1. STOP BLAMING BLACKS, you fucking pricks.
Blacks are only 6.2% of the California population. Considering the degree to which blacks in California are disenfranchised (primarily through being disproportionately locked up in California’s concentration camp prison system), THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY BLACKS WERE A LARGE ENOUGH PORTION OF THE ELECTORATE TO EITHER PASS OR NOT PASS PROP 8. Go read this by-the-numbers analysis, and then let’s move on to the next point:

2. What the FUCK is with going after blacks when way more Latinos and Asians voted for Prop 8? Hey, waita second, what the FUCK is with going after people of color when way more white people voted for Prop 8 than members of any of those groups? In other words, what the fuck is the point of racializing homophobia? White people started that shit. Prop 8 is the result of a problem with white people.

3. Do you want to get at the “common denominator” of homophobia and Prop 8? Then look at fucking religion. You may recall our post about Dealing with Christian Privilege - well, now’s the time to take a stand: Religious assholes no longer get a free pass to be shithead jackoff scumwads just because doing so is part of their pious little practice. Fundies, Mormons, Catholic fundies, the Jerry Falwell types - hey, guess what, THEY’RE THE PROBLEM. Instead of asking why so many black people are homophobic, let’s ask why so many white people are homophobic. Or, as Crooks and Liars put it:

Sorry, LDS and Catholic Churches, let me pull out my tiny violin for you. You have used the tenets of your faith to infringe upon my secular government to take away rights from people, and I’m supposed to feel bad that protests are targeting you?

Don’t take the bait. Bourgeois liberals seem to be in a contest to out-pacify, out-irrelevant, and out-do-nothing each other: “We’ll just stand reaaaaally still, see, and not say a word, and somehow this will magically teach the people who are hellbent on erasing the few civil liberties we have left that it’s really all about love.” Yeah, uh, y’know what? That didn’t work so great for eight fucking years of Bush and war, did it? Oh, and y’know what else? It’s too bad if your Catholic grandmother’s feelings are hurt for a couple days. THERE ARE PEOPLE BEING RELEGATED TO SECOND CLASS STATUS HERE. If you use a church to organize and fund a nation-wide campaign on a ballot initiative, guess what? You get called on it. And if that same church has a history of racism and abusing women and electrocuting gay kids, guess what? You’re really gonna get called on it. That’s not hate. That’s following the money and the volunteer hours.

The problem is really no different in black churches. Jesse Jackson - whoa, man - has some serious issues. But let’s not be stupid. Just as there are queer Mormons (now if that isn’t a shitty way to exist, I don’t know what is), there are queer blacks. Oooh, shocking. If you’re not an idiot, you already knew this, because teh gay, it is everywhere. Whatever the historical reasons for condemning gay love - oppression, criminalizing of sexuality in general - the single most powerful institution working to maintain homophobia today in America is the Christian church.

Let’s repeat that for the slow kids:

The single most powerful institution working to maintain homophobia today in America is the Christian church.

And we really don’t want to hear “some Christians are gay! Some Christians aren’t homophobic!” Yeah, uh, no shit. Go back and work on your Christian privilege right here. That’s not the issue. The problem is that so many Christians and non-fuckwitted types continue to give the hate campaigns a free pass to organize and teach homophobic bullshit in your own backyard just because it’s religion - ALL WITHOUT PAYING TAXES. It’s the state sanctioning religiously-motivated discrimination. Fuck that. I’m done allowing that. Aren’t you?

Links:
Affirmation.org: Gay and Lesbian Mormons

Mormons Stole Our Rights

Join the Impact: Nationwide Protests in All 50 States Saturday, Nov 15!

No on 8

Let us know about any more links we should put up.

Our President Barack Obama

Welcome to the new America, newly awakened from its horrible nightmare.

FUCK THE FUCKING FUCK OUT OF YOU DIPSHIT INBRED RACIST FUCKS! Sane Americans are taking back our country and we’re fucking pissed!

And damn, we wish we were in Grant Park right now.

THEN HOW YOU GONNA FIND OSAMA BIN LADEN?

Seriously. This is ridiculous. It’s time to admit she’s a big silly joke meant to put women in their place and move on. There really is no use defending her because you think it’s sexist to attack her. Uh, she probably can’t even find your state on a map. I’m pretty damn sure she can’t tell Iraq from Iran. McCain is looking stroke-ier all the time, and you want to keep patting this empty-headed snakehandler on the head for doing such a darn good job being successy and empowerful while getting what she wants? How mavericky!

No, folks, she’s fucking stupid, and that’s not nearly as cute as some of you seem to think it is.

P.S. TWO MORE DAYS. We’re counting on you to make this the last fucking time we have to hear the Idiot Bobblehead for a long, long time.

All you need to know: Colin Powell brilliantly sums up everything about this election and why he’s splitting with the GOP on this. The man speaks in full sentences. It’s so refreshing.

Also, finally: Believing in Islam isn’t actually a HEINOUS ANTI-AMERICAN CRIME, and if you think it is, you’re the one betraying America, asshole.

AND WATCH THIS:

It… uh… defies comment… uh… ohmyfuckingod. Who’s the guy in the mask? what’s with the ball rub? What? Whaa….?? What the fucking hell?

And now we’re going to go watch it 10 more times.

There is something so unbelievably adorable about the way Hayden Panettiere (of the dolphin-saving video) says “fuck.”

Awwwwwwwww! She is just so stinkin’ cute!

On a related note, but this one interactive, you must visit palinaspresident.com. See if you can find Katie Couric being waterboarded just outside the Oval Office. Yowch!

Okay, finally: RUDE PUNDIT, WHOEVER YOU ARE, WE LOVE YOU!

“You lost, man, you lost because all the shit you been shoveling into a giant pile has finally tipped over and covered you in turds. I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do. Right here, right now, I’m take out this skull. You see it? You know whose skull it is? It’s Ronald Reagan’s. And now I’m gonna take out my dick and fuck his skull, right in his eyehole where his lying-ass twinkling eyeballs used to be. Watch me fuck the Gipper’s skull, man, watch me turn it into my bony bitch. Damn, that was good fuckin’. And then, once I’m president, I’m gonna get Milton Friedman’s skull and fuck the shit out of that. And I’m gonna get William Rehnquist’s skull and fuck it. And then I’m gonna get William F. Buckley’s skull, even if it’s still got meat on it, and I’m gonna fuck it in the mouth. I’m gonna skull fuck all those people who turned this country into a bullshit version of what it was. Shit, I’m gonna fuck Dick Cheney’s skull while he’s still using it, maybe get Joe Biden to double team it with me, fuckin’ his skull until his poisoned fuckin’ heart explodes.

Thanks, man!

I mean, how much of this shit do we gotta post before the fuckwads will man up and admit it? Look, all you have to say is something like: “Yeah, okay, so really? We fucking hate black people, and that’s why we’re Republicans. We think McCain is going to forget how to tie his shoes before he does anything productive for the economy, but we’d rather have the good ‘ol drooler than an A-rab or a Negro.”

I mean seriously: who actually thinks the Republican “base” is made up of economists or policy experts? You want a civil war? Really? Think real fuckin’ hard about that one, paste-eater.

Okay, so we got this from Feministing, and in their quest to be pro-woman all the time, which is a respectable enough goal, they are none too happy with the totally fucking inevitable:

The box cover reads:

“Cross party lines with your own inflatable running mate!” The political love doll’s suggested uses include: “Blow her up and show her how you’re going to vote,” “Let her pound your gavel over and over,” and “It’s time some male interns caused a scandal in the Capitol.”

Feministing may not find this funny, but we think it’s hilarious. I mean, when you exploit yourself campaign as a hot sexist, what can you expect besides people acting totally sexist? That’s like campaigning as a hatemongering racist and then being surprised when your supporters are hatemongering racis– oh, right, shit.

(Actually, you should really go read Jesus’ General at that last link about hatemongering racist Republicans. It’s pretty awesome.)

This song just about sums up what I think about Ms. Palin.

After spending the last half hour of a thrilling Friday night scrubbing out the corner of the bathroom that is home to the cat box, I’m finding the idea of John McCain’s $273,000 worth of “household help” even more ludicrous. Do his house slaves wear gold-plated scrub gloves? Does he walk around in his bathrobe attended by a band of personal minstrels? Because you know that fucker ain’t paying more than $6 an hour to his friendly helpful “illegals.”

Wait, let’s do the math:

$6 x 40 hrs per week (what the hell, something like that) = $240
Let’s say 50 wks a year. Just for fun. 2 weeks “vacation” (probably isn’t paid, I mean, c’mon)
$240 x 50 = $12,000 a year. (Try living on THAT, McFuckers. Tax my a-hole.)
$273,000 / 12,000 = 22.75 FTE “household staff positions”

How many fucking people does John McCain need to wipe his ass? Nearly 23 full-time employees?

Shit, I’d scrub the neighbor’s cat box area down for $20. Not McCain’s, though. Should he even be allowed to have animals? I think not.