Posts Tagged ‘politics’

In case this actually needs to be said here…

I’ve decided that I will be filing complaints with the local child support office, the HHSC ombudsman, and the National Child Support Agency each day Monday through Friday until this matter with my children’s child support orders are once again resolved… just as I had to do at this time last year, if I’m not mistaken, which was ultimately what got HHSC’s attention. If, after some time, this does not satisfactorily resolve these issues I will contact my state’s Legal Aid for what might actually be the third time. I would love to take HHSC and the OAG to court and get as much money as I can off of them for not following their own state rule manual, which I can easily and effortlessly screenshot because it’s available on Google. Just saying, y’all.

White supremacists in my state are unhinged.

Someone began to lose it at me leaving comments on my governor’s Facebook page, claiming that you “can be racist against white people” when this is historically not possible due to the power that white people have held over decades. They also began screaming at me when they found out that I’m just not that attracted to white men, making it increasingly clearer with each comment they left how racist they are and how unhinged they are. Sadly, this is a common enough occurrence when attempting to participate in any political discourse regarding my state. We have a lot of gang members (over 100,000 at last “census”, and this isn’t frequently studied because elected officials would just as soon pretend that this has never been a problem than actually deal with it), and we have a lot of racists as well as white supremacists. Most of the Republicans in this state are actually white supremacists, even though elected officials would try as hard as they could to prevent people from talking about that if they think they can pick up enough minority votes to win an election. One day, I’d like to leave this state, costly as that might become… but I think we will all be the better for it. I won’t have to worry about politicians aggressively attempting to legislate a religion into law that I don’t agree with and will not raise my children to abide by, and we’ll be exposed to a lot less racism in just about every other state. Of those states, I like some of them more than others, but… come on.

Since I haven’t mentioned this in here yet…

As many of us thought (and feared) would happen, Roe v Wade was overruled, and abortion is no longer a constitutional right in the United States. Living in Texas, most of you can guess what our state governor thinks about that… although the current law, and trigger laws, still allow me to get an abortion if I get pregnant again — another pregnancy would risk “the life of the mother”, or my life, since my epilepsy is now that severe and I have periods in which I go apneic during my sleep for as little as a few seconds or as long as thirty to forty-five seconds (waking up from that is not fun because it feels like I’ve just got done running a sprint). If I get pregnant again and attempt to stay pregnant, the chances of me dying in my sleep from a nocturnal seizure are more than 30%… and I mean, they were never low to begin with, but research into nocturnal epilepsy as it relates to pregnancy has indicated that the two do not bode well together and it’s not something that I am ever going to attempt to chance. I think I’m going to discuss sterilization with my OB/GYN at my next Depo-Provera appointment and see what, if anything, I have to do to get the ball rolling on getting my tubes tied — the thing that was holding me back on that was, and is, the fact that I am immunosuppressed from the prednisone usage that I am still trying to stop, and no one wants to risk a keyhole infection that is likely going to be Staph. However, with the political climate, that risk is acceptable.

So many Republicans in this state are already chastising women about how they should “make better decisions” and “have self-control”, and it makes me so badly want to mention something here in this blog that some of you already know about, but I’ll get to that in time. (Let’s just say that I check my tracker.)

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