[Tubby Isaacs]

Would be nice to think so.

That upset there though was in a statehouse by election, with what looks like a particularly bad Republican. Normally they'll come up with someone who says enough to keep the base onside but runs primarily as an outsider veteran or businessman.

[The Weeping Angel]

Tubbs is right about that election being about the Republican candidate being even more of an arsehole than usual, but I do think this decision on Roe will have an effect maybe not to the extent in this election but certianly down the line.

[Bones McCoy]

[Samanfur]

Oops!

[Arrowhead]

A pretty terrifying article on how Far-Right extremists are currently flourishing in Idaho...........aided and abetted, of course, by local GOP politicians.

Living With The Far-Right Insurgency In Idaho
A radical GOP faction, in open alliance with extremists, is seizing power and targeting its opponents with cruelty
By Christopher Mathias 17/05/202
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... 4db7282bd6

[Boiler]

I couldn't read all that because, as described, I found it too distressing and had to stop

[Arrowhead]

I couldn't read all that because, as described, I found it too distressing and had to stop

Sorry about that. It was a tough read, genuinely unsettling stuff. I really do fear for America right now.

[Boiler]

I couldn't read all that because, as described, I found it too distressing and had to stop

Sorry about that. It was a tough read, genuinely unsettling stuff. I really do fear for America right now.

No need to apologise @Arrowhead, you did warn us. The trouble is, I'm torn between "what on Earth can be done here?" and "fuck 'em, let themselves annihilate one another" where America is concerned. Either way, it does my nut in (to quote a certain fictional pub landlord).

[Watchman]

Individual states turning into Stalinist Russia, eventually their own paranoia will eat themselves

[Bones McCoy]

[Boiler]

The Death Cult strikes again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-u ... a-61573831

Fifteen dead.

[Samanfur]

Fourteen of them children aged 7-10.

[The Weeping Angel]

Someone I follow on twitter who lives in Texas.

[Oboogie]

America, where every life is sacred...right up 'til the moment of birth.

[Samanfur]

Death toll up to 21. 19 of them children.

[Samanfur]

Predictably, this didn't take long:

Uvalde, TX elementary school shooting: conspiracy trolls say it's a "psy-op"

[Nigredo]

A state that forces people to have children only to watch them be murdered on a regular school day.

What an appalling state of an affairs.

[Spoonman]

"Thoughts & prayers..."

[Boiler]

Predictably, this didn't take long:

Uvalde, TX elementary school shooting: conspiracy trolls say it's a "psy-op"

... and Alex Jones is about to pay a very high price - literally - for saying what he did about Sandy Hook.

[RedSparrows]

"Thoughts & prayers..."

Fucking virtue signalling, ey readers?