Gun Girl Ran Out of Athens
Bobcat students skipped class to drink beer and heckle a fascist who refuses to cut her hair.
The centrist presidential candidates clearly weren’t prepared to be losing to a 78-year-old Socialist Senator from Vermont at this stage in the game. As best as I can see it, their strategy involves complaining about “Bernie Bros” — never mind that more women than men support Sanders or that he’s the preferred candidate of non-white voters by a large margin — telling them to go fuck themselves because people are dying while they’re arguing about tax credits for healthcare.
And these centrist crybabies are going to defeat Donald Trump and his gas chamber meme army? Give me a fucking break. He would eat any of their brains for lunch.
The “break glass in case of emergency” candidate is a repulsively racist billionaire creep from New York City who spends half his time in Bermuda (No. 1 tax haven in the world) and was in Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous Black Book.
Oh, he also wants to cut Social Security and Medicare and hates farmers in a way that will lose him every rural state in America:
This man was donating to Republicans as recently as 2016. Any Democrat voting for this guy is either too uninformed to be allowed to vote or a wealthy liberal who would rather poor people keep dying from preventable diseases than have their taxes raised.
Both groups are equally worthless in our coming struggle.
Anyway, Ohio’s state government doesn’t want as many people as possible to vote, which is why there’s an arbitrary deadline enforced a month before the actual election when we could have automatic or even same-day registry.
As such, today is the last day you can register to vote in the March 17th primary. You can do it online and it takes less than five minutes. It also is worth checking to make sure are registered at your current address, though that’s less important than being registered in the first place.
Early voting begins Wednesday at 1700 Morse Road in Columbus or at your local Board of Elections. Please register. If you’re in Columbus, be sure to support Bernie Sanders and Morgan Harper for Congress because it’s time to elect leaders that genuinely care about improving the lives of the people they govern.
That we can’t even outlaw something as nefarious as surprise healthcare billing should tell you all you need to know about what kind of knife fight it’s going to take to eliminate greed from our bloated healthcare system. We need politicians with convictions who have the courage to swing the pendulum of power back towards the people and away from the monied interests that have profiteered on the blood of working people for over 40 years.
NAZI BE GONE
Living in America in 2020 is Hell on Earth, right down to the fact the phrase “Gun Girl” is stored in the flaming tatters of my mind to the point I can conjure her little girl hairstyle in the blink of an eye.
For those that are blessed enough to be unfamiliar, her name is Kaitlin Bennett and she made an entire career out of wearing an AR-15 to her graduation at Kent State.
How somebody as dumb as her could obtain a college degree should have sent federal investigators flocking to Kent State, but again we live in Hell so instead she got a job at Info Wars — the conspiracy website currently being sued into the ground by the families of Sandy Hook victims — where she basically rolls around the country and tries to “own the libs” by asking them if men’s bathrooms or whatever insane batshit thing to feed the thick-skulled dipshits that traffic that website.
Well, she picked the wrong university yesterday when she went down to Athens, Ohio. As a Bernie Bro, nothing warms my heart than the targeted harassment of cretins that align themselves with grifters like Alex Jones for a paycheck and internet clout.
I’m sure the “civility police” will be clucking about this or whatever. Fuck ‘em. There is nothing civil about being a racist who works for Info Wars. This girl made a career out of sticking her fingers in people’s faces, so it was only a matter of time before she got a dose of her own medicine. People like her don’t deserve to share public spaces with us. They should be beaten like a drum out of public life until they repent.
I’m sure her bank account assuages any pangs of conscience she may have, but man it would be depressing to be reviled by 80% of people within your age group. Almost as depressing as that time she shit herself at a frat part at Kent State.
HERE’S A LIST OF CORPORATIONS THAT WANT TO MAKE SURE REPUBLICANS CONTINUE RUNNING OHIO
There’s a disease coursing through the veins of the American political system, and it’s money. We live in a society where any random dipshit billionaire like Mike Bloomberg can now decide, on a whim, to spend multibillions of dollars on an ad blitz in attempt to purchase the presidency.
It’s true on the state level, too. And while candidates on both sides of the aisle solicit cash from big corporations, it’s the Republicans who have it down to an art given that they hate campaigning and their worldview calls for the solidification of Big Business and the boss being firmly entrenched over the employee.
Ohio Democrats’ best shot in a long time at having any say-so in this state will be later this year during the Supreme Court election, when Democrats have a chance to control the slate for the first time since something like 1967.
The sad part is corporations are lining up behind the Republicans to make sure that doesn’t happen. Because if it did, Democrats could challenge the gerrymandering that has our state perpetually gifted to the Republicans.
From Tyler Buchanan of ohiocapitaljournal.com:
The Republican State Leadership Committee brings in tens of millions of dollars per year in contributions. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political spending, RSLC raised well over $40 million in the 2018 election cycle. With so much on the line in 2020, a host of major corporations and right-leaning donors have donated to RSLC this cycle.
Koch Industries and interests connected to Las Vegas businessman Sheldon Adelson have been major donors to RSLC over the past decade, as have companies such as Amazon, Wal-Mart, Paypal, NASCAR, Coca-Cola, Monsanto and Raytheon.
In Ohio, top donors include Marathon Petroleum based in Findlay ($201,000 in 2019); Anthem based in Cincinnati (also $201,000); and AT&T Services ($50,000).
Others with an interest in having a friendly Ohio Supreme Court and Ohio Statehouse have also contributed money to RSLC over the years.
This includes FirstEnergy Corporation, which has donated $160,000 since 2006. FirstEnergy was involved in a legal dispute last year which led to the Ohio Supreme Court ruling that a charge FirstEnergy had imposed on customers was improper. The Court later ruled 6-1 against a motion to reconsider, with one Republican justice dissenting. That was Sharon Kennedy, whose reelection effort will be bolstered by the RSLC’s Judicial Fairness Initiative.
Fucking NASCAR! Are you kidding me? The rest of these names make sense, but NASCAR? I’m truly perplexed why NASCAR, as an organization, would say “we need to break some of our bread off for the ghouls in Ohio who want to imprison abortion doctors.”
I live two blocks from a bar called The Patio, which looks exactly like you would think a bar in the Bottoms without a patio called The Patio would look like. There are numerous gambling pools there, and one is a NASCAR pool where you pay $6 a week, get a random driver, and then get paid out between $200 to $50 if that driver finishes anywhere from first to third. They do it every week throughout the season, with two parties in between that you can attend and basically drink for free.
I played this week because I thought fuck it, I could use another reason to cloak my substance abuse issues in the guise of sporting events. Plus the Daytona 500 has always held a special place in my heart for that one week I spent in Daytona on Spring Break in 2008.
But between having to watch Donald Trump’s bloated ass get carted around the course to feed his ego and NASCAR explicitly donating to Ohio Republican leadership, I’m done with NASCAR all together. It was fun while it lasted.
STATE NOT TRACKING UNINSURED DRIVERS
Ohio requires drivers to have insurance. But like a lot of things in America in 2020, insurance is wildly overpriced and will ratfuck you at every turn in order not to pay what they owe.
As such, many drivers simply go without insurance. Which is fine until they get into a wreck and stick working people with a bill.
From Kayla Courvell of whio.com:
Ohio law only requires that a citation include insurance verification. That’s not the same as tracking uninsured drivers.
Drivers are not immediately cited if they do not have proof of insurance.
That’s supposed to happen eventually at a local court house.
When the I-Team asked the Bureau of Motor Vehicles if they tracked that information, they said a new law prevented it.
Before t e law changed, as a precaution, the BMV required Ohio drivers to prove they had insurance.
As a result, in 2018, 43,000 Ohio drivers had their licenses suspended.
But as of last summer, the new law stopped that.
The insurance Information Institute estimates there are currently 950,000 uninsured Ohio drivers.
News Center 7’s own tracking of cars crashing into buildings showed there were more than 100 last year.
But because of the lack of insurance tracking, there is no way to tell which drivers were uninsured.
950,000 uninsured drivers is probably low. Either way, it’s insane to think about how many uninsured drivers are inevitably next to you on the highway driving at high speeds and texting their significant others about how they’re tired of eating lasagna and want to do something different tonight.
You gotta hand it to car culture, though. It completely indoctrinated us into thinking this house of horrors is entirely normal and good for our economy. All I ask is that if an uninsured driver hits me today (god willing), please make sure to kill my pathetic existence. Because I swear if I wake up in a hospital paralyzed with a $50,000 bill over my head then I will haunt you for the rest of their life.
DON’T MESS WITH THE PITS
I have seen pit bulls in kill mode, and it’s something that I would only which upon my worst enemies.
So yeah, if you’re a woman and your abusive ex-boyfriend comes over and pulls a knife on you, you really couldn’t ask for better guardians than pit bulls.
From wreg.com:
According to police, the victim’s ex-boyfriend, 58-year-old Lonnie Hollingsworth, was outside her home retrieving some of his property. The woman said she allowed Hollingsworth to come inside at one point.
She told police they hung out for a while, but then an argument started. Police said Hollingsworth then held the woman at knifepoint and demanded money.
The victim’s dogs, described as pit bulls, then began attacking Hollingsworth. Police say Hollingsworth stabbed the dogs. The dogs retreated to another room while the woman handed Hollingsworth some cash.
Police said the dogs then returned and Hollingsworth started hitting them with a pot, giving their owner time to escape. She suffered minor injuries, according to police.
I hope those dogs are alright! I love my cats but I have a feeling they would just watch if somebody pulled a knife on me.
BOBCATS BACK
Speaking of cats, we’ll end today with some positive news for once: The majestic bobcat is back on the prowl, baby!
From wlwt.com:
CINCINNATI —
Once extirpated from the state, bobcats are making a comeback in Ohio. They're showing up in record numbers.
Bobcats are native to Ohio, and one of seven wild cat species in North America, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Prior to settlement, bobcats were common throughout the state. But as swamps and lowlands were drained and forests cleared to make way for settlements and cropland, the bobcat population declined.
By 1850, bobcats were all but gone, considered extirpated from the state.
From 1850 through the 1960s, there were only occasional reports of bobcats, mainly in eastern Ohio.
But the mid-1900s saw a rebirth of the species in Ohio, and recent sightings maps from the ODNR show that the wild cats are being spotted more widespread across the state in record numbers.
There’s only one way this saga ends: With me adopting a Bobcat kitten and raising it among my fur family as one of our own.
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