All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Jack Dracula]

Sloppy Steve wouldn’t last two WEEKS in general population before he’s reduced to a mound of blubbering, overweight traitor flesh.

I want to believe his experience would thoroughly suck, but in reality, some of the inmates would probably be white supremacists who'd take care of him, some of the guards would be fans of Breightbart and they'd all be Trump supporters.

[Wildling]

The Ethan Grey one?

https://twitter.com/_EthanGrey/statu...24357957230594

Exactly.

Can you see all the layers of let me speak to your manager until we're all dead in melted asphalt and Mets still says he could still vote for a Democrat?

I want to believe his experience would thoroughly suck, but in reality, some of the inmates would probably be white supremacists who'd take care of him, some of the guards would be fans of Breightbart and they'd all be Trump supporters.

Thoughts and prayers for him to actually breathe the same air as them let alone him accept their hand touches or more.

[Tendrin]

When I talk about the fact that women can have naturally high testosterone and the connection between racism and transphobia, I'm not kidding.

Two 18-year-old cisgender sprinters from Namibia, Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi, have been banned from running in the Olympic 400-meter dash because they have a “natural high testosterone level.” They’re now the two latest African women to be banned from track events because they don’t fit into the World Athletics organization’s definition of womanhood.

The organization capped testosterone levels for women’s events over 400 meters but below 1600 meters in 2019, a rule that limited the career of cis lesbian South African runner Caster Semenya.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/07/...terone-levels/

[Tendrin]

This is terrible news for science:

In August 2021, Matthew Schrag, a neuroscientist and physician at Vanderbilt University, got a call that would plunge him into a maelstrom of possible scientific misconduct. A colleague wanted to connect him with an attorney investigating an experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease called Simufilam. The drug’s developer, Cassava Sciences, claimed it improved cognition, partly by repairing a protein that can block sticky brain deposits of the protein amyloid beta (Aβ), a hallmark of Alzheimer’s. The attorney’s clients—two prominent neuroscientists who are also short sellers who profit if the company’s stock falls—believed some research related to Simufilam may have been “fraudulent,” according to a petition later filed on their behalf with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Schrag, 37, a softspoken, nonchalantly rumpled junior professor, had already gained some notoriety by publicly criticizing the controversial FDA approval of the anti-Aβ drug Aduhelm. His own research also contradicted some of Cassava’s claims. He feared volunteers in ongoing Simufilam trials faced risks of side effects with no chance of benefit.

So he applied his technical and medical knowledge to interrogate published images about the drug and its underlying science—for which the attorney paid him $18,000. He identified apparently altered or duplicated images in dozens of journal articles. The attorney reported many of the discoveries in the FDA petition, and Schrag sent all of them to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which had invested tens of millions of dollars in the work. (Cassava denies any misconduct [see sidebar, below].)

But Schrag’s sleuthing drew him into a different episode of possible misconduct, leading to findings that threaten one of the most cited Alzheimer’s studies of this century and numerous related experiments.

https://www.science.org/content/arti...eimers-disease

[DanMad1977]

First Russia signs a contract for shipment of agriculture exports and find a diplomatic solution with Ukraine and right after that the Russians fire missiles at the harbor of Odessa.

They spit in the face of everyone, including Erdogan, who was mediator in the negotiations.

[Mister Mets]

When I talk about the fact that women can have naturally high testosterone and the connection between racism and transphobia, I'm not kidding.


https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/07/...terone-levels/

They say that this is the same as what happened to Caster Semenya but she does have xy chromosomes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/s...ents-show.html

The lgbtqnation piece suggests that someone is intersex only if they identify that way, and a cis woman if they identify that way, which seem to be new definitions of these words.

We've argued about the ban on Semenya in the past. These are sports categories designed to remove half the population with particular genetic advantages (IE- men) so there have to be clear metrics about who qualifies and who does not. Self-identification doesn't work, even if there may be some standards that would work for someone like Semenya such as allowing women who are AFAB and intersex to compete. There are other standards that would yield different results (upper limits on testosterone, restrictions to people with XX chromsomes, etc.)

[WAKANDA FOREVER!]

This is terrible news for science:



https://www.science.org/content/arti...eimers-disease

Sigh! So I guess I'm stuck treating symptoms until the inflammation and/or immune dysfunction folks take over. Thanks for the article, Tendrin.

[Tendrin]

Sigh! So I guess I'm stuck treating symptoms until the inflammation and/or immune dysfunction folks take over. Thanks for the article, Tendrin.

Wow. I'm glad that actually helps you. Seriously.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published our profile of former Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, who quite obviously is famous for the time during a live interview, he decided to give his thoughts on abortion, and "legitimate rape". This might have something to do with the fact that Akin was long a supporter of Personhood legislation, as well. Anyway, we covered Akin's jacked-up ideology at length, and how he accidentally made everyone instantly aware of the GOP's "War on Women" with that sound bite.

In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as in 2019, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, delving into his entire history as a politician going all the way back to his days as a student at Marquette University (where he left school in 1990 to avoid disciplinary action for attempting to have his student body president campaign staff round up as many campus newspapers as they could to destroy them because they endorsed his opponent), to his run for the White House. Walker, as we noted, has a tendency to tell really terrible lies, like union workers surrounding his car and attempting to flip it over, or that his rapidly developing bald spot isn't actually male pattern baldness, but just a scar from a time he bumped his head on a table. In his time as Governor of Wisconsin, he gave huge tax breaks for the top income bracket, while cutting more money to teachers than any governor in the country (and any shortcomings in student performance, he blames on the teachers who are operating without real budgets). Walker has demonized union workers, wiped out government oversight offices, and has had repeated criminal investigations launched against his staff for illegal use of state resources to further their own partisan agenda. And that doesn't even begin to cover what a boob he looked like while campaigning for president in 2016. Gov. Walker was hell bent on winning Iowa, pandering to locals, and trying to establish himself as the frontrunner for the GOP early on, in the process, neglecting his own state. And that presidential run showed him to be, as some GOP pundits delicately put it, "Kind of a Dumbass". While visiting London, Walker denied the science behind evolution. He found himself in the midst of being considered a Birther for saying in two separate campaign stops that he "wasn't sure if President Obama is a Christian", and that he could not confirm that "Barack Obama loves America". He tried claiming he could stop ISIS because he "stopped 100,000 union protesters back home", changed his stance on immigration no less than four times (claiming this wasn't flip-flopping because he never had cast a vote on the issue), denied that a woman's medical history regarding abortions should remain between her and her doctor, tried pretending that mandatory intravaginal ultrasounds were "a cool thing", refused to answer when asked if he thought being gay was a choice or not, sued the federal government for the right to drug test welfare recipients, and promised to bomb Iran on the first day of his presidency. To name just a few gaffes. As Gov. Walker began to see his lead in Iowa polls faltering, he thought he could energize his base the same way Donald Trump was, by attacking immigrants. As such, Walker started wavering on birthright citizenship, eventually saying he supported a repeal of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution and then tried to one-up Trump by saying he wouldn't stop at a border wall along the U.S./Mexico border, that he would build one along the U.S. Canada border, as well. By the end of September 2016, Walker’s campaign had already folded its tents, and he returned to Wisconsin with record low approval ratings, after only 71 days on the campaign trail. Gov. Walker would then work to sign legislation to dissolve the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, a non-partisan panel of judges that guarantees government ethics, and fairness in elections out of spite because the GAB had previously investigated a myriad of wrongdoing by Walker. In March 2016 he nominated Rebecca Bradley to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which proved controversial since she once wrote opinion editorials at Marquette University (where Walker went to school) where she repeatedly called gay people "queers", and said that they deserved no sympathy for dying from AIDS. In one such column, Bradley wrote that it was “their misdirected compassion for the degenerates who basically commit suicide through their behavior.” Walker's nomination, once confirmed, got Bradley a 10 year term on the Court. And, while Walker may not have been on the ballot when the 2016 elections rolled around, he still got a few surprises in September and October of 2016. Like how The Guardian got a hold of the content of a lot of the John Doe Investigation into Walker’s staff using government e-mail for partisan purposes… in those e-mails, Walker staffers discuss their strategy to survive the recall effort against the governor… His main fundraiser, Kate Doner, laid out their plan as, ”Corporations. Go heavy after them to give. Take Koch’s money. Get on a plane to Vegas and sit down with Sheldon Adelson. Ask for $1m now.” Feeling like the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision was a bad idea yet? Well, guess what? That wasn’t all that The Guardian uncovered in all those e-mails. They also found written proof that while Scott Walker might try justifying all his voter suppression techniques as a way of “curtailing voter fraud”, his own people don’t believe it exists, know they’re claiming it’s “widespread” without proof, and know they’re just using it as an excuse to subvert our democracy so the outcome is they win. Meanwhile, criticism grew against Walker, particularly in more liberal parts of his state, Walker has tried to stifle dissent in the way one would if they didn’t care that the First Amendment was in existence. He was eager to see the Wisconsin state legislature pass AB 299, the supposed “Campus Free Speech Act” that did precisely the opposite, allowing for the possibility of students heckling political speeches on campus at the University of Wisconsin to suspended or even expelled from school. Walker loves to hear his own voice, though. He spoke at the 2016 Republican National Convention after pretending he wasn’t going for months upon months, and threw red meat to the crowd by his assessment that Hillary Clinton “belongs in prison”, but, y’know, without actually having a crime to throw her in for other than being a Democrat and a lady running for president. And that’s amazing, because while he feels Hillary should be behind bars, he’s got no problem with all the treasonous actions done by the Trump campaign by colluding with Russia. He’s attempted to downplay Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections, claiming that their hacking the Democratic National Committee and into voter registration systems in 39 states is no worse than the Scottish Prime Minister giving an endorsement of Hillary Clinton. No s*** HE SAID THAT. Scott Walker is ridiculous enough to have argued that Donald Trump should actually post on Twitter MORE. Think about that… the number of times that Trump has even posted things that could end up being self-incriminating in obstruction of justice or collusion hearings going forward, and Scott Walker thinks it’s just GREAT, keep it comin’, Donnie! Scott Walker's abysmal 2016 presidential run left him vulnerable for a potential third term in 2018. He faced the humiliating political defeat of trying to prevent special elections in Wisconsin that year, after panicking after several upsets in traditionally Republican areas, he got on Twitter to panic in January, posting a “WAKE UP CALL” to his fellow members of the GOP. He then tried to drag his feet on holding special elections to replace elected officials until November, and was successfully sued by Wisconsin Democrats, with the judge ordering the state to carry them out. And lo and behold, Democrats did pull another upset on that ballot, to Walker’s chagrin. Walker’s approval ratings dropped into the 30s in polls (among the reasons not repairing the state's roads), suspending a program to pick up dead deer from the highways, instead leaving them to rot), and his attempt at running for president left him with a meager campaign war chest. What is certain, though, is Scott Walker, for being a man who talks so much about being part of the party of responsibility, accepts none for his own terrible leadership. Instead, he blamed his low approval ratings on "bad headlines" from the media, “unfairly” turning people against him. It also likely didn’tt help that he was just caught hanging around with Russian spy Maria Butina and members of the NRA, and tried using the “don’t know her” excuse when, ta da, there are photos. And ALL of that… is why in 2018, the Blue Wave came to Wisconsin, and still swept over all the voter suppression tactics of the Walker regime to take him out of office, with Democrat Tony Evers sending him packing by a margin of just under 30,000 votes. His career seems mercifully, over.

[worstblogever]

On this date in both 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled Lauren Boebert, who we began discussing just after she won the GOP Primary for the seat for U.S. House Representatives from Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District after upsetting Congressman Scott Tipton.

She… is a lot.

Boebert, prior to her first Congressional run gained notoriety as the owner of Shooter’s Grill, which amounts to being a Hooters if the women wear a lot more denim and a gun holstered at their hip. Let’s look past this novel concept to realize that Boebert’s libertarian/conservative point of view (she’s opposed to any form of income tax increase, on any bracket, but supports Donald Trump’s stupid idea for a border wall along the U.S./Mexico border) applies to how she’d like to run her restaurant, as Shooter’s Grill already had warnings from the health department for allowing its customers to get sick eating there (she attacked the local media for reporting on it, incidentally, and she even managed to have a food-poisoning outbreak after hosting a fundraiser at the place featuring some apparently infectious, bloody-diarrhea causing pork sliders) and then going “next level” and refusing to obey orders to close her dining area during the Covid-19 pandemic, until she was forced to shut down by local authorities, who suspended her food license.

Of course, she paints a picture in this where she’s the heroine standing up for “freedom” when she seems to just use it to see that as many people are afflicted with disease as possible. If you’re already noticing a pattern of “weird” around Boebert, what with the gun-themed restaurant that makes everyone sick, hang on to your hats…

She was also a Qanon conspiracy theory supporter, going on record that “she hopes its real”, which is an odd way to regard the absolutely deranged belief that there Democrats who oppose Donald Trump running subterranean Satanic cults harvesting fear hormones from children they molest and kill, and their opposition to Trump is because he’s going to expose and arrest them all. That’s a weird thing to “hope” is true. After she won the primary, the media decided to ask Boebert about her support for the Qanon conspiracy theory, expecting that she might back off now that she had to come to the center for the general election in November… but she reaffirmed it saying she believed “parts” of the theory and that “Qanon means a lot of things to a lot of different people”.

And Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, what with a +6 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Index in 2020, managed to overlook that Lauren Boebert was bats*** crazy and elected her with 51% of the vote.

She wasted no time in becoming one of the most notorious seditionists in the GQP. Prior to the attack on the Capitol, and prior to being sworn into office, Lauren Boebert was getting posts flagged on social media for perpetrating “The Big Lie” that somehow, against all reason, the 2020 election was “stolen” from Donald Trump, with posts like this:

”Objecting to the counting of certain electoral votes is NOT “overthrowing” the results of the election if those votes were won through fraud. Winning an election through fraud is what I would consider “overthrowing” the results. That is exactly why we’re fighting for POTUS!”

Only days after Boebert was sworn in, she was allegedly offering tours to the sorts of insurrectionists who would turn up in the Capitol on 1/6 to attempt to violently storm the building, seemingly let them scout the attack out on a reconnaissance trip. Other members of Congress thought it odd, just because, y’know, we were still in the darkest phase yet of the Covid-19 pandemic and bringing in people for a tourist’s visit isn’t exactly responsible. Now, we’ll note, Boebert denies the allegation, but given the amount of gaslighting from the RepubliQan Party regarding January 6th where they want to convince the public it was carried out by “Antifa in disguise” and their complete opposition to the attack even being investigated, forgive us if we don’t take the words spewing out of her conspiracy-theory-spouting mouth as an adequate reason to have it looked into.

We’re not done talking about Lauren Boebert and January 6th, though. It’s not just that she’s accused of offering logistical support to right-wing extremists prior to the attack… on the day of the attack, her behavior continued to be ludicrous, and it appeared like she was in cahoots with those storming the building. She got on Twitter the morning of the attack to declare, “Today is 1776”, an obvious call to revolution, and during the attack itself, after the Sergeant at Arms gave explicit instructions to members of Congress to not make social media posts during a lockdown, she managed to WHOOPS point out where members of Congress were being sequestered by Capitol Police and then additionally let it be known that the security detail were escorting Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi away from the rest.

If she’s not willfully malicious in her actions that day, she’s one of the the dumbest mother***ers to be elected in awhile. Frankly, we’re pretty sure it’s both.

Lauren Boebert has done things that are suspicious and seem like she was providing support and comfort to the domestic terrorists who tried to storm the Capitol to attempt overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election that are mostly ceremonial and execute Vice President Mike Pence. Do you know what would have been smart to not do? To not be seen in public with one of the people who admits they were one of the insurrectionists that day. On June 29th, 2021, Boebert was one of seven members of Congress who took a trip to the U.S./Mexico border to pretend there’s a massive migrant invasion underway at all hours and decided to hang out on that trip with Anthony Aguero, who we’ve profiled before as an ex-felon, domestic abuser, and Qanon conspiracy theorist who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2020, and oh yeah, that mother***er was one of the seditious ***holes an the Capitol grounds on 1/6 who is somehow still roaming free to buddy up with the Congresswoman who allegedly was offering logistical support to his cause. If you think this is an “alleged” meetup, like Boebert would likely try and claim, here’s a story about it that goddamn selfie that Boebert and Aguero took together.

[worstblogever]

We’re going to just pull back here to look at a timeline of her voting record, dedicated to this Republican insurgency, and the slew of times she’s already made an ass of herself publicly in her first seven months in office. Saddle up, this is gonna be a ride:

• January 4th, 2021: Boebert boasts about walking around Washington D.C. carrying a Glock, which is against the law in the city.
• January 6th, 2021: Lauren Boebert votes for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message that she wasn’t intimidated or sympathetic to those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup.
• January 13th, 2021: Rep. Boebert votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump for attempting a violent coup.
• February 4th, 2021: Lauren Boebert votes to keep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s committee assignments, because he wouldn’t want her to be accountable for all the bigoted remarks and conspiracy theories she’s spread online (probably because she’s a kindred spirit).
• February 10th, 2021: Boebert is only one month into her Congressional career when she’s hit with her first ethics complaint for lying about how much gas she used while driving around to campaign in 2020. The working theory was she reported the claim to be able to finance her restaurant a little longer.
• February 18th, 2021: Rep. Boebert appears in a virtual Congressional hearing with a backdrop behind her featuring two assault rifles displayed prominently, making many commentators compare the visual to what is usually seen in terrorist manifesto videos.
• February 19th, 2021: Many critics dogpile on Lauren Boebert after she stupidly posts on Twiitter that, “Protecting and defending the Constitution doesn’t mean trying to rewrite the parts you don’t like.” People with a basic understanding of civics point out that the Constitution is actually designed to be amended by our Founding Fathers.
• February 24th, 2021: Lauren Boebert sponsors the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2021, which would be a white nationalist’s wet dream, as it’s an unconstitutional attempt to ignore the part of the 14th Amendment that guarantees birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants.
• February 25th, 2021: Boebert votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
• March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Boebert votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
• March 3rd, 2021: Lauren Boebert votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
• March 10th, 2021: Boebert votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
• March 10th, 2021: Lauren Boebert releases a political ad that demands the security fencing that has remained around the Capitol since the events of Jan. 6 be removed that calls out Nancy Pelosi by name, and then ends with a shotgun blast, a reload, and another gunshot.
• March 17th, 2021: Rep. Boebert votes against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
• April 9th, 2021: Lauren Boebert frankly just self-owns against the GOP on Twitter, posting, “We live in the freest country on planet earth. The rest of the world envies our freedoms. Meanwhile, we have a political party that is laser-focused on destroying our freedoms. It is not only shocking, but very dangerous.”
• April 15th, 2021: Boebert, seemingly without any self-awareness of her own potential ties to domestic terrorists, posts on Twitter that “Packing the Supreme Court is an act of political terrorism.” It also ignores, you now, the recent history of Mitch McConnell’s hypocrisy to get three justices sworn in during the Trump administration after blocking the pick of Merrick Garland for almost a year. (And ignores her own support of domestic terrorists from the Capitol Attack.)
• April 16th, 2021: Rep. Boebert responds to the news that a 19-year-old mentally ill FedEx worker in Indianapolis took a semi-automatic weapon to work and killed eight of his coworkers by getting on Twitter to post the completely unhelpful statement, “Mass shootings are illegal.”
• April 22nd, 2021: Apparently Boebert is addicted to getting ratio’ed on Twitter, as she decided to post, “Joe Biden has zero authority to cancel the Fourth of July”, which he was planning to do the opposite of, anyway.
• May 19th, 2021: Lauren Boebert votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
• May 20th, 2021: Boebert is one of 63 Republicans who vote against the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act.
• June 15th, 2021: Rep. Boebert is one of twenty-one Republicans who pick a side to have rooted for in the failed coup attempt on 1/6/21 and votes against awarding Congressional gold medals to members of the Capitol Police who bravely defended members of Congress during the attack.
• June 29th, 2021: Boebert is one of 8 Republicans who travel to the U.S./Mexico border to do photo-ops to stir up anti-immigrant furor, but also appear on camera with Capitol insurrectionist Anthony Aguero, as if he wasn’t a part of an attack on Congress less than six months prior.
• July 8th, 2021: Rep. Boebert posts he bizarre statement on Twitter that “Covid-19 mutated into Communism a long time ago.”
• July 22nd, 2021: Boebert is one of 16 Republicans who vote against HR 3895, the Allies Act, which was passed without his support to raise the amount of visas offered and to expedite their issue to Afghan translators and their families to honor our promise to protect them against the Taliban after U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, thus feeling we should go back on our word and leave them to die.
• August 16th, 2021: Boebert compares the return to the Taliban in Afghanistan, (who came back into power due to the incompetence of Donald Trump’s foreign policy), to American Democrats, saying they were “Building Back Better”, a reference to the pitched infrastructure bill she wouldn’t be voting for.
• September 7th, 2021: Lauren Boebert makes an Islamophobic attack towards Democratic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashaida Talib, saying that they were “on the Jihad Squad”, and were “black-hearted and evil”.

[Tami]

This is terrible news for science:



https://www.science.org/content/arti...eimers-disease

Not really. I mean it is a setback for Alzheimer's research, but research will continue. This kind of thing happens often enough, that is why science is the best way to police science. Science has always policed it's own.

[Tami]

Sigh! So I guess I'm stuck treating symptoms until the inflammation and/or immune dysfunction folks take over. Thanks for the article, Tendrin.

I hope and pray for a cure or effective treatment myself since my mother had it and I've seen how bad it can get up close. Best to let the work progress at its own pace. I actually see this as a sign that there may be a potential treatment out there just waiting to be discovered.

[worstblogever]

• September 27th, 2021: Boebert gets on social media and openly begins promoting the white nationalist “replacement theory”, even stating it by name.
• November 5th, 2021: Lauren Boebert votes against HR 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
• November 24th, 2021: Boebert challenges Republican colleague Madison Cawthorn to a “sprint”. Congressman Cawthorn is confined to a wheelchair.
• January 21st, 2022: Rep. Boebert harasses a contingent of Jewish visitors to the U.S. Capitol, asking them if THEY were “doing reconnaissance”, (a stupid attempt at “both sides can do it”), and after being called out for what could be anti-Semitism, she made it official by saying, “I’m too short to be able to see anyone’s yarmaluke”.
• February 4th, 2022: Lauren Boebert gives an originalist take on the Constitution, insisting that it is “not evolving”, and that people who claim it is “spit in the face of the Founding Fathers”. She has people point out that it must be evolving, because she’s a woman and can vote.
• February 27th, 2022: Boebert, responding to Canada’s vaccine mandates, says that perhaps Canada needs to be “liberated” like Russia was doing to Ukraine. Which, in one sentence, she shows she’s an anti-vaccine twit, and that she’s beholden to Russian interests by repeating their talking points about their invasion of an American ally.
• March 1st, 2022: Rep. Boebert and Marjorie Taylor-Greene heckle President Biden during his State of the Union Address, like brain-damaged and unfunny versions of Waldorf and Statler from the Muppets. Worst of all, they chose to do it while the president was having a heartfelt moment talking about his late son, Beau.
• March 23rd, 2022: Boebert gets on Twitter and posts a bizarre and misleading anti-vaccine statement, using her allergy medication to prove her point, and saying that “they don’t work unless everyone takes it”. Which… allergies are not contagious, and…
  Y’know what, she’s a f***ing dunce, and we’re not going to waste time explaining something that nonsensical.
• March 31st, 2022: Lauren Boebert votes against HR 6833, the Affordable Insulin Now Act.
• April 4th, 2022: Boebert goes on Twitter to join in conservatives railing against Disney for opposing anti-LGBTQ legislation in Florida, and while threatening to retain trademark rights for Disney properties (which she can’t do), she spells their company mascot’s name wrong, writing, “Micky”.
• May 17th, 2022: Lauren Boebert gets on Twitter to promote her own personal conspiracy theory… that major companies are paying for travel for employees to receive abortions because “it’s cheaper to kill the baby” than to pay for maternity leave. Critics note that on several occasions, Boebert has actively stated that she is opposed to companies having to provide maternity leave.
• May 18th, 2022: Rep. Boebert votes against HR 7791, to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 so that waiver authority could be granted to solve supply chain crisises for shortages of baby formula.
• May 18th, 2022: Lauren Boebert is one of 192 Republicans who vote against HR 7790, to create supplemental funding for infant formula (while claiming to be pro-life).
• May 18th, 2022: Rep. Boebert votes against HR 350, the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, because these days, a plank of the Republican Party is ostensibly domestic terror.
• May 19th, 2022: Lauren Boebert votes against HR 7688, a bill which would help prevent gas companies from gouging customers on prices.
• May 27th, 2022: Rep. Boebert completely misses the point and revises history a bit in an interview with Sean Hannity while talking about gun control, saying, “We didn’t ban planes after 9/11”. This, of course ignores all the added safety measures and security screenings that were put in place, and that the TSA enforces to this day.
• June 11th, 2022: Nothing is alright with a sitting member of Congress openly wishing death upon the sitting president, but at a Christian Center, Boebert mentions Joe Biden and misquotes Psalm 109:3, saying, “May his days be few”.
• June 15th, 2022: Lauren Boebert obviously doesn’t understand the first thing about the New Testament, given that she opined on this date that “Jesus didn’t have enough AR-15s to keep his government from killing him.”
• July 15th, 2022: Lauren Boebert votes against House Amendment 262, which would require the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Secretary of Defense to publish a report on the infiltration of American law enforcment by Neo-Nazis and white supremacists, offer measures to be taken to remove them from their ranks, and prevent further infiltration by others.
• July 19th, 2022: Rep. Boebert is one of 157 Republicans who vote against the “Respect for Marriage Act”, which would codify same sex marriage into law nationally.
• July 21st, 2022: Boebert is one of 195 Republicans who vote against the Right to Contraception Act, which codified the right of Americans to have access to birth control.

Just nine days ago, Lauren Boebert’s Shooter’s Grill, the best place to see a member of waitstaff accidentally shoot themselves and get Shigella food poisoning, shut down for good, because the new owners who were leasing the property refused to let Boebert continue renting out the place, because she’s awful enough that they felt a “moral imperative” to get rid of her.

We don’t know how Lauren Boebert stays in office in 2022, other than her conservative-leaning district doesn’t feel any shame for sending an absolutely mouth-breather to DC to represent them (probably not, given how she won her primary with 65% of the vote). Hell, we’re not even sure if she’s gonna stay out of jail. And we don’t just mean for being a seditious loon, she’s constantly in the crosshairs of ethics investigations, whether it’s the fact that she keeps “forgetting” to mention her husband’s income as part of an energy company’s lobbying firm, https://www.salon.com/2021/08/27/lau...reporting-fec/, so it seems more likely having charges pressed against her and being led off of handcuffs will be the way she leaves office, unless her Democratic opponent in November, Adam Frisch, can pull a HUGE upset. Here’s hoping.

[Tendrin]

Not really. I mean it is a setback for Alzheimer's research, but research will continue. This kind of thing happens often enough, that is why science is the best way to police science. Science has always policed it's own.

Oh, sure. Not contesting that.