Month: March 2022
Let’s talk about Ukraine political parties and the mirror….
Cornyn Attacks Same-Sex Marriage Ruling At SCOTUS Hearing: “Who Do These People Really Think They Are?”
Mother Jones reports:
During the second day of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing Tuesday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) took the occasion to attack marriage equality. His line of questioning comes as conservatives have continued to use state legislatures and the courts to roll back rights for LGBTQ people. While a majority of Americans support marriage equality, it remains a target for repeal by many on the right.
Cornyn’s objections are, first, that granting equal rights to LGBTQ people conflicts with the religious beliefs of some people. To which Jackson responded, “Well, senator, that is the nature of a right. That when there is a right, it means that there are limitations on regulation, even if people are regulating pursuant to their sincerely held religious beliefs, even if people are regulating pursuant to their sincerely held religious beliefs.”
The Washington Blade reports:
The Texas Republican went on to describe the issue as not just an overriding the will of the states and the people, but also major religions, and asked Jackson if she agrees “marriage is not simply a governmental institution, it’s also a religious institution.”
When Jackson replied, “Well, senator, marriages are often performed in religious institutions,” Cornyn followed up with questioning on whether she agrees many major religions, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, have defined marriage as one man, one woman.
Jackson wouldn’t engage with Cornyn beyond what was directly necessary: “I am aware that there are various religious faiths that define marriage in a traditional way.”
Please read the news stories. I am tired so may not post both but I might. I am also discouraged. For those who say this issue is settled it is not. See all the attempts to roll it back and undo same sex marriage. In their minds their religious views trump all else. They feel entitled to have that view back. They are not content to just live by their religious doctrines, but they insist that everyone else does also. Notice his wording, it is the new Republican buss word term ” offended”. Cannot have books that offend Christians, cannot have history taught that offends white people, cannot have ideology taught that offends right wing maga cult members. I think I will go play Halo tonight, I feel very down.
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Let them eat cake, or in other words “Screw the US public”
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Scottie’s world today
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Any and every black person is a threat to GOP whiteness. Republicans want to negate black humanity.
The core of Republican politics is built on hypocrisy and scripted outrage.
Gym Jordan has selective amnesia. Did he speak out while a wrestling coach about sexual abuse towards student athletes? Nope.
Can he recall what he said on Jan 6 2021? Nope.
Republicans won’t admit they got scammed by Trump because the reason they voted for Trump was because they were tired of getting scammed for decades by Republicans.
Republicans want distractions.
Do they care about nepotism? No. They allow the Trump/Kushner families to enter the White House while failing every security clearance, multiple times.
All Republicans care about is scoring hypocritical political points.
The punchable face of FOX. A true shitstain of a human. A child of immense privilege. All he could achieve is parroting dictators & villains.
This is one of the major drivers of this conflict; Dictator Putin can not have Russians living next door to a functional Slavic democracy
Solidarity with Ukraine 🇺🇦.
We have a climate crisis.
Progressives will listen to science. Discuss the data. Encourage dialog.
Conservatives will listen to Big Oil. Deny reality. Legislate to remove ‘climate change’ from reports.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Again Rivers is a hard far right wing nut who is desperate to blame Biden for everything he can think of. But so far their attacks have missed because they are so vague and the things they mention like the one above are not the fault of Biden or his administration. It is the result of the Republican dream of serving their big money donors by keeping the pubic desperate and in a hunger games society of being willing to do anything a corporation demands of them with no complaint. The Republican desire to have government do nothing for the people and everything for the wealthy has killed the dreams of the people.
See above. As for electric vehicles all the major auto manufacturers see it as the future. When Ford started making electric trucks that was the sign the tipping point had been reached. If you want to get away from the high price of gas, stop needing gas.
Why are far right wing nut cartoonist so desperate to keep money pouring into the pockets of wealthy oil companies? The fact is that both things will causes death and destruction. Both are preventable. Both are caused by man.
The only people still using “woke” are those banning books, attacking LGBTQ kids, threatening women, and facilitating gun violence.
I am surprised because the right never mentions Matt Gaetz legal troubles and that he is accused of sex with a minor and taking her across state lines to do so.
And how do they think the Democrats got the Republicans to vote for the bill? Yes by giving them lots of pork.
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And now some for fun
Republican Senator HUMILIATES herself with unreal question at Supreme Court hearing
Let’s talk about Zelenskyy taking over the media….
Liberal Redneck – Ketanji Brown Jackson’s SCOTUS Confirmation
Evangelicals Send Doomsday Tracts To Ukrainian Kids
Kevin Davis reports at Only Sky:
Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) is at it again, this time providing Ukrainian children with something they already have an abundance of – fear.
It’s no revelation that CEF, who runs the predatory Good News Clubs in schools and churches across the US and abroad, takes advantage of every opportunity to proselytize to children and convert them to fundamentalist Christianity through fear and candy bribes.
What they’re doing now, and celebrating through their recent announcement, is “caring for Ukrainian children” primarily by providing them with a booklet called, “Do You Wonder Why? Answers to Tough Questions.”
From the CEF’s website:
“Do You Wonder Why? Answers to Tough Questions” is in both the Ukrainian language and the languages of every border country, including Russia. The children in those countries also are seeing this tragedy and have questions about why bad things happen.
310,000 copies have already been printed and distributed in 11 countries. A friend of a CEF worker spotted a mother reading it to her son on a train in Poland 300 km from the Ukrainian border.
We’re assembling 100,000 simple backpacks with the booklet above and other gospel resources. Church partners are adding a toy, candy and food.
The booklets reportedly claim that everything bad in the world is the result of God’s righteous anger at sin.
An unarmed driver asked to speak with a police officer’s supervisor. The officer used a Taser on him, video shows.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/21/delane-gordon-taser-video-doordash-delivery-driver/
A police officer in Collegedale, Tenn., is seen before he uses a Taser on Delane Gordon during a March 10 traffic stop. Gordon, a DoorDash driver, began recording his traffic stop and asked to speak to the officer’s supervisor. (Delane Gordon/AP)
“Get out!” the police officer ordered, pointing a Taser at Gordon, according to the video. The officer, whom the Collegedale Police Department has not identified, accused Gordon of not providing his identification, the video shows.
“Sir, I feel uncomfortable,” Gordon said. “Please get your supervisor.”
The officer then tried to pull Gordon out of the car. When Gordon did not comply, the officer pulled out his Taser again.
A moment later, video shows, the officer used the Taser on Gordon, who screamed in agony.
The footage, captured by Gordon, shows only 49 seconds of the incident. But his attorney, who released the video Friday “to spark conversation in the community” and “raise awareness,” said the interaction had escalated too quickly.
Questioning a police officer “shouldn’t be met with an immediate escalation, shouldn’t be met with an officer interpreting that exchange as a challenge to his authority,” attorney Ryan Wheeler said at a news conference Friday.
Gordon, who Wheeler said was unarmed, was charged with resisting arrest and obstruction of justice. Wheeler said his client is focused on “dealing with these charges.”
Gordon “has no criminal history and we want to keep it that way,” Wheeler said.
Without describing the incident or naming Gordon, the Hamilton County district attorney’s office requested that the county sheriff’s office investigate a March 10 traffic stop by the Collegedale Police Department, involving a driver facing the same charges as Gordon. In a March 15 Facebook post, the Collegedale Police Department said it “will be cooperating fully” with the sheriff’s probe and added that it is conducting its own investigation.
“We anticipate a release of the full body camera video and Internal Affairs report, as soon as those investigations are closed,” Lt. Jamie Heath of the Collegedale Police Department told The Washington Post in an email, declining to comment further or identify the officer.
Heath told the Associated Press the officer had not been put on leave as of Friday.
The incident comes as police departments across the country are training officers in de-escalation techniques meant to defuse a situation and prevent the use of force. De-escalation involves officers being patient, creating distance between themselves and armed subjects, and calling supervisors to the scene, according to the Police Executive Research Forum. In many situations, the organization wrote in a 2016 policing guide, de-escalation will result in a “better outcome.”
Law enforcement agencies have also been reviewing how Tasers are used. In a 2017 investigation, Reuters reported that there had been 1,005 cases since the early 2000s in which people died after police used Tasers on them.
The March 10 incident in Collegedale, about 20 miles east of Chattanooga, began when the officer pulled over Gordon for speeding, although Gordon “never believed he was speeding,” according to Wheeler. When Gordon questioned the officer about why he was pulled over and requested a supervisor, “things got out of hand,” Wheeler said.
At some point in the interaction, Gordon started to record with a camera mounted inside his car. The video opens with the officer pointing a Taser at Gordon and appearing to threaten to discharge it if he doesn’t get out of the vehicle.
“You can’t do that, officer, because I called for your supervisor,” Gordon tells him.
Although he refuses to get out of the car, the video does not show Gordon threaten the officer.
When Gordon tells the officer that he’s “uncomfortable” and again asks him to get his supervisor, the officer puts his Taser away, grabs Gordon and tries to pull him out of the car.
“Please stop!” Gordon says. Seconds later, he says: “Please don’t hurt me. Why are you doing this?”
After about 15 seconds of trying to pull Gordon out of the car, the officer moves back, pointing his Taser at Gordon.
After the officer fires the Taser at Gordon, Gordon says: “Oh my God! That’s not lawful, sir!”
Wheeler said the public should be able to have “respectful interactions” with police without a situation escalating as it did in Gordon’s case. He added that Gordon was “fearful” in the moment “because he’s never dealt with an irate officer.”
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Republicans and the right wing media only care about attacking the Democrats to create outrage in their cult like base
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Scottie’s world today
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Every conservative argument is the same: they create an outcome that will NEVER happen, they try to hoodwink as many haters as possible for their identity politics, then when none of their predictions come true, they never apologized or seek forgiveness.
See: gay marriage, LGBT rights, inclusion.
It’s bad faith, homophobia, and hate masquerading as a political party.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
This cartoon lies while making a claim the other news agencies lied. The right thinks that just because there is a laptop that means all their wild claims were correct. Spoiler alert the report they cite states there was nothing incriminating found on the laptop. Nothing! It is like the Durham report where they claimed that it showed Hillary was spying on tRump. No the report did not say that. They claim the report showed that Hillary was working with the Russians, no it did not. In the case of Hunter’s laptop Rudy kept claiming that he had it in his bedroom, but I guess that was another lie? These people see no wrong in anything a Republican does and believe tRump is pure greatness, yet the find issue with Biden for even the smallest misstep.
While this cartoon is correct stating the US has invaded with made up pretexts it doesn’t mean that the US shouldn’t help the Ukrainians and stand up to Putin. We did wrong, and we should be held accountable. Putin / Russia is doing wrong, needs to be stopped and punished. This must not be allowed by any country.
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And now some for fun
Scottie's Playtime 
It seems that the guy who had Hunter’s laptop” never tried to return it to its owner, was and avowed Trump admirer and had the ability to create those e-mails he <i.“(supposedly)” found and make it look like they had been there originally.
Nope, nothing suspicious there… Exactly. And of course, took it nowhere near anyone official, either; but to an iffy kind of newspaper “reporter. The laptops exist but the authenticity of the contents of the only one with a relatively intact hard drive has not been determined.