Hey Roy Moore…
That's Gonna Leave a Mark
America, We Have a Problem
Reposted in full from Riding On:
So, I saw this article this morning and thought I'd talk about it a little. America, we have a problem. You see we have something called the First Amendment and there are a number of people out there who don't like it. They believe we should have a National Religion, which would happen to be theirs. They call themselves Social Conservatives and they represent the ugly head of selfishness. You see for them, their most favorite pronouns are "I," followed by "my." For them "you" can be a really negative word because "you" is about someone else. These Social Conservatives have allowed their beliefs to evolve to a stage where "you" is not even secondary. Since they don't believe in evolution they would never understand this, but evolve they have. And they like the Constitution, but only as long as it lets them be as selfish as possible. They don't like it when "you" means everybody.
These Social Conservatives want to change rules and create regulations that benefit themselves, alone. They want to be able to say that "my beliefs say I can fire you from your job because my beliefs are more important than you as a human being." The truth is they don't care about human beings at all, unless those human beings share the same beliefs. These Social Conservatives want to be able to discriminate, not only against sexual orientation, but against race and nationality. They don't want to give immigrants the chance to possibly dilute, either socially or culturally, the purity of their own beliefs. You see, it's not just the jobs they claim immigrants will take, it's the very blood coursing through their veins which these Social Conservatives need to keep out.
They will never understand how wrong they are, to even consider such an action would be to challenge the very soul of "I."
Wait…Wasn't The World Supposed to End (Again) Today?
According to Christian numerologist David Meade, verses in Luke 21:25 to 26 are the sign that recent events, such as the solar eclipse and Hurricane Harvey, are signs of the apocalypse.
Conspiracy theories about a rogue planet impacting the Earth and bringing about armageddon have been circulating online for more than two decades, with the latest dubious prophecy predicting the apocalypse happens today—September 23, 2017.
And since it's now September 24th in Australia and Asia, well…
Appropriate
THIS
Be Nice
MAGA?
How about doing this instead of hocking your goddamn red hats during a natural disaster?
Build new infrastructure to ameliorate the effects of huge storms and repair the rest of the existing, crumbling national infrastructure (transport, water, power), invest enormously in renewable energies and local power, move quickly beyond the targets set in the Paris accord, reduce military spending, institute a single-payer healthcare system, perhaps a move to universal basic income, provide 5 weeks annual paid leave as mandatory, provide free universal antenatal care and contraceptive advice for all women, provide cheap public transport, paid maternal and paternal leave…just a few ideas to help MAGA. Easily affordable—just up the taxes on the mega rich a bit, close a few loopholes, introduce the 0.01% financial transaction tax and regulate the fucking banking industry. There you are, fixed it and actually made America great again.
Sigh. A boy can dream—and take some solace in knowing these things are probably already happening in a parallel universe somewhere…
More True Than Not
Smack. Down.
Gimme Some of That Damn Cake!
…and a side of Colin Jost, please.
It Was Fun For a While (NSFW)
…but I just can't anymore. My name ended up on the RNCC mailing list after responding to their initial survey on how the Shitgibbon-in-Chief was doing several months ago. For a while it was fun responding to their weekly—or increasingly daily—email money begs with appropriately disgusting graphics telling them in no uncertain terms how I felt, but after Charlottesville, that's changed. Telling them to go fuck themselves isn't sufficient. I realized that as long as was on their mailing list, they viewed me as a de facto supporter, and I could not have that.
So I unsubscribed after sending one final image.
"It's like arguing against gay marriage with a dick in your mouth."
I love Trae.
I Have No Words
I have no words for the events of the last 48 hours except What the FUCK is wrong with this country?! But plenty of people more eloquent than I do. Here is just a small sample. We will not be silent.
Word.
Well Done!
Such a Delicate Snowflake
Seeing racists cry for help makes me smile.
Contacting My Representatives
It couldn't be easier. Text RESIST to 50409 (details at Resistbot) and follow the prompts.
This is what I sent:
As you are quite aware someone has announced that Transgender persons are no longer welcome to serve our country. Then, while the media is having a firestorm over that sudden announcement and as the senate GOP are dramatically playing out their "take the healthcare away from the poor and give the money to the rich" scheme, it seems the Department of Justice decides to submit an amicus brief stating that all LGBT Americans simply aren't covered under the 1964 civil rights act because of who we are and who we love. I know that you and all of this nation's governors, senators and representatives want to be on the right side of history. For that reason I urge you all to put party politics aside and work towards a just, fair and equal society for all of us. I ask that you stand up and fight for all of our rights as equal citizens no matter our sex, religion, race, sexual orientation, skin color, beliefs, age, pre-existing condition, income, or social status. Please do this for us, for yourselves, for our children and for our country. We need you.
Thanks to Fearsome Beard for providing the majority of the text. He very eloquently put into words what I wanted to say.
Republicans On Notice
Here.
Shower Thoughts
It takes more balls for a trans person to enlist than it does for a businessman to dodge the draft.
"Houston, Tranquility Base Here…
…the Eagle has landed."
It's been 48 years since those immortal words were uttered, and sadly, I doubt that humanity will put another man (or woman!) on the moon until after I'm long gone from this plane of existence…if even then. And I doubt even more that the United States will be the one to do it. As a nation, it seems we've lost our way; lost our will to explore and to truly lead. Nevermind the active dumbing down of the population over the last generation—something that was brought into laser-sharp focus this afternoon as I fell down the rabbit hole of YouTube videos.
I started out innocently enough with upcoming movie trailers (there's some good stuff coming out over the next year) and then I got sucked into "You won't believe what this woman found in her attic" clickbait, and then somehow fell into Area 51 UFO conspiracies. I finally had to step away when I stumbled upon the religious yahoos claiming that the August total eclipse is proof positive of the End Times (it's in Revelation!) and/or not an eclipse at all, but rather the planet Nibiru finally careening in from the outer solar system, completely destroying all life on Earth…and the government has been hiding the truth from us for years! (Hey, even though we can't see this supposedly huge object in the night sky that's less than a month from destroying civilization, the ancient Sumarians believed in it, so it must be true!)
Such Delicate Snowflakes
"Choices have consequences."
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This is EPIC
Junkie Running Dry
by Kevin D. Williamson
June 30, 2017 2:34 PM
Some people simply cannot handle the fact that Donald Trump was elected president.
One of those people is Donald Trump.
Trump has shown himself intellectually and emotionally incapable of making the transition from minor entertainment figure to major political figure. He is in the strange position of being a B-list celebrity who is also the most famous man in the world. His recent Twitter attack on Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC's Morning Joe exemplifies that as much as it does the president's other by-now-familiar pathologies, notably his strange psychological need to verbally abuse women in physical terms.
Trump may have his problems with women, but it is his unrequited love of the media that is undoing him.
"I always tell the president, 'You don't need them,'" says Sean Hannity, the self-abasing monkey-butler of the Trump regime. The president, Hannity says, can reach more Americans via Twitter than he could through the conventional media. That isn't true, of course: Only about one in five Americans uses Twitter. Hannity might be forgiven for not knowing this, a consequence of his much more general habit of not knowing things. But he actually does know the president. How could he possibly believe that this man—this man—does not need them?
He needs them the way a junkie needs his junk.
Donald Trump cares more about how he is perceived in the media than he cares about anything else in the world, including money. Trump is a true discipline of Bishop Berkeley, professing the creed of the social-media age: Esse eat percipi— "To be is to be seen." Trump is incapable of enjoying anything—money, success, sex—without being perceived enjoying it.
Consider: Even though he has in fact been on the cover of Time magazine, it was discovered this week that he had had his people produce some fake Time magazine covers lauding the success of his television show, The Apprentice. He had these fake Time covers displayed at Trump properties around the world. Why? Because Trump, for all his professed contempt for the media, believes that success is not success until it is certified by Time magazine or (avert thine eyes, Hannity!) the New York Times.
Donald Trump is a man who invented an imaginary friend, John Barron, to call up members of the New York press and lie to them about his business success and his sex life. (He claimed, among other things, to be dating Carla Bruni.) A man who "does not need" the media does not do that.
Trump wrote of the third lady that he chose her because he wanted to be able to enter a room with her and make other men envious—to see "grown men weep"—a very strange admission that his satisfaction in his marriage rests neither with himself nor with his wife but with third parties who might ogle her. (His cuckoldry-obsessed fans must surely have noted this.) But envious of what? Asked during a public appearance whether she'd have married Trump if he weren't rich, she answered: "If I weren't beautiful, do you think he'd be with me?" There is a certain clarity in that, one of a very familiar sort.
As president and president-elect, Trump spent a great deal of time tweeting about his ratings as host of The Apprentice and those of his successor, about the ratings of various news programs covering him, about the viewerships and readerships of various media outlets, generally theorizing that those critical of him must by moral necessity be in decline. On the other hand, he plainly does not know that there are tax provisions in the health-care bill Republicans are trying to drag out of Congress: He was perplexed when they came up at a White House meeting with Republican senators, saying that he was planning on taking on tax reform at a later date, oblivious to the content of the bill he purports to be negotiating. He doesn't understand what's going on between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but has taken to Twitter to argue—surprise—that, whatever it is, it's all about him.
What do you think he reads first in the morning: His national-security briefing or Page Six?
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It's a Start
Because this piece of shit had no business being on government property to begin with.
Beating Back The St00pid
Canon Jesus is Better Than Fandom Jesus
While historical scholars are increasingly doubting the fact he even existed, this is an interesting take on one JC:
Jesus Christ was a brown Jew in the Middle East, conceived out of wedlock in an arguably interracial if not interspecies (deity and human) relationship, raised by his mother and stepfather in place of his absent father. He may not have had a Y chromosome. He spent his early youth as a refugee in Egypt, where his family no doubt survived initially on handouts from the wealthy (You think they kept that gold, frankincense, and myrrh from the wise men? Hell no, they sold that stuff for food and lodging). He later returned with his parents to their occupied homeland and lived in poverty.
The religion of Jesus's people has no concept of a permanent hell and instructed its priests on how to induce miscarriages. Jesus explicitly rejected the concept of disability as a divine punishment. He spoke out against religious hypocrites. He had enough respect for women to let his mother choose the time of his first miracle. He blessed a same sex couple. He told a rich man that he must give up his wealth to get to heaven, and also told a parable about a rich man suffering in agony in presumably Gehinnom (basically Purgatory) just to hammer the point home. He told people to pay their taxes. He declared "love your neighbor" to be one of the two commandments on which all laws hang. He commanded his followers to help the poor. He commanded them to help the sick and the needy. He spent time with social outcasts. He healed the servant of a high priest during his arrest rather than fighting back. He was put to death by the occupying government because he was a political radical.
Trump and his administration are xenophobic, misogynistic, racist, fear-mongering, warmongering, tax-dodging, anti-Semitic, anti-choice, anti-welfare, anti-equal pay, anti-LGBTQIA+, anti-immigration, support tax cuts for the rich, support Citizen's United, want to keep refugees out of this country, want to limit our ability to speak against the government, plan to abolish the Affordable Care Act, and they wrap all of that up behind a banner of "Christian family values." If you support them, you have no right to call yourself a follower of Christ.
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