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* So here is the thing. A Republican President will be disastrous. Look at their policies, which are actually worse than those of the last three Republican presidents, who together managed to destroy our economy, were disastrous foreign policy wise, and have nearly destroyed the middle class, the social safety net, the environment, etc.. Look at the damage these policies have done in the states: the roll back of voting rights and human rights. All the people who will die because of their fight against health care and their pro-cancer agenda.
As a result, as disgusted as I am with the weak spines and center right policies of most Democratic politicians, in the end, I will vote for whoever they put up, just as I did for gore when Nader's policies better represented me. I will do it even though I have a long running fury at the Clintons (for policy reasons to long to list here), though to be fair, she was always further left than him and at the time I would have much rather she were president than her husband. I will vote for that asshole O'Malley if the unlikely happens (please don't let the unlikely happen). I think Biden would not be a good president, but nowhere near as bad as anyone the Republicans are running. (Again, this is mostly long and complicated political memory stuff and not worth the time unless he's in and actually looks to be winning). Though I was against him being Vice President, he turned out to be shockingly good at it. Way beyond best guess at it. If he were elected, I'd love to be surprised the same way, but I don't think I will be, so lets home it doesn't come to that. Frankly, of this batch, Hilary Clinton is my best bet, and I am a lot happier being asked to vote for her than the others. She was solidly pro-civil rights once she moved out of her parent's house, and a strong feminist. (We all make compromises to keep the peace with our parents in high school. I myself was required to join the young Republicans against my will as my father ran the club at my school. I was also forced to do election cold calls, as my Father was starting his political career at that point, though he had not yet run for office. For the record, he was a local level anti-corruption reformer, not a creepy modern day big government Republican. At the time of his death, he was horrified at what his party had become, and would be spinning in his urn to see what they are up to these days as far as dismantling Civil and Women's Rights. We had screaming fights at the dinner table over AIDS policy, but I really am proud of what he achieved before the cancer took him. It was all important quality of life stuff, nailing corrupt officials, enforcing zoning laws for the safety of those living and working in the buildings sort of thing. I picked my battles and AIDS/gay rights I was willing to overturn family peace for, but I wasn't willing to fight him on party affiliation and only switched to independent when I was out of the house for my Mother's sake, because she had to live with the mess my battles with my father over politics and my sexual agency tended to stir up. I want to be clear, my father was not a monster and was polite to the boys I brought home in high school. He just was a man of his time and place. He knew intellectually that his prejudices were irrational and he voted and stood for equality under the law. he struggled to undo his early programming his whole life because he knew it was wrong. He just really had a hard time with his eldest having a sex life at all, let alone one that pushed so many of his monkey brain working class greaser 1950's Jersey Boy buttons). Anyway, I picked that most personal of battles and didn't fight him on things like economic policy, and I am not cool with people attacking others for things they did politically in High School that did not do harm. Attacks on Ms. Clinton based on shit she did when she was 17, like the super nasty sexist attacks she endured in the '90's, make me more sympathetic, not less.
Still, I'm going to drag my carcass out to caucus for Bernie Sanders when the time comes. I do not expect him to win, though I'd love to be surprised. After all, I have voted for Kucinich in Primaries and Bradley and Tsongas. I've always voted strategically. I never expect to have a President who actually represents me (though President Obama has come much closer than I ever expected when I caucused for him). I vote for the best of the available options in the hopes that it will drag the agenda and eventually policy the way it needs to go. I do think Mr. Sanders is the best available option just now. He's got a strong civil rights record, economic policies that are for everyone's good and not the 1%, and he fights hard, so hard for what's right. Is he perfect? No. Will he win? Absent a miracle, no. But I'm okay with that. I will turn up in the general election and dance with the one what brung me, but for now, it's Bernie all the way, because I wish we could have the future he wants for us instead of the one we will likely get.
* Bernie Sanders policy hub, in case you are curious: http://feelthebern.org/
* "Gov. Scott Walker signs a bill to give millions of dollars to billionaires:"
* "Armed 'Patriot' Group Roams Ferguson With Assault Rifles:" http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/oath-keepers-turn-michael-brown-protests-ferguson-missouri-n407696
* TW: Rape. "Cops Took an Arrest Selfie With a White Guy. Here's What They Did to a Black Woman Instead:" http://mic.com/articles/123699/charnesia-corley-pulled-over-and-vaginally-searched-by-police?utm_source=policymicTWTR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social
* "Rep. Steve King thinks people will now marry lawnmowers since same-sex marriage is legal:" http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/rep-steve-king-thinks-people-will-now-marry-lawnmowers-since-same-sex-marriage-is-legal/
* "RIP Amber Monroe:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/08/rip-amber-monroe.html
* "Christie Vetoes Trans Birth Certificate Bill For Second Time:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/08/christie-vetoes-trans-birth-certificate.html
* Poem by a 14th Century Jewish trans Woman. I have chills. http://www.on1foot.org/text/even-bochan-kalonymus-ben-kalonymus
* "TransGriot: Straight Outta Stonewall:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/08/straight-outta-stonewall.html
* "The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here:" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-point-of-no-return-climate-change-nightmares-are-already-here-20150805?page=4
* This is way worse than California, but getting no coverage. "Debt, drought leave Puerto Ricans high and dry:" https://www.rt.com/usa/312210-puerto-rico-drought-debt/
* "Texas judge gives man a choice: get married or go to jail:" http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/07/us-usa-texas-wedding-idINKCN0QC25O20150807
* "A Children's Illustrator Is Getting Hate For Her Anti-Racist Art:" http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariannarebolini/illustrator-is-getting-hate-for-her-anti-racist-art?utm_term=.xww1NanRG#.kgmJXXV3E
* "Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening - Jeb!:"
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* "Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening - Voting Rights Act Rollback:"
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* "The Shocking Truth About Planned Parenthood:" http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/71d71cec67/the-harsh-truth-about-planned-parenthood?_cc=__d___&_ccid=6ibne4.nt2e3t
* We need a plumber. We can't afford a plumber. *facepalm*
* "Tragic Love Interests: Tortured Pasts and Abusive True Loves:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/08/tragic-love-interests-tortured-pasts.html
* "Killjoys, Season 1, Episode 8: Come with the Rain:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/08/killjoys-season-1-episode-8-come-with.html
* Kant! http://existentialcomics.com/comic/92
* Ebays, 5 auctions, 2 No Bid:
Bewildered in a Dream 2014 (LE, Ligeia): (Company says: A disorienting eddy of French lavender, black tea, orange blossom, sharp green tea leaf, pink flowering thorn, and a blot of inky resins). At shoulder.
The Traveller 2010 (LE, Bards of Ireland): (Company says: A wanderer, poised at the point where three great countries meet, ruminating on government, nationalism, religion, and personal character: boot leather, pipe tobacco, and the dust of soft resins, herbs, and soil-flecked gravel picked on long, solitary travels). 1/2 Full. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709355383?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Lindworm 2012 (LE, DragonCon, Event Exclusive): (Company says: Smoky green leather smeared with crushed grasses and wild herbs). 3/4 Full. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709360613?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Halloween In The Miskatonic University Library 2012 (LE, Halloweenie): (Company says: The silence was soothing, though, and the scent of the yellowed books and polished oak tables reminded me strongly of my childhood home. I found myself a table, and set to work.... His breath smelled like pumpkin lattes, and there was a faint trace of cologne swirling around him. He quoted Byron, I told terrible jokes, and in the end I nearly failed my paper, but I fell in love. Top of Label. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709362964?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
(Not So) Penitent (Mini) Magdalene 2014 (LE, Lilith): (Company says: Candle wax, smoke, red sandalwood, a dusting of kitchen spices, and a dribble of vanilla ice cream). Just below Shoulder. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709364680?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Gingerbread Poppet 2010 (LE, Lilith): (Company says: Warm, cozy gingerbread spiced with nutmeg, clove and cinnamon). Below shoulder. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709365994?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
* A list of LGBTQA Charities to donate money to instead of seeing the racist Stonewall Movie that decided to portray a black trans woman activist as a cis white man. http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* Trying to stay afloat until September: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com
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As a result, as disgusted as I am with the weak spines and center right policies of most Democratic politicians, in the end, I will vote for whoever they put up, just as I did for gore when Nader's policies better represented me. I will do it even though I have a long running fury at the Clintons (for policy reasons to long to list here), though to be fair, she was always further left than him and at the time I would have much rather she were president than her husband. I will vote for that asshole O'Malley if the unlikely happens (please don't let the unlikely happen). I think Biden would not be a good president, but nowhere near as bad as anyone the Republicans are running. (Again, this is mostly long and complicated political memory stuff and not worth the time unless he's in and actually looks to be winning). Though I was against him being Vice President, he turned out to be shockingly good at it. Way beyond best guess at it. If he were elected, I'd love to be surprised the same way, but I don't think I will be, so lets home it doesn't come to that. Frankly, of this batch, Hilary Clinton is my best bet, and I am a lot happier being asked to vote for her than the others. She was solidly pro-civil rights once she moved out of her parent's house, and a strong feminist. (We all make compromises to keep the peace with our parents in high school. I myself was required to join the young Republicans against my will as my father ran the club at my school. I was also forced to do election cold calls, as my Father was starting his political career at that point, though he had not yet run for office. For the record, he was a local level anti-corruption reformer, not a creepy modern day big government Republican. At the time of his death, he was horrified at what his party had become, and would be spinning in his urn to see what they are up to these days as far as dismantling Civil and Women's Rights. We had screaming fights at the dinner table over AIDS policy, but I really am proud of what he achieved before the cancer took him. It was all important quality of life stuff, nailing corrupt officials, enforcing zoning laws for the safety of those living and working in the buildings sort of thing. I picked my battles and AIDS/gay rights I was willing to overturn family peace for, but I wasn't willing to fight him on party affiliation and only switched to independent when I was out of the house for my Mother's sake, because she had to live with the mess my battles with my father over politics and my sexual agency tended to stir up. I want to be clear, my father was not a monster and was polite to the boys I brought home in high school. He just was a man of his time and place. He knew intellectually that his prejudices were irrational and he voted and stood for equality under the law. he struggled to undo his early programming his whole life because he knew it was wrong. He just really had a hard time with his eldest having a sex life at all, let alone one that pushed so many of his monkey brain working class greaser 1950's Jersey Boy buttons). Anyway, I picked that most personal of battles and didn't fight him on things like economic policy, and I am not cool with people attacking others for things they did politically in High School that did not do harm. Attacks on Ms. Clinton based on shit she did when she was 17, like the super nasty sexist attacks she endured in the '90's, make me more sympathetic, not less.
Still, I'm going to drag my carcass out to caucus for Bernie Sanders when the time comes. I do not expect him to win, though I'd love to be surprised. After all, I have voted for Kucinich in Primaries and Bradley and Tsongas. I've always voted strategically. I never expect to have a President who actually represents me (though President Obama has come much closer than I ever expected when I caucused for him). I vote for the best of the available options in the hopes that it will drag the agenda and eventually policy the way it needs to go. I do think Mr. Sanders is the best available option just now. He's got a strong civil rights record, economic policies that are for everyone's good and not the 1%, and he fights hard, so hard for what's right. Is he perfect? No. Will he win? Absent a miracle, no. But I'm okay with that. I will turn up in the general election and dance with the one what brung me, but for now, it's Bernie all the way, because I wish we could have the future he wants for us instead of the one we will likely get.
* Bernie Sanders policy hub, in case you are curious: http://feelthebern.org/
* "Gov. Scott Walker signs a bill to give millions of dollars to billionaires:"
* "Armed 'Patriot' Group Roams Ferguson With Assault Rifles:" http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/oath-keepers-turn-michael-brown-protests-ferguson-missouri-n407696
* TW: Rape. "Cops Took an Arrest Selfie With a White Guy. Here's What They Did to a Black Woman Instead:" http://mic.com/articles/123699/charnesia-corley-pulled-over-and-vaginally-searched-by-police?utm_source=policymicTWTR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social
* "Rep. Steve King thinks people will now marry lawnmowers since same-sex marriage is legal:" http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/rep-steve-king-thinks-people-will-now-marry-lawnmowers-since-same-sex-marriage-is-legal/
* "RIP Amber Monroe:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/08/rip-amber-monroe.html
* "Christie Vetoes Trans Birth Certificate Bill For Second Time:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/08/christie-vetoes-trans-birth-certificate.html
* Poem by a 14th Century Jewish trans Woman. I have chills. http://www.on1foot.org/text/even-bochan-kalonymus-ben-kalonymus
* "TransGriot: Straight Outta Stonewall:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/08/straight-outta-stonewall.html
* "The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here:" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-point-of-no-return-climate-change-nightmares-are-already-here-20150805?page=4
* This is way worse than California, but getting no coverage. "Debt, drought leave Puerto Ricans high and dry:" https://www.rt.com/usa/312210-puerto-rico-drought-debt/
* "Texas judge gives man a choice: get married or go to jail:" http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/07/us-usa-texas-wedding-idINKCN0QC25O20150807
* "A Children's Illustrator Is Getting Hate For Her Anti-Racist Art:" http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariannarebolini/illustrator-is-getting-hate-for-her-anti-racist-art?utm_term=.xww1NanRG#.kgmJXXV3E
* "Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening - Jeb!:"
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Get More: The Nightly Show Full Episodes,The Nightly Show on Facebook,The Nightly Show Video Archive
* "Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening - Voting Rights Act Rollback:"
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* "The Shocking Truth About Planned Parenthood:" http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/71d71cec67/the-harsh-truth-about-planned-parenthood?_cc=__d___&_ccid=6ibne4.nt2e3t
* We need a plumber. We can't afford a plumber. *facepalm*
* "Tragic Love Interests: Tortured Pasts and Abusive True Loves:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/08/tragic-love-interests-tortured-pasts.html
* "Killjoys, Season 1, Episode 8: Come with the Rain:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/08/killjoys-season-1-episode-8-come-with.html
* Kant! http://existentialcomics.com/comic/92
* Ebays, 5 auctions, 2 No Bid:
Bewildered in a Dream 2014 (LE, Ligeia): (Company says: A disorienting eddy of French lavender, black tea, orange blossom, sharp green tea leaf, pink flowering thorn, and a blot of inky resins). At shoulder.
The Traveller 2010 (LE, Bards of Ireland): (Company says: A wanderer, poised at the point where three great countries meet, ruminating on government, nationalism, religion, and personal character: boot leather, pipe tobacco, and the dust of soft resins, herbs, and soil-flecked gravel picked on long, solitary travels). 1/2 Full. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709355383?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Lindworm 2012 (LE, DragonCon, Event Exclusive): (Company says: Smoky green leather smeared with crushed grasses and wild herbs). 3/4 Full. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709360613?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Halloween In The Miskatonic University Library 2012 (LE, Halloweenie): (Company says: The silence was soothing, though, and the scent of the yellowed books and polished oak tables reminded me strongly of my childhood home. I found myself a table, and set to work.... His breath smelled like pumpkin lattes, and there was a faint trace of cologne swirling around him. He quoted Byron, I told terrible jokes, and in the end I nearly failed my paper, but I fell in love. Top of Label. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709362964?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
(Not So) Penitent (Mini) Magdalene 2014 (LE, Lilith): (Company says: Candle wax, smoke, red sandalwood, a dusting of kitchen spices, and a dribble of vanilla ice cream). Just below Shoulder. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709364680?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Gingerbread Poppet 2010 (LE, Lilith): (Company says: Warm, cozy gingerbread spiced with nutmeg, clove and cinnamon). Below shoulder. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301709365994?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
* A list of LGBTQA Charities to donate money to instead of seeing the racist Stonewall Movie that decided to portray a black trans woman activist as a cis white man. http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* Trying to stay afloat until September: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com
This entry was originally posted at http://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/550873.html. Please comment there using OpenID.