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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
Joining as freshman senators are Republican Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Democrats Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts), Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin) and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii). They’ll be joining Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Maria Cantwell (Washington), Dianne Feinstein (California), Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota), Debbie Stabenow (Michigan), and Claire McCaskill (Missouri), all of whom won reelection.
With two of the previously record-setting seventeen female senators retiring, all incumbents winning, and four new female senators, that brings the total to nineteen out of one hundred. (A number that will be upped to 20 if North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp‘s apparent upset victory over Republican candidate Rick Berg is confirmed.) Still along way from equal representation, but still exciting! And that’s not the only first.
Newly elected Mazie Hirono is the first woman senator to serve Hawaii and the first foreign-born woman of any Asian nationality to serve in either house of Congress. She’ll also be the first Japanese immigrant elected to the Senate, as well as the first Buddhist and first Asian-American woman. Tammy Duckworth, a disabled veteran who lost most of her legs co-piloting a Black Hawk helicopter that was struck by a RPG, is now the first female veteran and first disabled woman to serve in the Senate House, not to mention Congress’ first Thai-American member. (She was born in Bangkok to an American father and a Thai mother, grew up in Singapore, and speaks fluent Thai and Indonesian). And Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin is now the first openly gay member of the Senate.
Colleen Lachowicz, a Maine state senate candidate who drew an involved smear campaign from her opponents focused on the fact that she plays and enjoys World of Warcraft… won.
Colleen Lachowicz, a Maine state senate candidate who drew an involved smear campaign from her opponents focused on the fact that she plays and enjoys World of Warcraft… won.
I bet that doesn't look the smartest tactic in hindsight.
— "Okay, let's attack her on a basis that suggests that she's cool, and we're out of touch and afraid of technology!"
— "Brilliantly conceived, sir!"
Joining as freshman senators are Republican Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Democrats Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts), Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin) and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii). They’ll be joining Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Maria Cantwell (Washington), Dianne Feinstein (California), Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota), Debbie Stabenow (Michigan), and Claire McCaskill (Missouri), all of whom won reelection.
With two of the previously record-setting seventeen female senators retiring, all incumbents winning, and four new female senators, that brings the total to nineteen out of one hundred. (A number that will be upped to 20 if North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp‘s apparent upset victory over Republican candidate Rick Berg is confirmed.) Still along way from equal representation, but still exciting! And that’s not the only first.
Newly elected Mazie Hirono is the first woman senator to serve Hawaii and the first foreign-born woman of any Asian nationality to serve in either house of Congress. She’ll also be the first Japanese immigrant elected to the Senate, as well as the first Buddhist and first Asian-American woman. Tammy Duckworth, a disabled veteran who lost most of her legs co-piloting a Black Hawk helicopter that was struck by a RPG, is now the first female veteran and first disabled woman to serve in the Senate House, not to mention Congress’ first Thai-American member. (She was born in Bangkok to an American father and a Thai mother, grew up in Singapore, and speaks fluent Thai and Indonesian). And Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin is now the first openly gay member of the Senate.
Colleen Lachowicz, a Maine state senate candidate who drew an involved smear campaign from her opponents focused on the fact that she plays and enjoys World of Warcraft… won.
Think of the poor men in NH
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In another first, three women Democrats - Governor-elect Maggie Hassan and Representatives-elect Carol Shea-Porter and Annie Kuster - made New Hampshire the first state to vote for an all-female congressional delegation and governor, according to Emily's List.
According to the Christian Men's Defense Network, a 'network' of MRAs who are also theocrats, Romney lost because he just couldn't appeal to the sluts. I've spoilered the complete blog post, taken from Google cache since they made their own blog private, and it's a real insight to what happens when "We wuz robbed!" collides with the MRM and anti-choice movement.
It's also notable for more than a little unresolved rage from the author's high school days, and suggesting that "sane societies" are those which disenfranchise women. He's got to be disappointed, then, because women's suffrage is nearly universal now—in law, if not in practice—and even the last holdout country, Saudi Arabia, has promised to extend suffrage to women in 2015.
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Originally Posted by MRA Dipshit
What the Right Doesn’t Get About Elections
Posted on November 6, 2012
I’ll be the first to admit it. A couple weeks ago I predicted a Romney win. I predicted this largely because he played up his alpha cred in the first debate. But one photo-op on the Jersey Shore with Obama looking tough in a bomber jacket destroyed all that, which is yet another reason sane societies don’t let women get involved in government.
Instead, we are looking at four more years of skyrocketing debt, stifling regulation, and the only First Lady who could possibly be bitchy enough to make Hillary Clinton look feminine.
Ever since the primary debate when George Snuffleupagus seemingly out of nowhere asked Willard Mitt Romney about birth control (he’s Mormon, so I guess his position is “missionary”), we should have known how the leftists in the media and the Obama campaign (redundant, I know) intended to define the campaign. Because on radio ads, on TV, and on the web, the Democrats tried to make this election about a single issue:
The right to slut.
Or more precisely, the right to slut without the responsibility of consequences. The famous “gender gap” isn’t really a gap based on gender. The right overwhelmingly wins older and married women. The “gender gap” should more accurately be called the slut vote.
Women make up about 54% of the electorate. It is very hard to win without winning that segment, or at least losing it only narrowly while winning men big. While the right usually wins married women, the fact is that married women constitute an ever-decreasing share of the female population. Women want to delay marriage as long as possible so they can “have it all,” and usually “have it all” means “have as much hot alpha sex as possible without any consequences.” And thus, less married women and more sluts (not that these two groups are mutually exclusive, per se)
And that’s where the Democrats come in. Contrary to common belief, the primary reason the Democrats own the black vote has nothing to do with civil rights. The Democrats were only partially supportive of civil rights in the 60′s (with southern Democrats advocating “segregation forever”). Lincoln was a Republican, and Republicans in the House and Senate voted for civil rights legislation in the 60s.
Rather, Democrats have won the black vote because the black community is dominated by illegitimacy, and the Democrats are willing to subsidize and support that illegitimacy (as well as provide access to cheap abortions) so as to take away from sluts the consequences of their actions. Consequently, young black people grow up on the dole and not only never realize there might be something wrong with that, but eventually come to believe that’s the way it should be. The Democrats have won the black vote by first “empowering” single black mothers.
This is now beginning to happen in white suburbia, except unlike women in the urban black community, white suburban sluts start from a place of relative wealth and privilege (daddy’s little princess). Thus, food stamps–and increased rewards for having illegitimate kids while on food stamps–don’t (yet) appeal to them.
So instead Obama appealed to rich white sluts by forcing someone else (the Catholic church, in this case) to pay for their birth control, and by scaring them about alleged threats to their ability to take advantage of Planned Parenthood’s services (Planned Parenthood being conveniently located in the minority part of town, of course, so as to provide anonymity to visiting white girls whose white girl friends never go over there–except to visit Planned Parenthood themselves). This created a wedge issue in the suburban community that allowed Obama to play more strongly there than he might have if the election ended up purely about the economy or the national debt.
One thing one has to remember about women, especially slutty ones: They usually don’t make decisions based on reason. So all the Obama administration had to do was scare them that Mitt Romney was going to take away their birth control and their access to abortion. The fear for them is that, without birth control and abortion, they might actually get pregnant and have to give birth. That is scary not simply because of the economic burden of having a child (since, hey, they can get all kinds of cash and prizes if that happens), but because if that happened then everyone would know they’re sluts, and their image as daddy’s pure little snowflake princess goes out the window.
The right loses the female vote primarily because so many of them still operate from a feminist world-view: Women are pure, perfect, kind, and altruistic, and the only reason they “get into trouble” is that some evil, conniving, manipulative man tricked them into sleeping with the entire football team.
Twice.
And so, the Republicans believe they can win the female vote by focusing on education, or (as Romney did in the third debate) “peace,” or whatever feel-good idea the right can talk about without selling its soul too transparently.
Admittedly, the desire to slut it up isn’t the only factor in the gender gap. America has a fiscal problem primarily because women want free stuff without ever having to work. America is over-regulated because women don’t want to have to compete in the free market. America has profound moral problems in part because the rationalization hamster makes it impossible for 54% of the American electorate to ever admit a moral shortcoming.
However, this election cycle shows that the Slut Vote is real, and Republicans lose because they discount the existence of original sin in women. Abortion is often called the “third rail of American politics,” but in truth, the third rail is a woman’s right to slut (with cash and prizes).
You guys don't even know how many times I have read that thing. It's like poking a canker sore with the tip of your tongue. It hurts like hell, but I just can't stop doing it!
According to the Christian Men's Defense Network, a 'network' of MRAs who are also theocrats, Romney lost because he just couldn't appeal to the sluts
I voted at home. With my wife. Who I just now realized is a slut. Not a single slut, but one of those working married Obama supporter sluts.
This guy has ruined my day.
I'm going all alpha tonight and laying on the floor next to my male dog. Not the female one though. It's going to be a no beotches night. That should make me feel better.
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You guys don't even know how many times I have read that thing. It's like poking a canker sore with the tip of your tongue. It hurts like hell, but I just can't stop doing it!
Funny, I've read it a couple of times too, and also listened to the dramatic reading, but I find the angry tears of butthurt regressives nourishing to my soul.
I absolutely relish the images of that guy walking around with janky homemade buttons all over his fishing hat (I'm going to assume fishing hat here), carrying crackpotty signs about welfare queens, and angrily 'shunning' Democrats and suspected Democrats.
The Great Facebook Defriending is bone-chilling, though. I'll grant that one.
I just want to know what the Rationalization Hamster is. I find that concept fascinating.
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- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
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