{"id":4414,"date":"2022-10-30T17:15:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T22:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:55:59","slug":"top-10-reasons-to-vote-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=4414","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Reasons to Vote Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 8th is just around the corner.\u00a0 Maybe you&#8217;re struggling with deciding how to vote.\u00a0 Lucky you- I&#8217;m here to help!<\/p>\n<p>Here are a list of reasons to vote Republican:<\/p>\n<p>#1 You hate minorities.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t say it out load (usually) but you suspect anyone with a skin tone darker than Sherwin Williams color 7036 (Accessible Beige) is an illegal, a criminal and\/ or a terrorist.\u00a0 You find programs like Affirmative Action distasteful and would rather die than have a family member date outside your race.<\/p>\n<p>#2 You hate the LGBT+ community.\u00a0 \u00a0You see no probably with people losing their jobs or homes because they aren&#8217;t straight.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t think trans people exist, or if they do they are just mental ill attention seekers.<\/p>\n<p>#3 You hate women.\u00a0 If a woman is dumb\/ slutty enough to get herself pregnant she deserves whatever she gets.\u00a0 She&#8217;s\u00a0 11 years old?\u00a0 She knew what she was doing.\u00a0 Ectopic pregnancy with 0% change of viability?\u00a0 She shouldn&#8217;t get any special treatment just be because she&#8217;ll die if she can&#8217;t get an abortion.\u00a0 She should have kept her legs closed.\u00a0 And equal pay for equal work?\u00a0 Nope, nope, nope.\u00a0 That&#8217;s crazy talk.<\/p>\n<p>#4 You love hypocrisy.\u00a0 You applauded when Roe V. Wade was overturned because you said it was a state issue, but now you think a national abortion ban is just fine.\u00a0 You scream bloody murder when a Democrat president increases the deficit but say nothing when a Republican president does.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t care if your Senator has affairs or has sex with goats or snorts crack every day as long as he\/ she votes the way you want him\/ her to.<\/p>\n<p>#5 You&#8217;re lazy.\u00a0 Your dad was a Republican, your grandfather was a Republican, so you are too.\u00a0 You do zero research on any candidate or any issue.\u00a0 If they have an R by their name, that&#8217;s good enough for you.<\/p>\n<p>#6 You still have a grudge against Hillary Clinton and\/ or you still believe any part of the Qanon fallacy.<\/p>\n<p>#7 You don&#8217;t want the REAL American history taught or remembered.\u00a0 Our kids don&#8217;t need to know the Founding Fathers were a bunch of drunks who cheated on their wives and owned slaves.\u00a0 Our kinds don&#8217;t need to know that the Civil War was about slavery.\u00a0 It was about states&#8217; rights alright- the right to OWN SLAVES.\u00a0 The Civil Rights movement?\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t ring a bell to me.<\/p>\n<p>#8 You see no problem with people declaring bankruptcy because of medical bills or student loans.\u00a0 If they can&#8217;t manage their money better, that&#8217;s their own stupid fault.<\/p>\n<p>#9 You hate religious freedom.\u00a0 You SAY you are in favor of it, but you really only want to see Evangelical Christianity.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t want to see menorahs, stars and crescents, or dharmachakas in your kids&#8217; schools, but will raise holy hell if there aren&#8217;t Christmas trees.\u00a0 You lose your mind if a mosque or Sihk temple is built in your neighborhood.\u00a0 You think it&#8217;s perfectly OK to discriminate against anyone you want to and claim it&#8217;s your &#8220;religious freedom&#8221;, but don&#8217;t think anyone who isn&#8217;t Christian should be able to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>#10 You hate America.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t think you do, but you continue to vote for people who aren&#8217;t looking out for your future.\u00a0 Climate change?\u00a0 That&#8217;s something Al Gore made up.\u00a0 Healthcare?\u00a0 We barely make the top 30 in most studies, and we don&#8217;t even come close to that in infant mortality rates. Education?\u00a0 We rate worst in that than we do in healthcare.\u00a0 Crime?\u00a0 We have the highest incarceration rate by FAR of any &#8220;modern&#8221; nation, but we still have high crime rates too.\u00a0 Gun control?\u00a0 You don&#8217;t care that 95% of Americans favor some form of it, you continue to vote for people who are bought and paid for by the NRA because freedom.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you find this helpful.\u00a0 I could go on, but 10 is a nice round number.\u00a0 And I think I&#8217;ve made my point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 8th is just around the corner.\u00a0 Maybe you&#8217;re struggling with deciding how to vote.\u00a0 Lucky you- I&#8217;m here to help! Here are a list of reasons to vote Republican: #1 You hate minorities.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t say it out load (usually) but you suspect anyone with a skin tone darker than Sherwin Williams color 7036 (Accessible Beige) is an illegal,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=4414\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[24,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice","category-things-that-make-you-go-huh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/crumpled-paper-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}