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Monday, May 02, 2022

The Bad and The Good ... Monday May, 2, 2022

These really are the easiest posts to compile because there are dumb people everywhere ... but that’s what makes it so frightening. So this week, I decided to include some Good News as sort of a palette cleanser for the crazies …

BAD

TENNESSEE

GOP Governor Bill Lee has signed a new bill to allow Ivermectin, AKA horse paste, to be available for the treatment of COVID-19 without a prescription in Tennessee. Horse.Paste.

Of note is that in 2019 Governor Lee declared that God would stop school shootings and opioid overdoses if enough people would just pray for it to happen. In 2020 he asked people to pray away the COVID.

How’s that workin’ for you, Governor? Looks like your god doesn’t care about school shootings, opioid deaths, or COVID.

OKLAHOMA

The state Senate approved a GOP bill to outlaw abortion, putting the state on track to be the first in the nation to enact a total abortion ban once the GOP governor signs the measure into law.

Raped and pregnant? Too bad. Victim of incest? Too bad. Not viable for mother or child to survive a pregnancy? Too fucking bad.

GEORGIA

GOP Governor Brian Kemp signed several education bills into law last week: one empowers the state school athletic association to exclude transgender athletes, one allows for the banning books, and one makes it wrong to teach history, well, real, true, history.

The world is going to hell in a  handbasket and Kemp is worried about books and history and transgender athletes.

OKLAHOMA

GOP Governor Kevin Stitt has signed a bill prohibiting the use of nonbinary gender markers on state birth certificates.

The bill followed a flap last year over the Department of Health’s agreement in a civil case allowing a nonbinary option. The birth certificate in that case was issued to an Oklahoma-born Oregon resident who sued after the agency initially refused the request. The GOP and Stitt were incensed and Stitt issued an executive order prohibiting any changes to a person’s gender on birth certificates.

FLORIDA

Jeremy Baldwin teaches social studies at Booker High School in Florida and has flown a rainbow colored Coexist flag in his classroom for four years without any problem, but shortly after the Don’t Say Gay law was signed he was forced to take it down because it’s “political” in nature.

Now, I get the rainbow part cuz, you know, gay is illegal and all, but the idea of asking people to coexist, regardless of their religious beliefs, is too hot a topic?

Oh Flori-duh.

GOOD

GEORGIA

About 200 members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans gathered at Stone Mountain over the weekend for an observation of Confederate Memorial Day, but they were met with roughly 100 counter protesters shouting and jeering, forcing the SCV speakers to struggle to be heard over the din. SCV member Kenneth Buggay said:

“These protesters are against our Christian faith. They are anti-Christ. We have been fighting this war since 1861. We will be victorious.”

You’ve been fighting for 161 years and you are nowhere near victorious, asshat.

KANSAS

The GOP-controlled House failed to override Democrat Governor Laura Kelly’s veto of a transgender sports ban, blocking the measure from becoming a law.

Kelly is the fourth governor this year to veto a transgender sports ban, though two of the others—Utah GOP Governor Spencer Cox and Kentucky Democrat Governor Andy Beshear—had their vetoes overridden by their state’s legislatures; the Indiana legislature has not yet tried to override GOP Governor Eric Holcomb’s veto.

FLORIDA

The Human Rights Campaign is welcoming people to Florida with new billboards:

“Governor Ron DeSantis welcomes you to Florida, the ‘Don’t say gay or trans’ State.”

The “Don’t say gay or trans” part is written over “Sunshine”—Florida’s official nickname.

UTAH

Jillian Orr recently graduated from Brigham Young University— a private university in Utah sponsored by the Mormon Church—but she may be in trouble with the university for her graduation stunt.

Orr, who is bisexual, sewed a rainbow flag into her graduation gown and showed it off at the ceremony, and then shared it to social media where it went viral.

Stand out. Speak out. Live out.

And CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE.


25 comments:

  1. If there is a god why does he/she allow all the evil things that happen in the world. Some Christians tell me that is because he/she gives us the right to choose; but that means that those tortured/murdered etc. have not chosen, just the evil ones have the right of choice which seems extremely wrong. I lost my faith when I learned of the Holocaust. How many people have to die before their god saves them?

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    1. So god allows some folks to die, or suffer horrible atrocities in life, and he or she also helps his or her favorite sports teams win championships? Yeah, I've got no space that that god.

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  2. We need all the "good news" palate cleansers we can get! Thanks!

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    1. I agree, and I like that people are taking a stand and speaking up and out!

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  3. So "god" is gonna stop bad things, but only IF enough people pray for it? What a perfect way to protect your god. If bad things don't stop then obviously not enough people prayed for it. It has nothing to do with "god" being vindictive or powerless or not there at all.

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    1. Yes, Joe, if you pray to god, he or she will answer your prayers, but if god doesn't answer you either weren't praying enough, or the World Series was on and one of god's teams was playing.

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  4. I don’t believe in god myself, but, hey Bill Lee, what’s this I’ve heard about god helping those who help themselves? Or does that apply soley to people who help only themselves and no one else?

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    1. Most of these so-called christians [little c] don't give a rat's ass for anyone but themselves. Of note, think of all these mega-churches and their millionaire pastors and see if you can think of one church or one man of "god" who is sending help to Ukraine.

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  5. Interestingly enough, way back when vaccines were being offered for covid, we had to fill out a form. I noticed there was a 'male', 'female' and 'other' box to check. Never heard any kerfuffle about it.
    xoxo :-)

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    1. It's a simple matter of respect and accepting people as they are; it's not rocket science.
      xoxo

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  6. That took several trys to get the comment section to work... Just wanted to say that even the "GOOD" news is tainted with the BAD. Protesters required to confront confederates, failing to override an evil bill, billboards needed to confront the evil DeSantis, a rainbow flag may get a student in trouble. I'd love to see pure good these days.

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    1. I'll take these small doses of people standing up against hate any where I can get them.

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  7. Ok, so I decided I will only read the 'good' news because I know the Bad News will be about repugs being the homophobic, transphobic, bigoted, racist assholes they usually are.

    XOXO

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    1. They do have a very rigid agenda, though it's too bad it's all hate and ignorance.
      xoxo

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  8. The characters in bad news never seem to change does? But, the good news can still surprise us! Thank you, sweetpea! xo

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    1. The good news is really just everyday Americans standing up to intolerance, while the bad news is all about the intolerants.

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  9. Shame how all of the hateful laws were written by middle-aged, or older, white men who believe they were made special.

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    1. Old ignorant white men are a dying breed but they aren't dying fast enough,

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  10. Thanks for balancing the bad with the good. Sadly, the bad is really, really bad. Kizzes.

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    1. And after that SCOTUS leak it's about to get worse.

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  11. So many idiots. (On the "Bad" side, obviously.) The Repubs are ramping up all this culture-war stuff because it motivates voters ahead of the mid-terms.

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  12. It is as if Trump's time in office and the assault on the US Capitol has emboldened America's right wing. Over in Ukraine, numerous women were raped by Russian soldiers and some of these victims have become pregnant. Even in these circumstances, the pro-life nutcases would say "No!" to abortion - condemning those poor women to lifelong psychological trauma,

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    1. And in America we are on the verge to overturning Roe v Wade. Sad day.

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  13. A study came out that the horse medicine does nothing to Covid-19 symptoms

    Another right wing lie

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    1. But they keep pushing it and the MAGAts keep buying it.

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