The Absurd GOP

[no one]

Yes, because in the Constitution, they must travel to Venezuela, which is basically Mexico, before they're able to head to America, and begin the assimilation.

[Pat Mustard]

Senator calls LGBTQ+ people 'filth,' says most don't want them here

Audience member Cathy Cott asked two questions, the first on why State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters was “bullying” school districts and referring to teachers as “terrorists.”

“My second question is, why does the Legislature have such an obsession with the LGBTQ citizens of Oklahoma and what people do in their personal lives and how they raise their children?” Cott said.

Cott pointed out that a 16-year-old had died earlier this month following a physical altercation at an Owasso High School. Cause of death has not yet been definitively established, though police said a preliminary report indicated a beating at the hands of other students didn’t kill Nex Benedict.

“We are a Republican state – supermajority – in the House and Senate. I represent a constituency that doesn’t want that filth in Oklahoma,” Woods said.

“We are a religious state and we are going to fight it to keep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma because we are a Christian state – we are a moral state,” Woods said. “We want to lower taxes and let people be able to live and work and go to the faith they choose. We are a Republican state and I’m going to vote my district, and I’m going to vote my values, and we don’t want that in the state of Oklahoma.”

https://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/news...c3730.html

So the senator basicly says he doesn't respect the rule of law. Nothing unusual from a party of Laura Norder.

[Pat Mustard]

Trump is offering to post a $100 million bond, since the court order prohibiting him from obtaining bank loans in New York makes it impossible for him to post the full amount. I guess those sneaker sales aren’t where he thought they’d be. 

Har har HAR dee har har.

Boru

But in the E. Jean Carroll case no 1 (held second because it was in relation to the shite he said as Predisent) he makes out he should post a bond because he's rich enough that there'd be no issue with him paying if when he loses the appeal.

Get your lies straight T****y!

[Fake Messiah]

Florida is swamped by disease outbreaks as quackery replaces science

Shortly before Joseph Ladapo was sworn in as Florida’s surgeon general in 2022, the New Yorker ran a short column welcoming the vaccine-skeptic doctor to his new role, and highlighting his advocacy for the use of leeches in public health.

It was satire of course, a teasing of the Harvard-educated physician for his unorthodox medical views, which include a steadfast belief that life-saving Covid shots are the work of the devil, and that opening a window is the preferred treatment for the inhalation of toxic fumes from gas stoves.

But now, with an entirely preventable outbreak of measles spreading across Florida, medical experts are questioning if quackery really has become official health policy in the nation’s third most-populous state.

As the highly contagious disease raged in a Broward county elementary school, Ladapo, a politically appointed acolyte of Florida’s far-right governor Ron DeSantis, wrote to parents telling them it was perfectly fine for parents to continue to send in their unvaccinated children.

It is also in keeping with Ladapo’s previous maverick proclamations about vaccines that health professionals say pose an unacceptable danger to the health of Florida residents. They include official guidance to shun mRNA Covid-19 boosters based on easily disprovable conspiracy theories that the shots alter human DNA and can potentially cause cancer – “scientific nonsense” in the view of Dr Ashish Jha, a former White House Covid response coordinator.

Meanwhile, with measles having been eradicated in the US since 2000, the disease’s resurgence, paired with Ladapo’s latest misadventure, have prompted a new round of mocking commentary. Florida: Come for the Sunshine, Leave With the Measles, opined the Orlando Sentinel; “Measles? So On-brand for Florida’s Descent Into the 1950s”, was the take of the Tampa Bay Times.

To Speth, and numerous other medical experts, Ladapo’s risky succession of positions denying even the most obvious benefits of immunization and vaccination is a symptom of a wider political assault by the rightwing, which carries deadly potential.

“Republicans are at war with medical science, and that’s a horrible tragedy. But I feel like Cassandra, talking about the public health threat. We’re going to start seeing a lot more children die of infectious diseases that could be prevented if they were vaccinated.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...reventable

[Angrboda]

And this is all happening because Desantis needed a medical lapdog during his runup to the presidency. Desantis sacrificed people's lives in the vain belief that doing so would get him to the White House.

[Fireball]

And this is all happening because Desantis needed a medical lapdog during his runup to the presidency.  Desantis sacrificed people's lives in the vain belief that doing so would get him to the White House.

Didn't work well for him, and less well for his constituents. Sickening, to say the least. Double entendre meant.

[Fake Messiah]

Marjorie Taylor Greene to British reporter: “Why don’t you fuck off?”

[arewethereyet]

^Classy broad, that one is.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Wow. I swear like a drunken sailor on shore leave, but I understand there’s a time and a place for it.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Boru