Thoughts just after Kavanaugh was confirmed...

 Another of those things I wanted to say but couldn't under my own name...


Well, Evangelical Republicans:

You’ve done it.

You’ve gotten control of all three branches of government.

You now have what you’ve spent decades praying for – but more than that, what you’ve been working for, and voting for, and canvassing for. (And what your politicians have gerrymandered, and pandered to racists, and pretended science isn’t real, and virtue-signaled about abortion while paying for their own mistresses to abort their bastards, and paid off porn stars, and held open a Supreme Court seat for a year, and ignored everything the Bible says about how nations and their rulers should treat the poor/ elderly/ disabled/ foreigners, and put a probable sex offender on the Supreme Court, to achieve). But you held your nose and put up with all that, and now it’s finally paid off. For now and perhaps for quite some time, the power of Caesar is utterly yours to command.

Congratulations.

And maybe it was worth it to you, selling out your core values to get the power to impose your peripheral values on other people. You won’t make people stop having abortions, but you will at least be able to make it lots more difficult for women to get legal and safe abortions (along with birth control and screening for health problems). You won’t make people stop being gay or transgender, but you will at least be able to make the lives of sexual minorities unpleasant in a number of ways (more than you already have.) You won’t make Latinos stop entering the country, but you have at least traumatized a number of their children. You won’t make yourselves any safer from bad guys with guns or from overreach by the government (in which you just wiped out the last of the checks and balances), but you will at least be able to continue buying ridiculous amounts of guns and ammo and letting future murderers have practically unlimited access to the same. You won’t get what you actually want, but you’ll at least make sure that the liberals won’t get what we want either. Hell, maybe we can even have ONE Christmas where you won’t bitch about your imagined persecution because someone said “Happy Holidays”.

But don’t you EVER fucking tell me again about how you voted based on your Christian values.


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