Republicans: continued

[L'Emmerdeur]

Oh boy, another example of the right's firm support for free speech.

'J.D. Vance Is Coming for Your Porn–Watch Out'

2022 has been one of the best and worst years to be a porn star. On the one hand, OnlyFans continued to help performers sell their content, driving a significant comeback for an industry that had nearly died because of online piracy. But while becoming a sex worker is less stigmatized than ever in some circles, backlash brewed in other arenas. Right-wing evangelical Laila Mickelwait teamed up with billionaire Bill Ackman to demand credit card companies stop processing payments on PornHub, and the protests worked. Instagram subsequently de-platformed the tube company’s account without explanation, and PornHub’s parent company, MindGeek, remains in court over several lawsuits.

The war on porn could get even worse in 2023 thanks to new Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, who has said he wants to ban porn nationwide. Vance’s proclamations come at a time when fringe extremists, including Ye (the rapper formerly known as Kanye West), are pushing for porn prohibition. Their demands may lack legal grounding, but they pose serious threats.

...

“I think the combination of porn, abortion have basically created a really lonely, isolated generation that isn’t getting married,” Vance complained to Crisis magazine in 2021. “They’re not having families, and they’re actually not even totally sure how to interact with each other.”

If Vance were a lone anti-porn senator, he would be frightening but less dangerous. Unfortunately, many other Republicans hold anti-porn views. According to The Guardian, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley blames feminism for driving men to porn (whatever that means), while West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice blamed porn for school shootings. Most frighteningly of all, these are mainstream Republicans. More fringe actors take things even further. In a recent episode of Vice Media and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes’ streaming show, Ye pushed a gross antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews operated MindGeek to poison people’s minds.

[Tero]

Josh Hawley blames feminism for driving men to porn.

The obvious. The women are no longer willing to marry men who want the women to be subordinate and stay home. "Barefoot and pregnant" as they say. He can't say that, so he will word it in "Christian terms" if asked.

[Brian Peacock]

Josh Hawley takes the INCEL pill. How much porn are you being driven to watch by feminists John?

[Svartalf]

I'm forced to watch a lot by all those who wonb't have me in their beds

[Tero]

if I were still Tweeting I would have participated
https://news.yahoo.com/lauren-boebert-r ... 22193.html

Lauren Boebert
Dec 12, 2022
@laurenboebert
Conservatives, we need to be on OFFENSE not DEFENSE.

Jen Dailey-Provost
@jenforutah
You’re extremely offensive every single day.

[Sean Hayden]

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[Svartalf]

Love the striped suit, so prohibition era...

[Tero]

[Tero]

Desantis attempts tale wagging dog:
CNN
DeSantis also said Tuesday he was launching a public health integrity committee – a panel that would counter the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which DeSantis said “is not serving a useful function; it’s really serving to advance narratives rather than do evidence-based medicine.” The panel would assess guidance and actions from federal agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health, US Food and Drug Administration and the CDC.
DeSantis last year moved to block cruise lines departing from Florida from requiring their customers to be vaccinated, and to block municipalities from imposing vaccine mandates. In June, DeSantis touted Florida’s status as the only state not to preorder vaccines for children younger than 5.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics ... index.html

[Svartalf]

does he even know the meaning of the word 'integrity'? I thought elephants regarded it as unfit to be uttered in polite company.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Maybe he'll put Dr. Tenpenny at the head of his 'integrity committee.'

[Tero]

THE TRUMP CULT
Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘If Steve Bannon and I planned Jan 6, we’d have been armed and we’d have won’
https://deadstate.org/marjorie-taylor-g ... -have-won/

[pErvinalia]

I thought Jan 6 was just some tourists touring Congress.

[Tero]

texans' site for reporting drag shows
https://www.defendkidstx.com/

[JimC]

I wonder if Texas currently bans the showing of the Aussie film, "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"...