The Frankish Reich

Ahh, the Ironclad Law. Bad News for Trumpistas = Posting of Stupid Trump as Hero Memes in Every Thread.

You better watch your back, @HomeskillitMoorman. First comes "I'm done with you in this thread." Then comes "I'm done with you on PPP." Then comes the dreaded "I've put you on ignore." Which in Ol' Tarheel's terminology means, "I will put that little arrow with a childish insult below every post you make forevermore." And I will desperately wait for someone to quote your posts so I can have plausible deniability that I really am "ignoring" you by reading everything you write, but only secondhand. That's the one that really hurts.

Mr. Plessy no doubt regretted his decision to fight that whole "separate but equal" thing. He really should have waited a hundred years or so when the composition of the Court was favorable to him. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1850-1900/163us537 Hell, for that matter, that foolish Dred Scott probably regrets not just returning to his slave master. He could've prevented the Civil War. Maybe even for another decade or so.

It's the Iron Law of Trumpy Projection! Trump's fortune came from his adjudicated racist father's slumlord past and he's always given off strong racist vibes (see the whole Central Park murders "wilding" thing he inserted himself into). So let's accuse Biden of racism! Trump is caught on tape saying he just grabs women by the p[]ssy and he always manages to be backstage when those young Miss Teenies are getting dressed and he brags about how shaggable his teenage daughter has become. So let's accuse Biden of being a perv! There's your response, Tarheel.

Extreme right-to-life positions were essential for anyone with a dream of being president. Ron DeSantis signed that 6-week bill. Trump said he'd appoint justices who would undo Roe and return the matter to the states. And you're right, that's what happened. Things many people had said - for example, that IVF always involves selective implantation of embryos and that the others are disposed of, and that it would therefore run afoul of strict abortion bans - quickly came to pass. And that Roe was the only thing standing between the modern world and ancient, dead-letter anti-abortion laws like the Arizona territorial law. You got what you wanted, Republicans. Deal with it. Because we're not gonna let you run away from it.

By whom? The Arizona Supreme Court says it's a valid law. So the appeal is to ... the U.S. Supreme Court, which just told us (thank you Trump and your rushed nomination of Amy Coney Barrett) that this is an issue for the states to decide. Fascinating how the anti-abortion rights people are now all waiting for some court, somewhere to save them from themselves.

So you're saying you're an edibles guy.

This is correct. It wouldn't be a bad idea for the Senate Dems to force a vote on repeal of the Comstock Act just to put Republicans on the record about what their true intentions are.

I have no idea who the poster known as Mrs. Betty Bowers is, but that's a damn good takedown! Some advice for the prosecution: never refer to this as an "affair" with Stormy Daniels. Always refer to it as an attempt to coverup having sex with Stormy. "Affair" sounds kind of like there was some emotional or romantic connection that actually might make Trump seem just slightly sympathetic. Push the boundaries as much as you can get away with. He had sex with a woman who made a living out of having sex for money. There's a word for that ...

I appreciate her sentiment. But unless Arizona is (otherwise) very weird, it really wouldn't be up to her. A local DA in some extremely red county absolutely could prosecute someone - a woman, doctor, or "accessory" - under this statute, and there's really nothing the State AG could do about it. So I don't know if it's productive for her to be saying, "don't worry, I've got your back." Once the AZ Supreme Court stay is lifted, it's every DA for him/herself in prosecuting women under what is now considered a valid statute. California women: think twice before you leave LA for that lower cost of living in Arizona ... https://kjzz.org/content/1876667/kris-mayes-says-arizona-attorney-generals-office-working-plan-fight-abortion-ban Someone who knows Arizona law agrees with me. Prosecutorial discretion resides with individual DAs and not with the AG. So the AG's pronouncement is cold comfort for Arizona women.

Time to take that number down. Do it quietly. Just make it disappear. Don't wait for the new stadium. Give Number 32 to a practice squad player.

He was found not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. And then found responsible for the murders by a preponderance of the evidence.

Close to my age, but when I was about 6 I decided that Dennis Shaw was Da Man. And as far as I know, Dennis Shaw went on to live an honorable life.

Winner. Although I do hear he was getting really close ...

I watched this guy. You know what? He sounds reasonable. Check out 11:00. He talks about a friend of his who's started a geo-engineering firm. He isn't going to just be all gloom and doom, drought, climate change, etc. He's gonna put human ingenuity to work! He's actively cloud-seeding. Good for him. Oh, but wait a minute! Could it be our very own @B-Man who just reposted a tweet saying that all this geo-engineering/cloud-seeding stuff is ILLEGAL and some kind of woke plot that will ruin the planet? Why, yest it was. Unsolicited advice: don't just copy/paste right-wing sh!te willy-nilly and assume it's all good. Sometimes your righty commenters directly contradict each other and make you look like an old fool. (You're welcome)

Deterring.

I'm saying that informants play a critical role in deterring major crimes.

Some did say that, the believe all women thing. I didn't. You want to argue with them, find one of them. I've spent most of my career deeply involved with analyzing the credibility of people, and I summarized why I didn't think any of the above subjects were credible.

I missed that last one - $35!! All to Democrats and their causes. The judge has a huge financial incentive to convict Trump!! Unfair, I say!

Wait a minute - he was busted thanks to an FBI informant. Aren't you guys going to go all Gretchen Whitmer Fake Kidnapping Plot here?

Did I just hear something go squish? Wow, $25!

That's the thing. It's pure frustration that what some people think is a great equalizing "gotcha" is just not getting traction with the public. Probably 95% of the public has no idea that Joe has a 40-ish daughter named Ashley. Probably the same 95% has no idea that Trump has a daughter named Tiffany. Because it just doesn't matter.

And there we go. The old "but you said believe women, but now you don't want us to believe a woman when she accuses a Democrat." - I didn't believe Christine Blasey-Ford had shown that it was likely (or even 20% likely) that a teenage Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her 4 decades ago. - I didn't believe that E. Jean Carroll had shown that it was more likely than not that Trump had sexually assaulted her 3 decades ago (a jury disagreed) - I didn't believe Tara Reade had shown that it was even plausible that prominent Sen Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in an open corridor 4 decades ago - I don't see any basis to believe that a recovered memory of a drug addict about family events three or four decades ago that "may" be considered inappropriate in retrospect is any reason to call into question whether the President is a pedophile - I do believe that a loudmouth braggart who says he "just grabs them by the p[]ssy" probably has, in fact, just grabbed someone by the p[]ssy

Where are you getting this from? I see no reference to that in the diary. Nothing possibly inappropriate about that.

So Republicans have gone a bit squishy on outlawing abortion. They've gone a lot squishy on deficits. They're unrecognizable on Russia. But I found one thing they can all agree on: the need to stop the coming terror of LAB GROWN MEAT! https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-09/proposed-bans-on-lab-grown-beef-are-red-meat-for-conservative-base?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter&sref=htOHjx5Y …let me offer another theory: The anti-lab-grown-meat movement is about conservative cultural insecurity — the fear that, without the force of law, some conservative cultural norms will fade away… Imagine that lab-grown meat proves feasible at a reasonable cost. It might end up as cheaper than beef from a cow, and it might also be better for the climate. In such a world, there might be growing pressures to abandon real meat for the lab-grown kind. There could even be a political movement to tax or ban real meat, similar to carbon taxes or plans to phase out fossil fuels. Currently there is no momentum in that direction. For all the talk of vegetarianism and veganism, the percentage of Americans who practice those beliefs seems to be roughly flat. Many Americans like eating meat, for better or worse. But if real meat had a true substitute, perhaps the political calculus would differ. This is the real fear — not of lab-grown meat itself, but of the changing culture its popularity would represent. Whether conservatives find the meat substitute to be adequate is beside the point. Society would have decided that some of their most cherished beliefs can be disposed of. Both humankind’s dominion over nature, which runs strong in the Christian strand of conservative thought, and the masculinized meat-eating culture — more specifically, the meat-grilling culture — would be under threat.