[Spoonman]

There's a rather funny video going round, in which a man (a satirist) at the NRA convention publicly thanks its president for all of his thoughts and prayers over the years, and actually gets a round of applause when he finishes. The committee seems to realise he's taking the piss, but can't really do anything about it.

The sad thing is that much of the crowd probably thought he was being sincere.

Presumably this video?...

[Boiler]

Capitol riot hearing: Trump dismisses daughter Ivanka's testimony

Oh, the joy of watching them turn on each other.

Mr Trump said Ivanka had not been looking at election results and "had long since checked out".

Rather like Donald has long since checked out of reality.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is fairly encouraging, and credit to Chris Murphy for leading this.

[The Weeping Angel]

I find it amazing how some progressives are dismissing this as worse than nothing.

[Spoonman]

'murica! Part 98 (probably) at this stage - mid-June update...

First, a bunch of slack-jawed yok... sorry, 31 members of a White Nationalist group "Patriot Front" get their sorry arses hauled out of the back of a rented lorry by the police in Idaho & get charged with Conspiracy To Riot after being seen near a Pride parade at Coeur d'Alene...

31 people with ties to White nationalist group arrested for conspiracy to riot near a Pride parade in Idaho

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/11/us/3 ... index.html

...next, get ready for "Walmart's Gone Woke!!" as Mr. Pillow loses another distributor...

...and now on to Marjorie Taylor-Greene excreting more bat-shit with a double helping...

Marjorie Taylor Greene admits she thinks global warming is 'healthy for us'
(narrator's voice - "It isn't")

https://www.indy100.com/politics/marjor ... al-warming

Marjorie Taylor Greene blames tampon shortage on them being 'in men's bathrooms'
(narrator's voice - "It isn't")

https://www.indy100.com/politics/marjor ... n-shortage

...finally, it's worth mentioning fellow Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, the Butthead to MTG's Beavis...

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is facing a backlash for tying Jesus Christ’s death to gun rights, implying that he could have defended himself from crucifixion had he an assault rifle.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/sh ... ar-AAYwAdS

...also worth quickly pointing out that in the last few days she's also been accused of leaving the scene of a car accident & leaving her son behind in 2019 (apologies for the DM link, so here's a screenshot)...

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... hicle.html

and that there are claims that she once worked as a "sugar daddy" paid escort.

[Bones McCoy]

Eurrrghhh!!

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Not only that she worked as, essentially, a prostitute but that the anti-abortion campaigner had two abortions as a result...

[Tubby Isaacs]

Not only that she worked as, essentially, a prostitute but that the anti-abortion campaigner had two abortions as a result...

Is that not fake?

[Bones McCoy]

Not only that she worked as, essentially, a prostitute but that the anti-abortion campaigner had two abortions as a result...

Is that not fake?

Quite likely, but the level of debate, here and there has fallen to gutter name calling.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Meanwhile in Georgia.

[Bones McCoy]

Meanwhile in Georgia.

Maybe he's the "Britain Trump" candidate.

[Boiler]

I don't think this is quite what was meant by "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... rch-dinner

[Andy McDandy]

So it appears that what's stopping a bad guy with a gun is a pensioner with a camp chair.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Populist.

[Boiler]

The woman who could end Roe v Wade

Ms Fitch - who declined to be interviewed - had argued that overturning Roe v Wade would be "game-changing", "uplifting" women by eliminating what she described as a false choice between family and career.

"Fifty years ago, for professional women, they wanted you to make a choice. Now you don't have to," she said on Pro-Life Weekly. "You have the option in life to really achieve your dreams, your goals, and you can have those beautiful children as well."

If she wins the case, and Roe v Wade falls, some 40 million women may lose access to abortion, pro-choice advocates warn. It could also make Ms Fitch, a single working parent of three, a Republican superstar and poster-child for her own argument: modern women don't need abortion to have it all.

Her father had inherited land on the historic Galena Plantation and used the sprawling 8,000-acre property to restore the family farm, turning it into a premier quail hunting destination. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and Mississippi governors Barbour and Phil Bryant, became frequent guests.

Visitors of Fitch Farms could elect to stay in the former home of Confederate general and first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, which Mr Fitch had bought and transported onto the property.

[The Weeping Angel]

From an American I've come across on twitter.

[Tubby Isaacs]

States rights latest.

The US supreme court has opened the door for almost all law-abiding Americans to carry concealed and loaded handguns in public, after the conservative majority struck down a New York law that placed strict restrictions on firearms outside the home.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... un-control

[Bones McCoy]

States rights latest.

The US supreme court has opened the door for almost all law-abiding Americans to carry concealed and loaded handguns in public, after the conservative majority struck down a New York law that placed strict restrictions on firearms outside the home.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... un-control

Not those yankee states = obvs.


Aside:
If this goes ahead it pretty much guarantees that the mixed race McCoy clan will never venture to the USA again.
I cannot afford the insurance nor the physical risk that some rugged individualist will object to our presence and respond with irrational violence.

[The Weeping Angel]

[Crabcakes]

Supreme Court has overturned Roe vs Wade.

Midterms could now be pretty crazy.