Don't you feel it baby?

Really, conservatives just hate women. They resent the fact that we work, go to school, vote, everything. Their entire stance on birth control, abortions and social programs is a thinly veiled attempt to take us back to a time when we had less rights. Take away our birth control and we get pregnant. Take away our abortions and we have to keep the baby (in their minds, anyway). Take away certain social programs to help support ourselves (mainly food stamps, WIC and housing assistance) and they think that will force us to get married to a man who can support us. Take away other social programs like daycare subsidies and then we have no choice but to stay at home and take care of the kids because the cost of daycare eats into any additional income. Men who have always relied on their male privilege to get them through life cannot handle seeing a women succeed, or even exist, without them. They figure if you keep kicking them back down, they’ll eventually give up and settle for some loser who doesn’t deserve them but has been given all the opportunities in the world to succeed because he possesses a penis.

hunnichild (via brienne—of—tarth)

inb4 someone changes this all to “uterus-bearers”

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9 February 2012 @ 1pm | 3,402 notes
tags: women women's rights sexism feminism misogyny pro-choice conservatives republicans GOP fundamentalism politics

They called it ‘preventative medicine.’ Preventative medicine! Well, if you apply that preventative medicine universally, what you end up with is you’ve prevented a generation!

GOP Congressman STEVE KING (Iowa), railing against a new requirement that private insurance plans now cover, among other things, women’s contraceptives, on The Colbert Report.

To which Stephen responded “Exactly! Americans only have children by accident! It’s clearly hard to imagine anyone having Steve King on purpose.”

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I find it very disturbing that this guy is implying that people don’t have babies on purpose. Family planning is a term for a reason…that reason being people like to plan when to start their families, using helpful tools like, you know, birth control.

7 August 2011 @ 4pm | 317 notes
tags: steve king republicans gop contraception

I can’t even express in words how disgusted I am with the current political representation in DC right now.

I’ve decided to make a primer for those who might not be able to follow politics to their fullest ability. Believe me, I know it is hard. I didn’t have a good handle on things until I started following political blogs on tumblr. But! I’m going to provide some awesome links for you to peruse at your leisure.

What, oh what, the fuck is up with the debt ceiling?

Basically, raising the debt ceiling has never gotten congress’ panties in a twist before now. For a variety of reasons, the majority of which can fall solidly onto Republicans and tea partiers shoulders, the country is now facing a debt crisis.

Oh, but wait, Senate passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling!

woop-de-fucking-doo. For the past few weeks America and the world’s economic future has been in the hands of a bunch of politicians who, to put it lightly, have been acting like the worst kind of children. And guess what? We didn’t raise taxes on the rich. THE RICH. In this economically shitty time guess who has been hurt the least? The rich. Guess who can afford a tax increase? The rich. Guess who can generate some revenue for the country to you know, GENERATE SOME REVENUE—the rich.

Taxes are the lowest in the country since 1950!

So for all the republicans going up to bat over taxes, why? Congress could easily raise taxes on at least the rich and still have them be lower than most tax-years in 61 years. SIXTY ONE YEARS! The reason, poor middle-and-working class comrades, is because that richest one-percent keeps republicans funded, and thus in office, and so they are willing to sacrifice the majority of America to keep 1% happy.

The favorite excuse for not taxing the rich: trickle down

Guess what guys. It didn’t work under Reagan and it’s not working now. The Bush tax-cuts have royally fucked us over. Guess what, you give tax breaks to the rich, it doesn’t create more jobs. Yes, in theory, it sounds plausible. But ladies and gents, never underestimate corporate greed. They literally do not give ONE FUCK about creating jobs—they are a business and their goal is to make money.

Throw the middle and working classes under the bus

Realistically, a great way to alter government spending and get our finances in order would be to cut defense spending and raise taxes. And if there is one thing republicans hate it is those two things, basically. But wait! A wild chart appears. Cutting social programs would help, but guess what else helps even more for the long term? Raising taxes. Just do it already.

edit: The “super congress” we didn’t elect

Well this seriously pissed me off.

I’m pretty disgusted with both parties right now, guys. Treason is defined as “ the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance.” Do our politicians owe allegiance to the USA? YES. Republicans have taken a pretty good stab at committing treason by holding our economic future (in the time of a recession!) hostage so they can politically maneuver and grand-stand on an issue that has never caused trouble before. And sadly, the democrats and Obama have bowed on several important issues and allowed an unsatisfactory debt law to pass both the house and the senate.

If there ever was a time for revolution, I’d say it’s about now.