The world is full of kind Progressives. They are beautiful and the world needs many more. I am not one of them. I have completely had it with watching my party be abused every cycle by egomaniacs and sociopaths. I will be a bitch. And I will not apologize. I'm a true patriot who cannot sit back quietly as my country plummets into a dark chasm full of hate and intolerance. And I will not abide those who mean to take her there. Otherwise, I'm a lovely human being.
Just before Paul, Cruz and Rubio went into the debates last month, the Senate determined it would create a big diversion and hold a hearing to get rid of Planned Parenthood funding. They have used the recent release of doctored nonsensical videotapes to stir up those among us who cannot be bothered to think for themselves. They failed.
What else can the Regressive Party possibly come up with to do when they have debates again tomorrow? They desperately need to remind their sheep that they are in line with their agenda. Clinton still hasn't been found guilty of anything. Everyone still has healthcare. The candidates need something.... Shit! Hey! I know. Let's see if the House can get the funding eliminated for Planned Parenthood. We know they could give a shit about women's health care. We know they could give a shit about children. But they sure do love to create a lot of hype out of nothing to distract the rest of us from the things they are really up to.
Please join me in telling them their distractions won't work on the majority of Americans. Tell them that anti-choice activism has no place in Congress as it has been legal for over 40 years now. Tell them that Women's Healthcare funding is not a game and their dismissal of the importance of this time-honored institution is a dismissal of us all.
Please follow THIS LINK to sign the petition then please pass it on to all who understand or need to understand.
You can also go toTHIS LINK and find a list of companies who support Planned Parenthood to send them a tweet or a comment on their Facebook page to thank them for their support. This list was created by the anti-choice activists. It would be nice for them to hear from those of us who aren't out of our minds, too.
LOL. Nevermind the fact that she took Trump down a notch in it. That is great. Whatever. Let us look at the words in her message. Shall we?
Apparently she believes that the Regressives are the party of Women's Suffrage. Huh! Well I think we need to revisit history. Not history from long ago where they try to take credit for Lincoln having been a Republican 150 years ago before the parties switched. Let us go back to this June. K?
THIS LINK will take you to the glories of the woman who they wanted to project to the entire party in June. Carly Fiorina spoke there, too. She didn't condemn Schlafly when she took the stage.
She did, however, say that the policies on the left are bad for women. She thinks the right needs to reclaim the word feminism because it is really about a woman who chooses her own life. She said that Democrats create victims out of women by discussing pay equity and suggests the issue is not discrimination but the pay structures are based on seniority. Spend a quiet moment with that.
Fiorina tells us that todays feminists condemn women who want to stay home with their children. She is still using the same talking points Phyllis Schlafly used in the 70s and 80s to scare people away from the movement. She says the word 'feminism' needs to be taken back because it has become a left-leaning ideology which pits women against men and is used as a political weapon to win elections.
America's women are not remotely interested in having our movement hijacked by anyone who literally prides themself on having defeated the Equal Rights Amendment. And we certainly don't need to waste time considering a woman for President who believes that the present feminist movement is based on victimization and denounces its many supporters. We don't need anyone to run for President who believes it is their job to redefine feminism to meet their narrow ideals and dismiss the many accomplishments of those who came before us. And we will never need someone who took the stage at the same event as Phyllis Schlafly and didn't take the opportunity to condemn her disgusting remarks about the need for inequality between the genders and the submissive roles women should be playing in society.
No thanks, Carly. We like our feminism with empowerment and progress not ridicule and condemnations.
I have always watched MSNBC. I am not like any of the morons on the right who seem to believe there is no bias on my channel. I watch it because their bias speaks to mine. And I watch it because their intelligence (once) matched my own. Although they certainly leaned left, there was never any concern of their having actually created stories to promote hate or fear. There was never a time when I was embarrassed to admit that I watched it. There are several people in my family and those that I have worked with who almost seem apologetic for watching the Fox cable channel with the word 'news' in its title. There was nothing embarrassing about watching MSNBC. Its audience is on the left. All rational people who understand our platform know that the left are peopled with compassionate and intelligent individuals. With every month it seems they are inching ever closer to being another Regressive media outlet. Apparently the compassionate and intelligent audience was not strong enough for MSNBC to be loyal to. And, apparently, they don't realize that the chasm between their audience and that of Fox is so profound as to never be bridged. No one is going to cross over.
I have always had to avoid their programming in the morning and allowed an excuse for their absolute insult every day when they aired Morning Joe by telling myself that they wanted to show a balance by offering something for the Regressives. The rest of the day was always filled with intelligent hosts that I enjoyed for the most part. Some of them I even had set to record on the DVR just in case something big happened during the day and I missed it. I would want to hear it live from the hosts I was comfortable with.
I can only assume it was because of an attempt to garner a larger market share that MSNBC has recently determined they would completely fucker up their programming and get rid of some of their talent. Ed Schultz had a very specific audience. The working class and those interested in the environment knew that they would have someone who would reflect on the days news from a perspective that was meaningful to them. He's gone now.
The Reverend Al Sharpton had a very specific audience, too. He was always very honed in on how to relay the days events to make them personal and really help us understand it from a perspective beyond whatever a mere blurb about an event and a reactionary pundits retort would offer. I looked forward to him every night. He was my favorite because he has a heart which seems to feel the pain of the world much in the way that I do. I used to start the six o'clock hour every evening with a big smile and say 'Hey Rev!' to the television (she admits with absolutely no shame. wink). I love him. He is now gone, too.
Alex Wagner was, by far, my favorite of all of the people who had daytime shows. She is so smart and always brought in context to the historical aspects of a story one might have never considered or even known about. She had a welcoming personality and a wit to match none on the channel. She, too, is now gone.
The world is an ugly place. As such, every once in a while a girl needs to get a break from the news and just ignore it altogether. That is just what I did today. I had a Jason Statam marathon instead and enjoyed one of the world's most genuine beauties. I was going to see what happened today at 8 when All In With Chris Hayes came on. Of course, it was 8:35 by the time the show actually started because MSNBC decided to run another Trump rally instead of its regular programming. The President doesn't get this much air time when he actually has something important to say. Trump had nothing important to say. He literally said the same shit he says every single time he comes on. Great! We know. He has seen polls that say everyone loves him. He is a great businessman. He has relationships with important people. He is rich. He thinks a lot of himself. He thinks little of many others. Fabulous. That was 35 minutes of my show. I still had no idea what happened today in the world.
When MSNBC finally determined to get back to its programming, what was the audience offered? Commentary on the Trump rally. Yep. For 20 full minutes. We saw it. Thanks. The whole goddamned thing. We don't need it rehashed for us. He didn't actually say anything. The last 5 minutes of the show Hayes gave us a glimpse into a rally for Bernie Sanders this evening. That was newsworthy. The audience from the left would have really found it interesting to hear the speech Bernie Sanders gave to Liberty University. This is, after all, the most Liberal of our candidates in the most fuckered up setting on the planet for him. Liberty University is the place that teaches their students the absolute opposite of the actual New Testament Bible (am I the only one who wonders if they missed the whole bit about why they are called 'Christians'?) while finding new groups of people to condemn and hold judgement over with every election cycle. That would have been a very interesting rally to hear about. But MSNBC thought we needed to devote the hour to Donald Trump and the speech he has given repeatedly where he has said nothing.
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I keep hearing pundits go on about what a brilliant campaign Trump is running so far because he really hasn't had to spend much of his own money at all. Fucking brilliant. He doesn't have to, does he? The media (including MSNBC? wtf?) give him all of the free air time he needs. He doesn't need to pay for ads to condemn his rivals, he just goes to any city in the country to hold a rally and the 'news' will stop everything to make sure that all of the country has a chance to hear what he has to say. Motherfuckers.
Well, as MSNBC has determined that it has no need to be loyal to its audience, I feel that I have no need to be loyal to you all, either. I am done. Honestly. I can only assume you have pulled this shit of getting rid of your shows and offering All-Trump-All-The-Time programming because you want to up your ratings but I am sure it will backfire. You had your audience. Those on the right have a 'news' channel. They don't want you. Those in the middle? I have no idea. I guess they watch CNN. But no one will be tuning in for this shit. The new people doing the news during the day suck. They lack personality and they lack intellect. They ask ridiculous questions of their pundits who jump right in to misinform. If I wanted misinformation I would watch Fox, too. I am not a moron, however. If your objective is to create an even more ignorant society, I will not be along for the ride. You are trading in your audience for no audience. Congratulations. You have completely sold out and become irrelevant. You will find no one interested in your new bullshit line up. As your ratings drop so will your ad buys. I can only imagine that is what this is all about. Fuck You. You deserve to lose your money. And hopefully an intelligent billionaire will come in and take your actual talent to a network where integrity and loyalty are important.
As an observant and intelligent human being, I expect the Regressive Party to fall all over itself in attempts to explain why Trump has been at the top of the polls since he entered the race. Being eternally naive, however, I would expect for the media to have figured it out by now. I have heard every credible news organization (MSNBC you are getting quite close to falling to the other side of that scale) ask itself and its panelists to riddle them through their quandary for over two months now. Not only has the discussion become tiresome, their ignorance has, too.
We are still allowing our media to ask the Regressives to dictate our narrative. We still ask them to tell us why their party are not interested in the politicians they have been force fed. The rest of us can see it. Why does our society have to pretend that we are stumped? I have heard the answer countless times by party 'leaders' who say that their voters are angry with the government and have grown tired of 'politics as usual' to explain their interest in an outsider.
Of course, that outsider is out on the stump unapologetically being a racist while using no dog whistles. He puts women in their place. He tells them that all of society's ails are due to immigrants. If the far right voters are suddenly looking for an outsider who isn't afraid to tell them the exact same things the rest of their politicians have, why do you suppose that is? Let us look at what they have been promised by the Regressive Party just since 2008 when the Tea Party started trending. Let us just focus on the time since racism has become fashionable and acceptable again in our society.
What has pissed the far right off, since 2008, about politics? They are pissed off at THEIR politicians and THEIR 'politics as usual.' They have been promised that they would get rid of that Muslim in the White House. They have been promised that they would get Secretary Clinton indicted for Benghazi. They have been promised that universal healthcare would be reversed. They have been promised that abortion would be outlawed. And that is about all that they have heard. Oh media, my media. Ask yourself this, okay? Why are you so interested in politicians who try to lure voters that literally believe the President is a Muslim and who promise to oust him once they prove he is not really an American? Why are we giving voice to politicians who have had 7 (or is it now 8?) hearings on Benghazi and have yet to find anything? Why would any thoughtful individual continue to reflect on the needs and desires of a base (fucking perfect word) whose intellect allows them to rally to get rid of their own healthcare without noticing the scores of attempts which have been made and the time wasted in doing so? And why are you focused on politicians who promise to get rid of abortion rights without repeatedly reminding your audience that it has been legal for over 40 years. They are promising to come up with ways around a Supreme Court decision based on the Constitution.
The reason their constituents are pissed is because they keep hearing the same promises and see that nothing has been done. None of their promises have been kept. Of course, none of them were even possible. Why not report that?
Let me sum it up for you like this: You have spent nearly 3 months now trying to understand the mood of the people on the right who are confusing you.
Answer: These are the people who started the year identifying with the Tea Party movement which demanded American Exceptionalism and told their members in their mission statement: "By joining the Tea Party, you are taking a stand for our nation. You will be upholding the grand principles set forth in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights." These same people, within six months time have feverishly jumped ship and determined the best leader for America would be a man who not only denied exceptionalism, but announced his candidacy for President by concluding, "The American dream is dead." Then, within two months of that revelation he has determined we need to repeal the 14th Amendment. I guess they don't need to worry about having to uphold Constitutional principles any longer.
This is the very depth of the people you are trying so desperately to understand. You are attributing to them more capacity for reflection, comprehension and introspection than any of them are capable of. You might as well ask a pre-school class to analyze the Iran Nuclear deal. It almost seems unfair to put so much responsibility on them. And it is certainly unfair for the rest of America to spend 3 months listening to you all try to figure it out.
These are the people who call themselves socially conservative but disrespect and disavow the Pope. THE POPE. Traditionally, no public figure has ever been more strict on every single social issue and those on the far right are presently dismissing him altogether because he isn't tough enough. Have a quiet moments reflection on that. These are the people who believe their morality exceeds that of the Pope.
These are the people who rally and raise funds for every police officer who kills an unarmed black person. They raise money for people who want to discriminate against the LGBT community. While they do this they demand that they are being just like Dr. King because they are standing up for their rights. I literally heard this discussion on CNN last night and Jim Sciutto, the anchor filling in for Erin Burnett, was the one posing the question. I have no idea who he is but let me answer it for you easily, moron: The difference is Dr. King was fighting to give rights to people. His civil disobedience was in an effort to make society see those they were allowing to be discriminated against. These assholes who are saying they are being discriminated against because of their religion? Their civil disobedience is in an effort to take away the rights of others. They are literally fighting because they want the right to discriminate against other people. I am embarrassed as a human being that I had to answer that question for the asshole anchoring the 7pm news show on CNN. Honestly. This is our media.
You not only diminish the discourse in America when you spend so much time discussing these people and their interests, you diminish America, itself. While doing this, of course, you embolden them because their power and their unified voice becomes stronger as our focus is directed soley toward them. Close your eyes. Please. Do it. See those people in your mind. You can see them. They are wearing a tshirt with either an eagle or a flag and holding signs which are meant to demean other human beings. At least one word will be misspelled. See them? Right! Those are the Americans you are celebrating. Again, you are complicit in where we find ourselves today.
You are determining what history will remember and how we will be seen as a country. Holy Shit. My great-great-great-great grandbabies will be so confused. If you would just start making strides toward asking thoughtful questions and then seeking intelligent answers we could be on our way to a healthier future. If you could stop giving voices to panelists whose sole agenda is to write our history to meet their narrative, that would be great, too. Your great-great-great-great grandbabies will know that you were actually responsible for our chronicles. Give them something to be proud of.
While focusing on the hype surrounding these candidates, do you feel any responsibility to our chronicle for history of this election? Do you feel any responsibility about the chronicle of the American community and its ideals? Do you feel any responsibility about the chronicle of the truths behind our social environment and the truths about those who attempt to drag us down and pull us back? As such, you are presently glorifying those who are the least among us. You are giving their agenda the spotlight. I had to witness every single news station showing a woman coming out of jail with a triumphant soundtrack of "The Eye of the Tiger." None of the media took the time to specifically counter this properly. I am embarrassed and disgusted! Honestly! Why aren't you? Take a moment with this. Ask yourself what your network, magazine or online media outlet took the time to document today surrounding Mike Huckabee, Kim Davis and their White Trash Agenda. What will our great-great-great-great grandbabies think about us? What did you leave them?
Look at this giddy piece of shit reveling in the attention she (and Mike Huckabee) gets for being a hateful degenerate human being. YOU are giving her that attention. If there had been no coverage and it were just a rally full of other white trash it would not have been such a marked success, you know?
Just. Jesus Christ! I scream it in my head repeatedly. "Jesus Christ!" What do you tell yourselves? Are you proud of your work? This is just one single day. It has been going on for months. For years! Are you proud of your role in our history? Step up before the story can't be rewritten. Step up and deliver actual countenance of a present day narrative filled with facts and reflections you will be glad bore your name. Otherwise, what the fuck are you doing? And why the fuck are we supposed to tune in for you to do it?
I was pissed at myself for writing a piece about the awful clerk in Kentucky who has determined she is above the law and will deny marriage licenses to gay couples in her county. Her only objective is to get attention. I don't want to give her any. But I am so tickled by the outcome in court today that I just had to take a moment to celebrate. I just won't give her name. We all have seen it. There are two other county clerks in Kentucky who have jumped on her childish bandwagon. I won't list their names, either. Assholes.
Let us just reflect on this handsome Kentucky couple who tried, four times now, to get a marriage license in Rowan county and were denied each time by the county clerk. David Ermold and David Moore have been in a loving relationship for 17 years now and since June have finally been able to legally get married. Today the woman who determined it was her job to keep them from their rights was sentenced to jail until she decided that she would do her job.
The blasphemous woman in Kentucky went to court today for the third time. I will be honest. I am ashamed to admit that I had fears about this court hearing because it was in Kentucky and thought that maybe the judge would be partial to her case in some way. It was clear that this judge was having absolutely none of it. He decided not to give her a fine because he knew the same garbage who unite to create GoFundMe accounts for cops who kill unarmed black men would rally and do the same for her, therefore she would not really be penalized if she were fined and others took care of it. The judge found her in contempt of court and sentenced her to jail! On her way out of the court, handcuffed, her last words were, "Thank you, Judge." But. Of. Course. She clearly has received the martyrdom she was seeking.
Judge David L. Bunning, who was a GW Bush appointee said that he, too, is against same-sex marriage, but in sentencing her he implied that if he had given her an inch it would set a dangerous precedent. That was one of my biggest concerns. If they create a statute and it goes up the line we will have to deal with this in many counties.
The crazies on the right don't need to actually understand the Constitution (or the Bible, apparently) to vehemently demand what they believe their rights are when it comes to condemning the rest of us to live by their standards of hate and discrimination. No matter what happened to her today all of the RWNJs out there were going to unite and support her. So we will be dealing with her trending hashtag on Twitter. We will be receiving bullshit in our Facebook feed from family members defining their plight as persecuted Christians whose Constitutional rights are being denied. It doesn't matter that we have more than two Amendments. It doesn't matter that one of those other Amendments they have never bothered to know anything about (while demanding their mission is to support the Constitution) states none of your Constitutional rights can be used to deny another citizen of theirs. The complete text of the 9th Amendment offers it clearly:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
It doesn't matter to them that the 14th Amendment literally states she has to do her goddamned job (at all levels, not just federal or state). Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
It really is hard to grasp that these people will now raise a fuss and demand attention. Because they are the loudest they create controversy. Because controversy sells ad space the media will be all over it. And because the media lack integrity and conscience we will not be offered the important information I listed above. We will only hear crazy people spewing their bullshit and their even crazier candidates (Huckabee, Cruz, Jindal) come out of nowhere with new interpretations of the Constitution which are completely irrelevant and untrue and no one in the media will counter any of what they say. The media will offer us news bites and offer no relevant reflection because they don't have time to discuss it. There is a lot going on today, after all. Something or another happened in 'Deflategate.' Its irrelevance to me on a station who tells me it is "The Place for Politics" can't even be defined. But it got a lot more air time than the important ruling in Kentucky today. They spent over a full hour this afternoon on nothing but Donald Trump who made a pinkie promise (or something just as legally binding) to not betray the Regressive Party. They are also offering supposition about Secretary Clinton's emails and a former staffer pleading the 5th. No one knows why, of course, but that stops none of them from spending at least 10 minutes every hour with commentary from 'experts' about what might be the reason. Honestly!?
There is a lot of ridiculous dialogue popping up around what ways the county clerks who don't want to be bothered to do the job they are being paid to do and ignoring duties they swore an oath to undertake can be accommodated. It is beyond my comprehension why anyone would spend a moment of their time on a serious attempt to come up with a way to accommodate that? My answer is simple: Force them to quit. Do not offer them their pensions. Give them jail time and a fine. They swore to do that job and then determined they had a right to ignore that oath. THAT is the precedent we need to set in America. A sincere reminder needs to be sent to all of her citizens that just because a politician who happens to be considered radical (the very nicest adjective I could come up with) determines that the Constitution happens to mean something completely different than any rational lawyer or historian would explain, doesn't make it so. For Christ's sake ... He actually wants the Constitution to be rewritten to mirror the Bible.
As with people being massacred in their church or movie theater and with unarmed black men and women being repeatedly victimized by those who are meant to be protecting them, the media will find the most generic aspects of the story to repeat for a couple minutes every hour and never dig into the actual heart of the story. They will, again, fail to offer reflection on causation of society's ails. They will, again, fail to ask Americans to consider the truths behind the story and its victims.
Can the media please do an in-depth look at what we are actually dealing with and why these newly persecuted 'Christian's' are behaving like heathens? I think if the majority of Americans really understood, we could all work together to shut this down. I honestly believe that if the national media offered its audience an intelligent and introspective look at the movement and what it is saying while countering it with what the Constitution and the courts have demanded, they could really begin a healthy dialogue. If that conversation were concluded by asking every rational adult what would happen to them if they had a national public temper tantrum because they refused to do their job, it could be a pretty quickly settled discussion. But the media cannot be bothered to do something like that. Apparently the issue of an appointed government employee using their authority to deny people their legal rights isn't controversial enough.
The saddest part? I bet I know another cable 'news' outlet who did nothing but talk about it today. And that message and its rhetoric will have been well disseminated to their audience. Brilliant. And so it goes...
