He has a well-documented record of promoting conspiracy theories, maligning LGBTQ people, using anti-Semitic tropes, and demeaning women.
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Sucks how “radical” has become a common term for that kind of far-right shite.
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Yep. As @anon73430903 will tell us, the correct term for the far right is “reactionary” not radical.
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Yes, thanks, I was going to add that point.
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It’s too bad for this one very specific joke though.
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Nerd humor is the best humor!
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Can Congress even ban TikTok from app stores? Wouldn’t that run afoul of the 1st Amendment and freedom of association etc?
(I’m going to leave the predictable hypocrisy of “corporations are people”, “business knows best, let’s deregulate everything. Free Market!” Republicans being the ones to push this to one side here)
Surely the most they can legitimately do about the perceived security threat is ban government employees having TikTok installed on phones/devices they bring in to the office or use for work.
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Plus they need more evidence outside repeating the same mantra of ‘the chinese communist party’ that they had for years when talking about Tiktok and many old people thinking the site is sus for the reasons for the ban. Rand Paul warned everybody last year of how badly anyone trying to pull this are going to get reamed 
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Alabama: frozen embryos are children! pre-born children!
Also Alabama: uh good luck to all you post-born children:
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It’s just the concept of Longtermism brought to the immediate:
- Potential people are of greater worth than actual living people.¹
- blastocysts are potential people.
- infants are extant people.
- potential is infinite.
- anything which exists is finite and flawed.
- therefore all the powers of religion and state will be brought to bear to protect hypothetical children, and actual children can go starve in a gutter.
[1] I was going to put some plausibly specious reasoning in for that, but then realised that there is no reasoning behind it: it’s an axiom in Longtermism that the interests of potential people override the interests of extant people. Well, I suppose by a sort of slippery slope argument you could make arguments like “If you kill this one person, then a million people in the future will live who wouldn’t have, which is better”, then haggling over the definitions so that if you’re happy to kill a person, why not a child? and if you’re doing it for a 1:10⁶ ratio, then you’d do it for a 1:1000, then 1:2, then “but what if there’s only one future person but it’s Einstein?”, and it’s all still specious bullshit, and it all still boils down to potential person > extant person, and I don’t think they think about it that deeply in any case, it’s all just reflex. Except for those who think about it a lot, and also know it’s specious bullshit, but they don’t care, it’s just a pseudophilosophical figleaf for the real goal of controlling and hurting people.
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Yes, but … there are now exceptions, maybe, kinda.
The Alabama legislature got off their collective asses and passed a bill yesterday to provide immunity to fertility clinics, and Gov MeeMaw signed it ASAP. So, it’s now ok if some frozen embryos “die” as long as it’s for the possible procreation of children of people who can afford fertility treatments. (I hope I don’t need to spell out what the vast majority of those people look like and vote for.)
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I don’t know what these assholes expected would happen if they ran afoul of the maga movement, even in the smallest way. And they’re really fucking cowardly when the MAGA movement is threatening a lot of people right now. These jerks are just telling us all that they don’t give two shits about the people they claim to represent. At the slightest bit of discomfort these jackasses feel, they abandon ship. You can bet that they likely blame people targeted by their fellow travelers when they are threatened too…
[ETA] Meanwhile, up in NW GA:
BEYOND time to purge your party of these fascistic elements, GOP. We’re all sick and fucking tired of this bullshit.
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Over 8,000,000 babies born through IVF, about 2% of all US births. If he feels the modern world is too complicated to make difficult decisions about, he should really resign and let smarter people take over his job.
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It’s also been a part of mainstream reproductive medicine for over 40 years now, so there’s nothing especially “new” about it either. The first baby conceived via IVF was born when Mike Johnson was six years old.
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