I know we were all worried that the South Carolina House would override Nikki Haley’s veto of a bill subsidizing HPV vaccinations for middle-schoolers, a bill that would also allow schools to educate parents about the need for the vaccine. As Haley herself said:
[…] Health agencies don’t need to tell parents what to do, she said.“I don’t want a leaflet going out making any parent think their child has to have it,” Haley said.
Worry no more, the override vote failed in the House, so a state with a teen pregnancy rate higher than the national average [pdf] won’t need to worry about any of those sluts thinking they can have unprotected sex without the risk of getting HPV. The only education they need is mandated abstinence-stressing sex ed [pdf], which as we all know is something health agencies should be making parents think their child has to have.
Canadian reader Bob notes Haley has been vetoing everything else in sight, including a bill that would allow electronic filings in court cases, with Teabagger-level stupid reasons. Some of her vetoes are getting overrriden, but only for more important issues, like firefighting equipment.
The Thin Black Duke
You get what you vote for.
c u n d gulag
GOP POV:
Settle down, boys!
This here disease don’t do nothin’ to us manly-men.
And there’s still plenty of V*agra and other ‘quicker pecker-uppers’ available.
So, if the sluts wanna bang, you’ll be ready ‘n rarin’ to go!
And THEY’RE the ones who get sick and die!
HA!
See, this here proves that there IS a God.
The Republic of Stupidity
Perhaps NC will be bringing back the dunking stool soon, while they’re at it…
shortstop
@c u n d gulag:
“This here disease don’t do nothin’ to us manly-men.”
You might want to do a little research on that.
horatius
@shortstop: meh………… Peniile cancer is like a pool party. Only more awesome.
brent
@The Republic of Stupidity: Haley is from SC. NC is actually a winnable swing state for Obama.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@c u n d gulag: except it does when their sons start finding their wives are sterile.
mistermix
@c u n d gulag: In addition to the risk of penile cancer, it makes warts on your junk, so it’s a problem for men. In fact, boys should have the vaccine, too.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@c u n d gulag: Republican visiting the doctor: “Wait doc, you mean that throat cancer was caused by HPV? But I never had no sex with a man? What do you mean? But my wife was a virgin? Well, no, I wasn’t. What does that have to do with it?”
BTW, all three of my boys are getting the HPV vaccine. Not only to protect any of their lady friends, but there are a few things men can get that are also caused by HPV.
SiubhanDuinne
@The Republic of Stupidity:
Wrong Carolina, but your point is well-taken.
rlrr
“At least there will be fewer retards.”
— Michele Bachmann
slippy
Is it misogynist to call Haley a stupid c#nt for furthering the spread of HPV among our daughters (and sons)?
P.S. I have two daughters, and although Indiana and Kentucky aren’t exactly light-years ahead of SC, I am glad that they are out of this stupid fuck’s reach.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
Are we allowed to say out loud yet that religion has become a net social evil? Or does that still offend too many fee-fees?
Let me know. I have a speech prepared.
Keith
I’m gonna have to stop reading this site in the morning. It’s like an anti-peptalk, but I’m just not so much into masochism.
Davis X. Machina
Bachmann is Joan the Baptist. She has shown the way. There is one who will come after her.
“Haley-Somebody 2016. A woman, and a minority — and we haven’t even chosen the vice-president yet. How can we lose?”
shortstop
@slippy: You know the answer to that. Is the expletive store fresh out of unisex insults today?
Mr Stagger Lee
South Carolina, too small to be a republic, too big to be a lunatic asylum. But hey can’t fault those gamecocks for trying.
Frankensteinbeck
@c u n d gulag:
Don’t worry. Like how they go after unions separately, viagra is left out solely for the purposes of Divide And Conquer. They really do want to eliminate everything but missionary in the dark during marriage.
Stuff like this vaccine is on the hit list first because their little sitcom brains go ‘But I don’t want my perfect and innocent daughter to be ruined by boys!’
Scott S.
@slippy: Yes, it’s misogynist. But I think you already knew that, didn’t you?
Frankensteinbeck
I can’t believe I was dumb enough to mention the drug c u n d gulag mentioned in my reply. Moderation Hell for me!
Rosalita
@slippy:
no, I think it’s accurate in this case
Carl Nyberg
Maybe the SC Constitution should be amended to eliminate the governor. All laws would have to be passed by 2/3 majority.
There could be a manager hired by 2/3 majority who would hire, fire and supervise staff.
Frankensteinbeck
@slippy:
I don’t know. Would calling a man a ‘dick’ be misanthropic?
Punchy
Here’s one she vetoed, and her “reasoning”:
Just…uh….wut? Taxpayers must give consent before this money is used? Can anyone better interpret just what she means here, because taken literally, it seems to imply she claims to need each taxpayer to agree on how each dollar is spent…which is insane.
Elie
@shortstop:
I think he was kidding…
Just to refresh, HPV is associated with certain throat and rectal cancers…
When I was a practicing clinical nurse, I had the horror of witnessing the death of a 30 year old woman who had her cervical cancer diagnosed a year previous right after the birth of her first child. She declined so fast it was scary. A.totally.preventable.disease.
Nickki Haley is just evil. EVIL
mapaghimagsik
Stupid is as stupid does?
c u n d gulag
@mistermix:
And shortstop, and Enhanced Voting Techniques, and everyone else:
Yes, I know that.
I’m giving the GOP male POV.
And what do THEY know about anything?
Especially diseases?
Hell, these are the people who are AGAINST almost every kind of vaccination.
And they don’t need prostate exams by doctors, they can see up their own asses – since that’s where there heads are all of the time.
John
Does South Carolina somehow have a Democratic legislature, or is Haley so crazy that she outcrazies the Republican state legislature?
EDIT: Apparently the latter, if Wikipedia is to be trusted.
kindness
It’s easy for me coming from California to feel that large sections of the nation deserve the shit holes they have created for themselves. I know, that is elitist, shallow, un-empathic and self defeating in the long run. But you know….I’m tired of fighting for people who won’t fight for themselves. We all know that if every adult voted in every election Democrats would run just about everything outside the south.
Now….I’m not pulling back, especially in an important election year like this year but I still get the gut impulse of wanting to throw up my hands and let those poor souls suck on their own lives….except the idiots their regions do end up electing affect me by stopping my elected people from carrying out my preferred government. It’s a paradox.
Rathskeller
Do we have any readers in South Carolina? How is she popularly perceived?
From my distant view, she seems to be reflexively working from a notebook of tea-bagger positions, but nothing she does is actually thought through.
Chris
@Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God:
Oh please, go for it.
Chris
@kindness:
Yeah, I’m kinda there too.
Allan
“It’s Official, There Will Be No More Sluts in South Carolina”
Not exactly correct, or the intent of Gov. Haley.
“The Sluts of South Carolina Will Suffer and Die”
FIFY
BGinCHI
Tea Party governors are like having a referee whose purpose is to ruin the sport.
Mnemosyne
@kindness:
Don’t get too high up on your horse there — our lovely state is starting to lead the nation in measles and pertussis (whooping cough) because of the fucking idiots who are afraid to have their special snowflakes vaccinated and think that letting their kids catch measles naturally is somehow “safer” than being vaccinated.
Vaccination hysteria is unfortunately not reserved to the right wing.
Ksmiami
@Chris: As long as we can take away their guns, Advil and fox news And build a wall, I’m ok with it
NonyNony
@kindness:
Dude – your own state is as messed up as the rest of the country is. Just look at your tax structure or what’s happening to your university system. Your state is chock full o’ wingnuts like the rest of us. You’re blessed with luck in a number of areas that those of us in the flyover states don’t have – you’ve got access to the ocean for international businesses to set up shop and stay relatively captive, you’re blessed with the fallout of the early 20th century’s IP wars (fallout from Thomas Edison’s overly restrictive licensing for film pushed the industry to California where he couldn’t get them to enforce his patents) so you’ve got a lot of highly visible socially progressive people from the acting industry to push for change that we don’t get in the flyover states, and you get a healthy influx of immigrants due to the farming that the state was blessed with geographically.
Your state is lucky, that’s it. Some good people in the 50s and 60s were able to leverage that to make California more liberal than the rest of the country, but you are also the state that gave us BOTH Nixon and Reagan. You’re lucky to live there and I congratulate you for either choosing to move there or choosing to have parents who lived there. But the rest of us don’t have the blessings that fucking California started with so I’d ask you to keep in mind just how fucking lucky you are when you’re casting your aspersions around.
Phylllis
@Punchy: Considering voters would have to approve the capitol projects via sales tax through…voter referendums, this is another example of just how dumb she is, and how remarkably clueless about how government functions.
Bubblegum Tate
Hey, look, if you’re trying to be the next Sarah Palin, you by definition have to do some crazy, stupid stuff.
Bubblegum Tate
@Punchy:
I think the key is “giving their consent.” She seems to be suggesting that if you want to tax people, you have to ask their permission first, and if they say, “No, we don’t want to pay a tax,” then you are not allowed to tax them.
Now, I’d ordinarily say, “Wait, that interpretation can’t be right–it’s way, way too stupid,” but given that this is Nikki Haley we’re talking about, I don’t think any interpretation can be preemptively discarded for being too stupid.
shortstop
@BGinCHI: That’s quite good.
Phylllis
@Rathskeller: Because she’d have to know how to think, in order to think through anything. I live in her hometown; she still has a few fervent supporters left around here, but not many.
Roger Moore
@kindness:
Yeah, just look at the mess we’ve made of our fair state; we have nobody to blame for it but ourselves.
Carl Nyberg
@kindness:
I think it’s time that we start considering what it would take to create our own nation within the United States.
We would have our own media.
Where we had enough people we would have our own communities.
We would have our own schools and our own universities.
We would buy from our own. We would hire our own.
The nation would reflect our values.
But we would not be responsible for the dysfunction outside our nation.
We would be the city on the hill.
Remember, the Black Panthers didn’t create the school breakfast program by lobbying the government. They created the program and showed how easy it was to improve on the status quo. And the government was forced to play catch up.
Patricia Kayden
If the good folks of South Carolina are okay with Governor Haley, then all I can do is shrug. Not my problem. I guess when she does something truly egregious (so crazy that even the T’Baggers revolt), voters will wise up and kick her out. Until then, Romneybot 2.0 is probably being vetting her as VP.
Roger Moore
@Carl Nyberg:
I want a guarantee that we’ll have a functional Constitution, rather than the crazy, cobbled-together piece of junk we have today. A nation of California governed under anything like our current system would make Washington DC look positively rational and efficient in comparison.
gene108
@Rathskeller:
Very unpopular, from what I’ve read on the intertubes.
Rathskeller
@gene108: well, sure, but if I go by what I read there (from my step-father), Obama is a corrupt Kenyan so*ialist.
I just don’t know enough wingnuts, and no one in SC.
I did dip a toe in at RedState, and here are some mixed comments on her NRCC speech. In March, at least, some of the die-hards were bitter that she didn’t back Perry.
I had never seen her speak before that speech, which was interesting in terms of tone. I think she has a pretty face when seen in still photos, but watching her live, she holds her face in a fixed, almost twisted way. From this brief impression in that speech, it seems to me like she is wrapped very, very tightly. She does not seem happy.
Ejoiner
Please – pray for all of us poor yokels stuck in SC. I live in an urban/liberal area of the state but they are few and far between. Not all of us are crazy tea baggers!
My honest take (lived here 20 years now) is it’s a racial thing. If you are white and raised in SC you vote Republican no matter who are what in elections. The Democratic party is the black party (and you’re few odd liberals). The reason SC has performed so poorly for going on the past 50 years or so is because of all the lazy, violent, drug-using, welfare-abusing black population (not my take, the usual response by friends and colleagues who vote R). Things are still very segregated here, especially schools and churches. There are pockets of change here and there but not many.
A friend of mine who follows local politics claims most of the R’s are very unhappy with Haley but she has a choke-hold on the support from the upper part of the state that gives her an edge in any political fight. Honestly, the local press tends to paint her as an embattled and politically divisive figure who is always in conflict with the state legislature.
Rathskeller
@Ejoiner: thanks for the update.
kindness
@NonyNony: I’m a New Yorker by birth and a Californian by choice. Moved out here in the late 70’s.
Now I work in Oakland and live out in the Central Valley. My Congress critters are either idiot Republicans (now) or knife in the back Blue Dog Democrats. We here in California are not that far removed from the likes of these poor folks. Don’t go thinkin’ we out here have it made, we don’t. We just have enough progressives to keep the Godbotherers at bay most the time.
Origuy
I drove through the Central Valley last weekend. Every few miles along I-5, there’s a sign claiming that Congress and Nancy Pelosi are keeping that lovely water from the hard-working almond growers.
kindness
@Origuy: They’re full of shit too. Where I live almonds are king and those ranchers are making bank unlike dairy and other ag operations. Mind you, I support giving the farmers irrigation water. I just think 1) it should be market priced like I pay 2) it should be in proportion to what the streams can offer on a given year that allows all other parties including Mama nature to get their fair percentage too 3) That the south state should get some amount but they should be last in line at the pump.
The farmers are well meaning but frequently idiot Galtians.
David Koch
She’s already making her 2016 run.
she’s not even waiting for the corner’s meat wagon to pick up Mitten’s electoral college body in November.
actions speak louder than words. too bad the corporate media is too dumb and corrupt to report how the party already is shoving dirt of mitten’s political coffin and making moves for right to lose to Hillary in 4 years.
serge
South Carolina is an insane asylum run by the inmates. I believe I am somewhat qualified to say this by virtue of having lived here for more than thirty years.
There are so many good people here that never get the chance to compete in the greater political market. We’ll never be anything other than a Republican mini-banana republic. It’s sad. Think DeMint, Graham…they’re excrescences on the national stage. You wouldn’t believe the state representatives. We’re still fighting the Civil War.