Handmaid's Tale files

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"In a time where panic and fear already consume our daily lives, the majority’s
opinion inflicts further panic and fear on women in Texas by depriving them,
without justification, of their constitutional rights."

Apr 9, 2020

https://www.axios.com/texas-abortio...eal-a72f9fcf-76e7-4d64-bfdc-657ded9d9b17.html

 

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Guardian.co.uk

25 April 2020

Trump-supporting protesters are wearing handmaid's outfits –
do they not see the irony?

We’ve reached a level of dystopia that I’m not sure even Margaret Atwood
could have imagined

- Arwa Mahdawi

photograph included with opinion article- A demonstrator dressed as a handmaid from
The Handmaid’s Tale at a protest against stay-at-home orders in Denver, Colorado
on 19 April 2020

Rightwing protesters in handmaid’s costumes are taking gaslighting to a new level-

From pro-choice demonstrations in Belfast to women’s rights marches in Buenos Aires
"...the clothes worn by Margaret Atwood’s handmaids in her dystopian novel
The Handmaid’s Tale have become a striking symbol of female defiance."
Now it seems the handmaid’s uniform has taken on a newly dystopian dimension:
the outfit has been appropriated by Trump-supporting protesters at the anti-quarantine
rallies that have been spreading across America.

These rallies, orchestrated by a network of far right and extremist groups, have also
seen rightwingers hold up signs with pro-choice slogans like “my body, my choice”.

Do these protesters not understand the irony here?

Do they not understand how hypocritical it is to fight against a woman’s right to choose
while simultaneously fighting for their own right to do whatever they like?

Do they not understand how you can not possibly be “pro-life” if you’re flouting
lockdown laws to participate in dense protests that could cause a surge in
coronavirus cases?

It’s always been clear than anti-abortion extremists aren’t actually pro-life-
they’re just pro-controlling women. They have always been shamelessly hypocritical,
However, their hypocrisy has become particularly brazen during the coronavirus crisis.
On Monday, for example, Dan Patrick, the virulently “pro-life” lieutenant governor of
Texas, called for the reopening of the country, saying there are “more important things
than living”.

This is the same guy, by the way, who went on Fox News last month and said
“lots of grandparents” would rather die than see the US economy suffer.

We’ve reached a level of dystopia that I’m not sure even Margaret Atwood could
have imagined.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/25/trump-handmaids-tale-coronavirus

 

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Dr. Debbie Birx is so close to achieving her objective, of being the midwife to
her Evangelical dream of bringing the Handmaid's Tale into real life, she can
taste it.

She trashed her credibility, again, in the eyes of the world- that exists outside of
Trump's Alternative universe. How is the "Trump's mommy" image working out
for her ?

Second Mommy Gesture

April 26, 2020

Dr. Birx complains to Fox News' Jesse Watters about press coverage of
Trump's coronavirus briefings (featuring Raw Story site coverage)

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/26/dr...rage-of-trumps-coronavirus-briefings_partner/

Dr. Birx complains about press coverage of Trump during Saturday night appearance on Fox News

Birx defends Trump’s comments on disinfectants as treatment
and blames the media

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...rus-latest-news/?itid=mc_magnet-coronavirus_1

First Mommy Gesture

Over-praise for something that does not exist

https://www.mediaite.com/news/brian...mp-translated-from-the-original-north-korean/

April 26, 2020

During a phone call yesterday with more than 600 Catholic leaders, (Self-trashed)
Trump declared himself the best president “in the history of the Catholic Church.”
Because of course he did. He has much in common with the Church: He opposes
women’s rights and LGBTQ rights and has his own history of covering up sex
scandals.

The focus, naturally, was on abortion and religious “freedom,” the same
two issues that galvanize white evangelical support. Then he shifted to a
campaign pitch.

Yet the president’s most frequented theme in his opening remarks was that
of his commitment to pro-life cause, saying that it has “been at a level that
no other president has seen before, according to everybody.”
(Trump has indeed nominated a slew of unqualified judges to lifetime appointments
on the federal bench because they’re sufficiently anti-abortion to satisfy Republicans.)

He also highlighted his opposition to the Johnson Amendment, which prevents
tax exempt institutions from endorsing or opposing political candidates.
He described it as “very [vicious], adding that “I got rid of it so you can
express your views very strongly.” (He didn’t get “rid” of it.)

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com...-catholic-leaders-during-campaign-phone-call/

Democrats “want abortion and they want it now and they want it to go up to the end of the ninth month and beyond”
- Trump

 

[JackLuis]

Democrats “want abortion and they want it now and they want it to go up to the end of the ninth month and beyond”
- Trump

Donnie is the best example of the need for retroactive abortion.

 

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Ginsburg blasts Trump administration over birth control rule in live hearing from her hospital bed


A “major trend in religious freedom is to give everything to one side and nothing to the other side," she observed

May 6, 2020

"Nothing in the interim rules affects the ability of employees and students to obtain
without costs the full range of FDA-approved contraceptives," she said. "

You have just tossed entirely to the wind what Congress thought was essential.
That is that women be provided these services with no hassle, no cost to them."

"Instead, you are shifting the cost of the employer's religious beliefs to the employees
who do not share those religious beliefs," she added.

"The women end up getting nothing. They are required to do just what Congress didn't want."

"The church has enjoyed traditionally an exception from the very first case…
the church itself is different from these organizations that employ a lot of people
who do not share the employer's faith."

https://www.salon.com/2020/05/06/gi...n-live-hearing-from-her-hospital-bed_partner/

Ruth Bader Ginsburg destroys Trump solicitor general in live hearing from her hospital bed


https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/ru...eneral-in-live-hearing-from-her-hospital-bed/

 

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"The Republican attack on birth control is about making women's lives harder,
just to put them in their place. The pandemic is only making that more obvious."

May 7, 2020

- Amanda Marcotte

My employer, Salon, doesn't contest the federal law requiring that health insurance plans
cover contraception.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court — one more time! — heard arguments over
a provision in the Affordable Care Act that classifies birth control as preventive
care, which means health care plans must cover it without a copay.

No other form of preventive care — vaccines, cancer screenings, breastfeeding services —
has been subject to so much litigation or public debate.

This time, the battle was over a Trump-era rewritten rule that grants employers the
right to block employees from using their earned health care benefits to pay for
contraception, if the employer claims to have a "moral" objection.

In response to this case, talk radio host Neal Boortz went on Twitter and
gave the world an example of what these "moral objections" look like.

"Ah yes, the stereotype of the dumb slut."
- Amanda Marcotte

Solicitor General Noel Francisco, who spoke before the Supreme Court in favor of the
Trump rule that allows employers to block contraception access for any reason they desire.

The implication that women should simply suck it up and have babies even when they
don't want to, which is cruel in the best of times,

Of course, the cruelty is the point. While anti-contraception forces continue to hide
behind rhetoric about "faith" and "morality," the Trump administration has laid bare
the sadism that's really motivating the anti-choice movement.

That's why anti-choicers have embraced a leader who is a thrice-married compulsive adulterer,

A sexual assailant, sexist bully who complains that female reporters aren't more like "Donna Reed."

https://www.salon.com/2020/05/07/tr...ting-and-sexist-even-worse-during-a-pandemic/

 

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As State Reopens, Ohio Urges Employers to Snitch on Workers
Who Stay Home Due to Covid-19 Concerns

1,200 workers across the state have been reported to the government

May 08, 2020

Ohio Labor Department is calling on employers to "report" workers who don't
come to work due to the coronavirus.

Ohio officials are encouraging employers to report what they've designated
"Covid-19 fraud" as the state begins reopening some industries. Workers
can be reported via a government website and have their unemployment
benefits taken away.

600 employers have "turned in" about 1,200 workers for not reporting to work.

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services set up a website this week
where employers may use a form "to report employees who quit or refuse work
when it is available due to Covid-19."

In an email sent to employers across Ohio, officials told companies that
"Ohio law prohibits individuals from receiving unemployment benefits
if they refuse to accept offers of suitable work, or quit work, without
good cause."

By designating a deadly public health crisis an insufficient cause for staying home,
as health experts have consistently urged for nearly two months, the Ohio government
is giving residents a "near-impossible choice," according to the Georgia Budget and
Policy Institute.

Ohio workers must now choose between "going to work and earning income to put food
on the table, and protecting their health," senior policy analyst Alex Camardelle told the Post.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...-urges-employers-snitch-workers-who-stay-home

 

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Jane Roe’s Last Confession: Anti-Abortion Stand ‘All an Act’


The woman behind Roe v. Wade got paid to embrace antiabortion movement, new documentary reveals

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/05/19/norma-mccorvey-roe-wade-abortion/

"Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade admits in "deathbed confession" she was paid to fake anti-abortion stance

FX's "AKA Jane Roe" documentary filmmaker Nick Sweeney spoke to Salon
about Norma McCorvey's shocking candidness

Norma McCorvey —

better known as the plaintiff "Jane Roe" from the landmark 1973. Supreme Court ruling
legalizing abortion – who then later famously converted and became outspoken against
abortion, has admitted that her about-face was a lie. It was all an act that was orchestrated
and paid for by the anti-abortion movement.

https://www.salon.com/2020/05/19/jane-roe-roe-v-wade-deathbed-confession-fx-nick-sweeney/

Jane Roe’s Deathbed Confession:
Anti-Abortion Conversion ‘All an Act’ Paid for by the Christian Right

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jane-...on-all-an-act-paid-for-by-the-christian-right

Roe V. Wade Plaintiff Reveals In ‘AKA Jane Roe’ Doc She Was Paid To Turn Pro-Life:
“I Took Their Money”

https://deadline.com/2020/05/norma-mccorvey-aka-roe-jane-roe-roe-v-wade-fx-documentary-1202938564/

 

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Texas, the state that fostered a legal battle over women's wombs

Norma McCorvey, the woman at the center of Roe v. Wade, the case that legalized
abortion throughout the U.S., said toward the end of her life that she eventually
switched sides and joined the anti-abortion movement only for money.

May 19 2020

McCorvey was unmarried, impoverished, and pregnant with her third child in 1970,
when she decided to challenge the law in her home state of Texas that banned abortion
except to save a woman’s life. She used the pseudonym Jane Roe in the case.

She ended up not ever having the abortion, as it took until 1973 for the U.S. Supreme
Court to rule for the right to abortion nationwide, striking down Texas’s law and other
states’ bans on the procedure.

https://www.advocate.com/television...ccorvey-i-switched-sides-abortion-fight-money

Former Roe V. Wade Plaintiff Admits Pro-Life Stance Was An Act

May 20, 2020

These statements come to light in the documentary “AKA Jane Roe”—directed by
Nick Sweeney and filmed just before her death in 2017—where McCorvey admits
that she was paid to speak out against abortion, in her self-described “deathbed
confession.” The filmmakers uncovered documents that show McCorvey received
about $456,911 in “benevolent gifts” from anti-abortion groups.

February 18 2017

McCorvey, 69, passed away from a heart condition; she was living in an assisted living
facility and was believed to be destitute.

https://www.advocate.com/women/2017/2/18/lesbian-plaintiff-roe-v-wade-dead-69

McCorvey was 22 when she found herself pregnant and broke; living in Dallas in the
early '70s, she had no option to terminate her pregnancy and could not afford to travel
to a state where it was legal. She met attorneys Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington,
who wanted to challenge the Texas law. McCorvey's lawsuit would eventually reach
the Supreme Court as a class action suit and, in a 7-2 ruling, legalize the right to an
abortion nationwide. By the time that happened, McCorvey had already delivered
her child and given it up for adoption.

McCorvey was involved in anti-abortion protests and was arrested for disrupting the
2009 confirmation hearings for then-Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotamayor.

http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/...-plaintiff-admits-pro-life-stance-was-an-act/

The Roe decision states that “inherent in the Due Process Clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment is a fundamental “right to privacy” that protects
a pregnant woman’s choice whether to have an abortion.”

Sources: LA Times 5/20; CBS News 5/20; Oyez 5/2020; Daily Beast 5/19/20

 

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*Tip of the hat, to boynextdoor, on the GB

This week, despite Mike Pence's intentions to shelter billionaire donors,
the list of PPP loans was released

Televangelists take a slice as churches accept billions in US coronavirus aid

9 Jul 2020

More than 10,600 religious organizations have taken at least $3bn in coronavirus financial
aid from the US government, according to an analysis by the Guardian, raising concerns
about the separation of church and state.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/09/televangelists-churches-us-coronavirus-aid-billions

Separation of church and state ? Guardian journalists, where were you looking ?

Religion has been sitting in the Oval office with Trump the whole time!

Trump, himself, invites himself into churches for campaign propaganda purposes.

Trump has been pouring money into the bank accounts of Christian Evangelical churches
and businesses, ever since he started to need prisons for babies and children.

Christian Evangelicals are part of Trump's voting base, and that shows
what they have in common- swindle & grift

Christian Evangelical is Big Business- It takes enormous amounts of cash
to build a mega-church, buy private jets and TV stations.

Banks are happy to cooperate. Evangelicals have access to ready cash.
Everything is electronic.There are ATM machines in churches. Cash-free
tithing and donation systems.

Little weasel, Ralph Reed grabbed some cash with is little, greedy, grifting paws-

"...program beneficiaries connected to veteran evangelical Trump allies include
The Faith & Freedom Coalition, founded by conservative strategist Ralph Reed,
which got a loan of between $150,000 and $350,000. That group reported retaining
24 jobs with its loan, according to government data."

Trump returned the favor, and gave the Evangelical Christians what the traded for-

The U.S. Supreme Court has cemented its reputation as a friend to Christian conservatives
with a trio of rulings embracing religious exemptions

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/07/08/us/08reuters-usa-court-religion-rulings-analysis.html

Between 70,000 and 126,000 women could lose access to cost-free birth control

July 8, 202

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a blistering dissent, in which she said her colleagues
had gone too far to appease religious conservatives.

Until now, “this Court has taken a balanced approach, one that does not allow
the religious beliefs of some to overwhelm the rights and interests of others
who do not share those beliefs,” Ginsburg wrote in a brief joined by Justice
Sonia Sotomayor.

“Today, for the first time, the Court casts totally aside countervailing rights
and interests in its zeal to secure religious rights to the nth degree.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...38a352-c123-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html

American Christian Evangelicals have been jetting into Russia for a very long time.
Under the cover of seeking the adoption of orphans, and offering assistance to the poor,
they might have been seeking something altogether different.

 

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Tennessee Abortion Ban Blocked by Federal Court Minutes After Being Signed into Law

July 13, 2020

A Tennessee Bill Banning Abortion at Nearly Every Stage of Pregnancy,
Which Took Effect Earlier Today After the Governor Signed the Bill,
Has Now Been Blocked in Court

The restraining order comes just weeks after the Supreme Court struck down
a Louisiana law in June Medical Services v. Russo, which would have
devastated abortion access in that state and could have affected abortion
access across the country.

“Banning abortion is blatantly unconstitutional, and the lawmakers who passed
this law are well aware,” said Jessica Sklarsky, senior staff attorney at the Center
for Reproductive Rights. “It is unconscionable that — in the middle of a public
health crisis and a national reckoning on systemic racism — lawmakers are focused
on trying to eliminate access to abortion.

Just three months ago, Gov. Bill Lee attempted to ban abortion procedures during
the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic by labeling abortion care as non-essential,
despite opposition from leading national medical groups.

https://www.commondreams.org/newswi...-federal-court-minutes-after-being-signed-law

States that contain men that consider pregnant women to be livestock-

Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Tennessee, and Utah

 

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Are we there, yet ?

A spectacular, splashing headline, and two Trump loyalists behind it.
These events do not happen, without a purpose behind it.

A norm was broken. A line was crossed, when so many are currently marred.

The question is, Who was this performance staged for ?

There is no federal agency that protects Democrat values-

Do not execute a citizen in order to torment people for their race, their beliefs,
and their political preference.

It is defined as a lynching.

It is systematic racism, systematic sexism, systematic bigotry.

Do not prevent people from expressing their political opposition to a glaring injustice,
and a long term malfunction of a system that continues to produce glaring injustices.

Many discussed possible alternatives to the current system.

Portland, Oregon allowed for negotiation.

This irritates the police force that perpetuates glaring injustices.

Trump decided to use pure violence, and no negotiation.
But, he is not sending violence into Republican dominated states.

Nothing happened to the men that used repeated verbal sexist violence against AOC.

Ocasio-Cortez recounted the incident and repeated the term, saying she has an issue
with "using women, our wives and daughters as shields and excuses for poor behavior."

"Mr. Yoho mentioned that he has a wife and two daughters. I am two years younger
than Mr. Yoho's youngest daughter. I am someone's daughter too. My father, thankfully,
is not alive to see how Mr. Yoho treated his daughter," she said with emotion in her voice

"My mother got to see Mr. Yoho's disrespect on the floor of this House towards me
on television and I am here because I have to show my parents that I am their daughter
and that they did not raise me to accept abuse from men."

She later added -

"When you do that to any woman, what Mr. Yoho did was give permission to other men
to do that to his daughters.?

"In using that language, in front of the press, he gave permission to use that language against
his wife, his daughters, women in his community."

"I am here to stand up to say that is not acceptable."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/politics/aoc-ted-yoho-response/index.html

“This issue is not about one incident. It is cultural,” said Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.,
calling it a culture “of accepting a violence and violent language against women,
an entire structure of power that supports that.”

Ocasio-Cortez said Yoho’s references to his wife and daughters as he explained
his actions during brief remarks Wednesday. actually underscored the problem.

“Having a daughter does not make a man decent. Having a wife does not make a decent
man. Treating people with dignity and respect makes a decent man,” she said. She added
that a decent man apologizes “not to save face, not to win a vote. He apologizes, and
genuinely, to repair and acknowledge the harm done, so that we can all move on.”

Her voice trembled slightly as she said that her father, “thankfully,” was no longer alive
to see Yoho’s treatment of her. But she said her mother saw it, “And I am here because I
have to show my parents that I am their daughter, and that they did not raise me to accept
abuse from men.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politi...nd-that-is-the-problem-rep-ocasio-cortez-says

July 23, 2020 at 12:51 PM EDT

“I cannot apologize for my passion, or for loving my God, my family, and my country!
I yield back!”

— Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.), apologizing(?) to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/23/ted-yohos-apology-aoc-offered-masterclass/

It is not clear how or why loving one’s God and country would require a member of
Congress to have a public meltdown on Capitol grounds, but it was the first part of
Yoho’s fauxpology that bothered Ocasio-Cortez — the implication that Yoho could
not or would not behave misogynistically because, after all, he had a wife and daughters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...4e689a-cb90-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html

Sexism- "She is crazy, because she misheard me, and is angry about something that she has imagined."

"nope," said the journalists listening in on his tirade against AOC.

Ted Yoho claimed that he had muttered “bullshit."

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...ted-by-gop-lawmaker-over-remarks-that-kind-of

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/ocasio-cortez-ted-yoho-apology/

Ted Yoho pretty much stayed silent on Thursday.

https://deadline.com/2020/07/alexan...reaction-ted-yoho-congress-speech-1202993915/

Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida and his supporting wingman, in sexism, Rep. Roger Williams (Tex.)

On Twitter on Tuesday morning, Ocasio-Cortez denounced Yoho’s behavior and criticized
another GOP lawmaker, Rep. Roger Williams (Tex.), who was present for at least part of
the exchange.

She accused Williams of joining Yoho in “yelling” at her and blasted the Texas Republican for later telling a reporter he had not been paying attention to the confrontation between the other two lawmakers.

Williams told the Hill that while he was walking down the steps with Yoho on Monday, he had been “thinking about some issues I’ve got in my district that need to get done” and had not paid much attention to what Yoho and Ocasio-Cortez were saying.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...aca4d833a0_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_8

"I cannot apologize for my passion, or for loving my God, my family, and my country."

No one was ever asking for an apology for any of that. They were calling out his disrespect for a colleague, his crude under-the-breath dismissal of someone who has made a far greater impact on Congress in two years than he has in eight, and his inability to own up to his own bad behavior.

No one was persecuting him for his Roman Catholic faith. Not now. Not ever.

This isn’t the only time he’s brought up religion only to sound like a complete idiot. In 2015, Yoho said ISIS would prevail because its defenders loved their God while Americans were “taking God out of this country.” Besides his blatant lie — no one’s “taking” God out of anything — it’s absurd to think forced Christianity would help us prevail against a terrorist group.

Yoho has already said he’s not running for re-election. But his rhetoric is what we’ve come to expect from the Republican Party as a whole: They have no good ideas, so they demean everyone else, get in the way of progress, or create a bigger mess for the next administration to clean up.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com...ing-bitch-i-wont-apologize-for-loving-my-god/

 

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Are we getting closer ?

The Guardian has spoken to Oregon’s two US senators, both Democrats,
and they have stark warnings to make:

Ron Wyden:

“Unless America draws a line in the sand right now, I think we could be staring down
the barrel of martial law in the middle of a presidential election.”


Jeff Merkley:

“It’s very clear what the president is trying to do is incite violence and then display
that violence in campaign ads. And I say this because that’s exactly what he’s doing
right now. This is not some theory.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...ci-sinclair-tv-portland-protests-live-updates

Sinclair Broadcast Group stations will show the interview by “America This Week,”
hosted by Eric Bolling, with researcher Judy Mikovits, who argues that Fauci
“manufactured” the coronavirus and shipped it to Wuhan, China, where the
outbreak originated.

A chyron during the segment reads, “DID DR. FAUCI CREATE COVID-19?”

Although Bolling doesn’t challenge Mikovits, he told CNN that he brought Fox News
medical contributor Nicole Saphier on the show after to “provide an opposing viewpoint.

A Sinclair spokesperson, Bolling and Mikovits didn’t immediately respond
to The Post’s requests for comment.

In response to critics urging Sinclair to reconsider broadcasting a conspiracy theory,
the company issued a statement on Twitter, saying that it is not “aligning with or
endorsing the viewpoints” aired in the segment.

“We also interviewed a medical expert who debunked Dr. Mikovitz’s claims
as conspiracy theories,” the company continues, referencing Saphier. “
We’re a supporter of free speech and a marketplace of ideas and viewpoints,
even if incredibly controversial.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/25/coronavirus-covid-updates/

May 9, 2020

A video showcasing baseless arguments by Dr. Judy Mikovits, including attacks
on Dr. Anthony Fauci, has been viewed more than eight million times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/...judy-mikovitz-coronavirus-disinformation.html

America can count on Trump's favorite TV entertainment network, the ONAN-ism TV
network to feed it to Trump with no sane pushback.

 

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I see that America's Extremist Right Religious Evangelical Christians have found their soldiers

July 27, 2020

These are his people': inside the elite border patrol unit Trump sent to Portland

Operating largely in secret, Bortac agents are trained for Swat-style raids on organized gangs
smuggling immigrants or drugs across the US border. They have been deployed in Iraq and
Afghanistan, as well as in many Latin American countries.

Border Patrol Tactical Unit

Bortac agents are among “the most violent and racist in all law enforcement”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...patrol-troops-portland-bortac?utm_source=digg

These are the men that Trump sent to Seattle and Portland.

 

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Trump has his Brownshirts, that are willing to hurt women. To a man, their contempt for women
is demonstrated, daily.

Strange part, is that so many are of mixed heritage and race.

 

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Trump has his Dr. Josef Mengele, and many assistants to help him to deny the truth.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-hysterectomies-medical-neglect-irwin-georgia

American Genocide- 200,000 deaths are not enough for Trump.

 

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Male obstetrician/gynecologist- Dr. Mahendra Amin
An immigrant, mutilating immigrants that cannot defend themselves.

https://www.prismreports.org/articl...terilized-detained-women-has-been-identified/

 

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Wonkette
Twitter › Wonkette

'Forced Hysterectomies? Well We Never,' Says ICE, As They Try To Deport
The Women Before They Can Testify — by @RobynElyse

(link to wonkette)

7 hours ago

 

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Emily Shugerman & William Bredderman of Daily Beast with the revelation that the
accused doctor was not even certified to perform these procedures, legal or otherwise.

On Friday, a spokesperson for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology told
The Daily Beast that its records show Amin is not certified by the organization.

A spokesperson for the American Board of Medical Specialties, the leading organization
for physician board certification in the U.S., said Amin was not certified by any of the 24
ABMS member boards.

Azadeh Shahshahani, an attorney with one of the immigrant rights groups that filed the
complaint, said it was “outrageous” that ICE would send detainees to a doctor who had
not passed this quality control.

“It shows the lack of care that ICE feels for detained immigrants, for their wellbeing and
healthcare,” said Shahshahani, the legal and advocacy director for Project South.
“It’s really disturbing."

ICE declined to comment on the record about Amin’s certification or policies concerning
board-certified physicians. The agency has previously said it "vehemently disputes the
implication that detainees are used for experimental medical procedures,” and cautioned
that "anonymous, unproven allegations” should be treated with skepticism.

Daily Kos

 

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Trump has "his" real, live, handmaid-

Potential SCOTUS Pick Amy Coney Barrett Would Undo Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy

Barrett is a self-described Roman Catholic, though she belongs to a specific group
called People of Praise that’s unaffiliated with the Church. (Her involvement with
that group was unknown when she was confirmed to the appellate court.)

Some of the group’s practices would surprise many faithful Catholics. Members of the
group swear a lifelong oath of loyalty, called a covenant, to one another, and are assigned
and are accountable to a personal adviser, called a “head” for men and a “handmaid” for
women. The group teaches that husbands are the heads of their wives and should take
authority over the family.

NY Times 9/28/2017

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com...rrett-would-undo-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-legacy/

Trump's Supreme Court short list includes member of the sect that inspired the 'Handmaid's Tale'

September 21, 2020 1:55 PM

Amy Coney Barrett, representing The Handmaid's Tale as societal model wing,
and Barbara Lagoa, the quid pro quo choice.

Starting with Barrett: She does indeed belong to an extreme, charismatic wing of the
Catholic Church called People of Praise, which actually did serve as the inspiration
for Margaret Atwood in her dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale."There is a sect now,
a Catholic charismatic spinoff sect, which calls the women handmaids. (Dog whistles ?)

Except they've dropped the "head" moniker for male leadership and "handmaids" title
for women who keep their fellow women in line because the television series based on
the novel forced a change. They are now all called "leaders," who direct such intimate
life decisions of members as who they marry, where they live, and how they raise their
children.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...s-on-Trump-s-short-list-for-the-Supreme-Court

Trump could get a boost from Cuban Americans in Florida if he picks Barbara Lagoa
for Supreme Court

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...rida-if-he-picks-barbara-lagoa-supreme-court/

Cuban-American judge from Florida on Trump high court list

Lagoa is currently a judge on the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Trump appointed her to that post in 2019 and the Senate confirmed her on an 80-15 vote.

Before that, for less than a year she was a justice on the Florida Supreme Court.
She was the first woman of Hispanic heritage on the state Supreme Court.

Barbara Lagoa was appointed to the state Supreme Court by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Lagoa is is also a member of the Federalist Society.

Amy Coney Barrett emerged as the clear preference of a growing number of senators.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article245900255.html

Amy Coney Barrett, former law clerk to the late Right-Wing beacon Justice Scalia,
Barrett, now 48, was a finalist for the Supreme Court spot that went to Brett Kavanaugh
in 2018

Barrett returned to Notre Dame Law as a professor.

(Former Notre Dame professor Vincent Rougeau, now the dean of Boston College
Law School speaks well of her- BC, another Jesus university)

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/20/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-419219

Trump said- 'I'm saving her for Ginsburg': who is Amy Coney Barrett ?

https://www.theguardian.com/law/202...rrett-ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-court-trump

Axios ✓
Twitter › axios

NEW: Trump met with Judge Amy Coney Barrett this afternoon at the White House,
two sources familiar with meeting tell Axios. Barrett has long been seen within
Trumpworld as the frontrunner on the president's short list for the Supreme Court.

(link to Axios)

11 minutes ago

Indiana state of mind ?

 

[bodysong]

Trump has a habit of letting the cat out of the bag, by saying the quiet part
very loudly in public- he let the American employees know that they are
considered by Trump as just another "thing" that is owned by the government,
therefore, they are "his." As, in owned and controlled by him.

"Trumphas been using the term "Herd mentality," in his rally speeches and FUX TV spots.
Trump's followers seek particular "dog whistles." The signal to use physical violence against
protesters was welcomed, and acted upon. Sadly, buying into Trump's pronouncements, and
jokes has the downside is being the butt of Trump's jokes. We have all been designated as
Trump's livestock, now. Trump does not shake hands with dogs, cattle, sheep, goats, or pigs.

Handmaids designated to become Econo-wife Government Econo- Slave/Servant

Half-assed, haphazard, jury rigged un-organized mess of Evangelical ideas as Law

Look after the fetus until it is born, look after virginity, until it is married-

Except,for the fact that the fetus is not cared for- medical care
during preganancy, nutritional care for the pregnant mother, assurance of a decent doctor
and medical care for the birth are not assured. The money flows between politicians,
Evangelical Christians, anti-abortion lawyers, and the business community. Cash is
supplied to Jesus schools,and the shaming of female students is funded by the federal
grants under the heading of education- Abstinence-Only Education, transforms into
“Sexual Risk Avoidance, ” and virginity becomes the product that is flogged. Strangely,
Betsy deVos, Trump's education Bitch in Charge, does not protect virgins- she protects rapists.
She protects Jesus-schools posing as universities, from accustaions and exposure,
and from getting sued.

On the surface, it would seem impossible for these men to participate in what sociologist
“Guyland” — a developmental and social stage driven by a “guy code” that demands,
among other things, sexual conquest and detached intimacy.

Group members had an elaborate network of accountability partners to help them
resist temptations.

(Loss of a support newtork after marriage)

First, respondents had been told since they were young that women were nonsexual.
At the same time, these men had also been taught that their wives would be available
for their pleasure.

It’s a double standard that’s in line with longstanding cultural ideals of the relationship
between femininity and purity. But it’s a contradiction that leaves men unwilling to
open up to the very women they’re having sex with.

Second, these men could no longer reach out to their support networks due to their
own ideals of masculinity. They had been promised a sacred gift: a sexually active,
happy marriage. Yet many weren’t fully satisfied, as evidenced by the continued
tension between the sacred and beastly. However, to open up about these continued
struggles would be to admit failure as masculine, Christian man.

After 25 years of being told that sex is something dangerous that needs to be controlled,
the transition to married (and sexual) life is difficult, at best, while leaving men without
the support they need. Women, meanwhile, are often left out of the conversation entirely.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...nent-until-marriage/?itid=lk_inline_manual_23

Propaganda is offered, instead of advice attached to reality, and the double standard still rules

It’s not unusual for abstinence-only programs to compare people who have sex
before marriage to used gum, or roses without petals, or tape that is no longer
sticky.

From a Christian perspective, it implies that sexual sin is somehow the only one Jesus
can’t redeem.

(human males ) are all but expected to have sex before marriage — and they’re easily
forgiven for it — because, they’re told, they were created to be slaves to their impulses.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com...abstinence-trope-with-chewed-gum-wall-in-d-c/

Eve, the mythical Christian First Woman, eternally blamed- see Brett Kavanaugh

 

[Rotadom]

Real Life Handmaid's Tale

Amy Coney Barrett: spotlight falls on secretive Catholic group People of Praise

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...t-supreme-court-donald-trump-people-of-praise

Donald Trump’s expected nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the supreme court, to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is drawing attention to a secretive Catholic “covenant community” called People of Praise that counts Barrett as a member and faces claims of adhering to a “highly authoritarian” structure.

The 48-year-old appellate court judge has said she is a “faithful Catholic” but that her religious beliefs would not “bear in the discharge of my duties as a judge”.

At the same time, the Louisiana native and Notre Dame Law graduate, a favorite among Trump’s evangelical Christian base, has said legal careers ought not to be seen as means of gaining satisfaction, prestige or money, but rather “as a means to the end of serving God”.

Interviews with experts who have studied charismatic Christian groups such as People of Praise, and with former members of the group, plus a review of the group’s own literature, reveal an organization that appears to dominate some members’ everyday lives, in which so-called “heads” – or spiritual advisers – make big life decisions, and in which members are expected to financially support one another.

Married women – such as Barrett – count their husbands as their “heads” and all members are expected to donate 5% of their income to the organization.

Some conservative and progressive activists have said any discussion of Barrett’s faith is inappropriate in the context of a Senate confirmation to assess her judicial qualifications, and potentially reflects anti-Catholic bigotry.

Other Catholic writers have said it is fair to scrutinize People of Praise because the group falls far outside mainstream Catholicism.

Barrett has not publicly discussed her affiliation but her connection was reported in multiple media accounts at the time of her confirmation to an appellate court in 2017.

Her picture appears in a May 2006 edition of People of Praise’s magazine, which documents her participation in a Leaders’ Conference for Women. Her father and her husband, Jesse Barrett, are also known members.

 

[bodysong]

Trump has his Storm Troopers. The FBI steps in when crimes touch on the political-

Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge tested the boundaries and set up
a legislature move for energy industries to move in on federal lands to exploit resources.

Boundaries are tested, again, when armed civilian militia takes over a local government building.

What is the point of placing Trump into position, and he is weakening the United States
of America, to the point of collpase ?

Trump demands that Americans ignore the existence of coronavirus.

Why is it, that everything that Trump claims to be beneficial for the USA, actually harms it ?

We have lost so many people, as a nation. We have lost so much, that is good about the USA.
This never had to happen. We did not need to lose anything. Trump decided that his election
was more important than anything, else. He is telling everyone to get sick, and get it over with.

Trump pretends to survive coronavirus- Why is he coughing ? Did he shred his vocal cords,
during a raging temper tantrum ?

He tells the United States, as a nation that getting sick with coronavirus", Is a blessing."

Trump is out of his mind, to say that, and it might be because of the *new* drugs that he is taking.

Trump could be telling lies, or he could have survived coronavirus. Few elderly survive it.
Some much better than others. Certainly, if they had a team of doctors at a high functionng
hospital, and unauthorized drugs, they might have a better chance, as he did.

U.S. Midwest Sees Record One-Day Increase in COVID-19 Cases

300% Increase

October 9, 2020

Is it not strange, that Trump has sent his illegal civilian militia to victimize women in power ?
Governor Whitmer, Attorney General Nessel, and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

If the tables were turned, Trump would be screaming about his safety!

Kidnapping and murder- the overturning of local government by force and violence.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2...terrorist-plot

October 8, 2020

Eli Lilly and Regeneron both filed requests to the US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) for Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for their companies’ investigational
monoclonal antibody therapies for COVID-19.

This came on the same evening President Donald Trump gave Regeneron’s REGN-COV2
an investigational antibody combination for COVID-19, a ringing endorsement in a video
released on Twitter.

Quote:

Trump Touts Antibody Treatments For COVID-19, But Evidence Is Incomplete

https://www.wbur.org/npr/921869860/t...-is-incomplete

April 17, 2020 Trump tweeted-
“Liberate Minnesota!" ”Liberate Michigan!” "LiberateVirginia!"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...t-home-orders/

Liberate them from what ? Lock downs, business closing, mask requirements- travel restrictions.

October 9, 2020 Time magazine cover- red coronavirus cloud over White House

artwork on cover-

The only light in the White House is in Trump's secluded bedroom window.
Trump is seen to be tweeting, in the dead of night, when all are sleeping.

Despite Trump's horrible life style, the fetal stem cells may be doing their assigned work.

If Trump has taken any Covid-19 treatments, at all. Walter Reed hospital doctors have signed
a non-disclosure form, and are not talking. (They did that, last year.) Trump's doctor is a liar.

Regeneron is headed by Trump's Gold Card long-term member of Trump's NY golf club.
Eli Lilly and Regeneron stock rose in the market after Trump's hospital theatrics.

What we see, is that Trump is more manic and more malicious, than ever.

Is there anything left of the United States of America, that remains inact and whole ?

The schools and universities are forced to open to students- coronavirus surge

Students and teachers are sick, some have died, some are permantly injured, future botched.

October 9, 2020

The number of Midwest COVID-19 patients hospitalized hit a record high on Thursday
for the fourth day in a row and now tops 8,000. Nationally, nearly 34,000 coronavirus
patients are hospitalized, the highest since Sept. 4.

Michigan’s hospitalizations reached 918 on Thursday, up from 687 the previous day.
Wisconsin is opening a field hospital outside Milwaukee with the number of COVID-19
patients hospitalized hitting a new record on Thursday.

 

[bodysong]

Visceral Disdain

At least this time Trump referred to the governor as “Whitmer,” with no first name or
title. In the past, he called her “that woman in Michigan.”

(Would he ever refer to any male governor as “that man?”)

Trump often displays visceral disdain for females elected to positions of power.
His toxic masculinity is something he shares with the self-described “militias”
who may threaten the Nov. 3 elections by serving as “poll watchers” and who
knows what else if they dislike the results.

Last week, Trump urged the vigilante “Proud Boys” to “stand by,” as if they were
the armed Guardians of Gilead. And Trump’s sexist swagger would fit right in with
Gilead, a land ruled by wealthy, male, Christian extremists who allow women to breed
babies and not do much more and who execute men and women who are not heterosexual.

You think this is all an exaggeration? You think bad stuff can’t happen here?
That fiction never bleeds into fact?

If Trump succeeds in stealing a Supreme Court seat for the reactionary Judge Amy
Coney Barrett, she will likely tilt the Court to ban abortion, just the way the male
commanders do for the women of Gilead.

You think that’s far-fetched? Barrett’s extremist Christianity includes time spent in
a cultish group called People of Praise, which is devoted to reestablishing a male-
dominated religious culture.

Oh, and Barrett’s title with that flock: “Handmaid.”

https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/art...lawmakers_should_ban_guns_at_michigan_capitol

 

[bodysong]

Michigan Sheriff Excuses Threat To MI Governor As 'Citizens' Arrest'

October 9, 2020

The domestic terrorists planning to kidnap Michigan’s governor have a champion
in Sheriff Dar Leaf, who took time out of his busy day to defend them from the
conspiracy charges...

Leaf was shocked that federal charges were leveled against those poor men.

Leaf said in an interview with Fox17 News. “Cause a lot of people are angry with
the governor and they want her arrested. So, are they trying to arrest or was it a kidnap
attempt? Because you still can, in Michigan, if it’s a felony, make a felony arrest.”

(...)

Not content to stop there, the sheriff went on to spew forth some argle-bargle about
a criminal code section allowing them to make this “arrest.”

“I think it’s MCO 764.4 or something like that, .5, somewhere around there,” Leaf
explained. “It doesn’t say if you’re in elected office you’re exempt from that arrest."
"So, I have to look at it from that angle and I’m hoping that’s more what it is.”

Crooks and Liars

Michigan sheriff defends men accused in Gov. Whitmer kidnapping plot,
drawing condemnation from state AG

October 9, 2020

A sheriff in Michigan is defending some of the men accused of plotting to kidnap
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, questioning whether the men were planning
a “felony arrest” in comments that drew condemnation from the state’s attorney general.

(...)

Asked about his involvement with Null Thursday, Leaf appeared to downplay
the seriousness of the kidnapping accusations, even suggesting the plot may
have been warranted.

“Well it’s just a charge, and they say a plot to kidnap. . .are they trying to kidnap?
Because a lot of people are angry with the governor and they want her arrested so,
are they trying to arrest or was it a kidnap attempt?” he said.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10...idnapping-plot-drawing-condemnation-state-ag/