Well... technically it seems like McCarthy re-defined what Swalwell said as calling him a pussy, though Swalwell only said “This is pathetic. You’re weak. You’re a weak man.” As McCarthy offered to have a fight if only Swalwell said X, I might give him a pass on using McCarthy’s language (as requested). Plus, McCarthy…

Did the State take over the school districts outside of the cities or just in the big cities with substantial minority populations?

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So the 10 year old statutory rape victim was taking part in “abortion tourism” when her parents had to help her flee the State to get an abortion? And just so we’re clear - all of these anti-abortion laws are only designed to prevent non-wealthy people from getting abortions.  If you’re wealthy, these laws do…

Tuberville has his head firmly stuck in some kind of right wing media bubble. You won’t find Fox News acknowledging that racism by white people is even a thing today. So the concept of white nationalists is - to Tuberville and any dedicated Fox News viewer - an imaginary thing being applied to white conservatives.…

File a civil suit. My point is that it makes no difference under criminal law.

It doesn’t matter how reasonable it might be to think someone is 18 or older. It doesn’t matter if they show you a fake ID that says they are 18 or older. Statutory rape laws generally don’t include any exceptions. It’s a two question case: 1) was the other person under age 18 (or whatever the statutory rape cut off…

That’s a good p0int. I was picturing him as Chair, but he can’t be chair if the GOP is in the minority. Which just means he’s a member of the committee. Maybe Vice-Chair as the selection of the minority caucus. But you’re right it makes no sense that someone who isn’t even the Chair can just block a committee vote on…

I’m pretty sure McConnell (as minority leader in the Senate) has the authority to remove Tuberville from that committee and shift him to another committee.

Wasn’t it Beyonce who was the victim of a burglary of a storage unit? Or was that some other female celebrity I’m confusing her with? If I’m right, I’m thinking some cooperation from someone inside their security bubble to have two different completely clean burglaries of two people in the same family in a manner that…

“Thirty-five years after Tracy Chapman released “Fast Car...;”
Ouch... didn’t need to make me feel this old.

If she was able to dash forward fast enough to actually put her hand on him through his security when no one else was doing so, from the perspective of security that would already be a breach requiring urgent action to get her off him. No one hires security for people to be able to dash in and put their hands on them…

The danger of MTG is not born of committee assignments or whathaveyou. It’s born of her (apparent) support among the GOP base throughout the country. That’s why, when McCarthy was minority leader, McCarthy (politically) couldn’t do anything to her no matter what she said. At most he could talk to her behind closed…

That was not a decision based on HIPAA. Age, gender, and State are not, in any way shape or form, protected health information. That 7 member Board is comprised of a majority of GOP doctors and the remaining 3 members can’t be members of the same political party but were almost certainly also appointed by a GOP…

Mmmm... the fact that they were let go with a citation suggests that whatever it was they were investigating was not a crime, so they chose to pull something out of their butts to provide cover for assaulting them. If they were supposed to have been guilty of a robbery, it would not have resulted in a citation like a…

She’s been watching a bit too much right wing media. She was born in 1939. If she had been black, she would probably not have had a job as a university historian - almost certainly not outside of a HBC. She could have taught anywhere in the country after Rosie the Riveter opened doors for white women. Those doors…

I think that if they had solidified around one mainstream GOP candidate early in 2016, Trump’s obvious lack of relevant knowledge would have been impossible for GOP voters to miss. He could skate through on b.s. when there was twenty some odd competitors each getting 2 minutes to speak. If it was him vs. one experience…

Nope. Back in the beginning of the GOP primaries, when folks were still thinking of him as a joke candidate. That would probably have put the nail in his coffin. By the time he had the nomination it was too late. The GOP base doesn’t care what you do or how unqualified you are as long as you have an R next to your…

And the occasional gallows humor that only uses the extreme violence of Nazism as a backdrop (trigger warning violence)