Wait, so he’s a sleight-of-hand disguise expert who pitted his illusionist skills against Daredevil? That’s, like, bad luck squared.
That is one of my favorite bits ever.
I could get behind this, the 21st century quisling. Just look what Dan Savage did with santorum.
Quoting the site,
Trump is a physical coward and something of a weasel. But he is cocksure in his abilities to see him through confrontations.
Oddly prescient.
Colorado state rep Richard Holtorf, running for US rep in district 4 (a race that includes Lauren Boebert), acknowledged on the House floor that he paid for his girlfriend to have an abortion in 1986. But he is now firmly against abortion, because everybody should ‘choose life’.
Here’s an interview with Holtorf, conducted by Denver anchor Kyle Clark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0PnbSMgry4; the abortion question starts at about 36:20.
From Huffpost
Earlier this year, Holtorf revealed that he once provided financial support to a girlfriend amid her own abortion so she could “live her best life,” despite also sponsoring a failed 2020 measure that would have banned the procedure in the state after 22 weeks.
“I respected her rights and actually gave her money to help her through her important, critical time,” Holtorf said in January.
During the KUSA interview, reporter Kyle Clark pointed out the apparent inconsistency.
“If abortion was the best choice for your girlfriend, why try to deny that choice to other women?” Clark blunty asked.
Holtorf tried to wiggle out of a straight answer, saying he’s “a pro-life Catholic” who believes that “everyone should choose life.” But he eventually said that, yes, his girlfriend had made the choice to get an abortion.
“The only moral abortion is MY abortion”
Wisconsin Republicans are withholding $125m designated for cleanup of widespread PFAS contamination in drinking water and have said they will only release the funds in exchange for immunity for polluters.
The move is part of a broader effort by Republicans in the state to steal power from the Democratic governor, Tony Evers, the funding’s supporters say, alleging such “political games” are putting residents’ health at risk.
He definitely nailed the facial expression:
My (pro-Trump!) friend from the UK said “yes” when I asked him about the ‘trump means fart’ connection.
They’re farts made in America, so we can be proud of them!
Is everyone ready for “white boy summer”?
Yet more “subtle” racial dogwhistles? Flashcards?
Sounds like a bad ‘80s John Cusack film.
Republicans and their aversion to “Democracy” - previously I somewhat naively and humorously speculated that it was a simple branding attempt. They didn’t want to say “democracy” because it suggests the Democratic Party. Stress that the US is a “republic”, to highlight the Republican Party.
I saw a story on CNN that explained what is happening, and it’s more insidious than I thought.
There’s been a lot of talk about Trump and MAGA and even the Republican Party being a danger to democracy.
The Jan 6 insurrection, limitation of voter access, gerrymandering, voter ID laws, etc.
So the Republican talking point response is to say, “Well the US is a republic, not a democracy,” to rhetorically undercut the complaint. “A democracy is actually a bad thing, you wouldn’t want to live in one.”
Totally flies in the face of historical usage. At the time of the US founding, they were used interchangeably.
A democracy obtains its authority from the people. A republic is a representative form of government, as opposed to a monarchy. The US is a representative government that derives authority from the people.
Democracy does not mean strict majority rule with no constraints. Republics do not have to have elected officials. Aristocracies have been considered republics.
The low information voters get their talking points to repeat without understanding basic civics.
She isn’t a dog, she’s a Border Collie.
That’s such a cringy phrase that for a minute I thought I was in “misread thread titles”.
Isn’t there a song called Hot Girl Summer? Maybe its a play on that.
Yes, the article mentions that, and also said that some people then morphed the phrase into “Hot Boy Summer” which people then further morphed into “White Boy Summer.” The disagreement I have with the article is its opinion that “Hot Boy Summer” was also cringe: I mean, I don’t have an opinion on that one way or another, but it’s not more cringe than “Hot Girl Summer”. But infinitely less so than “White Boy Summer”.
And that same old “election fraud malarky) song begins again:
As I recall, the issue in 2020 was that counties were given some level of discretion in what votes to count, and urban counties used that discretion to count the maximum number possible. And the proposed remedy was to throw out all votes from those counties entirely.
If they’re sovereign citizens, fuck 'em. Let them worry about their own little sovereign elections.