Posted on 05/11/2022 3:55:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
Celebrities are naturally popular on Twitter, but it's annoying that liberals -- who insist they believe in facts and science and experts and nuance -- demand exactly none of that from celebrities.
A family member asked me for a friendly fact check after former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Leslie Jones had a cow on Twitter over the leaked draft opinion on Roe v. Wade. There is a panic on the Left that red states will do anything to keep women from traveling out of their states for abortions.
On May 9, Jones reposted a nine-second TikTok from the account Haus of Petty (@musclesandnursing) with the message, "It's going to be a damn civil war." Two images circulated in the video over dance music.
The first was a Politico headline from March 19: "Missouri wants to stop out-of-state abortions. Other states could follow," next to a picture of Missouri state Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman.
The second was a tweet from Paul Cogan from Toronto (no blue check), who imagined the worst (emphasis on imagined): "Just Another WTF ... In order to prevent women from leaving the state for an abortion, Republican states will soon pass laws that women cannot leave their state unless they submit a negative pregnancy test."
The important note here: Nowhere in the Politico piece is there any mention of a pregnancy test requirement.
But who needs facts? Over that TikTok imagery came Jones' Twitter meltdown: "Soooo how the f--k will this work. Will they ask while booking ticket? Or when boarding plane?! So any woman leaving town got to show this? ARE WE F--KING WAR PRISONERS NOW WTAF?! Seriously THIS IS SOME HANDMAIDS S--T!! What are we gonna do?! We can't let our freedom be attacked!"
People see this and honestly wonder if some Republican politician somewhere actually proposed a bill requiring women to take a pregnancy test for interstate travel. That's the confusion Jones unleashed. No "independent fact-checkers" will get involved. Do they want to tell the Prominent Woman of Color she's spreading misinformation?
In a 2019 bit on "Weekend Update," Jones put on the typical "Handmaid's Tale" outfit and claimed anti-abortion laws were a "war on women." But PolitiFact hasn't touched her. Last year, Snopes.com rushed to correct the claim that Jones had married fellow cast member Kate McKinnon.
In the actual Politico story on Missouri, it reported Coleman is proposing a bill to let private citizens sue people who transport Missouri women across state lines for an abortion, adding, "it specifically targets a Planned Parenthood clinic in Illinois just across the river from St. Louis that opened in 2019 with the explicit goal of serving Missouri patients."
f the Supreme Court returns abortion policy to the states, this will be a contentious issue. Anti-abortion states will want to prevent out-of-state abortions, and pro-abortion states will tout themselves as "havens" for baby killing.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently proclaimed her plan to dedicate $500,000 to pay for out-of-state abortions, declaring Chicago an "island of reproductive freedom." These developments will spur a whole new round of court cases and become campaign fodder for Republicans and Democrats.
But all of this is made exponentially dumber by vulgar comedians on the rampage. Jones wouldn't expect Mitch McConnell to be a great standup comedian, so maybe she should pass on playing Maxine Waters on the internet. With all of the people who are unfortunate enough to take her seriously, maybe she could actually read something before tweeting everyone else into a dystopian panic.
What don’t huge dykes know?…
Come on, man, who’s funnier than women?
They think they know just about everything. Fortunately, the VAST MAJORITY of what they think they know is FLAT OUT WRONG. What remains isn’t right either.
Democrats believe that unborn life is the property of the mother and she can do whatever she wants with it.
Democrats believed the same about slaves. They were the property of the owner who could do whatever they wanted with that slave.
Huge coke headed and rich dykes!
The View always promotes the “rich girl” status-virtue signaling of abortion, which is about career furthering of elite-women like them, and they keep ignoring that abortion hurts women of poorer means who have no carreer to care for but need a man to genuinely take care of their health when pregnant and after pregnancy.
So you have these poor women now watching TV, like in Haiti, hell bent on keeping appearances and thus aborting to feel acceptable in the rich TV woman elite circles.
It works like a sort of cult where if she aborts, the poor woman has hopes of attaining or feels she is belonging to a promised heaven of elite codes of conduct eliciting respect.
The same happened in Haiti where bourgeois women whose husbands lost power and money during the revolution kept appearances of their high level social status despite poverty because the opposing Marxists also flaunted the same social status value codes (that they pretended they revolted against), all in hopes of being counted as part of the elite, of being respected by other women around them without those codes, and even eventually rejoining the ones who murdered their own husbands in government, all opportunity based disoriented schizo thinking.
Women make awful comedians. They’re way too self conscious.
Too early in the morning to be posting such frightening images.
THEY REFUSE TO READ BECUASE THAT WOULD MEAN THAT THEY CANT DIRECT THE NARRATIVE TO FIT THIER AGENDA.
Now they can concoct a plethora of conspiracy theories they accuse us of on what the MAGA white supremacist terrorists and the GOP are going to do to all the mentally ill perverse radical anarchists groups if they let them get away with this. They’ll come for you next!
I LOL’d
Paula Poundstone is my favorite all time comedian. And, Ellen Degeneres was hysterical back in the day.
Even if such a law was passed,Would this prevent any pregnant woman from traveling, whether she wanted an abortion or just visiting family?
Very dumb.
The only funny female comedian was Ellen Degeneres, before she came “out” as a lesbian.
just another loud-mouth brain-dead black woman.
Where’s the Austin Powers “That’s a man baby!”
Give them a break. Feminist comedians usually strike me as mentally unstable. Their whole act is talking in detail about their genitalia and screaming obscenities at Christians or Trump or some other liberal hate figure. I think the audience laughs out of sympathy.
They shouldn’t Tweet at all.
The ones they do post are called, “Twats”, I think...
(Should I have censored that?)
Feminist Comedians is an oxymoron.
I would say the only funny woman comedian I ever saw was Judy Tenuta.
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