beer” when he was served.

Boebert, who has repeatedly spoken of the importance of “family values” in her short political career, told The Daily Beast in a statement Tuesday that the divorce was due to “irreconcilable differences.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lauren-bo ... rce-papers

Pass medieval laws, miss out on modern jobs.

Alabama abortion law could halt Space Command move

NAACP advises against traveling to Florida: ‘Openly hostile toward African Americans’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 43038.html

Fairly wordy report, but I wanted to post form a UK paper.
American coverage tends to sink into a shorthand of names and acronyms which mean little to outsiders.

Update. Not an Onion story:

Budweiser to release a camo-wrapped bottle to win back conservatives

They could also try releasing a beer that wasn’t absolute dogshit. Just a thought.

I wonder how much of that fall in the specific brand was made up for by instead sales of other brands under the AB /Inbev umbrella.

I'd be surprised if they hadn't ended up more or less even.

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 11:28 am They could also try releasing a beer that wasn’t absolute dogshit. Just a thought.

I was guessing that's why they have to disguise it

Samanfur wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 8:36 am Update. Not an Onion story:

Budweiser to release a camo-wrapped bottle to win back conservatives

The continuing line through this whole fiasco is just how hilariously fragile the US right are.

I'm still giggling at anyone toting their "manly men" bullshit over the head of Bud Light, which from memory is essentially sparkling water.

Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years for Capitol riot

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65651998

In which the cosplay buccaneer faces 18 years in the brig.

Suits me.

Hasn’t Trump promised to pardon this guy if he becomes president again ?

To quote some Spartan king, "if".

While it's bad enough to hear a doctor who provided an abortion to a 10 year-old rape victim has received a reprimand, I find it utterly reprehensible that that little girl had to travel to a different state to legally get that abortion. What kind of evil fucked-up scumbags would force a little girl to carry her rapists baby to full term? This is one of the many reasons I am coming to despise the so-called "Land of the Free". It stinks.

Nearly one year after she publicly discussed the case of a 10-year-old rape survivor’s abortion, an Indiana obstetrician-gynecologist at the centre of anti-abortion Republican backlash has been reprimanded by a state medical board.

On 25 May, Indiana’s Medical Licensing Board determined that Dr Caitlin Bernard – who provided care for the 10-year-old patient who traveled from Ohio to obtain legal access to abortion – had violated patient privacy laws by speaking to a reporter about the case...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 46591.html

It's a failed state. And it's not all down to the Republicans.

I wish we as a nation, stopped paying so much attention to the internal affairs of the good ol' USA . I'm as guilty of this as anyone but in reality, it makes zero difference to me what people in Texas or Idaho think about abortion, guns, Mexicans, religion etc.