Call To Action: Tell OK Lawmakers to Vote NO on SB 1027!

(You needn't actually live in this shithole state to take action, as you're about to see).  

Just wrote yet another trashcan-bound letter to our worst-in-the-nation lawmakers, this time about SB 1027.  This abomination will permanently kill the initiative petition process that allows Oklahomans to sign petitions to get issues on the ballot.  It in no way guarantees that said items will be voted into law; merely that they're put on the ballot for a vote.  Recent petition items?  Marijuana legalization (passed in 2018) & Medicaid expansion (passed in 2020).  Current items include raising the minimum wage & allowing Oklahomans of ANY political persuasion to participate in primary voting.  So you can see why this petition thing is hated by our wicked fundie overlords. 

The petition process is the only means by which voters can make a tangible, actual difference or have any say whatsoever in our fate & they're thisclose to taking it away.  Because no matter how catshit crazy (with a C) the Republicunt MAGA cult have made this state, it's never crazy enough for their liking.  There's always a new low.  We are truly the best at being the worst. 



Hypocrisy: The Name of the Republican Game

Whenever I interact with these shitlords, I always try to appeal to their idiotic beliefs by warning of a liberal future that includes pro-abortion/anti-2nd Amendment laws, forced vaccination, litterbox-using LGBT-supporting teachers & the like... you know, to hopefully scare them & galvanize them into action.  Not because it's what I necessarily believe.  It's pretty amusing LARPing as a wingnut, signing my name as some redneck shit like "Clyde H. Miller" or "Boone 'Buck' Allen Brown"--unmistakably white, male & stupid.  

As bad as our centrist Democrat party is, nobody does hypocrisy and hatred like the right wing.  The same people who rabidly support not only the death penalty but botched executions and torture in our prisons also make it their life's mission to force women to carry/birth/raise unwanted babies statistically bound for that prison system.  We are 49th in the nation in education, didn't expand Medicaid until it came up on the ballot by way of petition in 2020, have a serious problem with people dying unexpectedly in our county jail* & our rates of child/animal abuse are despicable, but by all means, let's force MORE unwanted babies to be born and fed into this shitty system.  Mills require grist to function, after all.  *Note: that list of deaths is from 2023.  Since then, many more have died (at least 6 in 2024 and 7 so far in 2025).  

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States receiving the most Federal Aid, February 2025.  Notice a pattern?

Here are a few other common right-wing Okie beliefs for the uninitiated.  These people are:

- Anti-welfare, but also anti-livable minimum wage.  We're also among the top states receiving federal aid despite our uppity attitudes toward social welfare programs like TANF, SNAP & Section 8.

- Climate crisis denying drug war supporters who spend a good portion of their lives demonizing Mexican and S. American immigrants, nearly all of whom are here due to either climate change consequences (crop failure, famine, lack of water, etc), drug cartel violence or both.  

- The state with the most Native American tribes and historically Black towns (over 50 at one point!), yet violently racist and xenophobic.

- Have a pretendian governor who claims Cherokee ancestry yet goes out of his way to piss off the Cherokee tribe & other Indian tribes/groups.

- Pro-"small government" when it comes to reigning in corporations, making billionaires pay their fair share of taxes or passing even the most benign, sensible gun control legislation, yet insist on banning or trying to restrict abortion, porn, drugs, gay marriage & anything else that makes life tolerable for most of the consenting adults who reside here.  Hell, tattoos and gambling were illegal in this state until the mid-2000s, and only in 2018 did we vote to allow beer with more than a 3.2% alcohol content to be sold in grocery & convenience stores.  But yes, get the evil Nanny State out of our everyday lives, please.   🙄

- Tea Party Constitutionalists who also want their religion to be the law of the land, totally trampling on the separation of church and state that this country was founded on by mandating teacher-led prayer in school, the posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, trying to have Christian statues installed at the capitol and more.  The Taliban ain't got nothin' on us!

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Steaming mad at the hypocrisy, stupidity & ugliness of it all?  I sure am.  On top of the Trump shit, living in an every-county-red-since-2004 state is oppressively bleak at times.  The least I can do is write lots of angry letters to my representative about the state of things.  You know, since signing petitions will likely be off the ballot (pun intended) for me in the future. 😞

If OK passes this shitty law, other states will be sure to follow so please don't sit idly by thinking it can't happen to you.  Be like me and use a fake name to contact one of our fine representatives today, telling them to vote NO on SB 1027.  OR if you prefer, simply sign this petition telling our governor to vote no.  Just be sure to use a real OK address so your signature or letter is not ignored/trashed (which it may be anyway, but there's strength in numbers so every signature, letter & call helps ensure this shitty idea does NOT become law). 

Thank you.

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