TrickstaPriest

pretty sure abortion is still fully illegal in AZ right now. I pity all the women who have to use period tracker apps or go to the doctors for... any reason, and might have their conditions reported on to the government 😕

Yeah, my thought as well. This isn't a situation where 'business as usual' tactics apply...

Literally the 'pebble in your shoe'. I run into this so much that it's distressing - the 'reaching out to disaffected young men' to create an abusive anti-woman political community is brutally effective on them. It's the one thing they have in common with extreme religious groups. It's how they seized 'the gamer' vote, building that bridge. And it's why the GOP was so tolerant of Trump's misogyny. It's literally their political rally point.

Yeah. But there's still no political interest in doing anything about it.

Japan is being hit by a typhoon as well, the fourth biggest in a hundred and seventy years. It may run the entire length of the island chain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmEpa_4gb88 warning: Distressing themes and tucker carlson

The legislature doesn't care

Arizona just set forth a total and complete ban on abortion with a vague 'health of mother' exception. Still waiting to hear how this affects contraception.

NARA apparently is a radical leftist group now that's hiding documents being sent there.

Kind of wild, isn't it. The money changing hands in the Trump family is something like 100 fold of what Biden/Hunter is accused of. Even cutting out the genuine fake news about Trump, the amount of actual things he's confirmed to have done is easily 10 fold the possible harm of what Biden is being accused of doing. The only way people can get away with this is under-valuing the possible damage of a mob attempting to seize the capitol building (or stealing government secrets) and equivocating BLM rioting (and there was at least some rioting) to it. That equivocation seems easy if you just evaluate damage across an entire country over months to a single event at a defended stone building that can't burn. Except the stated goal of the protests wouldn't, you know, completely seize control of the entire country. The stated goal of stealing government secrets or of getting a 2 BILLION dollar Saudi deal is on another scale compared to trying to sell government influence for your dad (edit: for less than 1% of that saudi deal). It's actually nuts when you look at the point of doing any of those things. The George Floyd protest was incomparable because it was a half-year long, country-wide (nearly world-wide) protest with the stated goal of stopping police violence on ethnic groups. What was the goal of seizing the capitol building again? Oh, right. When we talk about 'good' and 'evil', we actually care about motives and goals in this country. Or at least we thought we did. edit: And to be clear, we also look at scale and degree of harm caused in deciding how dangerous that 'evil' is.

Yeah, which is going to create more unrest like Jan 6th even if they fail to accomplish their goal 😕

Exactly. The PAC system is a huge issue. A huge, billion-dollar problem now...

I can't really weigh in on the gun debate, other than that other countries do indeed function better in that regard. I do know that any solution has to take into account the current context of guns and violence (and poverty) in our society, and how things are looking in the near future.

It's pretty scary to me that just about every thing I was going to yell at my local friends about Trump effectively came true. I was well fed up after the coronavirus, but held back for the sake of friends. I had a whole litany of rants from "Trump has his claws into his base and there's no way in hell he's letting go" to "just the crapshow of him spreading conspiracy -before- the 2020 election was going to make every election in the future become a stupid mess". We'll just have to see how bad it gets...

I was so not surprised when it pivoted to lizard people

"I may get blocked for this" is pretty typical primer from bots and other weird crap to self-justify

Warning for language.

My concern with ignoring this event, or pardoning it, is that Trump was holding this information at the same time as Kushner got a 2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia... and then Trump was paid 100 million to host that golfing tournament. May be a coincidence. May be cover for transference of documents. Take your pick.

There's genuine concern that this isn't justified... or poorly 'marketed'. The Dem party has been nothing if not terrible at messaging sometimes. So all I can do is wait and see.

One of the interpretations has been that the Fed has been requesting a return of the documents he took to Mar-a-Lago for months... and he just straight-up refused to return them.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/08/the-rights-rising-authoritarian-ally-viktor-orban/671059/

There's a lot of potentially valuable resources out there. A place where people can go through that, for example the open resources on Alex Jones' case, is super helpful. You don't have to present the resources unchallenged, but having the originals there, plus additional commentary, all in a place where people can visit and find compiled information on? Much of it doesn't have to be hosted directly, just linking external resources with local backups if needed.

So much of what's been happening makes me want to host any of these records that go public. But man, I don't need that legal fracas.

Ted Cruz, et al, have been going after gay rights as well. So not only have their intent/policies have been disastrous for the survival of our species, but they've been politically winning the will of the people despite this and while continuing to target vast swaths of the population with explicitly harmful laws? :/

That would be a betrayal of the hate that Fox and Hannity and so on have been putting in them, even though many people will still feel 'they are nice enough'. But the best thing we can do is be kind and helpful to the people who are being devastated by this stuff. We can't be 'higher than thou' - we could have been fooled in the right circumstances ourselves.