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Even if the courts overrule this, can we trust that these MAGAts won’t just do it anyway?

This is a massively corrupt overreach by the federal government, and if they’re successful in getting this allowed, we won’t have a democracy anymore.

I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but I just wanted to kvetch.

A Mormon woman I know personally, and is a survivor of sexual abuse by a member of their local leadership when they were a child, when I asked why they stayed in a religion that protects pedophiles, their response was, ‘What about everyone else, like the Catholic Church? Everyone has that problem! It causes the same pain as being yelled at.’

So I confirmed it with, ‘You think being yelled at causes the same pain as sexual abuse?’

‘Yes.’

I was absolutely flabbergasted. No wonder they don’t care about all the pedophiles in their communities, because they think it’s the same as getting yelled at.

On the bonus show today, Pat tried to brush off the story about Platner cheating on his wife as a simple personal matter, and that it would be a leap to say it might impact Platner’s decisions as a politician, but ack-shew-uh-lee, Pat, infidelity in marriage DOES correlate to shitty behavior outside the marriage, and specifically in the workplace.

While it is true that people can make mistakes that aren’t representative of their true character, and personal views and actions can dramatically change over time, AND that this might be the exact case for Platner, it also turns out that most intimate relationship cheaters are more than willing to also abuse trust outside of intimate relationships. Meaning, that being a known cheater actually IS a good indicator of potential abuses of trust in the future, so it’s not a leap to be concerned that they may also abuse trust elsewhere, like their job, it’s the next logical step.

I still think Platner is a much better dice roll than Collins, AND ALSO, the lying about the Nazi tattoo (my own personal opinion, I’m just not convinced he didn’t know what it was), and now the cheating? Oy vey… This isn’t a standard the Left should accept just because conservatives do it too, AND ALSO, Platner could be genuinely remorseful, and is clearly a more hopeful option than Collins, but please, sirs, with tears in my eyes, don’t be so naive about cheaters.

I once drunkenly burned a Yankee hat that was gag gifted to me on my birthday. There is still a burn mark on my parent’s front porch, and I’m still not sorry mom. I did what I had to do.

I also didn’t buy this year’s MLB The Show because Judge was on the cover.