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And a clear, unsettling indication of just what is wrong with this country.

 

That is not a defense. In fact, it sounds like we ought to be looking into the gift/travel habits of ALL the justices.

To say you did your best to follow whatever actual guidelines there are but then went to your colleagues to ask what you should really do doesn't say much for anybody involved.

All that does is tell me you knew you were doing something wrong but wanted someone to tell you what best you should do about it to make it go away. And apparently, Thomas was told to ignore it.

(I would also like to have seen a comment from one of the colleagues Thomas supposedly checked with. I'm betting they'd say they never told him any such thing). This is akin to two little kids pointing fingers/blame at each other.

 

My dad and I had this very conversation this week. Just keep hammering away on abortion and guns. It's a gift, and it has proven to work. Don't be afraid to scare your voters into action.

 

Far from a direct path from Ian Paisley to Donald Trump, but they do share some key qualities.

DUP MP says BBC House of Paisley documentary ‘totally biased’ and ‘gave impression Troubles all his fault’

In Northern Ireland, Paisley was telling poor prods that the Cafflicks were holding them down, when it was really the upper-class Orange Order and Royal Black Institution types. It was an easy-to-digest message that his followers ate up. Here, Trump’s others are the blacks and the Latins and the immigrants and the transes. That crowd is easily identifiable (like the rosary-clutching nanas were in Belfast). It’s us vs. them at its finest.

The reaction to the Paisley doc by his flock is exactly how the Trumpers will be in 20 years when we show these types of docs and people are like, “why was that generation so mad?”

Even Paisley made a misstep. He cut a deal with people he’d called the devil for decades so he could run Northern Ireland’s government. Within two years he’d been tossed aside as leader of his church, leader of his party and leader of government. His own vanity is what did him in. It unspooled fairly quickly.

 

Agreed. But I don’t anticipate that happening.

 

16 weeks, legal abortion, federal law. Would you take it? That’s two more weeks than France and Spain.

 

LOL. They're going right back to the Tennessee House.

 

I'm a dude. That's a woman's choice, not mine. My default position is "It's none of anyone's goddamn business what women do when their bodies, so fuck off."

But to answer for me, no federal ban at all.

 

Thanks for the heads up — I’ll have to try and find that documentary.

 

I LOL'd.

 

When was 16 weeks offered? That was basically what Roberts wanted and the five conservative judges said no.