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Here are some tips on how to further use your voices about the election results and hopefully make a change.
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It’s time for fundamental reforms that help every family in America afford higher education.
Tune in Thursday when President Obama lays out his plan to make college more affordable. Learn more.
Here's a start--how about the states stop cutting back their financial support of public universities?
The cost of a college education hasn't drastically outpaced inflation, the fraction of that cost that the student is expected to fund has drastically increased over time.
Because public institutions are being asked to provide the same (or better) services, with less public support.
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BREAKING: Obama to nominate Sen. John Kerry as secretary of state
President Obama plans to nominate Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts as secretary of state, a senior administration official says. The decision by Obama is expected to be announced early Friday afternoon, The New York Times reports.
The appointment of Mr. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat and his party’s former presidential nominee in 2004, has been widely expected since last week, when Susan E. Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, asked Mr. Obama to withdraw her candidacy for the post.
Photo: Sen. John Kerry waves at the end of his speech during the final session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 6, 2012. (Jason Reed / Reuters)
But I was so enjoying no longer seeing Scott Brown campaign ads on my tv.
(I don't think that's actually supposed to be my reaction...whoops)
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Does anyone else see the irony in the elephant being the symbol of the Republican Party?
Elephants live in matriarchal groups where males are excluded except to breed. They’re herbivores and are known to be highly empathetic to other elephants as well as their dead; if one elephant in the group is in trouble, all the other elephants will pitch in to help it out. They also practice collective raising of the young, with young elephants being tended to by all members of the herd.
You guys, elephants are socialist vegan feminists who support public education.
It’s also worth mentioning that most elephants are bisexual.
I think my brain just exploded from the awesomeness of this post.
penroseparticle speaks the truth.
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Authored by you: Find your precinct. Report any issues. See where we’re tracking problems throughout the day. Because it’s your right, people.
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#you’re the literal best
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The so-called “pro-life” movement’s philosophy.
one-angry-liberal
One of the best political cartoons that I’ve seen.
You know what pisses me off about this? Really, REALLY pisses me off? That’s George (H.W.) Bush holding that umbrella. He was president 1981-1989. Do you get that?
It means that the right have not budged an inch on their ridiculous pro-foetus, anti-actual-persons position in THIRTY GODDAMN YEARS. We should not still be having this argument! Thirty year old political cartoons should be bafflingly opaque, not crystal clear!
^ Reblogging again for that comment.
Agreed.
the 80’s called, they want their repro rights attitudes back… jeez, this is why we need more women in government — House, Senate, everywhere. If 51% of the people who make the decisions were women, I highly doubt this would even be much of a discussion.
George HW Bush was president from 1988 - 1992 and was Reagan’s VP from 1980 - 1988. What gall’s me about this cartoon is that prior to 1980 and becoming Reagan’s VP he was actually pro-choice. He changed his stance to appeal to right wing conservatives who had the money and power in the Republican party. So basically Bush Sr. sold out millions of women so he could be president.
Reblogging for the correction, and also for historical context. (Sorry I didn’t notice the inaccurate dates on this the first time, guys, but I love the hell out of all of you who corrected me)
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Five Minutes.
From the moment Mitt Romney uttered the phrase, “If you’re going to have women in the workforce” in last night’s debate, I’ve barely been able to keep my anger contained, and I couldn’t figure out why it’s bothering me this much. Romney’s been around for a while; I’ve followed him through multiple bids for the presidency. His oily, obtuse waffling is not a new thing.
For reference, the statement I’m taking issue with is as follows:
“I recognized that if you’re going to have women in the workforce that sometimes you need to be more flexible…What we can do to help young women and women of all ages is to have a strong economy, so strong that employers that are looking to find good employees and bringing them into their workforce and adapting to a flexible work schedule that gives women opportunities that they would otherwise not be able to afford.” - Mitt Romney (x)
In five minutes and with a few simple Google searches, I was able to pull up studies and articles - all recent, from this summer - that provided statistics on the matter of women in the workplace vs. the home.
“Prudential’s study surveyed more than 1,400 women and discovered that 53% are primary bread winners. The study, in its twelfth year, expanded its reach this year to allow greater representation from diverse racial and economic backgrounds. Of the women surveyed, 40% are single or living alone, and thus solely responsible for their own and their family’s finances. Add the 22% of women who are married or living with a partner who make more than their partner, and you have the a majority of women as breadwinners.” (x)
“In the last decade, though, the number of men who have left the work force entirely to raise children has more than doubled, to 176,000, according to recent United States census data. Expanding that to include men who maintain freelance or part-time jobs but serve as the primary caretaker of children under 15 while their wife works, the number is around 626,000, according to calculations the census bureau compiled for this article.” (x)
I’ve been talking about it on my fandom blog, getting into arguments and picking apart arguments, but nothing has lessened my frustration, and I just figured out why.
It took me five minutes. While I’m at work doing something else. Five minutes and I have an objective view of the evolution of traditional gender roles and how they’re shaping the economic landscape of the US.
There are a lot of things he could have said. He could’ve acknowledged the wage gap, for one. He could’ve pointed to traditional gender roles and the business world’s need to eschew them. He could’ve said that businesses need to react to the changing landscape of the workforce by making it easier for parents to have flexible schedules - to offer those “opportunities” to men as well as women in the face of shared family responsibilities.
But he didn’t.
Romney singled out women. Insinuated that they are, and will remain, the expected caretakers, and therefore they are the ones who businesses have to accommodate. He all but implied that women should just feel lucky to have a job given the inconvenience they impose, both on their workplaces and on their husbands when dinner and a martini aren’t waiting on the table (ya know, when he gets home from his real job).
This shows a complete lack of education about the state of the country. The country he is trying to get elected President of. Romney lives in a world where women are always barefoot and pregnant, selling off stock for income is roughing it, and people making $200,000 are the middle class.
There are many reasons I don’t want Mitt Romney to get elected President of the United States of America. But the fact that he doesn’t know and isn’t interested in learning the basic facts of the country is the biggest.
It took me five minutes.
Does Mitt Romney not have five minutes?
Or does he just not care?
#yup#my mom is definitely the primary breadwinner and has worked full time my whole life#my dad worked half time for most of the time i was in elementary school to be home with me in the afternoons#good to know there are a whole slew of reasons why i don't exist to him#sigh#politics#romney#debates 2012#sexism
Women exist!!
KJFLSIDFJSILH BLECHHH
...Does Romney look more like a plastic doll than usual tonight, or is that just me?
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i have this hope that during the vp debate papa biden is just going to chinhands and laugh hysterically every time ryan opens his mouth.
deadrobbstark
IT’S HAPPENING IT’S ACTUALLY HAPPENING
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Paul Ryan looks like Mr. Schuester from Glee.
oh my god some of his facial expressions are the same and everything.
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The thing about not having much money is you have to take much more responsibility for your life. You can’t pay people to watch your kids or clean your house or fix your meals. You can’t necessarily afford a car or a washing machine or a home in a good school district. That’s what money buys you: goods and services that make your life easier. That’s what money has bought Romney, too. He’s a guy who sold his dad’s stock to pay for college, who built an elevator to ensure easier access to his multiple cars and who was able to support his wife’s decision to be a stay-at-home mom. That’s great! That’s the dream. The problem is that he doesn’t seem to realize how difficult it is to focus on college when you’re also working full time, how much planning it takes to reliably commute to work without a car, or the agonizing choices faced by families in which both parents work and a child falls ill. The working poor haven’t abdicated responsibility for their lives. They’re drowning in it.
Ezra Klein (via azspot)
It’s the line about ‘responsibility’… guys like Romney have no idea how many responsibilities they avoid by throwing money at problems. They just don’t.
(via 14kgoldnyc)
Source: bloomberg.com
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I love these.
Fuck you, Mitt.
This post is wonderful.
pedoshaming
THE FUCKING BABY ONE THO OMFG
oddwritesstuff
Best. Meme. EVER.
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or a republican
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omg