Looks like donald trump. Proves he's nothing but a meat head.

Gavin Newsom. Elizabeth Warren. Bill De Blasio. Eric Garcetti.

One or both of the Castro brothers. Cory Booker. Possibly Kamala Harris, once she gets a few years in the Senate under her belt.

We've got some bench strength already, and it's growing. Just have to nurture it along a little bit.

FULL STOP.

Exactly. Research has shown that women DIE when they can't access decent health care.

Texas shutting down so many Planned Parenthood clinics has caused the rate of women's deaths to increase rather drastically.

Have some google fun. These are the top three stories that will come up:

MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE IN TEXAS DOUBLED AFTER STATE CUT FUNDING TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD
http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/08/19/maternal-mortality-rates-in-texas-doubled-after-state-cut-funding-to-planned-parenthood/

and

MORE NEW MOTHERS IN TEXAS ARE DYING; EXPERTS CAN’T EXPLAIN WHY
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/09/04/facing-surge-texas-maternal-deaths-researchers-fin/

and

TEXAS HAS HIGHEST MATERNAL DEATH RATE IN DEVELOPED WORLD, STUDY FINDS
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-health-clinics-funding

... and golly-gee, they just can't figure out why, for the life of 'em.

True. You don't get to decide what I'm allowed to do with my body.

It's none of your doggone business. You are free to decide what happens to your own body all you want, all the live-long-day. And I won't interfere because it's YOUR body and it's none of MY business.

People who don't want abortions? FINE! Don't have one! Nobody's gonna make you have one if you don't want one. You have that free choice.

Just like I do.

Yep. Agreed. My rights are NON-NEGOTIABLE.

Not on the table. Don't belong on the table. Don't even belong in the same room where that proverbial table is.

Hilarious!

Ahhh... Dennis Miller. How far one has fallen. I used to like him during his SNL days, but after that he switched his allegiance and rebranded himself as a limbaugh wannabe.

But I LOVE that Branson quote! And yeah, you're right. Now that's his core audience.

HAH! That's the title of rush limbaugh's first book.

"The Way Things Ought To Be". In his own mind, anyway. Certainly didn't bother with such issues as this one, though.

And she'll take the podium with a long meaningless speech delivered in that meaningless monotone.

That lifeless monotone. DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!

Expressionless voice. Matches her mostly-expressionless face. With the face, I wonder if it's Botox. She's of the age when wealthy society women start tweaking their faces with injections and fillers and so forth. Which means she'll probably wind up looking like a gargoyle when she's 50.

Once you start with that shit, in far many cases, you can't stop. The first facelift holds for a couple of years. But then gravity starts taking its toll, and you have to go in and get a little "update." And that holds for a couple more years, and then you have to go have that "fixed." And THAT holds up for a couple more years, until gravity again takes the lead, and ...

Side Effects of Botox Injections on Forehead, Around Eyes, Lips and in the Treatment of Migraines
http://www.healtreatcure.org/botox/side-effects-of-botox-injections-on-forehead-eyes-migraines/

And here's the one I used:

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I was kinda surprised by how many people I saw at the march who wanted to take a photo of my sign. Some people were shouting for me to hold it up, so they could get a shot of it. Sometimes it was two and three people at a time. I'm guessing some photo of it might turn up somewhere else. A couple of people got into conversations with me about how "NO, Donald" is something he obviously NEVER heard when he was growing up, and how that was such a shame because it's exactly what everyone should have said to him - and frequently, too.

LOTS of people were out with their phones, taking photos of all the protest signs. I think that's become one of the standard accompanying activities at these events. There's always so much to see! SO MUCH creativity and artistry in the way people express their outrage. THOROUGHLY inspiring and uplifting.

I'm considering taking my poster to this weekend's local Climate March, too. It'll fit. It's actually two-sided. The other side says:
DON'T
SILENCE
SCIENCE