They just get worse and worse

[GoblinCampFollower]

Because of -course- they did - probably the same ones who voted against finding a solution for the baby formula shortage.

A lot of conservatives seem to seriously believe that if you're in prison for any reason your life is dirt and you have no rights. I hear it from relatives and see it in internet comments all the time. You could be in there for a substance abuse problem or not being able to pay taxes and in their eyes, you may as well be a child molester.

 

[Free]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote link

Disney, of course, is not without its blind spots. On this side of the Atlantic, 1939 is the year WW2 started.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Pro-life

The only thing lower in a Republican's eye than a woman, is a woman in prison.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Top US conservatives pushing Russia’s spin on Ukraine war, experts say

Some of the Kremlin’s most blatant falsehoods aimed at undercutting US aid are promoted by major figures on the right

www.theguardian.com

ETA

 

[Free]

GOP Congresswoman Tears Up While Urging Vote Against Marriage Equality

<p>U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler of Missouri implored her colleagues not to pass the "dangerous" Respect for Marriage Act, but they did anyway.</p>

www.advocate.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Long stressed that she isn’t trying to push her religion on anyone.

“I am just trying to expose my child’s classmates to different traditions,” she said. Long said the principal agreed to raise the issue again with Poe before rendering a final decision Thursday but suggested that if the school allowed a presentation on Hanukkah, “they would have to teach Kwanza and Diwali.”

“I think that would be awesome,” Long said. “I told her that if it is me coming in that is an issue; I would be happy to send the materials in for the teacher to use. I explained to her that if I am not able to do my presentation or that the teacher doesn’t do it, I will raise hell if I see one Christmas paper come home or I see one Christmas tree in the school.”

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Soen Eber]

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Tl/Dr: Original constitution is too liberal for conservative Republicans who seek to cosplay as Lord Protectors and Moral Guardians via "Common Good" Constitutional interpretation.

Takeaway:

Taken together, these two arguments read an awful lot like a defense of a pseudo-constitutional dictatorship, or at the very least as a plausible legal justification for a right-wing coup. Vermeule doesn’t go to great lengths to obscure this conclusion. At the end of the section on subsidiarity, he cites the Catholic theologian Johannes Messner to argue that in some cases, a limited form of dictatorship may “be compatible with the principle of subsidiarity.”

There were a lot of younger legal conservatives who were more open to the idea of alternatives to originalism because they were so disappointed in the results that originalism had brought them.”

Surveying the field, many of those young conservatives found only one viable alternative: common good constitutionalism. Suddenly, Vermeule’s theory was looking a lot less like the ramblings of a grumpy law professor and a lot more like a roadmap for a movement that had lost its North Star.

 

[Free]

Just coal in your xmas stockings this year, you jackasses.

 

[Free]

Man, being woke sounds horrible.

 

[Free]

Arizona governor builds border wall of shipping crates in final days of office

Critics say Republican Doug Ducey’s scheme is illegal because makeshift barrier is being erected on tribal and federal land

www.theguardian.com

A makeshift new barrier built with shipping containers is being illegally erected along part of the US-Mexico border by Arizona’s Republican governor – before he has to hand over the keys of his office to his Democratic successor in January.

Doug Ducey is driving a project that is placing double-stacked old shipping containers through several miles of national forest, attempting to fill gaps in Donald Trump’s intermittent border fencing.

The rusting hulks, topped with razor wire and with bits of metal jammed into gaps, stretch for more than three miles through Coronado national forest land, south of Tucson, and the governor has announced plans to extend that up to 10 miles, at a cost of $95m (£78m).

True conservative genius.

 

[Free]

Arrest. Every. Last. One. Of. Them.

 

[Govi]

Arrest. Every. Last. One. Of. Them.

For subjunctive sedition?

 

[Soen Eber]

Arizona governor builds border wall of shipping crates in final days of office

Critics say Republican Doug Ducey’s scheme is illegal because makeshift barrier is being erected on tribal and federal land

www.theguardian.com

True conservative genius.

What genius! A secure place for migrants to rest and stockpile supplies in the middle of a forested area with plenty of cover. I call dibs on the power tool, generator, and water consession.

 

[Beebo Brink]

MAGA Republicans are obsessed with harassing drag shows — here's why - Salon.com

You don't need a doctorate in women's studies to know gender is a performance — "RuPaul's Drag Race" proves it

www.salon.com

Drag is a reminder to take ourselves all a little less seriously, to remember that whatever self-presentation we choose is in a choice, and to have some fun with it.

But of course, the right is melting down because gender, to conservatives, is deadly serious business. It determines who gets rights and privileges. It's about who gets listened to and who gets told to shut up. It dictates who deserves to be a person and who has to live as an object. You can't play with gender. It's meant to be a prison, at least for anyone who isn't a straight cisgendered man. (And arguably it's a kind of prison for them too.) If people start questioning what gender even means, then the whole right-wing system of power allocation begins to crumble. That's why the histrionic hatred of drag has been playing out on the right for months now. For most people, drag is about being playful and having fun. For the paranoid, fascist right, however, it's an existential threat.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I think that it is also easier for them to use drag performers to argue that trans individuals are not real. Drag is intentionally campy, the goal is not to convince the audience that the performers are actually women. But that lets conservatives point to the "man in a dress" and use that as their argument against allowing individuals to transition or allowing trans women access to women's spaces.

 

[Free]

Arizona governor builds border wall of shipping crates in final days of office

Critics say Republican Doug Ducey’s scheme is illegal because makeshift barrier is being erected on tribal and federal land

www.theguardian.com

 

[Beebo Brink]