{"id":48348,"date":"2022-06-26T15:05:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T22:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=48348"},"modified":"2022-06-26T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T22:05:51","slug":"there-is-no-joy-in-mudville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/06\/26\/there-is-no-joy-in-mudville\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is No Joy in Mudville &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright,<\/p>\n<p>The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;<\/p>\n<p>And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,<\/p>\n<p>But there is no joy in <em><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Mudville<\/span><\/em> <strong>America<\/strong> \u2014 <em><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">mighty Casey has<\/span><\/em> <strong>women\u2019s rights<\/strong> were just struck out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After what SCOTUS has done to America and our Constitution, I just really couldn&#8217;t put my heart into going whole hog on something funny.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll share a couple of things that brought a smile &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is TFG imitating a female weightlifter at his latest rally in Illinois on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not edited or photoshopped. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dxSnRaPdTH\">pic.twitter.com\/dxSnRaPdTH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@RonFilipkowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonFilipkowski\/status\/1540887495730253825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Entertaining enough for me to make a GIF of it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Trump_Mocks-Female-Weightlifter_OPT.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this morning on <em>&#8220;Meet the Press&#8221;<\/em> Peggy Noonan actually got the entire panel to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">laugh<\/span><\/strong> when she said the GQP should <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>become<\/strong><\/span><\/em> the party that helps women and children (because, Lord knows, they do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>NOT<\/strong><\/em><\/span> do that currently).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The entire &quot;Meet the Press&quot; panel laughed out loud at Peggy Noonan today when she said the GOP &quot;should become a party that helps women&quot; after its abortion &quot;victory.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uSth0nkutC\">pic.twitter.com\/uSth0nkutC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Edwards (@DavidEdwards) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidEdwards\/status\/1541073666255077377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wanting to leave on a positive note, I&#8217;m sharing a Tweet I came across of a young woman who composed a <em>post-Roe<\/em> version of <em>&#8220;My Country &#8216;Tis of Thee&#8221;.\u00a0 <\/em>It was posted in the response to TFG&#8217;s latest rally where MAGA Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) <em>[she&#8217;s actually quoted Hitler in the past]<\/em> thanks TFG <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/06\/26\/mary-miller-white-life-trump-rally\/\">&#8220;for the historic victory <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>for white life<\/strong> <\/span>in the Supreme Court yesterday&#8221;<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Make sure everyone sees this too \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yx2GJAfsff\">pic.twitter.com\/Yx2GJAfsff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; El Gato Pepe (@ElGatoPepe2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElGatoPepe2\/status\/1540859948078440450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright, The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, But there is no joy in Mudville America \u2014 mighty Casey has women\u2019s rights were just struck out. 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