Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Stars Wars and Doctor Who both feature villains transparently based on Nazis, and I’m coming around to the idea that Doctor Who had the more socially useful model: Imperial officers / stormtroopers come off as evil but maybe kind of badass, whereas Daleks more accurately portray fascists as stupid and cheap and just gratingly skin-crawlingly annoying.

The idea that something as obnoxious and ridiculous as a Dalek can also be dangerous and utterly evil is…a useful lesson.

Realizing as I wrote the previous post:

Doctor Who is remarkable, unusual among its peers, for its 60 years of near-total non-interest in machismo and militarism. Though the show is often violent, the violence is usually something the baddies do, and always miserable and unfortunate — a failure of some kind, something to mourn. It’s a show where the only things that are ever •badass• are intelligence, courage, and kindness.

Trump again claims E. Jean Carroll made false accusations about him.

he has got the RNC and MAGA to loot.

america's enemies are happy to bail him out.

this makes him feel strong.

Seems the GOP “housewife” and her bosses cherry picked a sex-trafficking event from 20 years ago and decided to try to blame Joe Biden for it.

Lesse’ — who was president 20 years ago…who was it..?

Hmmm…. Wait a minute. It’ll come to me.

Oh yeah!

It was Republican GEORGE W BUSH.

So, not only was Bush responsible for 9/11, wars of convenience, and the Great Recession, but clearly, by their own accounting, sex-trafficking that went unchecked on his watch. #sotu

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/09/katie-britt-seems-to-have-taken-some-liberties-with-that-trafficking-story-she-told/

Journalist catches Sen. Katie Britt in an 'out and out lie' in her State of Union response

A journalist caught Sen. Katie Britt in a blatant lie during her State of the Union response. She claimed that certain crimes took place in the United States, but the journalist pointed out that they actually happened in Mexico.
And guess what? These crimes occurred between 2004 and 2008, while Biden wasn't even Vice President until 2009. Can you believe that?

https://www.rawstory.com/katie-britt-out-and-out-lie/

If you don’t pronounce “Pirates” to rhyme with “Pilates”…

What are you even doing with your life?

My 6YO continued:

6YO: So can they marry a boy or a girl?
ME: Anyone can marry a boy, a girl, or a non-binary person, or whatever. As long as they are an adult, and they aren't already married to someone else.
6YO: So I could marry a girl or a boy?
ME: Yep.
6YO: That's cool.

Yes this conversation happened today, and my two older kids learned about the gender spectrum and marriage equality in a similar way when they were that age.

It's only a big deal if YOU make it a big deal. Love and freedom to be who you are is really easy to understand when you're a kid, and no one has piled baggage on you.

“With nearly as many hospitalizations in January 2024 as in January 2023, it’s clear that #COVID19 is not growing milder and it’s not fading away. The real question, then, is not whether COVID is still a pandemic, but how much COVID illness and death are we willing to accept?”

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2024/is-covid-19-still-a-pandemic/

@TruthSandwich

@Infoseepage:

"My grandfathers served in uniform overseas during WW2 and I knew both of them and I learned my values from them."

"My values: When my own turn came to fight fascism, I wasn't asked to risk my life in a foreign land. All I had to do was get off my couch one afternoon and vote. But I didn't. I took a shit on my grandfathers' graves. I threw away a democracy that a million people died to save. Because I really just don't care."

@Infoseepage @jeff

Let me put $91.5M bond from Trump re into context

This is what one million dollars looks like in 100 dollar bills. If you fill the briefcase, it would hold $2.4 million

Last year E Jean Carroll was awarded 2 such briefcases plus change

Today she got instead 40 such briefacases of money!

@GottaLaff

What I'd really like to know is what Trump put up for collateral to cover it.

8/?? "The institutions of the German government gradually became "Nazified," ...principally fealty to the Nazi leader. [Also in the US] there is movement toward unifying institutions around loyalty to an ethnic identity. ...This threatens the democratic nature of these institutions as well as their competence to carry out their institutional missions. Our democratic culture is on life support."

Think about it this way: there were several high profile cases after marriage equality was passed of county clerks refusing to issue marriage certificates to LGBTQ couples. Now laws have been passed in red states allowing them to refuse. Even letting private businesses to reject LGBTQ customers.

But what about all the quiet, under the table racism you don't hear about? When social workers, judges, bldg permit officials, child welfare caseworkers & doctors act with bias toward people of color, or non-christians, or lgbtq folks?

Non-whites & non-christians are sabotaged every day. Every. Single. Day.

An amendment enshrining abortion rights was officially sealed into the French constitution Friday, during a public ceremony on International Women's Day. France is the first nation to guarantee the right to an abortion in its national charter.

https://www.voanews.com/a/france-enshrines-abortion-rights-on-international-women-s-day-ceremony/7519770.html #voanews

LOL they staged #GOP Trump fundie Katie #Britt in her kitchen which says all you need to know about how Republicans, including the women, see women.

Do you think if a Republican man had given the rebuttal he'd have been in his kitchen? #sexism

@Oeneus

Lasting ceasefire is easy: Hamas just needs to surrender. After all, every ceasefire has been broken by Hamas.

Law-abiding adults can now carry guns openly in South Carolina after governor approves new law
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/law-abiding-adults-now-carry-guns-openly-south-107896173

So, if you are NOT a law abiding adult, this does not apply to you.

... Wait, what??? ...

"“If you're going to pull out a pistol in public and point it at someone because you are pissed off that they took your parking space. we're not allowing that," the Republican from Spartanburg said."

Oh, okay. Because you are not allowing that, we can all sleep well, knowing it will never happen.

Riiiiiiiight.

#guns #gunviolence #guncontrol

for the traitors who use the line "dems will be the end of the US we need psychoPumpkin" here, the FACTS
A Warmonger will never make a country safer, NEVER!

Things Republicans refused to clap for:

- NATO
- tax cuts
- teachers
- infrastructure
- ending cancer
- border security
- fighting the Kremlin
- lead-free water for kids
- Social Security and Medicare

#SOTU

We don't need a conspiracy theory for this to be problematic. On the face of it, a Presidential candidate will owe $91.6M to someone—maybe Chubb, maybe a bank that gave him a line of credit to give Chubb, etc—if he loses the appeal, as he likely will. That's a lot of leverage on a President.
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/08/trump-posts-nearly-92m-bond-to-appeal-e-jean-carroll-defamation-damages

Breaking: #91Felonies rapist has posted a bond of nearly $92 million in E. Jean Carroll defamation case. The posted bond is exactly $91,630,000.00, which includes a district’s courts common practice of requiring a bond of 110% of the judgement.

Insurance company Chubb underwrote the $91.63 million bond for Donald Trump, which the former president signed on Tuesday, March 5.
Under the terms of the bond, Chubb will only secure the appeal of the $83.3 million judgment, not any future appeals.

#91Felonies Rapist got someone to give him almost exactly that amount. America has no idea who that is or who he is now beholden to, and that is unacceptable as a counterintelligence matter.

The whole world wants to know where the money to purchase the bond came from.

And U.S. intelligence *needs* to know.

A billionaire shouldn’t need an agency to post his $90M bond. That should be chump change to a billionaire. Where’s Mr. I’m so rich when it comes to paying his bills?

#rape #defamation #crime #insurrection #natsec