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Oct. 13th, 2004 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosOkay, let's be serious for a minute here. Let's say that Bush really does get re-elected. What do you honestly think is going to happen in the next four years if that occurs?
(Don't mind me. I'm just curious.)
EDIT: I'd just like to add for the record that considering how destructive people have been this election year, I wouldn't be surprised if, no matter which one gets elected, there's an assassination attempt in the next year. I don't think one is going to happen, but if one does ... yeah, I won't be shocked. There are some seriously screwed-up, pissed-off people who are totally against both major candidates.
(Don't mind me. I'm just curious.)
EDIT: I'd just like to add for the record that considering how destructive people have been this election year, I wouldn't be surprised if, no matter which one gets elected, there's an assassination attempt in the next year. I don't think one is going to happen, but if one does ... yeah, I won't be shocked. There are some seriously screwed-up, pissed-off people who are totally against both major candidates.
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:24 am (UTC)The dead rising from their graves!
Cats and dogs, living together!
Well, okay, no. But I fully expect him to enact long-lasting reforms that will (a) further erode our civil rights, (b) place more tax reward emphasis on corporate blowjobs for the rich and less and less for both the poor and middle class, (c) if not wreck, then further degrade the environment in favor of polluting megacorporations, (d) push legislation that will blur even more the line between church and state and thus push back women's rights, the gay movement, and pro-choice advocacy, (e) get us into at least one more pointless, long, ugly, bloody war, and (f) make me want to smack his stupid monkey face in with a Buick every time I see it.
Right now, he's ahead of schedule on (f).
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:25 am (UTC)but nothing big enough to motivate people to rise up en masse and kick the assholes out of office.
cynical? yeah.
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:26 am (UTC)And those are just the least radical things I could think of.
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:27 am (UTC)Abortion rant. Might not want to read it if you're pro-life.
Date: 2004-10-13 07:30 am (UTC)So, to answer your question, I'm either going to have to move to New York or California (two of the state's least likely to ban abortion) or learn to perform them at home with an unbent wire hanger and some peroxide.
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-13 07:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-13 07:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-13 07:38 am (UTC)No, not really. Though I'm not convinced he actually grasps the whole, this is a computer playing tic tac toe until it learns and how is that relevant thing, nor that actual humans over there in his pet war are actually getting shot and blown up and shit.
Really, continuing scary erosion of civil rights in the name of safety. Continuing of snubbing of the rest of the world. Continuing of kissing business ass and smacking people who work upside the head.
Hm. Maybe we could teach him about getting wood on the internets. Then his brain would be all occupied-like, and someone else....wait, the next person to make decisions after him is Cheney. ...Crap.
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:41 am (UTC)The Administration, on the other hand, will continue to eat at people's civil rights in the name of "safety", will start another pointless war with some country who never asked to be 'liberated', will increase the severity of the backdoor draft and/or institute an actual draft (which would be spun into a 'protection squad' or some shit so as to avoid calling it a 'draft'), will replace 2 to 4 Supreme Court justices with Scalia clones, and will basically make this a very unpleasant country for anyone who isn't at least two of the following: Rich, White, Male, Christian. Oh, and they'll raise taxes on the middle classes, provide shitty or no health care for the poor, continue the policies of rewarding job outsourcing, and God only knows what else.
I think Bush should get a beagle. They're awesome.
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:45 am (UTC)Yes. That is what's going to happen.
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:46 am (UTC)Re: Abortion rant. Might not want to read it if you're pro-life.
Date: 2004-10-13 07:46 am (UTC)The guy who runs Operation Rescue wants only condoms to be available. Why? Because men are in charge in regards to condoms. It's all about controlling women.
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:47 am (UTC)I think bad bad things will happen.
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:49 am (UTC)But really, under Bush again I can see the rest of the world's governments supporting us less and less, leading to an even larger increase in anti-american sentiment globally, and a bad time for being an American tourist. I think we'll see a further decline in public education. Individual's rights will be repressed even more for the "safety of all," and most of the American public won't even notice, or if they somehow do hear about it they will think their government is 'protecting' them.
Further restrictions on abortion. Serious attempts to pass the constitutional amendment regarding marriage. More of the same utter disregard for the environment.
Well, this is depressing. Come election night, I'm going to be glued to the tv.
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:53 am (UTC)And because the idea of being around while our country turns into 1984 frightens me.
Re: Abortion rant. Might not want to read it if you're pro-life.
Date: 2004-10-13 07:55 am (UTC)All the women's reproductive issues are so blatantly religious in nature. It makes me ill. So much for separation of church and state...
Thanks for reminding me!
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:56 am (UTC)As for the assassination attempt thing - well every president that has taken office in a year ending in zero has either died in office, had an assassination attempt or been assassinated.
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Date: 2004-10-13 07:56 am (UTC)Re: Abortion rant. Might not want to read it if you're pro-life.
Date: 2004-10-13 07:57 am (UTC)Find yourself a nice doctor willing to break the law. Please.
Wire hangers are painful.
(Abortion sidenote -- and you may know all this but I don't know if others do -- the very basis of Roe v. Wade is that there are doctors willing to break the laws. Roe's original suit was for Hallward, a doctor charged with breaking the Texas bans on abortion, to be able to intervene -- and they let him, even in the Texas district courts.
The reason it got to the Supreme Court was because Doe, a childless, married [and nonpregnant] couple filed a companion complaint on the charges that Mrs Doe -- who had a neural/chemical disorder that had her doctors advising her to 1)not take the Pill and 2)not have children -- was suffering because of the worry that she would concieve and have no way to end the pregnancy. She would not be in physical danger, but was unadvised to have children.
The District Court said this wasn't a controversial issue, and turned the family down, and that was appealed by all three (Roe, Hallward, and Doe).
It seems to be a little-known fact about the case that the real reason it got brought up at all, was because of someone who wasn't, in fact, pregnant. The Supreme Court, in fact, turned that appeal down, but because the District Attorney cross-appealed the original decision to let Hallward intervene on Roe's behalf, the decision to legalize abortion became an issue.)
In any case, DOCTORS GOOD. HANGERS BAD!!
Re: Abortion rant. Might not want to read it if you're pro-life.
Date: 2004-10-13 07:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-13 07:57 am (UTC)But ack! My cousins live in Berkeley!
Re: Abortion rant. Might not want to read it if you're pro-life.
Date: 2004-10-13 08:01 am (UTC)But how can you say condoms are okay and not be prescribing the pill? O_O O_O O_O That's just blatant, unapologetic misogyny. And what irks me is, they probably back it up with some biblical text.
Re: Abortion rant. Might not want to read it if you're pro-life.
Date: 2004-10-13 08:04 am (UTC)And the hanger thing was more sarcastic than anything else. Actually, at this point in my life if I were to catch pregnant (which would be a goddamn miracle since I'm not currently having sex) I would probably keep the baby unless there were serious complications. My pro-choice stance stems from a "NO ONE tells me what to do with my body" kind of place. Plus, I remember what it was like to have less options than I have now and go through a pregnancy scare.
I'm glad you put that out there, though. I wouldn't want someone reading that and thinking that a hanger is a decent substitute, or something you can easily manage at a friends house or something.
Re: Abortion rant. Might not want to read it if you're pro-life.
Date: 2004-10-13 08:05 am (UTC)