Morning meese…
It’s sad that our daily life has come to having to fight bigotry, misogyny and a myriad of other terrible things on a daily basis. It’s disheartening and depressive to say the least.
It’s all because of the right wing and their xtian fundie twisted beliefs that have increasingly become more radicalized in the last 20 years.
What has all of us pissed off though, and rightfully so, is the aid the vocalized far left has given the right wing bigots. It’s increasingly being brought to the conscientiousness of us(even though we’ve all known it for years) and the Dem party at large that the faux progressives are nothing more than an extension of the right wing trying to make life harder then it needs to be. They started their idiocy during the election of Dubya with Nader and his stupidity and festered into the idiocy of Fuckin Bernie and his meager band of morons.
Maybe it’s for the better that this has happened becasue it’s woken up a large part of the electorate that didn’t know how gov’t worked much less cared. I know this is a hard lesson to be taught, and we have taken a lot of hits becasue of it, but the world will end up being a better place just because people have jumped in with both feet to fight back.
Trumps stupidly on display!
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/941451940436770816
https://twitter.com/bravenak/status/941296891697946624
It looks like Alabama violated federal law with its “inactive” voter scheme: https://t.co/JGm2XaRkDr via @slate
— @AdamsFlaFan (@AdamsFlaFan) December 15, 2017
It’s really something when you hear words like these from a sitting Senator.
Evidently House agreed to a change and Senate agreed to a change. They both agreed to lower taxes on the wealthiest….lower than either of their previous versions. JeezLouise. #taxscam
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) December 14, 2017
https://twitter.com/Luvvie/status/941355026685014016
Really great thread!
Its time to get a bit unpopular right now about all the praise we are giving African American's for stepping up to vote. Yes I petitioned in another thread for us to do so, this is not about that. /1
— Tynisa Thee Cynical Gen X Witch Here for Kamala! (@Kalarigamerchic) December 14, 2017
Here's a start: universal background checks (Columbine); ban assault weapons (Newtown etc); fix NICS (Sutherland Springs); ban bump stocks (Las Vegas).
I've got more. https://t.co/1X9VUPUZPP
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 14, 2017
The Simpsons does Mueller vs. Trump.
"Pardon me."
"I said you—"
"Oh, I'm not talking to you. I tried to pardon myself." (via FOX) pic.twitter.com/b3m4nbjxzJ— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 14, 2017
Well, that’s it for this Friday…
Fire away!
Thanks, Batch!
Yes, I agree, we’ve got a long road ahead of us. I want to see more black women running for office and getting elected. I’d promote black men as well, but women have a propensity to think of others besides themselves. Going to make sure my donations for 2018 are directed toward this end.
Gray, gloomy Friday here but have so much to do I’ll hardly notice the weather.
Love ya, Batch, and have a good weekend!
{{{Batch}}} – Great roundup – and yes, the Extreme Left has always = Extreme Right with the only difference being which white male authoritarian they want ruling us. Neither believes in democracy or even a democratic republic, both want a dictator telling everybody what to do, say, and believe.
You are equally correct that good people are not particularly interested in governing. They just want to live their lives doing their own ordinary stuff and tend to not pay attention to politics – until Evil people get enough power to eff up their ordinary stuff. Evil people are not interested in governing either – they want power and they work and scheme until they get it. Which is why Evil people get into power – because that’s what they want – but can’t keep it very long because they don’t know and don’t particularly care how to govern which effs up everybody’s ordinary life and wakes the “sleeping giant” that is good people whose ordinary lives have been effed up. I just hope the “giant” stays woke long enough to make the systemic changes needed and not just throw this group out and then go back to sleep (as they did after President Obama was elected and the ACA was pushed through). moar {{{HUGS}}}
Morning meese…Chilly and wet this morning…
Good morning, Pond Dwellers and thanks for your TGIF rant, Batch. I’m going to read the story about the inactive voter later. Sounds interesting especially since we won. Guess another suppression trick that failed?
I’m glad we’ve exposed the far left but also glad we woke some voters who had been sitting these elections out. We need to get as many involved as possible.
Well, back to my diary at the ????. I’ll check back in later.