Biden’s for life!

 

We define who we are.

            So yes, I am pro-life and pro-choice and not for abortion. The terms are not mutually exclusive. If you are serious about lowering the abortion rate you can be too. The Evangelical Party of Trump likes to think that they’re in charge of defining who we are. They aren’t.

We are.

Pro Life

            President Elect Joe Biden is pro-life and pro-choice; that’s why I voted for him. The same holds true for Vice President Elect Kamala Harris and any Democratic candidate that is also pro-choice like Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff seeking the office of Senator in Georgia.

            The BEST way to lower the rate of abortion is to vote for pro-choice candidates. They aren’t looking to punish vulnerable women by putting them in jail. Pro-choice administrations have succeeded in reducing the rate of abortion.

BTDT

            Evangelicals and Republicans haven’t been able to punish abortion away. Doesn’t work like that. When and where abortion was and is made illegal women continue to get abortions. Making it illegal doesn’t change the ‘why’ women seek abortion. It just drives desperate women to seek even more desperate measures. Evangelicals along with Republicans are into punishment. They want to designate a few million women as being murderers and throw them in jail. Don’t think so? Then it isn’t the murder that they say they believe it is.

Those women aren’t murderers.

Make a real difference.

            Interested in reducing the number of abortions? There are ways that are proven to succeed. Proven to reduce the number of women seeking abortion.

Ω  Support affordable contraception.

Ω  Support sex education.

            Just those two items alone make a difference. Not even complicated. Unless you’re a Conservative or Evangelical. Naturally they oppose the simple measures that work. Just like they oppose wearing masks. We had basic sex education when I was in grade school. We needed it!

Ω  Support reducing poverty.

A tough one.

            Reducing poverty is a tough one. The 40 to 50 million people living in poverty haven’t seen much difference made in their lives regardless of what party controls government. It isn’t going to be quick and it isn’t going to be pretty. If you’re serious about reducing poverty and the need for abortions never vote for a Republican again. I was a Republican. I’m not any longer and I will leave the ballot blank before I will ever vote for a Republican again.

What can be done?

Ω  Increase the minimum wage.

Ω  Get people health care!

Ω  Make higher education available to the poor and affordable to the middle class without crushing debt paid to banks!

Ω  Multimillionaire Republicans think providing people food and shelter is asking too much! Take back the senate!

            Vote for candidates like Warnock and Ossoff that will provide President Biden the support that he needs to….

Make America kind again

Who does that?

 

Laughing at death

            The other day I was reading a post from a hospital site on social media. They were talking about the severity of the pandemic and the loss of life. They were asking people to wear a mask and practice physical distancing. Community deaths were mentioned and sadness expressed at the loss of life. A nurse on the front line made some comments.

            What caught my eye before I even started reading the post were the laughing emojis in the likes bar. I checked out the posters to see if they were real or bots. They were real people. News feeds plastered with pro Trump memes and misinformation. They were ridiculing not only the nurse and the hospital but the deaths as well. Their comments were usually along the lines of it’s just a hoax or that the deaths were probably the result of something else and doctors were just attributing these deaths to being caused by Covid so they could make money. (I have had in person conversations with Trump supporters making these same kinds of statements.)

            Where it really gets obscene is when they actually mock a person that died from Covid-19.

What kind of person does that?

Laughing emoji!

            President Trump continues holding and supporting superspreader events while throwing up roadblocks to those actually trying to deal with the pandemic. During a national emergency, instead of rising to the occasion, Trump is sulking, whining, spewing and tweeting out false information

J  Over 1,100 people a day are dying now from Covid-19 and Trump supporters are talking about how small a number that is compared to the general population. Here’s where they post a laughing emoji.(le) Then they talk about infection rates and compare Covid-19 to the flu. Yes, they’re still doing that.

J  Covid-19 isn’t a big deal compared to the flu. Laughing emoji!

J  Covid-19 is a hoax! It’s a real knee slapper! Laughing emoji.

J  250,000 people have died from Covid-19. Hysterical! A hoax! Laughing emoji!

J  Doctors, nurses and healthcare workers are dying from Covid-19. Laughing emoji.

J  Entire families are being wiped out from Covid-19. Laughing emoji.

J  Old people are dying in nursing homes. They were old and going to die anyway. Laughing emoji.

J  We could lose a half million people to Covid-19. Laughing emoji.

J  People that survived are suffering long term health problems. Laughing emoji.

J  Masks and physical distancing help stop the spread. Laughing emoji.

J  Hospitals are filling up! Fake news. Laughing emoji.

J  ICUs are filling up! Laughing emojis.

J  Most people that get it will live. It’s only old people, people of color and those that are sick already that will mostly die from it so what’s the big deal?

            I’ll stop here and let the laughers catch their breath. This is hysterical stuff to them. What kind of people think that this is funny stuff?

Who does that?

Trump isn’t alone.

            It’s easy to lay this off on Trump, the man that knew that the virus was deadly back in February and not only covered it up but blamed Democrats and then did everything possible to make it worse. Then the man surrounded by a bio-bunker caught it and survived. Not a big deal after all. He lived. Who cares about the rest of the people?

Not him.

            He isn’t alone. He’s surrounded by Republicans and supporters that march in goose step with everything that he has done.  His administration, Republican Senators, Republican House members, Evangelicals, Nazis, Proud Boys, White Supremacists, the KKK, Confederates, Putin and all those conspiracy-loving deniers of the truth, of our government and all the values that make our Republic. They made him possible. They made the evil that circulates amongst us possible. They embrace it. They revel in it.

            So if you’re a Trump supporter and lose someone you love to Covid-19 pat yourself on the back and give thanks to all of the above. Job well done.

            If you aren’t a Trump supporter and lose someone close to you remember all of the above and never vote for another Republican anywhere ever again. They have crossed over. They support a mass murdering sociopath that they made President. That won’t stop when he leaves.

            So to answer the question about who laughs at causing the deaths of others?

The answer is obvious.

And they aren’t done!

Pandering to the crowd

 

First off

            Jesus was a bleeding heart liberal socialist before the concepts were even invented. Black Lives Matter crowd? Jesus is in the crowd. Queers? Jesus is lovin’ up on all of them. Cakes? Jesus would have baked 5,000. Women terminating their pregnancy? Jesus is holding their hand. Immigrants? Jesus was one. Brown people? Jesus was one. (I lost some racists right there.) Brown children? Jesus would have left them in their parents’ arms.

            Jesus didn’t say I will make you fishers of Constitutional Conservatives.

            If you are Pastor of a church and call yourself a Conservative, Constitutional Conservative, Moderate Conservative, Compassionate Conservative or any other kind Conservative you might consider that you’re preaching the wrong Jesus and you should also consider getting into another line of work. If you’re encouraging unsafe medical practices like NOT wearing masks then you really really should quit and avoid any line of work where you have dominion over other humans.

Preach the teachings of Jesus

            If you’re going to preach Jesus then preach Jesus: the real teachings of Jesus, the liberal teachings of Jesus. The Jesus that cares. The Jesus that didn’t back Caesar to gain political power. The socialist Jesus that told the rich guy to get rid of all of his possessions. The non-racist Jesus. The Jesus that said bring the little children to me.

That Jesus!

 Johnny Cash

            Conservative Pastors, like Republicans in office, believe that they have to pander to their Conservative constituents.

            Conservative Pastors only face that if their congregation is a mixture of liberals and conservatives with undecideds mixed liberally or conservatively throughout. If they take too strong a position either way people leave the church so they just Johnny Cash it.

The state of affairs

            On the one hand, we have Republican leaders afraid to speak their true feeling in public (though they will share them in private) because they are fearful of losing the support of Trump’s cult in their next election bid. On the other hand, we have Pastors fearful of losing their congregations if they don’t support Trump. They are putting fear of Trump before fear of the lord.

            And on the other other hand we have the Evangelical Party that embraces the evil that is Trump in order to gain power by association.

Wait just a darn minute!

            Okay I realize that we got to three hands here but I was on a roll with the ‘other hand’ imagery. I was trying to work in a little yin and yang to show some balance in the universe but I realize now that there really is no balance. I briefly considered using that little bird-in-the-hand-is-it-live-or-is-it-Memorex story but I think that people have just had enough of that story. So forging onward I will present the Evangelical Party and their support of President Donald Trump.

Now, about those Evangelicals.

            They are taking it kind of hard. God let them down. That’s never easy. They bought into Trump completely. They lined up the troops and marched them in. They never dreamed that their “Chosen One” would lose. They didn’t believe it before the vote. They didn’t believe it after the vote. Ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone.

            They may have to have their Republican allies in the Senate form a committee and start investigating why God let them down.

            We aren’t privy to all those conversations that go on behind closed doors between Evangelicals, and Republicans. Being men and women of honor I feel quite certain that they would lie their asses off if asked about their true feelings in public. (There’s something not quite right with the previous sentence.) I say that because they’ve already done it. (Bob Woodward recorded his conversations with Republicans that he wrote about in his book and they still denied things.)

           Evangelicals do the same thing. They just take a slightly different approach. They use Jesus in their denials of the obvious—that they supported an evil regime. They lied and continue to lie about Jesus.

They Lenny Bruced it. (1.31)

Baby steps

            Some in the Evangelical Party are slowly coming to grips with the fact that Biden won. Ken Copeland is not one of them. I haven’t heard what Paula White is doing. Robert Jeffress takes a step forward and then backslides a little. We haven’t heard from Evangelical Pool Boy Falwell Jr. for awhile. And quite frankly I don’t want to know what….

….goes on behind his closed door.

            They’ll have to admit that they elevated and worshiped a false idol—Trump. Some will just never do that. They’ll lick the wounds of the beast and go right back at their next targets. They are hot to make a few million women murderers. They’ll be looking for another “savior” another “Chosen One” in the political arena that they can give a thumbs up or down and then line up the cult behind them. They could try something novel.

Get with the real Jesus.

Do overs

 

Conservatives don’t believe in our Republic.

            It’s just not white enough for Republicans. A free press antagonizes them because they keep reporting what’s going on including sources from within the White House. Trump appointed the “best people” and his Administration leaked like a sieve throughout his term. Back stabbing was endemic.

See something. Say something.

            Look, two out of ten Republicans still believe President Obama was a Muslim. So it really shouldn’t come as a surprise that seven out of ten Republicans think there was widespread election fraud in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia.

            Widespread. Six States.

            Their beliefs and lack of values, honor and integrity are insulting to all the Veterans past and present that got us this far. They are also insulting to all the government employees, officials and volunteers who made it possible for 150 million Americans to vote in this election.

            WHOA! Pretty strong language there! Why would I say such a thing? Make such a disparagement?

            Because behind the scenes in off the record conversations with other Senators and Congressmen they talk about how they really feel about Trump and the election. They have done this crap throughout his miserable Administration and the pandemic. They do it because if they say anything in public they’re afraid that the Whiner in Chief’s (WIC) cult won’t vote for them in the next election. They saw and know what kind of leader he is as a man and they chose to say nothing.

Instead they enabled him.

Dang!

            I left out craven. I really meant to add craven and some other words to show how really contemptuous I think that they are as elected representatives of We the People.

 Nada, nada, nada

            They believe in Trump, NOT America.

            Trump supporters have openly acknowledged that they want him to be President for life and to be followed by his family. THEY AREN’T JOKING!

             In all of the election lawsuits filed by Republican lawyers they have yet to submit any evidence of actual widespread voter fraud that spreads across one state, let alone all six states. Nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. In some cases they didn’t even bother filling out the legal paperwork properly, because their sole purpose is to sow distrust about the election results.

            Republicans went for the headlines. “Republicans file 300 lawsuits over election fraud!”

            One of the many things that I have observed about Republican conservatives in general, especially those in office, is that they really don’t believe in our Republic. The comments from them and conservatives in social media typically run to all that they don’t believe in.

Reputable

            When it comes to the recent vote for President and life in general in our one nation indivisible Republicans and conservatives

DON’T:

believe Republican election officials,

believe Democratic election officials,

believe neutral election officials,

believe judges

believe the courts

believe their own lawyers

believe vote counters,

believe observers,

believe media reporting,

believe fact checkers

believe scientists

believe educators,

believe history,

believe doctors,

            The word “REPUTABLE” is key here.

Trump called dibs first!

            I have to admit that Trump’s cult has me on this one. Trump really did call dibs on being President first.

            In the middle of a pandemic they want a ‘do-over’ because President Trump called dibs on the Presidency first. No mail-in ballots of course. Well, except for Florida. And the next time they want all the counting to stop as soon as Trump calls dibs.

            They want a ‘do-over’ in the middle of a pandemic that they don’t believe is happening because Trump said so. Bodies will have to be stacked in the streets to burn before they even start acknowledging that there might be a slight problem. Florida will have to be under three feet of water before Republicans think that perhaps they should cut back a tad on a global scale. (That really doesn’t belong in this paragraph but I was on a roll.) This is probably as good as place as any to end since the gasbag WIC is still at it. Trump remains….

The man who would be Putin.