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Wtf is wrong with these people?
Maybe they have a worm in their brain, mercury in their system, or possibly lead.
Just waiting to find out the bread has a new fungus in it
Rs: "Individual freedoms! No government overreach!"
Also Rs: "Let's track these motherfuckers so they can be punished."
Remember these are the people who say they need guns to stop the government from overreaching
we had this already.
It's called birth certificates.
Weren't Republicans crying about HIPAA (fixed spelling, thanks!) and shit earlier when asked if they got vaccinations? You guys actually care about sensitive patient health data or what's up?
*HIPAA
Rules for thee, not for me.
This is all about controlling the wimminz out there, most especially any of them with any notion of thinking they are going to be promiscuous and not have to deal with the consequences! Some of the biggest proponents of this, ironically, are other women. Because of something something "bible" and something something "babies".
As for vaccinations, that so-called "concern" was all about cons being able to do whatever the fuck they want, regardless of how much they are superspreaders, because fuck you is why, they can do whatever the hell they want, because "freedom".. Also, they had deep concern over what was being done to Ronald McDonald's chances of re-election, as well as "his" economic numbers.
Actually this is a great time to talk about HIPAA, but what isn’t a great time to talk about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
The important thing for Americans to know is this law says they can’t share your information without your express consent, and they have to give you your records in a timely manner when you ask for them.
So if you go to your doctor’s office and ask for all your records, including test results and scans, they have to provide them.
If they share your data without your consent (read those documents carefully who gets it), they have to start dancing to avoid jail time.
They learn their new script from the writers, and don’t bother with anything from the old one anymore.
In conservland, we employ double-think. HIPPA is good. HIPPA is bad. See? It's easy!
Watch, I'll do it again just so you have a good understanding of the technique. The Jews are ruining everything. Isreal can do no wrong. Bam!
But we can't get a database for firearms?
The US values its weapons over decency.
To steal a quote: America is the land of gun care and health control.
Her eyes are as cracked and broken as an Alabama highway.
The fuck is this Gillead neo-conservative insanity?
It's the wet dream so many of these sick fucks have been looking forward to ever since the start of this secular nation.
Call this a hot take, but I don't think we are a secular nation. We are de facto a Christian nation. This isn't a good thing.
If you look at the laws we have, from no selling alcohol on Sunday (the Lord's day), to anti-lgbtq legislation, to what our social conservatives draw upon for their arguments, it comes back to Christian fundamentalist politics.
If you are Muslim or Jewish, you are much more at risk of being the target of hate crimes than a Christian.
The separation of church and state is something we are still trying to do. Even Jimmy Carter, a deeply Christian man, pointed to Christian fundamentalism being the greatest threat to America.
"Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and give unto God what is God's" -Mark 12:17 why do I need to use the Bible to say why we shouldn't have to use the Bible
This country was founded a secular nation. All the xtians here keep trying to roll that back. Don't give them an inch. Keep reminding them that this country was founded as a secular one. Not one American is compelled to give special privileges to them or their little book club.
Hard disagree. Separation of church and state is right there. RIGHT THERE. in the constitution (I don't mean literally of course, but you can FEEL it in there). And if you don't believe me just ask any of the 46 consecutively Christian presidents we've had and they'll tell you the same. The fact that 100% of them are Christian is clearly a coincidence (with #47 baking in the oven). I could easily flip a coin 46 times and have it land heads up every time.
Eh, if you define Christian as believing Jesus was the only son of god and the Messiah, then Thomas Jefferson was not one. He did believe in a god and Jesus' teachings enough to have his own gospel put together, but did not believe in things like the resurrection. He thought the gospels as-given were full of garbage written by corrupted people.
Usually people call that deism, when you believe in a god, but think Jesus was just a dude.
Many of the "founding fathers"/early US leaders were deists. They were super skeptical of organized religion in any form, and most dismissed out of hand the superstition and social control associated with religion. The US revolution happened at the height of the Enlightenment.
i often wonder how many of them were just faking for the sake of the voters. I mean 100% a lot of them embellish it, anyone who actually thinks trump is that religious is either dumb or just in complete denial. If you could line all of them up with some truth serum and ask, i'd be really curious what you'd find. I wouldn't be surprised if we had an atheist president at some point.
Yeah, she wanna be Serena Joy really bad
What a cool idea! Now let's track guns.
Yeah. Hard no. I don't want Trump and his Brown Shirts knowing what I have. And for the non-gun owning libs, you don't want them knowing what you don't have.
(I honestly get the dig OP. Good one.)
License, Registration and Insurance. Just like a car.
Just what we've all been clamoring for..... MORE tracking by the federal government, in addition to the rapid increase of state power since 9/11
Can't you just smell all the LIBERTY and the FREEDOM, brother?
Since 9/11, the smell of authoritarianism has been growing stronger and stronger with each passing day
This..... [LOOKS DIRECTLY INTO CAMERA AND HOLDS FOR LONG PAUSE] is in-acceptable Mr. [BREATHFULLY] Presterdant [EYES WIDEN]!
[SMILES MENACINGLY, ALSO LOOKING LIKE SHE'S ABOUT TO CRY AND LAUGH AT THE SAME TIME]
What I want to know is what is she doing out of the kitchen and speaking in public.
That’s not freedom, stupid.
She's insane.
She's really crazy, like mouth frothing crazy. Watch her eyes when she speaks. It's blank in there.
She’s Mitch McConnell’s handpicked pet project. Expect career crazy from that one.
Is she the one who was doing that weird hyperventilating rebuttal to the state of the union address?
Yes. It took a while for the hysteria to end
She should have visited her doctor so he could administer a hysterical paroxysm.
I think this is a horrible idea but just because I know many of y'all only read the headline: the proposal is NOT for a "database" in the sense that the federal government is going to start directly keeping track of pregnancies. Rather, it's for a website where you can find motherhood-related information and a "database" of service providers. The "tracking" part is apparently that you can register on this website, and the gov reserves the right to then keep this (voluntarily surrendered) personal data to "reach out" to moms and "help" them.
Of course none of this would offer any info on abortion. Because this is coming from Alabama.
When it hits the other chamber, the left should tag on a requirement to have a national database of firearms, regardless of how they were obtained...if you own any firearm it must be registered. Make them shoot down their own bill.
Small Government!
Under his eye.