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Mitch McConnell on Abortion: It’s the Supreme Court’s Job to Issue Rulings Americans Don’t Want
The Senate minority leader bizarrely equated the court’s decision to allow flag burning, which he said Americans don’t support, to banning abortions.
According to a report from Rolling Stone, officials in Donald Trump’s administration conned Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) into voting for current Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh while ridiculing her at the same time for being easy to manipulate with one going so far as to crassly mock her as a “cheap date.”
As the Rolling Stone’s Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley report, Collins "was deliberately manipulated by Trump administration officials — and a future Supreme Court Justice — who viewed her as an easy mark.“
Collins, often mocked for her constant professions of being "concerned” by current events, was considered to be a walkover by the Trump administration officials and supporters of Kavanaugh who felt she only needed “vague assurances” that Kavanaugh would not be a vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
According to Rolling Stone, two former Trump officials admitted that they played Collins and then laughed at her behind her back.
Ron Johnson falsely claims it ‘may be true’ that COVID-19 vaccines cause AIDS
Although Wisconsin is a battleground state that went to former President Donald Trump in 2016’s presidential election but favored President Joe Biden in 2020, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson obviously has no desire to embrace the center in the 2022 midterms. Johnson, seeking a third term in the U.S. Senate, is running as a far-right MAGA culture warrior — and he was clearly pandering to anti-vaxxer extremists when he said that COVID-19 vaccines “may” cause AIDS.
The Wisconsin State Journal’s Alexander Shur, in an article published on May 4, reports that during a recent video interview, attorney and anti-vaxxer Todd Callender claimed that COVID-19 shots “caused vaccine-induced AIDS” and “purposefully gave people AIDS” — something there is absolutely no proof of. In fact, COVID-19 vaccines are saving lives; it’s quite possible to be fully vaccinated and still get COVID-19, but infections among the vaccinated tend to be milder infections.
Ted Cruz Storms Off After Interviewer Asks: ‘Why Do Shootings Only Happen in America?’
Ted Cruz attended a vigil for the murder victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas and was confronted by Sky News reporter Mark Stone, who grilled the senator on why frequent mass shootings only happen in America. Cruz tried to spin the mass shooting in Uvalde as having nothing to do with gun laws and cut the interview short because of what he viewed as Stone’s “political agenda.” Twenty one people died at Robb Elementary after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire. Nineteen of the victims were children.
“There are 19 sets of parents who are never going to get to kiss their child goodnight again,” Cruz said.
“Is this the moment to reform gun laws?” asked Stone.
“It’s easy to go to politics,” Cruz answered. “I get that’s where the media likes to go….The proposals from Democrats and the media inevitably, when some violent psychopath murders people.”
Cruz was cut off by Stone, who noted the “violent psychopath” Cruz was referring to was “able to get a weapon so easily…an 18 year old with two AR-15s.”
“If you want to stop violent crime, the proposals the Democrat have…none of them would have stopped this,” Cruz said.
“Why does this only happen in your country?” Stone fired back. “Why only in America? Why is this American exceptionalism so awful?”
That’s when Cruz had enough, walking away from Stone and saying, “I’m sorry you think American exceptionalism is so awful. You know what? You have your political agenda. God love you.”
Stone proceeded to follow Cruz and repeatedly state that mass shootings are “just an American problem.”
“Why is it that people come from all over the world to America?” Cruz then asked. “Because it’s the freest, most prosperous, safest country on earth. Stop being a propagandist.”
Ted Cruz a human monster. Absolutely disgusting piece of trash.
