I had some thoughts on this interesting article and was gonna thread them on my Twitter timeline, but I have too much to say on the matter, so I decided to dig out and dust off my old blog and post them here. Here's the thing about explicitly disliking a "political other" that the media doesn't want to cop to: There is actually clearly a right and wrong side at this point in history. Once upon a time, the differences in the Democratic and the Republican parties were simply regional and political stances on tax policy and fiscal spending and a myriad of other procedural thingamabobs. Precisely because both parties were inherently and inexorably racist, misogynistic, and LGBTQ-phobic because America was vastly racist, misogynistic, and LGBTQ-phobic. Some might argue that it still is. And they're right. It is. But it used to be FAR, FAR worse and much more banally violent about it, too. POC, women, and LGBTQ people were freely beaten and murdered, with little
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Good ole' bush... that guy really is the greatest.
What's that, Mr. President... you say... you say you want to do everything possible to find out what went wrong here... you, you say you're going to d-...
***pfffft***
oh... Mr. President, *what* is that stench?? Did you just let a massive toot... oh wait, that wasn't a toot... that was BULLSHIT!
ps I heard Bush was appointing OJ as his lead man in this 'investigation'. i know i for one will be able to sleep more soundly tonight with this li'l piece of information.
tee hee... totally off topic... but does anyone else try to make actual words out of the 'word verifications' listed below... ironically, today mine loosely translates into 'ass poof'...