The Midterm Elections

[fraurosena]

1 minute ago, Cartmann99 said:

I just don't get these people. I enter a public restroom because:

1. I need to relieve myself.
2. I am experiencing the joys of menstruation.
3. I am having a wardrobe malfunction.
4. I need to wash my hands or do something that requires a mirror.

How sad is your life that you hang out in public restrooms to assess what genitalia the other patrons are sporting? As long as you don't hold up the line or harass other patrons, you can have a damn Tupperware party in the next stall as far as I'm concerned.

I don't understand either. Although I have to confess that I once deliberately went into the men's room to relieve myself because there was a flipping looooooong line for the ladies restroom, where there was a grand total of two stalls for all the women in the movie theatre! (I'd never been there before, but we were so eager to see LOTR 3 we went to another town to view it.) So there I was, waiting and wiggling on my feet, my bladder full to bursting.

Then I spied that there was no line for the men's room at all. It didn't take me long to decide. I needed to pee now, so it was go in there or relieve myself on the floor. So in I went. To my utter astonishment, I saw they had six stalls, plus a whole wall of urinals! I went into a stall, had one of the best pees in my life, and stepped out again. There were some men who gave me a strange look as I washed my hands, but they smiled and laughed when I said I simply couldn't hold it in any longer and came here instead of peeing my pants. One of them even gave me a thumbs up. None of them minded in the slightest. 

When I came out, I told the other women still waiting in line for the ladies room they should go to the men's room too. Not many of them dared to though and most demurely stayed in line. 

 

[smittykins]

At one of my former jobs, the ladies' room had three stalls, but the men's room had five stalls plus a shower.

[candygirl200413]

At my sorority semi and formals 9 times out of 10 I would use the men's bathroom because either:

1. Underclassmen sisters were puking their guts cause they pre-gamed too hard.

2. I broke the seal too early 

In high school, we had a MTF who wasn't passing until after I graduated a year later. We had no problems with this at all (only real thing was she was VERY loud at 7 in the morning and I as a morning person could not handle that :p). It has truly blown my mind because at one point (or multiple) times one could have come into contact in the bathroom with someone who is transgender and would have no idea! So it's crazy that they feel like this is something new.

[Destiny]

I had a MTF transgender person in my life a while back. The amount of times we saw each other's junk: zero. The amount of times we cared about each other's junk: also zero. The amount of times she attempted to rape me: shockingly also zero.

When we saw each other whilst washing our hands, we had conversations like, damn my mascara ran a bit, or it's so hard to find jeans that make your ass look good, or holy crap is this workday over. Just like any other fucking person in the world because her bits and what state they were in DON'T FUCKING MATTER.

AKA, that person is an asshole. 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[CTRLZero]

Regarding the Washington state race mentioned above, Susan Hutchison, former news anchor and former state Republican Party Chair decided at the last minute to challenge Senator Maria Cantwell.  So the extreme wacko element will not be the only opposition, the regular (and well-known) wacko element will also be running.

Republican Susan Hutchison enters race - Seattle Times

Here's a quote from an interview of Hutchison:  "She is a fake senator.  She is a ghost in the state and in the Senate."  Boo!  I mailed in a donation to Cantwell's campaign. 

[GreyhoundFan]

On 5/26/2018 at 4:24 PM, fraurosena said:

I don't understand either. Although I have to confess that I once deliberately went into the men's room to relieve myself because there was a flipping looooooong line for the ladies restroom, where there was a grand total of two stalls for all the women in the movie theatre!

I've done it too. When ya gotta go, ya gotta go! And it is disgusting that men, who take far less time to relieve themselves, often have more stalls/facilities than women. One of the venues where I often go to see concerts has actually changed several men's rooms to ladies' rooms. It used to be 50/50. Now, there are two ladies' rooms for every men's room. There are still lines, but not like in the past.

[onekidanddone]

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I've done it too. When ya gotta go, ya gotta go! And it is disgusting that men, who take far less time to relieve themselves, often have more stalls/facilities than women. One of the venues where I often go to see concerts has actually changed several men's rooms to ladies' rooms. It used to be 50/50. Now, there are two ladies' rooms for every men's room. There are still lines, but not like in the past.

Way back in the last century (1980s) I used to attend a lot of Womyn's music concerts Cris Williamson, Holey Near, Ferron and such.  The percentage of women to men was heavily skewed towards women and the lines for the woman's room were insane.  Nobody batted an eye when I walked right into the men's room.

[Destiny]

I will absolutely walk into the men’s if desperate. I have zero shame. If you gotta go you gotta go.

[onekidanddone]

2 minutes ago, Destiny said:

I will absolutely walk into the men’s if desperate. I have zero shame. If you gotta go you gotta go.

I require a few things in a bathroom. 

• Four walls around me
• A clean seat
• TP
• Soap and water to wash my hands.

That is pretty much it.  I'm not about to question other people about there gender or how they identify. That is just creepy and rude.

[AmazonGrace]

You are hereby ordered to send Ted Cruz money:

 

[onekidanddone]

2 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

You are hereby ordered to send Ted Cruz money:

 

Cruz and Cotton must be tied for the most hated Senators.

15 hours ago, onekidanddone said:

I require a few things in a bathroom. 

• Four walls around me
• A clean seat
• TP
• Soap and water to wash my hands.

That is pretty much it.  I'm not about to question other people about there their gender or how they identify. That is just creepy and rude.

Dear Santa

All I want for Xmas is to be able to type and spell. Oh and for you know who in an orange jump suite.

[fraurosena]

47 minutes ago, onekidanddone said:

All I want for Xmas is to be able to type and spell. Oh and for you know who in an orange jump suite.

Oh sweet Rufus, this gave made me a much needed laugh today. 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[AmazonGrace]

 A) while I'm sure some porn is vile when's the last time that anyone killed 10 kids armed with nude photos? 

B ) grocery store? has she heard of the internet?

[fraurosena]

6 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

 A) while I'm sure some porn is vile when's the last time that anyone killed 10 kids armed with nude photos? 

B ) grocery store? has she heard of the internet?

Ha, I posted this exact same tweet almost simultaneously in the Gun Violence thread! Like minds... 

[Cartmann99]

Trump is doing a rally for Blackburn tonight in Tennessee.

[CTRLZero]

20 minutes ago, Cartmann99 said:

Trump is doing a rally for Blackburn tonight in Tennessee.

When I was in Tennessee last month, I saw a political ad on television by Blackburn (or her clone* - maybe someone local can confirm).  Anyway, the ad contained geographic diagrams of brown dangerous illegal immigrants being transported from the Mexican border and dumped directly on Nashville.  Cue Blackburn/clone to chant, "Build that Wall, Build that Wall!"  She also said, "and I'll make sure you can keep your pistols!"   (Presumably to shoot the brown dangerous people?)  The whole thing was pretty offensive and shocking to me. 

*From a couple posts up, I think it may actually have been an ad by Diane Black (from Tennessee running for governor, clone).

[fraurosena]

2 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

Trump is doing a rally for Blackburn tonight in Tennessee.

That's great! We all know what a presiduncial endorsement means... 

[CTRLZero]

The King County (Seattle area) Prosecutor is running for re-election.  He has announced that after three terms as a Republican, he is now a Democrat.  The linked article explains more, but his reasoning is fascinating to me (bolded snipped from article and are his words):

"...voters and political groups want 'some sort of shorthand' to know your beliefs....Are you a Donald Trump supporter?  I clearly am not..."

In this particular race, he does not need to have a party affiliation listed, but since he has been running as a Republican for three terms, he switched to Democrat in "an act of political self-preservation."  (This quote an editorial comment.)  So...he is a moderate Republican running as a Democrat so as not to taint himself by association with Trump.  Huh.   I bet there are a few Republicans that wish they could put an asterisk by their names (*really, I'm not a Trump supporter!).  Interesting times.

Flip Flop - Republican to Democrat

 

 

[AmazonGrace]

Watch out for this pearl 

 

[fraurosena]

Yep, in this presiduncial era the dredges of society are coming out of the woodworks...

[GreyhoundFan]

"Beelzebub on the ballot: Nathan Larson and the scary guys running for Congress"

Spoiler

The worst elements in our country are out in the open. No Klan hoods needed.

If the sight of white supremacists and neo-Nazis marching with torches last summer in Charlottesville wasn’t enough for you, now we’ve got a bunch of these haters running for public office. One of the most deplorable is a guy from Charlottesville running for Congress in Virginia’s 10th district.

And his talking points are straight out of Beelzebub’s book of values. Nathan Larson, an independent who has been expelled from Virginia’s Libertarian Party, wants to make incest and pedophilia legal. He really says that.

And he joins a disturbing number of openly heinous candidates trying to get to Washington this year. They range from Holocaust denier Arthur Jones, described by his own Illinois Republican party members as a Nazi, to Wisconsin white supremacist Paul Nehlen, who was recently ousted from Twitter for racist cartoons about the recent royal wedding.

No, none of these guys are likely to win. And, thankfully, voters already said no thanks to two Senate candidates: shopping mall troll Roy Moore in Alabama and former coal baron/convict Don Blankenship in West Virginia. Blankenship, who did time in the slammer for his part in a deadly mining accident that killed 29 people, hasn’t gone away. He’s trying to run as a third-party candidate after losing in the Republican primary last month.

But even when they lose, these guys are scary. They are emboldened. Something is telling them that their values — an anathema to everything America stands for — somehow have a place in our great nation.

Let’s look at what Larson believes the good people of Virginia want.

In his campaign manifesto, Larson argues that “Physical discipline of wives shouldn’t even be a crime anyway.” He says O.J. Simpson killed his wife, and she deserved it, that singer Chris Brown “was able to avoid the inconvenience of having to kill Rhianna” by avoiding marriage. He thinks women should be classified as property, first of their father, then of their husband. He wants the Violence Against Women Act repealed and says “the most radical patriarchists will tend to favor letting men have sex with the little girls they own.”

Had enough yet?

Wait, there’s more. Larson also thinks the legal age to marry should be eliminated so more men have a better shot at marrying young virgins. And that “feminists are public enemy #1, more dangerous to the white race than MS-13, radical Islamist terror, and Kim Jong Un’s nuclear weapons program combined.”

Enough?

There’s a ton of Hitler worship.

O.K., enough. His campaign platform is so toxic, public wi-fi networks block it.

We can go on and on about how whack and frightening this 37-year-old semi-accountant is, and we can try to dismiss him as a lone wolf looney-tune who lives in his parents’ basement. But he’s not entirely alone.

Larson handed in 1,000 signatures supporting his candidacy, Maybe all of them hadn’t read up on his pedophilia beliefs, his court case in Colorado when he was denied all visitation with his young daughter. Maybe they didn’t know about his admission that he raped his late, ex-wife, or that he was locked up for threatening to kill President Obama.

Haters like him have been around forever. Remember when former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke ran for the Senate in Louisiana in 1990, then governor in 1991, then the presidency in 1992?

Larson’s nothing new. But what is new is that he feels safe airing these awful views, even in a progressive university town like Charlottesville, where the City Council is mostly female and the mayor is now a black woman

Larson feels perfectly comfortable campaigning for votes by peddling filth.

Of course, 2016 proved that anyone could be elected to any office. And ever since he was elected president, Donald Trump has been emitting a dog whistle to racists, bigots, misogynists and anti-Semites: the coast is clear to crawl out of from the shadows.

That’s the bad part of emboldened haters. But there is a good part. There always is.

Because this huge cultural shift that invites guys like Larson out of the basement, other non-traditional candidates are coming out, too.

An historic number of women – at least 575 — have signed up to run for the House, the Senate or governor in this year’s election. It is the highest number of women seeking higher office ever.

They are diverse in their backgrounds and accomplishments. Many are new to politics and say that Trump is absolutely one of the reasons they are running.

Topping off that impressive wave is Mikie Sherrill, a Navy helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor in Montclair, NJ, who is gunning for a seat in Washington.

She told Bergen Record columnist Charles Stile that she was “appalled” by the Trump agenda and his “attacks on women, minorities, Gold Star families, POWs and the Constitution.” That’s what made her run.

Emboldened, for sure. And ready to shove the deplorables back into their basements.

 

[Cartmann99]

Ted Cruz is up for reelection this year:

His Democratic challenger: