This is how "effed" up my once great state of Ohio is
For the first time in my 60+ years in this earth, I am going to root for the Michigan Wolverines to roll into Columbus and beat the ever-loving piss out of the Buckeyes.
Ohio is a red hellscape because of three things, and three things only - racism, hatred and misogyny. I'm looking at you, my own brother...my brother-in-law, my sister-in-law, my nephews and nieces. I've seen it and heard it at family get togethers from holidays to funerals.
It's NOT "economic anxiety". You'd be hard-pressed to find a state that has benefited more economically from Democratic policies than Ohio. For example, thousands of job just announced from a new factory outside Columbus is due the Joe Biden's CHIP Act. A bill that 95% of Retrumplicans opposed.
My own brother, who recently died twice in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, had his life saved by doctors and nurses in the ER, but his financial security was saved because Ohio expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. That's right! The very bill that President Obama and Speaker Pelosi knew would cost them 60 House seats helped save my brother from homelessness and financial ruin. He acknowledged that help from Democrats by kissing Donnie Dipshits and JD Vance's ass.
And the misogyny? Well, I know Ohio and it is a lot like my family. There are a lot of Dipshits in Ohio that still view women with a 1950s or 1850s view towards their role in society. Now, Ohio is not alone in that, but there are a shit ton of testosterone, mullet-headed Neanderthals who will profess their respect for women in public, but privately want women to be subservient to them.
I know one women in my own Ohio extended family that made the choice to end her pregnancy when she was younger, stupid, in college with her whole life in front of her. She now not only votes for, but actively works to elect politicians that want to require 10 year old victims of rape to carry their rapists baby to term. That's NOT "economic anxiety", that's "Fuck you- I got mine"
The worst people in the world are those that can only make themselves look good by making other people look bad. They can only justify their values by attacking the values of others.
You can't reach these people. They have to hit rock bottom before they seem the light, and in the case of my brother, even rock bottom is not enough.
That's why I say; "Fuck all things Ohio until they get their shit in one sock"
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Won the Toledo War. You guys got Toledo…we got the Upper Peninsula. Can always use more Wolverine fans.
At least we could do a little good sending Chabot to the retirement home but personally, I’d even go as far as saying I’d vote for Chabot if it would guarantee Vance wouldn’t get a senate seat.
But one thing I noticed as I scanned the local news here last night - almost every smarmy GOP winner had at least half the crowd behind him composed of women who were all smiles and clapping away, too.
I guess these women don’t care about the future of their daughters, sisters, granddaughters … they will not have the same rights to human dignity that these brainwashed women have enjoyed for the last 50 years. It makes me very sad to think they put Trump and love of money and white privilege ahead of their daughters’ human rights.
