Time to get pissed, people! (First They Came For The Gay Married Couples....)

(Taken verbatim from the wise and holy filkertom, with but a few edits)

Just so we all know what's at stake here: Your House Of Representatives has voted in favor of a bill that would not only outlaw gay marriage on the national level, not only prevent federal courts from ordering states to recognize gay marriages from other states... but would specifically prohibit any court, including the U.S. Supreme Court, from challenging the law.

Never mind that, out in the real, non-fundamentalist-evangelical world, no one seems to think that marriage is threatened by gay people. Never mind that, once again, the Republicans are discriminating against an entire class of citizens. Never mind that it probably won't go through.

These bastards are trying to disrupt the basic checks-and-balances system of the government.

(Tom says, in his entry: Simple translation? And I can't believe I'm saying this, but the evidence is piling higher and deeper every single day: If you vote Republican, you are un-American.

I can't say I agree with that part. I refuse to equate these bastards with the party of Abraham Lincoln. But that's neither here nor there for the moment. I will say if you vote neo-con, you're un-American for the very reasons stated above. But back to Tom's magnificent rant.)

Update: I looked at my rhetoric above, and I was going to tone it down. Too harsh.

Fuck that.

I'm sick of watching the nice, polite, Dems and progressives try to be rational while the Right Wing runs roughshod over pretty much everything good about this country. And I've got a few dear friends (and you know who you are, and you know I love you all) who are die-hard conservatives.

Fuck that. It's time to save the country, save the world, from the neo-cons. I will offend even close friends by taking this tack, but that's tough.

Trust nothing the Republicans say or do. Not even John McCain. Especially not Tom DeLay, Dick Cheney, or anybody in the Cabinet, and that definitely includes that scumbag milksop quisling Colin "I Regret Lying To The U.N." Powell. If a right-wing commentator, especially on Fox News Network, says anything, they lie.

I'm serious. The United States of America itself is in dire danger, and we're letting these assholes herd us to the edge of the pit.

No More.

A good for instance on Neo-con lying, from the indispensible Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo.

It's time to get pissed people. Iraq is bad enough, but now these slimeball fuckers are trying to mess with me and mine and homey don't play dat.

On an entirely happier note

Jesus, f*ck and Liberace, but this movie needs to get made.

(I seem to be nicking a lot of filkertom's links lately, don't I?)

Go right ahead.

Convince me it won't or can't happen.

You know, I expect a lot of people are getting tired of me tooting the political horn and are getting annoyed by it. Well, I say people NEED to be annoyed. They need to get pissed off, and they need to get off their lazy asses and DO something about this happy horseshit.

We, as Americans, need to stand up and let the Way The Hell Far Right know that we will not accept this, we will not stand for this, and if they continue trying to push this utter schweinerei on us, we will drop them like the bad habits they are.

People, pay attention: GET OFF YOUR ASSES AND VOTE. The next stupid sonofabitch I see say anything about "my vote won't matter" gets buggered to death with their own left leg. If you don't vote, you don't get to complain. Bottom f'ing line. I have utter contempt for such thinking, especially in this case because if you don't think the very bedrock principles of American democracy are at stake here, then you're woefully mistaken.

I don't give a flying fsck if you like the Demos or Republicans. If you can look me square in the damn eye and say with a straight face any other political party stands a snowball's chance in hell of winning this election, I'll have to step back as the nice young men in the clean white coats will be along to collect you presently.

People call Bush evil, and I've done so myself. Frankly, I don't think he's smart enough to be evil. But the people around him are, and they prove it every single time they open their mouths. Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, every last man jack of that lot are spooky sonsofbitches right up there with Darth Vader or worse, Pat Boone in bondage gear at the Grammys the year he did that "In The Metal Mood" album.

Welcome to the new American Civil War, people. They started it, and by God we're going to stop it. Bottom fscking line.

Lyrics for any child of the 80's

( Ooo rock me Amadeus )

Just because I can, and because I've got a spiffy new icon to show off

( Chou henshin! Kamen Raidaa Kuuga! )