"Jeez.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Nonya_Bidniss And there's more in Ben-Ghiat's book I could have cited, more in the copious notes I took from it, but did not want to make a long thread longer. She's excellent on these points.

[nonya_bidniss@infosec.exchange]

@wdlindsy She is. Did you see that she was disinvited from a speech at the Naval Academy after pressure from Heritage?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Nonya_Bidniss I did read that appalling news. So many phone calls going on these days, Musk to Putin, Trump to Putin, Putin to both, Trump and Musk to leaders of economic elites, calls from all these folks to owners and managers of the media.

It's royally disgusting.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"To sum up, over four decades, twenty-six women have told strikingly similar stories of being assaulted by Donald. …

His rallies are descending into disturbing displays of a patriarchal fantasy of the subjugation, infantilization, and sexualized punishment of women."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
/20

Does Anybody Care that Donald Assaults Women?

Morning Dispatch

(www.marytrump.org)

[sillycoelophysis@hachyderm.io]

@wdlindsy to answer the question "does anybody care that Donald assaulted women?" would be "no." Not literally, not exactly, but enough people don't care or don't believe it that it has roughly the same effect.

We have a man who has been not only credibly accused repeatedly, but who also has been judged to be a rapist, and he still has a roughly 50% chance to become president. Cool. ‍

[peterlg@theblower.au]

@wdlindsy Mary is a treasure.

[maxg@theblower.au]

@wdlindsy Actually when I manage to unravel Donnie Diaper's increasingly incomprehensible rants he sounds more like a certain former Reich Chanceller who was responsible for the deaths of an estimated total of 70–85 million people, or about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940.

[540@social.spejset.org]

@wdlindsy
It is A coup d'etat they would want to do together whit Trump. If they want to win it's the only way.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@540 Yes, that sounds correct to me.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MaxG Yes, he does.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@PeterLG She is. I read her with great interest.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@sillyCoelophysis Yes, this is where we find ourselves, sadly.

[cassandravert@indieweb.social]

@wdlindsy
I Love Lucy used that now and then--and it was her show!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@CassandraVert I'm not sure I'm following — Lucy used what on her show? It's that reference that I'm not clear about.

[cassandravert@indieweb.social]

@wdlindsy
Lucille Ball allowed Ricky to spank Lucy as part of the show--more than once.

[mloxton@med-mastodon.com]

@wdlindsy
My Dude Tucker showing his petticoat and telling us about his kink

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mloxton

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@CassandraVert Now that you mention it, I do seem to recall an episode or more than one in which that happened. Thank you for the reminder.

[blagh@hachyderm.io]

@wdlindsy

/s is meant to indicate sarcasm maybe not a good joke though

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@blagh I'm sorry I'm so thck-headed I didn't realize that /s means "sarcasm." Thank you for educating me. A good joke!