"The 2024 election is in part about whether women can be free and equal citizens of this republic.

[oddhack@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy it resonates, all right. By making me want to see a US government run entirely by Black women for the next 8 years or so. But I'll settle for a Black woman as President, and a House and Senate actually controlled by Democrats and voting for Democratic priorities.

[tizan@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Forgetting surveys...early voting is showing a gender gap of 10% in GA, NC, MI etc...GA early voting is over today. So unless Tuesday is overwhelmingly male voters the gap is going to be larger than in 2020 which was around 3.5%. Now i cannot imagine that the extra number of female voters are breaking evenly. If i am correct...both NC and GA will be called early in the night. I am willing to bet a beer or a chocolate on this logic.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@tizan Thank you for that report about the early-voting figures and what they may mean. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and trying to hold onto hope.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@oddhack I'm with you, 100%.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@UncleCharlieA The grossest kind of racist guy, I'd say.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mastodonmigration Thank you!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Thanks to Mastodon Migration for providing a link to the ad mentioned in /8 above. If you click the link below, you'll find the ad embedded in the posting.

#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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https://toad.social/@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online/113409154402766593

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Awoke Touché. Unless Trump means by protection placing "rebellious" women in front of firing squads!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Rana You're absolutely right.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@sisu42 Yes, there are.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Arqtec Well-summed up.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse A good point. That hadn't occurred to me, but you're right.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@KatLS That tracks, for sure. Laws are for some people, not others, it seems.

[piousunyn@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy Great add, thought you where recommending Mastodonmigration at first. Find as of late Universodon spotty in service, but seems hard to move. Hell one can start over with a clean slate. Will miss my followers though.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Piousunyn I do definitely recommend @mastodonmigration.

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
I wonder how many Stepford wives and zombies would have voted differently, had they heard his pronouncement first. But I'm still not letting go of my furtive optimism.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse Furtive optimism is such a good phrase here. I am trying to hold on to that furtive thing myself.

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
And I'm clinging to the optimism part. If I read too much, or watch TV too much, I become terrified (or nauseous), so I'm trying to limit exposure. Hell, even Rachel looked haggard on Monday night.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse I appreciate very much your encouragement (and support) to be optimistic. I'm by nature inclined to be a glass half-empty kind of person. Or maybe it's not nature and the result of having grown up in a household headed by two alcoholic parents who were just, I have to say with all due respect for them not equipped or fit to raise children. Hope and optimism are a struggle for me, but I keep struggling! I appreciate you.