Birth Control

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“Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding” – “Flagpole Sitta” by Harvey Danger.

Tyler Boebert, who you may remember from the Boebert gun fetish Christmas card a couple years back, has knocked up his 16-year-old girlfriend, which is only a couple years older than the girls his father flashes his penis to in bowling alleys.

Lauren Boebert, who has three other sons waiting in the wings to knock up teen girls, should have spent less time posing her sons for ammo Christmas cards and more time teaching them how to put condoms on bananas. But Lauren is giddy about being a grandmother at 36 and is using her incoming grandchild to promote rural teen birth rates.

She’s excited that there is a high birth rate among teens in rural areas than in urban areas. Sexually transmitted diseases are also higher in rural areas than in urban.

Boebert made the announcement at CPAC, saying, “There’s something special about rural conservative communities. They value life. If you look at teen pregnancy rates throughout the nation, well, they’re the same, [in] rural and urban areas. However, abortion rates are higher in urban areas. Teen moms’ rates are higher in rural conservative areas because they understand the preciousness of a life that it’s about to be born.”

Yeah, sure. They also lack access to not just birth control but sex education. Boebert isn’t just anti-abortion but also opposes educating kids on sex. When you fail to provide sex ed, the chances increase of your son knocking up his 16-year-old girlfriend. Boebert said at another CPAC event that comprehensive sex ed shouldn’t be taught to “any student in a public school.” Naturally, Boebert is in favor of abstinence education but as her own kid proves, that doesn’t work.

Of course, there are smart people in rural areas, but people in cities tend to be better educated and informed than those in the country. Case in point: Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the governor of Arkansas.

Sanders is also rolling back child labor laws in her state, eliminating requirements for the state to verify the age of children younger than 16 before they can take a job. At what point will Republicans reinstate slave labor and indentured servitude? Meanwhile, Republicans in multiple states are taking time away from accusing Democrats of being pedophiles and groomers to lower age requirements for marriage.

The only good thing that can come from putting underage kids to work in meat-packing plants is that they’ll be too busy to be exposed to a Boebert penis.

Music Note: I listened to Paula Cole.

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Fearmongering or Fair Warning?

Republicans don’t want to talk about gay marriage, interracial marriage, birth control, or free and fair elections right now. Why it’s like last year when they didn’t want to talk about abortion.

Last year during Virginia’s gubernatorial race, the goon, er…Republican candidate, Glenn Youngkin, didn’t want to talk about abortion and the Democratic candidate, Terry McAuliffe, did a shitty job of nailing him to the wall. Instead of talking about stuff like abortion, Youngkin talked about Critical Race Theory and claimed Democrats were sending the FBI after parents who didn’t want public school teachers to indoctrinate their children into becoming gays and trans.

Candidate Glenn Youngkin didn’t want to issue any comments on abortion but Governor Glenn Youngkin says he’ll sign any bill that arrives on his desk that limits, restricts, or bans abortion in Virginia. The moral of the story is, you gotta pin these fuckers down on the important issues.

For years, while they were trying to restrict and ban abortion right before our eyes, Republicans said Democrat warnings that they’d overturn Roe v. Wade were just fearmongering. Naturally, Republicans were projecting because they fearmonger all the time that Democrats are coming to take your guns.

Democratic and Independent voters need to start paying attention, not just to what Democrats warn but to what Republicans say. We need to pay attention to their dog whistles and to their winks and nods over what they’ll ban. We also need to pay attention to what they don’t say. We need to pay attention because it was from Republicans seizing power that Roe v. Wade was overturned.

This is not fearmongering. Republicans are coming to ban gay marriage. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has publicly asked yee-haw states to send the court a case on gay marriage. Remember, their ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade wasn’t on a case trying to ban abortion, just restrict it. They took that and ran with it. Republican Senator Ted Cruz has stated that the Supreme Court got it wrong in legalizing gay marriage.

Where do they get this shit that the government should restrict marriage to being only between men and women? Their religion? Once again, they’re crafting legislation based on their religious beliefs.

Republicans are also coming to ban birth control and remove any freedom women have left with their bodies.

They’re probably coming to ban interracial marriage as well. If they think the Supreme Court got it wrong with gay marriage, then why believe they got it correct with mixed marriages? Goodbye, marriage equality.

And yes, they’re coming to ban free and fair elections. They’re already doing this in red states but they’re describing laws that make it harder for black Americans to vote as “election integrity.” Election deniers claiming Trump won are winning elections in several yee-haw states. These states are giving power to Republican legislatures to overrule local election boards if they don’t like the voters’ preference. So, just in case too many black voters get through a Democrat wins, the GOP legislature can overrule that vote. In addition, Donald Trump is planning to run for president again and if he wins, is promising to install loyalists and cultists into every government position. The Justice Department will be made up entirely of Trump goons who will not protect voting rights. We’ll also have four more years of Trump judges, and after the way Trump lost every challenge to the 2020 election, his next four years of appointees will be even goonier.

Democrats and Independents are horrible at paying attention. The majority of Americans believe in abortion rights, marriage, equality, and free and fair elections yet, each of those rights are being threatened. They’re being threatened because we’ve allowed the goons to get too close to taking away our rights. The goons are winning. Even when fewer people vote for them, they win. They cheat. Now, despite losing the popular vote for the White House, Congress, and Senate, Republicans installed a fundamentalist Supreme Court and our rights are being taken away.

Also, pay attention to the fact that Republicans lie. Remember when they said abortion should be decided by the states? If they retake Congress, I predict one of their first acts will be to ban abortion on the federal level. What else will they ban? Maybe they’ll ban cartoons and blogs warning you about what they’ll ban.

We need to start paying attention.

Music note: I listened to Verbena and Metallica.

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Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire: There are 19 copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first book from 1997, Knee-Deep in Mississippi available for $20.00.

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Tiny Grabber

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It might sound crazy, but I believe fewer unplanned pregnancies would lead to fewer abortions. The people who do not share this belief are Republicans and other assorted right-wing religious zealots.

You would think the people who detest a woman’s right to choose would participate and promote programs that provided birth control. Instead, they cling to dogma that cuts off their nose to spite their face.

Hobby Lobby uses religion to deny birth control coverage to their employees. Now, Donald Trump has reversed the mandate in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) that says employers must provide this coverage. Now, your employer can take away your birth control coverage without citing religion as their excuse. They can do it just to be jerks.

Trump used to support a woman’s right to choose, and then he got involved in Republican politics and discovered he had to patronize lunatics. He probably doesn’t have any strong opinions on the matter and is just using this issue to curry favor with right-wing Republicans.

Congress is also appealing to the zealots. Last Tuesday, they passed a bill that will surely die in the Senate, but it plays to the fanatics. This proposed law would ban abortions of fetuses that have passed 20 weeks of gestation. It won’t become law, but it’ll help the GOP raise money from anti-abortion groups.

Representative Tim Murphy was one of the bill’s sponsors. On the same day of the vote, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published texts he sent encouraging his mistress to get an abortion when she had a pregnancy scare. He is now resigning in disgrace. Unfortunately, he’s not taking the rest of the GOP hypocrites with him.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, “The president believes that the freedom to practice one’s faith is a fundamental right in this country . . . This is a president who supports the First Amendment, supports the freedom of religion — I don’t understand why that should be an issue.” Sure, Mango Mussolini believes in religious freedom, but why should your crackpot beliefs dictate someone else’s choices with birth control?

Birth control is healthcare, and that’s something Republicans don’t understand. More women voted for Trump than Hillary Clinton. How they couldn’t foresee these types of actions by Trump and the GOP is beyond me. Hopefully, they’ll remember this in 2018 and 2020. Voting for Republicans is bad for your healthcare.

What goes on in a woman’s uterus should not be her boss’s, her representative’s, or her moronic president’s business.

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A Costa Rican Morning After

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This is last week’s cartoon for The Costa Rican Star. I have since drawn another, which was published on Friday. You’ll see that one here next week. Until then, go visit the Star’s site.

Health authorities are talking about allowing the Morning-After Pill to be used in Costa Rica. Say what now? Currently, you can’t get the pill in that nation?

Heads up, vacationers. Leave your smart phone at home as I don’t care to see your vacation slides all over Facebook, and take birth control with you. We all know you’re going to be doing more than sight seeing sloths and toucans.

If you go to a pharmacy in the nation for birth control, you will be denied and may get a snotty lecture that’s not going to be helpful in any way toward your situation. You can buy birth control pills on the black market, but how are you to know it’s actually what they claim it is, and not a Flinstones? Psst. If it’s pink and in the shape of Bam-Bam, you’re gonna have your own little Pebbles.

They do allow condoms to be sold in Costa Rica, but I’ve been told that you will want to bring your own. You don’t go cheap with condoms, and you may not find the kind you want in Costa Rica. Again, Bam-Bam.

While birth control for women is illegal, it’s a good thing they do allow condoms because prostitution is legal. How does that make any sense? They defend themselves as being a Catholic country, so their morals don’t allow YOU to practice safe sex…but their morals do allow you to sell your ass and be victimized by a sex industry.

Costa Rica is leading the world in environmental initiatives, if you don’t look at their rivers. They can at least catch up to the present-day world when it comes to sex.

I want to thank everyone who has donated in the past. Your support helps me continue creating cartoons and columns with a little less stress in my life. Between competing syndicates with much larger resources, timid editors, and Trump supporters who attempt to intimidate the editors who do publish anything that criticizes their idol, it’s a challenge to make a career out of this. So your support (if you can) is appreciated. Want to help me continue to create cartoons and keep doing what I’m doing (pissing off conservatives)? Look to the right of this page and make a donation through PayPal. Every $40 donation will receive a signed print. All donations will receive my eternal gratitude.