"Conservative" Republican Fascists & Christo-Fascisism

[Shirley]

I suppose this is as good a place as any.

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* The Los Angeles Times’ Michael Hiltzik looks at how anti-vaxxers are exacting a personal and professional toll on scientists, and we’re losing the war against such disinformation. Dr. Peter Hotez notes within the story the death threats, doxing, and other intimidation tactics he’s seen as a vaccine developer and advocate for vaccination and science in general.

[https://www.latimes.com/business/story/ ... cket_saves]

* Meanwhile, a new study in BMJ estimates that 27 would-be mothers in the UK died during the pandemic because of confusion over the safety of COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy.

[https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2388]

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How depressing.

Fascists to the left of me, fascists to the right...

Keep this up jfish26, and like Trad for the "An even more frightening prospective" thread, I'll put you on "Ignore"!

I follow Dr. Hotez on twitter, and he catches non-stop harassment and threats from people with Randy's mindset. It's incredibly sad. Especially after all the good he's done, especially for the less advantaged people of the world.

Also, those maternal deaths due to Covid are especially sad becuase unless something has changed very recently that I'm not aware of, there is as yet no evidence to suggest the Covid-19 vaccine poses a threat to a developing fetus. Large studies in countries like Scotland and Israel that have national health care services and are thus easy to gather data from*, have shown that not only is the vaccine not a threat to a developing fetus, but neither is infection with Covid-19.

Pregnant women are in an immunologically vulnerable state, in order, (we think), for their bodies to accept and not reject the "foreign body", the fetus, which is essentially half non-native. This down-regulation of their immune system makes them more susceptible to infections, like Covid, et al.

*Unlike the US where states gather the bulk of that health-related info, and fascist governors like DeSantis are free to hide and change the data to give themselves a veneer of competence, even when they're not.

[Shirley]

PoliticsGirl I Don't Like Cheaters

[twocoach]

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opi ... rcna122143

The Republican Party has virtually unchecked power in Tennessee. The governor is a Republican, and the Republican Party enjoys a supermajority in the statehouse, which means that Republicans can pass anything they want to pass no matter how opposed Democrats are. Republicans in the state have already used their near-total power to push an agenda that not only compromises the health and well being of people across the state but also embraces white nationalist politics and relegates marginalized communities, regardless of their race or ethnicity, to the fringes of society.

Now, the party is considering rejecting $1.8 billion in federal funds to help low-income students, English learners and students with disabilities at least partially because Republicans don’t want to comply with the federal government’s anti-discrimination policies.

[Shirley]

Stuart Stevens has spent the majority of his decades-long career getting Republicans elected to political office. But his latest book is a warning to the country about the current state of the GOP and its threat to America’s democracy. Amna Nawas spoke with Stevens about the book titled, "The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy."

This, x 1,000:

"...what we said were values turned out to be marketing slogans...At the core, there really is no governing principles to the Republican party...what does it mean to be an American conservative today? I worked in the party for 30 years and I have no idea..."

Former Republican strategist raises alarms about GOP in 'The Conspiracy to End America'


(Stuart Stevens served as a top strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign in addition to several other significant presidential campaigns over the course of his career. He later joined The Lincoln Project, a Republican Never Trump group for the 2020 United States presidential election.)

[KUTradition]

lol

people don’t read books anymore

if it ain’t in meme/tweeter/insta form, it’s a long-shot

[jfish26]

There are echoes of the F The NCAA thread here.

Former St. Clair High School teacher who resigned after her OnlyFans was discovered speaks out

https://www.kctv5.com/video/2023/10/31/ ... peaks-out/

From a print version of the story...she was making $42k annually teaching, and has come to make more than that each month on OnlyFans.

What do people THINK will happen when you cut educators' salaries to the bone? If the Party Of What's Between People's Legs doesn't want teachers resorting to porn for supplemental income, it should support responsible taxes.

[MICHHAWK]

For the record. i am all for teachers stripping. 100%.

[jfish26]

I admire your consistency.

[MICHHAWK]

i suspect this particular teacher was stripping because she wants to. there are other side hustles. other ways to make extra money. she chose to strip.

for the record. i am all for teachers stripping. 100%.

[jfish26]

Not sure I care if she does or doesn't want to strip, as compared with other side hustles. I would definitely prefer, for lots of reasons, for my kids' teachers to not NEED side hustles.

[Shirley]

i suspect this particular teacher was stripping because she wants to. there are other side hustles. other ways to make extra money. she chose to strip.

for the record. i am all for teachers stripping. 100%.

Name one "other side hustle" that she could make > $42,000/month working at home, that requires little to no education, training, experience, or capital investment, that's anywhere near as easy.

[MICHHAWK]

if you are making forty two thousand a month it is not a side hustle. it is a job.

teaching is now her side hustle.

[KUTradition]

then why’d you call it a side hustle?

[japhy]

First the damn fool voters ask for abortion access and now this.....

Iowa chapters of the far-right group Moms for Liberty endorsed 13 candidates in school board races across the state. Only one was elected.

The Tuesday loss is a stinging rebuke of Moms for Liberty, a “parental rights” organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center designated as an extremist group. What happened in Iowa mimics similar defeats suffered by the group and by Republicans in general throughout the United States.

In Iowa, the only Moms for Liberty candidate who won was Nathan Gibson. He was elected school director for the Interstate 35 district, a rural district with fewer than 1,000 students.

Moms for Liberty was founded in 2021 to push back against Covid-19 restrictions in schools. It has since expanded to opposing classes on diversity, curbing the rights of LGBTQ students, and banning books.

But on Tuesday, voters across the country pushed back on the Moms for Liberty agenda. The organization endorsed dozens of candidates in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and North Carolina, in addition to Iowa. Almost all of those candidates lost, with some failing to get more than single-digit support.

[twocoach]

There are echoes of the F The NCAA thread here.

Former St. Clair High School teacher who resigned after her OnlyFans was discovered speaks out

https://www.kctv5.com/video/2023/10/31/ ... peaks-out/

From a print version of the story...she was making $42k annually teaching, and has come to make more than that each month on OnlyFans.

What do people THINK will happen when you cut educators' salaries to the bone? If the Party Of What's Between People's Legs doesn't want teachers resorting to porn for supplemental income, it should support responsible taxes.

I don't care if she was a teacher or a millionaire. If someone wants to have a legal OnlyFans account so that a bunch of morons can pay them to see what they could see anywhere else on the internet for free then good on them. Trump became President off the backs of rubes, it should be OK for regular people to benefit financially off them as well.

[twocoach]

Not sure I care if she does or doesn't want to strip, as compared with other side hustles. I would definitely prefer, for lots of reasons, for my kids' teachers to not NEED side hustles.

There isn't any reasonable raise you can give a teacher that compares to $42000 a MONTH. I would simply prefer that the school board mind their own fucking business. If they are worried that their husbands are going to be signing up for her OnlyFans page then they should talk to their husbands.

[japhy]

More whinging on the right......

Republicans faced devastating losses on Tuesday, as voters in Ohio overwhelmingly chose to legalize marijuana and enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution. In Virginia, Democrats flipped the state House of Representatives, taking control of the entire legislature. While abortion was not explicitly on the ballot, the future of reproductive rights in Virginia hinged on which party controlled the government.

“You put very sexy things like abortion and marijuana on the ballot, and a lot of young people come out and vote. It was a secret sauce for disaster in Ohio,” Rick Santorum whined Tuesday night on Newsmax.

“Thank goodness that most of the states in this country don’t allow you to put everything on the ballot, because pure democracies are not the way to run a country.”

So sad

[jfish26]

More whinging on the right......

Republicans faced devastating losses on Tuesday, as voters in Ohio overwhelmingly chose to legalize marijuana and enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution. In Virginia, Democrats flipped the state House of Representatives, taking control of the entire legislature. While abortion was not explicitly on the ballot, the future of reproductive rights in Virginia hinged on which party controlled the government.

“You put very sexy things like abortion and marijuana on the ballot, and a lot of young people come out and vote. It was a secret sauce for disaster in Ohio,” Rick Santorum whined Tuesday night on Newsmax.

“Thank goodness that most of the states in this country don’t allow you to put everything on the ballot, because pure democracies are not the way to run a country.”

So sad

"Our policies being poster-dunked into the Crab Nebula every time the voters have a chance does NOT mean they are unpopular!"

[japhy]

"Our policies being poster-dunked into the Crab Nebula every time the voters have a chance does NOT mean they are unpopular!"

They don't care if their policies are unpopular, they just want to know how they can force them on us anyway.

But in spite of my being an ungrateful shit, they are very sympathetic to my desire for more tax cuts that benefit me.

[Shirley]

"Our policies being poster-dunked into the Crab Nebula every time the voters have a chance does NOT mean they are unpopular!"

They don't care if their policies are unpopular, they just want to know how they can force them on us anyway.

But in spite of my being an ungrateful shit, they are very sympathetic to my desire for more tax cuts that benefit me.

Owning 3 houses has to be expensive, so who needs a tax cut more than you?

I rest my case.