Trumps Basically Just Logan Roy's Family But Stupider And Poorer, According To Jan. 6 Documentary Trailer
That's a 'Succession' reference if you don't own a television.
The past few weeks we've been hearing a bunch about this documentary filmmaker named Alex Holder, who got just crazy access to Donald Trump and his democracy-murdering crime consortium in the months and weeks surrounding the election Trump tried to steal and the terrorist attack he successfully incited. And apparently Holder was given all this access without anybody ever really telling the Trump campaign about it.
Politico Playbook got a look-see at the trailer for the documentary series, which is called "Unprecedented" and will air on Discovery+. The House January 6 Select Committee already had all this footage. And now we all get to watch, hooray!
We all knew that there was footage of Ivanka Trump maybe not being the democracy-protecting single-teared bald eagle warrior she wants us to believe she is. But this trailer really captures the "Logan Roy's Family But Stupider And Poorer" thing the Trump family has going on. (That is a reference to the well-known television program "Succession," if you are not aware of all pop culture happenings.)
It's got the dramatic classical music of Vivaldi, cut with Ivanka complaining about how her dress looks and asking her makeup artist if she could maybe hold their dog, to keep people from seeing how her dress is making a crease she does not like.
It's got Donald Trump Jr. telling rally attendees, "We will make liberals cry again!" Because "MLCA" is the new "MAGA," we guess. And then it's got Donald Trump Jr. washing his hands, as his voice, breaking, explains that he's "washing my hands after giving a bunch of fist-bumps, you know!"
Eric Trump is on the phone at one point, and he says, "For the sake of this country, we're going to get these guys," like a real patriotic action hero.
Donald Trump The Daddy worries that there is a glass of water in the camera shot with him, we guess because he hadn't flung all his dishes at the wall yet that day. And then he worries about the water some more. And some more. Pretty much every clip in the trailer of Trump speaking is him worrying about the water on the table in the shot next to him. And then there's Ivanka wanting to put the dog on her lap to cover up her dress again. And Donald Trump Jr. and Eric having those faces.
Jared Kushner is in the clip.
Oh yeah, and there is just some really good January 6 footage. It's got clips of Trump's Ellipse speech where he said, "Let's all walk down Pennsylvania Avenue." If you'll remember from Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony, he was obsessed with getting to go on a field trip to the Capitol that morning, even though everybody had told him no. And it's got clips of the terrorist attack as it unfolded.
The Vivaldi really is a nice touch, though. Just really provides a nice contrast with the garbage on the screen.
Can't wait to see the whole docu-series, either on Discovery+ or when Liz Cheney informs America she's pre-empting all the channels to hold a surprise January 6 committee hearing that is basically just movie night.
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New York Times Back On Its Bullsh*t, Finds Some Young Women Who Hate Abortion
Next: an interview with a fetus demanding to be saved.
In its continuing effort to raise everyone's blood pressure, the New York Times on Saturday delivered a glowing profile of a hip new counterculture phenomenon: young women who see the end of constitutional protection for abortion rights as a really great thing. Sure, they may be vastly outnumbered by young women who would prefer the right to control their own bodies — but the Times not only reports what these young anti-abortion activists say; it headlines its story on their cause ‘"The Pro-Life Generation’: Young Women Fight Against Abortion Rights" before noting 11 paragraphs down that it's not that at all.
Here, let us steal a chart for you, which the Times must have forgotten:
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Why yes, young people who make up "Pro-life generation" are in fact stridently pro-choice, and kids 18 to 29 have never been more pro-choice than today.
How bad is this Times article? We learn that activist Lauren Marlowe, the 22-year-old social media coordinator for "Students for Life of America,"
launched a small line of “trendy pro-life clothes” as an undergraduate at Liberty University. The line touts a T-shirt with the word “pro-life” spelled out in the “Friends” font, and a hoodie with the cheeky slogan “Just a clump of cells.”
And oh, how the libs were owned by having that line thrown back at them!
To be sure, the story does acknowledge that its subjects are outliers, among women overall and in their age range overall, noting a Pew survey from March finding that
Women ages 18 to 29 are significantly likelier than older women to say abortion should be generally legal, and that it is morally acceptable. Just 21 percent of young women say that abortion should be broadly illegal.
But then, citing Daniel K Williams, a historian of the anti-abortion movement, the story suggests that part of the reason these cool young women oppose women's full citizenship is that it's just so contrarian and rebellious, because the antiabortion movement is so darn good at framing itself as "countercultural" but also totally in favor of stuff young Americans really like, such as "broadly popular beliefs about the importance of justice and equality for the vulnerable" — the Times's language, not a quote from Williams. Heck, in that sense, the story chirps, the effort to restrict women's freedom regularly cites
Historical touchstones — commonplace within the movement and much-disputed outside it — include the Civil Rights movement and 19th and early 20th century suffragists.
Again, thanks for that "much-disputed" bit for at least the tiniest acknowledgement that most people find such comparisons odious. Similarly, before plunging headlong into fawning over these young rebels, the story does note that
For the majority of American women who support abortion rights, other women’s enthusiasm for stripping away their own constitutional rights can be baffling and enraging, a profound betrayal.
You can smell the "but" coming a mile off, can't you? Turns out that these young women see themselves as "human rights activists — happy warriors on the right side of history."
Isn't that just charming? They're the real feminists, they say, because women can have it all, as long as "it' includes an unwanted pregnancy carried to term. One, Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, explains that
“This is 2022, not 1962,” she said, observing that women’s legal rights to do things like secure loans have advanced dramatically since the pre-Roe era.
Not that we need to keep all those dumb rights, because most of these happy warriors also want to see the Supreme Court roll back the right to contraception, but not all of them do. Hawkins's group only opposes contraceptives that it COMPLETELY INACCURATELY labels "abortifacients" (IUDs plus the Pill and any other hormonal methods), but it's cool with condoms and the rhythm method, which it calls "natural family planning/green sex." We thought that only involved Kermit/Pepe slash fiction.
The story takes great pains to suggest that these kids aren't really all that extreme, either. Oh, sure, most favor a complete ban on abortion from the moment of fertilization, with no exceptions. But hardly any of them want to see anyone punished for seeking an abortion, just jail sentences for anyone else involved. How moderate!
To give a sense of just how diverse these young antiabortion crusaders can be, the story even suggests that not everyone in the Junior Anti-Sex League has to be a rightwing "Christian," heck no! Again, the language is so bizarrely chirpy, claiming that non-religious anti-abortion activists "make up a small but boisterous niche." Take, for instance, 20-year-old Kristin Turner, who is a fan of climate activism and Black Lives Matter, but is also the
communications director for Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, whose goals include educating the public about “the exploitative influence of the Abortion Industrial Complex through an anti-capitalist lens.”
She even started a "punk band band called the EmbryHoez" which did a song called
"The Hotties Will Dismantle Roe”:
They say it’s empowerment / They say it’s women’s rights / But all I see’s oppression / And might makes right.
Yr Wonkette sought comment from actual punk rock women, but they all died after hearing those lyrics, the end.
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Squirrels In Marjorie Taylor Greene's Brain Know What Caused Highland Park Mass Shooting. No, Not Guns.
She's wilding out.
If it's a day in America, chances are it's the day after a grotesque mass shooting, or the day before one, or the day of one. This time it was in Highland Park, Illinois, outside of Chicago, where a gunman fired into the 4th of July parade and murdered six and injured dozens more. The suspect is in custody as of last night, and we don't know a ton of details yet, but of course Democratic politicians are making it political by saying, if you can even believe it, that guns may have played a part — the gun was apparently bought legally — while Republican politicians are saying "mental health, mental health, mental health!"
But GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is taking it over and above, like she's got some inside information about this massacre that happened in a state she doesn't represent in Congress. To be fair, she could also just be hallucinating. Point is, she's not just blaming it on mental illness, she's blaming it on SSRIs and "Big Pharma" and asking totally sane questions like "Are we really going to keep pretending?"
WELL ARE WE?
\u201cWhen are we going to have an honest conversation about drug abuse, mental illness, and SSRI\u2019s???\n\nAnd deadly side effects.\n\nAre we really going to keep pretending?\n\nOr covering for Big Pharma?\n\nBecause I\u2019m absolutely done with the political plays on this BS.\u201d— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1656979378
Does Marjorie Taylor Greene know something we don't, and did she find out about it in a secret transmission from a Jewish space laser that only she can interpret? We are just asking, for journalism.
Because in case you were wondering, according to tThe Daily Beast's Zachary Petrizzo, who is kind of a specialist in reporting on MTG/MyPillow types, "no one in any position of authority has said the man in custody, Robert Crimo, is a drug user or has a mental illness diagnosis, and his uncle said he knew of no such problems." Nada. This, very shockingly, appears to just be MTG pulling things out of her butt and waving them around.
Ever since that first series of tweets last night, she's been going and going and going, just running with it, spreading conspiracy theories, demanding his "prescription drug history" and "recreational drug history." She's wilding out, claiming that "they are erasing every bit of searchable history" on the suspect. She tweeted, "They always delete everything about these shooters off of any searchable database and hide the truth about these young men." Who is she talking about? Who does she think is doing this? What does she see? How many fingers are they holding up? Unclear.
She's retweeting people equally as credible as she is, like Maxine Waters beating victimMichael Tracey and Jack Posobiec, because these are the people we follow on Twitter when we want to know what's really happening.
So all of this is pretty much what we expect from Marjorie Taylor Greene. Thoughts and prayers for the squirrels who live in her brain, sounds like they've been banging around pretty hard the past few hours.
In related news, Darren Bailey, the Trump-endorsed GOP wingnut running for governor of Illinois, is now very sorry after saying during a prayer livestream yesterday, just a few hours after the massacre, that it was now time to "move on and celebrate the independence of this nation." Yee haw, time to git back to fireworks, we guess. But again, he's very sorry. That was very insensitive of him.
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Forced Birth Of A Nation
It's your post-July 4th Sunday show rundown!
The Sunday shows were filled with Republicans, and I bet you are surprised! Let's dive in and see what they said before America celebrated the least appropriate Independence Day in memory in light of all the "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" we recently lost.
Tate Reeves on Fox News Sunday
We begin with an appearance by the governor of Mississippi. While on previous occasions Reeves was interviewed about his party's draconian anti-choice bans and trigger laws as hypotheticals, now, thanks to the Supreme Court, we can experience the reality. So how do you justify anti-choice laws so horrible that they don't make exceptions even for cases of incest or the life of person carrying or the fact your state legislation wants to remove the ONLY exception it made for victims of rape?
If you're Tate Reeves, you don't and try to deflect instead.
\u201cAsked on Fox News if he'd sign a bill removing the exception for rape from his state's abortion ban, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says "there's a lot of effort ... mainly by the Democrats, to try to talk only about the real small, minor number of exceptions that may exist."\u201d— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1656856589
Reeves, by the way, never actually answered if he would sign the bill denying victims of rape the choice to not carry their rapists' baby.
He deflects by saying that Democrats are only focusing on extreme cases like rape, incest, or life of the pregnant person while completely missing why that is. The reason Democrats keep pointing these out is to show Republicans aren't even willing to make exceptions for extreme cases that (by Reeves' own words) are so few in numbers that it should be easy and humane to do so.
Democrats are just letting Republicans show everyone who and what they are: They are a "pro-life" party willing to let people die carrying unviable pregnancies. A "protect the children" party willing to make children abused by a relative forced to give birth. And in Mississippi, if the state legislature gets its way, a party giving more rights to a rapist than their victims.
Kristi Noem on CNN's "State Of The Union"
Speaking of making no exceptions for abortion bans, South Dakota's governor was asked about the case reported by the Indianapolis Star in which a 10-year-old girl had to travel from Ohio to Indiana to have an abortion and whether her state would force another 10-year-old in similar situation to give birth. Noem's answer was not very reassuring.
NOEM: You know what I think is incredible, Dana, in this tragic story? Because I heard about this last night.
What's incredible is that nobody's talking about the pervert, horrible and deranged individual that raped a 10-year-old. [...] And what is it? What are we doing about that? What are we doing about those individuals that do this to these children?
BASH: I agree with you, I mean, of course. That is an important discussion to have you. But the...
NOEM: You rape children, that's an issue that the Supreme Court has weighed in as well.
BASH: Yes. Listen, I totally understand that. But are...
NOEM: And as much as we can talk what we can do for that little girl, I think we also need to be addressing those sick individuals that do this to our children.
BASH: Right. I couldn't agree more.
Do Republican politicians take a special "look over there" training to not answer simple questions?
First, Noem, the original story was mainly about how women had to travel hundreds of miles to get medical care that is only denied thanks to theocratically created "laws" and six overreaching Supreme Court justices. Second, rape is a crime already and the Supreme Court doesn't need to weigh in on it. Even if weighing in on things that are already precedent to reverse them IS this SCOTUS's style.
Bash, for her part, powered through to try to get an answer.
NOEM: So, this...
BASH: But our bodies are our bodies, and women are the ones who get pregnant. And, in this case, it wasn't a woman. It was a girl.
NOEM: It's a child. It's a child.
BASH: Should she have to have — a child. A child. Should she have that baby?
NOEM: And every single life — every single life is precious. This tragedy is horrific. I can't even imagine. I have never had anybody in my family or myself gone through anything like this. I can't imagine. But, in South Dakota, the law today is that the abortions are illegal, except to save the life of the mother.
So the answer was "yes, South Dakota would force a 10-year-old child give birth to another child." What's the point of the filibuster-sized answer then, Noem?
A similar thing happened later in the interview when Noem tried to discredit Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony before the January 6th committee by saying that her testimony was "hearsay," which Bash corrected.
BASH: Governor, what I just played was firsthand — was her — firsthand. She said that she heard President Trump say that. So it's not hearsay.
Bash then asked Noem if she thought Trump bore any responsibility for January 6th, but it was the preceding part of her question that really made a point about credibility.
BASH: [...] But, just for the record, she [Hutchinson] testified under oath to what she did. And we haven't heard anyone dispute that yet under oath. [...]
Exactly! If "anonymous sources" or Trump wanna dispute the sworn testimony, they can go "under oath." But until then, maybe the media should treat them like bullshit from the biggest liars in political history.
Oh, and Noem never answered that question but did confirm she'd enthusiastically vote for Trump if he's the GOP nominee in 2024. Which come to think of it, sorta does answer that question after all.
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