You don't tug on Superman's Cape, you don't spit into the wind...

Thank you, Jim Croce.

I thought they stopped doing lobotomies. I guess not.

Someone mentioned the right's favorite new word "groomers"; right on cue:

The more comments I read in twitter, the more convinced I become that right wingers just ain't right in the head.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...ce3ef4f3c9.jpg

And fellow nutjob Lauren Boebert willingly married a guy who exposed himself to minors.

Plus, it ain't Democrats trying to pass laws allowing government officials to inspect children's genitals.

Or remove the minimum age for marriage.

Every Republican accusation is a confession.

It fits in with their entire overall mentality of just wanting to drop the pretense and the subtext and just finally go "I'm wrong, the rules don't apply to me, and you can't do anything about it because I'm in power and intend to stay that way."

And Tennessee wants to bring back child-brides, bastion of Democratic voters that it is.

It's weird this hasn't been given more media time.

It's nothing more than a very thinly veiled attempt to get around the SC ruling on gay marriage. They'll just put in an age minimum to override that objection.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted today

@RepMTG
There is a line in the sand.
Either you are Pro-pedophile and Pro-transgender biological men or you defend children and women.
Period.
There is no other option.

I can't wait for the "It's not child rape if you're married" argument from both the Republicans and the "I'm totally not a Republican but here's a list of reasons why they are always right" Republicans.

Could you elaborate or just link to something. Not trying to derail, just curious.

Wait, what? How does it connect to the gay marriage ruling?

The Republicans have been low key, under the radar hot for child marriage for a loooong time.

Except when it's being used to attack Muhammad and Islam by extension.

It's pretty ironic considering the renewed interest in labeling all gay people, or anyone who isn't a reactionary freak is a "groomer".

I can't think of anything being more "groomer" behavior than a parent that allows their child to marry an adult.

Republicans have been pretty high key, very much on the radar hot for "I don't even hide the fact that I think the rules I use to attack you shouldn't apply to me and honestly I'm getting pretty tired of pretending this isn't obvious" for a longer time.

Again because literally every single Republican accusation or worry is a confession.

See Ted Nugent.

Here ya go. From The Hill:

Thanks.

Wait till the find out the gays drink beer. Think they will give that up, too? Or redefine Budweiser to not be a beer?

From the wonderful state that gave us the Scopes Monkey trials.

Well, with that line the GOP will win the Mormon Fundemetalist vote..

It won't be long before some GOP politician goes All The Way and says Gays should be put to death because the Bible says so.

Seems relevant.

John Rose, Republican rep from Tennessee gave Chelsea Doss a scholarship when she was 16, started dating her when she was 18 (and surely not a day sooner!), and married her when she was 21 (he was 46). If only there was a term for that.

https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/stat...26727725121537

Maybe we should take these Republican accusations of grooming seriously, they definitely would know.

ETA: Gotta admire a "hands on" representative who can still mingle with his constituents:

This article published in 2010, they married in 2011.

https://www.murfreesboropost.com/com...a10440472.html

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has reported a Jimmy Kimmel joke to the Capitol Police as a "threat of violence against me"

Video of the joke in the link

https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1511816972610244615

I don't know who started it, but the person I have seen using the term "groomer" the most is James Lindsay.

Remember him? He was that supposedly atheist liberal who wrote those hoax papers with Peter Boghossian, that other totally liberal atheist.

Well, now James Lindsay works for reactionary Christian movement, "Sovereign Nations" and apparently, in all seriousness, writes stuff that looks like someone trying to hoax the reactionary right-wing, but he is apparently completely earnest about it.

Oh and Peter Boghossian? Well, he is busy supporting Peter Thiel-backed GOP candidates all over the place, and in jetting off to Hungary to support Viktor Orban ventures.

These people are totally liberal, of course, and not at all reactionary right-wing cranks.

Jimmy Kimmel was reacting to emptyg tweeting this:
Kimmel looked into the camera and said, "Wow, where's Will Smith when you need him?"

Link to Greene's 'Official' Congressional Twitter account

emptyg considers late night comic Jimmy Kimmel saying, "Where's Will Smith when you need him?" a violent threat that needed to be reported to police.

This was okay. :(

A black gun is for peace. A black man is a threat.

There is a consistency to the messages: Both of them will please her voters.

Reading the comments on MTG's twitter page only reaffirmed my belief: Lordy, these people are STUPID.

Little US "gallon" or proper gallon?

More nonsense from Marj
The Party of...

I'm sure the police, having solved all other crime, will use all available resources to investigate this. :D

The Jimmy Kimmel Live Show is broadcast from a studio in Hollywood. He might have a couple unexpected guests show up tonight. ;)

Just the facts, Mr. Kimmel. Just the facts...

(I'm dating myself here, aren't I?)

Only to 1987. That phrase was never used exactly like that in the original Dragnet. It was used by Dan Aykroyd in the movie adaptation though (and a lot of other mistaken people before that).

Hmmm, I wonder, what are they really thinking?...

The movie also had the line, "This is the pit we had to jump into to save the virgin who was being eaten by the giant snake!"

I don't think that was in the original series either

Yeah....1987...the year I was born....yeah...that's it....that's my story and I'm damn well sticking to it.

What about Goat Pants?