Jul 1, 2017
Choose Well
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
--Octavia Butler, Parable Of The Talents
Jun 30, 2017
Michelle's Variation
"The presidency doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are" —@MichelleObama@realDonaldTrump...We know who you are pic.twitter.com/mSuizM8veY— Rantt (@RanttNews) June 29, 2017
45* told us who he is.
And it really doesn't bother me so much that 62 million of us bought the bullshit about how he was just being a showman, and he'd pivot to common decency once he's in office. What grates on my soul is thinking there's a core group of about 20 million who see him pretty much exactly for the bag of sludge that he is, and either they don't care or they actually want a president to act like that.
It could always get worse - don't put anything past this bunch - but it's possible we could be seeing the emergence of the endgame for this tribal crap of Blue Team vs Red Team - my team forever no matter what.
Politics on "the right" has degenerated to where there's no policy argument anymore. There's no real discussion about the relative merits of one approach to dealing with our problems versus another. Too many "conservatives" are thinking the whole point of the exercise is to make statements that are simply intended to get "a Libtard mad enough to cry.
Cruise a few comments sections with that in mind and score it out.
A Grand Idea
Overheard on YouTube:
I can't imagine how it hasn't occurred to someone in the White House at some point in the last 4 months, but wouldn't it be great if they slipped a letter of resignation into one of those Executive Order folders? He'd sign it blindly - like he does everything else - and boom; new president.
I can't imagine how it hasn't occurred to someone in the White House at some point in the last 4 months, but wouldn't it be great if they slipped a letter of resignation into one of those Executive Order folders? He'd sign it blindly - like he does everything else - and boom; new president.
But then, President Pence. So yeah - we're fucked.
Today's Tweet
TRUMPSTERS If you can read, check this out... pic.twitter.com/kBe5HITY77— Wes Coates (@2splibb) June 29, 2017
Jun 29, 2017
Take A Break And Stay At It
My fave is #5.
These are dumb times and dumb times often call for tireless marathons of beer and donuts and naps — and definitely do those things from time to time! — but also, like, eat some fucking vegetables, get some exercise, get some rest. Trust me, I get it, pretty much every day I hit a period where I’m like, “The best thing I can do right now would be to drink whiskey until I stop recognizing the world,”
Pro-Life = Dead Women
Criminalizing abortion doesn't stop abortion - it just makes it more dangerous.
The Trump administration may be the most fervently anti-abortion since Reagan.
This will likely come as a surprise to every man who, prior to Trump’s election, assured me, “don’t worry, he’s really a democrat! He’s not going to do anything about abortion!”
It seems you guys were wrong.
Trump has reinstated the global gag rule, preventing funding for overseas reproductive health organizations that offer abortion related services. Closer to home, Trump signed a bill on April 13 that allows states to cut off funding from organizations like Planned Parenthood that provide abortions. He has suggested that federal funding could continue to go to the women’s health organization only if they stopped performing abortions.
All of this falls under the banner of a “pro-life” agenda.
Indeed, Vice President Mike Pence and counselor to the President, Kellyanne Conway, both spoke enthusiastically at the March for Life. There, the Vice President proclaimed, “We will not rest until we restore a culture of life in America.”
Perhaps when people enact these laws, they imagine what a world with more restrictive abortion rights—or a “culture of life”—looks like. I do not think these people are evil. I suspect they have a vision of a world that is flawed. I think when they imagine that world of outlawed abortions, they imagine a world full of adorable, bouncing babies. They imagine happy mothers, and fathers who are, unexpectedly, delighted and doting fathers.
That is not reality.
The impulse to restrict a woman's access to the full range of health services (including abortion) is dumb for a mess of good reasons - not the least of which is that the decision to have kids or not to have kids belongs to whoever gets pregnant.
If you prefer the clear-eyed pragmatic approach, then another reason is plain old ordinary economics. It's cheaper and way more cost-effective to prevent the problems caused by unwanted pregnancies. And going with workable measures that actually lower the need for abortion is way better than the bullshit law-n-order "solutions" either in place now, or being proposed to remedy those problems.
BTW - "workable" and "abstinence only" are incompatible. Remember - total abstinence wasn't 100% effective even for god.
Allow me to reiterate the basics on this:
- Eggs ain't chickens
- Caterpillars ain't butterflies
- Ain't nuthin' goin' on in my daughter's uterus that's any of your fuckin' business
- So fuck the fuck off, you pinch-faced blue-nosed puritanical fuck
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