Lorraine

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Watch #RepublicansWantWomenToSuffer

[Lorraine @raine0907]

@CalltoActivism Absolutely.. NOT!! I can’t stand him.

[Lorraine @raine0907]

@ReallyAmerican1 Fantastic!!

You just need Hannibal in the background..

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Dear Ma & Pa MAGA,

Now I know that questions like these are about as interesting to you as a tutorial on gun safety, an explanation of how Easter dates fluctuate year to year and a thesaurus, but you see, I’ve long since stopped giving a fuck, so I’m gonna ask it anyway.

And this isn’t really about you answering as much it is about me pointing out your culture war ridiculousness, so if you’re able to, and yer not too busy shooting up beer cans or rage-jerking to Tucker Carlson’s latest rants about unsexy candy characters in comfortable shoes, please do read along. If not, no worries, I’m still gonna say what needs to be said.

So here’s what I want to know - what exactly are Republicans FOR these days? What are they offering? What are they promising? What are they giving you?

Because it’s not infrastructure, the Dems did that. It’s not healthcare, which the Dems did too. It’s not all the other stuff the Dems are doing like lowering the cost of your insulin or lowering your taxes, it’s not creating jobs, not bringing manufacturing back, not honoring our vets, not actually “backing the blue” or “supporting the troops”, it’s not ending the opioid crisis, addressing the border, making Mexico pay for the wall, not lowering unemployment, raising wages, improving maternal care, feeding starving children, not keeping books on shelves, keeping the planet green, keeping you safe at work, protecting social security or growing the GDP, it’s not protecting your reproductive rights, your access to IVF and contraception, protecting Democracy abroad and it’s sure as shit not protecting your kids from gun violence at school.

When a bridge collapses after a ship collision and six workers die, they blame DEI. When a woman is killed they blame the border. When a movie theatre gets shot up they blame “mental health.” When a long-standing day of visibility for a group of people who pose no harm to them outside of the fact that they simply want to live their authentic lives, coincides with Easter, they blame “blasphemy.”

They say America sucks, that our economy is in ruins, and that our streets are rife with more crime than ever, when none of that’s true. They say prices are too high, but vote against stopping gouging, that our roads are in disrepair, but then vote against fixing them, and that our border is in crisis, while refusing to even vote on a bill THEY themselves demanded and co-wrote.

They’re not doing a damn thing about the kitchen table issues you think about every single night. In fact, they’re telling you that they’re coming for the shit you rely on like affordable healthcare, access to IVF and contraception, they’re telling you they are coming for the social security you have been paying into.

But you can’t hear them. You don’t want to hear them because you’re too busy being “scared” that your kid’s teacher wants them to be “furries” when they’re not, that immigrants come here to commit crimes, when they don’t, that some drag queen you’ve never met and you do not know tried to “indoctrinate” kindergartners with a book about earthworms when they simply would not and have not.

You’re too busy welcoming being stoked, poked and prodded with manufactured outrage and irrational fear, too busy letting them embrace your intolerance, empower your biases, and embolden your bigotry to ever care to notice that they offer you nothing which is real.

They’re for fostering angst, anxiety and anger in a “failing nation.”
They’re for telling you that someone else is to blame for your failures.
They’re “for” openly hating who you hate.

That’s it.
That’s all they are “for.”

And unfortunately, despite the fact that nothing could be further from the truth, that’s all you seem to think you need.

And I want to know why.

[Marla @marla_vous]

Let’s see how things are shaping up in King DeSantis’s Florida fiefdom:

$354 MILLION in federal funds for energy-efficient measure, including thousands of jobs and appliance rebates— lost (thanks to King Ron’s veto).

Insurance Industry —leaving.
Farmers— leaving.
Construction workers leaving.
Conventions/conferences— leaving.
Teachers/Academics— leaving.

$20 MILLION in tourism—lost.

$1 BILLION Disney Project—lost.

Immigrants, Black and LGBTQ Americans were issued unsafe to travel advisories.

But Nazis are free to openly march.

And an alternate version of history (one that teaches that being a slave was better than being killed, right?) is allowed to be taught in schools.

And businesses who hire immigrants lose their license.

And Ron signed off on a 6-week abortion ban.

And DeSantis approved a concealed carry law.

And he signed laws that restrict voting by mail and at drop boxes and deter eligible voters with criminal records from voting.

Ron DeDantis is a deranged wanna be dictator who should never step foot in the White House… or the Governor’s mansion.

#FreshResists

[Lorraine @raine0907]

@GovMurphy Yes!!!!

[Lorraine @raine0907]

@RonFilipkowski He must be counting Mini golf!!

[Lorraine @raine0907]

@joncoopertweets @CNN If CNN asks the tough questions and calls him out when he lies thru his teeth… then I say good.

But if they placate him and toss softballs … shame on them. They will lose this viewer and many others I would suspect.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“Taylor Swift comes out against Trump”

Taylor Swift: “I don't care if they write that...This is something that I know is right, I need to be on the side right of history”

Bravo @taylorswift13, America is a better place because of selfless people like you

[Lorraine @raine0907]

@GianniNJD Playoff hockey is not for the faint of heart. By blood-pressure is thru the roof!!! GO DEVILS!!!!

[Lorraine @raine0907]

@NJDevils VERY good morning!!!

[Lorraine @raine0907]

@Victorshi2020 Outstanding!!!! Love it!!!

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Wow. Lizzo’s concert in Tennessee last night featured an entire drag performance. This comes at a time when the Tennessee legislature is attacking the LGBTQ+ community. Lizzo is not here for it & we need more people like her.

[Lorraine @raine0907]

@CCampbellArt Congrats!!!

[Lorraine @raine0907]

@RonFilipkowski So tired of his toxic spewing. Go away already.

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

100 year old Grace Linn compares Florida GOP’s book banning to book burning in Nazi Germany. She’s the widow of a WWII veteran. Preach!

[Lorraine @raine0907]

@NHL Go Devils!!!

[Lorraine @raine0907]

@AccountableGOP Just insane!!

[Lorraine @raine0907]

@NoLieWithBTC Cry me a river!!

[Lorraine @raine0907]

@joncoopertweets Mustard and …. Potatoes. Once you try it you WILL be hooked!!
Never ketchup