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Judy Clay's avatar

Ya know for those too naive and willfully stupid to the acknowledge the beginning of the end for any human right not enjoyed by the white, Christo fascists, cis males, some songwriter wrote: "it doesn't take a weatherman to say which way the wind blows". I wonder what happened to him. Seemed very talented.

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Danielle (NM)'s avatar

The Republican push to erode our rights as citizens, including the right to vote, the right to choose our candidates, the right to make our own health decisions, and more, reminds me of the creation of the Grand Canyon. Gradually, layer by layer, the Colorado River carved out a mighty chasm.

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David Levine's avatar

the way I deal with this is to keep telling myself that they're overreaching. which they clearly ARE, and eventually, enough people are gonna be pissed off enough that these laws will go away. I realize this is wishful thinking writ large, but being enraged all the time feels really terrible.

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Penfist's avatar

There is nothing religious authoritarians don't want to claim their deity demands from the rest of us.

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Ellen's avatar

I feel as if the dam is breaking and there's no high ground.

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Lynell(VA by way of MD&DC)'s avatar

Dang, TC, you were on a roll with the first two posts. What happened? Thanks anyway, though.

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TCinLA's avatar

Sorry, I ran out of rainbows and kittens. They're in short supply. :-)

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Christine (FL)'s avatar

Hahahahahahahaha. Not really. Repubs just shun and ignore them after they are born. Until it’s time to buy a vote.

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Fred WI's avatar

Wherever there is a crack in the roof, water flows in to damage all that it immediately covers and anything else in the path of the water. Abortion, woman's health care, unwanted children, contraceptives, freedom of choice over one's own body and sexual identity, who is protected from ideological persecution, Title IX athletes, right to vote, equality under the law, who has a say in what are rights and protections, property ownership, and so on until they get to that right you thought was a given. Some of us will be dead before then, so like Billy Wilders friends, won't matter to us.

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Chris (MN by way of WI)'s avatar

And Repubs call all of that defending our freedom!

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Jeff Carpenter's avatar

Killed By The Clowns … title of this movie, where a legacy of lies slides our civilization into environemental collapse, with the clowns trying to distract us by devising the collapse of our culture.

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Olof Ribbing's avatar

"life begins at conception": indeed it starts as something like a little fish or a frog. Too bad some don't get any further.

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Ally House (Oregon)'s avatar

I’m still kinda outa words to express myself these days. Most of them tend to be the type that would draw unwanted attention to me from the various agencies responsible for makings sure mycky-mucks don’t end up six feet under.

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TCinLA's avatar

Entirely understandable.

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Lois Howell's avatar

I’m supporting mandatory free vasectomies for all men. Snip! Snip! Problem solved!!

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Carol Stanton (FL)'s avatar

Back to the dark......local and global.

Have you watched the Netflix Norwegian series, " Occupied""?

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