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Maybe he’ll appoint a new Congressional Committee to help.

Show them what Aholes they are.

I'd kind of like a board game based on this.

Maybe they wouldn't need so much money from blue states.

I could go on all day, literally.

Would that be enforced? I can just see it now...

They should have a special branch of the police force. The Jerk Offs. A special insignia is mandatory.

Is this the most pressing issue these jokers could come up with? Why don't they just start dressing like pilgrims?

All of them are so honorable.

Johnson aide advised against Hutchinson subpoena over concerns about lawmakers' 'sexual texts'

I remember seeing it in the theater. This scene had everyone on the floor.

what movie is it from?

I thought that’s where this was going.

of women's rights. Taking away their main hobby is going to be painful

Maybe if our politicians did not think it was cool to abuse the legislative process to score points we'd have better legislatures, though I doubt it.

Oh, yeah, so clever, like a middle-schooler retorting "and so are you" to everything said.

Does anybody seriously believe that pointing out the hypocrisy and double-standard of legislating women's bodies is going to make one percent of difference to the ones who create such legislation, or the ones who support them? Yeah, verily, the scales are going to drop from their eyes and they will utter a heartfelt "mea culpa" just because some wise guy floats a bill designed to fail? What is the point of the exercise?

I suppose it is better to make some symbolic offering than trying to come up with something constructive? Or maybe, you know, lacking the imagination to do the latter, one does the former because after all, one's re-election is coming up sooner or later.

-- Mal

.... right on the nose "Populist". Populism is a political style that acts out, transgresses, and derides those who are stuffy, serious elitists and snobs. Sort of the Marx brothers in the political realm. Or maybe better, professional wrestling in the political realm.

TSF (a populist way of referring to the current occupant of the people's house) is a (right wing) populist. He has the loyalty and support of the uneducated, low information, "pro wrestling" segments of the population because he is entertaining in a way that triggers and owns the elites. He's one of the guys, for some definition of "the guys".

Populism is not an ideology, and does not have to be (and often has not been) a right wing stance. It can lean left liberal populist. It can draw the segment of voters who are swayed by it away from the right. It can mock and disempower the oligarchy, the patriarchy, and Comstockery.

In this light, the bill that was introduced is NOT targeted towards eliciting a "mea culpa" from the prudes, puritans, and bluenose prigs on the right that are attempting to legislate women's bodies. It is targeted towards making fun of them in a crass way that will appeal to the populist segment and draw them away from TSF's cult. While we might not all feel comfortable with this tactic, we probably need to have some of those who are practitioners on our side.

The Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style and Representation by Benjamin Moffitt

And is a proud example of political satire in that tradition. We need MUCH MORE of this. Remember, Tim Walz uncovered their Achilles tendon: They HATE being laughed at.

So bring it on, please!!

Is the "tiny minority with any self-awareness" greater or lesser, in your opinion, than the majority who are irony-challenged and will probably see this as a genuine proposal? Is it greater or lesser, in your opinion, than the percentage who will actually applaud it and think it is a good idea?

I think Dean Swift might find himself somewhat befuddled (well, actually not, given what kind of a person Dean Swift was) to find that his satire is taken as a sober proposal rather than a modest one. This is, IMO, one of the problems we have on the dissenting side of the aisle. Tactics which we think are brilliant and witty fall into an empty echo chamber. It may be good for the ego, but as to being productive of results, it's a null program. IMO, of course.

Ultimately, to answer Joseph Welch's question, no, they have no shame and no sense of decency. And any such satire as this bill is absolutely reliant on them having some shred of shame and decency.

-- Mal

Repukes are the Gawd party, are they not?

wet dreams?
Asking for a friend, obviously.

If those idiots want to criminalize destroying a "potential" human, then they need to be charged for every sperm they squirt that doesn't have a chance at fertilizing an egg.

I'm surprised he didn't say that contraception begins when a prepubescent boy has his first wet dream.
This guy's a dildo, no doubt.
Note: a dildo is a mindless fucker.

I don't think he's a nut.

(Damn I did it again!)

Might want to have another go at it and then edit or delete your post.

Limp dick? - No more Viagra or Cialis, no more testosterone, you'll just have to live that way
Crushed a nut / blown scrotum? - No more reconstructive surgery, you'll just have to live that way.
Ejaculation with no intent to fertilize including nocturnal emission = major civil penalties

you beat me to it.

(See wahr I did there?)

every sperm is sacred
every sperm is great
if just one is wasted
god will get irate.

Theoretically, one could incur a fine because of an unplanned "sexy dream".

I like where this is going.

See what I did there? I've been bitchin' for decades that women have gotten a bad rap with the prissy way we approach sexuality in this country, socialogically speaking.

Think about it!
A woman "gets" pregnant - a passive voice for an active (series of?) event(s).
Only a woman can be charged for the "crime" of abortion or die because a pregnancy goes wrong.
Men can have sex prior to, and even outside of marriage, but not women.
(Feel free to add to the list.)

Where does that leave heterosexual men of all ages? Masterbating, of course, or having sex with each other...and the sexual divide becomes a chasm. The human race is in a world of hurt.

Gotta say, I like this new Mississippi state rep's attitude!