No-fault saved my life, no hyperbole. I was in a mentally and emotionally abusive marriage, and I absolutely would have been in that 20%. That was one of the main factors that helped me leave: realizing that I would not have survived the year.
"You have been told that the 2022 midterms were lost because this massive influx of single women, bloodthirsty to kill their children more than ever after what happened with Dobbs, turned out in droves for Democrats. Here's the thing. That is true, but that's…what you're not being told is that has always been true."
This is the soul of the anti-abortion movement. "Killing children" This is supposed to be what makes women out to be "blood thirsty", the idea that they are "killing children". Nobody is killing children, it is nothing more than a weird fantasy born of the idea that a woman's pregnancy is a child, a person, not even just an infant, but possessing all the important characteristics that are the moral arguments for protecting the life of an adult. Spun even more dramatic by the argument that as a child it is even more worthy of protection. What else could they claim that makes a woman who wants an abortion into a "blood thirsty" killer?
These people are the ones who are depraved. Drunk deep of religious indoctrination, they have moored all reason to something that cannot be true, that the roots of the moral argument for the human right to life begins when the sperm and ova merge to kick off gestation in a woman's pregnancy.
And this same conviction is what make Biden "uncomfortable" in uttering the word "abortion".
Republican women in the House... who votes for these classless unqualified imbeciles, especially MTG (and Boebert, Luna (apparently she was the one yelling, calm down), Comer, and the whole lot of them. We need a better Congress (proud to say my rep is Raskin). Video in link.
I don't want to perpetuate Biden bashing about whether he uses the right language or not but I saw this 'on his watch' opinion about Roe being said by a woman in a reporter's interview months ago (and commented about it here that I feared it may gain traction). Biden definitely needs to make clear that it was trump's choices for SCOTUS that made overturning Roe possible at this time. And, more importantly make clear that he needs filibuster proof congress to reinstate Roe or better. It is a double edged sword for Biden. He can say it is all because of trump that Roe is gone but he can't say he was powerless to do anything about it because he needed a Roe-friendly congress (which is the truth). I think he is doing some tight rope walking on this so as not to give ammunition to the other side (remember they are accusing Ds of killing babies after/near birth). Relatedly, I was watching Jon Tester's interview on Lawrence and waited for him to include women's rights on his list of issues for his farmer friends. But he never did - I guess it is not a priority for his rural, farmer folks.
Jessica valiantly shows us everyday what evil the trump version of Rs are. We only have one choice in this election - D up and down. Hillary warned us against Alito and that bastard is again in the news. Voting or not voting has its consequence. As Lawrence said so aptly last night, if you didn't vote for Gore because he was boring then you got Alito. Politics is not entertainment, millions of lives depend on the votes cast for the right person, and right and wrong is not that difficult to decipher at least at the president or congress level. Especially now, eschewing everything R is the only option (we have our own mini-battle in MD where Hogan is running for senate and I hope fervently that people think carefully about voting for him). Imagine if trump wins, Alito and Thomas will retire, Sotomayor may be forced to leave and you will get young Butthurt (er, Butker) clones sitting there until you die. Imagine, trump would have appointed 5-6 of the 9 justices on SCOTUS and how is that acceptable?
Bottomline: we need all three, House, Senate, and the WH to make the course correction we need in this election. Vote accordingly.
Calling out the last section of Jessica’s always-excellent newsletter. Republicans won’t merely do away with no-fault divorce. If they attain full power, they will abolish ALL divorce. They believe their Bibles says God means marriage to be for eternity. To them, it is a holy covenant.
A portion of Republicans are openly saying right now that voting should be by “household,” not by individual. This is an effort to roll back the female right to vote.
If you’ve followed Harrison Butker’s commencement speech, the subtext for this issue would be “I’m the man, the head of the home. I will tell my wife how to vote, and she will joyfully obey me if she wants to please God. And if voting becomes by household, I will vote for my household, and she will have no say in the choices I make. Because I’m the man, the head of the home, the God-ordained leader in this marriage. What I say goes.”
I cannot stress enough how revealing his comments are for the entire Christo-fascist eco-system. A lot of people have written about his misogyny, but this is more than misogyny. It’s forcing women to live like Handmaids for the Christian Taliban.
Jessica, that interview was amazing! And he was so horrified. He's a truly great ally (and his wife is my favorite ever, dude is great but even so, married WAY up LOL), but YEAH, DUDE. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SAYIN'. It IS horrifying. Like, viscerally so. Good on both of ya! Thank you.
They're right about one thing. Marriage IS a predictor. But that's because it's increasingly (correctly) understood as an institution that was designed to subjugate women, so it's now selecting for women who are more okay with subjugation. It's not that marriage makes you that way, it's that being that way makes you more likely to get married. Which is an incredibly crucial difference. When they say marriage solves problems what they mean is subjugation solves problems. Currently reading Lyz Lenz' This American Ex-Wife.
Loved that book. Unhappy marriage #2. We should have consent and coercion laws here like some other countries. It would prevent a lot of fraud as well as making sexual assault and divorce easier to deal with. Now if you’re a DV victim, reporting it might lead to loss of kids, healthcare, etc., while not reporting it ostracizes you from family and friends-it’s impossible. These guys don’t act like that upfront.
Exactly, they totally mean subjugation solves problems. These men should just marry blow up dolls, soon there will be robot avatars for them- and then they can leave the real human women the fuck alone.
"Please get back in your cages, ladies. We SWEAR they'll make you happier!" They are SO convinced that they are much smarter and much slicker than we are. Sorry, dudes -- our lives depend on our ability to sniff out shady men. And we are NOT GOING BACK, stop trying to make it happen. But God forbid they try to adapt to the "market" and realize that their relative "value" is not as great as it once was. (Gross, I know, but is the language of PUA creeps and evopsych bros.) Tl;dr ew
Except that there is one area in which men usually have an advantage*: violence. And I'm afraid that's what it will come down to (and that's why the rhetoric keeps getting more and more threatening) because you're right, women are not going back.
* Maybe modern weapons level the playing field? I'm doubtful though.
I think men underestimate us in general. Women bore the brunt of the pandemic (to say nothing of what went on before and after it :), and we may look busy, but we will make time for this, and men are not ready for the hell we will unleash. Men still have a physical advantage, but we make up for it in determination, stamina, and resentment even the worst MAGA bro can't touch. Tangentially related: went through very bitter contract negotiations with the hospital I worked at last year. The execs were astounded by the nurses' unity, determination, creativity, and absolute refusal to back down, and ended up giving us basically everything we wanted, and now that contract is one of the like three strongest in the country, and is being used as the new benchmark for what is possible. Society gives us a lot of crap to put up with and a lot of plates to keep spinning, but part of what that does is make us tough as nails -- and we have almost six months before election day.
I'm waiting for it. If women vote for Biden by significantly more than men vote for Trump (if it's close Trump will win because of the electoral college), Biden will win. But men are really, really, really awful. And this year men of color may be ready to start voting more like White men 🤢
The child abuse permitted in this country in the name of 'parental rights' is disgusting. And as for teaching consent and decision making, giving women agency goes against their bibles. And so 'religious freedom'. 😡
Saying Texas is going against the CDC is kind of the point though. Republicans loathe the CDC. Pointing out what the CDC says is just going to make them more adamant. And it's true much more broadly. Really, just about everything we know to be basically good, or at least well intended - pick something, anything - they think is evil. That's the scale of the revolt (and the madness) in this country. I don't see a peaceful way out.
fr bringing up the CDC is just going to dredge up a bunch of reconstituted Fauci hate (how anyone could hate him, idk) and start a round of DEFUND THE CDC cries. They are around. the. bend.
I will take my grudge against Reagan to my grave. He and his buddies are the ones who kicked off this hyper-partisan, us-against-them, anti-science BS and I hope he's enjoying his nice warm surroundings.
Come sit by me, I could not agree with you more. It grinds me thast stupid people think he was a great president, when he was one of the worst. He should have been prosecuted for Iran-Contra alone.
When people think the economy is good, they think the president is good. When they think it's bad, they think the president is bad. That might be the biggest reason we're in the trouble we're in right now. Trump gets credit for the economy when he was president, and Biden gets blamed for the inflation during his term. Whether or not there's any connection.
They hate masks so much they're trying to keep anyone else from using them, even for health reasons... Also sounds familiar. (I know it officially says while committing a crime. Even if that doesn't change, how long until not worshipping their golden idol is a crime?)
I am STILL gobsmacked by the fact that they have switched their bedrock loyalty from country and Constitution to a walking sack of questionably human garbage and the destruction of our republic. I don't want to hear peep from any of these people on July 4.
Ugh. I had not heard that. I don't want to invoke stereotypes, but (I spent 18 years in Oklahoma and Missouri and am giving myself a pass) Congressman Cletus questioning the physician who did his damnedest to save the 1.2M people Trump & Friends killed with their negligence is really revolting. But I guess every event they hold is grandstanding, these days.
Calling women “bloodthirsty” makes my blood boil. We all know this language only contributes to a culture in which women will be killed simply for being women.
But why do they call them blood thirsty? Because, they say, women are "killing children", which is religious fanaticism. This is where the problem starts.
The fact that I have not heard a SINGLE OUTLET push back on Trump's bonkers refrain that doctors are out here executing babies on their freshly postpartum mothers' whims is driving me crazy. (Proof positive that this fool had NOTHING to do with his kids until they graduated from business school. Nobody goes through pregnancy to kill the baby, stable genius.) Like, yeah, it's absurd, but you don't just let sh*t like that slide. You still have to flag it, even though we're all so freaking sick and tired of trying to fact-check this subhuman bullsh*t-and-hate machine in something approximating real time.
No-fault saved my life, no hyperbole. I was in a mentally and emotionally abusive marriage, and I absolutely would have been in that 20%. That was one of the main factors that helped me leave: realizing that I would not have survived the year.
Don't apologize!
I never had hope when it comes to America. I majored in American Studies and I barely
know the half of the shit we have been up to, but it disgusts me, maybe because of the absolute
bullshit they feed us in school. So I look at when things go my way as surprises. And I do know I
can move if I don't like it here.
Polls are nothing more than lazy man's way for media to get their stories instead of
actually sending a reporter out into the world. You also have to understand who is conducting
the polling, how are they contacting people (still mostly by land lines) and the demographic
that picks up, how the question is asked and we won't know this but how the question is understood.
Are the people lying? They were in exit polls after the 2016 election, so it goes they probably are now.
I think polls should just be stopped even on AED.
Glad I am closer to the exit door than the entrance.
Yep, and I understand a lot of what is happening as cult behavior. Cult.
Idaho will once again have a maternal mortality review committee on July 1, thanks to some hard lobbying by Idaho doctors.
https://idahocapitalsun.com/briefs/idaho-bill-to-require-study-of-idaho-maternal-deaths-signed-into-law/
"You have been told that the 2022 midterms were lost because this massive influx of single women, bloodthirsty to kill their children more than ever after what happened with Dobbs, turned out in droves for Democrats. Here's the thing. That is true, but that's…what you're not being told is that has always been true."
This is the soul of the anti-abortion movement. "Killing children" This is supposed to be what makes women out to be "blood thirsty", the idea that they are "killing children". Nobody is killing children, it is nothing more than a weird fantasy born of the idea that a woman's pregnancy is a child, a person, not even just an infant, but possessing all the important characteristics that are the moral arguments for protecting the life of an adult. Spun even more dramatic by the argument that as a child it is even more worthy of protection. What else could they claim that makes a woman who wants an abortion into a "blood thirsty" killer?
These people are the ones who are depraved. Drunk deep of religious indoctrination, they have moored all reason to something that cannot be true, that the roots of the moral argument for the human right to life begins when the sperm and ova merge to kick off gestation in a woman's pregnancy.
And this same conviction is what make Biden "uncomfortable" in uttering the word "abortion".
tweet seen:
Scott Shapiro
@scottjshapiro
Sam Alito clarifies that his wife wrote Dobbs
❤️
Republican women in the House... who votes for these classless unqualified imbeciles, especially MTG (and Boebert, Luna (apparently she was the one yelling, calm down), Comer, and the whole lot of them. We need a better Congress (proud to say my rep is Raskin). Video in link.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1791314730063466704
I don't want to perpetuate Biden bashing about whether he uses the right language or not but I saw this 'on his watch' opinion about Roe being said by a woman in a reporter's interview months ago (and commented about it here that I feared it may gain traction). Biden definitely needs to make clear that it was trump's choices for SCOTUS that made overturning Roe possible at this time. And, more importantly make clear that he needs filibuster proof congress to reinstate Roe or better. It is a double edged sword for Biden. He can say it is all because of trump that Roe is gone but he can't say he was powerless to do anything about it because he needed a Roe-friendly congress (which is the truth). I think he is doing some tight rope walking on this so as not to give ammunition to the other side (remember they are accusing Ds of killing babies after/near birth). Relatedly, I was watching Jon Tester's interview on Lawrence and waited for him to include women's rights on his list of issues for his farmer friends. But he never did - I guess it is not a priority for his rural, farmer folks.
Jessica valiantly shows us everyday what evil the trump version of Rs are. We only have one choice in this election - D up and down. Hillary warned us against Alito and that bastard is again in the news. Voting or not voting has its consequence. As Lawrence said so aptly last night, if you didn't vote for Gore because he was boring then you got Alito. Politics is not entertainment, millions of lives depend on the votes cast for the right person, and right and wrong is not that difficult to decipher at least at the president or congress level. Especially now, eschewing everything R is the only option (we have our own mini-battle in MD where Hogan is running for senate and I hope fervently that people think carefully about voting for him). Imagine if trump wins, Alito and Thomas will retire, Sotomayor may be forced to leave and you will get young Butthurt (er, Butker) clones sitting there until you die. Imagine, trump would have appointed 5-6 of the 9 justices on SCOTUS and how is that acceptable?
Bottomline: we need all three, House, Senate, and the WH to make the course correction we need in this election. Vote accordingly.
🎯
We may be the majority like we were in Germany, but history tells a different story.
Calling out the last section of Jessica’s always-excellent newsletter. Republicans won’t merely do away with no-fault divorce. If they attain full power, they will abolish ALL divorce. They believe their Bibles says God means marriage to be for eternity. To them, it is a holy covenant.
A portion of Republicans are openly saying right now that voting should be by “household,” not by individual. This is an effort to roll back the female right to vote.
If you’ve followed Harrison Butker’s commencement speech, the subtext for this issue would be “I’m the man, the head of the home. I will tell my wife how to vote, and she will joyfully obey me if she wants to please God. And if voting becomes by household, I will vote for my household, and she will have no say in the choices I make. Because I’m the man, the head of the home, the God-ordained leader in this marriage. What I say goes.”
I cannot stress enough how revealing his comments are for the entire Christo-fascist eco-system. A lot of people have written about his misogyny, but this is more than misogyny. It’s forcing women to live like Handmaids for the Christian Taliban.
Jessica, that interview was amazing! And he was so horrified. He's a truly great ally (and his wife is my favorite ever, dude is great but even so, married WAY up LOL), but YEAH, DUDE. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SAYIN'. It IS horrifying. Like, viscerally so. Good on both of ya! Thank you.
They're right about one thing. Marriage IS a predictor. But that's because it's increasingly (correctly) understood as an institution that was designed to subjugate women, so it's now selecting for women who are more okay with subjugation. It's not that marriage makes you that way, it's that being that way makes you more likely to get married. Which is an incredibly crucial difference. When they say marriage solves problems what they mean is subjugation solves problems. Currently reading Lyz Lenz' This American Ex-Wife.
Loved that book. Unhappy marriage #2. We should have consent and coercion laws here like some other countries. It would prevent a lot of fraud as well as making sexual assault and divorce easier to deal with. Now if you’re a DV victim, reporting it might lead to loss of kids, healthcare, etc., while not reporting it ostracizes you from family and friends-it’s impossible. These guys don’t act like that upfront.
Exactly, they totally mean subjugation solves problems. These men should just marry blow up dolls, soon there will be robot avatars for them- and then they can leave the real human women the fuck alone.
"Please get back in your cages, ladies. We SWEAR they'll make you happier!" They are SO convinced that they are much smarter and much slicker than we are. Sorry, dudes -- our lives depend on our ability to sniff out shady men. And we are NOT GOING BACK, stop trying to make it happen. But God forbid they try to adapt to the "market" and realize that their relative "value" is not as great as it once was. (Gross, I know, but is the language of PUA creeps and evopsych bros.) Tl;dr ew
Except that there is one area in which men usually have an advantage*: violence. And I'm afraid that's what it will come down to (and that's why the rhetoric keeps getting more and more threatening) because you're right, women are not going back.
* Maybe modern weapons level the playing field? I'm doubtful though.
I think men underestimate us in general. Women bore the brunt of the pandemic (to say nothing of what went on before and after it :), and we may look busy, but we will make time for this, and men are not ready for the hell we will unleash. Men still have a physical advantage, but we make up for it in determination, stamina, and resentment even the worst MAGA bro can't touch. Tangentially related: went through very bitter contract negotiations with the hospital I worked at last year. The execs were astounded by the nurses' unity, determination, creativity, and absolute refusal to back down, and ended up giving us basically everything we wanted, and now that contract is one of the like three strongest in the country, and is being used as the new benchmark for what is possible. Society gives us a lot of crap to put up with and a lot of plates to keep spinning, but part of what that does is make us tough as nails -- and we have almost six months before election day.
I'm waiting for it. If women vote for Biden by significantly more than men vote for Trump (if it's close Trump will win because of the electoral college), Biden will win. But men are really, really, really awful. And this year men of color may be ready to start voting more like White men 🤢
The child abuse permitted in this country in the name of 'parental rights' is disgusting. And as for teaching consent and decision making, giving women agency goes against their bibles. And so 'religious freedom'. 😡
The child abuse permitted in this country in the name of "god, lord, jesus christ" is disgusting.....
Saying Texas is going against the CDC is kind of the point though. Republicans loathe the CDC. Pointing out what the CDC says is just going to make them more adamant. And it's true much more broadly. Really, just about everything we know to be basically good, or at least well intended - pick something, anything - they think is evil. That's the scale of the revolt (and the madness) in this country. I don't see a peaceful way out.
fr bringing up the CDC is just going to dredge up a bunch of reconstituted Fauci hate (how anyone could hate him, idk) and start a round of DEFUND THE CDC cries. They are around. the. bend.
They hate masks. They hate being forced to do something with their body that they don't want to.
🤔
They also don't seem to believe in germs and viruses.
I will take my grudge against Reagan to my grave. He and his buddies are the ones who kicked off this hyper-partisan, us-against-them, anti-science BS and I hope he's enjoying his nice warm surroundings.
Come sit by me, I could not agree with you more. It grinds me thast stupid people think he was a great president, when he was one of the worst. He should have been prosecuted for Iran-Contra alone.
When people think the economy is good, they think the president is good. When they think it's bad, they think the president is bad. That might be the biggest reason we're in the trouble we're in right now. Trump gets credit for the economy when he was president, and Biden gets blamed for the inflation during his term. Whether or not there's any connection.
They hate masks so much they're trying to keep anyone else from using them, even for health reasons... Also sounds familiar. (I know it officially says while committing a crime. Even if that doesn't change, how long until not worshipping their golden idol is a crime?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-carolina-masking-bill-pandemic-coronavirus-crime-campus-protest/
I am STILL gobsmacked by the fact that they have switched their bedrock loyalty from country and Constitution to a walking sack of questionably human garbage and the destruction of our republic. I don't want to hear peep from any of these people on July 4.
He's agreed to speak, I mean undergo the congressional equivalent of a proctologic exam on June 2.
Ugh. I had not heard that. I don't want to invoke stereotypes, but (I spent 18 years in Oklahoma and Missouri and am giving myself a pass) Congressman Cletus questioning the physician who did his damnedest to save the 1.2M people Trump & Friends killed with their negligence is really revolting. But I guess every event they hold is grandstanding, these days.
Calling women “bloodthirsty” makes my blood boil. We all know this language only contributes to a culture in which women will be killed simply for being women.
But why do they call them blood thirsty? Because, they say, women are "killing children", which is religious fanaticism. This is where the problem starts.
Yes. Same as it always has been.
The fact that I have not heard a SINGLE OUTLET push back on Trump's bonkers refrain that doctors are out here executing babies on their freshly postpartum mothers' whims is driving me crazy. (Proof positive that this fool had NOTHING to do with his kids until they graduated from business school. Nobody goes through pregnancy to kill the baby, stable genius.) Like, yeah, it's absurd, but you don't just let sh*t like that slide. You still have to flag it, even though we're all so freaking sick and tired of trying to fact-check this subhuman bullsh*t-and-hate machine in something approximating real time.
That's right, because they didn't burn witches- they burned women.
Yes, will be = are.