—Robert Reich (Top heavy objects stand well on their own.)
Conservatives Bash Sandra Fluke’s Convention Speech, Parroting Limbaugh’s Sexist Attacks
Despite the widespread outcry against Rush Limbaugh’s and Bill O’Reilly’s sexist smears against Sandra Fluke earlier this year — when they claimed she was a “slut” who wants the government to pay for her “social life” — other far-right commentators haven’t quite grasped why these types of attacks are offensive. After Fluke took to the stage of the Democratic National Convention last night to articulate the issues at stake in the ongoing War on Women, conservative media took to Twitter to bash her for “whining” about needing free birth control for the activities that go on in her “bedroom”.
All I can say is, keep talking shitheads.
Look at how ANGRY these people are that a woman tried to talk in a place she was shut out from talking in. Jfc.
Look at all the women partaking in this hate. It’s disgusting and saddens me greatly.
Welcome to the patriarchy, where women are encouraged to hate other women, and deny themselves rights to their own bodies.
Supporting these people or agreeing with their POV makes you a bad person. There is no argument against it.
(via fauxroux)
Tony Kimball is sure of one thing if Romney does become the Republican presidential candidate. “He certainly won’t get my vote,” Kimball says.
(Source: dw.de)
The federal records, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that Romney’s initial rescue attempt at Bain & Company was actually a disaster – leaving the firm so financially strapped that it had “no value as a going concern.” Even worse, the federal bailout ultimately engineered by Romney screwed the FDIC – the bank insurance system backed by taxpayers – out of at least $10 million. And in an added insult, Romney rewarded top executives at Bain with hefty bonuses at the very moment that he was demanding his handout from the feds.
A platform of hate and misplaced values. This is not progress. This is taking a giant leap backwards.
—President Obama when asked, “Are you considering increasing funds to the space program?” (There’s my vote!)
(Source: reddit.com)
—Charles P. Pierce (Saying it enough times makes it truth…right?)
Last week, Paul Ryan gave an interview in which, defending his position that there should be no excuses for abortion, he referred to rape as a “method of conception.”
What the fuck.
Romney-Ryan is how I spell disaster.
It includes:
- No abortion in cases of rape or incest
- A salute to mandatory ultrasounds
- No legal recognition of same-sex couples
- Arizona-style immigration laws
- Audit the Federal Reserve
- No women in combat
- No statehood, but more guns for Washington D.C.
Sick, sick, sick. Anti-woman, anti-choice, anti-immigrant, and anti-gay. Just. Sickening.
Read, anti-American.
(via fauxroux)
