Tag: politics

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hapaxlegomina:

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ianstagram:

Yeah our house is on fire but have we considered giving the fire a chance and seeing what it does first before we put it out?

Before we call 911 I want the wood floor to apologize for being so flammable and let the healing begin because it really hurts the arsonist when you call him an arsonist.

Look, I know none of us wanted this fire in the first place, but it’s here now, so can we please just try and make the best of it and be respectful?

Honestly, if you say we should hate the fire and put it out you’re just as bad as the fire.

#stop calling me a ‘fire apologist’ for refusing to extinguish the fire!!!! it’s an act of violence to smother this fire’s free speech!!!!!!!

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memeufacturing:

*far-right wing voice* actually the fact that you are against my intolerance means perhaps it is you who is the intolerant one

Uh, the far left is no better. Let’s be real.

*centrist voice* both the far left and far right are equally bad…mayhaps those fighting against fascism are the real fascists…really makes you think

meanwhile at the far left: “Let’s go beat up some nazis for fun”

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captainevans:

In case anyone hasn’t heard yet, now the GOP has introduced a bill that would pull the United States out of the U.N.

It’s called the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017 and boy howdy that name alone is freightening

you know what actually i’m going to reblog this again. As of this moment, there are only 6 co-sponsers on the bill. These are:

Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Rep. Smith, Jason [R-MO-8]
Rep. Massie, Thomas [R-KY-4]
Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Rep. Gaetz, Matt [R-FL-1]

start calling these people right now. flood their phones with dissent. don’t let them hear the end of it. make them kill their own bill before it even gets off the ground. 

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/193

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/193/text

idiopathicsmile:

Hey there! 

Are you an American? Do you have a sec to stand up for the millions of poor people, disabled people, people with pre-existing conditions and freelancers who rely on the ACA to keep them, y’know, not-broke and not-dead? (Hi!)

Do you live in Alaska, Arizona, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee or West Virginia?

Congrats: you have a Republican Senator who has publicly expressed some concern about repealing the ACA without a replacement plan! If you haven’t already, this is your reminder to give their offices a call and help them make up their minds!

Alaska – Lisa Murkowski:  

(202)-224-6665

Arizona – John McCain: 

(202) 224-2235

Arizona – 

Jeff Flake: 

(202) 224-4521

Kentucky – Rand Paul: 

202-224-4343

Louisiana – Bill Cassidy: 

(202) 224-5824

Maine – Susan Collins: 

(202) 224-2523

Nevada – Dean Heller: 

202-224-6244

Ohio – Rob Portman: 

(202) 224-3353

Pennsylvania – Pat Toomey: 

(202) 224-4254

Tennessee – Bob Corker:

(202) 224-3344 

Tennessee

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 Lamar Alexander: 

(202) 224-4944

West Virginia – Shelley Moore Capito: 

202-224-6472

Sample call script: 
“My name is [YOUR NAME]. I’m a constituent calling to thank [YOUR SENATOR’S NAME] for having the integrity and foresight to see how disastrous it would be to [YOUR STATE] and to the rest of America if Congress votes to repeal the ACA without first agreeing on a solid replacement plan. Not only would it jeopardize the health and economic security of millions of Americans, it would also place a tremendous financial strain on our hospitals and our entire healthcare system, costing potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs. As you know, in [YOUR STATE], we [SOMETHING PERSONAL ABOUT HEALTH CONCERNS SPECIFIC TO YOUR STATE; YOU MIGHT WANNA DO A 30-SECOND GOOGLE. IF NOTHING ELSE SURFACES, JUST SAY YOUR STATE BELIEVES IN SOME POSITIVE CHARACTER TRAIT THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH KEEPING HEALTHCARE AFFORDABLE FOR AMERICANS, LIKE “LOOKING OUT FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR” OR SOMETHING.] As a voter, this is a vital issue to me, and I will be paying close attention to how [SENATOR’S NAME] votes.”

Call today if you haven’t already, and bug your local friends/family to call, too!

We only need to flip three senators, so it’s not impossible. Do this before this Friday, the 27th.

I’m sorry to ask this of you–I know there’s a lot of these things going around right now–but I depend on the ACA for my healthcare and I’m pretty damn terrified.

dog-of-ulthar:

Trump is an awful person, but he isn’t a competent politician.  Pence is possibly a worse person and a very competent politician.  There is already a conservative plan to impeach Trump so Pence can take the presidency.  

A Pence presidency probably has less chance of accidental nuclear war, but a much greater chance of extremely socially conservative legislation which would be devastating to civil rights in America.  Trump just wants to make money and feel important; Pence has an agenda.

Nixon was impeached for corruption.  We already know Trump is corrupt.  Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about inappropriate sexual conduct.  We already know Trump has lied about inappropriate sexual conduct.

It’s only a matter of time before he lies about something too big for his press aids to smooth over and Congress gets to have his way with him, because he is a mess of a man and makes mistakes, and makes them loud.

If Pence is allowed to take his place, Pence will not make the same mistakes.

Pence is a career politician.  He’s well-spoken.  He’s relatively attractive.  His positions are clear and well-established.  He has a law degree.  He’s on the conservative end of Republicans, but he’s a committed member of the party.  In everything that made Trump unpopular among Republicans as well as Democrats, Pence is the opposite.

There were jokes comparing Trump to Emperor Palpatine, and a good rebuttal of them.  Compared to Pence, Trump is Jar-Jar Binks.  Pence is Palpatine.

Trump is wildly unpopular because both liberals and the Republican establishment don’t like him.  He’s ugly and crass and obviously incompetent, he’s the perfect figurehead to rally against.

Pence is not.  Pence is dangerous in different ways, and one of the worst is that he won’t make nearly as good a symbol for his opponents.  If Trump gets kicked out, we have to keep protesting, even as people try to say that we got what we wanted, that everything can go back to normal.  

Remember this, when the impeachment happens, whether it’s a month from now or three years.  Trump is bad.  Pence might be worse.

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Remember that time when Pence made a last minute decision to not sign an application for a grant that would have made preschool in Indiana more accessible and help fix our crumbling infrastructure?

Remember that stern letter that a bunch of big businesses in Indiana wrote to Pence because he signed a law that was discouraging business from both within and without the state of Indiana?

Oh, and that time that Pence caused an HIV outbreak in rural Indiana because the only clinic that did HIV testing was a Planned Parenthood and his fixation on defunding reproductive rights caused it to close- even though that particular clinic didn’t even offer abortion services?

And then there’s the “Pence Must Go” signs all over central Indiana…

And who could forget the time that he planned on using taxpayer dollars to fund a news outlet because he couldn’t control the negative image surrounding him from the press.

What about the time that the FEC had to rewrite laws to prevent challenging candidates from using campaign funds for personal use because Mike Pence used 30% of his campaign funds on mortgage payments and golf tournaments?

And who else remembers when they were giving states a chance to individually tailor their Clean Energy laws to fit the needs of the state and Pence just said ‘no’ and didn’t offer any alternative?

Hey, what about that time that Pence stated that condoms were ‘too modern’ of a solution to HIV and STI prevention and that abstinence was the best choice?

Remember also that 49% of pregnancies in Indiana are unintended, and that out of 1000 teenagers, an average of 49 will become pregnant before they age of 19. And that STI cases have reached record rates for the state of Indiana.

Oh! Remember when Pence went against the advice of legal professionals and signed a good number of laws that mean that you are classified as a drug dealer (whether proven or not) if you are found with a certain quantity of drugs in your possession, and increased the minimum sentence to ten years- even when it was argued by many legal sources that the best way to combat drug use is rehabilitation and not incarceration?

How about the time that he campaigned heavily against raising the minimum wage to match neighboring states, even though an overwhelming majority of Hoosiers polled said that they support a $9/hr wage and approximately 93000 residents of the state bring home less than $300 a week?

Or that time he stripped the office of state superintended of all its meaningful power because he didn’t like who won.  (More.)

That person being Glenda Ritz, who by the way, received more votes than Pence.

Of course, I thought that it needed no mention, but who could ever forget the national embarrassment that was the RFRA laws, which allowed business-owners to refuse service to people if they felt ‘religiously burdened,’ which essentially boiled down to discriminating people who are part of the LGBTQ community. 

And you know I’d love to rant about Mike Pence all day long, but for those of you who want a more comprehensive list of how incompetent he’s been as our governor, this one sums it up pretty nicely and has sources! 

Oh, but don’t take my word for it: here’s another masterpost of all this and more. 

And just in case you thought he was done being awful- how about the time that Pence and Trump made a visit to Louisiana despite the fact that politicians were asked NOT to visit the flooded areas for essentially photo ops because its a further strain on resources? Meanwhile, South Bend IN is currently experiencing a flood where a visit would not be a negative impact the resources, but a photo op in Baton Rouge is more important somehow. 

Also seemingly less important than an unwelcome photo op is the soil in East Chicago, IN- which has a lead content 30 times what is considered unsafe levels for children to be in contact with. This comes from a man whose initial decision not to run for President was based on his ‘need to focus on his home state.’ 

Of course, everyone remembers how the RFRA, a law that was written in the spirit of LGBTQ discrimination, was strongly protested but signed anyway. No one could have possibly guessed that people would try to use it to justify child abuse- except for literally every person who protested. 

But to put a little more levity in this post, Purvi Patel’s sentence of feticide has been reduced to ‘child neglect’ and she’s out of jail. So that’s good news! 

Of course, injustices like these haven’t stopped radical anti-choice laws from being signed in during the entire run of the controversy. 

Remember how he opposed the Matt Shepard Hate Crimes Act??? (I can’t add a link bc I’m on mobile but this is true)

Don’t worry, I got you. 

“The president has used his position as commander in chief to advance a radical social agenda, when he should have used it to advance legislation that would unequivocally support our troops.” Because, you know… these things actually correlate. His complaint was also that this would curb freedom of speech.


Let us remember that the Matt Shepard Hate Crimes Act is simply: Conceived as a response to the murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., the measure expands the 1969 United States federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.

So we can reasonably deduce here that our fluffy Q-tip of a Vice President thinks that the literal murder of people based on their gender identity, disability, and sexual orientation is okay under the First Amendment.

What about the time he made same-sex couples applying for marriage licenses into a felony, punishable up to 18 months in jail and a $10,000 fine, because that’s how you get supervillain street cred. 

Here’s a screenshot from his website from 2001 on his policies, via the Wayback Machine:

That last bullet-point basically means it was publicly part of his agenda to take money from HIV-related programs and put it towards conversion therapy, which is scientifically proven to not work- and result more in PTSD related conditions and most often suicide. All leading medical professionals say 0/10, do not recommend. 

And that was over a decade ago. But Pence still refuses to answer questions about his stance on the subject of gay conversion therapy. 

ivyarchive:

shitrichcollegekidssay:

Trump’s press conference today held by Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, where they claimed that Trump had the largest inauguration turnout in history was nothing but authoritarian propaganda at work. 

Despite evidence (and estimates) to the contrary and photographic/first hand proof they are pushing out this claim. Then they are stating that anyone who says otherwise is a liar, and refused to take questions on the matter from the press. Do not ignore this, this was the first official as president and they made it clear what they’re going to be saying to the public these next 4-8 years and hold news organizations accountable when they report his baseless claims without question. Don’t let them make it easy to spread blatant propaganda.  

And  Kellyanne Conjob called them “alternative facts.”

nestofstraightlines:

miracufic:

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pussypoppinlikepopcorn:

rafi-dangelo:

(Twitter)

President Velveeta plagiarized his inauguration cake.

A. Cake.

This is real life.

They took the man’s cake design like they are so low down

EVERYONE IS MISSING THE BEST GOSH DANG PART OF THIS STORY

THEY DONATED ALL THE PROFITS TO HRC!!

it’s cool that the bakery also gave a shoutout to the original cake designer

like they absolutely knew how shady this whole thing was and managed to handle it in the best way possible

Update on #cakegate.

Classy af bakery, what an elegant and badass way to handle a difficult situation.

Honestly dump’s demand that the cake be replicated contextualises him so much as a person in my mind. Like he’s just a standard humourless, imagination-free idiot whose boorishness isn’t worth arguing with. He is every Client From Hell that wonderful tumblr page has ever described.