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The phrase "Funny Anti Kamala Harris Stupid Joke" refers to a category of political humor targeting Vice President Kamala Harris. This type of content often emerges from opposition to Harris's policies, her role in the Biden administration, or her personal characteristics.

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These jokes typically aim to criticize or mock Harris, often exaggerating her mannerisms, speech patterns, or perceived missteps. They may focus on her laugh, which some critics have described as awkward or forced, or reference moments from her political career that her opponents view as embarrassing or contradictory.

It's important to note that humor targeting political figures can be controversial. While some view such jokes as harmless political satire, others may see them as disrespectful, potentially sexist or racist, given Harris's groundbreaking position as the first woman, first Black person, and first person of South Asian descent to become U.S. Vice President.

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The term "stupid" in this context might refer to the nature of the jokes themselves, suggesting they are overly simplistic or lacking in sophisticated humor. Alternatively, it could be part of the criticism aimed at Harris, implying the jokes mock perceived incompetence.

Political humor, including that directed at Harris, often spreads rapidly through social media, memes, and conservative-leaning comedy shows or podcasts. While some find this content entertaining, it's crucial to approach such material critically, considering potential biases and the broader impact of political discourse.

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Ultimately, the prevalence and reception of such jokes reflect the polarized nature of contemporary American politics and the ongoing debates surrounding Harris's role and performance as Vice President.

"American Flag USA Humor" refers to a genre of comedy that playfully engages with American patriotism, culture, and national symbols, particularly the Stars and Stripes. This type of humor often involves witty observations, jokes, or memes that use the American flag as a central theme or visual element.

Such comedy might poke fun at excessive displays of patriotism, American stereotypes, or the country's quirks and contradictions. It can range from gentle ribbing to more pointed satire, reflecting on various aspects of American life and politics.

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Examples might include humorous T-shirt designs featuring distorted flag imagery, jokes about flag etiquette taken to absurd extremes, or memes that juxtapose the flag with unexpected elements of pop culture.

While some may view this humor as irreverent, others see it as a celebration of American values like free speech and the ability to laugh at oneself. As with all political humor, it can be both entertaining and controversial, depending on the audience and context.

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Jake Tapper looked as flummoxed as everyone else. After a week spent trying to figure out the whys and hows of the assassination attempt against former US president Donald Trump, the CNN anchor was now facing something far more perplexing: why a British pop singer was calling Vice President Kamala Harris a “brat.” As his panel on The Lead tried to explain, he eventually put it together: We’re all brat. “I will aspire to be brat,” Tapper concluded.

So say we all, apparently.

What���s happened in the week since President Joe Biden announced he would not be seeking reelection and tapped his veep, Harris, as his pick for the nomination, the meme-ification of the presidential election in the US has gone from a cautious yellow to a neon, slimelike “Let’s go” green.

Shortly after Biden made his announcement on Sunday, British pop star Charli XCX posted on X that “kamala IS brat” and solidified something that had been percolating for weeks. The internet that had seemed to either feel “meh” about Biden or had been spending its time on the Trump Train or spinning up conspiracies suddenly snapped to attention. The Harris HQ Instagram account embraced the meme. Gays on Fire Island had “Kamala” shirts in the Brat album cover’s lime green before sundown on Sunday.

Brat Summer, though, extends beyond this moment. Like Hot Girl Summer, the meme that sprung up in 2019 around Megan Thee Stallion’s song of the same name, Brat Summer has moved past Charli XCX’s album Brat to become an embodiment of the vibe of the season in 2024. For Charli, it’s about—and this is what Tapper was trying to understand—being a little messy, a little volatile, a little vulnerable. But also honest. It’s about crying in the club, but also about crying over the state of the world in a ridiculous outfit with the top down. It is, in its way, anti-defeatist.

This is the idea of Brat Summer that has been at the edges since Brat dropped in mid-June, and it was woven into the politics of 2024 weeks before Biden announced he was out of the running. Ryan Long, a 22-year-old college student, made a fancam of Harris’ now infamous “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” remarks overlaid with the green Brat cover back in early July. It now has more than 4 million views on X and landed Long in TechCrunch, which quoted him as saying “because of her Venn diagrams quote, Kamala goes viral on gay Twitter every couple of months. She has turned into this, like, psuedo-gay icon.”

Because this can make heads spin in the over-40 crowd (see above), the internet has since been inundated with stories on how Harris’ campaign is embracing the memes and explaining, Hey, this Brat thing is far more introspective than you might expect. All of this is valuable reader service for anyone who might think introspection wasn’t possible in pop music and/or anyone who had never heard Robyn.

Brat Summer, though, is about more than Charli’s idea of brat. Skip past the fancams and Venn diagrams and you’ll remember that Brat broke out in a year saturated with female pop stars. Sabrina Carpenter has everyone singing “Espresso.” Chappell Roan got so big in the last six months that her concert crowds now spill over into adjacent gas stations. After telling the crowd at this summer’s Gov Ball that she turned down an opportunity to play a Pride event at the White House, the Harris campaign is using Roan’s song “Femininominon” as a rallying cry on TikTok. Harris sits atop Beyoncé’s Renaissance horse in one meme, and rumor has it that Queen Bey has given the veep permission to use her song “Freedom” on the campaign trail.

But in five or 10 years, when this week in Brat Summer is remembered, these individual memes may not come to mind. Instead, it’ll be seen as the time when something broke open. When the vibe on the internet shifted from conspiracy theories and chatter about Silicon Valley bigwigs getting behind Trump to one of pure energy. Conspiracy theories still abound, but so do a bunch of activated Swifties. Under different circumstances this week’s memes would’ve been about Deadpool & Wolverine, or Comic-Con International, or, hell, the Summer Olympics. Instead, social media feeds are awash in a sea of green.

None of this, of course, is a sign that Harris has the youth vote locked, or has reclaimed an internet constituency that had grown bored with Biden. Embracing the memes doesn’t always work—just ask the UK’s Labour party. In the irony-pilled, burned out internet of 2024, the embrace of a little bit of attitude feels like a release valve opening. It could all fizzle out by fall (and backlash already feels like it’s brewing), but this week brat burned bright.

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Kelby Vera at HuffPost:

An Ohio woman whose police report was used to power racist rumors about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating neighborhood cats has admitted her pet was found in her home, just days after she reported her Haitian neighbors to local police. Baseless reports about missing pets in Springfield, Ohio gained national attention after Donald Trump parroted the rumor during his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris last Tuesday. “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs,” he said. “The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in this country.”

Despite the former president receiving an instant fact-check from moderator David Muir, his unfounded anti-immigrant rhetoric continued to circulate online and in the media, backed by several of his campaign surrogates. Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), doubled down on the misinformation during multiple media appearances this past weekend. But the day before the Trump-Harris debate, Springfield City Manager Bryan Heck had explicitly debunked the rumor to a Vance aide, according to a Thursday report from the Wall Street Journal. When the Journal approached Vance’s team about the cat-eating claim, a spokesperson provided a police report from a Springfield resident who accused her Haitian neighbors of being responsible for her cat going missing in late August.

But when the outlet contacted the person who filed the report, Anna Kilgore, she told the paper that her pet, Miss Sassy, was found in her basement days after she contacted the police. Kilgore, who was wearing a Trump shirt and hat when the Journal spoke with her, told reporters that she had since apologized to her Haitian neighbors. While Miss Sassy was not in any harm, the same now can’t be said about Springfield and the city’s Haitian community.

[...] Another Springfield resident, whose Facebook post began the pet-eating rumor that Kilgore’s police report ostensibly proved, has apologized for inciting a backlash against her city.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump supporter Anna Kilgore, the one who filed the report that blamed Haitian immigrants for causing her pet to go missing, revealed that her cat Miss Sassy was found in her basement a few days after she contacted the police.

Kilgore’s report was fuel for the right-wing media and the Trump/Vance ticket to amplify racist and xenophobic cat-eating hoaxes against Haitians and cause the city of Springfield, Ohio needless trauma.

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and the winners are…

Our first award goes to Lawrence Taylor. He wins our “Trump Should Be On the Same Registry I’m On” award! Best of luck LT! Stay away from parks, schools and playgrounds tho. Because.. him accused of being a rapist

Our second award goes to professional community peen and hypocritical freak-a-leek Le’Veon Bell. He wins the “I’mma Hoe and You Know I’mma Hoe” award for tried it with him calling Kamala Harris a tramp. Meanwhile back on the ranch Bro got six kids by seven baby mamas. Shaq literally wrote a song about cats like you 30 years ago! Look it up!

Next up is Antonio Brown. He wins our “CTE Got Me Showing These Cheeks” award. His sexual assault and battery cases have been well documented but dude literally fumbled Keyshia Cole. It’s actually a blessing in disguise for the singer not to end up being with him still. Anyways None of his opinions should be taken seriously

Following up we have Waka Flocka Flame. He’s the winner of our “Bro Are You Serious?” award because he literally wiped his nasty ass with a Trump jersey in 2017. Now he’s riding so hard for Trump the skid marks have tripled up. Good luck and please wash between them cheeks.

Next up is Kodak Black. He’s the winner of our “Harriet Tubman Would’ve Doubled Back and Shot Him Twice” award. This dude rides so hard for Trump he got jewelry and t-shirts made. Same sexual predator tendencies. So I see the connection.

Now we’re headed into rare territory with Kanye. He’s the winner of our “Banana in the Tailpipe Lifetime Coon Achievement” award. Y’all tried to say he was a “freethinker” but he fumbled the Yeezy bag and now he’s making music dedicated to Norwegian death metal Nazis. Meanwhile his arch rival Taylor swift is supporting Kamala Harris, and telling her fellow Swifties to vote in this year’s presidential election. Anyways he’s Weird. You know that one person whose actions you can never forgive? He’s that guy.

We have some newcomers on the scene so we got give it up to Sexyy Red. She receives the “We Defended Your Stupid Ass Bootyhole Brown Lyrics For This Shit?” award. We even did it at the BET Awards. In front of Bobby Jones. The guy who was known for his Sunday morning gospel show that black folks watched before heading to church. Now you out here embarrassing us. Trifling. I will never forgive Drake for even collaborating with you twice. Twice.

Next is Ice Cube and we give this out with heavy hearts. He receives our “Quit Talking to Us Like We’re Day Day” award from trying to pass off that Platinum Plan like it was something revolutionary when the Biden administration was already doing or had done most of that shit.

Let’s not forget Fifty! He wins the “Culture Vulture of the Year” award for selling “Black stories” to the masses in the form of stolen narratives lived by hood legends. He wasn’t really feeling “the culture” when it comes to paying taxes on those shows he’s profiting from tho. Sure he’s going on a anti diddy campaign but this can’t be erased

Next up is Herschel Walker. As a politician, he was a helluva football player. He wins our “Y’all Just Pick Any Random Dude Off the Street Hunh” award. Dude was accused of battery and paying for multiple abortions. Ran a “pro-life” anti-choice campaign tho. Right.

Next up is the Herman Cain. He posthumously wins our “These Motherfuckas Will Kill You And Keep On Stepping” award. Bro went to a Trump rally unmasked. He was hospitalized two weeks later and eventually died. Trump’s staff even admitted their negligence “killed him.” Wild.

Next is Ben Carson. He wins our “I Know His Breath Stank From All That Ass He Kissing” award. Dude is a neurosurgeon. Trump picked him as HUD Secretary. Why? Cause when he thinks public housing he thinks “Black people.” This was after he compared him to a child molester.

Next up is Joe Brown. He wins our “Negro You Had One Job” award. As an irascible TV judge he was fine but when he tried to shame Kamala as a harlot he is and was out of pocket. Same dude who made homophobic remarks about a woman in 2014. Seems he’s got an issue with women. I know he hates his mother

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July 24th, 2024 A significant protest led by Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) culminated in the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators inside the Cannon House Office Building on Tuesday. The demonstrators were protesting the U.S. government’s continued support for Israel’s assault on Gaza and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s forthcoming speech to Congress. This large-scale demonstration highlighted the growing dissent among Jewish Americans and other progressive groups against U.S. foreign policy towards Israel. The protest, organized by JVP, saw participation from multiple organizations, including IfNotNow, Democratic Socialists of America, and Shoresh, an anti-Zionist group of Israelis based in the U.S. According to JVP, approximately 400 protesters, including over a dozen rabbis, were arrested during the peaceful sit-in. Protesters wore shirts emblazoned with slogans such as “Not in Our Name” and “Jews Say Stop Arming Israel,” signaling their opposition to the U.S. military support for Israel.

“For nine months, we’ve watched in horror as the Israeli government has carried out a genocide, armed and funded by the U.S.,” said Stefanie Fox, JVP’s executive director. “Congress and the Biden administration have the power to end this horror today. Instead, our president is preparing to meet with Netanyahu and congressional leadership has honored him with an invitation to address Congress. Enough is enough.” President Joe Biden and Congress, Fox argued, must heed the calls for change. “We need an arms embargo now to save lives,” she added. Jane Hirschmann, a daughter of Holocaust survivors and JVP member, echoed these sentiments. “The Israeli government is using U.S. funding and weapons to slaughter and starve Palestinians in Gaza,” Hirschmann stated. “Americans—including Jewish Americans—are disgusted by our own government’s complicity in this genocide.” Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, D.C., comes as the death toll from Israel’s extensive assault on Gaza approaches 40,000 after nearly ten months of continuous bombing. This relentless campaign has devastated much of Gaza’s infrastructure and displaced 90% of its population. Earlier in the week, Israel’s military ordered the evacuation of another area previously designated as a safe zone, leading to the deaths of dozens of Palestinians in a fresh wave of attacks.

Netanyahu has a long history of addressing Congress, having done so more than any other world leader. His first address was in 1996, shortly after he and his right-wing allies came to power following the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a figure whose peace efforts Netanyahu had opposed. Despite the controversy surrounding his policies and actions, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) extended an invitation to Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress in late May. This invitation came just days after it was revealed that Israeli forces used U.S.-made bombs in a devastating attack on a camp of displaced Palestinians. Sonya Meyerson-Knox, JVP communications director, condemned the invitation. “It is utterly shameful that U.S. lawmakers would invite war criminal Netanyahu to address Congress,” she said. “We are hundreds of American Jews calling on our elected leaders to stop funding and fueling this genocide.” The protest against Netanyahu’s visit is part of a broader movement that includes planned grassroots protests ahead of and during his speech, as well as a boycott by dozens of Democratic lawmakers. Netanyahu’s address is scheduled to begin at 2:00 pm ET. Following his speech, he is expected to meet with President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday and then travel to Mar-a-Lago to meet with former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee.

Vice President Kamala Harris, likely to become the Democratic presidential nominee following Biden’s anticipated exit from the 2024 race, has opted to attend a previously scheduled event in Indianapolis instead of presiding over Netanyahu’s remarks. Progressive lawmakers, including Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), have been vocal in their opposition to Netanyahu’s address. “By bestowing Prime Minister Netanyahu with a joint address, Congress is not only continuing to green-light genocide; it is actively celebrating the man at the forefront of that genocide,” Bush stated on Tuesday. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) also voiced his disapproval, labeling Netanyahu a war criminal and criticizing his invitation to speak to Congress. “Netanyahu is a right-wing extremist and a war criminal who has devoted his career to killing the prospects of a two-state solution and lasting peace in the region,” Sanders remarked on the Senate floor. “He should not be welcomed to the United States Congress. On the contrary, his policies in Gaza and the West Bank should be roundly condemned and his right-wing extremist government should not receive another nickel from U.S. taxpayers.” “The only way to reach a cease-fire and build a just future is for the U.S. to stop sending weapons to Israel now,” said Hirschmann.

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Video Game Fans Will Chuckle at Tim Walz’s Favorite Console

What does Walz's Sega love mean for our country's future?

It only took a few days of the Harris/Walz campaign to drop a bombshell about the Minnesota Governor currently sharing the ticket with Vice President Kamala Harris: he’s a Sega Dreamcast Guy.

A profile from The New York Times dug up a chestnut about Walz from the late ’90s, when he was so addicted to playing his Sega Dreamcast that his wife had to “seize it” away from him. If you travel in gaming spaces, you understand the passions that this video game console riles up in certain people, despite being a commercial failure so large it took Sega out of the home console market.

Acton, Massachusetts resident Jon Winkler remembers experiencing this magic at a New Year’s Eve party in 1999 when he was only five years old.

“I had the controller in my hand, and it is the most mind blowing thing I have ever witnessed in my life.” Winkler said. “It is the thing that made me fall in love with video games.”

Sacramento, California resident Bakari Touray finds the Dreamcast appealing because it’s such a cultural touchstone of the time it was released in with its “shimmer effects and trance music.” Touray was shocked to find out that Walz was similarly entranced by one of his favorite home consoles.

“No fucking way,” Touray said. When asked if fellow Dreamcast Guy Walz potentially occupying our country’s executive branch was an inspiring prospect, Touray said, “I think I’m shallow enough to say yes, absolutely.”

The revelation, however, poses more questions than it answers. What games were enrapturing Walz so badly that his wife had to step in? It’s easy, more or less, to define the types of titles available on the Nintendo 64 or the original PlayStation. But the Dreamcast’s library is wonky, to say the least.

Walz is occasionally known as “Coach” to friends and allies, and it’s even a moniker Harris uses when talking about him at campaign stops. But anyone vaguely familiar with the system knows that Electronic Arts, who owns most of the big name sports titles, didn’t develop for the Sega console.

So which games did Walz become addicted to? The high-octane challenge of Crazy Taxi? The occasionally inscrutable but still captivating Shenmue? Or maybe, just maybe, there’s a possibility that a future vice president once played as Big the Cat in Sonic Adventure.

Winkler takes the simple approach, guessing that Walz likely played a lot of Sega Bass Fishing, considering Walz is an avid outdoorsman. When you take into account Walz’s Dreamcast addiction, Touray’s guess is a little more out there.

“It think it might be Phantasy Star Online,” Touray said. “If he was grinding a lot on that…spending a lot of time playing…it’s a real time sink kind of game.”

Playboy reached out to Governor Walz via his official press email, but we have not received a response. On a side note, there doesn’t seem to be a press contact page on the Kamala Harris 2024 website for either candidate. In fact, Harris hasn’t held a single press conference since officially rising to the top of the ticket.

Playboy doesn’t have a Campaign Correspondent (yet), so hopefully at least one enterprising journalist out there can finally dig up an answer to the question plaguing the mind’s of everyone who owns at least one Shadow the Hedgehog shirt: What games turned mild-mannered Minnesotan Coach Walz into a certified Dreamcast Guy?

Aside from this big campaign mystery, Walz’s Dreamcast love may give us a glimpse at his political legacy.

“I think that a lot of the Dreamcast titles were about service and taking care of people and doing your best,” Touray said. “Also Jet Set Radio is very anti-cop. The fact that there’s a chance that he’s played that…I think that’s pretty cool.”

Published originally on Playboy.com

Image courtesy IMAGO/Wenn

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I’ve been practising medicine and providing abortions in Arizona for the last 29 years. When I first opened my own clinic in Phoenix back in 1999, getting an abortion was relatively straightforward. But over the past two decades, Arizona’s Republicans have tried to make it as difficult as possible for women to terminate a pregnancy. When the state goes to the polls on 5 November, we’ll be voting not only on who becomes president, but on whether abortion is a constitutional right. In a historically Republican swing state where Donald Trump is only just ahead of Kamala Harris in the polls, as many as 22% of respondents named abortion as their most important election issue.

That’s not surprising, given what is required to end a pregnancy in Arizona today. There are just nine abortion clinics in a state of more than 7 million people. Since pharmacies and physicians in Arizona aren’t allowed to send out abortion pills by post, women must travel to visit one of these clinics in person. A state-mandated “information session” describing the risks of the procedure is required at least 24 hours before every abortion (even though the procedure is usually far safer than childbirth). Federal law means most abortions aren’t covered by Medicaid, so they cost between $600 and $1,000 (£500-£770), plus two days off work, plus the cost of travelling across the state, plus two nights’ accommodation.

Perhaps that’s affordable if you have a decent job. But it’s not if you’re poor. “Pro-choice” is no longer an apt description for abortion access in Arizona, because while the procedure is technically legal up to 15 weeks (unlike in Texas, for example), many women aren’t in a financial position to make that choice. The New York Times recently ran a story showing that 171,000 women in the US travelled out of state for an abortion last year. Some travelled hundreds or even thousands of miles for a procedure that usually takes less than 10 minutes. Women are furious that it’s come to this, and they will channel their fury at the ballot box.

Arizona has long been considered a Republican stronghold, but the vast majority of people support women’s reproductive freedom, and Republican lawmakers have not been voting with with their constituents. Organisations funded by the Christian right, such as the Center for Arizona Policy, have lobbied state Republicans to adopt increasingly extreme positions. This is the political climate that led to the Dobbs decision, a 2022 supreme court ruling that there is no constitutional right to abortion, and it’s why so many of us worried that Arizona was going to revert to a full ban on abortion. Without the protections of Roe v Wade, the state could have returned to an 1864 law that banned abortions even in cases of rape or incest.

Thankfully, our state legislature voted to repeal the 1864 ban earlier this year. And the anti-abortion lobbying that culminated in the Dobbs decision has only made people more aware of what they stand to lose. When I wear my T-shirt printed with “Abortion is healthcare” to my local pilates class, women give me a thumbs up. It’s ironic, really: having fought to make abortion nearly impossible, Arizona’s Republicans may now have cost themselves the election.

Last month, I watched the presidential debate at home with my family. Joe Biden had dropped out, thank God, and there was an incredible optimism about Harris. She is unafraid to use the word “abortion”, for one thing. Biden rarely talked about it. Obviously, he was supportive of women’s rights, but he never seemed comfortable using that word. Nor did Hillary Clinton. So hearing Harris talk about our rights to reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy is deeply refreshing. With Dobbs, Harris has found her voice.

On the night itself, Trump resorted to making wild claims, arguing that the Democrats were “executing” babies. “Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion,” Harris shot back. “That is not happening. It’s insulting to the women of America.” She was calm and articulate, while he seemed increasingly unhinged. She spoke of women suffering from miscarriages, of the physical pain that they’re experiencing. Her frankness about patients’ suffering – at one point she told the story of a woman who was denied emergency care and ended up bleeding out in her car – was a reminder that the country we live in now is different to how it was in 2016 or 2020. Women’s reproductive rights have been trampled on, and we have to be open about what this means.

The debate was an early indication of the gender split in this election. A recent NBC poll found men favour Trump over Harris 52% to 40%. With female voters, Harris leads Trump by 58% to 37%. I often say that there’s a man involved in every pregnancy, and I’m glad to see that some men are being more vocal about abortion rights. Still, it’s striking that while women are pulling away from Trump, men are gravitating towards him. A vote for him seems like a vote for a type of masculinity that sees feminism as toxic and regards men as the truly oppressed. How else to explain the appeal of a man who boasted of grabbing women “by the pussy”?

The strange thing is how out of step the Republicans now are with public opinion. Perhaps that’s why Melania Trump recently claimed to be passionately pro-choice. The Trump campaign is flailing over abortion, and now seems to be frantically trying to project a more reasonable image. Yet the Republican commitment to minimal government has always sat uneasily with their anti-abortion stance. If you’re a Republican, it’s possible to think that you should be able to carry an AK-47 without the government interfering, and think that the government should interfere in a woman’s decision over whether to carry a child, and not to see any contradiction between these two stances.

Even on their own terms, anti-abortion laws don’t work. Countries that ban abortions don’t have fewer abortions; they just have a larger number of unsafe abortions. If Republicans really wanted fewer abortions, they would fund more sex education and free contraception. As it stands, many want to ban birth control, an issue on which Trump has flip-flopped. This dissonance only makes sense when you realise that anti-abortion laws aren’t really about abortions. They’re about controlling women.

It’s now just a few weeks before the election. If you ask me which way I think Arizona will vote, I’d say blue. I live in Flagstaff, a city north of Phoenix, and traditionally a more conservative place than the capital. But there are Harris signs everywhere in people’s windows and front yards. We need a secular government that doesn’t interfere with people’s medical decisions, or impose its radical religious beliefs on the population. I’m feeling optimistic: I think people are seeing Trump for who he really is, and for how dangerous a second Trump presidency would be.

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I Believe... [Enduring the Use of Masks]

...that, as Einstein has been quoted saying, “Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore." Smart guy. Spectacular hair.

...that the wave of organized groups smashing into high-end retail stores and stealing things would be just fine if they were wearing hashtag t-shirts aligning with a Utopian cause. At least they were wearing masks, though…

...that using the applications for unemployment insurance as proof that the job market is robust is akin to claiming the number of people calling the AT&T Customer Service line is proof that AT&T is rocking it in that department. Most people gave up on calling customer service long ago.

...that if the biggest scandal they can pin on Vice President Kamala Harris is her purchase of cookware, I’d say she’s doing pretty goddamn well as a politician.

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