I will never forget watching an interview of a MAGA wife on television back during the Trump years. The interviewer asked her how she, personally, felt about whatever it was, and she replied, "OH, that's a husband sort of question! You'll need to ask him how I feel about it." THIS is what we're dealing with.
I remember in 2016 some time in the summer some news outlet or other had projected an easy Trump victory...if women stayed home. Thousands...maybe millions...of MAGA women took to the internet saying they'd gladly and permanently surrender their voting rights if it meant he'd win.
That should have been enough to classify it as a cult then...
I am totally sick of the misogyny and racism that is pervasive in our country.We women are at a crossroads.I for one am sick of this second class citizenship schtick
Late again, but want to contribute to this thread. From personal observation and looking into historical records, it seems clear that these charismatic preacher types have been tried for child molestation and rape more often over a long period of time that than any other group in this nation. The SBC is per capita as bad or worse that the Catholic Church.
Look up Holy City, founded, I remember, in the 1920s, as a community of believers, by :
William Edward Riker (February 17, 1873 – December 3, 1969) was a White supremacist religious leader who founded the community of Holy City, California, ...
I grew up with all the progeny of those Baptist white supremacists, and they are still up there, all over in the woods of what is now, since the founding of UCSC, in1965, to be a very progressive commumity. These people, all over our country crawled out from under their logs when the orange blob spread their hatetred far and wide and made their confederacy real again.
Well, of course. Why do you think we are where we are today? These are the 'Deploreables" of Hillary Clinton. Their treasonous forebears were PARDONED, for mfn crisesake, by President Andrew Johnson at the start of reconstruction. It should have been "Reconstrainment" for all those insurrectionists. The Civil War NEVER ended. The enemy combatants were pardoned to fight again. Read Heather Cox Richardson.
Morning in this order; up at 6:00 a.m., vape, read, coffee, vape, get dressed, vape. Retirement is nice. I started this routine in 2016. I think I have some sanity left because I’d never live through these times without a constant maintenance buzz. It keeps the outrage from chewing up my brain.
Many are outraged about the stripping of our rights. We need to act. I follow chop wood, Carry Water and this newsletter gives excellent ideas about specific things we can do.
YES!! The Substack “Chop Wood, Carry Water” is excellent to help us get involved. Just got her recommended to me from a commenter on Jessica Valenti’s sub
DITTO and I helped get my daughter abroad for uni, and am also abroad but not in the same city. I could see the writing on the wall for birth control when Roe v Wade was overturned. Next it will be inter-color/culture marriages. The modern day KKK does not ride at night with White Sheets, no they plain as day take over the courts to get their way! Along with that they have developed a taste for Russian espionage against their fellow citizens. Welcome to the American Taliban women! If you don't have a gunny sack, a burka will do. Anything not to temp the men who are raping you. The crazies are packing the courts with fascists. We must not succumb to their reality or we will be looking like Afghanistan 2012.
But see, Linda, that’s really what Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation is all about. Interracial relationships will and do produce interracial children which means the white race will be the minority. The Black race will take its place. Evangelists and the neo-Nazis who put this “project” and foundation together, know this and are fearful of the change of the dynamics. Fear is what they preach but it’s fear that they face.
Marlene, Since White is not a race and Black is not a race that is just wrong. Both skin colors belong to one race, the Human race. Skin color is just variation within the race. And, no one really has Black skin, maybe close, or White skin, not even people with Albinism. It could be close. That is why terms like "colored" should include everyone. In fact, in Germany in the Universities they do not teach that skin color is a race. Thta is considered to be thinking belonging to the Nazi model, because it is. There are people who still think like in Nazi times and believe in this, but it is a racist model that has us divided by color. This is a point Angelica Dass makes in her Pantone Humanae artwork. https://onartandaesthetics.com/2018/12/05/changing-the-conversation-on-race-angelica-dass-reveals-our-pantone-shades-in-humanae/
There are many different skin colors and she has given them pantone numbers. Her process for creating this work is interesting too. There are not enough color words to discuss the variation, but there are Pantone numbers. I understand there are those who want to fight the inevitable co-mingling of people of different colors, which is common throughout my family on both sides of the ocean, because even 2 people who consider themselves "White" may not have the same Pantone, and their children will not either. These are things I used to discuss with my students. Particularly interesting is twins of different colors.
I say everyone is on the brown scale the way they teach us gray scale in art school. That is the effect of a black and white photograph. No one is white in a black and white photograph, but some shade of gray. https://www.pinterest.com/dalk59/faces-black-white-photographs/
I had a teacher from the Seychelles and she told us that when she was growing up there, while she could pass for "White," she had siblings that were considered, "Black" so they had to go to different schools. They also had different identities and self concepts because of this. It is crazy but there is a history to why the USA build itself around these racist ideas and built its early nation on them. Progress is that we moved beyond this, but just like in Germany, not everyone has. Apparently among Gen Zers only 52 percent are "White" identified. That is what the great replacement theory is trying to prevent, the slow amelioration of the distinctions. Moving beyond categorizing people on superficial characteristics might never happen, but it is a process in place particularly among much of the youth.
Oh yes!! It’s so difficult watching this take place right before my eyes. I remember watching Handmades tail. We will be another Gilead if somebody doesn’t figure out a plan in the government! I dispise these wannabe Christians. 🖕🖕🖕MAGA MF’S!!
I think rage is the point any more. We're being tested. It feels like conservatives are just probing for a weakness. Racial tension, reproductive rights, homophobia...I feel like they're doing eveything the can to provoke civil war to weaken us for our enemies.
I think they are provoking a giant electoral backlash in November. These zealots are so very narcissistic they don't see it coming. Next up: shut down the government because that is so popular.
My kishkas are roiling but I'm not angry - just determined. I know I'm not alone and I know it's not just women who will make these shriveled Christofascists eat their Bibles with a side of crow this November.
A Tuberville says “ Yeah, we need to just keep making more babies” knowing full well what that meant for Nazi Germany. Make industrial strength German,Aryan babies while murdering the rest. That’s exactly what they did.
And check this out: a Texas hospital turns away a woman with an ectopic pregnancy, one in which the fetus is never viable and is a medical emergency that will kill both the fetus and mother if it continues. Thank god another hospital saved her life, but how many women are going to die before women's rights are restored? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/23/texas-woman-ectopic-pregnancy-abortion/
I'm in a state of disbelief. This controlling women has excellerated at an alarming rate. Those rational folk need to come up with a plan, and fast! A plan to locate a safe place, far from anyone who uses the part of the brain that determines stupidity and self aggrandizing thoughts of being able to control other people by pretending to be dumb shits, and prepare to begin the process of exporting these crazies there quickly, with as much discretion as possible. Some suggestions: the moon, Mars, Siberia, N. Korea, the Sun--yes that would be perfect for silencing the small group of men who hate women. I do think we could make an exception for sporkfoot, she is a man disguised as a female. Who is in???
I wish they would stop referring to themselves as conservatives. Clearly, they are fascists who want to control every aspect of our lives. FUCK THE GOP. Women, are you pissed off yet? You should be. And you better vote blue up and down the ballot. This post has really elevated my blood pressure and should be shared everywhere. America is such an embarrassment. 🤦♀️
That's what scares me...they cheat like the breathe. Let's face it, in places like Texas and Florida, I'm afraid for everyone. I live in California, and I'm scared to death...I've been afraid to leave the state since 2016!!! Now it's even worse.
I'm doubtful too, in that I just don't think your average person knows about these GQP religous extremist's plans, or wouldn't believe it-thinking "they won't take it that far".
That is why we need to share Anita Watkin’s substack “How Project 2025 Will F*Ck Your Life” She was raised in the Extremist Evangelical life & so she knows for certain what they want to do & WILL do if they gain power.
We also need to push any print & TV journalists that we follow to start focusing on that Project & explaining exactly how it would affect their daily lives.
State elections are VERY important to stop this because a huge part of their plans is to get enough states to vote to call for a Constitutional Convention to write an entire new constitution based in their form of Christianity. They currently have about 28 state legislatures on board, they only need 34!!!!!! This is deadly serious
I’ve talked about this before but I’m going to repeat myself. Women are blamed for every damn thing that is upsetting men, what?
It sickens me and causes my PTSD to be triggered. My daughter, she was 25, was murdered 8 1/2 years ago in an act of Domestic Violence.
When I see the religious right wing creeps making decisions for all women I am beyond angry and go into remembering how I found her body and I get physically ill.
This cannot become normal anymore.
I fought for years for women’s rights in many different ways. This angers me as well but it saddens me, too.
And this pain I feel will never go away.
This kind of thinking by these theocratic people is going to cause more harm to come to women.
It must stop. We have the strength in numbers and would be able to put up quite a fight to keep those misogynists out of our way,
Enough. I’m gonna go be emotionally drained. You get me.
This is all becoming the way of the world now. Enough…
My God...the pain you must feel...I am so sorry-and that is not nearly enough to say. I volunteered for a Domestic Violence shelter back in the midwest for 14 years. My mother was a victim. I, too, am saddened by these abhorrent actions...and all we can do is advocate and VOTE. My sincere hope is that women across America will be angry enough to get every single one of these fascists OUT of office. Hugs to you from Philly. ✌️
Thank you Susan very much! I can understand where you’re coming from, my daughter was amazing, I miss her so much it makes me so sad. Past month has been bad for me but that’s what happens. Thank you.
Yes, you are correct when you say we outnumber them. We The People are being pushed to the brink. I am taking today to get my thoughts together but we must do something. Make "good trouble".
You're not alone. If these freaks want to live like that, it's on them. They want to force everybody to adhere to their twisted interpretation of Christianity. MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS!!!
Charlie: I am 💯with you on this. They are so blind for power that they have no understanding of the hornet nest you referred to. It is women, it is the LGBTQ plus community and men who support women and other minorities and anyone else who has a functioning mind.
I'm ready. I am in Europe and got my email ballot today. Democrats Abroad. I will work the local Global Presidential Primary as well where people can vote here in person for the President.
That is great! I am going to get more active in this too. Are you a member of Democrats Abroad? They can help with questions and access. https://www.democratsabroad.org/
This year if you vote in the Global Presidential Primary through signing up with them, you help to get Democratic delegates for Democrats Abroad.
I completely agree. None of these MAGAmorons are conservatives. A conservative is called that because he or she want to conserve the values of law and constitution. These proto-fascists want to tear the whole thing down and rule. I'm sick and tired of the lot of them.
My concerns exactly. Any woman who votes Republican is a traitor to our democracy. She’s a fascist, a liar, and a plethora of evil. I think that the women supporting republicans (and their own death knell), should stay away from the voting polls this November. First, they’re in a minority and second, if Trump would win, guess who won’t be eligible to hold office or even be permitted to vote any longer? Taking power away from women is at the top of the list. So Stefanik, Greene, Mace et al. You’re signing your own contract to take your voice away from public service.
Oh my god, this is never going to end. These fuckers are going to eventually declare men the owners of their wives and children. And if there is a divorce, no money for the wife and no child custody. Because, after all, who is superior here??an emotional she devil whose only role is to be “subjugate” to her man or the man created in GOD’s image? I kid you not—these fucking lunatics have unleashed the cracken and now the sky’s the limit. I am so fucking sick of these goddamned white fucking men and cunts like MTG who btw, has a history of fucking anything that even remotely resembles a man telling other women how to behave as a “Christian.” What a hoot
That is. It’s always the ones who are most despicable telling the rest of us how to behave. If I could, I would bitch slap that little cunt right on down to Georgia! There’s a special place in hell For women who don’t support women and the sooner that bitch horse goes the better. Same for the idiot speaker. Trading porn reports with your 18 year old kid? WTF? They are all absolutely nuts and the freedom to Impose this shit has suddenly freed their minds to go all sorts of places they’d only masturbated to before. Fuck every single fucking Republican in office anywhere because if they vote in the party, they’re voting for this shit. I have been around a long time and I thought this shit was over in the 70s. It is sickening to see all of this bullshit being trotted out by these assholes again. I guess I don’t need to add that I’m enraged too.
Took the words right out of my mouth!!! I certainly hope every person, male, female, non-binary who isn’t in the MAGA moron crowd are as totally pissed of as we on this thread are. If so, we will have a massive win
As a devout atheist this horrifies me. I'm tired of old white men telling me and any other woman in the world what we can and can't do with our bodies. I think if every woman in this country that believes that we are having our rights stomped on, boycotted doing anything, I'm talking cleaning the house, cooking the food, taking care of the kids, anything and everything, maybe these Christian-fascists would get the point. Fuck these guys.🤬🤬🤬
Bingo! Why put up with mediocre sex from flaccid old white fucks, or young fucks for that matter. We don't need men to have great sexual pleasure and with a Hitachi Wonder Wand®, we can have multiple orgasms (4 or 5!!!) instead of one or none with a man, especially old white flaccid fucks. No muss, no fuss.
PS, thank you so much, Jeff Tiedrich, for your inspiring insubordination and cussing. It's so refreshing to hear angry sisters rip these assholes a new one!
Not knocking old guy sex, just making all men think twice about just going along with the what the fuck is happening to women's freedoms in the USA. If we shut ALL of you down, maybe you'll start speaking out against what the fuck is happening right in front of your face, right?!? It will take all of us, including old guys who believe women's rights are being taken away at a record pace, to fight back against these piece of shit religious zealots to change the course. Otherwise, we're all going to be living in a christofascist society. No thanks. 🤬
Christian-fascists aren’t the only men who cause pregnancy—pregnancy that for many means you have no choice other than to produce a baby. Women have to grab the steering wheel or be driven where they do not want to go.
And MEN need to speak up so that we'll be heard. There are a lot of men sitting on their lazy asses not saying a word about this bullshit. They need to quit being cowards and say something!!
😆 I saw that too and there was one that was a picture of the eggs section in a grocery store that said something like 'visiting the chicken orphanage'. The one with the double flat of eggs in a booster chair and a seat belt around it is 🔥. 🤣🤣🤣
I think MTG (3 Toes, Sporkfoot, whatever) should take a good look around next time she's at Mar-a-Lago. Those women are dressed the trashiest I have ever seen in one place. It seems to be required dress attire. 🤢
This s*** is out of control. If this is the direction we’re heading, let’s introduce legislation over male sperm. If you misuse it or misplace it, there will be consequences.
Some days I'm sorry I've read you as I am now so bummed out it's hard to do anything. Not that I didn't know but when you put all together like that....
Jeff, I just took a two mile walk to get myself calmed down. I’m glad I did that but I’m saving the rage when we can get organized and let ourselves be seen. Not even sure where to start. Perhaps our favorite politicians can be contacted to help. Bernie will.
Channel that rage!! Check out Jessica Craven "Chop Wood Carry Water." We need to get out the Blue votes in numbers so huge that even the maggots can't cheat their way to office.
That is exactly my intension. The only way to begin to end this nightmare is to overwhelm the vote making cheating next to impossible. They have Russia, unlimited trolls, they own all major news medias and control our SCOTUS. We need to scare them with our numbers!
Yes, a commenter recommended her to me & she’s great- specific things to do to make a difference.
Also, as JoyAnn Reid says “Scaring is caring” so also check out Andra Watkins’ substack “How Project 2025 Will F*ck Your Life” She comes from that Extreme Evangelical life & she knows what they WILL do
I’ve already posted your piece on a local grassroots site; we are battling school board elections and library board appointments again. Lit by black women, LGBTQ folks, and honest history are about to get the ol’ heave ho. A couple of us have our flaming swords ready to stand at library doors.
Scary shit….wake up sheeples (is that how you spell it? lol)…..I can’t even imagine anyone putting up with this shit. It is fucking ridiculous-(and I haven’t said fuck in a few weeks-well, on here anyway!). Pray for democratic victories all over the USA!!!! Have a nice weekend everyone…maybe some dickstain will have a heart attack this weekend…(that wasn’t very nice….)….hmmmmm
Reagan has gotten a lot of mileage out of that anti-intellectualism culture he got started.
As much as I understand a few certain individuals get out of their spirituality, I'd sooner ban religion than have freedom of religion if freedom of religion only applies to one religion anyhow. Particularly if it's this one. Speaking of which, I have something to go write...
As a man, and a gay man to boot, this outrages me beyond belief. I've never been in the position of being a potential father, but I have accompanied two of my friends to have abortions during my lifetime because their shitty sperm donors "couldn't get off work," or some ridiculous bullshit, and I can tell you that, without a doubt, it was not fun and games. Neither woman exited the clinic with a feeling of, "Oh! I had an abortion!!" It was a deeply depressing experience but was necessary at the time. And thank all the gods that they had the freedom to do so back in the 80s when it happened.
I had a little mini-fight with my 91-year-old mom last night when this tory popped up out of David Muir's mouth. She is a good Catholic woman, and I don't begrudge her that. But I found out that even she believes that life begins at the moment of conception, and I had to chime in. "It's just cells, mom, it's not a child." She seemed to agree, but I can never be sure because she also has a habit of not having confrontational discussions, so I added that if you take religion out of the equation, all this is is Republicans telling woman what they can and can't do with their own bodies, and that is all kinds of wrong. Is there ANY equivalent for men? No, there isn't, and there never will be as long as this government is constituted the way it is. There should be NO medical decisions being made by legislatures, including abortion, contraception, transgender surgeries or anything else. It is a PRIVATE matter, and the fact that any laws like this exist AT ALL is already several steps down the road of fascism. If something is against your beliefs or simply makes you feel "icky," shouldn't make it illegal! And trust me, "God" doesn't give a shit what's happening here. If He did, there would be A LOT more smiting than I've seen in my life, and that is precisely ZERO smiting. Republicans, and people who think like them, are the most horrible people in this country, and they MUST be stopped in November, or we are just fucked! We want to be left ALONE to live our lives, and they should be left alone to live theirs. They're going to have to get happy with that situation.
The Deists who founded this nation are spinning in their fucking graves! These fucknuts fully intend to replace the Constitution with Christofacism. Welcome to the 12th Century, everybody. Women are going to take their asses down. This cuts across demographics and politics.
I remember when there were no birth control pills. I remember when women couldn’t get credit cards or purchase a car without a husband or male co-signer. Forget about buying a house or renting an apartment! We are being attacked by ignorant bible beaters who are trying to subjugate women into complete silence. Barefoot and pregnant?! That’s the future if we don’t deliver this nation from the grip of these misogynistic, cruel, and evil politicians!
It all smacks of Sharia law doesn’t it? So are they for or against the tenets Iranian mullahs rule by? What about ISIS and their ilk? Loving that are they? And um…yeah I don’t think any God invented government-the lack of perfection shows that much. Well all I can say is they can fuck around and find out exactly how their views land with an American voting public. It hasn’t ended well for them ANY TIME THEY’VE TRIED. They’re so good at mobilizing their opposition!!
I’m in a goddamn RAGE!
As should all women be.The war on women continues unabated.
Why only women? Shouldn't everyone be enraged on behalf of women?
Yes, of course. So how to explain Republican voting women? The MAGAT voters consist of at least 45% women!
Being fair half of them vote how their husbands tell them to for fear of being beaten, raped, or killed. Not necessarily in that order.
Exactly, again. Being brought up brainwashed is part of it too.
I will never forget watching an interview of a MAGA wife on television back during the Trump years. The interviewer asked her how she, personally, felt about whatever it was, and she replied, "OH, that's a husband sort of question! You'll need to ask him how I feel about it." THIS is what we're dealing with.
I remember in 2016 some time in the summer some news outlet or other had projected an easy Trump victory...if women stayed home. Thousands...maybe millions...of MAGA women took to the internet saying they'd gladly and permanently surrender their voting rights if it meant he'd win.
That should have been enough to classify it as a cult then...
We don't see them very often-- they are way in back of their husbands.
!!!!!!!!!!
😳🤯
INTERNALIZED MISOGYNY
and all too common. I just want to shriek at them "don't you care about other women?"
Those MAGA slaves of their hubbies are not allowed to think about or to have other female friends I imagine!
Yes.Women and all who care for them should be outraged with all of this!
"about" them, to be more precise. Women do most of the caring "for".
My thought precisely RR.
Yes! Men, you are badly needed here.
That's why I jump on the purity ponies who won't accept men, who are our allies, we need all the help we can get to turn this crap around.
I am totally sick of the misogyny and racism that is pervasive in our country.We women are at a crossroads.I for one am sick of this second class citizenship schtick
Exactly.
I am sick to death of being treated as less than when I know I am more than!
Absolutely!!
I believe most men are exactly that for women.
We certainly hope so, however there’s no getting around the fact that about 30% of men (the maga & Evangelical) are not Allie’s to women.
That’s why we need every man who isn’t in that category to stand beside us in this fight to regain our rights
Count me on the ladies side who are fighting this shit
Late again, but want to contribute to this thread. From personal observation and looking into historical records, it seems clear that these charismatic preacher types have been tried for child molestation and rape more often over a long period of time that than any other group in this nation. The SBC is per capita as bad or worse that the Catholic Church.
And... the "Speaker" Mike Johnson is a member of the SBC.
Yes
And a Dominionist.
Yes
Wow that’s very telling! Disgusting and infuriating.
Look up Holy City, founded, I remember, in the 1920s, as a community of believers, by :
William Edward Riker (February 17, 1873 – December 3, 1969) was a White supremacist religious leader who founded the community of Holy City, California, ...
I grew up with all the progeny of those Baptist white supremacists, and they are still up there, all over in the woods of what is now, since the founding of UCSC, in1965, to be a very progressive commumity. These people, all over our country crawled out from under their logs when the orange blob spread their hatetred far and wide and made their confederacy real again.
How awful
Well, of course. Why do you think we are where we are today? These are the 'Deploreables" of Hillary Clinton. Their treasonous forebears were PARDONED, for mfn crisesake, by President Andrew Johnson at the start of reconstruction. It should have been "Reconstrainment" for all those insurrectionists. The Civil War NEVER ended. The enemy combatants were pardoned to fight again. Read Heather Cox Richardson.
That’s why white men are desperate to keep their power
I'm beyond rage. I have no words for this shit anymore.
I'm where you are. Beyond rage!!!
I think I’m going to smoke weed tonight to lower my anger for a bit.
Morning in this order; up at 6:00 a.m., vape, read, coffee, vape, get dressed, vape. Retirement is nice. I started this routine in 2016. I think I have some sanity left because I’d never live through these times without a constant maintenance buzz. It keeps the outrage from chewing up my brain.
Nice! Retirement is wonderful. So is weed.
Looking foward to this... :)
Many are outraged about the stripping of our rights. We need to act. I follow chop wood, Carry Water and this newsletter gives excellent ideas about specific things we can do.
YES!! The Substack “Chop Wood, Carry Water” is excellent to help us get involved. Just got her recommended to me from a commenter on Jessica Valenti’s sub
“Abortion Every Day”
Love them both
Are you an Appleton, WI Luchsinger? I've lost track of friends in that family, long ago.
Murder and mayhem, maybe? It is beginning to look quite appropriate.
Same!
I totally agree!! FN pissed and disgusted 🤬
Same here!
DITTO and I helped get my daughter abroad for uni, and am also abroad but not in the same city. I could see the writing on the wall for birth control when Roe v Wade was overturned. Next it will be inter-color/culture marriages. The modern day KKK does not ride at night with White Sheets, no they plain as day take over the courts to get their way! Along with that they have developed a taste for Russian espionage against their fellow citizens. Welcome to the American Taliban women! If you don't have a gunny sack, a burka will do. Anything not to temp the men who are raping you. The crazies are packing the courts with fascists. We must not succumb to their reality or we will be looking like Afghanistan 2012.
Never expected to say Afganistan 1972 looked ok to me. One word, VOTE!
Another word, BLUE!
But see, Linda, that’s really what Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation is all about. Interracial relationships will and do produce interracial children which means the white race will be the minority. The Black race will take its place. Evangelists and the neo-Nazis who put this “project” and foundation together, know this and are fearful of the change of the dynamics. Fear is what they preach but it’s fear that they face.
Marlene, Since White is not a race and Black is not a race that is just wrong. Both skin colors belong to one race, the Human race. Skin color is just variation within the race. And, no one really has Black skin, maybe close, or White skin, not even people with Albinism. It could be close. That is why terms like "colored" should include everyone. In fact, in Germany in the Universities they do not teach that skin color is a race. Thta is considered to be thinking belonging to the Nazi model, because it is. There are people who still think like in Nazi times and believe in this, but it is a racist model that has us divided by color. This is a point Angelica Dass makes in her Pantone Humanae artwork. https://onartandaesthetics.com/2018/12/05/changing-the-conversation-on-race-angelica-dass-reveals-our-pantone-shades-in-humanae/
There are many different skin colors and she has given them pantone numbers. Her process for creating this work is interesting too. There are not enough color words to discuss the variation, but there are Pantone numbers. I understand there are those who want to fight the inevitable co-mingling of people of different colors, which is common throughout my family on both sides of the ocean, because even 2 people who consider themselves "White" may not have the same Pantone, and their children will not either. These are things I used to discuss with my students. Particularly interesting is twins of different colors.
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=dcdc2d0f0896c7ba&rlz=1C5CHFA_en&sxsrf=ACQVn0-iKekwmNmuwJKYXbMVsziwTrksHw:1708760541077&q=twins+who+are+different+colors&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1g7qIvcOEAxW-SfEDHV3GARQQ0pQJegQICBAB&biw=1440&bih=727&dpr=2
I say everyone is on the brown scale the way they teach us gray scale in art school. That is the effect of a black and white photograph. No one is white in a black and white photograph, but some shade of gray. https://www.pinterest.com/dalk59/faces-black-white-photographs/
I had a teacher from the Seychelles and she told us that when she was growing up there, while she could pass for "White," she had siblings that were considered, "Black" so they had to go to different schools. They also had different identities and self concepts because of this. It is crazy but there is a history to why the USA build itself around these racist ideas and built its early nation on them. Progress is that we moved beyond this, but just like in Germany, not everyone has. Apparently among Gen Zers only 52 percent are "White" identified. That is what the great replacement theory is trying to prevent, the slow amelioration of the distinctions. Moving beyond categorizing people on superficial characteristics might never happen, but it is a process in place particularly among much of the youth.
Oh yes!! It’s so difficult watching this take place right before my eyes. I remember watching Handmades tail. We will be another Gilead if somebody doesn’t figure out a plan in the government! I dispise these wannabe Christians. 🖕🖕🖕MAGA MF’S!!
I’m absolutely seething with rage.
I think rage is the point any more. We're being tested. It feels like conservatives are just probing for a weakness. Racial tension, reproductive rights, homophobia...I feel like they're doing eveything the can to provoke civil war to weaken us for our enemies.
But hey, what do I know?
I think they are provoking a giant electoral backlash in November. These zealots are so very narcissistic they don't see it coming. Next up: shut down the government because that is so popular.
Cons got their marching orders from Comrade Vlad.. all splinter issues to split our country further.
Sigh. And yet I almost always want to be.
My kishkas are roiling but I'm not angry - just determined. I know I'm not alone and I know it's not just women who will make these shriveled Christofascists eat their Bibles with a side of crow this November.
determined and angry here.
Basically ‘keep your hands to your damn selves and your ‘god’ out anyone’s bedroom you sick bastards’ type angry.
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I'm with you, 100%. Also, you taught this Goy a new Yiddish word today. Many thanks!
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And his wife says: “yeah that took 3 seconds..”
A Tuberville says “ Yeah, we need to just keep making more babies” knowing full well what that meant for Nazi Germany. Make industrial strength German,Aryan babies while murdering the rest. That’s exactly what they did.
The Nazi program ;
LEBENSBORN . The neo cristofacsists
are not original.
I think you give him too much credit he thought IVF was abortion!
Me Too! I simply cannot believe that this country is devolving into this religious insanity.
Gop kept it quiet. They kinda blew it letting all this happen before the election. They are going to pay big-time in November. IMHO.
That nails it for the entire gestalt of the Christofacist League. Vote Blue is what to do.
And check this out: a Texas hospital turns away a woman with an ectopic pregnancy, one in which the fetus is never viable and is a medical emergency that will kill both the fetus and mother if it continues. Thank god another hospital saved her life, but how many women are going to die before women's rights are restored? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/23/texas-woman-ectopic-pregnancy-abortion/
We need to VOTE every one of these GOP dickless fucks back to the stone age and every woman who supports them is a traitorous bitch douche.
Every fucking day
And twice on Sunday.
I'm in a state of disbelief. This controlling women has excellerated at an alarming rate. Those rational folk need to come up with a plan, and fast! A plan to locate a safe place, far from anyone who uses the part of the brain that determines stupidity and self aggrandizing thoughts of being able to control other people by pretending to be dumb shits, and prepare to begin the process of exporting these crazies there quickly, with as much discretion as possible. Some suggestions: the moon, Mars, Siberia, N. Korea, the Sun--yes that would be perfect for silencing the small group of men who hate women. I do think we could make an exception for sporkfoot, she is a man disguised as a female. Who is in???
So am I sis, so am I. I won't be tsk-tsked silent this time either.
I wish they would stop referring to themselves as conservatives. Clearly, they are fascists who want to control every aspect of our lives. FUCK THE GOP. Women, are you pissed off yet? You should be. And you better vote blue up and down the ballot. This post has really elevated my blood pressure and should be shared everywhere. America is such an embarrassment. 🤦♀️
Oh, they've kicked over a hornet nest. The GQP will lose seats in places they never dreamed of.
I hope you right. I'm kinda doubtful, because they also cheat. They are evil incarnate.
If we do our job and VOTE we will not just have to hope.
That's what scares me...they cheat like the breathe. Let's face it, in places like Texas and Florida, I'm afraid for everyone. I live in California, and I'm scared to death...I've been afraid to leave the state since 2016!!! Now it's even worse.
Snap out of it.
I'm doubtful too, in that I just don't think your average person knows about these GQP religous extremist's plans, or wouldn't believe it-thinking "they won't take it that far".
We told them how important it was to vote for Hillary in 2016, they said we were overreacting.
That is why we need to share Anita Watkin’s substack “How Project 2025 Will F*Ck Your Life” She was raised in the Extremist Evangelical life & so she knows for certain what they want to do & WILL do if they gain power.
We also need to push any print & TV journalists that we follow to start focusing on that Project & explaining exactly how it would affect their daily lives.
State elections are VERY important to stop this because a huge part of their plans is to get enough states to vote to call for a Constitutional Convention to write an entire new constitution based in their form of Christianity. They currently have about 28 state legislatures on board, they only need 34!!!!!! This is deadly serious
I sure as hell hope so. I’m so fucking angry about it all. Arrrggghhhh!
I’ve talked about this before but I’m going to repeat myself. Women are blamed for every damn thing that is upsetting men, what?
It sickens me and causes my PTSD to be triggered. My daughter, she was 25, was murdered 8 1/2 years ago in an act of Domestic Violence.
When I see the religious right wing creeps making decisions for all women I am beyond angry and go into remembering how I found her body and I get physically ill.
This cannot become normal anymore.
I fought for years for women’s rights in many different ways. This angers me as well but it saddens me, too.
And this pain I feel will never go away.
This kind of thinking by these theocratic people is going to cause more harm to come to women.
It must stop. We have the strength in numbers and would be able to put up quite a fight to keep those misogynists out of our way,
Enough. I’m gonna go be emotionally drained. You get me.
This is all becoming the way of the world now. Enough…
My God...the pain you must feel...I am so sorry-and that is not nearly enough to say. I volunteered for a Domestic Violence shelter back in the midwest for 14 years. My mother was a victim. I, too, am saddened by these abhorrent actions...and all we can do is advocate and VOTE. My sincere hope is that women across America will be angry enough to get every single one of these fascists OUT of office. Hugs to you from Philly. ✌️
Thank you Susan very much! I can understand where you’re coming from, my daughter was amazing, I miss her so much it makes me so sad. Past month has been bad for me but that’s what happens. Thank you.
Sending you light and love and support... I believe we all are. ❤️
How awful, I can't even imagine your pain. I hope that you can find peace someday.
Yes, you are correct when you say we outnumber them. We The People are being pushed to the brink. I am taking today to get my thoughts together but we must do something. Make "good trouble".
There are no words...I am so sorry that happened to you, and your beloved daughter.
You're not alone. If these freaks want to live like that, it's on them. They want to force everybody to adhere to their twisted interpretation of Christianity. MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS!!!
👏👏👏 Exactly.
When these freaks come to my door preaching the "gospel", it won't go well for them.
When I see the Jehovah Witnesses are on the street, I never answer the door.
I just smile & say " I'm an Atheist, no thank you ". And they scurry off all askeered 😳
Go Charlie!
Who wants to bet the men in these "cults" aren't looking at porn, including Holy Mike.
Charlie: I am 💯with you on this. They are so blind for power that they have no understanding of the hornet nest you referred to. It is women, it is the LGBTQ plus community and men who support women and other minorities and anyone else who has a functioning mind.
I tend to agree.
May you be a prophet.
I sure hope you are right!
I think the full effect of Dobbs has yet to manifest but it's coming soon. Hopefully 100 million women will vote out every gop everywhere.
I'm ready. I am in Europe and got my email ballot today. Democrats Abroad. I will work the local Global Presidential Primary as well where people can vote here in person for the President.
We are in Europe too I round everybody up every election and make sure we all vote
That is great! I am going to get more active in this too. Are you a member of Democrats Abroad? They can help with questions and access. https://www.democratsabroad.org/
This year if you vote in the Global Presidential Primary through signing up with them, you help to get Democratic delegates for Democrats Abroad.
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United we demand
They are not conservatives. The word conservative has completely lost its meaning.
Wanda you are so right. 👍🏻
I completely agree. None of these MAGAmorons are conservatives. A conservative is called that because he or she want to conserve the values of law and constitution. These proto-fascists want to tear the whole thing down and rule. I'm sick and tired of the lot of them.
My concerns exactly. Any woman who votes Republican is a traitor to our democracy. She’s a fascist, a liar, and a plethora of evil. I think that the women supporting republicans (and their own death knell), should stay away from the voting polls this November. First, they’re in a minority and second, if Trump would win, guess who won’t be eligible to hold office or even be permitted to vote any longer? Taking power away from women is at the top of the list. So Stefanik, Greene, Mace et al. You’re signing your own contract to take your voice away from public service.
I couldn’t agree more! 👍🏻✌️💙
Oh my god, this is never going to end. These fuckers are going to eventually declare men the owners of their wives and children. And if there is a divorce, no money for the wife and no child custody. Because, after all, who is superior here??an emotional she devil whose only role is to be “subjugate” to her man or the man created in GOD’s image? I kid you not—these fucking lunatics have unleashed the cracken and now the sky’s the limit. I am so fucking sick of these goddamned white fucking men and cunts like MTG who btw, has a history of fucking anything that even remotely resembles a man telling other women how to behave as a “Christian.” What a hoot
That is. It’s always the ones who are most despicable telling the rest of us how to behave. If I could, I would bitch slap that little cunt right on down to Georgia! There’s a special place in hell For women who don’t support women and the sooner that bitch horse goes the better. Same for the idiot speaker. Trading porn reports with your 18 year old kid? WTF? They are all absolutely nuts and the freedom to Impose this shit has suddenly freed their minds to go all sorts of places they’d only masturbated to before. Fuck every single fucking Republican in office anywhere because if they vote in the party, they’re voting for this shit. I have been around a long time and I thought this shit was over in the 70s. It is sickening to see all of this bullshit being trotted out by these assholes again. I guess I don’t need to add that I’m enraged too.
I fully agree Gayna, with every damn word, it's unbelievable, I'm so pissed off!!!
Blessed be the fruit.
You took the words right out of my mouth, Gayna. We need to stop these motherfuckers! Time to Step up ladies!
100%agree
AGREE WITH YOU 100 PERCENT!!!
I’m not sure if this subject heading in the Oklahoma State Consttution has ever been removed, but it it was :
“Women, Children , Mules and Other Property.”
I have believed, as a boy beginning to think of such things that MEN created GOD in their own image to maintain power over women.
Took the words right out of my mouth!!! I certainly hope every person, male, female, non-binary who isn’t in the MAGA moron crowd are as totally pissed of as we on this thread are. If so, we will have a massive win
As a devout atheist this horrifies me. I'm tired of old white men telling me and any other woman in the world what we can and can't do with our bodies. I think if every woman in this country that believes that we are having our rights stomped on, boycotted doing anything, I'm talking cleaning the house, cooking the food, taking care of the kids, anything and everything, maybe these Christian-fascists would get the point. Fuck these guys.🤬🤬🤬
And refuse to have sex with said Christian-fascists.
They'll just rape you. You understand, because you made them do it.
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Bingo! Why put up with mediocre sex from flaccid old white fucks, or young fucks for that matter. We don't need men to have great sexual pleasure and with a Hitachi Wonder Wand®, we can have multiple orgasms (4 or 5!!!) instead of one or none with a man, especially old white flaccid fucks. No muss, no fuss.
PS, thank you so much, Jeff Tiedrich, for your inspiring insubordination and cussing. It's so refreshing to hear angry sisters rip these assholes a new one!
Hahaha! Right?
On point. No pun intended.
Yo ... don't knock old guy sex. Old women need orgasms too.
Not knocking old guy sex, just making all men think twice about just going along with the what the fuck is happening to women's freedoms in the USA. If we shut ALL of you down, maybe you'll start speaking out against what the fuck is happening right in front of your face, right?!? It will take all of us, including old guys who believe women's rights are being taken away at a record pace, to fight back against these piece of shit religious zealots to change the course. Otherwise, we're all going to be living in a christofascist society. No thanks. 🤬
"If we shut ALL of you down." Think you need some old guy sex.
Christian-fascists aren’t the only men who cause pregnancy—pregnancy that for many means you have no choice other than to produce a baby. Women have to grab the steering wheel or be driven where they do not want to go.
For those too young to drive, RUN !
And MEN need to speak up so that we'll be heard. There are a lot of men sitting on their lazy asses not saying a word about this bullshit. They need to quit being cowards and say something!!
We need them now to do just that.
The christian tsunami is pretty convincing for those already encapsulated in religious cults.
I love the memes going around showing a carton of eggs in a car and the caption, “I’m using the HOV lane today”
I also saw one yesterday, with a broken egg on a kitchen counter next to a carton, that said, "we'd ask for privacy at this time." 🤣
I saw that.🤣🤣
😆 I saw that too and there was one that was a picture of the eggs section in a grocery store that said something like 'visiting the chicken orphanage'. The one with the double flat of eggs in a booster chair and a seat belt around it is 🔥. 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
I like the photo of the potato that says "this is vodka"
luv it!!!
😂😂😂 Really!? Good one.
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There's one about claiming 8 dependents on their tax forms this year. 😆
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Oh the GOP perverts ( sorry to repeat myself) love slutty women, as long as they behave and do Repugs business.
Former Merle Norman cosmetic saleslady, donchaknow.
But somehow Melania Trump is not included in the Christian attire for women requirement?
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/donald-trump-melania-trump-knauss-first-lady-erections
That "girl" earned all the diamonds she wants for keeping company with one of the most disgusting men on the planet.
As I have said before she made a deal with the orange devil to get her parents over here.
Agree, there are not enough diamonds on the planet for that.
That coat was so trashy, it looked lke someone graffitied her while she was standing still.
Yes.
I think MTG (3 Toes, Sporkfoot, whatever) should take a good look around next time she's at Mar-a-Lago. Those women are dressed the trashiest I have ever seen in one place. It seems to be required dress attire. 🤢
This s*** is out of control. If this is the direction we’re heading, let’s introduce legislation over male sperm. If you misuse it or misplace it, there will be consequences.
Yep.There should be penalties for jerking off.Wasting precious sperm that could be a child.
A la Monte Python “Every Sperm is sacred ……” 🤣
Love this idea!!!!
LOL!
This for anyone who hasn't seen it. Is there such a person? Probably not here..... https://youtu.be/fUspLVStPbk?si=SjM-XpE6UwcCDbpi
Thank you for posting!
it's always a fun thing to share a little Monty Python - you're welcome!
That reminds me of this fromDr Strangelove
https://youtu.be/J67wKhddWu4?si=ZSz_zK-bqncFDeGo
oh my, my earlier response about a potato being vodka in Alabama makes me a commie! :)
Precious bodily fluids!
THIS! You know it's all misogyny-based because the men who CAUSE EVERY FKING PREGNANCY are off the hook. No responsibility at fking all.
Erections have consequences tee shirts are in order.
Excellent... I'll buy one!
That makes perfect sense to me except it's mostly the men making these "laws" and decisions. Do as I say and look away from what I do kind of shit.
No one will do that. White Christian men run this place now, and their misogynist, brainwashed, crazy women.
No, they don’t.
If clumps of cells are children then it would go without saying that women are due child support payments for their embryos.
Good one!
Muth. Err. Fuh. Kerz.
My exact sentiment.
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Some days I'm sorry I've read you as I am now so bummed out it's hard to do anything. Not that I didn't know but when you put all together like that....
this is the kind of post where as I'm writing it I have to get up every fifteen minutes and walk around the house and calm myself down
Jeff, I just took a two mile walk to get myself calmed down. I’m glad I did that but I’m saving the rage when we can get organized and let ourselves be seen. Not even sure where to start. Perhaps our favorite politicians can be contacted to help. Bernie will.
Channel that rage!! Check out Jessica Craven "Chop Wood Carry Water." We need to get out the Blue votes in numbers so huge that even the maggots can't cheat their way to office.
That is exactly my intension. The only way to begin to end this nightmare is to overwhelm the vote making cheating next to impossible. They have Russia, unlimited trolls, they own all major news medias and control our SCOTUS. We need to scare them with our numbers!
Yes, a commenter recommended her to me & she’s great- specific things to do to make a difference.
Also, as JoyAnn Reid says “Scaring is caring” so also check out Andra Watkins’ substack “How Project 2025 Will F*ck Your Life” She comes from that Extreme Evangelical life & she knows what they WILL do
I just finished a 2+mile walk also…so frustrating to read/hear this … but it will hopefully get us on track to change this shit!
Here’s a good suggestion to start cleaning up:
Justices should be servants of the law and the people, not lifetime monarchs ruling from an ivory tower
….(source: Democracy For America Advocacy Fund)
I exploded when I read the Chief Justice's concurrence with the opinion. It is nothing but dominionist fundagelical claptrap.
I’ve already posted your piece on a local grassroots site; we are battling school board elections and library board appointments again. Lit by black women, LGBTQ folks, and honest history are about to get the ol’ heave ho. A couple of us have our flaming swords ready to stand at library doors.
I get that. My stomach hurts now, just reading this. Pulling all this together has to be horrifying for you, as well.
Bong hits.
Treadmill tonight.
Scary shit….wake up sheeples (is that how you spell it? lol)…..I can’t even imagine anyone putting up with this shit. It is fucking ridiculous-(and I haven’t said fuck in a few weeks-well, on here anyway!). Pray for democratic victories all over the USA!!!! Have a nice weekend everyone…maybe some dickstain will have a heart attack this weekend…(that wasn’t very nice….)….hmmmmm
You don't need to apologize to us, Tess. Have a nice weekend, too!
Insert the "I'll allow it" meme.
Reagan has gotten a lot of mileage out of that anti-intellectualism culture he got started.
As much as I understand a few certain individuals get out of their spirituality, I'd sooner ban religion than have freedom of religion if freedom of religion only applies to one religion anyhow. Particularly if it's this one. Speaking of which, I have something to go write...
https://open.substack.com/pub/endlessnameless/p/the-rise-of-the-new-god-hatemore?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=29z8f0
There we go. Had half of it in my head going to bed last night, just had to type it all down.
I wish Hatemore would croak.
You and me both. Worse than God Money.
Head like a hole?
Someone got it.
As a man, and a gay man to boot, this outrages me beyond belief. I've never been in the position of being a potential father, but I have accompanied two of my friends to have abortions during my lifetime because their shitty sperm donors "couldn't get off work," or some ridiculous bullshit, and I can tell you that, without a doubt, it was not fun and games. Neither woman exited the clinic with a feeling of, "Oh! I had an abortion!!" It was a deeply depressing experience but was necessary at the time. And thank all the gods that they had the freedom to do so back in the 80s when it happened.
I had a little mini-fight with my 91-year-old mom last night when this tory popped up out of David Muir's mouth. She is a good Catholic woman, and I don't begrudge her that. But I found out that even she believes that life begins at the moment of conception, and I had to chime in. "It's just cells, mom, it's not a child." She seemed to agree, but I can never be sure because she also has a habit of not having confrontational discussions, so I added that if you take religion out of the equation, all this is is Republicans telling woman what they can and can't do with their own bodies, and that is all kinds of wrong. Is there ANY equivalent for men? No, there isn't, and there never will be as long as this government is constituted the way it is. There should be NO medical decisions being made by legislatures, including abortion, contraception, transgender surgeries or anything else. It is a PRIVATE matter, and the fact that any laws like this exist AT ALL is already several steps down the road of fascism. If something is against your beliefs or simply makes you feel "icky," shouldn't make it illegal! And trust me, "God" doesn't give a shit what's happening here. If He did, there would be A LOT more smiting than I've seen in my life, and that is precisely ZERO smiting. Republicans, and people who think like them, are the most horrible people in this country, and they MUST be stopped in November, or we are just fucked! We want to be left ALONE to live our lives, and they should be left alone to live theirs. They're going to have to get happy with that situation.
Thank you for that, Steve B. I cursed and yelled AND laughed with your comment.
Can’t wait to see Mad Marge in her burka at the gym
Hah!!!!!!
Mad Marge from PeeWee Herman?
Lol, I think that’s Large Marge, no?
I sit corrected!
The Deists who founded this nation are spinning in their fucking graves! These fucknuts fully intend to replace the Constitution with Christofacism. Welcome to the 12th Century, everybody. Women are going to take their asses down. This cuts across demographics and politics.
I remember when there were no birth control pills. I remember when women couldn’t get credit cards or purchase a car without a husband or male co-signer. Forget about buying a house or renting an apartment! We are being attacked by ignorant bible beaters who are trying to subjugate women into complete silence. Barefoot and pregnant?! That’s the future if we don’t deliver this nation from the grip of these misogynistic, cruel, and evil politicians!
It all smacks of Sharia law doesn’t it? So are they for or against the tenets Iranian mullahs rule by? What about ISIS and their ilk? Loving that are they? And um…yeah I don’t think any God invented government-the lack of perfection shows that much. Well all I can say is they can fuck around and find out exactly how their views land with an American voting public. It hasn’t ended well for them ANY TIME THEY’VE TRIED. They’re so good at mobilizing their opposition!!