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! |
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
ReplyDeleteThat woman appears to have had her brain removed, incinerated, and used to power up fridge light.
DeleteI've been to Cockfosters!
DeleteThe 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.
ReplyDeleteAll they have are lies and fear and not one solution to a single problem.
DeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteBesides, 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.
Banning birth control is another method of control, though it will backfire the first time some GOP fuckwad gets his mistress pregnant.
DeleteYay!
ReplyDeleteThe 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
I'm glad those high school kids didn't take No for an answer.
DeleteAnd 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
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!
ReplyDeleteWell, 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.
DeleteYou don't have to be married to have kids ... you just have to have unprotected sex!
DeleteDear God - they're all mad but Miss Washington D.C. for the win!
ReplyDeleteTo 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.
DeleteI skipped right to the Good today. And, even then, Cynthia Lummis. I’m glad she was booed.
ReplyDeleteHer ignorance earned her those boos though I don't think she noticed.
DeletePowering the lights??? How crazy can you be?
ReplyDeleteApparently very crazy if the gop asks you to speak.
xoxo :-)
The craziest part is that no one called her out on this BS, Oy!
Deletexoxo
Kudos to those Belfast kids! Yes, they ARE the future!
ReplyDeleteGood group of kids it sounds like. Bravo to them.
DeleteMy hometown does the areas pride parade
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteSadly, common sense is in short supply these days.
Deletexoxo
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.
ReplyDeleteGenerally conservatives simply offer their "thoughts and prayers" but no real action on gun deaths.
DeleteRe. Thomas Massie: WHY?!
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