I’m not saying there aren’t bad Democrats. It’s just a lot easier to find bad Republicans; there’s a lot more of them.
South Carolina GOP legislators introduced a bill to impose the death penalty on women who have abortions (story here). They’ll probably kill some women who have miscarriages, too; juries make mistakes. Central America imprisons women for miscarriages, which may help explain why they’re flocking to our southern border.
Oklahoma GOP legislators refused to repeal a law permitting corporal punishment of disabled and special-needs children; one of them even cited Scripture to justify beating ADHD kids into line (story here).
MAGA evangelicals have seen their numbers plummet to the point where White Christians are an endangered species; they’re responding by embracing Christian Nationalism, an anti-democracy theocratic movement (story here).
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who wants to be president, called Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine a “territorial dispute” (story here). Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey says DeSantis “knew exactly what he was doing” and “did massive damage to U.S. … national security interests” (story here).
Mike Pence, who also wants to be president, isn’t backing down from his homophobic “joke” about Pete Buttigieg and his partner (story here). Pence also waited over two years to criticize Trump for the Jan. 6 riot and call his efforts to overturn the 2020 election “wrong,” and finally did so only as a campaign tactic (story here).
A Florida Jan. 6 rioter cited a litany of crazy conspiracy theories as his excuse for beating a Capitol police sergeant with a stolen riot shield and assaulting several other police officers during the Capitol riot; the judge, unimpressed, gave him five years (story here). He should’ve kept his mouth shut and let his lawyer do all the talking.
A Minneapolis cop with a lengthy disciplinary record and a history of racist behavior responded to a complaint about a man passing out anti-BLM flyers by calling Black Lives Matter a “terrorist” group that “we will wipe from the face of the earth.” He’s still a cop and hasn’t been disciplined for this (story here).
A Miami woman loudly accused a lesbian couple who were minding their own business of raping children at a Starbucks (story here and video below). Where did that come from? Not out of the blue; Republicans have made harassing LGBQT people a key plank of their platform, and I’m guessing this “Karen” isn’t a Democrat.