As we celebrate National Pickle Day, let’s look at a 63-year-old Democrat who expects, absent dramatic birth control measures, to become pregnant and crave pickles and ice cream. In the video below, she discusses a first person possibility of being a customer for IVF and abortion care as well:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus has reached the age of a great-grandmother in most human societies, but imagines that she could get pregnant and give birth (the Guinness Book of World Records age for this feat is 59) and also that someone other than a gerontologist is interested in her reproductive system. (The post and video above originally a tweet on JL-D’s official X account, but apparently it was deleted or restricted so that only non-Deplorables/non-Garbage can see it.)
What’s the corresponding fantasy world for Republicans? Deporting undocumented criminals:
“There’s about 4.5 million who would be the first priority for that, people who’ve already committed crimes,” Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday. “They’re in the system now [for] shoplifting, or whatever it is … or [having] done things that are untoward or unlawful.”
This politician imagines that there is a country (or countries) out there, other than the U.S., that is dumb enough to take in 4.5 million folks who’ve been adjudicated criminals. Note that criminality is heritable, so if a country takes in a criminal it will be on track to have additional criminals in the future. (Also remember that nobody can agree on how many of the undocumented are currently enriching us with their presence: “Yale Study Finds Twice as Many Undocumented Immigrants as Previous Estimates” (2018); the estimate of 11 million seems to have been in use by mainstream media for 20+ years, even as the same publications report on floods of new arrivals.)
I think the 63-year-old’s fear of getting pregnant and not being able to secure abortion care might be more reasonable than the Republican expectation of being able to dump migrant criminals on some other nation!
So the good news is that the two parties will be back to governing soon, now that the election drama is mostly over. The bad news is that both parties seem to be living in fantasy worlds of their own creation!
In case the above Instagram post is memory-holed…
How come pickles only get one day of celebration, but alphabet people get a whole month? Perplexity.ai says 67% of Americans eat pickles, but only 6% identify as 2SLGBTQIABCXYZ+. Where’s the equity?
“Dr” Phil:
I know you like to publish smarmy, sarcastic posts, oftentimes commenting on the ridiculousness of the world. I know I’ve asked this before, and this is a perfect example: you choose JLD Instagram, when instead you could be talking about the absolutely wild Cabinet nominations.
But I know you are Republican through-and-through, and like them have more than a hint of Russian influence.
@Mike, compare this to what? President Biden, who surrounded himself with “smart” and “loyal” guys hiding his mental decline from the rest of us and running the country instead of him?
I admit to being confused as to what qualifies RFK, Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on track to squander $2 trillion/year on Medicare and Medicaid before the second Trump dictatorship is scheduled to end. But I am also confused as to why people suggest that this administrative job requires medical, scientific, or technical training. Even more confusing is that the same people have no objection to Cognitive Joe Biden continuing to run the entire US government ($6 trillion/year or is it more now?). If Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Tim Walz were all qualified to run the entire US then I am at a loss for when it is time to say that a lower level official is unqualified.
The biggest fantasy of Republicans is to cut the budget by $2T with no cuts to defence spending. They love spending on defense.
@RH, Both parties are guilty for excessive military spending, regardless of whether we’re at war or peace. And both parties are also guilty for balancing the budget, be it we have economic downturns and upturns. This will continue for as long as the world continues to accept our “green paper” that grows on trees.
RH: I would cut defense spending to $0! Any enemy can send its soldiers across the border to attack the US from inside. So there is no point in having a military to deal with old-style external threats.