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Texas Republicans Find A Way To Disenfranchise Women Voters

Texas Republicans have passed new voter ID laws that will impact women to a far greater extent than men. They are almost certainly doing this because Wendy Davis announced her intent to run for governor. They're scared of having a woman as governor, they're scared of having a Democrat as governor, and they're terrified of the combination. They're low, despicable slime, and they're doing their best to disenfranchise anyone who might not vote Republican.

Sickening.

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Tell the GOP to stop their obsession with Obamacare.

- The majority of the country is in favor of it
- The Supreme Court upheld it
- The Senate is never going to pass a bill repealing it
- Obama wouldn't sign even if they did
- It is based off Romney's setup in Massachusetts

It is a REPUBLICAN-designed bill, and they're up in arms because the ~Muslim Kenyan Socialist~ president (who is none of those things; he's Christian, he was born in Hawaii, and he's as far from socialist as he could be without switching side) got it passed. If we had a REPUBLICAN president who pushed it through, then it'd be fine. Hell, I'll go so far as to say that if a WHITE Democratic president passed it, then it'd be fine.

Fuck them. Fuck them all. I have no patience left, and I'm pissed, and I'm scared of what's going to happen because the Right can't let go of something that was decided years ago. Decided, in part, by the Right, I'd like to remind them. And now they're holding the country hostage, gun to its head, unless everyone obeys their demands. They're the ones at fault for sequestration, too; they wouldn't negotiate. It had to be their way, or it wouldn't happen.

And this, right now? It makes me sick.

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"ABC News reports a tragic potential ending. The "compromise" to end a government shutdown might be to cut Social Security benefits." - Bold Progressives email

Officially terrified. My SSDI is at least half our household income. We cannot stay afloat without it. It is not possible for three people to live on ~$730 a month, and I plain can't work, not unless it's extremely flexible, allows me to work to my personal limit, and is something I can do from home.

Fuck the Tea Party, and fuck Republicans who won't stand up to them. They're almost all a group of scared, old white people, afraid the country's going to change in ways they don't like.

This on top of food stamp cuts? FUCK them.

I rarely say this, but if you support Tea Party politics, please defriend me. I just cannot even with that kind of person.

Edit: There's a MoveOn.org petition here.

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Linkspam time so I can clean up Firefox!


Important

• Inequality in the U.S.: So Much Worse than We Think has a video about economic disparity in the U.S., comparing what people think the disparity is; what they think it should be; and what it actually is. It is... really depressing, especially as someone who lives well below the poverty line (because Social Security can't provide a living income, donchaknow, despite its surplus). There's a reason I'm a dirty socialist.
  
• Another Unarmed Black Man Shot Down - this time while desperately seeking Help contains racism, gun violence, and police violence triggers. The title speaks for itself.
  
• A Statement of Trans-Inclusive Feminism and Womanism is just what it says. I've signed on; I hope you do, too. As a non-binary trans* person, it means a lot to me.
  
• Pope Francis says the Catholic Church should stop being obsessed with abortion, gay marriage, and contraception.

He says it should focus on economic disparity, inequality, and helping the poor instead--you know, tenets of Catholicism.

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And now questions for you! Books and websites are both welcome.

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I don't expect many answers to these. A lot of it is stuff I needed to get down while I was thinking about it (which means it also needs to be added, in an altered form, to our community for the cowritten novel). It's also not as though I expect anyone to take notes or whatever; that would be very wrong. That said, if you can point me in the right direction on any of these, I'd be ever so grateful. My current starting point is going to Wikipedia and looking at the citations used so I can get better information than, you know, Wikipedia articles.

This is all the deep background stuff for the cowritten novel. We have to map out changes in history for the alternate reality the novel is set in, which starts way early. We're going to continue on mapping it all the way up to present day. There are really big changes in it.

And now I will save the rest of the rambling for the writing filter, once I have my filters more filled, so probably not until early next week or so. Which is not to say I won't write the rambling before then, lol, just that it won't be posted.


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Americans--

The Super Committee, aka Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction, is due to deliver its plan to cut $1.5 trillion from the budget over the next decade. This is due tomorrow, 11/23.

If it is not delivered, automatic cuts of $1.2 trillion are triggered. These cuts are taken from both defense and non-defense programs. There is no veto; there is no vote; the twelve legislators on the Super Committee are the sole ones responsible for these cuts happening or not happening.

No matter your political affiliation, you should be aware of this.

You should be questioning the constitutionality of twelve legislators--twelve, out of five hundred and thirty-five--having such responsibility.

You should be questioning the constitutionality of a law that permits a committee of twelve legislators to write a law that simply gets a yes or no vote. No debate. No amendments. No filibusters. Yes or no.

You should be questioning the constitutionality of a law that permits a committee of twelve legislators to potentially implement new taxes.

You should be questioning the constitutionality of a law that permits twelve legislators to bypass the entire legislative process.

You should be questioning the constitutionality of a law that requires consensus or implements sweeping cuts in the midst of a major recession, cuts that will affect jobs and spending and public assistance in a time that those things would help the economy.

You should be questioning all this. You should be questioning every single lawmaker who is responsible for the Budget Control Act passed in August. You should be questioning their knowledge of the country's history. You should be questioning their knowledge of the Constitution.

This isn't a 99% issue. This isn't a class issue. This isn't a party issue. This is an issue of what's legal under the central legal document, the very legal foundation of the country. This is an issue of legal processes being entirely bypassed because our lawmakers did not take care of the debt ceiling last December, and had a pissing contest through August, and furthered the tanking of the world economy, and are responsible for great worsening of the United States economy. This is an issue of sheer competence.

Understand: blame is not on any one person. Blame is not on any one party. Blame is diffuse.

There is a lot of questioning to be done.