DL Open Thread Tuesday June 6 2023
Pence may face an uphill battle to win the support of a GOP primary voters, most of whom still want to see him swinging from a lamppost and doing that sad little jig that hanged people do.
Mike Pence files paperwork to launch 2024 Republican presidential campaign
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HEY LOSER… Yeah..That’s what a loser would say. Lose much? Pfft…Typical loser comeback. What’s it like to be such a big loser that you lost to Joe Biden? Loser. That’s me speech writing for fellow Blue Hen, Chris Christie.
Mary Trump Shows GOP Wannabes How To Give ‘Loser’ Trump A Lesson In ‘Humiliation’
The niece of the former president urged 2024 GOP candidates to stop going easy on her “thin-skinned baby” of an uncle.
Mary Trump, estranged niece and longtime critic of Donald Trump, said the 2024 Republican hopefuls are too afraid of her uncle’s loyal supporters to take him on directly ― but urged them to do so anyway.
“If they were serious people they would understand that they have a huge opportunity to take Donald out without having to contradict him in terms of policy,” she told MSNBC’s Katie Phang. “Just call him what he is: He’s a loser. He loses constantly. He has never legitimately won anything in his life. He is a thin-skinned baby who has nothing to offer but white grievance.”
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Delaware scientist wants to import spotted lanternfly killing wasps. …very safe. Just like in every science fiction horror film
What kills spotted lanternflies? Scientists find potential solution to invasive bugNEWARK, Del. (CBS) — Summer is almost here, which means it won’t be long before swarms of spotted lanternflies come to the Philadelphia area. It’s been almost 10 years since the invasive species first appeared in the region, but are scientists making any progress in getting them under control?
Part of the problem is that because lanternflies are an invasive species from Asia, they don’t have any natural predators in America, which has allowed their population to explode.
Researchers in Delaware say they traveled to China and came back with a couple of natural predators with major potential.
“The species name is Dryinus sinicus,” Kim Hoelmer, with Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Unit, said, “and it has no common name.”
Trump remains a narcissist, and as such does not do criticism or mockery well. Perhaps we should be glad that the American Fascists have so little to work with. It matters not, Trump’s base is Jim Jones Round Two, and will never give Trump up. And if Trump fails they can always fall back on the southern fried Christianity of the Evangelicals.
https://www.vox.com/23741997/republicans-12-week-abortion-bans-europe-roe-dobbs
I found this article comparing abortion care restrictions in Europe and America very revealing. It’ll help refute some of the slightly more educated anti-choice talking points about the 12-to-15-week limits and why comparing us to Europe is apples to oranges.
Mostly I was really struck by this paragraph, which I hadn’t heard before:
“Meanwhile, research on the psychological harm associated with carrying unwanted pregnancies continues to mount. The Turnaway Study, a longitudinal study on the effects of unwanted pregnancy on patients’ lives, found that the mental health of women able to end unwanted pregnancies was significantly better than that of women forced to carry to term. Another report published in 2022 found that suicide is a leading cause of death for pregnant people during pregnancy and the first year following it.”
Sobering.