What??

I was going to make it my New Year 2017 resolution to try to speak without profanity. Then the election happened.

1. That smug look on Paul Ryan’s face, piece of shit.

You silly, conflicts of interest or ethical issues are only bad when the other guy does it. When it’s their own people, there’s a perfect reasonable explanation and to say otherwise is just being disloyal dontchaknow.

I like to think I have a well-developed and robust vocabulary, yet I find myself in a sub-verbal howl of rage and despair so fucking often of late. Today has made me roar in frustration and disappointment.

Didn’t involve a black person. Doesn’t count.

We have to get Bernie to sit down and shut up. His is not the kind of resistance we need now, we need clear-eyed strategists that spend their time actually advancing democratic electoral goals rather than preaching to the choir about how the rich are too rich.

I think it would help to have a candidate or prominent party member speaking candidly and honestly about the importance (and likelihood) of this happening.

Today I just feel like crying. As much as I know this is just the first step and it still had to go to the Senate where the road is fraught with perils....I just want to cry. The fight isn’t lost, but something was lost today. All I can hope is when the dust settles it turns out what was lost is a lot of those…

• The State Department promoted Ivanka Trump’s new book on Twitter, a likely violation of a federal rule. [Huffington Post]

I posted this is in the initial AHCA post, but there were 600+ comments so I’m sure it got lost. I just wanted to share my experience today in DC because it was so utterly sickening:

Nah, let’s advance technology enough that a man can carry a fetus to term. Like that 80s movie with Schwarzenegger, as any proper future should be. Any man with enough power to vote on reproductive rights can be forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy.

Full list of references or gtfo, my dude.

Nope. Show me your uterus or how many years you have been a certified OB/GYN, otherwise shut the fuck up.

Any man who speaks about it like this excretion needs to have his dick removed with a butter knife.

at least one romantic partner

Any man who speaks about abortion should STFU.

Any man who speaks about abortion should have to provide at least 5 referral letters from real women who he has spent more than 20 minutes with and at least one romantic partner. Also they need to be able to point out he essential parts of lady anatomy otherwise SHUT UP

Yeah, because guys never lie about respecting or caring about you, especially when sex is involved.

But if we don’t pretend that women can magically intuit if a man is a rapist or domestic abuser, we’d have to blame men for the crimes they commit instead of blaming women for the crimes committed against them. And we can’t have that.