I don't know about you, but I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! I voted almost 3 weeks ago and I'm sick to death of political ads on my TV and political flyers in my mail box that I don't want. I need to RANT. I won't make it until Tuesday if I don't. Join me? Take a short break and let's rant, shall we?
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You can rant about anything (except about another Kossack, unless you're being nice);
Anyone is fair game (except another Kossack);
Bad language is OK (unless directed toward another Kossack);
Videos, pictures, whatever you've got, are encouraged.
That's it.
OK, I start, but I'm fucking ranting about the elections and you betcha most of it ain't positive! How about this WTF? In San Francisco?
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That's right. I saw that ad last night here in San Francisco, ironically while I was watching Rachel Maddow. WTF I thought? Why the hell is that ad running here, running anywhere in California for that matter? All I could think about in my fury was how desparate McShame's campaign must be to run that ad in California, a solid blue state that he doesn't have a snow ball's chance in hell of taking.
Note where you get directed to with this link: http://www.goptrust.com The Republican National Trust, Political Action Committee, where you'll see this, along with other despicable ads
Obama and Wright: He Never Complained Once
Read Text of Ad — Click Here
Donate Now to Have This Ad Air in
Swing States (my emphasis) — Click Here
Now by golly, you didn't really think I'd link you to their donation page did 'ya?
What that ad did is piss me off about the role religion plays in our politics. IMHO, religion doesn't belong in our politics - its influence should be zilch, nada, zero except to influence in a very personal and intimate way the individual voter. It shouldn't matter where someone worships or whether they worship at all. Where people choose to worship, if they worship, is an extremely personal and private choice. As someone who is not religious, I am deeply offended by the thought that to be a 'real American' one must be religious, more accurately a Christian. How often have I heard in the last 8 years that America is a CHRISTIAN nation? Excuse me, but I'm proof positive that it ain't necessarily so.
OK, so this takes me to my rant about the RW nutters working hard to make religion play a role in ALL OF OUR LIVES whether we believe what they do or not.
And they're working hard to do it through legislation, fuck no, a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT for Christ's sake, as in passing Proposition 8 here in California. {And it's not just California - it's Arizona and Florida, too}. They've got no business trying to legislate who can marry whom anywhere in this country. WTF skin is it off their backs if 2 people of the same sex marry? Really, WTF skin is it off their backs? I have yet to get an answer to that, other than to hear we have to 'restore traditional marriage.' Well, traditional marriage has never been threatened anywhere in this country. Therefore, THERE'S NOTHING TO RESTORE you fucking asshats. I'm sure as shit not going to lie down and take it. They are not coming into my state and forcing their small minded, narrow, bigoted religious beliefs on me or anyone else, not if I can help it. Witness this
When I got that video, I was truly horrified to find out what they were doing. And to think these people are in San Diego today, spewing their righteous bigotry as they work to pass a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT making marriage between two men and/or two women illegal. First, I don't take kindly at attempts to amend the state constitution, most especially for something that would destroy marriage equality. But most of all, it reignites my fury over other people trying to force their religious beliefs onto me, particularly when I work hard to respect other people's religious beliefs and their right to believe what they choose.
That's where I draw the line, folks. If you're so inclined, go here and donate. We've done it here before, we're good at it ;-) And thereisnospoon has a very relevant diary up with a new web ad asking for donations to get it up so we can defeat Prop 8. Help DEFEAT Proposition 8, which I'm sure most of you know is being bankrolled largely by the Mormon Church, as thereisnospoon writes in her diary. So if you're as pissed as I am and just sick of outside influences in your life, then fight back and donate!
So I'm on a roll now. How about Elizabeth Dole's 2nd "Godless attack" against Kay Hagan? Here we go again - impugning an opposition candidate for their religious connections/beliefs or lack thereof. WTF happened to freedom of religion over the last 8 years?
I've really had it with the
I'm sick and tired of the attacks on candidate's religious stands. IT SHOULDN'T FUCKING MATTER. I swear, there's not one rethug in the last 20-30 years that hasn't been here
trying to pawn off their hypocritical bullshit on the American people, many of whom drank the kool-aid and are only now realizing the poison they gladly drank. Let's review just a few episodes of hypocrisy from the rethugs:
Senators being convicted of felonies
Congress critters soliciting prostitution
Congressional represenatives sending sexually explicit internet messages to underage pages.
And they call themselves Christians? NOT. They are not like the Christians and other religious people I know who actually try to practice what they preach and strive to stay on the high moral road rather than compromise their belief systems and take to the low moral road of religious hyperbole.
Lordy, I could go on and on! I'm so tired of the bullshit lies and distortions from the rethugs. I'm so sick of political ads that challenge the opposition's integrity, belief systems, honor and patriotism. I've had it with all the fucking ads on TV and all the political fliers in my mail box that tell me how I should vote WHEN I ALREADY KNOW HOW I VOTED AND WHY. It's a good thing the election is Tuesday. I just COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE if it went One. More. Day. And to top it all off, the weather went really sour today and I'm praying that people have VOTED EARLY and don't wait until Tuesday when something, anything could happen to prevent them from getting to the polls. But, tomorrow and Monday, I'll be GOTV for NO on 8 and on Tuesday I'll be doing visibility for both Obama and NO on 8. I'm going to channel my I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE into action so that I don't have time to stop and think about what the opposition has done TO WIN AT ALL COSTS.
In the mean time, as people get back from GOTV work and hitting the pavement with their shoe leather, it's been great to RANT and it's even better knowing we only have 3 more days.
So, now it's your turn. What do you have to rant about?