#Comstockism

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Funny Pages?

I was as surprised as anyone...

“Let me tell you about January 6… On January 6, we were respected all over the world. All over the world we were respected. Then [Biden] comes in and we’re now laughed at.” —Trump bragging on Bolsonaro, Milei, Hungarian Hitler and… 24. We demand liberty for all religious denominations in the State, so far as they are not a danger to it and do not militate against the morality and moral sense of…

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I recently replayed Bioshock Infinite, and felt like drawing some Elizabeth sketches. I can't believe it's been 10 years since I last played that game....on my Macbook Pro no less

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Andrew Prokop at Vox:

Former President Donald Trump has lately been trying to distance himself from Project 2025, claiming it was cooked up by the “severe right” and that he doesn’t know anything about it. But it turns out the severe right is coming from inside the house. Kevin Roberts, the self-proclaimed “head” of Project 2025, has a book coming out in September — and the book’s foreword is written by Trump’s vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance, who lavishly praises its ideas. “Never before has a figure with Roberts’s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism,” Vance writes, according to the book’s Amazon page. “We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.”

What ideas? Like Vance, Roberts is obsessed with the idea that the left controls major American institutions — he lists Ivy League colleges, the FBI, the New York Times, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Department of Education and even the Boy Scouts of America. The book argues that “conservatives need to burn down” these institutions if “we’re to preserve the American way of life.” (Vox has requested a copy of the book, but has not yet received one at the time of this writing.) Obviously, this poses a problem for Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the virally unpopular Project 2025 and its lengthy agenda for what he should do if he wins, which includes proposals to restrict abortion access and centralize executive power in the presidency.

And it’s one more indication that Trump’s pick of Vance might be politically problematic for him. Vance has a fascination with provocative and extreme far-right thinkers, and a history of praising their ideas. He is not a running mate tailored to win over swing voters who are concerned Trump might be too extreme — quite the opposite. The book was written and announced before Vance was chosen as Trump’s running mate. But there’s some indication that people involved had some late second thoughts about it. It was originally announced as “Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America,” with a cover image showing a match over the word “Washington.”

More recently, though, the subtitle has been changed to “Taking Back Washington to Save America,” and the match has vanished from the cover.

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Vance agrees quite a bit with Project 2025’s most extreme ideas

Project 2025 contains a multitude of proposals in its 922-page plan, not all of which J.D. Vance necessarily supports. But he’s on record backing ideas similar to those put forth in two of Project 2025’s most controversial issue areas. The first is abortion. Project 2025 lays out a sweeping agenda by which the next president could use federal power to prevent abortions, including using an old law called the Comstock Act to prosecute people who mail abortion pills, and working to prevent women from abortion-banning states from traveling out of state to get abortions.

Vance is on record supporting these ideas. Last year, he signed a letter demanding that the Justice Department prosecute physicians and pharmacists “who break the Federal mail-order abortion laws.” In 2022, he said he was “sympathetic” to the idea that the federal government should stop efforts to help women traveling out of their states to get abortions. That year, he also said: “I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally.” At other points, Vance has struck a different tone. ““We have to accept that people do not want blanket abortion bans,” he said last December. And this month he said he supported a Supreme Court decision that allowed the abortion bill mifepristone to remain available. Here, Vance is trying to align with Trump, who — fearing political blowback — argues he merely wants abortion to be a state issue, despite his long alliance with the religious right. But Vance’s record implies his true agenda might be otherwise.

The second controversial area where Vance is sympatico with Project 2025 is centralizing presidential power over the executive branch. The project lays out various proposals to rein in what conservatives view as an out-of-control “deep state” bureaucracy — mainly, by firing far more career civil servants and installing far more political appointees throughout the government. Vance, as I wrote last week, has backed a maximalist version of this agenda. In 2021, Vance said that in Trump’s second term, Trump should “fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” The courts would try to stop this, Vance continued, and Trump should then “stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did, and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”

While Donald Trump is doing his darndest to supposedly run away from the highly unpopular Project 2025, his ticketmate J.D. Vance is making that proposition difficult to impossible.

See Also:

HuffPost: There’s Another Link Between Trump’s Campaign And Project 2025

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Which way Rapture man?

[oscarsasylum]

hi guys sorry for not posting i swear im still drawing bioshock i just havent finished any of them. i only have this to present

if ken levine didnt absolutely shit on bioshock 2 then i believe they wouldve met. in my heart

[breelandwalker]

Books Bans Are Bullshit

If anyone needs to have a ready-made clapback for conversations about the ethics surrounding bans on queer literature, feel free to put on your history cap and remind your opponent that the Comstock Laws, which are the basis for current arguments for banning books on the basis of "moral issues," were the brainchild of a man who hated women and books, attempted to ban the provision of anatomy textbooks to medical students, attempted to trap multiple companies which provided "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" material through mail order, opposed civil liberties so violently that it landed him in JAIL, and was made so uncomfortable by nudity that he attempted to sue a department store for the brief nudity of their mannequins during merchandise changes.

Anthony Comstock was a fucking loser and so are the jackholes still clinging to his rhetoric.

Educate yourselves, my darlings. Then go forth and eviscerate.

[jauffre]

It's up to you what matters more.

Your part in the play --

-- or the play itself.

[a-lyoshka]

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i made these images forever ago and promise that i plan to make more i just keep forgetting about them LMAO

i just think they're Silly

[gamingladies]

Elizabeth Comstock | Bioshock Infinite

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Slave States, 2024

Prohibitionists shoot youth and rob voting rights

Lincoln’s Republican Party died with him, replaced by Comstockist book-burning societies. Voters saw through this and reacted, but Comstock “republicans” still held the troops with bayonets and power to stop citizens from voting. The 13th Amendment was recast by White Supreme male judges to only extend suffrage to some black males. Compare that to what was written after the war to Save the…

[bolina]

BIOSHOCK INFINITE (2013)

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Some more Elizabeth since I wanted to draw her like a Disney princess haha

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10 years....🥐☕️🍷🌹

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no one talks enough about how funny it is for Booker to suddenly change clothes (gear) in the midst of battle