(Source: twitter.com, via vladthedefenstrator)
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Here’s the thing, Republicans. Here’s the real reality of the situation:
Your side is the one trying to limit our access to birth control and abortion (a legal medical procedure).
Your politicians are the ones talking about how girls “rape easy,” and your sainted Ronald Reagan is the one who started the simultaneously racist, sexist and classist myth of the “welfare queen.”
Just this week, one of your own said he supported forcing women to give birth to a rapist’s baby, and your presidential candidate said he would not withdraw his support for him.
You’re the ones pushing the rumor that Obama’s mother was a porn star who gave birth in Kenya.
Your candidate slammed single mothers right in front of the first president ever born to one.
You’re the ones suggesting bills to cut aid to new mothers.
You’re the ones attempting to defund Planned Parenthoods across the country, which primarily serve young women.
You’re the ones voting down bills like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Violence Against Women Act.
Oh, and you’re the ones trying to kill Obamacare, which insures millions of American women.
So you’ll have to excuse me if I can’t get my hackles raised over a double entendre about voting and sex. If my choice is between a candidate who lets a celebrity make a cutesy video about her first time and a candidate who will not withdraw his endorsement of a man who says rape babies are part of God’s plan, it’s pretty clear who to choose.
Republicans have been hopping on the “Oh, no! Obama mentioned something about vaginas” Sanctimony Pony every chance they get because even they aren’t dense enough not to realize their party platform is inherently anti-woman. They will do whatever they can in order to pivot the conversation away from “women’s bodies should be subservient to their husbands and fertilized eggs” — because they know that both lady parts and lady smarts tremble in fear at the idea of a Romney presidency. And with good reason. As far as I can tell, most Republican politicians actually do hate me and every other liberal woman out there.
As a young woman, my health, reproductive rights and livelihood are directly threatened by a Romney presidency.
Your team is the one waging the War on Women. Trying to get my feathers ruffled because an ad subliminally mentions sex isn’t going to make me forget that.
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Face it, Republicans: You’re the ones who hate women (via current)
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4 am [Trigger Warning]
4 am
he broke in
bitter
with the moonlight.
she woke up, no one else home.
she had never seen him before.
when he kicked the cat across the room
she knew he had come for her.
her shattered leg,
in a cast from
her motorcycle accident
gave him no pause.
he was not ugly to look at
but he held a gun,
threatening,
he told her he was going to kill her anyway.
she said,
no,
with tears in her voice,
but
she did not cry.
she was only 21.
As her raped her,
he told her
he had been watching her, waiting.
waiting until no one else was home.
she could not see him,
he was behind her,
but she
could feel
the cold steel
against her temple.
he was behind her,
hurting her
but she she was gone.
after,
he stood up and
pushed the blond hair out of his eyes.
he said, where is the money.
flat, like that, a statement.
she looked up at him
from far away
and said, what money-
look around you
there is no money here.
but he
found the five dollars
in her little green wallet.
and before he left,
gun still aimed at her head,
he threw that crumpled bill down and said,
you keep this money baby
you need it more than me.
he told her
to count to one hundred
before she moved, that he would be watching her.
she looked at him no more.
after he left
she couldn’t talk or drive,
rocking back and forth.
she was sick over and over again.
sickest she’s ever been.
Later
her friends made her call the cops
where she was raped all over again,
and they kept that five…
they kept that five dollars for fingerprints.
Later still.
she came up pregnant.
no question in keeping this child.
with heart heavy,
she lied to the “support group”
that she and her “boyfriend” weren’t ready,
were not ready for children.
after all,
she was only 21.
Now, years in the future,
childless still.
haunted still,
by the face
and actions
of a man
who was never caught.
the words of the politicals,
“forcible rape”
makes her (me) sick all over again.
Sickest I have ever been.
-Cat Mihos
I just read this and I cried. Cat’s probably the gentlest, sweetest person I know. I’m proud of her for writing this.
"I’ve struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."
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Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate and Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock on abortion and pregnancy resulting from rape.
Essentially, if you have a uterus, and you become pregnant from a rape, just remember — that’s God turning rapey lemons into blessed unwanted lemonade. </sarcasm>
Oh, and what’s that Mitt Romney? You’re supporting him? In an ad posted this Sunday that’s all over Indiana’s airwaves?
Yep, because there’s nothing worse than Obamacare amirite? Y’know, other than being forced to bear your rapist’s child because your senator said his God said it should be so…
In a statement released this evening, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said: “Richard Mourdock’s rape comments are outrageous and demeaning to women. Unfortunately, they’ve become part and parcel of the modern Republican Party’s platform toward women’s health, as Congressional Republicans like Paul Ryan have worked to outlaw all abortions and even narrow the definition of rape. As Mourdock’s most prominent booster and the star of Mourdock’s current campaign ads, Mitt Romney should immediately denounce these comments and request that the ad featuring him speaking directly to camera on Mourdock’s behalf be taken off the air.”
Agreed. Your move, governor.
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Oh our government…Truly the most functional and most effective in the world.
REBLOG this and never forget it.
THIS is what frustrates me the most about people who complain that Obama was ineffective. If you consider the childish, playground-bully tactics the GOP adopted, it’s astounding he got as much done as he did.
The land of the free~
i wish i could show this to my dad.
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"Some girls, they rape so easy."
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Republican Wisconsin State Representative Roger Rivard
He claims his quote is taken out of context, then manages to double down on it instead of distancing himself from it.
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An article entitled ”Shit Politicians Say About Women” WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN AS LONG AS IT IS INEVITABLE I MIGHT AS WELL SIT BACK AND ENJOY IT, CLAYTON WILLIAMS? WOULD YOU BE SAYING THE SAME IF I SHOVED A COCK UP YOUR ASS?! #angryfeminist #feminism #misandry (Taken with Instagram)
Okay, it’s inevitable. Let’s give Douchey McDouche a scenario.
A man has a chainsaw. You’re trapped in a shack somewhere. It’s inevitable that he’s going to get you. So instead of trying to get away, or trying to protect yourself, or trying to hurt this motherfucker, you just sit there and wait for him to saw your fucking head off.
Holy shit, yes. That needs to be a movie. Starring Clayton Williams as “Man who gets head sawed off and enjoys every second of it.”
Republicans try and ruin business of man who hugged President
Let me re-iterate this. Republicans are trying to ruin a man’s reputation and business because the owner was excited to have THE FUCKING PRESIDENT in his establishment. Which party is pro-Small Business again?
Also, it should be noted that Scott van Duzer is a Republican himself. So I guess anybody not toeing the party line, especially those treating the President like a human being are to be exterminated.
EDIT: Mr. van Duzer is also a wonderful man who runs his own charity. So another reason for Republicans to hate him- he gives a shit about poor people.
(Source: vladthedefenstrator)
"We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills, critical thinking skills and similar programs … which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
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The Texas Republican 2012 platform, which officially opposes teaching students “critical thinking skills.” Read 4 more of the Texas GOP’s craziest policies.
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I just can’t. (via intheshadowofyggdrasil)
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Who knew such republicans existed.
GIVE THIS MAN ALL THE ADSPACE
ALL OF IT
in which there is an ACTUAL ORGANIZATION for republicans who aren’t massive assholes
it does help to remember that the Republican Party was founded on pretty reasonable ideas before the religious nutjobs got to it
Holy shit, this is a republican?
This is what republicans are meant to be, yep.
Sigh.
Y U NOT NEWS MR. MOODY
YOU SIR
YOU I LIKE
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This makes me sick… PLEASE REBLOG TO SPREAD THE WORD!!!!
this is legit terrifying
reblogging because right now the american politics is more interesting than what’s going on in my own country
I’m going to cry
fucking hell
WHAT IS THIS.
If he wins, the US is done for. If not because he’ll run it into the ground, but because people will flip a shit.
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no other confirmation aside from tweets right now….looking for a link currently
Welcome to the RNC.
So…re-evaluating that idea of moving to Canada….
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I really need this guy to stay out of any place that could possibly control me.
Homfg.
Please america. Please. Please. Please.
This actually makes me kind of nauseous
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WHAT THE FLYING FUCK AMERICAyep definitely voting obama
Shouldn’t he also then believe then that the man should immediately marry the woman? Because it’s just as stupid.
