It was a drive by fruiting, my dear.
Posted on 05/20/2019 10:00:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Following the 2016 presidential election, liberal elites wasted no time in demonizing those people populating “Red States.” Writing for The Hill, Duane Townsend was among the first to voice an opinion that has become familiar to the point of cliché: “America is held hostage by flyover states.” Townsend offered this thoughtful, measured analysis of this demographic:
“A flyover state is the huge region between the coasts. As opposed to the eastern seaboard, northern post-industrial states and Pacific Ocean states. They’re overwhelmingly Republican, stanchly conservative, regressive right wing, evangelical Christian and working class, well, the loudest, most ill-informed of them are….They either want their country back or they’re tired of being ignored. They regularly blurt the latter as justification for electing right-wing theocrat/closed minds, austerity minded, cultural fascists to office.”
This sort of rhetoric has become commonplace in the interim years, and, just when you thought it was impossible for it to get any worse, it did.
The reason for the uptick in vitriol and bigotry toward this “huge region between the coasts” — can we safely assume Townsend rejects the “fruited plain” thesis? — is the recent wave of abortion laws successively passed by Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia, and, most restrictive of all, Alabama. This led the Boston Globe to announce that “America’s red state legislatures are on an abortion bender.”
Over the weekend, "Saturday Night Live’s" Leslie Jones, in a rant more befitting a girl fight YouTube video than a television show known for clever political satire, attacked the “weird-ass men” who passed these laws. Uncouth and unfunny, she made a crude remark about their supposed lack of testicular fortitude and, in what was meant to be her mic-drop moment, she concluded with this profoundly insightful observation: “women are the same as humans!”
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The bitterest people I know.
Atheist, childless, far left and/or gay.
And they seem to think it is their mission in life to make everyone as miserable as them.
And not one of these people were themselves aborted. They should be happy.
They fear a legal precedent for exceptions to abortion “rights” that would be upheld in the USSC?
“women are the same as humans”
Profound and quotable.
Yes, that gal needs to remind us that she is human often and loudly.
Note to progressives/liberals.
What unelected judges in black can “give you” - they can also take away.
For the last 50 years, you have shoved you perversians and socialism down America’s throats, not by laws, but by corrupt judges in a corrupted legal system.
Those days are ending.
I think she stole that from AOC
These aren’t libertarians either. They want to pry into your life, just in different ways.
+1
There is such truth in what you have written.
When I see an over-the-top vitriol response to something, my first response is to question whether they are homosexual.
Maybe it isn't fruited in the way Townsend wants.
“Over the weekend, “Saturday Night Live’s” Leslie Jones, in a rant more befitting a girl fight YouTube video than a television show known for clever political satire”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA SNL hasn’t been known for anything clever in decades. When you see the punchline 100 miles away, you aren’t being clever.
“America is held hostage by flyover states.”
If roe were overturned it means each state - including both red and blue, could choose for themself how they handled abortion.
“women are the same as humans”
Profound and quotable.
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So is:
“Babies are the same as humans.”
Jim Carrey, a man who became famous for speaking out of his butt, continues to speak from his butt.
“women are the same as humans”
Actually, she should have said “Women are Human”.
Babies ARE human!
Just cause something is the same as, doesn’t mean it’s
the thing.
It wasn’t that long ago that in some circles the one sure fire way to be accused of being a fascist was to suggest that people should maybe have upright sexual morality and maybe keep it in their pant till marriage was the best policy after all.
The Left and too much of the rest of the culture has essentially defined sexual license as the sum total of the pursuit of happiness. It’s why sex and whatever helps there be more sex (like abortion) is just about the only thing the Statists “common sense regulations” must never, ever touch.
Simply, too many people have a notion of Liberty that rises no higher than someone’s crotch.
Toss in empathy for the guilty, the offender, but none for the helpless that cannot be seen on the nightly news and you’ve the modern Left.
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