ProLife? Bullshit.

 I have been on the road for several days and while it’s overcast and lugubrious, I am glad to be home.

We saw a billboard on one of the backroads: Prolife. It’s the only option. I am curious to what this actually means. If you use the term Prolife, tell me this:

- how do you support the cuts to SNAP/Bridge Card/feedling hungry children? How are these babies going to eat?
- how do you support the cuts to housing assistance? Where are these babies with their parents going to live?
- how you support the death penalty?
- use the term Sanctity of Life and you cut food and shelter?
- made in God’s image but only if you are white and Christian do you get help

I am really fed up with you bullshit prolifers who are voting to hurt people, especially children. 

You have lost the right to use that term. Instead, call it what it is and that’s Forced Birth. And hypocrite.

Why is there even a debate?

 It’s been horrifying really to watch the “debate” regarding the release of sex trafficking files. As many of you know, I worked with victim/survivors for the last few years of my career and the impact of assault, violence and abuse lasts a lifetime.   

What is most stunning to me truly is the number of women who support these abusers.  I know one woman who suffered terrible abuse and is a staunch MAGA supporter.  

HCR wrote a difficult post about a homeless highschooler in FL, worked at McDonald’s and was saving for braces. FOR BRACES. She was paid to have sex with, I will say r@ped by, Matt Gaetz. 

If you ever wonder why women don’t come forward with reports on sexual assault and violence, just pay attention to these stories. Anita Hill, Christine Blasey Ford and a long line of women who came forward, were vilified, smeared and ridiculed.  I don’t know one woman who has not been sexually harassed in the workplace, including me. 

The influences of misogyny and patriarchy are embedded within societal frameworks. I will not stop fighting for the younger generation of women who will have to deal with this backlash and bullshit. 

If you are supporting these assholes, I really would love to understand how and why.  Because if you are supporting them, you are an accomplice.

Let them eat cake ... or go hungry.

 We have the financial means to feed all the hungry people in the United States. 

I will NEVER understand why many of you voted to punish the poor, the elderly, the disabled, the sick, and the hungry. 

In Iosco County, we have a little over 25,000 residents and about 20% of them rely on SNAP, which is the Bridge card. That Bridge card allows those who are hungry to eat. 

Other facts (Katie Phang)

- 86% of all SNAP benefits go to households that include a child, an elderly person, or a person with disabilities

- 40% of SNAP recipients are children

- 1.3 million recipients are active duty service members and veterans

I don't give a shit about how people with a Bridge card spend their money. Children deserve a birthday cake, people deserve celebration and happiness, and I will happily pay taxes so everyone can experience some joy. 

And if you have an issue with this, that's on you. Just tell me you don't go to church on Sundays because that just screams hypocrite to me.

DISGRACEFUL

I am trying to imagine a scenario in which we watch another country's leader post an AI-generated video of said leader dumping shit on its citizens. 

Imagine what we would all think of such a disgusting, vile, and juvenile video. I would be embarrassed for the country. 

Now imagine the supporters of said leader scrambling to explain such a disgusting, vile, and juvenile video: it's satire! it's a joke! the citizens with shit on them are terrorists! 

I am wondering how anyone, anywhere can support this. 

We are literally the laughingstock of the world right now. If we ever recover, it will take decades to repair what is left of our country's shredded reputation. 

Paul served our country for 22 years. Of those 22 years, he was gone/deployed for 14 of them.  He didn't serve and we didn't sacrifice to watch this degredation of our great country. If you think we are terrorists, so be it. But we will continue to fight, march, write, and protest.  

And those of you who support and defend this, it's on you. 

Stop voting for the Liars!

 Please BEFORE YOU SIGN ANY PETITION, make sure you know what you are signing.

At the rest stop today on I-75, a person was collecting petitions to "secure our voting." I asked him what that meant. He told me that election rules and identification were up to the County Clerks and my signature would ensure state wide consistency with identification.

THIS IS A LIE. ALL LIES.

The Secretary of State governs elections and County Clerks have no jurisdiction to waive identification requirements.

When you register to vote, you MUST SHOW IDENTIFICATION. When you show up to vote, if you are in my e-pollbook, you have ALREADY SHOWN IDENTIFICATION.

STOP VOTING FOR THESE LIARS.

Good lord, people. Stop it. This is utter bullshit and nonsense.