America

[Puja]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/liv ... ve-updates

Trump and two eldest children must testify in New York fraud investigation, judge rules – live

He'll surely just take the fifth and spin it as "refusing to assist corrupt investigators" to his supporters.

Puja

[kk67]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/liv ... ve-updates

Trump and two eldest children must testify in New York fraud investigation, judge rules – live

He'll surely just take the fifth and spin it as "refusing to assist corrupt investigators" to his supporters.

Puja

Can he do that with Income Tax ?.

[morepork]

There is a Yoo Toob vid somewhere of him taking a deposition some 6 years ago, and he is staggeringly thick when put on the spot. He can't articulate even simple concepts and is profoundly ignorant. You take the bully pulpit away and you are left with a fat lazy surly child. I hope he coughs and shits himself on live TeeVee.

[Puja]

There is a Yoo Toob vid somewhere of him taking a deposition some 6 years ago, and he is staggeringly thick when put on the spot. He can't articulate even simple concepts and is profoundly ignorant. You take the bully pulpit away and you are left with a fat lazy surly child. I hope he coughs and shits himself on live TeeVee.

Good point - while he ought to take the fifth and will be advised to take the fifth and might even intend to take the fifth, can anyone picture Donald Trump not talking, especially when someone says something inflammatory about him?

Puja

[Which Tyler]

Oooh look - If I post the guardian's FB link to their article, it saves me doing the link AND first couple of sentences...
Didn't know that

[Mikey Brown]

Oooh look - If I post the guardian's FB link to their article, it saves me doing the link AND first couple of sentences...
Didn't know that

I can even see the thing that you’re describing for once. Well done. A big day for you indeed.

[Son of Mathonwy]

Oooh look - If I post the guardian's FB link to their article, it saves me doing the link AND first couple of sentences...
Didn't know that

Yeah but I'm sure Zuckerberg is profiting from this, so I cannot approve.

[Which Tyler]

[kk67]

If Sir Victor Nix was in prison then none of these problems would be an issue.
But the Sven Goren Erricsson lookalike, Heavens Gate imbecile is still forging the nazified psychopathic political mandate and getting paid millions.

"Illinois Nazis,....I hate these guys".

[morepork]

Sarah fuckin Palin throws her hat into the ring for an Alaska congressional seat. Even she has realised that all she would need to do is maintain a social media presence and inject some bile into the fake culture war sphere to make a decent crust. What a sad joke of an environment politics is.

[Puja]

Presented without comment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61192975

Puja

[Puja]

This is a fucking story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-61267265

US family go to be tourists to Israel, go visit one of the occupied areas for funsies and pick up an unexploded artillery shell as "a souvenir" which then shuts down the airport when they ask the staff whether they can check it in their suitcase. I don't even know where to start, from "Yaay, occupation and war, let's get a fun memento so we can remember all the death that took place here!" to "Why wouldn't I be able to have a bomb on a plane; I'm white" to "You know, that artillery shell would look great alongside my gun collection."

Puja

[Son of Mathonwy]

This is a fucking story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-61267265

US family go to be tourists to Israel, go visit one of the occupied areas for funsies and pick up an unexploded artillery shell as "a souvenir" which then shuts down the airport when they ask the staff whether they can check it in their suitcase. I don't even know where to start, from "Yaay, occupation and war, let's get a fun memento so we can remember all the death that took place here!" to "Why wouldn't I be able to have a bomb on a plane; I'm white" to "You know, that artillery shell would look great alongside my gun collection."

Puja

Still, it's really sweet of Israeli security to just let the family go, no consequences. Imagine if they'd been Muslims. Or, God forbid, middle-eastern Arabs.

[Puja]

Still, it's really sweet of Israeli security to just let the family go, no consequences.

Yikes. I hadn't even spotted that part.

Puja

[morepork]

I've held back from commenting on both of these depressing insights into life in 'Murrica because it is a tediously depressing refrain. That guns are the leading cause of death in children and adolescents is a national disgrace and should be, by definition as per the fucking metric, a primary public health priority. But no, legislators are focused on the teaching of history in schools and getting angry about gay people. It's just fucking ridiculous and you can't call yourself a functioning democracy with a set of priorities so wildly, almost comically, off target (no pun). I don't know what can be done about it. It is an issue that will literally swing an election, especially after social media eats it up and shits it all over the public. Forget Critical Race Theory angry white people (which is not taught in any fucking school in the country BTW). Unclutch your pearls and get real about an actual problem. You cunts.

As for the cretins that thought a casual artillery shell through airport security would be OK...you shouldn't be allowed passports, driver's licenses, library cards, or the right to vote until you can display a requisite minimum understanding of contemporary geopolitical context outside of your cloistered domestic bubble, and empathy for others less privileged who are unable to carry artillery through a crowded international airport without risking summary public execution.

Jesus Fucking Two-Balled Christ.

[Sandydragon]

Row v Wade about to be overturned, apparently.

[morepork]

Welcome to the United White Christian Nationalist Caliphate of America.

[Stom]

Wow. I never thought Roe v Wade could possibly be overturned. That’s insane.

[Son of Mathonwy]

Doesn't precedent mean anything? Can the Supreme Court just make any ruling they like?

Anyway, this is probably just the first right of many to be erased. And Trump hasn't even been re-elected yet.

That country is truly fucked.

[paddy no 11]

Yeah, what's the process here, can they just write a position paper, vote themselves and hey presto it's done?

[Sandydragon]

Yeah, what's the process here, can they just write a position paper, vote themselves and hey presto it's done?

Surely there must have been a case referred to them? Texas seems to be trying to roll back north on rights but I don’t think they are the only state to be doing that. One report I read today mentioned up to 26 states that are looking to impose some sort of restriction.

[Puja]

Yeah, what's the process here, can they just write a position paper, vote themselves and hey presto it's done?

Surely there must have been a case referred to them? Texas seems to be trying to roll back north on rights but I don’t think they are the only state to be doing that. One report I read today mentioned up to 26 states that are looking to impose some sort of restriction.

There is a case referred to them that they're currently considering which is the challenge to Roe vs Wade. There's no shortage of Republican fuckwits willing to spend their time and money to make sure that others are deprived of rights, so the cases challenging them will keep coming.

The thing is that a majority of Americans are in favour of Roe vs Wade. It's because of their shitty electoral system that gives equal weight in the Senate to underpopulated red states like 580k Wyoming as it does to 39 million in blue California. What I'm terrified to see is if the same will occur with this as occurred with Brexit - instead of people moving away from the Republicans because they did the thing they disliked, deciding that they never cared about the thing anyway and lurching further right, because in for a penny, my team good or bad, right?

Someone posted this, which is depressing, but feels about right:

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Puja

[Which Tyler]

Oh, that's absoluteley the long game - (followed by defining freedom of religion to mean choice of christianity and deeper cuts to the right to vote)

The only question is whether they'll go straight there, or carve off trans-rights first and take a more piecemeal approach to criminalising homosexuality.

[morepork]

Oh, that's absoluteley the long game - (followed by defining freedom of religion to mean choice of christianity and deeper cuts to the right to vote)

The only question is whether they'll go straight there, or carve off trans-rights first and take a more piecemeal approach to criminalising homosexuality.

Roe V. Wade > Outlawing contraception > outlawing sodomy > outlawing same sex marriage > outlawing interracial marriage > restricting voter rights > Jim Crow II.

[cashead]

I mean, trans rights have already been eroded, as have been voter rights in red states and districts.