"At a rally this evening near Green Bay, Wisconsin, Trump said his team had advised him to stop talking about how he was going to protect women by ending crime and making sure they don’t have to be 'thinking about abortion.”'

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@FOxyShelby I agree. Timothy Burke writes thoughtful, well-informed essays -- always substantive.

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@ferricoxide You'll have to help me understand your point. What the commentators in the thread are saying is awful? Or what they're critiquing is awful?

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@buermann You'll have to help me understand what "it" is.

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@berniethewordsmith Thanks for the link. I had not seen this. They produce good video commentary.

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@FinalOverdrive I suspect Rebecca Solnit knows quite a bit about the history of feminism and the arguments for abolishing the institution of marriage, don't you?

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@darwinwoodka Amen.

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@mastodonmigration Yes, it would, for sure.

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@Itssaggy Could be. I think, too, that this is a proactive way to address the fact that, after the Supremes handed down their abominable Dobbs decision, many women are choosing to cast their votes in opposition to that decision and the party that brought it to us.

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@wdlindsy

The Jessie Waters segment served as a good reminder for why lying to your husband about your vote might be a good idea.

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@econads See this previous posting and the Guardian article linked on that very point.

William Lindsey :toad: (@[email protected])

Alaina Demopoulos points to Jamisen Casey, a 21-year-old student in California who is registered to vote in her home state of Tennessee, On Tik Tok, she says i a video, “My absentee ballot on its way home to cancel out my ex boyfriend’s vote." The video shows her dancing with her mail-in ballot in hand. #Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny /6 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/women-canceling-out-men-votes-trump-harris

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Some of what was said in the thread (and in the MAGA community more-broadly) smacks of having no self-confidence. I was speculating that maybe some of the shittiness on display would be prevented if those people had been raised to be more self-confident.

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@donwatkins I agree.

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@the5thColumnist Who knew, indeed? What they're really saying, aren't they, is that women shouldn't vote at all, shouldn't have to worry their pretty little heads about the big matters that the man who "protect" them are there to worry about?

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@NeadReport Good questions and good points.

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@Sfwmson I think the ACLU says active filing lawsuits, but the odds are stacked against anyone filing suits in states where the federal appeals court is stacked with hard-right justices. Texas is ground-zero for that.

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@CatHerder Indeed. Where's the Dick and Jane reader on which I cut my teeth in grade school when we need it now? Dad goes out to work, as he should do, and Mom stays home in her Betty Crocker kitchen to keep a comfortable house for her hard-working breadwinner. And the two children are adorable and, of course, everything is all white! What's not to like?

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@gnate Amen.

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@lawyersgunsnmoney Thanks for the first comment I've read today that made me laugh out loud.

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@StephanieMoore Those church signs. Attached is one a Facebook friend of mine took this week in her neighborhood in Dallas.

https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/113/408/497/578/101/853/original/9f5149fa6b0f1d83.jpg

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@philip_cardella It appears we didn't move on at all, some of us, and that those some of us now want to drag all of us back centuries.