Many diaries on Kos comment about what Republicans are constantly telling us not to do, so I thought of starting a list to keep track. Republican negativity is just astonishing once you start spelling it out. I mean, even god (or Moses or whoever) only came up with a list of 10 Don'ts. I have 41 Don'ts so far from Republicans.
If you have any of your own to add, please do in the comments.
My list is over the orange doodle:
What Republicans tell us Not to Do:
1. Do not have sex for pleasure or for love
--Have it only to make babies
2. Do not have sex outside marriage
3. Do not have an abortion if you break rule #1 and #2
4. Do not use contraception
--Baby-killing starts when you stop conception
5. Do not use drugs
--Except alcohol, tobacco, and expensive pharmaceuticals
6. If you do use drugs, do not have a baby
--Don’t ask us how if you follow rules 3 and 4
7. Do not refuse a drug test at work or school
--or anywhere else if you lose your job and go on welfare
8. Do not expect privacy
--Unless you are police, military, Congress or business
9. Do not resist the police if they smash down your doors in a drug raid, even if it’s the wrong house
--Unless you’re in a religious or tax-resisting “freedom compound” of armed right-wing militants
10. Do not lose your job
--If you do, blame yourself. Do not blame businesses shipping your jobs overseas, helped by Republican subsidies and tax concessions to do so
11. Do not join a union
--You can, however, join a group of armed militants or an anti-taxpayer association organizing resistance to elected government
12. Do not sue
--Companies and Republican politicians must sue to protect their rights; your tort rights must be strictly limited by law
13. Do not become a teacher
--or any other taxpayer-leeching public servant+
+Exception: Republican politician and right-minded anti-government 5th columnist masquerading as “public servants” while dismantling government from the inside
14. Do not have sex or relationships if you are not “normal”
--as defined by anyone “Christian” claiming god told them what is normal
15. Do not believe anything other than Christianity
--Support Israel even if they are not Christians; after all, Jesus was Jewish before he converted
16. Do not believe scientists
--they’re a bunch of atheists anyway
17. Do not conserve energy
--Drive wide, big and wild, it’s your god-given right, and screw any bulb you want in your sockets, just don’t screw anything else but your wife (who must be female)
18. Do not oppose fracking or any other barrier to finding, producing and consuming fossil fuels, including building pipelines over vital aquifers or drilling in ocean depths beyond any means to repair blow-outs
--Public land means any right-minded business person can exploit it for free
19. Do not install solar, windmills, or use any other “green” technology
--they are all fake, subsidized jobs, unlike those in the much more heavily subsidized fossil fuel industry and besides, wind and solar terrorize and discourage our oil companies and Saudi allies
20. Do not expect government to fulfill its promises regarding Social Security, Medicare, public education, healthcare, etc.
--DO expect government to protect you with police, private prisons, border fencing and a global military presence
21. Do not expect any rights if you are accused of terrorism
22. Do not expect any rights if you are accused of whistle-blowing
23. Do not expect any rights if you are a prisoner
--Do expect to be raped, abused, and exploited by private prison labor buying factories set up in our prisons
24. Do not expect public services of any kind
--unless they are privatized, made more costly, and handed over to Republican business cronies
25. Do not regulate business
--Business, unlike anyone else, can be trusted to regulate themselves
26. Do not envy, criticize, or tax the 1 percent (or the Corporations they own)
--Corporations are people too and their feelings get hurt when you spew your envy of their god-given good fortune
27. Do not watch anything other than Faux Newz, listen to anything but hate radio, or read anything but the Wall Street Journal
--Unless, of course, you consider Faux Newz to be “too liberal”
28. Do not increase taxes
--Do not pay more taxes than you must, but you must be in the 1% and pay us Republicans to qualify to write your own personal tax exemptions
29. Do not cut the military budget
--Except for pay, VA expenditures, investigations into war crimes, pollution by military, or “mysterious” diseases of military retirees
30. Do not run deficits
--If you are a Democrat. If you are a Republican, run them large as you like and force the Democrats to raise taxes or cut spending
31. Do not expect to vote
--without proper identification, certification, registration, proof of residency, employment, or unless you carry a gun. What, you think this is a democracy?
32. Do not get sick
--If you do, heal or die quickly
33. Do not expect a paid vacation, minimum wage, workplace safety, business-provided healthcare or pension, equal pay for equal work, or minority protections
--And remember, do not join a union. Only corporations have the right to act in unison
34. Do not expect government to act to ensure or secure clean air, clean water, safe food or medicines. Let the buyer beware (and the corporate be rich)
--And remember, if our products hurt you, you cannot sue
35. Do not expect us to feed children or provide for their healthcare
--We love children in theory only
36. Do not pay military enlistees enough to live on
--then, blame Democrats when they use food stamps to survive
37. Do not expect us to protect you from domestic violence, or sexual and financial exploitation in the name of religion
--If you’re dumb enough to believe it, we’ll let you, as long as you vote for us
38. Do not expect to testify about women’s health if you’re a woman
--Especially if you’re one of “those” women—if you can be relied on to toe the party line (see items 1,2 and so on above), then, maybe
39. Do not invest in infrastructure or infrastructure repair
--Unless Republicans are in charge. Then make sure it’s privatized, anti-unionized, and cronyized. If Republicans are not in charge, vote against it, then take credit for it if it passes over your objections.
40. Do not make government big enough or rich enough or smart enough to check corporate power
--That’s the whole reason we corporate owners buy poor, dumb politicians and buy the propagandists to get you to vote for them
41. Do not expect us to follow any of the rules we set for you
--Especially when it comes to money or sex
What Republicans tell us to Do:
1. Pray
Found out that there's a Don't on Kos. Don't use asterisks at end of sentences and beginning of others--it does strange things to the type.