What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

[wonko the sane?]

I really hate living at the point where only history gets to enjoy stuff like transparency.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Our elders fucked around and our children will find out. Those of us in the middle just get to live with the existential dread and hate.

 

[Rhinox]

There was a NYTimes article about the old 'mid life crisis' and how it doesn't seem to be a thing anymore for our generation. By far, the most prevalent comment was, "who has time for that jive and who could afford it?"

Life wasn't great before the pandemic. Now we have massive inflation that is straight up putting the cost of mere living out of reach. Housing is a ******* joke. Why the hell in Bumfuck Kansas is the median home price a quarter million? Salaries aren't keeping up. There's no such thing as job security anymore, we're reminded every day that we can be "let go" for nothing. Healthcare is getting worse and worse, with insurance death panels literally deciding who lives and dies according to their bottom line (ask any family with a cancer patient/survivor about getting scans approved). Bills mounting, no way to pay, who the hug has time for a girlfriend half their age and a flashy sports car?

We're not just finding out. We're straight taking it square up the tail pipe while the older generation laughs and calls us wimps for not 'toughing it out'.

 

[NovaSaber]

Republicans can say the vilest jive you've ever heard, but draw the line at swearing (though not consistently):

Doctor booted from hearing after repeatedly calling trans people slurs

But for the Republican committee chair, something far less vile was actually the last straw...

www.lgbtqnation.com

A Twitter user describing herself as a queer attorney posted the clip and decried the fact that Hotze was kicked out for saying bullsh*t and not for calling trans people pedophiles.

“Want to know what kind of language gets you dismissed from the TX Senate’s public testimony?” she wrote. “Because it isn’t calling all trans people pedophiles over and over again.”

And Empty G's being herself:

Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks Georgia’s trans medical ban for not being transphobic enough

She doesn't want doctors to decide what is or isn't "medically necessary." She wants politicians to decide that...

www.lgbtqnation.com

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) went on a rant about Georgia’s proposed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth – not because it would deny health care to young people, but because it doesn’t deny them enough health care.

The Georgia House and Senate voted last week to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Since the state house amended the bill, the state senate needs to pass it one more time. Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is expected to sign it.

 

[MrBlud]

And the left is going to attack Republicans anyways for passing the bill with or without the loopholes, so why pander and cater to the left!”

Wow, for as dumb as she is, she manages to grasp political reality a lot better/faster than moderate neoliberals have for the past two decades…

 

[Paladin]

"Come on, guys- do I have a Bea O Problem here?!"

Florida pol hilariously duped into reading naughty fake names at meeting

“Committee does meet again next week! Anita and Holden, please stop by!” the rep tweeted in response to the clip with a “facepalm” emoji.

nypost.com

 

[Rhinox]

The look on his face. Holy jive that was funny.

 

[Fullstrength Motleypuss]

Somebody should have alerted him to the danger. Too bad there wasn't an alien robot nearby.

 

[NovaSaber]

Because they pass stupid laws and then don't want them to be enforced consistently...

Book ban lawmaker “very sad” that a parent is using his law to ban the “sex-ridden” Bible

The parent said that if lesser books have been banned, then the Bible, which discusses infanticide, rape, and bestiality, is not appropriate for kids...

www.lgbtqnation.com

“I thank the Utah Legislature and Utah Parents United for making this bad faith process so much easier and way more efficient,” the parent, whose name and address were redacted, wrote. “Now we can all ban books and you don’t even need to read them or be accurate about it. Heck, you don’t even need to see the book!”

Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory (R), who sponsored H.B. 374, described the request as a political stunt that would “drain school resources.”

But for a less ironic and more horrible case of a stupid law having unintended consequences

Florida GOP’s New Anti-Trans Bill Is So Extreme It Could Ban Treatment for Breast Cancer

The bill is one of the cruelest in the country targeting transgender people.

newrepublic.com

The bill passed the Healthcare Regulation Committee by a vote of 12–5 and now heads to the House for a vote. The measure is one of the cruelest in the country to target transgender and LGBTQ rights and care. It bans gender-affirming care for minors and would force them to medically detransition, or stop receiving treatments such as hormone therapy. But the bill’s vague wording has larger repercussions as well.
The text defines gender clinical interventions as “procedures or therapies that alter internal or external physical traits,” including surgeries that change “primary or secondary sexual characteristics.” During the debate, Democratic Representative Christine Hunschofsky pointed out that this could prevent people from getting treatment for breast cancer, as the overly broad language could apply to mastectomies.

 

[DefaultOption]

The text defines gender clinical interventions as “procedures or therapies that alter internal or external physical traits,” including surgeries that change “primary or secondary sexual characteristics.” During the debate, Democratic Representative Christine Hunschofsky pointed out that this could prevent people from getting treatment for breast cancer, as the overly broad language could apply to mastectomies.

Wouldn't that also potentially cover vasectomies and tubal ligations? Not to mention a cis male GOPer's favorite plastic surgery, breast enhancement?

What a bunch of maroons.

 

[NovaSaber]

Wouldn't that also potentially cover vasectomies and tubal ligations?

They probably want that.

 

[Kup]

The more things progress (regress), the more I understand the line “the only way to win is not to play.”

 

[Plutoniumboss]

It's only fair, if trans people have to detransition then cis women with breast implants have to get them removed. And cis men with penile implants.

 

[Dekafox]

When GOP Congressman asked what to do about shootings, he shrugs: "We're not going to fix it" | Boing Boing

Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett is the most honest Republican in Congress when it comes to school shootings. When asked what should be done to protect children from future mass killings, he doesn&#8217…

boingboing.net

 

[wonko the sane?]

Yeah, midas touch and the young turks have been pushing the hell out this since last night. This is literally the moment when republicans have admitted they don't care about... americans. Unless you home school, or have enough money to afford private: they do not care about american lives. The suffering of the masses is absolutely meaningless to them.

 

[Ungnome]

Funny thing is the shooting in question WAS technically at a private school. It just wasn't at a a highly exclusive one. Still it's telling that he admits they aren't even gonna try and solve the problem (there isn't enough profit in it)

 

[Cybersnark]

And it won't matter a whit because GOP cultists don't consider themselves part of "the masses."

 

[Paladin]

and he'll still win reelection.

 

[NovaSaber]

I guess two wrongs can make a right

Wyoming abortion ban blocked due to Obamacare-era amendment

Abortion is legal in Wyoming again thanks to a state constitutional amendment pushed by conservatives opposed to Obamacare more than a decade ago.

www.cnbc.com

Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens in a ruling Wednesday temporarily blocked enforcement of the state’s newly enacted abortion ban that took effect Sunday.

Owens’ decision pointed to a 2012 amendment to the state constitution that granted Wyoming citizens the right to make their own health-care decisions.

Wyoming voters overwhelmingly passed that amendment, which was intended to protect them from hypothetical harms contained in then-President Barack Obama’s signature health law, the Affordable Care Act.

 

[Ironbite4]

I love it when things they use to block other things come back and bite them in the ass.