let’s face the facts.
there’s a very, VERY real chance that mitt romney will become the president-elect in a few days. for everyone who’s white, male, cis, heterosexual, well-off and a citizen of the united states— nothing much will change. things’ll probably even get better for you guys.
but for the rest of us:
the poor, the queer/LGBT*I, the women, the people of color. the marginalized, the working class, the oppressed. the undocumented, the silenced, the jailed.
it’s gonna be fuckin’ hard.
and you know what, as much as people like to say YEAH BRB GOING TO MOVE TO CANADA or some shit, that ain’t happening for about 99% of us. we’re stuck in this country, for better or worse.
we’ve got to act. we’ve got to organize, to talk, to engage in dialogues. we’ve got to stand together and tell mitt fuckin’ romney and his fucking sidekick in oppression paul dickhead ryan that they can try to ruin our lives, but not before we tell them to fuck off and shove their shit in their faces.
not that it isn’t happening now— not that people aren’t risking their lives right now, standing up and telling their stories, fighting. we’re standing on the shoulders of giants.
but this reasoning? moving to canada, to england, to where the fuck ever? that’s not what we should be talking about. ha ha funny joke, guess all the rich white people can move off to other countries and live their happy romney-free lives there.
the rest of us are settling in for what might be a very long four years.
Seriously, you guys. This is not an optional thing. If Romney wins, we NEED to get together and speak up. There is strength in numbers and we will need each other.
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What do you mean how did they get away with it?
History isn’t one straight line progressing towards a liberal society.
Look how much Americans attitudes have changed between 1980 and today. 1980 was the first time most very religious people voted, they abstained before that at the behest of their churches. Now they dictate policy at every election.
In my family photo album there are pictures from the 20s of a woman called ‘uncle bob’. She dressed in men’s clothing, and had a ‘companion’. This was a rough industrial town, they were working class, nobody cared. It was her business.
This is why politics is important - the moment you think everything is better today than it was in the past, you let other people take control of the direction society goes in - with you sitting back presuming we’re going forwards.
reblogging for the commentary
good:
YES.
Starbucks’ message to Capitol Hill on the fiscal cliff: Come together, right now, over coffee. They are writing this on every cup ordered near Capitol Hill this week. (image via Twitter user @lyndseyfifield)
A collective post of things that are completely worth celebrating: in no particular order-
- Mazie Hirono (bottom left) from Hawaii becomes the first Asian-American woman (born in Japan) in the U.S. Senate. [x]
- Tammy Duckworth (top) from Illinois becomes the first disabled woman to be elected as Congresswomen. Also, she is half-Thai. [x]
- That means the rape apologist Joe Walsh has been kicked off. [x]
- Todd Akin who’s been quoted saying; “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” has also been outed from his seat. [x]
- As has the disgusting Richard Murdock who thinks “Rape is a gift from God”. Booted off. [x]
- Colorado has become the first state to legalize the recreational use and sale of marijuana. [x] And it’s predicted it will pass in Washington. [x]
- Maine and Maryland have voted for marriage equality, and Minnesota has voted for NOT passing a ban on marriage equality for same-sex couples. Washington almost has their referendum for marriage equality passed.
- Tammy Baldwin (bottom center) in Wisconsin becomes the first openly gay senator to be elected. [x]
- Mary Gonzalez (bottom right) of Texas is the first openly pansexual senator. [x]
Psst. This post has been edited to include the two people on the bottom, and thank you the people who sent me messages about them.
Feelin’ giddy about ladies in power
WOO!!!
A nice summary of some of Romney’s more obvious self-contradictions.
so you think romney’s son buying voting machines in ohio isn’t going to make any impact on the election, right? WRONG. according to at least one person in columbus, ohio on the daily beast’s voter irregularity widget, machines with votes cast for obama are reporting as votes cast for romney. this is, in joe biden’s words, “a big fucking deal.”
spread this shit like wildfire.
(Source: stiffcrosscurrents)
“No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.” Susan B. Anthony, 1872.
Ladies, let’s rock the vote this Tuesday!! Because the right to vote is an absolute gift given to us by courageous women who stood for what they believed in.
IS ANYBODY ELSE FINDING IT HARD TO BREATHE BECAUSE THE ELECTION IS IN 72 HOURS AND THERE’S A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT A RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC, ANTI-FEMINIST MORMON WILL BE THE NEXT LEADER OF OUR COUNTRY I’M FUCKING TERRIFIED
(Source: dietmountaindick)
Hyping Benghazi Madness, Right-Wing Projects Its Darkest Obama Fantasies
*April 18, 1983: Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut. Sixty-three people were killed, including 17 Americans.
*Oct. 23, 1983: Bombing of Marine barracks in Beirut. A suicide bomber blew detonated a truck full of explosives at a U.S. Marine barracks; Two hundred and forty-one U.S. Marines were killed.
* Sept. 20, 1984: Bombing of U.S. Embassy annex. In Aukar, northeast of Beirut, a truck bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy annex killing 24 people, two of whom were U.S. military personnel.
In less than 18 months under Reagan, more than 320 people were killed by terrorist attacks on the U.S. Embassy in and around Beirut. And after the third attack, which killed two Americans, Reagan refused to curtail his campaign for re-election (which he won in a rout) even for one day.
But today, the deaths of four Americans killed during the assault on the Libyan consulate has some conservatives demanding Obama be tried for treason.
There’s nothing sane or rational about the right-wing’s Benghazi fantasy and the role they have assigned for the president. But it does allow the conservative press to project their deepest fears up against the passions of the campaign season’s final push.
The Romney strategy has been to swamp us with so many flat-out lies that refuting them all would take a lifetime. And so they remain out there unrefuted. And if someone did spend that lifetime refuting each lie, there would of course be a dozen lifetimes worth more lies waiting.
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Dave Johnson, What Does Romney’s Campaign of Lies Say About Our Country?
I recently found out that there’s a name for this tactic of overwhelming people with lies—it’s called, ‘the Gish Gallop’ and it’s a favorite tactic among creationists:
The Gish Gallop, named after creationist Duane Gish, is the debating technique of drowning the opponent in such a torrent of half-truths, lies, and straw-man arguments that the opponent cannot possibly answer every falsehood in real time. The term was coined by Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education. Sam Harris describes the technique as “starting 10 fires in 10 minutes”
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