Monday, May 23, 2022

The Bad and The Good ... Monday May 23, 2022

These really are the easiest posts to compile because there are dumb people everywhere and it seems they are all trying to out-dumb one another with fear and loathing, but there are some bright spots … so here goes:

BAD

MICHIGAN

Republican Jacky Eubanks, Thing 45’s pick for a state Senate seat. is promising to ban all birth control if elected:

“I guess we have to ask ourselves, would that ever come to a vote in the Michigan state legislature? And if it should, I would have to side with it should not be legal. People believe that birth control—it’s better because then you won’t get pregnant and you won’t need to have an abortion, but I think it gives people the false sense of security that they can have consequence-free sex, and that’s not true and that’s not correct. Sex ought to be between one man and one woman in the confines of marriage.”

Welcome to the 1950s and, please, one reporter, just one, please ask Jacky if she’s ever had sex outside marriage.

WASHINGTON DC

Catherine Glenn Foster, president of the Americans United for Life campaign group, was summoned by the GOP  as an expert witness during a House judiciary committee meeting on access to abortion and said this:

“In places like Washington D.C. [fetuses] are burned to power the lights of the city’s homes and streets. The next time you turn on the light, think of the incinerators.”

She was not questioned about where she gets her facts by any one ion the GOP because … ignorance and fear are the talking points.

VIRGINIA 

GOP Delegate Tim Anderson is threatening to file a restraining order against Barnes and Noble and Virginia Beach Schools to enjoin them from selling or loaning the books Gender Queer and a Court of Mist and Fury because he says they are obscene though neither book fits that definition, and neither book is pornography.

Barnes & Noble has yet to respond to the legal action but, as a private business, they are allowed to sell what they wish to sell and are under no obligation by anyone to move materials out of their facilities.

Still, to the GOP, Gay is Bad.

OKLAHOMA

The state Legislature gave final approval to a bill that prohibits nearly all abortions starting at fertilization, which would make it the nation’s strictest abortion law.

The bill is modeled on one that took effect in Texas, which has relied on civilian instead of criminal enforcement to work around court challenges, but it goes further than the Texas law because it also subjects abortion providers and anyone who “aids or abets” an abortion to civil suits from private individuals.

The GOP will force women to have babies, but not give a damn about the child once its born.

KENTUCKY

The state’s GOP Representative Thomas Massie cast the only vote against a House resolution honoring Jewish Americans’ heritage and denouncing a rise in violence motivated by antisemitism. The resolution passed the House with 420 votes with Massie’s ‘No’ and either Republicans abstaining from voting.

He voted No to simply denounce a rise in Hate Crimes, and ‘No’ against honoring Jewish American’s heritage.

Let that sink in.

NEW JERSEY

GOP State Senator Edward Durr has introduced legislation that would prohibit teachers from bringing LGBTQ-related instruction into classrooms from kindergarten through sixth grade, while students in seventh through 12th grade can “only” be exposed to LGBTQ topics if a parent gives consent.

If the bill is passed, parents would be allowed to sue schools that employ educators who violate the law by incorporating topics such sexual orientation or gender identity into the curriculum without a parent’s consent.

They will freely teach Hate, though.

GOOD

MAINE

When no adults would revive the community Pride parade in Belfast, Maine, a group of motivated Belfast Area High School students stepped up to make sure that the event—which has been on a pandemic hiatus—happens this year.

The city’s first-ever Pride parade and festival took place in 2016, and became an annual tradition, but no adult organizers had come forward this year to keep the tradition going after being canceled for the last two years due to COVID.

So, twenty high school students secured a permit from the city of Belfast, found sponsors, raised money for banners, flags and other expenses and grappled with the procuring of liability insurance.

That’s the future, y’all.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

GOP Governor Chris Sununu announced he would veto a piece of legislation, the “Parental Bill of Rights,” that critics say could require New Hampshire schools to out LGBTQ+ children to their parents.

A Republican with common sense? Who knew?

AMERICA

About two-thirds of Americans say they do not support overturning Roe v. Wade, and also shows that two-thirds of Democrats say the contents of the SCOTUS leak make them more likely to vote in November, as compared to just 40% of Republicans who said so.

This survey showed that voters would cast their ballot in favor of a Democrat in their local congressional district if the election were held today.

Vote Blue!

WYOMING

GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis, a Republican representing Wyoming in the U.S. Senate, speaking at commencements of several schools, including the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education, and said that “the existence of two sexes, male and female” was a “fundamental scientific truth.”

She was roundly booed by the students, the educated students.

That is also the future, y’all.

Remember, We The People have to make the Good News happen by speaking up and standing up and shouting out and voting to remove those people from office who are out to harm women, People of Color, and the LGBTQ+ community in their quest to take this country backwards.

CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!

26 comments:

  1. Logic doesn't help with people as idiotic as Cockfosters (believe it or not a station on the London underground). All the foetuses in the world wouldn't power one power station for at the most a minute or two

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    1. That woman appears to have had her brain removed, incinerated, and used to power up fridge light.

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    2. I've been to Cockfosters!

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  2. The more desperate they become, the more they will lie, and right now their desperation is beginning to stink like burning rubber. I'm betting that's the first time Cindy was ever booed, and I'm also betting it burned her ass badly.

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    1. All they have are lies and fear and not one solution to a single problem.

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  3. I will admit, I do not understand the banning of birth control. That is completely different then abortion. These fuckers can stay out of our private lives.

    Besides, without the birth control they want to ban, they will only be hurting themselves, when all their Mistress's end up pregnant. It's beyond me why they are a put off by either. Besides were over populated enough in my opinion. We can't even take care of the people and babies we have now.

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    1. Banning birth control is another method of control, though it will backfire the first time some GOP fuckwad gets his mistress pregnant.

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  4. Yay!
    The kids are alright! Glad to see a new generation taking over Pride there. And let's see the two thirds of Americans get up and vote against the Repugs and their Handmaiden's Tale future. The forced birth movement needs to be stopped.

    XOXO

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    1. I'm glad those high school kids didn't take No for an answer.
      And I need Americans to vote like the lives of women, and women's rights, and the rights of People of Color to simple exist, and the rights of LGBTQ+ people to be equal, really truly matter.
      xoxo

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  5. What if a married woman and man prefer not to procreate? No birth control for them either? My five sisters and I are living proof that the rhythm method doesn't work. The stupidity is incendiary!

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    1. Well, I'm guessing she would suggest if a man and woman don't want children then don't get married ... and don't ever have sex cuz it's only for hetero married couples and no one else.

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    2. You don't have to be married to have kids ... you just have to have unprotected sex!

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  6. Dear God - they're all mad but Miss Washington D.C. for the win!

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    1. To actually utter those words like they were true is bad enough, but to have no one on the panel call her out on it is worse.

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  7. I skipped right to the Good today. And, even then, Cynthia Lummis. I’m glad she was booed.

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    1. Her ignorance earned her those boos though I don't think she noticed.

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  8. Powering the lights??? How crazy can you be?
    Apparently very crazy if the gop asks you to speak.
    xoxo :-)

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    1. The craziest part is that no one called her out on this BS, Oy!
      xoxo

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  9. Kudos to those Belfast kids! Yes, they ARE the future!

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    1. Good group of kids it sounds like. Bravo to them.

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  10. My hometown does the areas pride parade

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  11. I liked all that good news. Leaves a better taste in one's mouth. Boy, red states sure like to elect people who are not very evolved. Common sense would be a cure for all that ails. Kizzes.

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    1. Sadly, common sense is in short supply these days.
      xoxo

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  12. It would be interesting to closely interview the conservatives you referred to about the recent killings in Buffalo. It could test how much they really care about human life.

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    1. Generally conservatives simply offer their "thoughts and prayers" but no real action on gun deaths.

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  13. Re. Thomas Massie: WHY?!

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