I don't really know how much further they can go into the shitter here...

... but if you really want to know what sane people are up against in this country, I present to you Alaska State Representative David Eastman, which a huge hat-tip to Keith Olbermann.

This Republican shithead has decided that it would be better for children abused by other parties to die than to saddle the state of Alaska, on a dollars-and-cents level, with the cost of trying to clean up the mess.

No, I am NOT kidding.

And this isn't the first foray this Nazi has decided to go with: 

• He was a participant in the January 6th insurrection riot.
• He was the target of a 14th Amendment lawsuit to prevent him from returning to the Alaska House as a result of that.
• He has been a member of the Oathkeepers (a right-wing American terrorist organization) for at least the last decade...
• He was censured for abortion views by the Alaska House...
• Oh, and he's from the hometown of Sarah Palin.

But that might pale in comparison (Keith thinks more than all of this combined!!) to a statement he made in a committee meeting regarding child abuse in the state of Alaska:

Seriously what is wrong with these people.😑

Alaska GOP State Rep David Eastman says, and doubles down, that it is a “benefit to society” if an abused child is killed because “it saves the government money.”

GOP isn’t pro life—they’re pro money by any means necessary. Reckless. pic.twitter.com/KHyPz2MeQ9

— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) February 22, 2023

EASTMAN:  "In the case where child abuse is fatal it -- it's obviously not good for the child -- but it's actually a benefit to society because there [sic] are not needed for government services and what not over the course of that child's life."

That, frankly, is about as fucked as you can get.

First, it all but endorses eliminative child abuse as a dollars-and-cents benefit to the state of Alaska -- that it would be better, as a function of the state, for an abuser to kill the child and save the state the cost of having to clean up the mess.

Then, there's the intrinsic quality of that an abused child isn't going to amount to enough to even be bothered with the right to live.  Especially with the number of states all but endorsing child abuse against certain demographics of children (and, with that, going after the adults too!!), one has to wonder if this is not the ultimate call for abusive parents and babysitters to Shoot, Shovel, and Shush.

Let that process.  And then listen to Eastman, challenged, double down:

UNNAMED OFFICIAL:  "Through the chair [probably meaning the chair wanted to be clear on that comment], can you say that again, did you say a benefit for society?"

Needless to say, the chair (and whoever was speaking for the chair) was quite incredulous at that.

EASTMAN:  "Talking dollars.  You've got a $1.5 million price tag here for victims of fatal child abuse.  It gets argued periodically that it's actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need, based on growing up in this type of environment."

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"Blessed be our New Founding Fathers, for letting us Purge, and cleanse our souls.

 Blessed be America, A Nation Reborn." -- The Purge Prayer

We are shockingly close to this end, people.  You now have an all-but-endorsement of a child abuser killing the child, rather than subjecting the state of Alaska to $1.5 million or more to try to make this child employable and an upstanding member of society.

This is a fucking Oathkeeper terrorist, people.  It is now clear that we are walking (if not running) down the path toward basically determining the "legitimate purpose" a person has under the law, and making that a condition for continuance.  Deviance might get the person arrested, ONCE.  Refusal (or a second deviance) WILL get them killed if the Republicans have total control.

Keith usually, in declaring the show's "Worst Persons in the World", says it with enough of a tongue in cheek.  He even had to stop the classic music drop behind the discussion and basically declare Eastman WAS one of the Worst Persons in the World.

We're going to need another Civil War.  For the children, for the transgenders, for the women, for basically anyone who, given a return to a White Male Straight paradigm, will either be beaten, raped, or killed as the sole purpose God (THE PARADIGM'S "God") gave them to live.