Political Memes, Comics, and other Shenanigans, Part 42

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"Pro-Birther Priorities"

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Republicans’ first talking point after learning a ten-year-old girl had to cross state lines to get an abortion after being impregnated by a rapist was to say it wasn’t true.

A child was raped and impregnated. She couldn’t get an abortion in her home state of Ohio because the GOP in that state banned abortions after six weeks with no exceptions for rape or incest. She was pregnant for six weeks and three days. So, she went to Indiana for the procedure. Republicans said this story was “too good to be true” for Democrats.

In saying the story was too good to be true, in that Democrats could use it politically against the GOP’s stupid backward knuckle-dragging cave-dwelling anti-women policies, Republicans were admitting that forcing a ten-year-old to give birth to her rapist’s baby is fucking horrible and an outrage. That’s the policy they support but they don’t want you to talk about it.

It is Republican policy to force children to have their rapists’ babies. They didn’t respond to this story by arguing for the fetus. They argued it was a lie. After learning it wasn’t a lie, they changed their focus to the rapist and the doctor who performed the abortion.

They did argue that the rape and abortion weren’t reported, except they were. After that, they went after the immigration status of the rapist. After all, it was Donald Trump who said Mexico was sending us rapists and murderers. They claim that this rape never would have happened if we didn’t have open borders so obviously, the blame should fall squarely on President Joe Biden.

Yeah, except we don’t have open borders. If we had open borders, immigrants wouldn’t be dying in the back of tractor trailers after being smuggled into the country. Our borders are closed which is why there is smuggling. If your local movie theater allowed you to bring your own snacks, you wouldn’t be smuggling Goobers in the pockets of your cargo pants.

Also, has anyone asked when this undocumented rapist immigrant entered the country? Did he sneak in during Biden’s presidency…or Trump’s (sic)? According to GOP logic, no one entered our nation illegally during the Trump presidency (sic).

Then, they focused on the doctor. Their first excuse was that they didn’t believe the story because the doctor is an activist and has a history of campaigning for abortion rights. That’s an excuse? Gym Jordan’s other excuse is that President Biden talked about it and you can’t ever believe anything he says. Keep in mind that Donald Trump, the guy who told over 30,000 lies during his presidency (sic) is the leader of the Republican Party.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita went after the obstetrician-gynecologist who performed the abortion, threatening her with “criminal prosecution and licensing repercussions” if his investigation determined she didn’t file the required paperwork within three days of the abortion. Rokita sent a letter to the governor detailing his investigation and then went on Fox News to continue screaming about it despite that it was already reported in multiple news outlets that the required paperwork had been filed and the entire procedure was legal.

The Associated Press, Politico, and The Indianapolis Star obtained copies of the reports showing the doctor did submit them on time. But, the state AG continued his campaign of defamation. Now, the doctor has sent him a cease-and-desist telling him to stop “making false and misleading statements” about her or face a potential defamation lawsuit. Good. I hope she sues his troglodyte balls off.

Republicans would rather focus on the bullshit than the facts because the facts will highlight that they believe rape victims, even children, should be forced to give birth.

Abortion is not illegal in this country. The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, but it didn’t ban abortion. They just gave it to the states to decide which all the yee-haw states will now use to ban abortion. A lot of these will ban it even in the case of rape and incest.

Republicans don’t want to talk about this because most Americans, even a majority of Republicans, believe abortion should remain legal for rape and incest victims. But the Republican Party believes every woman, or child, should be forced to give birth.

Forcing a ten-year-old to give birth to her rapist’s baby isn’t pro-life. It’s child abuse. But since Republicans don’t do anything to stop fourth graders from being murdered during school shootings, we know they don’t really care about children. Their obsession is with control and fundamentalist religious zealotry.

Since Republicans don’t want to talk about it, and the majority of us believe it’s fucking backward, stupid, vile, and disgusting to force a child to give birth to a rapist’s baby, let’s make them talk about it.

Every Republican in this country from your local dog catcher to your congress to your senator to your presidential candidate should be asked, “Do you think a ten-year-old girl should be forced to give birth to her rapist’s baby?” Most of them will not give an answer. Most of them will deflect.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was asked by CNN’s Dana Bash if she’d work to change the law in her yee-haw state to allow exceptions to rape and incest, and Noem answered with, “Squirrel!!!!” Noem proceeded to lay a trail of bullshit as an answer saying the decision should be up to the doctor, family members, blah, blah, blah, etc, etc. But, how can the decision be up to the doctor and family members when South Dakota has already made that decision for them?

That’s why we need to nail every single Republican to the wall on this.

They want to force birth. We need to force answers.

 

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10 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

That’s kind of why I was a bit uneasy when people started calling Dr. Fauchi America’s Doctor. To his credit Dr. Fauchi never presented himself as that.  Calling someone America’s anything just sets off my spidery sense. 

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"Champagne Bang-Bang"

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Every time a mass shooting or potential mass shooting is stopped by what Republicans and the National Rifle Association like to describe as a “good guy with a gun,” gun humpers latch onto the theory that it is the only way to stop a “bad guy with a gun.” But is it though?

In 2017 in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a good guy with a gun stopped a mass shooter. But did he really? The good guy with a gun waited outside the church where the bad guy with the gun had just finished killing 27 people and injuring 22 others. The good guy didn’t go in during the shooting, which now seems to be common practice in Texas for good guys with guns.

Waiting outside, the good guy opened fire on the bad guy after he came out of the church. He shot the bad guy, who then took off in his vehicle. The good guy and a second good guy pursued the bad guy who eventually crashed his car and died.

But did the good guy save any lives? After the bad guy left the scene, the good guy chased him instead of going inside the church to check on the wounded. Perhaps he really could have saved a life if he had stopped a victim’s bleeding. Who knows? But it’s hard to argue the good guy with a gun saved any lives or that this incident proves the theory works. Despite there being a good guy with a gun, 27 people died.

Sunday at a mall in Indiana, a shooter killed three people and injured three others before a 22-year-old good guy with a gun took him out. The good guy was legally licensed to carry a concealed weapon. The killer got off 20 shots before the good guy took him down. This good guy probably saved lives. But is this the system we want for gun safety, more people with guns? Republicans and the NRA say yes.

Gun nuts have already made it clear that dozens of dead children are a price they’re willing to pay for their right to own assault rifles. And with this latest incident, they’re surely going to celebrate that only three people died. But wouldn’t it be better if no one died? Can we live with mass shootings if only three people die at each? If so, we have some very low standards and appreciation for life.

We wouldn’t need protection from bad guys with guns from good guys with guns if perhaps no bad guys had guns.

CNN’s Alysin Camerota asked, “are we all supposed to rely on an armed 22-year-old in the food court?”

Kris Brown, president of the gun control group Brady: United Against Gun Violence, dispelled the NRA’s myth of the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun by saying, “If more guns made us safer, America would be the safest country in the WORLD. We need sensible gun laws, not vigilante safety nets.”

Our only option against a mass shooter shouldn’t be hoping there’s a vigilante hanging about nearby. Wouldn’t a better option be ending mass shootings? It can be done. It has been done, just not here.

When NRA fucks say banning guns won’t end gun violence, they don’t really know because we haven’t tried. Let’s give it a try. We’re Americans. We’re supposed to be good at magnificent achievements because we’re the greatest country in the world. Right? So, if we’re so awesome, then banning assault rifles and ending mass shootings should be a piece of cake. Hey, we’re Americans. We’re fat. We like cake. Let’s do it.

The only thing to stop bad guys with guns is for good people to end the carefree and irresponsible distribution of assault rifles.

 

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"Trump's Secret Service"

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One thing that’s always baffled me is that Donald Trump receives special privileges that have been denied to others. For example, President Bill Clinton was forced to sit down and testify to Special Counsel Ken Starr, who was investigating if the president had received oral sex from a beret-wearing intern. Donald Trump only had to submit written answers to questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who was investigating if Trump had colluded with Russia during his presidential campaign, which is obviously less serious than an Oval Office blowjob.

My inability to understand why Trump gets away with shit that others can’t is just a small part of my wider failure to understand why anyone goes full MAGA. Why do people join the cult? I don’t get it and I never will.

You think you know someone and believe they’re a rational person, and then one day after knowing them for decades, they start chanting “build the wall” and saying stupid shit like, “Let’s go, Brandon.”

The Secret Service is supposed to be nonpartisan. They protect the president, his family, and other officials no matter what party they’re a member of and no matter what their positions are on any subject. The Secret Service’s job is to protect, not serve as part of the administration. They don’t help with policy or politics. They don’t sell the president’s plans to the public. Yet, one Secret Service agent was allowed to take a leave of absence so he could join the Trump administration and then return to his former position in the Secret Service.

Anthony Ornato was the Deputy Assistant Director of the Secret Service and the agent in charge of Trump’s protective detail until he took a leave of absence to become Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff. Like most things in the Trump administration, this was unprecedented. But just like the Emoluments Clause, this too was ignored.

Donald Trump was allowed to bilk the government. He was allowed to keep his private company. He was allowed to own a hotel on government property. He was allowed to charge the government rent on his properties. He was allowed to award medals during the Republican National Convention. He was allowed to hold the convention on the White House Lawn. He was allowed to shoot off fireworks at the Washington Monument at the end of the Republican National Convention. Maybe if previous presidents didn’t have ethics either, then they could have demanded and gotten away with devious shit too.

A Secret Service agent revealing he had gone full MAGA was like the time the White House physician claimed Donald Trump was in such perfect health that he could live to be 200 years old.

Ornato has served in the Secret Service since 1997 and had a very distinguished career…then he went full MAGA. He helped organize Trump’s upside-down Bible photo-op at St. John’s Church after the Black Lives Matter protesters were cleared out by the military using smoke bombs and tear gas.

Ornato also witnessed the exchange between Trump and his driver, Secret Service agent Mike Engel, who according to Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony to the January 6 Committee, Trump had lunged at to force him to drive to the Capitol on January 6. Since we’re questioning the integrity of the Secret Service, it should be noted that Engel didn’t report the incident to his superiors for over 14 months.

The Secret Service protects the president, but this Secret Service appears to be protecting MAGA. Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig characterized Engel and Ornato as “very, very close to President (sic) Trump.” During an interview with MSNBC promoting her book on the Secret Service, “Fuckers and the Evil Fucking Shit they Fuck with,” (I made that up) she said “some people accused them of at times being enablers and ‘yes men’ of the president — particularly Tony Ornato — and very much people who wanted to … see him pleased.” Leonnig said there was a large contingent of Trump’s Secret Service detail that wanted Biden to fail and some “took to their personal media accounts to cheer on the insurrection and the individuals riding up to the Capitol as patriots.”

Then, the Secret Service lost every text message between agents that were sent and received on January 6.

The Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security, Joseph Cuffari, sent a letter to the House and Senate Homeland Security committees reporting the texts the messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 “were erased as part of a device-replacement program,” adding they were deleted after the inspector general had requested records of Secret Service electronic communications as part of a review of events leading up to the January 6 insurrection.

What we need is a Secret Service replacement program.

The Secret Service is outraged at the idea they’d purposely delete text messages and be a part of Donald Trump’s coverup. They issued a statement saying, “the insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false.” And then they told the Inspector that none of the text being sought had been lost in the migration.”

Well, here’s the thing: If they’re lost, then how do you know none of them are what the Inspector General is seeking? Hmm? These are not the droids you’re looking for?

This doesn’t pass the smell test. In fact, when the migration of data was coming up, the Secret Service told its agents they could pick and choose which text messages needed to be saved. They told a bunch of corrupt Trumpers they could make the decision on which information to preserve from the day Donald Trump tried to overthrow the government. So naturally, it’s just a coincidence they happened to lose all the texts during a white nationalist MAGA insurrection.

Now, get this: James Murray, the Director of the Secret Service, is retiring and taking a job in the private sector. Where in the private sector is he going? He’s joining Snap Chat to become its Chief Security Officer. Do you know what the main feature of Snap Chat is? The messages are automatically deleted after a short time. Snap Chat is perfect for sending pics of your penis and planning insurrections.

Did Murray list the lost insurrection texts on the resume he supplied to the Snap fuckers? “Accomplishments: Oversaw program of deleting text that was evidence of a full-scale seditious attempt by white nationalist goons to destroy American democracy and install an unelected Cheeto-Potentate as a fascist mango dictator. Let’s go, Brandon.” You’re hired!

I assume Secret Service agents have to take an oath. There’s probably some mention in that oath about loyalty and serving their country. Maybe they just forgot about the oath or maybe they were lying when they took it. It’s disgusting to think of the Secret Service as a bunch of Steve Bannons.

Secret Service agents should respect our government and constitution. They should understand they are protecting the president more than they’re serving an individual human being, especially one as vile, corrupt, and flawed as Donald Trump. I don’t understand why people who’ve committed their lives to an agency serving their country abandon everything switch their loyalty to a racist cult.

The Secret Service is too secret. They need to answer questions about January 6. They need to answer questions about their own actions. If they want to be more Ronnie Jacksons, then leave your government positions. Serve America, not MAGA. This is another warning sign that our democracy is fragile. If the Secret Service helps engineer a coup, we could lose everything.

Secret Service agents should not be part of coups and coverups.

 

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