Its been awhile since I have ran to the Internet to rant my woes about our current governmental hell hole. But the event over the past couple months have finally cracked me. Let me sum up: Republicans are up at arms because the bill they so lovingly called "Obama-care" is up and running, with permission from the Supreme Court; not only is the bill up, but this bill also pays for women's health, specifically women's preventive healthcare, meaning breast exams, STD testing, breast feeding help and classes, pregnancy screens and contraceptives are now free for women with insurance (this being past has the Republicans spitting angry. Don't believe me? Watch this clip of Mike Kelly, Pennsylvania representative, comparing it to Pearl Harbor Day, and 9/11. You can ignore the Rachel Maddow show clip that follows if you want, but I wouldn't, she is brilliant); Mitt Romney, who may be our next president went overseas to our strongest ally and insulted them several times, making himself and his party look stupid, and convincing every Brit who already thinks that Americans are stupid that their right to think that; our whole country got involved in a fight over gay rights prompted by a chicken fast food joint, and then made it national news, forcing us to join in the argument that should have never been started in the first place; the Olympic Games started in London, and because of the coverage being shown to Americans, we now believe we are best at everything and never fail, because NBC is not offering to show us any sport that we are not winning in; a crazy man entered a midnight premiere of Batman and shot 70 people, killing 12 and wounding 58 with a huge supply of illegal guns; and most recently, another crazy man attacked a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin and killed 7 people. That was today. Why? There are theories is was because he believed them to be Muslim, based on their turbans.
Excuse my rather violent French, but what the fuck is happening in my country right now? We have men in Congress comparing women getting birth control and breast exams to 9/11. We have a total lying idiot running for president, and having some success. The news wants to talk more about the fact that this total idiot happens to own a dressage horse more than they want to talk about his failure to explain past tax returns, or explain how he could talk about job creation when we know for a fact that he has outsourced jobs most of his career. A temple gets raided by a man with a gun, and people don't know. They are too busy watching the Americans win on the Olympics, and they won't be interrupting that to hear about a home grown terror attack, because of that religion it attacked. A true tragedy happens in our country, and people join together to support those who lost someone in the Colorado shooting, and what does the internet do? It starts a sites for memes using a picture of the shooters face.
What happened to us? What happened to our country? Why are we no longer interested in being civilized, in being a healthy society? What happened to our humanity?
-teenageliberal
Excuse my rather violent French, but what the fuck is happening in my country right now? We have men in Congress comparing women getting birth control and breast exams to 9/11. We have a total lying idiot running for president, and having some success. The news wants to talk more about the fact that this total idiot happens to own a dressage horse more than they want to talk about his failure to explain past tax returns, or explain how he could talk about job creation when we know for a fact that he has outsourced jobs most of his career. A temple gets raided by a man with a gun, and people don't know. They are too busy watching the Americans win on the Olympics, and they won't be interrupting that to hear about a home grown terror attack, because of that religion it attacked. A true tragedy happens in our country, and people join together to support those who lost someone in the Colorado shooting, and what does the internet do? It starts a sites for memes using a picture of the shooters face.
What happened to us? What happened to our country? Why are we no longer interested in being civilized, in being a healthy society? What happened to our humanity?
-teenageliberal
