Hamptons Q

Another day, another TERF screed written by a very stupid person at the NYT.

British Q has hopped the pond and become Hamptons Q.

Sunday Afternoon

Holiday weekend schedule.

She Kept Her Eye On The Ball

Mean Jean Schmidt having the last "laugh," I guess.

2/about what she's going to do to help that life be a productive human being," Schmidt said. The lawmaker was responding to a question by Dem State Rep. Richard Brown, who asked Schmidt about a hypothetical scenario in which a 13-year-old girl became pregnant due to rape.

— Mairy Mac (@MairyMac455) July 2, 2022

The Elite Law Club

The important part of this piece is that everyone in elite law whose opinions are sought after to talk about the Supreme Court have tremendous conflicts of interests. You aren't going to trash the Justice who is going to hear the case you're being paid 2 grand an hour to do! And they don't!

Morning

Sunday Funday

Saturday Night

Rock on.

Reaping

They’re just offering gentle “sidewalk counseling” to a group of wayward jurists by “offering information about alternatives to [wantonly annihilating constitutional rights and the rule of law] and help pursuing those options.” McCullen v. Coakley, 573 U.S. 464, 472 (2014) https://t.co/jPWqCc3bTK

— Perry Grossman (@Perry_Grossman) July 2, 2022

An Armed Society

Very polite.

Scott County Sheriff Jerry Goodin said his department is ready to enforce the law but noted that the change will make their jobs more difficult.

"There's going to be a lot of changes in Indiana because of the law," he said. "A guy can stand out there — or a girl or whoever with a rifle, an AR-15 or a handgun — and stand there on a sidewalk looking at the school. The difference is this: We can't even stop and ask them what they're doing because of this law."

Unless they are black, then you can shoot them.

My Guy, You're The Transportation Secretary

For example, my connecting flight got canceled last night. At first, the airline offered 2500 miles, which I estimate is worth about 30 bucks.

But I claimed the refund for the canceled portion instead, and it worked out to be $112.07.

— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) July 2, 2022

Lots of things you could be doing other than telling people the theoretical value of airline points.

What A Bunch Of Dumbasses

I have actually known "scary smart" people in my life, though not too many. Then there are all these people there writing for, or being written about, in our major periodicals, imagining they are misunderstood geniuses when they're just boring trash with too much cash.

Oh no I am trying to cancel them!!!

The New York Times Will Never Stop Fucking This Chicken

What weird little freaks the people who work there are.

Morning

Slacker Saturday

Happy Hour

Get happy.

Elite Reproduction

A new mild interest of mine (mild interest means I have been pondering it but NOT actually spending much time researching it) is differences/similarities how countries perpetuate their elite caste systems. Every country has it, to some degree. UK is different from France is different from Spain is different from the US etc.

Money/inherited wealth plays a nontrivial part, of course, but one can be in the club with being rich, or be rich without being in the club, generally. Though this too varies by country!

Failsons and failgrandsons of elites keep their status, somehow.

Please Don't Vote MAGA, But Republicans Are Good

I don't want any lectures from Professional Democrats about messaging.

All of those candidates will be on the ballot in some of the toughest House battleground districts this fall. And the House Democrats’ campaign arm will spend the next several months campaigning against what its chief calls the “MAGA Republican” brand — on everything from abortion to Donald Trump-backed election subversion.

“There’s all these dangerous people running under the new MAGA Republican brand. They’re going to pay a price for it,” said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.), who leads the House Democrats’ campaign arm. Using the term “MAGA” nine times in a roughly 9-minute interview, he said: “We’re going to beat them over the head with that.”

As long as Dems don't use the MAGA word, they're good! Vote for them, make them strong!

Also this is a bit like nerds telling you the Elves are good but Dökkálfar are bad and expecting you to know what the fuck they are talking about.

Lunch Thread

HUNGER

College Starts In About 7 weeks

Imagine sending your kids off to university in one of these psycho states, if any other options are available. 

I'm not telling people what to do, but I can't imagine doing it.

Going to be so many horror stories.

Billionaires Are Dumb

A benefit of twitter has been to demystify famous people of all kinds, especially the billionaires. "Everybody" now knows that Zuck and Elon are evil dumbasses. Something certainly not the case of Zuck 10 years ago or Elon even 2.

Views Differ

I think a lot depends on whether large news outlets simply stop covering the new reality of medical care for women because it's cOnTrOvErsial.

People commonly (justified) joke that men don't have a very good sense of how women actually function, and they certainly don't have a good sense of the reality of even non-Ob/Gyn medical care for women. The "get a pregnancy test before practically anything," which was already the case, still surprises people.

Will be numerous possible stories every single day. Numerous deaths.

Morning

Again.