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Republican Watch: Virginia. These people are still insane.

You know how Republicans reaaaaalllly wanted to win the last Presidential Election? Remember how after they lost, everybody was all dang, I guess we are a lil too crazy, a lil too old, a lil too bigoted, a lil too GodThisNThat? Have you seen all the news clips touting a softer, more moderate Republican party that should be showing up any minute now?

Well. Not Today! Rachel Maddow ripped Virginia a new one last week because those batshit candidates are even worse than the ones that we all hated before.

Why are so many black men in prison?

One Quick Reason: Because black men are twelve times more likely than white men to be incarcerated for drug-related offenses.

Racist Apologist Rebuttal: Well, black people must use drugs more than white people.

Factual Response: Wrong. 49% of whites vs 43% of blacks over the age of 12 have used illegal drugs at some point.

Conclusion: The War on Drugs is really just another branch of our country’s much longer War on Black People.

Republicans don’t want your dirty brownpeople votes.

In the last presidential election, Mitt Romney got trounced because brown people wouldn’t vote for him. New strategy? Forget the coloreds! The Center for Immigration Studies says Republicans should just focus on convincing more white people to get out there and cast their ballots.

The problem is, the white people they want — whites without college degrees — really shouldn’t be voting for Republicans anyway.

So what if being gay is a choice?

I don’t talk about my sexuality a whole lot because it doesn’t really fit within the neat little boxes society has constructed to categorize what we like to do with our genitals. To people who are just being introduced to me, I am a gay man, I introduce myself as a gay man, and that’s really all you need to know unless we’re going to be doing it with each other in the future.

That said, I don’t know what it’s like to be exclusively gay or straight. Further, I personally can’t wrap my head around what it’s like to be even more body-specific and have only certain types that you’re attracted to within your already sectioned-off sexuality. I know most of my tendencies are toward scruffy boys, chunky boys, and/or furry boys, but I’ve been attracted to everything from curvy black women to very slight Asian men to queer transboys and everyone in between.

In that sense, for me, being gay is a choice. I choose to present myself as a gay man, partly to avoid discussions of who I like and why, because it makes more sense to me. I didn’t choose to be attracted to men but I do choose to be gay. And I’m a grown-ass man so I can do what I want.

Donald Trump is wasting money on a presidential bid again.

Real estate mogul Donald Trump has spent over $1 million exploring a potential presidential bid in 2016, the New York Post reports.

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“The electoral research was commissioned. We did not spend $1 million on this research for it just to sit on my bookshelf,” Trump’s special counsel Michael Cohen told the Post.

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He just spent a whole million dollars commissioning electoral research. So basically he spent a bunch of money for a bunch of people to tell him “you must be smoking. Get the hell on.”

Did you know unemployment benefits are taxed?

I didn’t. I found that out TODAY and I’m about one half-step from livid right now.

How is it that you have to pay a tax on benefits you receive because you have no money to support yourself, yet Congressmen are apologizing to Apple for the inconvenience of looking into their billions and billions of offshore holdings they have squirreled away to avoid paying all of their due taxes? I cannot be the only one who sees something wrong with that picture.

Repugntantblicans want to cut food stamps…even though the deficit is shrinking.

Want more proof that Republicans don’t give a damn about you unless your stock portfolio has more chapters than the King James Bible? The deficit is projected to shrink even more rapidly than originally proposed, yet Republicans want to restrict food assistance benefits even more.

Because clearly, cutting $20 billion from monies set aside to help feed people and keep them alive is so vital to reducing our $642 billion deficit that we should just say “the hell with those po’folks…we can lower the deficit by a whole 3% if we just let some of ‘em starve.”

Immigration bill won’t pass with gay additions.

Another day, another Republican denying my existence as an equal human being and fully-contributing member of society.

Sen. Lindsey Graham says he won’t support his own immigration bill if an amendment is tacked on giving same-sex couples the right to green cards, The Huffington Post reports.

“If the Judiciary Committee tries to redefine marriage in the immigration bill they will lose me and many others,” Graham tweeted Monday afternoon.

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It’s like 3 steps forward, 2 steps back with these assclowns. Republicans are determined to hold on to their bigotry for as long as possible.