Last night street noise awakened me around midnight, and that was fortunate. I was up the rest of the night with Republicosis. I’m feeling very tired.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 5:24 (average 10:02). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): How cable news poisons the conversation about abortion
How about fining the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, $100,000 per lie about abortion and use the $millions in raised revenue to fund Planned Parenthood? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From YouTube (Inequality Media Channel): The Unconstitutional Census Power Grab
The Reich on the left is right. Republicans have more ways to steal elections than dawgs have fleas. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From The New Yorker: In what they believe is a legal masterstroke, lawyers for Donald J. Trump are now claiming that he cannot be impeached because he was never actually elected.
In a lengthy memo sent to the special counsel, Robert Mueller, the lawyers pushed back vehemently against any allegation that Trump was legally elected President.
“Because Russian interference made the election of Donald J. Trump wholly illegitimate, any attempt to remove him from an office that he does not legally hold is clearly impossible,” the memo asserted.
The memo claimed that the Constitution contains “no provision for removing a person from office when that person was installed there by a foreign power.”
Dang Andy! That’s a compelling argument!! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
Cartoon:
Vintage 2011 and equally valid today.
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8:10 So the new mantra is completely random selection, season be damned. Oh, well, if you can find a party, maybe there’ll be shrimp.
MM – As a person who would not exist had my mother’s life not been saved by the termination of an ectopic pregnancy years before I was born (a termination which would be illegal in El Salvador and in some American states, while other states are pushing to criminalize it but have not yet done so), I submit that the prosecution of women having abortions is the REAL witch hunt, which should be stopped, and which should horrify all decent people. Opposing abortion is not about saving babies. It is about killing women. OK, rant over. The fines would be wonderful Getting that through Congress would be beyond miraculous
Reich – Well, yes, the ones who are trying to push this see it as a power grab. But that is just the tip of the iceberg as to how much harm it would do. Does anyone besides me see the irony that the fact the Constitution was written to count “residents” and not just “citizens” was a wrong-wing power grab from the get-go? Remember “3/5 of a person”? So now that comes back to bite them and they scream bloody morder.
TNY – Yes, that certainly sounds like a Republican argument. /S (BTW you must be tired. I expected something about Manafort today.)
Cartoon – 2011? That pledge goes back at least to the date Nixon was elected … if not farther.
MMC: Good video. Rachel’s right, it’s is very hard to get an abortion here in TX, which is a crying shame, and those that want or need an abortion should be able to get with PP, and access to it. Plain and simple. But it’s not. Sad.
IMC: Word. Enjoy Mr. Reich’s videos. Passing this one on too.
NYer: Well, I guess we need a major cleanup on aisle 1600 then!! LOL, Andy.
Cartoon: Of course. Every.Single.Day!!
Get your much needed rest. Hope that you have a good evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
Many of those who oppose abortion spare nary a thought for children who have already been born. Not only that, they act in the name of a god that regularly slaughters babies wholesale. The Great Flood, the death of Egypt’s first born, the various plagues and troubles inflicted on the ancient Hebrews for arbitrary reasons – on and on and on and on.
MMC: Absolutely spot on! Rupert Murdoch, and Faux News, need to be prosecuted, maybe under RICO law!
IMC:The GOPIGS have been working on voter suppression since the end of the Civil War, which they do not accept as over! They have (CAN’T) Think Tanks financed by the Koch boys, and so on, that focus on elitist, racist (UN)thinking.
New Yorker: Andy nails it!
‘Toon: I expect that Boehner, Ryan and McTurtle each have this tattooed on their individual asses!
“Republicosis”
Must be made a new entry in Merriam-Webster!!!
It’s the opposite of Republicitis
Republicosis is when you’re spraying so much shit that everyone thinks you’re a Republican. You need Imodium AD to get your shit together.
MM: Only in the US and countries which are changing abortion legislation (Poland ?, or Ireland ??) abortion is news. In other Western countries it just isn’t a topic of discussion nor of news. It is turned into “news” by the ever increasing anti-abortion campaigns of the religious Right and Faux News is running these campaigns as if they are news items of advertisement. The only thing to stop this is a Blue Tsunami.
IM: I repeat: The only thing to stop this is a Blue Tsunami.
TNY: ???Brilliant, Andy, absolutely bloody brilliant!
Hope you get some catnaps in when the Republicosis subsides, TomCat.
Thanks all. Very tired hugs!