Meanwhile in Other News From the Slave States

I can't summarize this. You're going to have to read it for yourself.

What's on offer? A North Carolina Republican who compares Lincoln to Hitler. North Carolina, the State that forgot who lost the Civil War, declares the US Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage "null and void" within the precincts of the Tar Heel State. Yeah, right.

Next up is South Dakota where shoving catheters up suspects' dicks is all the rage.

Tell me again that normalizing torture overseas doesn't have a corrosive effect at home. They put a bag over a guy's head and stick a tube up his dick. How is this not torture?

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A three-year-old, forced against his will into a painful medical procedure so as to gather evidence against his mother's boyfriend? There are too goddamn many places in this country where the Constitution doesn't reach because the people who swear to uphold it don't give a damn about it.

Then there's that beacon of enlightenment, Oklahoma, where a gang of white men have decided to prohibit abortion even for severe birth defects and with no exceptions for health of the mother, rape or incest. The explanation? "Well, it's an act of sin. We live in a sinful world. Men and women do horrible things, but God can bring beauty out of ashes."

Esquire's Charlie Pierce sums it up this way:

These really are the fcking mole people.

This is your democracy, America. Cherish it.