I have no patience or time to coddle anymore

[veronica_rich]

Oh, Missouri.

Why did I know before I clicked on this that it was going to be a Republican? Seriously, if you aren't a millionaire and are still voting GOP, I have to conclude you have brain trauma. Get medical help. Soon.

I came home after a long, hard day of slogging through yet more moving stuff to the new place - which included pushing Big Furniture up stairs - and stepped on a hallway carpet absolutely soaked through. The rugs in the bathroom were soaked; even the carpet in the living room on the other side of the wall was soaked. Yet, the toilet was not overflowing. There wasn't any standing water in the floor (oh no, because the carpets AND THE NINE DRY ROLLS OF TOILET PAPER IN THE BATHROOM HAD SOAKED IT ALL UP). I don't know if this is my bathroom or the guy upstairs overflowed something; more importantly,

I.

DO.

NOT.

CARE.

I am scheduled to move the big stuff and rest of my stuff out of here in two weeks. I CANNOT leave this pit soon enough. Seriously. I am so over paying the amount of rent I pay to live in the middle of fucking nowhere in this size apartment, and the maintenance to be as bad as it is. (This is the same place that a few months ago, told me my stovetop was in perfect working order after I'd reported twice that one burner wasn't heating at all anymore. You know, because I can't tell when something ISN'T FUCKING HOT.) *sigh*

OK, maybe I shouldn't insult all Republicans. But the loud ones representing you these days make it SO easy. John Edwards looks like the first choir of angels compared to some of the horseshit I've seen coming out of GOP legislators and governors across the country for the past three months.

Comments

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. Let's not forget that. I mean, this IS the same party that says the federal government should leave the states and businesses and individuals alone to do their own thing, yet advocates not only for a strongly financed central military (to protect what, I wonder? They want a collection of city-states or less, not a nation, heaven forbid), but laws to limit individuals' rights to address their own bodies' medical needs or marry any adult they please. So naturally, their views on economy make about as much sense.

[solitaryraven.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I might be able to take them seriously if they didn't preach small government, personal responsibility, and personal freedoms in one breath, and then turn around and say that people shouldn't be allowed to love who they wish and share that love, that women aren't smart or moral enough to make the right choices about their bodies, and that the government should be so small that it fits inside our bedrooms and uteruses (uteri?) but not inside these huge corporations that exploit the rest of the country.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

As I told someone else somewhere else, to be fair, the ones at the top with the money would probably like to find a way to keep most men down and out of competition's way (and free or cheap labor) too. It's just that by controlling reproductive choices, they've got an easy way to keep women impoverished and the worker replacement rate high - if they could figure out something to do to men that wouldn't also legally apply to them, I'm sure it'd be enacted (or tried).