One Fucked Up Race

Aug 13

I’m jet-lagged like a motherfucker. Work took me to Guam and Japan for two weeks, so I’ve been wide awake since 2 a.m., waiting to see what fresh hell would pop up in my news feed to crush my hope for humanity today.

Nothing noteworthy… until 7:47 a.m. BAM! Just like magic, it popped up on my Yahoo top stories.

This article was about setting the clocks back! And no, it wasn’t the usual “fall back” daylight savings story bullshit—it was about literally (not sure that is a good use of literally, but we will stick with it) turning the clock back a hundred years. A call to end women’s suffrage. Yeah, you read that right. Roll the clock back 100-plus years.

And who’s pushing this misogynistic, right-wing, religious nonsense? None other than Ex-Fox News anchor and the White House’s favorite booze-soaked frat boy, Pete Hegseth. On a side note can you believe he is heading up the DOD, WTF?!!

Now, I’m no stranger to Southern Baptist bullshit. I grew up deep in the Bible Belt—square on the buckle to be exact. My father and uncle are Southern Baptist preachers, and I even graduated from a Baptist university: Gardner-Webb in North Carolina (great fucking school). But damn… promoting the idea that women shouldn’t have the right to vote? That’s a whole new level of stupidity.

And Pete —-bless your heart.  You are hiding behind your warped interpretation of the Bible while getting drunk and “allegedly” (because we don’t listen to women) beating your wives. Yeah, I’m starting to see a MAGA pattern here.

With my religious upbringing, I feel qualified to say this: the whole MAGA crowd is in the express lane to hell. Cherry-picking scripture to hang on to white male power isn’t Christian. Loving your neighbor, feeding the poor, and living like Christ seem to be just a little too “woke” for the American Christian.