We the people means everyone

 Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

A.K.A. Empathy is a good for you and your fellow Americans

I don’t have student debt but I believe in student debt forgiveness.
I can’t get pregnant but I believe abortion should be legal.
I’m straight and cis but I am pro same-sex marriage and trans rights.
Welcome to It’s Not Always About You 101.

— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) November 10, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Freedom of religion

 Republicans = Nazis

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emaycee

The rainbow connection

 

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

Another Big Fucking Deal from the Democratic Party

Ten years ago, President Biden announced his support for marriage equality – becoming the highest-ranking U.S. government official to do so.

Today, @POTUS signed historic legislation to protect marriage for same-sex and interracial couples. pic.twitter.com/ylZ8hYF86m

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 13, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

 

Dog whistle

Where are all the human/dog marriages? I was told over and over how that was next if same sex marriage was legalized. https://t.co/cTKjBb4IjY

— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) December 2, 2022

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

 

Republicans embrace the new Black Death

 

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

They lied about Roe, and they're lying about gay marriage and birth control

I think it's worth noting that the people say the Court won't come for Lawrence or Obergefell don't seem to have any account of why the reasoning in Dobbs wouldn't apply there. They just think we should take the word of people who actively misled Congress to get where they are.

— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff) June 27, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Sadly, this is beyond the intellectual capabilities of republicans

If you’re against abortion, don’t get one.
If you’re against contraception, don’t take any.
If you’re against same-sex relationships, don’t have one.
If you’re against same-sex marriage, don’t marry someone of same gender.

Do not impose your beliefs & religion on all Americans.

— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) June 24, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

Remember this when they tell us they're not going to take away contraception or gay marriage

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

Every reason you need to vote in November

This year the Supreme Court will likely
- overturn Roe v. Wade
- ban affirmative action at colleges

Next, Senate Republicans want to
- ban all contraception
- ban same-sex marriage
- ban interracial marriage

Think it might be important to VOTE in the midterms?

— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) March 22, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

The very definition of spineless

Kevin McCarthy dodges a question about if he supports same-sex marriage pic.twitter.com/zOqn8CpfcJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 30, 2021

Republican = Racist

Peace,

emaycee

 

Beware ye of the forked tongue

This, from Linda Upmeyer, the current speaker-elect of the Iowa House of Representatives:

"That's what elections are for, right?  Then, we need to go home and talk to the public and the public can send people to Des Moines that are going to represent their views accurately and consistently."

Fucking seriously?

I'm not sure if you have to admire the chutzpah of republican politicians or pity the ignorance of republican voters, but the idea of republicans representing the views of ordinary Americans accurately is Fantasy Island on steroids.  To wit:

• Americans overwhelmingly support Social Security.  Republicans want to privatize it.  Kowtowing to Wall Street accurately represents our views exactly how?
• American overwhelmingly support Medicate.  Republicans want to turn it into a voucher system.  Drooling over the insurance industry accurately represents us in what alternate universe?
• Americans overwhelmingly support immigration reform.  Republicans have blocked it at every turn.  Cowering to racists accurately represents us because....
• Americans overwhelmingly support stronger background checks on gun purchases.  Republicans won't let it so much as come up for a vote.  Sucking up to the NRA and the gun industry accurately represents us on what other planet?
• Americans overwhelmingly support the right to choose and have come to accept gay marriage.  Republicans are still pissing away tax dollars and valuable time on settled issues.  Grovelling to the religious right accurately represents us in what godforsaken way?

You get the gist.

Frankly, the only views in this country that republicans accurately represent are the moneyed interests and the crazies in their base, which leaves the vast majority of Americans shit out of luck.

But Rep. Upmeyer was right about republicans being consistent--they've been consistently bad for the country for as long as I can remember....

Peace,
emaycee

Na, na, na, na, hey, hey, goodbye

In 2004, voters in Michigan voted overwhelmingly (58% -42%) to ban same sex marriage and civil unions.

Today, a federal judge ruled Michigan's same sex marriage ban unconstitutional, making Michigan the 18th state to legalize gay marriage (almost halfway there).

Not content with wasting $7 million dollars a day because they delayed implementation of Obamacare to score political points, republicans, through AG Bill Schuette, will appeal the ruling so they can waste even more of Michiganders' hard earned money to earn even more political points with the fringe of their party.  This despite the fact that polls now show a solid majority of Michiganders (56%) favor gay marriage.

I note this because I was one of the 42% ten years ago who voted against the ban to same sex marriage.  I'm not looking for a pat on the back--I just want to remind people that societal change takes time, and that eventually, the right thing to do will win out.

It happened today in Michigan.

Peace,
emaycee

So's your old man

In its never ending quest to see how many American parishioners it can turn away, the Catholic Church, through the archbishop of Detroit, announced recently that Catholics who support gay marriage should no longer receive communion.

Which calls to mind the kid, who when he saw he wasn't going to win the game, took his ball and went home. 

When all was said and done, the kid lost a lot of friends, and one supposes, eventually the Church is going to lose a lot of American Catholics, too.

Because being on the wrong side of history is a lot more important to the Church than saving souls.

Peace,
emaycee

Depressing, Part II

"Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats.  If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans."--Will Rogers

The above quote is one of those quaint little things we like to pat ourselves on the back for, all the while getting our asses kicked again and again by republicans.  Instead of discussing Obama's stance on gay marriage in a positive light--i.e., what it can do for Democratic victory in 2012, how it rallies the base, Digby wants to discuss semantics.

David Atkins on the other hand, takes a nice little piece of propaganda for the good guys and lets himself get all hot and bothered because we passed laws outlawing the banning of interracial marriage, but doggone it, we still have people who are prejudiced and the people who were against it were never held accountable.

We are not Jesus--we are not going to feed the multitudes with a handful of fishes and a few loaves of bread.  In a perfect world, Obama would take a strong stance on marriage equality and no one would be prejudiced.  That is not the world we live in, and the self-righteousness of Digby and Atkins doesn't do a goddamn thing to advance the agenda.

Over the past couple of years, we've had a chance to see what sweating the small stuff has gotten us--Gov. Walker in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott in Florida, Gov. Kasich in Ohio, and Gov. Snyder in Michigan.  It's also gotten us statehouses that are full of republicans free to pass their agenda because of overwhelming majorities because we "Progressives" would rather stand around and have a circle jerk of ideas.

Frankly, they can blow their self-righeousness out their asses:  I'd rather fucking eat.

Peace,
emaycee

A master campaigner

Say what you will about President Obama coming out in favor of gay marriage, but as is often the case with his election team, it was a masterstroke of campaigning.  To wit:

• It takes the sting out of the crushing loss Amendment One suffered in North Carolina.
• Because it's an election year, Willard Romney will look like the lame-ass he actually is trying to answer questions about it without looking like a bigot.
• Makes republicans look wasteful--a constitutional ban against same sex marriage?  Really?  Because for a party that swears austerity is the way to go, spending millions to get this voted on when there is so much more we can be spending the money on makes republicans seem a tad hypocritical.
• Makes republicans look intolerant--could the Catholic Church possibly put a worse face forward than the Catholic League's Bill Donohue?  He wants the law to discriminate against gay people?  That ought to help with Independent voters--and shore up the Church's sagging parishioner numbers.
• Makes republicans look petty--too many bozos to comment on.
• Makes republicans look overwrought--Santorum thinks it's a "tragic" day for America?  What the fuck?  Let me tell you, November 22, 1963 was a tragic day for America.  September 11, 2001 was a tragic day for America.  That one-sixth of our population lives in poverty is tragic.  That foreclosures are at all-time highs is tragic.  That we have more hunger in America than since the Great Depression is tragic.  The President supporting equality in marriage?  Not so much.
• Shores up the youth vote--voters who overwhelmingly support marriage equality.
• Provides red meat to the base (who turn out to vote in the biggest numbers)--I lost count of all the "attaboy" e-mails I've collected in the last two days, from Move.On to the ACLU to Democracy for America.  Turnout counts and this definitely will help Dems on election day.

I've seen a few who think this will hurt Obama--it may cost a vote or two, but I highly doubt it will be significant.  The people most against marriage equality weren't going to vote for Obma anyway, under any circmstance.  And this isn't 2004--gay marriage isn't quite the bogeyman it once was.

Now if we could get the President to lead and govern the way he campaigns--we'd really have something then.

Peace,
emaycee

Glad all over, part II

I have no idea what Zach Wahls political persuasion is (though I might have a guess), but after watching his speech before the Iowa House of Representatives on letting the voters of Iowa decide whether his two Moms should be allowed to marry, I can guarantee you there is only one political persuasion that watched it with joy. That would be the political persuasion that believes American will grow on love, not die on hate; the one that believes in tolerance, not bigotry; the one that believes in freedom for all, not freedom for some; the one that believes America's best days are still to come, not already behind it. Ahem...that would be the Liberal persuasion, of which I've been a proud, card carrying member since 1975. 

Peace, 

emaycee