jeez, roy. I see big money in it for you if the correct well-connected right -wing media people can persuade you to jump leagues. I mean, this is superb parody, but so much on the nose. come to think of it, this may not even be over-the-top enough.
The rapist being an immigrant was an absolute gift to them, and their pivot to illegal immigration was so rapid it generated a breeze that could be felt miles away. As has been pointed out, they “believe” half the population (Democrats) are pedophile groomers, but also “believe” it highly unlikely the raped 10 year old could be a true story. Contradictory and illogical, you say? Quick, look over here, it’s a shiny object!
They will use this same technique – skepticism, followed by rapid redirection – for every abortion horror story that occurs from now on.
Apparently Dorothy Parker was more prescient than I originally thought. Every morning now I wake up and as I look at the news I ask myself "What fresh hell is this?"
I feel sometimes like I'm one of the lesser Olde Testament profits, without the benefit of King James' boys as translators: "Oh Woe is DC." Doesn't actually flow there does it? Well I suspect that Roy is one of the Old Testament stand up comedians. I believe that they were collected in one of the lost books of the OT.
I have to admit that my very favorite take on this story was the WSJ's "A Story Too Good to Confirm" in which the WSJ railed against this fake FAKE story . . . without bothering to confirm a thing about it.
Fox only stopped claiming the story was a hoax when they could put up a chyron that said "ILLEGAL CHARGED WITH RAPE OF 10-YEAR-OLD". This could be a way to get them to finally report on a whole bunch of "hoaxes". Get a few volunteers to take the rap, and those chyrons could read "ILLEGAL CHARGED WITH GLOBAL WARMING" or "ILLEGAL CHARGED WITH COVID" or "ILLEGAL CHARGED WITH 9/11".
Laugh now til the conservatives start spewing stuff like this. Today's satire is tomorrow's legitimatizing mainstream talking point.
Whatever; I'm so age-addled that I believed this story when I first heard it.
Haven't read the comments yet so maybe someone beat me to it but I love the idea so much: maybe the denial of the story by conservatives basing their skepticism on nothing more than what they pull out of their asses is not unrelated to their insufficiently-discussed projection. Then again, it' not like they normally rely on documented facts and stuff.
Anyway:
"...you will see an end to rape like Texas Governor Greg Abbott promised..."
At least for het man/woman rape, what are the odds of a SCOTUS decision holding that given men's rights vs women's rights, the former has an absolute right to fuck any woman they want. Certainly to whatever extent it's needed the marital rape exception's likely to get a lot of jurisprudential support. So right there, rapes are going to go into steep decline if not elimination.
Jul 14, 2022·edited Jul 14, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso
Back in the olden days , when I was in high school, Mike Dewine, current Ohio governor, was the county district attorney.
Now every year, a couple of months before the election the county sheriff's drug task force
would go out and Round Up all the dope smokers the undercover Sheriff's had met in the course of the year. They would get 30 or 40 indictments together and make numerous arrests all over the county in the course of a day. They would start making arrests at 5 or 6 in the morning. The local TV stations would go with them and invariably there was a footage of some skinny guy with long stringy hair in bikini underwear and handcuffs being led to the Paddy Wagon by 7 or 8 jumbo size deputies. All they ever seem to catch were the dime bag guys . I think the feds muscled in for credit on any substantial bust.
So I was in high school and one of the kids I went to school with was Mike Dewine's nephew. He was a couple years older than me and known to be a good place to go if you need a little something something. Some Wise Guy figured out when the cops had you in the room they were asking you where you got your evil weed
a really good answer that question was "I got it from Mike Dewine's nephew." this turned out to be a "get-out-of-jail-free card."
They never came for me. One time several years later they got neighbors on either side of me.
That was stressful. I came home from work and the street was full of cops. The Pucker Factor was pretty high on that one. I knew one guy who was coming home from work and saw his front yard full of cops. He kept on driving and didn't stop until California . He lives a fine life there by all accounts but never ever came home for Christmas .
Roy, you might consider working for Tucker Carlson. Treat it more like a SNL or Jon Stewart, a comedy-writing gig. But when I think about it, the right-wingers would wonder why you were explicating all these logical connections.
Just skip to the fact the rapist is an immigrant. Which we knew all along, even when we were denying or doubting, skeptical, you know, it ever happened. Only immigrants and Democrats rape children.
Your desire to show your education (you are educated, aren't you? We can't tell, because we just have pieces of paper and books we never read, somewhere) get in the way of the facts. If something bad did happen, it's not because of laws or because religious ideology causes problems (which goes without saying) but because liberals are too soft on crime and too many folks have strayed from the righteous ways of our enlightened forebears.
Back on Earth, perhaps not at the kitchen table but close enough, reading this I prepare for work feeling certain that any future study will reveal signs of PTSD in my bloodwork because of what's progressing in our country. Cancer was a birthday present compared to this.
As soon as I saw the name of the man charged with the rape, I knew where this was going. Ergo, I am qualified for the Rapid Response Team. But I'm also conditioned by my upbringing. My racist dad would sit at the breakfast table with our heavily segregated city's morning paper and read the crime reports to us kids, asking after every gruesome crime story "Guess which race?" Until one day my little 10-year-old self beat him to the punch by asking "Guess which gender?" My dad and I never got along.
Much appreciation, Roy et. al. for making me despite this horror show. Two things: 1) I'm so confused, though. All the complaining about immigrants coming here and making too many babies and pretty soon there won't be enough white people to keep the oppression racket going but then they want to make this girl have an immigrant's baby. 2) This veers off topic but out of the full heart the mouth speaks. So my mother used to be a child protective services social worker by which I mean to say she not only understands that men rape little girls sometimes but also is acquainted with PTSD, "adverse childhood experiences," all that. But she's also an evangelical Christian, which means she's a one-issue voter (she used to be a two-issue voter but then discovered how many gay people she's fond of; sadly, she still seems to hate women or at least those who are able to bear young), which twists her up a little, because before she found Jesus she also used to be a long-haired pot-smoking liberal hippie who wore a stars & stripes halter top while doing the puff-puff-pass at CCR and CS&N concerts. Before Biden was elected, I got the devil in me and asked my mom who she was going to vote for. She said she hadn't decided because of the one issue. She wouldn't vote for Trump, but she might probably abstain. I may have had a glass or three--a vinous haze makes it easier for me to hang out with my mom but it also makes me a little cantankerous. We got into the predictable argument ("If abortion is illegal, women will die!" vs. "They're killing babies!"). I still don't know what she eventually decided. When I first read about that poor little girl, that child whose biggest concern in life should be how annoying her little brother is or how she wants to step up her dodge ball game, I desperately wanted to send the article to my mom and force her to explicitly say that yes, she believed that a kind and loving God would force this little baby girl to give birth to her rapist's spawn. I've resisted the temptation so far.
jeez, roy. I see big money in it for you if the correct well-connected right -wing media people can persuade you to jump leagues. I mean, this is superb parody, but so much on the nose. come to think of it, this may not even be over-the-top enough.
That last tweet is right on! We cannot let illegal immigrants rape our women! That's the job of upstanding American rapists!
"incested"
2 marks...and a tip o' the hat for capturing the entirety of American brain-free fascist witocity...
Lamplighter. Milkman. Typesetter, pin setter . Switchboard operator ...
Guess we can add factchecker to the list.
" When I use a word" Frank Lutz said, in a rather scornful tone" it means exactly what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less."
The rapist being an immigrant was an absolute gift to them, and their pivot to illegal immigration was so rapid it generated a breeze that could be felt miles away. As has been pointed out, they “believe” half the population (Democrats) are pedophile groomers, but also “believe” it highly unlikely the raped 10 year old could be a true story. Contradictory and illogical, you say? Quick, look over here, it’s a shiny object!
They will use this same technique – skepticism, followed by rapid redirection – for every abortion horror story that occurs from now on.
Apparently Dorothy Parker was more prescient than I originally thought. Every morning now I wake up and as I look at the news I ask myself "What fresh hell is this?"
I feel sometimes like I'm one of the lesser Olde Testament profits, without the benefit of King James' boys as translators: "Oh Woe is DC." Doesn't actually flow there does it? Well I suspect that Roy is one of the Old Testament stand up comedians. I believe that they were collected in one of the lost books of the OT.
I have to admit that my very favorite take on this story was the WSJ's "A Story Too Good to Confirm" in which the WSJ railed against this fake FAKE story . . . without bothering to confirm a thing about it.
Fox only stopped claiming the story was a hoax when they could put up a chyron that said "ILLEGAL CHARGED WITH RAPE OF 10-YEAR-OLD". This could be a way to get them to finally report on a whole bunch of "hoaxes". Get a few volunteers to take the rap, and those chyrons could read "ILLEGAL CHARGED WITH GLOBAL WARMING" or "ILLEGAL CHARGED WITH COVID" or "ILLEGAL CHARGED WITH 9/11".
It's worth a shot.
Laugh now til the conservatives start spewing stuff like this. Today's satire is tomorrow's legitimatizing mainstream talking point.
Whatever; I'm so age-addled that I believed this story when I first heard it.
Haven't read the comments yet so maybe someone beat me to it but I love the idea so much: maybe the denial of the story by conservatives basing their skepticism on nothing more than what they pull out of their asses is not unrelated to their insufficiently-discussed projection. Then again, it' not like they normally rely on documented facts and stuff.
Anyway:
"...you will see an end to rape like Texas Governor Greg Abbott promised..."
At least for het man/woman rape, what are the odds of a SCOTUS decision holding that given men's rights vs women's rights, the former has an absolute right to fuck any woman they want. Certainly to whatever extent it's needed the marital rape exception's likely to get a lot of jurisprudential support. So right there, rapes are going to go into steep decline if not elimination.
Back in the olden days , when I was in high school, Mike Dewine, current Ohio governor, was the county district attorney.
Now every year, a couple of months before the election the county sheriff's drug task force
would go out and Round Up all the dope smokers the undercover Sheriff's had met in the course of the year. They would get 30 or 40 indictments together and make numerous arrests all over the county in the course of a day. They would start making arrests at 5 or 6 in the morning. The local TV stations would go with them and invariably there was a footage of some skinny guy with long stringy hair in bikini underwear and handcuffs being led to the Paddy Wagon by 7 or 8 jumbo size deputies. All they ever seem to catch were the dime bag guys . I think the feds muscled in for credit on any substantial bust.
So I was in high school and one of the kids I went to school with was Mike Dewine's nephew. He was a couple years older than me and known to be a good place to go if you need a little something something. Some Wise Guy figured out when the cops had you in the room they were asking you where you got your evil weed
a really good answer that question was "I got it from Mike Dewine's nephew." this turned out to be a "get-out-of-jail-free card."
They never came for me. One time several years later they got neighbors on either side of me.
That was stressful. I came home from work and the street was full of cops. The Pucker Factor was pretty high on that one. I knew one guy who was coming home from work and saw his front yard full of cops. He kept on driving and didn't stop until California . He lives a fine life there by all accounts but never ever came home for Christmas .
Mike Dewine sucks.
Roy, you might consider working for Tucker Carlson. Treat it more like a SNL or Jon Stewart, a comedy-writing gig. But when I think about it, the right-wingers would wonder why you were explicating all these logical connections.
Just skip to the fact the rapist is an immigrant. Which we knew all along, even when we were denying or doubting, skeptical, you know, it ever happened. Only immigrants and Democrats rape children.
Your desire to show your education (you are educated, aren't you? We can't tell, because we just have pieces of paper and books we never read, somewhere) get in the way of the facts. If something bad did happen, it's not because of laws or because religious ideology causes problems (which goes without saying) but because liberals are too soft on crime and too many folks have strayed from the righteous ways of our enlightened forebears.
Back on Earth, perhaps not at the kitchen table but close enough, reading this I prepare for work feeling certain that any future study will reveal signs of PTSD in my bloodwork because of what's progressing in our country. Cancer was a birthday present compared to this.
As soon as I saw the name of the man charged with the rape, I knew where this was going. Ergo, I am qualified for the Rapid Response Team. But I'm also conditioned by my upbringing. My racist dad would sit at the breakfast table with our heavily segregated city's morning paper and read the crime reports to us kids, asking after every gruesome crime story "Guess which race?" Until one day my little 10-year-old self beat him to the punch by asking "Guess which gender?" My dad and I never got along.
So the thousands of female refugees wasting away in internment camps just south of the border are now welcome to come in, right?
ZOMG that same guy in that last Tweet responded to me with almost exactly the same text.
Much appreciation, Roy et. al. for making me despite this horror show. Two things: 1) I'm so confused, though. All the complaining about immigrants coming here and making too many babies and pretty soon there won't be enough white people to keep the oppression racket going but then they want to make this girl have an immigrant's baby. 2) This veers off topic but out of the full heart the mouth speaks. So my mother used to be a child protective services social worker by which I mean to say she not only understands that men rape little girls sometimes but also is acquainted with PTSD, "adverse childhood experiences," all that. But she's also an evangelical Christian, which means she's a one-issue voter (she used to be a two-issue voter but then discovered how many gay people she's fond of; sadly, she still seems to hate women or at least those who are able to bear young), which twists her up a little, because before she found Jesus she also used to be a long-haired pot-smoking liberal hippie who wore a stars & stripes halter top while doing the puff-puff-pass at CCR and CS&N concerts. Before Biden was elected, I got the devil in me and asked my mom who she was going to vote for. She said she hadn't decided because of the one issue. She wouldn't vote for Trump, but she might probably abstain. I may have had a glass or three--a vinous haze makes it easier for me to hang out with my mom but it also makes me a little cantankerous. We got into the predictable argument ("If abortion is illegal, women will die!" vs. "They're killing babies!"). I still don't know what she eventually decided. When I first read about that poor little girl, that child whose biggest concern in life should be how annoying her little brother is or how she wants to step up her dodge ball game, I desperately wanted to send the article to my mom and force her to explicitly say that yes, she believed that a kind and loving God would force this little baby girl to give birth to her rapist's spawn. I've resisted the temptation so far.