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Is Being An Asshole A Choice?

March 12, 2023

The Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a groundbreaking lawsuit on behalf of five brave Texass women who were denied abortion care after facing severe and dangerous pregnancy complications. Texass is not satisfied destroying public education across the United States. Texass legislators are apparently wanting to diversify their injurious influence to include eliminating the right of women across the nation to control their own bodies, and in some cases, to continue living.

As too many people to recall have said far too many times to count, if you are opposed to abortion, do not have one. No one is forcing you. And you cannot suddenly pretend to be pro-science for one issue and one issue alone after ignoring science at every other turn, especially when you are relying on alternative science for that one issue.

Assholier Than Thou

Also, Ratpublican Gov. Bill Lee of the anything-but-great state of Tennessee, whose Lt. governor was just found to have been ogling young naked men on social media (not that there’s anything wrong with that unless you are helping to pass anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in your poor excuse for a state), signed a bill into law Thursday afternoon that will restrict public drag show performances. This was passed alongside separate legislation that bans transgender minors in Tennessee from receiving gender-affirming care.

Again, if you are opposed to anyone being designated or simply being other than a strictly heterosexual male or female. Don’t be that. Otherwise, it’s none of your fucking business. If you are uncomfortable living in a country where people are free to dress up as did Milton Berle, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Tom Hanks, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, Al Pacino, Cpl. Max Klinger, Rudy Giuliani, “George Santos,” RuPaul or Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee, see a shrink.

If you are uncomfortable living in a country where people are free to be who they say they are, and where a large and growing majority of its citizens believe there’s nothing wrong with that, may I suggest a one-way trip to friendlier environs, like Iran or Qatar or Uganda or your current soul-mate-country – Russia.

Not to be outdone, the fascist state of Florida is poised to eliminate women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, First Amendment rights. Six-week abortion ban, Don’t-Say-Gay law, book banning, and DuhSantis’ certifiably insane War on “Woke.”

Let me say unto those who feel the need to fuck with people’s private lives what I was told on many occasions in my younger days while demonstrating my displeasure at things like the Vietnam War, or un-elected Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon, or American interference in Central America or walking around with long hair:

“If you don’t like it here, leave.”

This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought For The Day.

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