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Ah another message from the party of love and acceptance.

 

That opinion was unanimous.

 

In a way, Johnson really lucked out. He was the most acceptable of the Brexit MPs when the Tory party was looking for a Brexit leader. Then in 2019 election he faced a Labour leader who had straddle the fence by being sort of for and sort of against the EU (which worked about as well as you'd think.)

He did successfully lie to a whole bunch of low-information voters who hated the EU but seriously. Everybody on every side lies to low-information voters. To make out that he was some super-clever master of illusion is overstating the case.

 

If you had a federal bill up to 15 weeks, with exceptions to 20, I think Democrats would have one hell of an argument that 65-70% of America would support.

Florida 15-week abortion ban reinstated after legal appeal

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report said about 2% of the nearly 72,000 abortions reported in Florida in 2019 were performed after 15 weeks.

Would you vote for that? Would a Democrat in Congress? (I think enough Republicans would.)

State by state will be interesting, since nothing prevents Fortune 500 companies in, say, Texas, leaving for, say, Florida. Nothing prevents the NCAA from refusing to stage sporting events in Texas. And nothing prevents the Democrats from using this one issue to win lots of elections in Texas.

 

So tiresome

GOP Rep. Beth Van Duyne Touts Infrastructure Funding She Voted Against

 

Evidence of firearms in Jan. 6 crowd grows as arrests and trials mount

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/08/jan6-defendants-guns/


"Some of the startling revelations of the recent blockbuster Jan. 6 House committee hearing came in snippets of police radio traffic captured during President Donald Trump’s rally on the Ellipse and from Trump’s purported response to being told there were armed protesters just outside a secured area.

The chatter included reports of a man with an AR-15 in a tree on Constitution Avenue who was accompanied by two men with pistols on their hips. Another officer radioed, “I’ve got three men walking down the street in fatigues carrying AR-15s, copy, at 14th and Independence.”

The recordings aired during the June 28 hearing in which former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Trump reportedly “was angry that we weren’t letting people through the [metal detectors] with weapons.”

The full picture of how many among the crowd were armed before the riot occurred is unclear, but court records, trial testimony and accounts from police officers and rioters have supplied growing evidence that multiple people brought firearms to Washington for Jan. 6, 2021. Six men were arrested that day for having guns in the vicinity of the U.S. Capitol, and a seventh who arrived after the riot ended was arrested the following day. Despite some instances in which alerts about people with guns turned out to be false alarms, accounts from police officers and rioters indicate that many firearms were spotted on Jan. 6 but were not seized as law enforcement focused more on defending the Capitol than on arresting gun-law violators."

 

And yet unmanned drop boxes have worked perfectly in Oregon for more than two decades. Guess people in Wisconsin are much less trustworthy.

 

I'm ok with that. It's not nearly as punishing as being forced to give birth to a child you never wanted and then to spend the next 18 years of your life caring for that child because the Supreme Court wants to control your uterus.

 

Next all mailboxes that recieve mail in ballots will have to be under observation or the votes are invalid.