My congresscritter is a MAGA Trump worshipper. I intend to contact him to demand that he support this bill, and if he does not (which is my expectation) to explain in detail why.
Years ago, I wrote then Attorney General Mike DeWine, telling him in no uncertain terms NOT to support a Christian organization known as "Athletes in Action," to the tune of $300,000. I got a form letter back, telling me how PROUD he was to be supporting them.
Likely true, certainly as it comes to the Repubs. I STILL remember (and pretty sure I still have!) the response that I got from Sherrod Brown when I wrote him about Christian proselytism in the military. Whether that was from him or an aide, I don't know, but it was a thoughtful and I don't think a stock response, and I was mightily impressed with that!
[sigh] Damn, but I MISS Sherrod. He was for real. Moreno? Not so much. 😝
I also am under a MAGAt who plays at caring. Mike Lawler: he introduced a bill whereby representatives "promise" to do their best to preserve Social Security. NOT a bill to protect Social Security, a bill that they PROMISE to protect it. So nothing at all...
Anyone who honestly believed that Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security weren't going to be on the chopping block either wasn't paying attention, or let someone else do their thinking for them. Those are the biggest slices of the federal government budget, and any cuts to said budget will come out of them. I'm 50, and fully expect to be completely unable to retire ever thanks to these shenanigans.
La peine (either the aunt or the niece) or sans amour* can't show their faces here, even with an army of bodyguards. The risk to get stoned, and not the good way, is too high.
Certainly, the Do No Harm Act is badly over due in the face of the RFRA. The obvious problem is that, in the current environment, any proposal which would restrict religion is going to be seen as [all together now, gang, in three-part harmony]: 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡!!!
The question now is: how hard will Democrats and what few sane Republicans we have left fight for this?
There are at least a few of them. Can't give you names at the moment, but I've heard a couple (R) guys blasting their own on the House floor. Was refreshing as all hell, I can tell you!
I very much doubt that is true. I think about what an alternate last four or so years would look like...let's say Trump has a heart attack in 2022 but Haley or DeSantis wins the Presidency on a landslide of sympathy (and US inflation). I bet in that GOP administration, (i) the US fully supports Ukraine against Russia, (ii) USCIS, Dept of Ed and numerous other smaller agencies still exist, with the support of the WH, (iii) there are no trade wars with Canada, Mexico, or EU, (iv) folks like Kahlil aren't being detained or sent out of the country, (v) NONE of Trump's picks for political appointees are considered qualified by the President (with the possible exception of McMahon, since she's done it before) and (vi) Elon Musk has zero political power beyond your standard big money donor.
Trump is not merely representing some pre-existing conservative majority position, he is actively driving their Overton window rightward with his rhetoric and leadership. Or he is delegating major decision-making to extremists that someone like Haley wouldn't have let in the building let alone the Oval office.
Little Johnson is unlikely to bring it up for a vote. There likely is not enough rethuglican enthusiasm for a discharge petition. I think it will die in Committee.
“Elon, Vance, and Trump came to D.C. to eliminate the deep state.
Only it turns out the deep state is the guy who cleans the toilets at your favorite national park, the dude watching the radar in air traffic control, and a
meteorologist making sure your family gets the alert before a tornado hoovers up the homestead.”
He's too old now to run for office for a first term, especially for a job that lasts at least six years, but I wish King had run against Susan Collins in Maine.
Maine is bluer than Florida. When King was a resident of the former state, he would have had a better chance winning against SC than in the latter one against either Marco or the bald Medicaid fraudster.
If a thing can be justified in the name of religion, . . . it will be. No matter how harmful it is to others. When people become convinced they're operating under divine sanction, they are capable of just about any horror.
MMA wrestler Conor McGregor raped a woman so brutally that her tampon had to be surgically removed. A forensic examiner testified to this in court, and he was found GUILTY of the rape by a 12-person jury a few months ago. Oh, and a paramedic who examined her testified that she "had not seen a patient as bruised as her in a long time." SOMEHOW, THIS QUALIFIED HIM FOR A TRUMP WHITE HOUSE VISIT.
I'm now thoroughly convinced that, to the political right, it is regarded as a good thing when one of their own is accused or convicted of sexual assault- with points knocked off only for not getting away with it- and that this is precisely because they have only one actual value: domination. Might makes right. Their hypocrisy over the entire subject, claiming on one hand that they oppose such violence even as they pat each other on the back when they commit it themselves, is an expression of the same value- because the ability to blatantly lie, to put a double standard into practice and not be held accountable, is also an exercise of the same sort of abusive power. Their fawning adoration for dictators, and sneering contempt for democracy, is that same value expressing itself again; the ability to take whatever one wants, to victimize anyone they wish to at any time based on nothing but their will to do so, is something they cannot help but admire.
Republicans are the party of rape. Everything they do, on every level, should be viewed through that lens.
They will continue to FA all the way to the bitter end. They'll have to FO the way Nazi collaborators did in the 1940s. Unless they or their livelihoods are directly impacted by Muskrump's wrecking ball economy, i.e., unless it's THEIR faces the leopards get to in the interim (yes, I believe it will take something that drastic), they will continue to lionize Dear Leader to the detriment of their country. And when someone finally attempts to hold them accountable for their choices...well, just imagine the howls of protest about "just following orders" and "New World Order oppression" or some such rubbish.
While I am no fan of skunks, I was not suggesting we kill skunks. I was suggesting aiming skunks at rednecks and having the skunks spray the rednecks with their fragrant perfume.
I 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 went and did a Greatest Shits post, because it's been a hot minute since the last time we had a lunatic fringe substacker with no readership fishing for clicks, but... honestly, there isn't much on her blog that's nuttier than what she's posted here. It's mostly just toilet philosophy and wanky justifications for being a Chump voter.
Well, there was also some transphobia that hasn't come up yet, but I'm sure she'll get to that soon. Unless she already did and it's behind one of those "continue thread" links that I don't bother clicking anymore.
As hemant says in his last paragraph, this is all a very nice idea, but pretty pointless otherwise. There’s not really much more I can say about this. Either the American people decide to toss these bastards out of office as quickly as possible, or we will all suffer for it. And even if they do throw those these bastards out as quickly as possible, we may all still suffer for it.
What we need is an electoral congressional blowup which would make the 2018 election look like a walk in the park. Republican officeholders and Republican voters need to understand just how badly they've screwed up.
I keep hoping for a deus ex machina where an actual patriot with the power to do so steps in and cleans the mess up in such a way that it won’t come back for some years.
I also keep hoping that Ryan Reynolds is really my boyfriend.
My next door neighbor, who is an ass in more ways than I have time to detail, had an inflatable snowman in his front yard. One day in mid-January he stopped turning it on at night. SIX WEEKS later he took it out of his front lawn. He started a project on his roof 27 months ago and hasn’t made any progress on it 26 months. A 16 foot ladder has been leaning against his house for the entire 27 months. The city came by after his permit expired to see what was going on. He accused me of calling the city. I decided to let him think I have that much influence.
I expect the April 1 elections at the state levels will be the last elections we will be seeing. Looking at what Trumpty Dumpty and Muskrat have been doing in the past 70 days with EOs and just blatant corruption, I doubt our constitution will last until November, let alone midterms. Blatantly defying court orders and disappearing “illegals” don’t end on their own. I don’t have faith in anyone currently sitting in any office now to stop them.
It will take a miracle to get this passed under the current regime. To pass this important law, Dems need to take back both Senate and the House, assuming elections aren't abolished by the Sphincter in Chief before the next election.
My congresscritter is a MAGA Trump worshipper. I intend to contact him to demand that he support this bill, and if he does not (which is my expectation) to explain in detail why.
𝙄𝙛 I get an answer, I will report back.
Perhaps you'll get a form letter telling you how very wrong you are, or something on a topic unconnected to the issue you contacted him.about.
Years ago, I wrote then Attorney General Mike DeWine, telling him in no uncertain terms NOT to support a Christian organization known as "Athletes in Action," to the tune of $300,000. I got a form letter back, telling me how PROUD he was to be supporting them.
The fuckers simply DO NOT LISTEN.
The fuckers never see the letters themselves. They pay some flunky fucker to put them in the trash and send a flyer out.
Likely true, certainly as it comes to the Repubs. I STILL remember (and pretty sure I still have!) the response that I got from Sherrod Brown when I wrote him about Christian proselytism in the military. Whether that was from him or an aide, I don't know, but it was a thoughtful and I don't think a stock response, and I was mightily impressed with that!
[sigh] Damn, but I MISS Sherrod. He was for real. Moreno? Not so much. 😝
That's the most I'm expecting.
I look forward to what you hear back!
Crickets, I’m guessing.
Crickets I'm expecting.
Maybe. Depends on the congresscritter. You never can tell...
I also am under a MAGAt who plays at caring. Mike Lawler: he introduced a bill whereby representatives "promise" to do their best to preserve Social Security. NOT a bill to protect Social Security, a bill that they PROMISE to protect it. So nothing at all...
Anyone who honestly believed that Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security weren't going to be on the chopping block either wasn't paying attention, or let someone else do their thinking for them. Those are the biggest slices of the federal government budget, and any cuts to said budget will come out of them. I'm 50, and fully expect to be completely unable to retire ever thanks to these shenanigans.
Mine is far left. Too bad.
La peine (either the aunt or the niece) or sans amour* can't show their faces here, even with an army of bodyguards. The risk to get stoned, and not the good way, is too high.
* Any far right ass I have forgot.
Same here, though mine is one of the weasely ones pretending to be a moderate. Might as well call anyway lol
Certainly, the Do No Harm Act is badly over due in the face of the RFRA. The obvious problem is that, in the current environment, any proposal which would restrict religion is going to be seen as [all together now, gang, in three-part harmony]: 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡!!!
The question now is: how hard will Democrats and what few sane Republicans we have left fight for this?
LOL! Sane Republicans!
There are at least a few of them. Can't give you names at the moment, but I've heard a couple (R) guys blasting their own on the House floor. Was refreshing as all hell, I can tell you!
Nah. They only want to go back to the times when all of this was done more politely. The only thing Republicans disagree on is optics, never ideology.
I very much doubt that is true. I think about what an alternate last four or so years would look like...let's say Trump has a heart attack in 2022 but Haley or DeSantis wins the Presidency on a landslide of sympathy (and US inflation). I bet in that GOP administration, (i) the US fully supports Ukraine against Russia, (ii) USCIS, Dept of Ed and numerous other smaller agencies still exist, with the support of the WH, (iii) there are no trade wars with Canada, Mexico, or EU, (iv) folks like Kahlil aren't being detained or sent out of the country, (v) NONE of Trump's picks for political appointees are considered qualified by the President (with the possible exception of McMahon, since she's done it before) and (vi) Elon Musk has zero political power beyond your standard big money donor.
Trump is not merely representing some pre-existing conservative majority position, he is actively driving their Overton window rightward with his rhetoric and leadership. Or he is delegating major decision-making to extremists that someone like Haley wouldn't have let in the building let alone the Oval office.
Sure Jan.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vaR8MQz-VBs
Why should they get credit for pretending to be human? They are worried about muh munee- not the USA. Fuck these bad-breath jackals.
Little Johnson is unlikely to bring it up for a vote. There likely is not enough rethuglican enthusiasm for a discharge petition. I think it will die in Committee.
Could be, yeah ... but it's THERE, and it's one more indicator of where the party of Trump stands (if you can call it that).
..where the party of Trump squats.
FIFY
Yeah, that too! 😁
Stephen King:
“Elon, Vance, and Trump came to D.C. to eliminate the deep state.
Only it turns out the deep state is the guy who cleans the toilets at your favorite national park, the dude watching the radar in air traffic control, and a
meteorologist making sure your family gets the alert before a tornado hoovers up the homestead.”
Long live the King.
Certainly, a SHINING example of sharp and witty commentary from him.
He's too old now to run for office for a first term, especially for a job that lasts at least six years, but I wish King had run against Susan Collins in Maine.
Make that Darth Voldemort or Marco Foolio.
Maine is bluer than Florida. When King was a resident of the former state, he would have had a better chance winning against SC than in the latter one against either Marco or the bald Medicaid fraudster.
If a thing can be justified in the name of religion, . . . it will be. No matter how harmful it is to others. When people become convinced they're operating under divine sanction, they are capable of just about any horror.
It's almost like letting sadistic death cultists into positions of power ends badly.
I can already hear the screaming accusations of Christian persecution.
MMA wrestler Conor McGregor raped a woman so brutally that her tampon had to be surgically removed. A forensic examiner testified to this in court, and he was found GUILTY of the rape by a 12-person jury a few months ago. Oh, and a paramedic who examined her testified that she "had not seen a patient as bruised as her in a long time." SOMEHOW, THIS QUALIFIED HIM FOR A TRUMP WHITE HOUSE VISIT.
Trump is also a rapist and pig.
and the Q nutters claim he was sent to stop sex trafficking and pediphalia
They are mind numbingly stupid.
By claiming a monopoly on it.
All the while completely ignoring him wishing Ghislaine Maxwell, of all people, well (on two separate occasions!).
I'm now thoroughly convinced that, to the political right, it is regarded as a good thing when one of their own is accused or convicted of sexual assault- with points knocked off only for not getting away with it- and that this is precisely because they have only one actual value: domination. Might makes right. Their hypocrisy over the entire subject, claiming on one hand that they oppose such violence even as they pat each other on the back when they commit it themselves, is an expression of the same value- because the ability to blatantly lie, to put a double standard into practice and not be held accountable, is also an exercise of the same sort of abusive power. Their fawning adoration for dictators, and sneering contempt for democracy, is that same value expressing itself again; the ability to take whatever one wants, to victimize anyone they wish to at any time based on nothing but their will to do so, is something they cannot help but admire.
Republicans are the party of rape. Everything they do, on every level, should be viewed through that lens.
“ Might makes right”
Seems to be their approach to damn near everything.
"Domination", I'd add degradation, as well.
Well he got the Taint Brothers freed from Romania and bought them to FL. so he is even importing rapists.
It’s ACME!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/048d0eb9c401c36aaafb16e9ea397ae2c557a44fcae53f0e46bc57f75f933a5e.jpg
*Meep Meep!*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXLXMe4njyk
Roadrunners CAN fly but a coyote WILL out-run one.
https://montclairlocal.news/2023/11/coyote-vs-roadrunner-whats-in-your-backyard/
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/40103e6d4fd01adcbed6e6ec8c1a089dd03b3a017060abedac22889fd4c2b70e.jpg
FAFO
Some of them will still find a way to blame Biden, Democrats, Antifa, the Deep State.....
As Mrs. Gump would say, "Stupid is as stupid does."
They will continue to FA all the way to the bitter end. They'll have to FO the way Nazi collaborators did in the 1940s. Unless they or their livelihoods are directly impacted by Muskrump's wrecking ball economy, i.e., unless it's THEIR faces the leopards get to in the interim (yes, I believe it will take something that drastic), they will continue to lionize Dear Leader to the detriment of their country. And when someone finally attempts to hold them accountable for their choices...well, just imagine the howls of protest about "just following orders" and "New World Order oppression" or some such rubbish.
Don't forget their favorite bogeyman, George Soros.
Being Stupid has Consequences, here is a direct example of results of being that stupid.
REMEMBER TO HELP SAVE THE HUMAN POPULATION/RAISE HUMANITY I. Q BY HAVING ALL YOUR REDNECKS SPRAYED AND NEUTERED!!!!!
> "SPRAYED"
Maybe with fluorescent orange paint so you can more easily avoid them?
Just use a skunk.
What do you have against skunks ? Killing them is cruel, encore plus de cette façon.
While I am no fan of skunks, I was not suggesting we kill skunks. I was suggesting aiming skunks at rednecks and having the skunks spray the rednecks with their fragrant perfume.
Do you really thinks rednecks will know the difference ?
Killing them stinks.
Beyond insane and into a whole new territory. 😝
Please remove the word "freedom" from the headline and notifications tag. It isn't religious freedom overreach; it's simply religious overreach.
I see there is a 'bothsider' goblin here to blame both sides.
She's not even really doing that. She seems to be one of those Libertarians who's really just a Republican but doesn't want to admit it.
Y'know- just like every other Libertarian.
I always like to ask libertarians to name one successful country with a government based upon libertarianism.
I can think of at least one that's being successfully 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘱𝘴𝘦𝘥 by it- does that count?
Yeah, she's pretending she's not a MAGA troll while she spouts Faux News talking points from 2020.
She picked the wrong place to post that crap.
I 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 went and did a Greatest Shits post, because it's been a hot minute since the last time we had a lunatic fringe substacker with no readership fishing for clicks, but... honestly, there isn't much on her blog that's nuttier than what she's posted here. It's mostly just toilet philosophy and wanky justifications for being a Chump voter.
Well, there was also some transphobia that hasn't come up yet, but I'm sure she'll get to that soon. Unless she already did and it's behind one of those "continue thread" links that I don't bother clicking anymore.
Let's see how much longer she lasts.
Got my ⏱ going.
She really thinks no one can see what she is and what she's doing.
She's fooling no one. Except herself, of course.
That’s typically how they are. No reflection means they can’t see themselves.
All so she can feel a false sense of superiority. Sad.
Her posts get progressively more ignorant the more she is challenged.
The mask slides further and further off her face.
also, the cheese off her cracker!
How tiresome.
As hemant says in his last paragraph, this is all a very nice idea, but pretty pointless otherwise. There’s not really much more I can say about this. Either the American people decide to toss these bastards out of office as quickly as possible, or we will all suffer for it. And even if they do throw those these bastards out as quickly as possible, we may all still suffer for it.
What we need is an electoral congressional blowup which would make the 2018 election look like a walk in the park. Republican officeholders and Republican voters need to understand just how badly they've screwed up.
I keep hoping for a deus ex machina where an actual patriot with the power to do so steps in and cleans the mess up in such a way that it won’t come back for some years.
I also keep hoping that Ryan Reynolds is really my boyfriend.
Yup. And I'm gonna win the lotto, too! Just you wait ('Enry 'Iggins!). 🤪
I’m not greedy. I’ll just settle for Ryan
Your lips to God's ears.
Ha. As though that dip would actually LISTEN! [he shakes his head]
OT: Silver lining to the high winds. It knocked over the neighbor's family of lighted snowmen. Maybe they'll put them away now. ☃️
“Snowblowing”
Be careful, you don't want to become snowblind.
or grow hair on the palms of my mittens.
youtu.be/VKgVti40emA
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Snowblind_(Earth-616)
I get your drift.
I hate those lit up things – they're snow joke.
I’ve been trying to think of a dirty pun but my mind is as pure as the driven snow.
My next door neighbor, who is an ass in more ways than I have time to detail, had an inflatable snowman in his front yard. One day in mid-January he stopped turning it on at night. SIX WEEKS later he took it out of his front lawn. He started a project on his roof 27 months ago and hasn’t made any progress on it 26 months. A 16 foot ladder has been leaning against his house for the entire 27 months. The city came by after his permit expired to see what was going on. He accused me of calling the city. I decided to let him think I have that much influence.
Unqualified hack and brain worm lunatic and not a doctor RFK says measles vax is worse than measles.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/03/12/measles-vaccine-kennedy-fox-hannity/82320575007/
*Very tempted to book a ticket just to slap him with the only picture of her little sister (end of 1953-1955/56) DM managed to keep.*
These are part of the GQP/Nazi platform and something they have worked toward for decades:
Undermine nondiscrimination laws
Deny access to health care
Evade child labor laws
Thwart workplace protections (such as fair wage and equal pay laws)
Refuse to provide government-funded services
Refuse to perform duties as a government employee
This is why they will vote against this.
I expect the April 1 elections at the state levels will be the last elections we will be seeing. Looking at what Trumpty Dumpty and Muskrat have been doing in the past 70 days with EOs and just blatant corruption, I doubt our constitution will last until November, let alone midterms. Blatantly defying court orders and disappearing “illegals” don’t end on their own. I don’t have faith in anyone currently sitting in any office now to stop them.
It will take a miracle to get this passed under the current regime. To pass this important law, Dems need to take back both Senate and the House, assuming elections aren't abolished by the Sphincter in Chief before the next election.