coffeeshakes:

Boom.

(Source: sandandglass)

Ron Paul signed off on racist 1990s newsletters, associates say

and now, for your completely predictable news of the day.

For those who are keeping score…

tropicanastasia:

Herman Cain on:

•  Libya: “President Obama supported the uprising, correct?” and after stumbling through a vague disapproval of the president’s approach he stopped and said he’d have to “go back and see” because ““I’ve got all this stuff twirling around in my head.”
• Islam: Cain wouldn’t feel “comfortable” appointing a Muslim person to his cabinet because they might try to “ease Sha’ria law” and Islam into legislature. He also believes that a majority of American Muslims are extremists.
• Marriage equality: Six days after saying it should be left to individual states, Cain stated that there should be a federal ban on gay marriage.
• Reproductive Rights: Cain said that Planned Parenthood is “Planned Genocide,” because their original mission was to “help kill black babies before they came into the world.” 

Not forgetting of course that after multiple women come forward with allegations of Cain sexually harassing them, his lawyer publicly threatened that women should “think twice” before coming forward again.

This is a joke right? No one could actually support this man.

tw for police brutality, violence, etc.

fauberrs:

If you watch one thing today, please let it be this. Between the hypocrisy of our public officials and the strength of the GW student, it had me in tears.

“extremely liberal” individual posts a “ron paul ‘12” status on facebook.

what’s wrong with ron paul?

shanexcore:

• He doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state.
• He believes abortion should be illegal.
• He doesn’t support the repeal of DoMA and didn’t support the repeal of DADT.
• He doesn’t support putting more money into inner-city schools, but does support vouchers for religious schools.
• He believes creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools.
• He doesn’t believe HIV causes AIDS.
• While he doesn’t support a federal ban on gay marriage, he also doesn’t support a federal law legalizing gay marriage. Some see this as a states’ rights issue, and this is how he frames it, but he does support other federal legalization movements (drugs, for example).
• His newsletter spouted horrible racist content for twenty years. He denies writing any of it, but if he allowed this content to go out under his name, he either approved it or was so ignorant of both the type of people he associates with and the type of content going under his name that he shouldn’t be trusted to run anything.
• He believes in reinstating the gold standard, which most economists believe was one of the major causes of several financial crises at the turn of the century, including the Great Depression.
• He believes in free market capitalism.
• He wants to get rid of Affirmative Action, which has been shown time and again to be ineffective and not good enough.

His stance on drugs and wars win him a lot of liberal fans, but only if they don’t look at literally anything else he stands for.

in short, pretty much everything.

(Source: steviemcfly)

gaywrites:

Where does your preferred presidential candidate stand on gay rights? This handy chart will tell you. Mad impressive. Source.

interesting, somewhat disheartening, but this made me look into fred karger. never thought i’d say it about a republican, but the guy appears to make sense on a lot of issues. not so much with israel, and i’m not really sold on lowering the voting age, but hey.

tyleroakley:

If you’re American or if you know any Americans, please watch this 3 minute video to make sure you KNOW what could happen if Michele Bachmann is elected president in 2012.