A note to my friends who still back Trump:
I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.
Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.
And the green water?
A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.
Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.
That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.
The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.
Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.
Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.
Prove them wrong.
Is it so impossible to fathom a woman valuing the sexual aspect of her relationship just as much as her male partner? Why is it that only HER body is considered the basis of the relationship when his body is just as involved?
@MVConsult@BillKristol the pro-law party certainly isn’t the one redistributing during the midterms to get ahead, or the one turning a blind eye to the constant constitutional violations of its president, or the one not prosecuting known violent criminals and pedophiles…
Should it be illegal to refuse to donate blood or a kidney to someone who’s dying, even if it’s a child? If a child in your family needed your kidney and you couldn’t or wouldn’t give it, should the law force you to or send you to prison?
If your answer is no because that violates bodily autonomy, a basic human right, then you already understand the argument for legal abortion. No one is required to give up bodily autonomy for someone else, no matter their age or relationship.
You might call it murder, but even laws around killing have exceptions. Self defense is legal when someone’s life is at risk. If abortion were banned in every situation, even when the mother’s life is in danger, then by that logic self defense shouldn’t exist either. But it does.
Most people wouldn’t accept losing their bodily autonomy or their right to stay alive, so it’s worth considering what it means to take that right away from others.
@latkedelrey i once walked out of the shower to 2 maintenance men in my living room. apparently the landlord emailed the wrong building. literally terrifying
The most important story in Congress right now is that Republicans cannot govern even with a majority and are not focused on legislating anything voters care about. If you’re a journalist unwilling or uninterested in covering that with urgency, you’re useless.
We should make sure that the families of patients who die preventable deaths can sue insurance companies for denying care.
If the insurance company says something isn’t medically necessary, and it leads to the death of a patient, they should be able to be sued. Full Stop.
MAGA authoritarianism is pretending the president is “joking” when he makes death threats, but comedians are somehow “shaping public policy” when they make jokes.