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Or possibly a man!

Mar 21st, 2023 10:18 am | By

I trust you’re as prurient as I am and are wondering what Trump said about DeSantis when he popped like popcorn yesterday. I have ascertained what it was that he said. It’s a classic of trumpery.

Breaking his silence on Donald Trump’s legal troubles, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday criticized the Manhattan district attorney who is pursuing charges against the former president and vowed his office would not be involved if the matter trickles into Trump’s adopted home state.

But DeSantis, a rising rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, stopped well short of offering support for the former president and instead seemed to poke fun at the situation Trump has found himself in as he attempts

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McCarthy’s fatigue

Mar 21st, 2023 9:40 am | By

Kevin McCarthy is kind of tired of all this law enforcement nonsense.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday sought to downplay the legal case related to a hush-money payment by former president Donald Trump to an adult-film actress, saying it involved “personal money” and shouldn’t be able to be prosecuted under the statute of limitations.

“I think you know in your heart of hearts that this is just political,” McCarthy told reporters at a House Republican retreat in Orlando. “And I think that’s what the rest of the country thinks. And we’re kind of tired of that.”

The rest of the country? All of it? Nah, bub, what many of the rest of the country thinks is that … Read the rest



Ya doity rat

Mar 21st, 2023 9:27 am | By
Ya doity rat

Trump is popping like a whole bushel of popcorn these days.

Donald Trump’s Republican allies in the House are doing what the former president taught them to do – use government power to try to keep his legal threats at bay.

That’s what Congress is for, right? Shielding a corrupt criminal ex-president from the long arm of the law?

Trump’s calls for protests, meanwhile, have authorities on edge in New York, where security cameras and barricades have been erected, and in Washington amid painful flashbacks to his incitement of violence to further his personal and political ends on January 6, 2021.

And an ugly spat broke out between Trump and his potential top rival in the GOP nominating race,

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Expel the feminist

Mar 21st, 2023 6:23 am | By

The witch trial of Moira Deeming continues.

Liberal divisions over a bid to expel Victorian MP Moira Deeming from the party room are expected to deepen, despite leader John Pesutto claiming an early victory after an attempt to delay a vote over her future failed.

Liberal MPs will decide early next week whether Deeming should be expelled from the parliamentary party, after she attended a rally headlined by British anti-transgender activist Kellie-Jay Keen where neo-Nazis were photographed performing the Nazi salute at the weekend.

Deeming has vowed to fight the expulsion and says she has done nothing wrong.

How dare she, right? Saying she’s done nothing wrong by attending a feminist rally! She must be a witch!

Pesutto’s

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Broken and rotten

Mar 21st, 2023 5:41 am | By

The London police force is a mess.

The Metropolitan police is broken and rotten, suffering collapsing public trust and is guilty of institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia, an official report has said.

The 363-page report details disturbing stories of sexual assaults, usually covered up or downplayed, with 12% of women in the Met saying they had been harassed or attacked at work, and one-third experiencing sexism.

The report found a bullying culture, frontline officers demoralised and feeling let down by their leaders, and discrimination “baked into the system”.

But the people in charge are pushing back.

Sir Mark Rowley, the force’s commissioner since September, said he would not use the labels of institutionally racist, institutionally misogynistic and

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The sense of urgency has been lacking

Mar 21st, 2023 5:15 am | By

The BBC’s environment correspondent on the new IPCC study:

“The message in terms of urgency, I think, is stop burning fossil fuels as fast as humanly possible,” Dr Friederike Otto, one of the report’s authors told BBC News.

“It is not because we are lacking some important piece of technology or some important knowledge. It is because so far, the sense of urgency has been lacking in the places where the important decisions are made.”

It’s because we live in the present, and the people who run things can’t or won’t change the way we live. Planes gotta keep flying, cars gotta keep rolling off the assembly lines, oil gotta keep being pumped out.

While it is easy to

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Some say nearly eight

Mar 20th, 2023 5:11 pm | By

Huge supportive crowds outside Trump Tower today.

https://twitter.com/David_Leavitt/status/1637948844922093569 https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1637919412589084672

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But we didn’t invite them

Mar 20th, 2023 5:07 pm | By

Wait, though.

It sounds cuddly and friendly…until you think about it. People wanting to “join” you, whether you invited them to or not, whether you want them to or not, whether you have told them to go away and leave you alone or not, are not being warm and loving and full of solidarity – they’re being creepy, intrusive, demanding, and ultimately domineering and rapey.

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Woohoo we hate women wooooo

Mar 20th, 2023 4:04 pm | By

This is disgusting – especially the cheers and applause at the end. Yayyyyyyy women are drastically under-represented in the LibDems and we just shut down a question about it yayyyyyyyy everybody hates women yayyyyyy.

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Brink

Mar 20th, 2023 11:44 am | By

World is on brink of catastrophic warming, U.N. climate change report says

Leading scientists warned that the world’s plans to combat these changes are inadequate and that more aggressive actions must be taken to avert catastrophic warming.

Must be but won’t be.

The report released Monday from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found that the world is likely to miss its most ambitious climate target — limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures — within a decade. Beyond that threshold, scientists have found, climate disasters will become so extreme that people will not be able to adapt. Basic components of the Earth system will be fundamentally, irrevocably altered. Heat waves, famines

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Any straw

Mar 20th, 2023 10:41 am | By

Also in Spectator Australia, Alexander Voltz on the criminalization of women’s rights:

John Pesutto has declared his intention to expel Moira Deeming from her position as a member of the parliamentary Liberal Party. Deeming’s crime? She attended an event that was hijacked by neo-Nazis.

Imagine if a thunderstorm had rolled in during the event, and a bolt of lightning destroyed a trash bin. That would have been her fault too.

On March 19, at 2:15 pm, The Guardian reported the Victorian government’s rightly grim view of these neo-Nazis and their behaviour. ‘Nazis aren’t welcome,’ tweeted Daniel Andrews. ‘Not on Parliament’s steps. Not anywhere’. The Guardian also made mention of Deeming’s attendance at Let Women Speak.

Then, at 8:55 pm,

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A Sieg Heil salute on the parliamentary steps

Mar 20th, 2023 10:20 am | By

Edie Wyatt at Spectator Australia on the naughty women:

Moira [D]eeming was recently elected to the Victorian Upper House, and is a former local councillor and school teacher. In her maiden speech, Deeming presented a clear platform for women’s rights and talked about her broad association with more left-leaning woman in solidarity against gender identity ideology.

The women’s rights rally has since been skirmished by neo-Nazis who proceeded to do a Sieg Heil salute on the parliamentary steps where the women were speaking.

It is interesting to note that Antifa were present to protest the women’s event but at no point objected to the neo-Nazis. The neo-Nazis were dressed in very basic black shorts and T-shirts and black

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What views?

Mar 20th, 2023 9:44 am | By

The Age solemnly repeats the stupid lies. The reporter has a thumbnail photo in a full hijab, so we know she’s very progressive.

Opposition leader John Pesutto will move to expel controversial Liberal MP Moira Deeming from the parliamentary party room after she attended a rally that has been associated with neo-Nazis.

Has it all, doesn’t it – “has been associated with.” By whom? Oh, you know, people who want to expel her. “Associated with” in what sense? Oh, you know, was in the same area as. Were the neo-Nazis part of the rally? No, they invaded it against the wishes of the women who were there to talk about women’s rights. Ok so how is that a reason … Read the rest



She has done nothing wrong

Mar 20th, 2023 9:09 am | By

Moira Deeming issued a longer press statement about the Let Women Speak rally.

PRESS RELEASE MOIRA DEEMING LIBERAL MP – WESTERN METROPOLITAN REGION Personal statement: I have been informed that there will be a vote in the Liberal Party room to determine whether I should be allowed to remain or be expelled from the Parliamentary Party. Let me clear – I have done nothing wrong. Those who organised the Let Women Speak event on the weekend have done nothing wrong. Despite this, a select few members of the Liberal leadership team have condemned me unjustly. This is an inflection point for the Liberal Party in Victoria. There are two paths the Party must choose from. Does it accept the utterly

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Blame the women

Mar 20th, 2023 6:09 am | By

Statement by Australian Senator Claire Chandler:

STATEMENT ON WOMEN’S SEX-BASED RIGHTS

The biggest fear of women and girls concerned about the loss of single-sex spaces, services and facilities is being forced to share space with violent, dangerous men.

There is no more dangerous or violent group than Nazis. This is an obvious fact confirmed repeatedly by warnings from security and intelligence services.

It is preposterous to suggest that women and girls fighting for the sex-based rights of women and concerned above all about male violence would want the most violent and dangerous men – Nazis – anywhere near a women’s rights event.

Over the last few years I have spoken to thousands of women concerned about laws which enable

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Neither fair nor meaningful

Mar 19th, 2023 4:55 pm | By

Woman cyclist driven out of the sport by men taking over.

https://twitter.com/AlisonSydor/status/1635394531368783872… Read the rest


Australian Jewish Association condemns the Nazis

Mar 19th, 2023 3:14 pm | By

Still in Melbourne:

https://twitter.com/deves_katherine/status/1637309980717244417 https://twitter.com/deves_katherine/status/1637288915647463424

Updating to add the Facebook version:

NAZIS CRASH WOMEN’S RALLY IN MELBOURNE – questions raised re police behaviour

Yesterday a “Let Women Speak” rally was held in Melbourne featuring visiting British women’s advocate Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (also known as Posie Parker) as well as local women. This movement is concerned that biological men are undermining the integrity of women’s sport and spaces

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The bad Montgomerie

Mar 19th, 2023 3:01 pm | By

“Katy” Montgomerie is doing his usual sneer lie taunt routine.

https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1637099079661502470

It’s not a woman and he’s not being grabbed by the throat. It’s a man who stole the mic to prevent women from speaking at the Let Women Speak rally. Montgomerie just keeps repeating the lie over and over and over.

https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1637394397154222081

The man is a man, and he wasn’t invited and he grabbed the mic so another man stopped him. This is a man forcibly silencing women, not a woman subject to violence. Montgomerie gets off on this Repeat the Lie routine.

https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1637107178841468933

It’s not violence against women, it’s prevention of male violence against women. He’s not a woman but trans, he’s a man.

https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1637547256504090626

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If Nazis show up it’s your fault

Mar 19th, 2023 11:32 am | By

Not all that liberal.

An outspoken Victorian Liberal MP is set to be expelled from the party over her involvement in an anti-transgender rally attended by neo-Nazis.

Moira Deeming spoke at the “Let Women Speak” event held by British anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull outside Victorian parliament on Saturday.

The wording is, as always, misleading. The label “anti-trans” implies (as it’s intended to, of course) that the Let Women Speak event was in opposition to trans people when it’s the ideology we reject. This obfuscation makes it sound maybe possibly almost reasonable to kick someone out of the Liberal party for attending.

A group of neo-Nazis joined the anti-trans demonstrators and repeatedly performed the Nazi salute, sparking violent clashes

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A person’s health

Mar 19th, 2023 10:20 am | By

Wyoming makes abortion medication illegal:

The Wyoming bill, which was passed by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature earlier this month, makes it illegal to “prescribe, dispense, distribute, sell or use any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion”.

Women must not be allowed to plan their own lives. Women must be public property.

Wyoming American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) advocacy director Antonio Serrano criticised the bill, saying “a person’s health, not politics, should guide important medical decisions – including the decision to have an abortion”.

Nice of him to weaken his own criticism by saying “a person’s health” instead of a woman’s. Nice of him to delete women from the abortion issue as if it were … Read the rest