Sometimes Meme Mondays are a rally call to my smart Republican friends: these extremists are killing your party and also setting women back decades. In situations like this shouldn’t we ask ourselves, “What would Bugs Bunny do?”
Also, my meme has a typo. I’ll fix it tonight; don’t fret my pets.
Guys! I know it’s Wednesday, and also that I’ve become a lazy blogger lately. I also know that North Carolina is being steamrolled by some Tea Party Bullshit. They are restricting abortions. Let us please never forget that the pros of limiting abortions are to protect life and to prevent medical procedures, completely neglecting the fact that women’s lives are ruined in childbirth and by unwanted pregnancies all the time (“What if that aborted fetus was going to be president?!” “What if that woman forced down into poverty by single motherhood was?” No one is Doc Brown. We can’t know what would happen in other timelines; let’s not try.) and that giving birth is a Goddamn medical procedure. Have you ever heard of an episiotomy? That is a medical procedure that really leaves some lasting scars.
North Carolina already passed one of the most restrictive and saddest anti-gay marriage laws in the Spring of 2012. I have yet to understand, at all, how gay marriage affects straight people anymore than I understand how forcing a woman to have a baby is a pro-human rights issue, but I’m wide open to hearing anyone’s non-Biblical views on either subject (your Bible does not belong in our Constitution. Sorry bro*.)
Welfare applicants must pass mandatory drug tests which I’m sure is not an expensive program for tax payers at all. Are you poor in North Carolina? You can expect to find a lot of Christians, but not a lot of charity…..
Student loans are going up, going back to that whole, “Oh, you’r poor? Fuck you and bless your heart,” attitude that seems to have covered the consciences of NC lawmakers like a blanket over a bird cage.
Also, if you’re a teacher, it would be good to keep your urine clean, because based on your salary in comparison to the rest of the country you are also fucked. Though not as fucked as you’ll be if you get fired or laid off. What is so insane to me, is that these people think they are doing the right thing by hoarding their money for themselves, as though infrastructure is free and as if keeping the poor down makes our country better. Any society is only as strong as it’s most vulnerable members. Making women raise children they can’t afford without the aid of benefits they can’t get in a state with a high unemployment rate is the way to keep people down. Raising student loans keeps people down. Restricting health care access keeps people down. If you asked them, Republicans are the more patriotic party. They love America; they hate Americans.
I once heard someone who is related to me say that Occupy Wall Street was a movement of spoiled people who expected everything to be handed to them. I politely excused myself to go the the bathroom because I’m not allowed to swear in front of my family members outside of my nuclear family, but come the fuck on. If you don’t understand that the Occupy Wall Street movement is about the gross inequality in this country, it’s probably because you benefit from said inequality. If you don’t understand women’s rights, or college tuition hikes, or the implications behind restricting gay marriage I envy the life you’ve lead and the character you’ve never been forced to build, but please do not comment on those things in front of me.
In other words, I won’t be moving back to my beloved blue-skied haven any time soon. As for my mom, she spends her Mondays picketing at the state capital because she is rad and also is retired.
*Bro like Broseph not bro like my bro, Pandito, who is awesome.
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Matthew 7:6:
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”
Deuteronomy 15:11:
“For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’ “
Amendment One passed in North Carolina yesterday. It’s atrocious and inhumane. It sucks. But part of living in a democracy is that people are allowed to vote the way that they want to; it’s what makes America great. I guess America would be greater if it weren’t for all those Americans who don’t want big government involved in their lives, but are happy to vote for it to live between other people’s relationships and inside women’s uteruses, but I digress.
First, I would like to take a minute to defend North Carolina to all the citizens of other states getting super uppity on Facebook. Unless your state is one of the six that explicitly allows gay marriage, and especially if you live in one of the thirty other states that explicitly bans gay marriage, allow me to help you off your high status-posting horse and put a phone in your hand. Instead of angrily chattering about North Carolina, use the passionate disappointment you feel to call your own congressperson, or join a campaign.
The first time I voted was in the Kerry/Bush election of 2004, a close race that was incredibly disappointing to those of us who voted for the narrowly defeated Kerry, though it was nothing compared to the disgusting circus of the Gore/Bush race of 2000. These disappointments helped spur an enormous voter involvement and turnout and put President Barack Obama in the Whitehouse, where I hope and pray he stays.
When the Republicans took control of the North Carolina legislature in 2010, they decided a second amendment was needed to double ban gay marriage. Had more Democrats shown up to that smaller state election, the newly elected wouldn’t have had the power to put Amendment 1 into motion. Let this demoralizing defeat of human rights in North Carolina move you to be more actively involved in political campaigns and bring you to vote in every election, whatever state you call home. This is our generation’s chance to rectify the sins of our metaphorical fathers and take one step closer to equality for all American citizens. Don’t screw it up.
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