Lying thru their effing teeth!
l3wis As I watched the referendum forum tonight I was flabbergasted by the sensational lies told by the opponents of abortion reform, rec MJ, work requirements, food tax and open primaries.
I tell people, if you have to LIE to defend your position, you have already lost the argument.
I have no idea how polling is on these measures, but I would really like to clarify some of the total bullsh!t coming from the opponents mouths, oh, and when pointed out, they took the Donald Trump playbook of double-downing on their lies, because they have nothing else.
• Abortion. The opponents keep saying you can have an abortion up until birth. Flat out lie. As the proponent of this measure said, “That is NOT an abortion, that is a delivery of a unviable fetus.” Exactly. This is a little personal for me. I have two close friends who delivered dead babies the first time they got pregnant. Not only are the emotional scars awful, that both of them still live with, they both understood that fetus needed to be removed so they didn’t become septic and died. I tell people often that abortion legalization is probably one of the greatest rights we have (had) in this country, which effects ALL of us.
• Rec MJ. Oh where to begin. I will just say watch Rhonda Milstead get herself in a bullsh!t tizzy over this, repeating lie, after lie and she would not back down. I have to give credit to Pat Lalley for leading the questions on this. The proponent, Matthew crushed it. I was surprised he wasn’t just out right laughing at the stats Rhonda was pulling from her ass. You have to wonder if she was stoned?
• Medicaid work requirements. I am opposed, as should everyone else, but the arguments of the proponents of this measure seemed like a parody of their position. I was audibly laughing at some of the anetedotes. We have a 2% unemployment rate in SD. Who the F’ck isn’t working?!? And as opponents of this measure pointed out, ‘People who are healthy are better workers.’ Do you think it sunk in on the other side?
• Food Tax elimination. Oh the fantastical web of lies the Retardtailors Association weaved tonight, like it would cost the state $656 million dollars in lost revenue and munis $51 Million in lost revenue. First off, the TardTailors are opposed because they like their customers paying taxes and not them, secondly, munis can still charge the tax, but it is a Catch 22. The state DOR collects all sales taxes and refunds munis. So why would the state DOR do this service to munis for free? They wouldn’t. So the $51 million in lost revenue is real, and over a quarter of that is Sioux Falls alone. As for the other number. Holy SHAT! The state doesn’t even collect that amount on total sales taxes each year and depends on the feds to supplement our budget by over 50% each year!!!!!! As the proponent of this measure said, Rickster the Griftster Weiland, oh crap, I can’t remember because he had so many zingers.
• Open primaries. I will say this, the parties are opposed because it will give more power to independent candidates. Don’t give them any latitude, the parties are destroying our political system in this country and it is time the largest voting block in this nation, indies, take back this country and tell the parties to GFTselves. As the proponent said, “Why are we letting 17% of the electorate decide our candidates in the general election?” Because the party bosses like it that way. I would like to thank Tom Daschle for converting me from Dem to Indy. His failed vote on the Iraq war told me that even the Dem party doesn’t understand diplomacy, or a lot of other things.
I helped elect mostly Republicans to the non-partisan Sioux Falls city council because they believed in that non-partisanship. Our parties now are lost, I have no clue what either stands for. They are ripping our country to shreds. While I think Donald Trump is a total loser, rapist, felon, liar and a complete racist he is right about one thing, our party system is bad. He of course wants to be a dictator, I just want America to be Great Again.
