And, in a timely development linked to the above comment about the Rethuglicunts abandoning the Senate to protect Paedo Don, we have this nice little news item, featuring J. Stuart Adams, leader of the Rethuglicunts in Utah. Who pushed through a change to the sexual age of consent laws, after a relative of his was accused of raping a 13 year old girl.
Looks like Numbers 31:18 isn’t just a fantasy for fundie Christian Nationalists.
Meanwhile, lets just get rid of the satellites that track climate change…
If you need a chuckle today…
That’s completely on-brand for the Cheeto, whose response to bad COVID numbers was to reduce or eliminate testing.
And now, we have a literal instance of “fuck around and find out”.
This one comes courtesy of, wait for it, Senator Justin Eichorn.
Several here will remember that this individual was in the news some time ago, for trying to run a bill through the Minnesota Legislature, adding “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (oh, the irony) to the mental health laws, presumably as an underhand means of dragging political opponents off the streets and throwing them into psychiatric hospitals under false pretences. A classic Soviet tactic, incidentally.
Well, guess what?
Eichorn has been arrested for solicitation of a minor.
Yes, he tried to recruit an underage girl for sex. Worse still, he offered payment to the online individual in question.
However, the “underage girl” in question was actually an undercover police officer, taking part in a sting operation against Internet paedophiles. Eichorn walked into the trap like the patsy he is.
More details can be found here, in which it was revealed that arresting officers found cash and a condom in his car when the trap was sprung. The indictment docket can be found here.
Not for nothing has “GOP” become an acronym for “Gang of Paedophiles”.
“Those who complain the loudest …”
I have often wondered though why kinks and perversions and why children exactly. The only theory I have is that one of the things that conservatives are trying to “conserve” is old-fashioned sexual repression and control structures, and as products of such repression they end up warped in these ways. AND it fits with the saying above [shrug].
Tariffs went into effect today. Here’s the list:
I see the penguins of Heard Island are no longer on the list. I wonder it they paid off the Cheeto?
…and we all know how that went… 
And the USA is heading for Black Death era Mongolia territory at a rate of knots … if the only people affected by this were the reich whinge pols and the MAGAl’Qaeda loons who voted for said filth, it would be amusing. But a lot of decent human beings are going to be destroyed by this disaster, including those who tried to stop it happening.
This is the testing ground for a push for full, nationwide martial law.
BREAKING: President Trump has invoked Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act, taking control of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under the guise of an “emergency” and deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C… This is a move with no modern precedent.
Why this is deeply troubling:
•Unprecedented power grab: No president has ever used Section 740 before.
•Attack on local self-governance: This overrides D.C.’s limited Home Rule, stripping power from elected local leaders.
•Flimsy justification: Trump cites an “emergency” despite D.C. data showing violent crime down 26% and overall crime down 7% year-to-date.
•Militarization of a city: Deploying troops and federal agents without local coordination risks escalating tensions and eroding civil liberties.
•Authoritarian optics: This looks less like public safety, and more like political theater designed to project power and control. D.C. isn’t being “liberated.” It’s being occupied.
The rapist idiot is also threatening to “federalize” Washington D.C.
This would require Congress overturning the Home Rule act.
Don the Con would most certainly then begin trying the same with other major cities.
We shall see how it plays out.
