Capitol Hill Blue Forums Thread Like Summary - Round Table for Spring 2023

The news outlets are making the same mistake they made in the runup to the 2016 election.
They are gifting the Grifter-in-Chief millions of dollars in free publicity and turning an official function of our justice system into a reality show.
We do not need or want 24 hour coverage of every time the former guy burps, farts, or issues another demand for insurrection.

He WANTS the 24 hour media circus.
We should not be giving him what he wants, we should be giving Americans what they desperately need.

My favorite part of being on the internet is reading various comments. Every once and awhile, I come across a comment that tugs at the heart strings.

I think what you are trying to type is .... The Supreme Court is above the law.

Presumably if Congress passed a bill which would restrict the Judicial branch in any way, they could file a suit and have it heard before the very court which was restricted. If a suit had been filed, it would be a foregone conclusion they would rule the law was unConstitutional, which makes them above the law.

I'll bet the Founders never considered that conundrum when writing the Constitution.

Idaho has just made it illegal to transport a minor anywhere without parental consent to get an abortion, joining several other states. I'm not sure what happens if a PG girl gets on a city bus to go somewhere to get some abortion pills. Does the bus driver get charged?

Anyway, I just realized girls in Idaho have a perfect means of getting an abortion: Just tell daddy they will inform Child Protective Services the baby is his if he doesn't drive her to another state for an abortion. I doubt they would force amniocentesis on her to do a paternity test. So daddy is going to sit in jail for around half a year until the baby is born so they can run the test. And even then, if she doesn't recant he could sit there forever. No reason she couldn't be telling the truth, even if she then went and got knocked up by somebody else.

And there would be a decent chance it actually was daddy's baby, considering how many women report sexual abuse by male relatives.

That's the Russian version of transfer of power. Sort of like getting in to work and being called to HR, only to be escorted out of the building by security. The idea is to prevent any sabotage on the way out. So out the window he goes, before he can start WW III.

I think it's inevitable.

Speaking of peaceful transfer of power, now that Disney out-lawyered DeSantis he's weaponizing state government to throw a tantrum. He wants an investigation on various bogus points over what the special district board did after he attempted to wrest control over Disney's media content for criticizing his "Don't Say Gay" campaign. I think he's touched the Third Rail of Florida politics. Trying to hold a huge media company hostage and deny their freedom of speech is going to backfire bigtime. Not to mention Disney is the largest employer in Florida, and used to make a lot of political contributions.

Interesting paper: Low Vitamin D Levels Associated with Long Covid

As I suspected. Taking 5000 iu per day never hurt anybody. That would take you about twice as high as that study considered adequate.

Over the weekend, there was a mass-shooting of a family in Texas. The father of the family asked his neighbor to stop shooting off his AR-15 as a baby in the family was sleeping.

The neighbor went and shot and killed the family, instead. Now he's MIA and the police are looking for them.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott went out of his way when discussing this incident to state that the deceased family are "illegal immigrants." As if THAT matters. What the HELL is wrong with RWingers?!?

WAY TOOOOOOO MUCH...and they really do not care.

Herders gonna herd

Why Lefties are more boring than Righties...

Per the Business Insider, Ivanka is going by “Ivanka Kirshner” now, trying to get the stank of her father’s criminality off of her. Good luck with THAT ‘vanky.

Former WWE star Stan Lane has been hounded for decades that he was the father of U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO D3), Lane took a DNA test last week and...he is NOT the father.

Shawn Roberts Bentz, Lauren's mother, has long insisted the retired wrester was her daughter's biological dad following a short fling in the 1980s and tried and tried to collect child support from him.

How can this woman not know who the father of her U.S. Republican Representative daughter is? Aren't Conservatives all about "family values" and "protecting the children?"

via Wrestling Inc.com

How embarrassing!

Trump attacked his former press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, on his little dog and pony social media platform, calling her "Milktoast," and accusing McEnany of providing the “wrong” poll numbers during an appearance on Fox News.

Trump thinks that "Miquetoast" is spelled "Milktoast," because sure, that's how a low-IQ like Trump spells it.

Hilarious: Floriduh has passed a new law that starts on July 1st, that has all kinds of anti-immigrant measures, including confiscating driver licenses issued by other states and sending people transporting immigrants to prison for 5 years. These two might be a bit problematic since those driver licenses are actually the property of the issuing state, and the transportation measure means Governor DeSantis and his contractors who deceive immigrants into getting on planes or buses heading to some other state are subject to arrest and prison and not just on kidnapping charges.


This is a YouTube video about the obvious: Republicans freaking out about all their construction and farm workers leaving the state in droves. My favorite part: "We need closed borders, but my Mexicans are okay." Now all those jobs "they are stealing from Americans" are simply not getting done, because no American is willing to do them.

The depraved sociopath doesn't know if he's coming or going.

Let's make a Deal, do you want to keep the boxes in the bathroom, or see what's behind curtain number 2?

Despised that poison dwarf the moment he began running his yapper.
I used to think he was just a standup comedian or a local weather guy who scored a lucky gig.