I tried to make infused bourbon for Christmas presents. I stuffed peeled and sliced ginger root, four cinnamon sticks, and some honey in there a week ago, and all I can taste is the honey. My friends won’t care, we’ll probably kill the bottle Christmas night, but I had some my sister made and it was so much better…

Paul Ryan is actually calling for Rich White Women to have more babies. All other people do not count as Americans.

I agree: I’m a white woman liberal (63 years old) and I wouldn’t vote for Moore or any repug to save my life.

In Birmingham here, and you are correct to the best of my observations. What I don’t understand is why they think Doug Jones could magically remove all of the restrictions and conditions on abortion in Alabama. The voters simply won’t allow it, so what does it matter to these women what his personal opinion on…

This. I was about to type the following reply: “One word: abortion”.

My mom and sister (Wisconsin, not Alabama, but of course that’s so much the worse for Democrats) are exactly the same way and have been for at least 20 years now. Nothing matters except “the babies”, and really it’s just the lip service to anti-choice causes they want, they could give a shit about actual results,…

Word. Plus internal policing a la The Handmaid’s Tale is a very, very real thing. A great many white women would and do sell you down the river at the first opportunity if it means not rocking the boat, or maintaining their own status, or “advancing” in some perceived way. They will hold on to the meager dole they…

Exactly. Because if you actually care about reducing abortions, you do that through universal healthcare, comprehensive sex education, good access to contraceptives, decent wages, social supports that make it possible to raise children... all the things pro-choice Democrats support. Abortion rates go down under…

I was much younger then (19), and quite upset because I had never really disappointed my parents. I’m older now, and I know she’s a narcissist who says and does a lot of things for attention, so now I just roll my eyes and ignore it.

But that’s only when a man is feeling jealous! Any other time Ms Slutty McSlutterson should be forced to carry to term. Then the evangelical right can shame the child for the rest of it’s life by denying it adequate food, housing, education and work opportunities. 

The issue that democrats need to understand though - if they changed their platform and became the party of 100% prohibition no abortions for anyone - the republican purse strings would simply move the goalpost.

Ugh... Because a mass of tissue should have more rights than fully formed human beings. This will never compute in my brain. I have quite a few family members that fall lock step into that mindset, too. And they don’t even attend church regularly.

I think this is an interesting point, and it’s the *only* way I can logic Alabama’s support of Moore. To them, it was a choice between a child molester and a child murderer, and they chose what they perceived to be the lesser of two evils.

I grew up in Alabama, and I agree. Abortion being THE issue at the ballots was preached from my family and from the pulpit, and it took moving out of the state to reverse the brainwashing. It was framed as, if you voted for a pro-choice candidate you were the problem. Nothing is more important in Southern politics…

I’m pretty sure the white woman GOP voters in my family (Alabamans) vote 100% only based on abortion. They will never vote for someone who admits to being pro-choice. For real. That and they are stealth racists who don’t care about equality. It’s like beating your head against a wall to convince them anything other…

Better than being hooked on Fox and Friends but certainly not great, Joe Scarborough is a fucking tool.

He must be pretty awful as a person for a Wall Street IB to kick him out. Those douches are absolutely the worst.

It was the most emotionally grueling work imaginable. 14-16 hour days, 7 days a week dealing with thousands of traumatized, desperate people trying to care for their families and bury their dead while facing homelessness. I spent a fuckton of my FEMA pay on therapy after Katrina. 12 years out and I still get severe…

Moore will “bring a fleshlight of accountability to Washington, D.C.”