The Confederate Flag

For reasons that should be obvious, the Confederate Flag induces varying negative responses within me from mild irritation to outrage to causing me to contemplate stabbing its supporter/wearer. It's maddening because even though these people say it's only about "southern pride" (which they never explain what that is when asked), you'll see this flag flying high at every Klan rally and ever white supremacist gathering.

According to pretty much every history text book anywhere, the South not only lost, but got their collective asses handed to them as well. But don't mention things like facts and logic to these folks; it's all about "pride", pride in being a loser. In most competitions, including history, the losers are never mentioned again; just the winners. Who knows? it could be just that only the winners get to write history or something, but whatever...

Exhibit A:



This is what denial can lead to...

Usually hillbillies, rednecks and racists in general, those who use the southern pride excuse vote Republican, a well-known enemy of blacks and other non-whites. Even though they're not racists and believe in God and the Constitution (all men are created equal and endowed with certain rights by their Creator), they view anybody non-white as inferior and as animals; again, forget about arguing logic and reason with them, despite the fact that as "animals", black as well as other non-white people should not be able to talk like white people can, and never mind the fact that typical southern whites don't have a command of the English language.

Exhibit B:



What those who support the rebel flag say it means...

Exhibit C:



What black people know it to really mean...

A while back, while being forced to drive to a gas station in McRacistTown (Beaverdam, VA), I saw a bumper sticker that said something to the effect of "I'll keep my guns and you can keep the CHANGE", an obvious shot at our first BLACK president. As you might expect, the mud encased truck that this hateful sticker was found on had a confederate flag on it as well as a camouflage paint job, big body lift, extra large tires and dual exhaust.

Exhibit D:



Yeah, the truck looked something like this...

I've long since given up listening to the southern pride's point of view, as I hate having the smell of lies and beer breath blown into my face. I don't listen to those who say Mr. President will take away their guns. It's in the Constitution (the right to bear arms); even if he had that much power, I don't think Barack Obama would change anything about it, since this country was founded on its principles. Damn! There's that damn pesky logic again!

Republican Supporters

Ok, now that the election is over, I feel it's about the right time for me to tell what was grinding (and still grinds) my gears about politics: Republican Supporters.

See, Republican supporters irritate me in a way no clusters of hemorrhoids ever could. The reason for this is because they don't bother to realize that Republicans:

• Cater to big oil and the rich only; 99% of the money in this country belongs to 1% of it's population. They feel that the rich should be tax-exempt, and that the middle and lower classes should have to foot the bill for whatever war they get the country into. Also, the kids of these people never go fight in a war; only poor and underprivileged people do. While they live it up, we as the poor and middle class starve.
• Feel the best way to improve military morale (and stop soldiers' constant bitching) is to praise the them in speeches, while at the same time slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.
• Believe that health care should be privatized so the poor can't afford medication needed to get over colds, injuries, or even to stay alive.
• Thinks that a rape victim living on welfare should be forced to care for a baby she didn't even want in the first place, and that America is the only real country on Earth. Republicans are typically the first ones to protest abortion rights, and the first one willing to take a life through capital punishment.

Exhibit A:



What Republicans do in their spare time

Typically, Republican supporters are Bible thumpers; they act like they've never committed a sin, and are very much afraid of minorities, gays, and especially change. Oops, I said the "C" word! The scary thing is that some of the dumbasses who choose the Republican way of thinking are of the middle class, like me and most likely you, and believe whatever a Republican politician tells them about Democratic and/or Independent candidates, even when evidence appears and disproves what they say. This is especially true in Jesusland, where they don't read, have 3 or less teeth and hate niggers (both regular and sand), Jews, and gays with a passion!

Exhibit B:



Republican religious leader, Pat Robertson, Bible thumper extraordinaire

Finally, there are people who will do anything that is the exact opposite of what they would do, if it didn't benefit blacks, Jews, Arabs and pretty anybody that they're against on the basis that these types of people scare them. They're called Republicans (or racists) and though they tend to be your resident KKK klansmen, they can also look like this

Exhibit C:



Don't be fooled; he's probably at least prejudiced against not only "dangerous" minorities, but poor people as well

As you can tell, being a minority in this country, I don't have a favorable view of Republicans. They haven't done anything for me since Abe Lincoln freed the slaves a hot minute ago. This one time, a girl I worked with told me I should vote Republican because of the tax cuts I would get if I became rich, because I was trying to become a songwriter at the time. Well, I'm still not rich and 4 years later, this country has become a crap hole. How did voting for Dubya work out for her, I wonder? Did she use that tax cut she got for the betterment of mankind or for herself?