The right to vote was never simply about casting a ballot. It was about whether women were full citizens with the right to consent to the government under which they lived.
What’s impossible to ignore is how quickly women’s rights are being stripped away. We’ve watched them chipped away piece by piece, and now people with real political influence are openly talking about taking away a woman’s independent political voice altogether.
We’ve already had that America. Women fought like hell to leave it behind.
His relentlessness in defending his deviant self is iconic to the term "malignant narcissist." That any woman alive would vote for him, much less serve him in office, astounds me.
Victoria, how any members of those groups you mentioned can vote Republican is beyond comprehension! The Republican leadership has only contempt for them, and they have told them so regularly! I guess they don't want to believe their heroes would think they are scum! How sad!
Or white honestly. I understand the Christians, they already are gullible and authoritarian. There seems to be an urge for that "safety" in folks that makes it possible for them to overlook abuse.
He has been helpful for me in understanding my late ex, who drank himself to death and nearly took me with him. It's also helpful to see that somehow that monstrosity captivates people, just as my ex did. I'm not sure anything else could have been so clear in giving me that insight, so I'm grateful.
I just wish it was clearer to others. I wish my daughter didn't think he was wonderful. Somehow when someone dies they become sainted. I surely hope that doesn't happen with this creature.
Steve, I suppose I would be remiss in my role as community reminder if I didn't suggest that you look to Christianity – especially evangelicalism – for your answers.
Although we correctly assert that the U.S. was NOT founded as a Christian nation (contrary to evangelical claims), we do ourselves, and our democracy, a disservice if we don't acknowledge the outsized influence Christianity has had on our governance.
Christianity has its roots in the Hebrew Scriptures, aka The Old Testament, which reflect the strident patriarchy of the ancient world. Followers are admonished relentlessly to subject women to the will of men, no matter how vile they may be.
Jesus (not his real name) is described as "a descendent of the House of David." This is the Old Testament King David, who was born into Jesse the shepherd's family and played a harp. Seems like a nice boy. Then he became a war hero (if one believes the legend) by taking down the Philistine Goliath with his slingshot. This led to David's becoming wealthy and eventually his rise to the Israeli throne. It's not clear whether wealth or the power of the throne corrupted David, but his list of crimes rival those of Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump. Yet Christians give David a pass because he is alleged to be Jesus' ancestor.
The biblical Gospels supposedly tell the story of Jesus, but they were written at least 100 years after Jesus lived, so might be taken with a grain of salt. Christians would have us believe that Jesus was an advocate for women. Yet he was cool with a prostitute washing his feet with her tears and hair, dousing them with perfume. On another occasion, he told a woman caught in adultery to "go and sin no more." Apparently, nobody hauled the guy she was sleeping with in front of Jesus to receive the same judgment.
Editorial note: Evangelicals are obsessed with sex.
Later in the New Testament, we have religious-fanatic-turned-missionary Saul/Paul telling women to "keep silent."
For a couple thousand years, Christianity has been telling women they must be subservient if they want to go to heaven. Given that at least 85% of Trump's base are evangelicals and/or christian nationalists, it's not difficult to understand why those women accept the notion of letting their men decide who governs.
Steve, I do wonder why any woman would vote for him and then there is Harp and Wiles. In my mind Harp is a nut case. I think someone described her as his human binky.
I know a woman who is fluent in the Mandarin Chinese and Russian languages. She was about to apply to one of our government agencies for a position and then Felon47 was re-elected. She refuses to contribute her skills to his administration. Another woman is fluent in Arabic and she refuses to be associated with anything Felon47. There are women whose eyes are open and they act accordingly.
The truth is that he seems never to get tired of losing in court. He doesn't seem to understand the concept of flogging a dead horse, he's flaying it as well. His obsession with certain cases - E. Jean Carroll, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Reflecting Pool, his ballroom - must be costing the earth.
His 60% loss record would be far worse but for a certain band of corrupt conservative justices.
Since you're from ME, I went to a fundraiser for Hannah Pingree yesterday evening. I think she is going to be a really good Governor. Fingers crossed anyway.
You make the point indirectly that the E.Jean Carroll lawsuit was very much about women's rights. The male need for dominance gets really nasty and stubborn. The realization that they need women, come here via women and are nurtured by women who have their kids- is a stubborn fact though. We needed all those amendments and still it's a fight not over. How stubborn. Trump ( and his boys) and Hegseth are the poster boys.
I am seeing all these kinds of comments today. Someone answer please when Americans have fought anything "like hell" in the past 10 or so years.
It is significant that the erosion of women's rights started with the overturning of Roe v Wade. This was no surprise. The Christian Nationalists in collusion with the Catholic agencies worked diligently and openly to overturn this right to a woman's bodily autonomy. Where was the "fight like hell" on this? Losing the right to vote next was always the plan.
Frankly in the reality of the erosion of every right we have such as the fact of concentration camps in America, an armed militia terrorizing and murdering citizens at will, the loss of our economic power, our right to taxation with representation, our healthcare diminished or gone, our food unsafe, our right to vote.....
WE WERE IN THE STREETS YEARS AGO! DO YOU NOT REMEMBER THE WOMEN'S RIGHTS MARCHES IN 2017 TO PROTEST THE INAUGURATION OF TRUMP? 100,000 SEA OF PUSSY CAT HATS COULD NOT BE MISSED!
First of all. Why are you screaming? Forums are for discussion. It is not a group think situation. I realize I am pushing buttons. It is deliberate.
Secondly. That march was 9 years ago ma'am.
How did a one-time march with cutesy hats stop the overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022? Marches are designed to bleed into activism. They are supposed to represent a movement.
Being in the streets takes concerted, consistent and effective effort.
Again. I do not see Americans responding much at all while every single constitutional right is being slowly eroded to the point of looming extinction.
Heather Cox Richardson and E Jean Carroll are two women who greatly inspire and give me hope during these difficult times. Jane Fonda, Mary Trump, Jess Craven, Anne LaMott, and Letitia James also come to mind. All of the Epstein survivors who keep fighting, no matter how many times they are disappointed, mistreated and further abused by ignorant men. There are so many others out there fighting for what's good and right for ALL of us. They all keep showing up to lift the rest of us, no matter what.
Google. estimates there are more than 10,000,000 registered women voters than men in the US. So, if there is only one vote per household and women can't vote, millions of households would have no right to vote.
Imagine a world where brain-dead Republican men are in charge, while their partners just quietly allow them to rule. Meanwhile, all of the well qualified women elected to various government positions would become ineligible to serve.
But, hey, bring it on. Make it a major pillar of the 2028 Republican platform. Hopefully, it will hasten the death of the Republican Party.
And "bring it on"they will, complete with [legalized] lynchings and witch-burnings.
(What entirely too many of us fail to recognize is that ecogenocidal misogyny is the core ethos -- the doctrinal quintessence -- of the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Thus until we evolve enough to rid of those institutionalized hatreds, there is no escaping the ecogenocidal cesspool, either of patriarchy in general or the ChristoNazi theocracy that is its latest USian mutation.)
Things sound so dire, Loren et al, that my husband and I are again entertaining leaving the country if the elections fail - at least until, perhaps in our dreams, the country returns to some normalcy..... Fortunately, we have friends in Paris who have offered assistance......
Chris, we already have all we need. What we need is a Supreme Court that believes in our Constitution and follows it; we certainly don't have that now with 6 who flout the Constitution at every turn.
Plus, the supreme court merely wants to give trump and the presidency unlimited power and no checks and balances. I've read enough history and listened to enough Heather podcasts to know that previous supreme courts were also extreme.
When we openly promote bias/discrimination/hatred to any group we are cooperating with the concept of fascism which utilizes hatred of "the other" to gain power. We are now suffering under a fascist regime. It is up to each of us to resist the spread of fascism in America and address our own inadequacies in embracing all people and religions.
Ruth, as I read HCR's Letter, I was struck by the fact that since its inception, SCOTUS has had a history of being wrong on several important issues. The Court's wrongness is built on the foundation of the wrongness of the legislators who created it.
Creating a Court that sits high above every other branch of government, giving its benchwarmers lifetime appointments, and establishing no Code of Ethics and no means to enforce the code, those legislators overturned a whole truckload of wrong.
The GOP is already dead. It died sometime in 2024 with the election of Trump. What took its place is the Party of Stupid and Hate. Starting in 2026 that too shall shall die.
Merrill, I think how one defines "die" affects how one establishes dates. If dying is defined as a process, then I submit that the process began in 1968 when the Republican Party chose Richard Nixon as their presidential candidate. The party began its gradual descent until 1980 when they brought forth Ronald Reagan, who accelerated the party's descent toward death. George Bush 2.0 marked the next coronary arrest. In fact, July 16, 2024 is the date when the Republican Party was pronounced dead, when the party declared that their platform was "whatever Trump says."
What we are seeing today is the churn of maggots (magats?) writhing inside the rotting corpse.
Republican't party is already dead. DonOLD and his billionaire friends have bought it and tell it what to do. Backtalk gets results like Lindsey or Mitch.
Sometimes I wonder just what’s wrong with those Evangelicals who want to take us backwards. Have they learned nothing from history? Those of us who grew up in the fifties have lived through the evolution of women’s rights. I have a voice now, as do my daughter and granddaughter. I am reminded of the words of Helen Reddy’s song, “I am Woman, hear me roar. . .”.
What comes to my mind with this figure is why haven't women been able to harness this massive voting power. Even given the approximately 35% or so of MAGA voting women where are those other 6.5 million women watching out for their own rights?
I have wondered this myself. Our daughter is single and may or may not ever marry. And what of a mother raising young men old enough to vote but who can't afford to leave home? Are the misogynist politicians going to twist themselves into pretzels saying that the oldest male in the household is the head, even if he isn't the one supporting the family? Such jackassery shouldn't even be mentioned behind closed doors, much less widely in public and accepted by too many.
Ligia, that's what makes this whole white male supremacist push a pile of crap. Just like so much of that white male supremacist BS, it is not thought out, it is just a white male wet dream that should be called out for what it is at every opportunity. Maybe those who are proposing it should be told that their idea is something a male 3-year-old would come up with if they knew what a household was. Such men think their brilliance is so absolute they never have to actually think anything through, so they don't, and prove their incompetence every time they open their mouths. Alas, there is too much reverence for such men in our society that they are rarely questioned on their BS. That needs to change!
I feel your rage Ruth and understand it, and would love to be able to find a way to change their whole way of thinking; but alas, our society has too many guardrails in place for them to continue on the same male dominance route! I have always called it SPS: small penis syndrome! Sorry, I know I should not say this on HCR's domain, but as a businesswoman who was called "doll" for the first time in my life at 30 by an American businessman, my bafflement of their misconception on women's equality still boils my blood.
We call that teenyweiniepeenie syndrome in our household.
Oregon law has a statute that addresses the need for mudflaps/fenders that cover the entire tread of the rear tires of vehicles. Many lifted 4x4 trucks have oversized tires which do not cover the entire tread. The title for that violation is "Inadequate Fenders" and I used to LOVE telling them that their trucks were "inadequate"... That is a very powerful and provoking word in that realm.
Legia, I have no problem with your SPS syndrome. My dad used to call men who treated women badly, "guys with small penises, so you are in good company! I have heard Trump is one of those guys. I have no first-hand knowledge of this, but I do believe it because he exhibits all the symptoms of it.
Another great example. Yes, they'd probably take the vote away from her, too, including if her husband died serving her country. We know how they feels about those "suckers" and "losers" already.
Better Angels, and barefoot and pregnant is just not going to happen! Their pathetic wet dreams need to be called out for what they are, and every time one of those whiny white male supremacists like Doug Wilson and the pseudochristians they have corralled for their BS fantasy is interviewed online, on TV, and in print. Get the word out that those whiny white boys do need to be stopped and put in their place, and that place is not in charge of anything or anyone! They are toddler-men who can't even manage themselves.
Exactly. When my wife was working on her Chemical Engineering degree in the late 1980's at what was then University of Missouri at Rolla, one of the graduate TAs was a misogynist. Out of the 30 or so remaining Chem E students in her class there were five women. This particular grad student was a TA for one of the labs they were required to take. He asked my wife, "if you are married why aren't you home, barefoot and pregnant."
He later became a full professor in the Chem E department.
When I first became a programmer trainee at a life insurance company, one of the recent hires was a woman. In fact, she was the only woman in the department besides the department secretary. She had graduated with a computer programming degree and became a very talented programmer. We worked together on many projects since it was a small department at the time. We became life long friends and it quickly became clear to me that women were every bit as qualified to become programmers as men.
I was very fortunate that she we worked together and I never judged another programmer's ability based on sex or race thanks to that initial experience.
I worked as a molecular biologist for close to 20 years. Worked in academia. A friend of mine asked me what it was like saying, "it must have been VERY intellectual and stimulating". My response - "Well - have you ever seen the movie 'Animal House'? That's closer to the mark - at least when the PI (Principal Investigator) was a man."
Cowgrrrl, Those whiny white boys are looking for slaves. Wives and other dependent women would work so well for that. The problem, those whiny white boys couldn't keep this economy going by themselves even with their female slaves. They think they are so superior and brilliant when in reality, they are no smarter as a group than any other group and they are less capable then a lot of women and men of color I know of. Those guys are living in a fantasy in which everyone will bow to them and do their bidding. I don't know about you, but no one I know is willing to bow to such male insanity. No one in this country will permit legal enslavement. We did that and it was appalling!
There are thousands of us who didn't ever think it would get this far, yet here we are. It is always something with this administration, it's exhausting.
I was so certain that it would get this far that I left the US in 2017. That gives me some emotional distance and the immense joy of living in a progressive country with no guns, but I'm still fighting and it's still exhausting to me, too.
This is the problem, Alexandra — if this horrific regime continues in the US, the global effects follow and are undeniably negative. Having investigated leaving the US myself, I can see that the dominoes are already falling. The destruction is evident in many countries. What a waste of a perfectly good planet.
Thank you for your continued fighting. None of this is going to end peacefully and if Democrats do not stop shooting ourselves in the foot and start supporting each other, the republicans are going to win again. Democrats are notorious for infighting while republicans support each other regardless of the situation. We have got to pull together, this is an important election, we cannot afford to lose and yet the fighting continues.....smh
Thank you for continuing the fight. If I had the financial resources, I would have been gone as well. I want desperately to leave, but I can't afford it.
Deborah, it seems whiny white child-men think they are so superior that households without men aren't households at all and, well, too bad for those old cat ladies. Toddler-white boys never had to grow up, but somehow they don't know it, so think they can order people about as they did in their homes as toddlers. We need to show them they are wrong because they are!
Deborah, your answer is in the prescient book, *The Handmaid’s Tale*. Your child(ren) will be reassigned to Heritage Foundation parents, and your task will be to serve men assigned to you for reproduction. Failing that, you’ll be farmed out to provide other services for the pleasure of men. (Dystopian, unless we ACT to stop this madness!)
Fortunately I’m too old for that now! My children are grown and out on their own. I’m 75 and live alone. I was a single parent of 3 for most of their childhood; worked hard, bought a house on my own and raised good people successfully.
I can't be the only one who's boss stood in the middle of an open office and proclaimed that he would NEVER pay women more than minimum wage (he actually paid less than minimum wage as I was 'salaried' at 40 hours a week but scheduled for 48).
His reasoning was that woman's income was for nothing more than makeup and clothing as Men supported the family. He said this outloud.. in a room full of a dozen women of whom only 1 lived in a 'traditional' family situation. The rest were single, divorced or married to men that could not work. Several were trying to raise children on that minimum wage.
It's been 40 years and yet the more things change the more they stay the same
Hey, here's an idea for MAGA men: all single women of voting age will be rounded up and sold to the frustrated men who have never managed to attract a woman. It's a mission ICE can probably handle really well.
Huh? There's a problem with that? I wonder what Hegseth thinks...
Exactly so, Deborah. Our household (est 1983) has no men in it (well, except for the orange boy feline, and he isn't old enough to vote). What of a widowed woman? What of the wife of a felon? (That one oughta hit close to home for someone...)
Well, Deborah, according to biblical history, widows fall under the jurisdiction of either their brothers-in-law, brothers, or some other male relative.
If no such male relative can be found, they will be homeless, economically powerless and must follow the lifestyle of their never-married sisters, surviving through prostitution or begging.
Kelli, and we are not going back to pre-1920 America. We are going to push even harder for our rights and to get as many good caring women into office around the country as possible. Our next push has to be to get bratty white child-men out of positions of authority in the richest corporations!
Yes! I heard yesterday that Hegseth is contemplating a Presidential run -- as he is out there campaigning for other Republicans in a blatant violation of the Hatch Act. Hegseth??? Really?? The extremist church he belongs to is one of those 'women should be submissive to their husbands' because men are superior. This from the genius who got us into the un-winable Iran war and the guy who wipes his nose with his hand and then runs it through his oily hair. Yuck.
He brought the pastor so callee Doug Wilson to the Pentagon There are required services and some religions shunned. He needs to be removed and also charged with war crimes. In the attack that killed all the school girls the operation folk were operating on old sources of information.
I think it's fairly simple. Women are perceived as more liberal than men. In the MAGA view, most women vote for "the wrong candidate". Take the vote away from women and only white male MAGA types will run the country, I'm a male American living in Japan. I'm in favor of giving women a chance at governing in every country. Here, a woman, Sanae Takaichi is the Prime Minister. She seems, in my view, to be doing an excellent job of governing.
Let’s not forget the lessons of the excellent book, *The Chalice and the Blade*. Important women were routinely written out of the Bible, which was of course authored by men with an agenda.
Elaine Pagels and Sr Elizabeth Johnson, Sr Chris Shrenk and others have all documented the real history of women in sacred texts and in the early Christian society. Whenever and in any sacred text you hear of a woman named stand up and be alert. In the Hebrew bible me both midwives to Moses’ mother were named as well as his mother and sadly the names escape me right now.
Women and trans people have been stripped of the rights to privacy and bodily autonomy. We have already been demoted to second-class citizenship.
To me, imposing a patriarchal one-vote-per-family policy is heaping more indignity on top of a much more grievous loss of rights. A loss of rights that literally can lead and has already led to women's deaths.
In all of the insanity of the MAGA flood-the-zone strategy, the impacts of the loss of abortion rights and denial of gender affirming care, and the implications of the fetal personhood movement have been submerged.
Those issues need to be brought back up out of the depths because they strike at the most fundamental rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
There’s a mental disorder called Dependent Personality Disorder, in which the sufferer is terrified of making decisions (and it’s usually a woman) and constantly defers to others (usually males). I wonder if this is at play in some cases? Certainly in many cases it’s B3: Biblically-Based Brainwashing.
It seems the more history somebody knows about the right to vote, the more likely they are to exercise it. Americans have fought for, killed for, died for the right to vote and so many Americans still can’t even be bothered to do it. Maybe the right wing effort to disenfranchise so many voters will serve to remind us of its importance. But it’s a damn shame we need a reminder.
It seems as if the current regime appeals to an era before the Declaration of Independence or even the Magna Carta in embracing autocracy. For all of their contradictions, the official precepts of our American way of governing the founders signed off on radically expanded distribution of universal rights and power, and we have expanded on and refined those principles since. Never without opposition of course. Predatory behavior is always an option, and did not simply stop with a declaration of unalienable rights; but the founders might have chosen to crown their own king, and did not. This was not simply, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. It wasn't Utopia, but is WAS different, and the world took notice. Naturally, those who would be king never just melted away.
"It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong -- throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings." - Lincoln
"I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now."
Let's try not to go back to the suffrage efforts of Anthony and Stanton, though, who made the case that white women should have had the vote before Black men. Universal suffrage is the goal and we can demand and vote for everyone's civil rights at the same time.
''Republicans Have Discovered a Problem With Voting: Women Keep Doing It''
After 106 troublesome years of female citizenship, Christian nationalists have a solution: let your husband handle the democracy.
America has apparently been doing democracy wrong since 1920.
For more than a century, women have been walking into voting booths, making up their own minds, and casting ballots without first checking with the nearest husband.
Some Christian nationalists would like to correct that oversight.
Pastor Doug Wilson has argued that the Nineteenth Amendment was a mistake and favors household voting, where the household gets the vote and the husband ordinarily casts it.
At last, freedom has been streamlined.
This is an odd position for a movement that never stops talking about individual liberty. Government must not tell you what to do. Personal freedom is sacred. Americans must resist tyranny.
Unless, apparently, you are married and female.
Then perhaps your democracy should be handled by your husband.
The timing is almost too perfect.
On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the decisive state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Representative Harry Burn cast the deciding vote after receiving a letter from his mother urging him to support women’s suffrage.
A mother helped persuade her son to give American women the vote.
A century later, some men would like Mom to give it back.
And this is not merely some obscure theological argument. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has associated himself with Wilson’s church network and reposted material featuring pastors opposing women’s suffrage and supporting household voting. His spokesperson later clarified that Hegseth supports women’s right to vote.
Reassuring.
Apparently we have reached the point where the Pentagon occasionally needs to confirm that the secretary of defense is still okay with women voting.
Christian nationalism often presents itself as a return to traditional American values.
That depends on which America you want to return to.
Women already lived in an America where husbands held enormous legal and political power over them. They spent generations fighting their way out of it.
The Nineteenth Amendment was not a historical mistake.
Women are citizens. Citizens vote.
And if your political vision works better when millions of citizens have less political independence, the problem is not women voting.
Does something in our nature compel us to repeatedly bring hell upon ourselves? This question is posed in this live historical moment in the US. I thank Heather everyday for revealing important, crucial historical facts. If schools don't teach it, students won't know it....
Women therefore hav to keep fighting... and will. There is something in the American psyche that will keep this battle going. Which is why I have hope for us against this present scourge. We, all of us, will not go gently.
Bonnie, as an intellectual and a woman who is 83, I have put up with mansplaining for years. It is easier to be ignorant and spend hours trying to look good.
Why have women allowed their rights to be chipped away? Women stood by for years while people opposing abortion openly went after Roe v Wade. Why did women sit on their hands when their right to bodily autonomy was stripped away? Roe was always about more than abortion. It was about the right for women of all ages to make decisions about their bodies. The right to vote was always next.
Why are the candidates most for women's rights barely winning? As long as people continue to support the centrist Democratic Party, we remain in danger of losing our right to vote. This is the part of the Democratic Party that has been there the whole time America is now under a fascist Government.
Thank you, Professor. When did the Republican party turn so insane and start groveling to a madman. It’s unreal. I want to scream every day. November, come quickly. ☮️❤️🌻
November will only be the start as the newly elected won’t take office until January 2027. They will still have over a month to reek even more chaos and scream about the results of the election.
I will address the statement made by Heather that Christian Nationaliats want to end women’s suffrage. There are certainly fringe groups that will always be amplified and perhaps given some credibility within members of the Trump administration. It sounds as if I’m hootin’ and tootin’ against this proposition. I’m not. I don’t like religion in politics nor in any aspect of life. There is no God. Dogs yes. I just rather to keep it in perspective. I would prefer to make a case on other aspects of voter restrictions instead of propaganda on repealing the 19th amendment. But it makes for a good flash story and ending. That I admit. I seek the same in my own writing. And it is a Fredrico Fellini circus that is for sure.
It will be more of the same dystopian anarchy of these.. I'm sorry, authoritarian crackheads, until then.
People understand that ice has no authority that it hasn't stolen, its staff better jump ship soon because what they're doing IS ILLEGAL and they will be prosecuted.
Wanda, the only chaos that you’ll find in America is found right here on this Substack service 2 million people in chaos for nothing except being let around by the nose by somebody who doesn’t tell you the whole truth and nothing but the truth. There is no chaos. This country is a rocketship to the stars right now successful in every venue in every town and city, in fact, some interesting crime statistics came out today. Crime has never been lower in this country and it’s down two years in a row in Washington DC because of Donald Trump‘s diligence to lower the murder rate the violence rate the theft rate of automobiles down 30% this year after being down last year as well amazing huh with a little policing and a little focus will do and you’ll notice you haven’t heard a peep from the mayor of DC who used to complain about not wanting Donald Trump there until she sees the results
The problem with you, you don’t want to see the results. Which are nothing short of amazing
Tell Mr. Savage instead of thanking her, ask her why she never posts a right wing link in any of her commentary why she never compliments anything the Republicans do no matter how good it is no matter how much it benefits all Americans it never happens you’re listening to someone who doesn’t tell you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth all you liberal lemmings do is bow and genuflect with every word that comes out of her mouth when it’s very disingenuous, she used to be a respected historian and now she’s become a capitalist, making millions on a bunch of brown nosing lemmings who don’t wanna know the whole story who probably were with Twitter and then ran over to blue sky, so they didn’t have to hear a contrary point of view very sad very weak
Why don't you go to hell, you motherfucking worthless persistent ignoramus. Just go fuck off and when you're done, fuck off over there, and then over there, and then over there, till you fuck your way off the cliff. I'd love to have five minutes with your entitled ass, after which you wouldn't be so entitled, you white piece of shit, you goddamned embarrassment to the demographic.
The reason she doesn't cite any of you scumsucking right wing morons is she only deals with factual truth, something you've never dealt with in your worthless life.
Go Make America Truly Great Again by dying in the cold and the dark of a disease that's socially unacceptable to your fellow fratboy fuckoffs.
I believe I made myself perfectly clear their Lynell. Be nice if Heather told you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, but she doesn’t do that
The capitalist basically now tells you what you want to hear so you continue to contribute to her amazing wealth for which I congratulate her, except for the fact that she’s leading people to hate this country,AND THEIR PRESIDENT when there is no reason to do that
I believe I answered your question but if you didn’t get it, I will do it again here since now I am awake and have my arsenal of facts at the ready for your hate, unsupported, accusations, and childlike insults. Like I said earlier, I can almost hear the giggling in the background. What a surprise I just noticed where you live. How could you be anything but deluded by your surrounding? Try getting out more.
I don't like people who take advantage of others. that's why I'm here. I'm here To provide awareness for people who are ostensibly almost completely unaware
What a glorious morning it's going to be 4me. So much stupidity, so little time to answer these Ignoramuses
But you make it so easy guys.
After a little Breakfast nourishment I will love, exposing the irrational hate
And commentary by the subscribers To the ex historian
Now capitalist who is taking advantage of the Some of the most gullible human beings on planet Earth
I admire her for making the money It's wonderful, but it's about as disingenuous as it gets Taking advantage of the mentally disabled Who can't dissect Truth from fable
My entitled ass My entitled ass. What my wife and I did for Los Angeles County alone you should kiss my ass that’s right you should absolutely kiss my ass. What we created in California while we were there my wife alone created. More than 5000 new jobs Out of finn air in newly established businesses there and I created 1000. millionaires in California alone.
And I started with Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah a furnished rental apartment when we first moved to California from Florida with a three-year-old son and a Datsun B2 10 with to our name.
We came with nothing and we worked our asses off 80-90 hours a week in developing businesses and success stories. Not to mention, created the largest Number of new businesses in California than any other chain in the country right there in Los Angeles County.
You’re nothing but a fucking ignoramus And your shielding destruction of a state that was once beautiful
You know actually stupid you sound anybody with a brain which apparently has left your Cerebrum would want America to be great again, regardless of who is in office of the presidency But you as a totally consumed hater, take that saying and tie it to Donald Trump for no reason whatsoever because it wasn’t even his in the first place it belonged to Ronald Reagan and Trump is just borrowing it
But it means what it says make America great again and if you’re against that, then you should get the fuck out of the country let alone out of LA
My wife and I did more for Los Angeles then you could’ve ever imagined in your entire dreams in your wetness of dreams.
And it’s sickened us when we left because we saw it started to decay We saw the crime continually grow. We saw the homeless continually grow. We saw the taxes continually raised. We see the prices continually rise. And we see the waist and abuse of the tax dollars that seemed to consider the illegal immigrants more so than California citizens and Residence themselves
So you can use the F word all you want and maybe that’s a good release for you, but as I’ve said earlier, the only reason that people are here not the only reason but one of the main reasons misery needs company Welcome to the Substack service
Well, I made a little response to the welcome you gave me here and I hope you appreciate it because it accurately depicts the shit hole that has become California. When I was there, you could smell the opportunity in the air. Now all you smell are human feces, having to walk around it the smell of urinated cardboard everywhere the streets completely decomposing and Karen bass running around
and repairing potholes. Now that her term as mayor is in jeopardy.
Not to mention the recent discovery of a major organization, putting out a fake pole about the mayoral race it’s gonna be funny when Californians read it to whether they’re Pro or Kong. They’re gonna realize what a fraud California has become. Oh, I mentioned I forgot to mention in my earlier. One of the largest states In the country where people are leaving the state For good, including major businesses and billionaires where you want to text them, and Gavin knew some a little bit too late with his pushback on that one Wacko liberal Congress there put that on the ballot it’s absolutely hysterical pretty soon as much as the mayor of San Francisco is trying to put back the pieces of a decadent Citi you’ll be running out of other people’s money very shortly. If you keep pushing people out of the state, especially the wealthy.
David, you better go back and take a look at one of your posts you actually said you liked one of my post and I laughed because I thought well you probably didn’t read it or we’re going to try to like someone else’s but you instead like to one of my pretty funny, huh
You are NOT listening I don’t give a shit about Trump. I’m a policy wonk
And everyone of Trump’s policies is working for the benefit of all Americans and for democracy and for the world.
Are you on the other hand as I’ve said, if Trump cured cancer you would say. OK, but he put all the oncologists out of work
The idea that the right of women to vote is endangered is ludicrous. That right will never be taken away. Even if some Christian nationalists, surely a minority, want that, it would be opposed by the vast majority of Republicans, by Susie Wiles, Nikki Haley, Susan Collins, etc and just never happen. We know what needs to happen to amend the Constitution, right? 38 states to approve. A non-starter, a straw man you could say. But a useful comment at the end of the Letter if you want to tar Christians.
Well, there’s two kinds of Maga now by the way… maybe three kinds. Where is the Maga that 99% of Americans should be supporting which simply means make America great again and if anybody here is against that they’re just fucking haters and nothing else because they’re trying to tie the words Maga for Donald Trump and they’re not even his words were actually the words originally of Ronald Reagan
The acronym Maga means make America great again. People you make it sound like a bad thing a horrible thing because it has anything at all to do with Donald Trump
Just fucking lunacy, ignorance, and arrogance all at the same time.
Pierre and the socialist are coming to invent a new America and a new Maga
New acronym means make America go away. No more incentives to do well, frowning on all success, taking away from the greatest country on the planet right now, and for many many decades before.
Funniest part is if every one of you never heard the person in front of you and the person in front of them and the person in front of them and Heather‘s bullshit which gives you only what she wants you to hear you might not even hate like you do
This Substack service gives you an incentive to hate. And that’s why many many of you who used to be involved with Twitter. Is that it was 85% liberal and 15% conservative and you didn’t have to hear the truth the facts of the other side of reality but as soon as musk bought it and it became a 5248 proposition you all slithered over like little worms and blue sky. You could you could Brown knows and commiserate with each other without interruption and unfortunately, without a single thought between your ears
Perhaps you can help me I’m looking for Rhonda I can’t seem to find the post that I want to address. I will keep trying, but if anyone sees Ron doane and ask her please to send me the last worthless diatribe full of what she thinks or fax but they’re not, and I would love to see them and take them apart like a little tinker toy set.
By the way Dolores, I believe there was a president that actually was able to close an officially “CLOSED”border. Lmfao. Unless you would like to see some more murders and rapes by illegal criminals, and illegal immigrants. The problem with you supposedly compassionate assholes should go visit one of the 400 Americans that were killed by illegals during Biden’s term in the White House and 1000 that were sexually assaulted. You should go to their homes and apologize or at least give some fake sympathy instead of bolstering illegals over American citizens. People like you and some of the other others here are going to kill this planet with what we call suicidal empathy.
And I believe you can figure out what that’s all about. If you’re not sure, check out a lady by the name of Elizabeth Ross from Ireland.
Why do you overeducated ignoramus’s ever talk like that? You know Hillary Clinton made a comment that lost her an election and when you make comments like that, you lose total and utter credibility with anybody but the lemmings here.
how do you put every single person that happened to vote for Trump in the same basket of deplorable’s that Hilary did. You’re sitting here in a cult Substack service where you have 2 million people with brown noses that bow and genuflect whenever Heather breathes sickening You never question you never research. You have no awareness of the outside world whatsoever to use a sentence like that. Or to think that way, so freaking close minded it’s really sad
just my opinion, but I think as Nixon as the warmup. It was enormously popular showman Reagan who decisively departed from government of the people, by the people, for the people; and sold the alleged natural leadership of the very rich and powerful.
Chris, you’re on to something here. There are so many instances of people applying appallingly simple solutions to complex problems, and those efforts fail, of course. Then the simpletons blame the nearest persons (immigrants, women, etc).
True, but I think it's more than that -- lots of people who had terrible childhoods with love-withholding parents turned out ok -- I think he's a born sociopathic narcissist.
Yeah, that's really it, huh... "Look, daddy! I destroyed the world! I am just like you now, I know because you destroyed my world. Will you love me now?"
His “acting” did not correlate to his *popularity*. He was elected Governor of CA, and from there to 2 terms as Pres of the US, tho his 2nd term ended in some ignominy, as his cabinet was mostly indicted in Iran-Contra.
Anne-Louise, as I recall, Reagan was "enormously popular." While he wasn't a great actor, he wasn't terrible either. He likely didn't become a superstar because he was unwilling to engage in the "extracurricular activities" that propelled other actors to stardom.
But as a public figure, he was enormously popular, due to his patrician carriage, trustworthy face and velvety-smooth voice – and expert speechwriters.
And, as an experienced actor, and a true professional, he'd stick to the script. Unlike someone we know of. Yes, a good voice and a trustworthy face will carry you far.
A man who screams over politics? Time for a wellness check. November will relieve your pain, and then two years later, revive it when the far left Democrats anger the public and a Republican is elected again. Careful what you wish for.
Aahhh, today’s “wit and wisdom” from our very own little fascist. Hope your therapy sessions are working out for you. Now, back under your rock, we’ll see you tomorrow.
Mike, are you like lost in another universe like maybe you’re still looking for planet Pluto, which is not a planet anymore.
The insanity unless you haven’t been watching Is entirely with a Democrat party right now in fact, I’ll call them the Democrat parties right now splintering like a piece of bamboo. With five different tentacles, you have your few sane SANE Democrats left then you have your DSA socialists, which are trying to take over the country then you have your communist brigade and then you have your antisemites and then you have your sexual Challenge challenges to the party.
The Republicans have not changed only the Democrats have changed so much that even the family of John Fitzgerald Kennedy have said that the Democrat party has gone so far left that if John Fitzgerald Kennedy were alive today, he’d be a middle of the road republican
Grab yourself a big mirror because tomorrow you’re gonna need one. Everything almost every word you said in your post that I’ll address it specifically tomorrow is a projection of everything that you’ve been doing and the liberal Democrats have been doing including Mr. Biden. I’m so anxious to waking up and getting to it tomorrow, but I actually go to sleep with a smile on my face
You’re right I’m not on meds I’m on your mother. You feel better now, that you’re correct. ? Just asking for a friend. That’s what happens when you fuck around with someone’s mother like I apparently did with yours
I can’t wait to watch you parrot all the bs from the gaslighting right-wing fake news you seem to have swallowed like Jim Jones Kool Aide. You are living in an alternate invented reality that simply doesn’t exist. But you go ahead and spew your well manufactured propaganda because I have heard it all and wasn’t fooled by it. Accusations and claims that aren’t backed by legitimate evidence or sources can easily be dismissed by reasonable people. That’s why you will only just be wasting your time and floundering around for nothing. You actually look silly with your pathetic parroting propaganda.
By the way, the Jim Jones of the world or right here amongst these links right here in this Substack, 2 million of them bowing and genuflecting with every word that Heather says even though she’s only telling you half the story less than half the story no story at all, or the store if she wants you to here and nothing else
And if you had a brain in your head, which is that thing about 3 feet above your ass, you would do some investigation you would do some research you would do some questioning you would do some challenging of the things that she says, because if you look at her links, every single one of her links is from a wacko left-wing website source
Entitled to make as much money as she wants. And as she can, but I hate when she takes advantage of people, stupidity, ignorance, and gullibility. You guys wanna hear every single scratch kitchen pimple of anything possible that’s negative towards Trump and that’s why you’re here because misery needs company and I’m going to continue to follow up and find your post
Here’s your defense, Rhonda and I can’t find it yet, but I found something similar. Here’s your defense. Well, you’re gaslighting you have fake news you swallowed fake
Spewing, manufactured propaganda, accusations, and claims that aren’t back by legitimate evidence but they’re all back by six by significant evidence every single one of them. I’m not floundering around baby I’m winning because I’m making people aware of what they don’t know what they don’t see and most importantly, of what they’re never told or exposed to. That’s all you do. Use the word propaganda propaganda propaganda propaganda but just like a liberal never defined it never push back on. It never have a factual point to disapprove any of my so-called propaganda. None zero zilch nada and that’s who you are Ron doane but I’m gonna find that post and continue looking till I’m done.
Oh gosh Jhee really I had my own clothes ready and I went to pick up a nice little meme for you but when I came back, my post was gone so I’m gonna have to restate it quickly. So here I’m giving you the opportunity to have some fun Donald Trump is the best president of your life. You’re gonna have to deal with that someday
In the meantime, check this out. You see every administration posts what they believe to be there accomplishments so I want you to see what Trump thinks they are and then you can have fun tossing them.. laughing, refuting each and everyone. If y’all have a good time facing something, you’ve never seen before. Hey, smidgen of reality
Every administration puts out a little post that indicates what they think their accomplishments are so I’m gonna make it easy for you go to http://whitehouse.gov
You will be able to laugh, refute, or probably deny what you see before your very eyes which is totally fine, but at least you’ll see it for the first time ever EVER
By the way, one of the key “ tells” so to speak , is when one of you take your rent people mention Fox News when you couldn’t find it on your dial if you tried, you’ve never watched you’ve never seen it you’ve never evaluated it. You’ve never researched it but out of hand you critique it. Pretty fucking ignorant.
Unfortunately for you, it is the number one news network by viewership on TV and it has the top 14 out of 15 news programs. And I think Rachael comes in at 15 last time I looked. That’s not an issue because I view six different sites and pieces of input before I come to any conclusions on my own. Where is you? Don’t have a clue what goes on outside of your little enclave of Flemmings, who sitting here complementing each other and commiserating with each other sticking your nose up each other’s butt making you feel better.
Because you’re only two reasons that you’re here. What is that you’re not in control
You are in control of nothing and when liberals are not in control, they go fucking apeshit and are out of control. Tied to that complicating it even more is it Donald Trump is in control and you hate that with a passion that is unimaginable when we call that in many circles malicious envy or malicious jealousy.
Now the second reason that you’re here especially people like you, Rhonda it’s because misery needs company. And you’ve got 2 1/2 more years to be miserable
Rhonda, you again qualified as a Blow average liberal let’s see insult, unsupported, insult, unsupported accusation and how would you possibly come up with an assessment like that without any kind of backup support evidence proof etc. you know that’s how America works otherwise I could say things like hey Rhonda, how did you enjoy your time on epstein Island? I heard you were with both boys and girls. See, I could say things like that too, but without proof for evidence or fact or back up, it would be hard to convince people certainly hard to convince a court. So do yourself a favor if you’re gonna make ridiculous, outrageous, and ignorant statements like that make sure your brain is engaged before you put your mouth in gear
Rick, I love that you are so triggered by truth and people wiser than you. Your master is down in the polls to 32% approval and Democrats are winning popularity by leaps and bounds. The tide is turning as people are waking up by the millions as they see negative impacts to their lives. It’s going to get worse the longer trump stays in office. Even our troops are seeing the deterioration. The illegal war is costing us $1 billion plus per day. The national debt is soaring. Meanwhile trump continues to enrich himself and his crime family by $ billions and lots of it coming from foreign sources. Slapping his name all over the place and his vanity projects are abhorrent. He’s destroyed our food safety network, our preparedness for natural disasters, our farmers can’t afford fertilizer so crop yields will be greatly reduced next year, and his ICE thugs are crippling our labor force many contractors and farmers need to provide services and produce. Concentration camps are not America but he has made them similar to those in Nazi Germany. People and children are being crammed into warehouses with inhumane conditions and treatment. Many citizens, legal immigrants and legal visa holding students have been caught up in those as well. He’s heading the biggest cover up of pedos because they are his cronies. He’s been credibly accused of at least one instance of sexual misconduct with a minor that’s in the files that were released. He’s had his AG bring vindictive prosecution cases against innocent people which fortunately go nowhere for lack of legitimate evidence. He has lost what marbles he has ever had. He’s alienated all of our allies so that we are less secure and becoming vulnerable to our enemies, some of which enemies he seems to favor over our own country. Oh and remember he demanded his Congress republicans to not pass the border bill they all had worked on and were happy with so he could campaign on immigration instead of them passing a great immigration reform bill they worked so hard on. Lastly, his health is going downhill fast. He can’t even keep his eyes open in press conferences.
Triggered by the truth where the fuck do you think you posted one word of truth in your post holy shit. I think that in your delusion dunning Kruger is the first thing that comes out of your mouth, but for you, I suggest a padded room along with Robert De Niro and Keith Olbermann. I may be a slow I’ll be former MSNBC characters that have been fired and let go and now are floating around and ignorant land. I respond to falsities. Not false titties, but falsities
And you are a win bag of falsities and you don’t even know it because you think your education got you somewhere and guess what got you into theory land. Where facts are nonexistent
How does that song go? Good night my love. You’re a liberal pimple and whether you know it or not the people here or .2% of the Democrat party and their delusion is that everybody thinks like them which is really narcissistic and pathetic just what you choose to try to assign to everybody else that’s all you are and I’m going to tear apart every single word you said that’s a lie. That’s a delusion that’s a fiction. That’s a word you learned from the asshole in front of you who learned from the asshole in front of him and reload it from the asshole in front of her and on and on and Lemonville. And you all of a sudden get cold, and everybody stands up with a brown nose isn’t that amazing
You’re not very good at math are you? Yeah, well then we have another 180 days to overcome the money that Biden sent to Ukraine aren’t we. On the other hand, Biden’s money kill 200,000 people. Hmmmm
It’s late tonight, Rhonda but tomorrow I’m going to take your post of Tara to shreds every hateful, dishonest, deceitful word.
You’re not very good at math are you? Yeah, well then we have another 180 days to overcome the money that Biden sent to Ukraine aren’t we. On the other hand, Biden’s money kill 200,000 people. Hmmmm
It’s late tonight, Rhonda but tomorrow I’m going to take your post of Tara to shreds every hateful, dishonest, deceitful word.
Trust me, you are not going to be a happy camper. And in the future, what I suggest is this make sure your brain is totally engaged before you put your mouth in gear
I want to see every woman who is a citizen voting on November 3, 2026; November 7, 2028 and every election thereafter. Voting can be discussed in the home, but no one should vote under duress.
I volunteered as an election observer in FL a few years back, and we were trained to look for instances of one person pressuring another in the voting booths (stalls, really). If that happened, we were to alert a supervisor who would intercede. Even in FL! I was surprised.
Heather today worries about “the degree to which the craziness is getting normalized.”
These are words from her podcast today, Aug. 18, looking at how criminal Donald is shafting long-time democratic ally South Korea in order to placate the dictator in North Korea – who is, Heather also notes, sending 50,000 troops to aid the Russian dictator’s aggression against another democracy, Ukraine.
It is craziness. And it is getting normalized.
Why? Because you lose civilization if your only priorities are money, monopoly or near-monopoly market share for the largest corporations, and mind-defying obscenities of gold gilt everywhere.
We will not be all right until we restore teachers and schools. Not testing.
This means essay writing centered on seeing others as individuals in their cultures. It means remembering how our best novels, memoirs, histories, and other arts feature individuals all facing hurt and complications.
Thugs, cynics, and dictators always elevate money, gilt, and power. We’ve sunk America and the world largely to them. Craziness normalized.
Phil, I also want to see literature, essays, poetry, and more that present community as a great good. Individuals do work through things, but the most successful goals are reached by groups. The women's movement and civil rights both prove that. It seems the white male goal is the success of the individual where only that guy wins. However, the best sports teams are those where the entire team works toward the goal and celebrates together. We need to do more to promote community, cooperation, collaboration, and coalition. Women are pretty good at these, which is probably why white men in power usually undermine them. We women need to work harder to prove the superiority of that approach to life so that we all will benefit.
Brava, Ruth! Then on to helping those who've integrated caricatured masculine values like competitiveness and militarism, and amassing of personal wealth over sharing, and rivalries over land ownership, to see the light.
Donna, I would love to find ways to ween men and some women from the need for competition, militarism, and utter greed that so many in power exude. I would love to find a spray that could be used in rooms where men gathered to cut down on the hormones and slightly alter their brains to look past the constant rivalry, the need to undermine others, the violence against women and anyone they think is vulnerable, etc. Maybe we just need to get more women and decent men into office and high positions in business at all levels to start to curb the incessant male violence or need to control everyone and everything~!.
It's not the hormones, Ruth. That is just a lazy way to explain away inexcusable behavior and thinking. This focus on competitive individualism based on power and greed is embedded in our culture, not our biology. But it is a sickness, the kind of sickness that comes out of treating abnormal behavior as normal, and then adopting the same behavior in defense. The majority of cultures still do not live this way if they can choose. It's just that somehow one dominant culture went off the rails, and has spread the cult of greed and power everywhere they have gone. Even as we congratulate ourselves about having democracy and strive for equality, our gains have always resulted in the costs being passed onto the peoples we have harmed and used. We still have not even begun to address our culpability as a nation in that. And now we are concerned because it has been turned on us, who thought we were the rightful heirs of something that was already here before Europeans got here.
Annie, I do believe it is at least partly due to the hormones. Wars occur all over the world and in most societies, women are relegated to some type of second-class membership in the group or citizenship. That is not an accident or caused solely by white male interventions. There may have been a time in the distant past when there was peace among groups and more equality between men and women, but that is not within recorded history. Things were great as long as women "knew their place" and men could fight whenever they needed/wanted to. It seems men do need to prove some kind of manhood no matter who else is harmed by it. That is not to say that there are a large number of men, probably a significant majority who have been able to choose a different life, maybe due to different hormone levels or by fighting those hormones for some level of peace. We have to find ways to stop the massive violence that is found all over the world, especially when men think they are not getting everything they want or will do better if they harm others or want conflict. Maybe one positive related to screen use by younger people is that a lot of guys aren't interested in going to war or committing crimes of violence or other negative pursuits of previous generations. I don't know the answer. It is a conundrum!
Ruth, you are right. Annie is also right. It is both culture and biology. Studies have shown that when women transitioning to become men (transgender) are given testosterone, there is a marked increase in aggression (brain/thoughts) and sex drive. This also occurs in men taking testosterone supplements. We also live in a culture that celebrates “might makes right”, which many of us despise.
Nice, Annie, as to how "one dominant culture went off the rails."
I think this manifested most evilly in how testing and its narrow IQ conceits took over all the schools. So simple to engineer. Machines (computers) do all the grading. Just a totally humanly empty environment. Or, as you say, a sickness. As Heather says, normalized.
What incredible ambitions to have, Ruth! A spray would be wonderful! :) It'a a gargantuan task, to turn people away from violence as a way of resolving conflict and competitiveness as the way to establish self worth. I would like to see conflicts resolved by a game of chess or badminton instead of by warfare. The first step is opening minds, which the substacks contribute to. Cheers.
Donna, great idea! Maybe the selected players would have to meet several different challenges. The winner would get the medal and go home to try to make life better for his own people. Maybe the loser would have to have a joint government leadership of men and women to govern equally. There are so many options. Unfortunately, men only think of war and destruction and everyone else gets to clean up their mess. And Doug Wilson wants men to rule the house when they can't even clean up their own messes! That is truly nuts and Wilson should be told so!
Spot on, Ruth. From time immemorial it's been the midwives who delivered the babies, assisted by the mother's close friends - no male person was allowed in the room. They knew exactly what had to be done. I've seen a facsimile of "The Christian Midwife", a 17th century German handbook (with illustrations) of the entire procedure, with and without complications.
My program, Ruth -- Essaying Differences -- stresses the community.
In home class, everyone reads everyone's first, self-intro essay. Discuss them. Then rewrite, citing others who in the writing or subsequent oral conversations come closest to one's own concerns.
your comment about civilization triggered a memory about 'civilization', phil, involving Gandhi...stop me if you've heard this one before...
when Gandhi returned to England as the Mahatma he was greeted by a number of news people...one of them asked him, obviously not knowing that he was educated there, 'so...what do you think of civilization?' and Gandhi replied, 'civilization, yes. that would be nice'.
i'm in full agreement all these years later...have a good one, Mr. Balla. i'm going to sleep...
I gave my 😆👹3 3 minute speech at the board of education last evening. I recounted that New Zealand and France do not allow cell devices in schools. I believe you gave me those leads and thank you.
Hey Phil, what the fuck are you doing? Worrying about South and North Korea are you fucking kidding me. Yikes you know nothing about American politics and your meddling and Donald Trump is heading South Korea, Korea, and North Korea Korea when you don’t know a fucking thing about the background information or anything about the factual stuff going on there. The president made a decision just like Biden made a decision to open the border and then lied to you about it. I didn’t hear you complaining then and that was about America not about a country 12,000 miles away. That will never impact your life.
OMG, Rick, do you actually pay attention to anyone except those who see the world exactly as you do? Insulting folks is so white male, so I suspect you fit that category. Alas, I am guessing no hope here.
And by the way, Ruth I pay very close attention, detailed detention, and when somebody lies distorts re-create a fantasy or fiction or tries to put words and other people’s mouths so that they repeat them then I take exception. And I voiced that exception, knowingly and purposefully Now, do you have anything else to say other than your ignorant fantasy land that only white folks insult other people?
Being fluent in Spanish written and oral and have spent time in many Spanish-speaking countries I have myself witness in fact, people of color believe it or not insulting other people No, really I actually have Witnessed that myself. Isn’t that incredible? Do yourself a favor Ruth Like I say change the channel go see the world and grab a life stop wasting yours in misery Which is of course, why you’re here because misery needs company
Insulting people is so white world. ? So I guess you’ve never left the plantation is that what you’re trying to tell me ? People insult other people who ostensibly deserve the insults by their primary commentary And then the insults become a defense posture, indicating at the stain for the commentary that was made
And it also indicates to me that you have no clue at all about the world around us absolutely none Because people all around the world, insult other people, people of all colors, creeds, races, genders, upbringing, backgrounds, etc. So I would suggest you get out of your cave and go visit the real world
I’m here for the purpose of awareness and I don’t take insult very readily No matter who they come from, no matter whether or not I know the color of their skin or their gender or the ethnicity or where they come from It is of no consequence
So my poor dear, you really should get out more go see the world like I have Like my wife and I have Then perhaps you’ll expose yourself to a little bit of reality IN TODAY’S REALITY, NOT IN ANCIENT HISTORY
The only craziness Phil is right here right here in the middle of this morass of political liberal insanity. Hard to find a irrational thought amongst the entire bunch.
I don’t know . I don’t think the insults are very weird. I think they’re very direct and appropriate How’s that? you feel better now or worse. Do you know what the definition of a racist is , there Ruth.
In today’s world there are actually People who believe there’s a difference in the races.. obviously you’re one of them. Which is really sad because that’s a real ancient philosophy. I certainly Am not a follower of talk like that and I actually take Umbridge accordingly.
I am a citizen of the world like everybody else equal in every way And assuming you from and live in the United States we are all born equal and have the same opportunities for success as the next guy or a girl
Now, if you have some information that lies my commentary, I would be more than happy to hear So I could readily dismiss it factually.
Otherwise, I would I would cease with that kind of rhetoric because it doesn’t. Do you know good to be labeled as a racist.
Do you know what that laughter speaks of Dolores? Are you familiar with the laughter that covers up the feeling inside of embarrassment and shame. I will get to Ronda pretty soon. And I’ll be snickering the whole time But laughing the way you wanna laugh is the best defense mechanism To save your soul and inner beliefs from damage. So have a good laugh on me and I’m gonna love every minute of it Nothing like denial to Minimize The reality of the truth
Cat Cat, when I think of all the sacrifices, all the threats, all the jail-time served, and all the dangers those brave women faced so that women can be heard today, I want to cry at how people like Hegseth are disrespecting and diminishing their efforts. Their courage and determination to enable women to cast their views in a vote helped shape and further our democracy. Narrow minded people are now trying to dismiss, erase their work, and tear our democracy to shreds.
My mother did not have her own name. She was Mrs. (My father's name). She could not have a credit card or take out a loan in her name without his permission and his signature. We can NOT go back to that.
Cat cat, I was single for 12 years after my divorce before I married again. My checks had my name on them, and when I got married, I was told that I should have Mrs.....,instead of MY name. No way.
In the 19th century, women were frequently institutionalized for expressing independent religious or political views, challenging male authority, grief, or "eccentric" behavior rather than verifiable mental illness. Having no real means, ie. job opportunities or educational opportunities, no property, voting rights...you were owned. In 1864, after being commiitted by her husband, Elizabeth Packard challenged her committment. After defending her sanity at trial, Packard campaigned to ensure the rights of the mentally ill as well as those of married women. She publicized the story of her hospitalization at the hands of her husband in order to prevent the abuse and neglect of others vulnerable before the law. It took a woman.
Historically, both laudanum and Valium were disproportionately prescribed and marketed to women to treat the societal and physical stresses tied to gendered roles.
There is no way in hell that we women or at least most of us) will go back into the cave of ignorance, subjugation and obedience to a set of values which negates our integrity and personhood. Try to do so and you will see why women are the ones chosen by nature to carry life into the next generation--we have the grit, the commitment and the strength to do so.
And why do you think you’ll ever have to do that? Suffrage is an ancient civilization issue. It has no bearing on today zero bearing on today Jesus do you guys push back on any bullshit at all?
And you shouldn’t call people liars unless you know they are. It’s not nice… very unprofessional. And it’s also ignorance to do something so foolhardy.
Most of the people here for one specific reason because they didn’t get the accolades and financial rewards that they thought they would get what their Advanced degrees and what I see here many times is what I call malicious jealousy. Followed by unsupported and unsubstantiated accusations, like the one you mentioned above. Next will come the sixth grade insults where you can almost hear the giggling in the background. And I’ll save the best for last later.
I will answer your question Frank but what was my name have to do with anything but the facts you want to dispute the fact you want to discuss the facts I’m right here, but the liberals don’t know how to find a fact in fact, I’ve said something earlier that I’ll say again to you. It would be easier to find a fact from a dog sniffing another dog’s ass that to get a fact from a liberal. So while you ask circumnavigation questions, what is your real point here? I’ve been here for two years amongst the liberal rubble and I’ve watched the irrational insanity from 2 million gullible human beings well educated I must say but the most gullible human beings I’ve ever encountered.
Now, if there’s something you’d like to discuss on topic, I’d be more than happy to fulfill your wish what you’re doing right now is what a typical liberal does and that is a deflection so I’ll wait for a fact to be presented so I can destroy it because it will be too flimsy to withstand research
The Senate was more opposed to women voting than the House. The concern was that women's social concerns- child labor, poverty, education, etc. would interfere with and be a drag on business concerns. It was always profits over people.
Thank you for that information. It makes SCOTUS’ decisions about women (trying to drive US back to the Middle Ages) clearer. Will we ever get to the Enlightenment in America? Will we ever fully embrace “our” constitution?
All of those things are still issues for the bosses. To this day they are still fighting against family leave because women are the ones that use it the most.
That's fascism for sure, as the Germans under Hitler said there were only 3 roles for women -- Kinder, Kirke, Kuchen. Children, church, and kitchen. MAGA philosophy, fascism, must be destroyed.
It is because a bunch of whiny white boys are so scared of women and our power and their inability to do so many things women can do and that women are often better at doing the things usually assigned to men, that we need to vote out as many of those whiny white boys as possible. Men like Doug Wilson are pathetic examples of manhood while they smugly push their ridiculous idea of one vote per household, the male vote, of course.
He claims he doesn't want to force his will upon the nation and that through chatting and pushing their point women will come to want this as much as he does. Obviously Wilson and his Klan are living on a different planet. Some women have taken to the "tradwife" BS, but others who have turned to the home have done so because they can't stand male bullying at work anymore. How is it men should think they should have the vote in each household when they do nothing to keep that household together? The majority of women and probably most men too are not going to go along with the BS, particularly after women and their male allies had to work so hard to get any rights at all in this nation. Yo Doug, we're not going back. Why don't you choose a better cause to put your whiny white self into, say renewable energy, stopping climate change, ending a stupid personal Trumpian war, working for clean air and water, support for families, affordable housing for all - not just rich white guys, supporting quality public education for all children, and so on. I bet you and your ilk can't manage that because you might appear to be decent human beings. Can't have that!
If these people who want to claim every household gets a vote, they may be forgetting that there are millions of households headed by women with no male involved. Millions more single women own their own homes and fully support themselves. Women make up 51% of the population.
Women, make your voices heard in November! Don't let the efforts of those early suffragists be in vain. We must not turn back the clock, but instead push forward with the power of our vote.
My mother, born in January 1922, was very aware of this struggle, and was a lifelong member and activist in The League of Women Voters.
She saw this victory for women as empowering and a coming to life of women's power.
She took the responsibility of participatory democracy as a primary value that all citizens should take seriously.
Unfortunately, too few people take their vote seriously enough to gather full information, and disrespect the millions that came before them to fight and win voting rights.
Most of us remember Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" when it came out in 1964. One part of that wonderful movie was about the perfect nanny and her wild, wacky friends, with low-class chimney sweeps dancing with upper-class children on the sooty rooftops of London.
The other was Winifred Banks dressed in her yellow votes-for-women sash (in America it was white) quietly defying her stuffy husband, in love with money and order, whose world was about to be turned upside down both by his wife and his nanny. We remember "Well done, Sister Suffragettes!" as no less a hit than "Chim-Chiminey-Chim-Chim-Cheroo."
Others of us read all of the 8 "Mary Poppins" books written by Australian-born P L Travers, illustrated by Mary Shepard, and published between 1934 and 1980.
Guess what we now live in 2020 we left 1920 far behind, but most of the people here are still like living in that era or any era other than real life today and I pity you for that
The only reason the Substack sustained itself is because misery needs company
By the way, TC, how are things in LA? It’s a complete shit hole now thank you for the Democrats been in control for how long. ? By the way, he hopped on that train to nowhere yet that costed you billions and billions of dollars a waste of taxpayer money You know I think that officers and government who promised something and then spend the taxpayer money and don’t come through should pay for it in someway shape or form maybe some jail time maybe some financial penalty etc.
I watched a little bit of the insanity tonight. We’re about 50 cars. I guess we’re doing dollies in the middle of the street with hundreds of people watching and the police couldn’t even get to it to stop it.
I saw a auto parts store being ransacked twice to the tune of $50,000 worth of lost Merchandise That’s the beauty of Los Angeles
But let me help you I’ll define it for you a little bit clear the highest cost of living, if not the highest one of the high, Some of the highest property taxes, some of the highest income taxes and penalties some of the highest gas prices and grocery prices, some of the highest crime, some of the highest homelessness And some of the most inept, governmental leaders, they are to allow an entire city along the coast of California to burn to a crisp because of their incompetence Not to mention the financial deficits in supporting illegals before you support American citizens of California
I live there for 30 years in Calabasas at the end what a beautiful beautiful place And now The entire San Fernando Valley it’s a shit hole With homelessness outrageous cost of living. Beverly Hills is almost out of business as I’ve heard so do yourself a favor why don’t you get a mirror and take a long hard look at what you’re trying to protect there and realize what you’re doing. You’re enabling the worst
TC I have heard your threats for a couple years now when you’re the one who should be reported for threatening the life of people here.
You have no right to continually threaten me and if you report me, you better be damn sure, Mr. Atty, that you’re portraying the entire case, including the insults and accusations made against me prior to my responding because if you don’t, you could be not only in jeopardy with Substack, but with legal consequences and laws of the land for defamation as well
If trump and his sycophants think this has a snowball’s chance in hell, they clearly haven’t witnessed the wrath of women at full throttle. Every. Single. Day brings a chilling and infuriating abomination that seems beyond belief. It is exhausting, but we cannot afford to lose sight of what these people are proposing or how quickly the unimaginable can become a serious threat.
The idea of resurrecting a world in which women would not have the right to vote is unfathomable but we live with an authoritarian dictator at the helm and we have already seen the destruction that can happen. VIGILANCE!
"Now, in 2026, Christian nationalists, whose ideas are powerful in the Trump administration, want to repeal women’s right to vote. They say that voting should be by household and that women must defer to men."
"It’s a plan that seems designed to resurrect the world in which Americans lived before August 18, 1920."
I highly recommend the filmed version of the fabulous Broadway musical, "Suffs," all about the Alice Paul, NAWSA, and the other suffragists who achieved the 19th amendment. I keep watching it for inspiration - plus wonderful characters, story, music, and acting! It's on PBS - Great Performances at https://www.pbs.org/video/suffs-efgkiq/
White christian plutocrat males are malignant cancers in society. It’s so obvious that the GOP, the Trump family, and all their devotees are nothing but traitors intent on destroying America. Are we just passively watching while they succeed, hoping the November elections will save us?
Trouble is, it’s already too late. There won’t be any (fair) elections in November, and even worse: trumpism has already infected western civilization. A patient of mine runs a big international business, and he says that things are fast becoming “normal” that would have been unthinkable 5 years ago: unilaterally cancelling of contracts on a whim, raising costs at enormous rates without previously telling so, refusing delivery when a client doesn’t want to pay extra, etc. In his words: “The trust in the business world is gone, along with respect.It’s a dog-eat-dog world now, with everybody in it for themselves, it’s not give-and-take anymore, it’s only ‘take’. Looking for compromise is weakness. But hey, everybody says, if the president of America does it, why can’t we? Or even worse: we _have_ to run our business like that, because if we keep playing fair, we’re going to be outrun by someone else.” In that sense, civilization, as in, civilized behaviour, is already gone. Just look at the “discourse” on social media. And it will take many, many years to get that back - if ever. Trump-style narcissism is now the norm.
That's gloomy news, Mike. Social media! I got out of it years ago when I saw the way it was going. Let's hope that a good example will repair the damage faster than it was made.
The right to vote was never simply about casting a ballot. It was about whether women were full citizens with the right to consent to the government under which they lived.
What’s impossible to ignore is how quickly women’s rights are being stripped away. We’ve watched them chipped away piece by piece, and now people with real political influence are openly talking about taking away a woman’s independent political voice altogether.
We’ve already had that America. Women fought like hell to leave it behind.
And we will fight like hell again if we must. I'm mean when I'm pissed.
Every citizen female or male needs to fight hell. Update on E. Jean Carroll vs Trump.
SCOTUS rejected Temps last sputtering appeal in 2 words. E Jeans' $5,000,000 verdict + interest is already in E. Jeans bank account.
Everybody, EJC has a Substack Platform & occasionally makes potent posts on Professor Vance's Substack, 'Civil Discourse'.
And now for the $83.3 million verdict to wind it's way through the courts.
Has any one person every abused our judicial system the way Trump has? And he just keeps losing over and over again.
Vote ALL Republicans out of office in November at all levels of government.
His relentlessness in defending his deviant self is iconic to the term "malignant narcissist." That any woman alive would vote for him, much less serve him in office, astounds me.
Yes, I agree.Additionally, how any black or brown person, Hispanic, gay or trans, military and others could vote for this monster flabbergasts me.
Victoria, how any members of those groups you mentioned can vote Republican is beyond comprehension! The Republican leadership has only contempt for them, and they have told them so regularly! I guess they don't want to believe their heroes would think they are scum! How sad!
Or white honestly. I understand the Christians, they already are gullible and authoritarian. There seems to be an urge for that "safety" in folks that makes it possible for them to overlook abuse.
Victoria, I couldn’t agree more! It’s appalling!
Considering all that was know about Trumpy and what he has done in this term, it would seem impossible anyone would admit openly they support him.
He has been helpful for me in understanding my late ex, who drank himself to death and nearly took me with him. It's also helpful to see that somehow that monstrosity captivates people, just as my ex did. I'm not sure anything else could have been so clear in giving me that insight, so I'm grateful.
I just wish it was clearer to others. I wish my daughter didn't think he was wonderful. Somehow when someone dies they become sainted. I surely hope that doesn't happen with this creature.
Put his ashes in a septic tank!
If he were to be assassinated, he would become a martyr and as such be even more beloved by his followers.
Steve, I suppose I would be remiss in my role as community reminder if I didn't suggest that you look to Christianity – especially evangelicalism – for your answers.
Although we correctly assert that the U.S. was NOT founded as a Christian nation (contrary to evangelical claims), we do ourselves, and our democracy, a disservice if we don't acknowledge the outsized influence Christianity has had on our governance.
Christianity has its roots in the Hebrew Scriptures, aka The Old Testament, which reflect the strident patriarchy of the ancient world. Followers are admonished relentlessly to subject women to the will of men, no matter how vile they may be.
Jesus (not his real name) is described as "a descendent of the House of David." This is the Old Testament King David, who was born into Jesse the shepherd's family and played a harp. Seems like a nice boy. Then he became a war hero (if one believes the legend) by taking down the Philistine Goliath with his slingshot. This led to David's becoming wealthy and eventually his rise to the Israeli throne. It's not clear whether wealth or the power of the throne corrupted David, but his list of crimes rival those of Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump. Yet Christians give David a pass because he is alleged to be Jesus' ancestor.
The biblical Gospels supposedly tell the story of Jesus, but they were written at least 100 years after Jesus lived, so might be taken with a grain of salt. Christians would have us believe that Jesus was an advocate for women. Yet he was cool with a prostitute washing his feet with her tears and hair, dousing them with perfume. On another occasion, he told a woman caught in adultery to "go and sin no more." Apparently, nobody hauled the guy she was sleeping with in front of Jesus to receive the same judgment.
Editorial note: Evangelicals are obsessed with sex.
Later in the New Testament, we have religious-fanatic-turned-missionary Saul/Paul telling women to "keep silent."
For a couple thousand years, Christianity has been telling women they must be subservient if they want to go to heaven. Given that at least 85% of Trump's base are evangelicals and/or christian nationalists, it's not difficult to understand why those women accept the notion of letting their men decide who governs.
Well explained. Thank you.
Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute, in fact.
True dat!!!
Any woman who serves him is so fixated on power over all else that I have to believe that they morally bankrupt as well.
and don't even get me going on the 'Christians' *eyeroll*
Astound away ........ because many do and many will.....
Steve, I do wonder why any woman would vote for him and then there is Harp and Wiles. In my mind Harp is a nut case. I think someone described her as his human binky.
I know a woman who is fluent in the Mandarin Chinese and Russian languages. She was about to apply to one of our government agencies for a position and then Felon47 was re-elected. She refuses to contribute her skills to his administration. Another woman is fluent in Arabic and she refuses to be associated with anything Felon47. There are women whose eyes are open and they act accordingly.
Frailty, thy name is woman.
Don't you believe that for ONE minute!
He told MAGA that they would get tired of winning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNiiGruLJ7M
The truth is that he seems never to get tired of losing in court. He doesn't seem to understand the concept of flogging a dead horse, he's flaying it as well. His obsession with certain cases - E. Jean Carroll, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Reflecting Pool, his ballroom - must be costing the earth.
His 60% loss record would be far worse but for a certain band of corrupt conservative justices.
They are not Republicans, but a viral infest of MAGAots.
Since you're from ME, I went to a fundraiser for Hannah Pingree yesterday evening. I think she is going to be a really good Governor. Fingers crossed anyway.
You don't have to tell me that --
Trump's mentor Roy Cohn who Trump lives by, one of his rules was. "When sue counter sue for more."
You make the point indirectly that the E.Jean Carroll lawsuit was very much about women's rights. The male need for dominance gets really nasty and stubborn. The realization that they need women, come here via women and are nurtured by women who have their kids- is a stubborn fact though. We needed all those amendments and still it's a fight not over. How stubborn. Trump ( and his boys) and Hegseth are the poster boys.
Their privates need exposing on the Capital doors! Do it!
Seeing Hegseth wants to run for PRESIDENT!! Talk about a guy lacking self-awareness!
"And we will fight like hell..."
I am seeing all these kinds of comments today. Someone answer please when Americans have fought anything "like hell" in the past 10 or so years.
It is significant that the erosion of women's rights started with the overturning of Roe v Wade. This was no surprise. The Christian Nationalists in collusion with the Catholic agencies worked diligently and openly to overturn this right to a woman's bodily autonomy. Where was the "fight like hell" on this? Losing the right to vote next was always the plan.
Frankly in the reality of the erosion of every right we have such as the fact of concentration camps in America, an armed militia terrorizing and murdering citizens at will, the loss of our economic power, our right to taxation with representation, our healthcare diminished or gone, our food unsafe, our right to vote.....
Now? Now? Americans will "fight like hell"?
I sincerely doubt it.
We should have been in the streets years ago.
WE WERE IN THE STREETS YEARS AGO! DO YOU NOT REMEMBER THE WOMEN'S RIGHTS MARCHES IN 2017 TO PROTEST THE INAUGURATION OF TRUMP? 100,000 SEA OF PUSSY CAT HATS COULD NOT BE MISSED!
First of all. Why are you screaming? Forums are for discussion. It is not a group think situation. I realize I am pushing buttons. It is deliberate.
Secondly. That march was 9 years ago ma'am.
How did a one-time march with cutesy hats stop the overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022? Marches are designed to bleed into activism. They are supposed to represent a movement.
Being in the streets takes concerted, consistent and effective effort.
Again. I do not see Americans responding much at all while every single constitutional right is being slowly eroded to the point of looming extinction.
Thanks, Bryan. That's satisfactory news.
Of course. Any messages from DAGs in Germany?
Wait! What? Carroll has $5m + in the bank??
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Is she currently seeing anyone? (Asking for a friend).
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Understood.
I have a Schwab Licensed Rep assigned to me. For example, a FDIC insured Certificate of Deposit (CD) MUST Yield OVER 4% Just to Tread water!
I tiered CD's over the next 9 months.
Heather Cox Richardson and E Jean Carroll are two women who greatly inspire and give me hope during these difficult times. Jane Fonda, Mary Trump, Jess Craven, Anne LaMott, and Letitia James also come to mind. All of the Epstein survivors who keep fighting, no matter how many times they are disappointed, mistreated and further abused by ignorant men. There are so many others out there fighting for what's good and right for ALL of us. They all keep showing up to lift the rest of us, no matter what.
Google. estimates there are more than 10,000,000 registered women voters than men in the US. So, if there is only one vote per household and women can't vote, millions of households would have no right to vote.
Imagine a world where brain-dead Republican men are in charge, while their partners just quietly allow them to rule. Meanwhile, all of the well qualified women elected to various government positions would become ineligible to serve.
But, hey, bring it on. Make it a major pillar of the 2028 Republican platform. Hopefully, it will hasten the death of the Republican Party.
And "bring it on"they will, complete with [legalized] lynchings and witch-burnings.
(What entirely too many of us fail to recognize is that ecogenocidal misogyny is the core ethos -- the doctrinal quintessence -- of the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Thus until we evolve enough to rid of those institutionalized hatreds, there is no escaping the ecogenocidal cesspool, either of patriarchy in general or the ChristoNazi theocracy that is its latest USian mutation.)
Things sound so dire, Loren et al, that my husband and I are again entertaining leaving the country if the elections fail - at least until, perhaps in our dreams, the country returns to some normalcy..... Fortunately, we have friends in Paris who have offered assistance......
Although the French are leaning dangerously as well now.
Well, maybe we'll go to Norway - and pay their huge taxes. We have time to
see if the French government really topples.
Can I go too??
I will give you an "amen" to that
How many more amendments do we fucking need so that everyone has the right to vote? It's absolutely exhausting reading this post. So pissed off!
Chris, we already have all we need. What we need is a Supreme Court that believes in our Constitution and follows it; we certainly don't have that now with 6 who flout the Constitution at every turn.
Plus, the supreme court merely wants to give trump and the presidency unlimited power and no checks and balances. I've read enough history and listened to enough Heather podcasts to know that previous supreme courts were also extreme.
Six Catholics, the worst of the religions.
When we openly promote bias/discrimination/hatred to any group we are cooperating with the concept of fascism which utilizes hatred of "the other" to gain power. We are now suffering under a fascist regime. It is up to each of us to resist the spread of fascism in America and address our own inadequacies in embracing all people and religions.
Couldn't agree with you more Ruth.
Ruth, as I read HCR's Letter, I was struck by the fact that since its inception, SCOTUS has had a history of being wrong on several important issues. The Court's wrongness is built on the foundation of the wrongness of the legislators who created it.
Creating a Court that sits high above every other branch of government, giving its benchwarmers lifetime appointments, and establishing no Code of Ethics and no means to enforce the code, those legislators overturned a whole truckload of wrong.
They need BARBEQUE equipment in the court, and stick their faces into it!
Indeed, read my post in reponse to Lore Bliss. One can tolerate so much.........
The GOP is already dead. It died sometime in 2024 with the election of Trump. What took its place is the Party of Stupid and Hate. Starting in 2026 that too shall shall die.
Merrill, I think how one defines "die" affects how one establishes dates. If dying is defined as a process, then I submit that the process began in 1968 when the Republican Party chose Richard Nixon as their presidential candidate. The party began its gradual descent until 1980 when they brought forth Ronald Reagan, who accelerated the party's descent toward death. George Bush 2.0 marked the next coronary arrest. In fact, July 16, 2024 is the date when the Republican Party was pronounced dead, when the party declared that their platform was "whatever Trump says."
What we are seeing today is the churn of maggots (magats?) writhing inside the rotting corpse.
Scald them with SLEAZEBAG DON , FACE FIRST!
Republican't party is already dead. DonOLD and his billionaire friends have bought it and tell it what to do. Backtalk gets results like Lindsey or Mitch.
Repewbic Hair repunliCONS need stripping to their butts!
Sometimes I wonder just what’s wrong with those Evangelicals who want to take us backwards. Have they learned nothing from history? Those of us who grew up in the fifties have lived through the evolution of women’s rights. I have a voice now, as do my daughter and granddaughter. I am reminded of the words of Helen Reddy’s song, “I am Woman, hear me roar. . .”.
What comes to my mind with this figure is why haven't women been able to harness this massive voting power. Even given the approximately 35% or so of MAGA voting women where are those other 6.5 million women watching out for their own rights?
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Good. Use that meanness to let your reps in Washington (both parties) know who's in charge
She cannot be put back in the box.
Amen sister.
Good, me too! A bunch of ignorant old men & apparently women want this country to go backwards.
In this dystopian fever dream, what happens if there is no man in the house? Many single women households in America....including mine.
I have wondered this myself. Our daughter is single and may or may not ever marry. And what of a mother raising young men old enough to vote but who can't afford to leave home? Are the misogynist politicians going to twist themselves into pretzels saying that the oldest male in the household is the head, even if he isn't the one supporting the family? Such jackassery shouldn't even be mentioned behind closed doors, much less widely in public and accepted by too many.
And what about widows? They stop voting automatically? What is next? Taliban style "no education for women"?
Ligia, that's what makes this whole white male supremacist push a pile of crap. Just like so much of that white male supremacist BS, it is not thought out, it is just a white male wet dream that should be called out for what it is at every opportunity. Maybe those who are proposing it should be told that their idea is something a male 3-year-old would come up with if they knew what a household was. Such men think their brilliance is so absolute they never have to actually think anything through, so they don't, and prove their incompetence every time they open their mouths. Alas, there is too much reverence for such men in our society that they are rarely questioned on their BS. That needs to change!
I feel your rage Ruth and understand it, and would love to be able to find a way to change their whole way of thinking; but alas, our society has too many guardrails in place for them to continue on the same male dominance route! I have always called it SPS: small penis syndrome! Sorry, I know I should not say this on HCR's domain, but as a businesswoman who was called "doll" for the first time in my life at 30 by an American businessman, my bafflement of their misconception on women's equality still boils my blood.
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We call that teenyweiniepeenie syndrome in our household.
Oregon law has a statute that addresses the need for mudflaps/fenders that cover the entire tread of the rear tires of vehicles. Many lifted 4x4 trucks have oversized tires which do not cover the entire tread. The title for that violation is "Inadequate Fenders" and I used to LOVE telling them that their trucks were "inadequate"... That is a very powerful and provoking word in that realm.
Legia, I have no problem with your SPS syndrome. My dad used to call men who treated women badly, "guys with small penises, so you are in good company! I have heard Trump is one of those guys. I have no first-hand knowledge of this, but I do believe it because he exhibits all the symptoms of it.
That syndrome is why this WHOLE ADMINISTRATION NEEDS REMOVAL, DUMBO DON’S TINYNESS IS THE REASON HE IS DENSE AND LACKS BASIC INTELLIGENCE!
I find your comment incredibly offensive. /s
I'll have you know that my sons at 3 years old loved me and would never have taken away my vote in return for a treat.
That said.. maybe they would have for a puppy?
Their dic’s deserve to be removed and fed to them!
Ouch!! 😮
Lorena Bobbitt holding for you on line 2.
Yes -- I expect that's on the list.
Another great example. Yes, they'd probably take the vote away from her, too, including if her husband died serving her country. We know how they feels about those "suckers" and "losers" already.
Yes. and Yes.
This cruel and corrupt imbecilic regime is a kakistocracy of jackassery...
How many different "ocracies" can one party be horhai?
kakistocracy, kleptocracy, autocracy, etc.
No aristocracy, that's certain.
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Vox Populi, I think that is what makes things so crazy right now, they are all of the above!
Idiocracy as well
Thanks, I had no idea there even was an accurate word for the nightmare we are living: KAKISTOCRACY 🎓
Horhai, I could not possibly have said it better myself!!
We are living under a Fascist Government in America.
Jackassery.
Good word!
Not original with me but I like it.
They don’t want us single or being able to support ourselves with good jobs.
This is quite true. They want us barefoot and pregnant.
Better Angels, and barefoot and pregnant is just not going to happen! Their pathetic wet dreams need to be called out for what they are, and every time one of those whiny white male supremacists like Doug Wilson and the pseudochristians they have corralled for their BS fantasy is interviewed online, on TV, and in print. Get the word out that those whiny white boys do need to be stopped and put in their place, and that place is not in charge of anything or anyone! They are toddler-men who can't even manage themselves.
Hegseth belongs to a church in DC started by Doug Wilson.
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/06/nx-s1-5822558/pastor-doug-wilson-interview-pete-hegseth#:~:text=Defense%20Secretary%20Pete%20Hegseth%20invited,Hegseth's%20monthly%20Christian%20worship%20service.
Yep, he really belongs to it.
Whack it OFF, make them swallow it!
Exactly. When my wife was working on her Chemical Engineering degree in the late 1980's at what was then University of Missouri at Rolla, one of the graduate TAs was a misogynist. Out of the 30 or so remaining Chem E students in her class there were five women. This particular grad student was a TA for one of the labs they were required to take. He asked my wife, "if you are married why aren't you home, barefoot and pregnant."
He later became a full professor in the Chem E department.
In the late 60s a man asked me why I was "wasting my father's money" by going to college.
I'm so sorry that happened to you, or any women.
When I first became a programmer trainee at a life insurance company, one of the recent hires was a woman. In fact, she was the only woman in the department besides the department secretary. She had graduated with a computer programming degree and became a very talented programmer. We worked together on many projects since it was a small department at the time. We became life long friends and it quickly became clear to me that women were every bit as qualified to become programmers as men.
I was very fortunate that she we worked together and I never judged another programmer's ability based on sex or race thanks to that initial experience.
I worked as a molecular biologist for close to 20 years. Worked in academia. A friend of mine asked me what it was like saying, "it must have been VERY intellectual and stimulating". My response - "Well - have you ever seen the movie 'Animal House'? That's closer to the mark - at least when the PI (Principal Investigator) was a man."
We should fix it so men bleed every month, whether they want to or not!!
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Cowgrrrl, Those whiny white boys are looking for slaves. Wives and other dependent women would work so well for that. The problem, those whiny white boys couldn't keep this economy going by themselves even with their female slaves. They think they are so superior and brilliant when in reality, they are no smarter as a group than any other group and they are less capable then a lot of women and men of color I know of. Those guys are living in a fantasy in which everyone will bow to them and do their bidding. I don't know about you, but no one I know is willing to bow to such male insanity. No one in this country will permit legal enslavement. We did that and it was appalling!
Yes - since my husband died I am a single woman household and I will fight ferociously to keep my vote and the vote of all women.
Yes! We must all work to protect each other.
Let's please not let it get anywhere near that far.
There are thousands of us who didn't ever think it would get this far, yet here we are. It is always something with this administration, it's exhausting.
I was so certain that it would get this far that I left the US in 2017. That gives me some emotional distance and the immense joy of living in a progressive country with no guns, but I'm still fighting and it's still exhausting to me, too.
This is the problem, Alexandra — if this horrific regime continues in the US, the global effects follow and are undeniably negative. Having investigated leaving the US myself, I can see that the dominoes are already falling. The destruction is evident in many countries. What a waste of a perfectly good planet.
Thank you for your continued fighting. None of this is going to end peacefully and if Democrats do not stop shooting ourselves in the foot and start supporting each other, the republicans are going to win again. Democrats are notorious for infighting while republicans support each other regardless of the situation. We have got to pull together, this is an important election, we cannot afford to lose and yet the fighting continues.....smh
This administration needs stretching until they POP!!
Thank you for continuing the fight. If I had the financial resources, I would have been gone as well. I want desperately to leave, but I can't afford it.
I really feel for you. I hope the midterms will be the start of building a country that people won't need to leave.
Deborah, it seems whiny white child-men think they are so superior that households without men aren't households at all and, well, too bad for those old cat ladies. Toddler-white boys never had to grow up, but somehow they don't know it, so think they can order people about as they did in their homes as toddlers. We need to show them they are wrong because they are!
Deborah, your answer is in the prescient book, *The Handmaid’s Tale*. Your child(ren) will be reassigned to Heritage Foundation parents, and your task will be to serve men assigned to you for reproduction. Failing that, you’ll be farmed out to provide other services for the pleasure of men. (Dystopian, unless we ACT to stop this madness!)
Fortunately I’m too old for that now! My children are grown and out on their own. I’m 75 and live alone. I was a single parent of 3 for most of their childhood; worked hard, bought a house on my own and raised good people successfully.
We don't vote.
and we survive on the kindness of others.
I can't be the only one who's boss stood in the middle of an open office and proclaimed that he would NEVER pay women more than minimum wage (he actually paid less than minimum wage as I was 'salaried' at 40 hours a week but scheduled for 48).
His reasoning was that woman's income was for nothing more than makeup and clothing as Men supported the family. He said this outloud.. in a room full of a dozen women of whom only 1 lived in a 'traditional' family situation. The rest were single, divorced or married to men that could not work. Several were trying to raise children on that minimum wage.
It's been 40 years and yet the more things change the more they stay the same
Hey, here's an idea for MAGA men: all single women of voting age will be rounded up and sold to the frustrated men who have never managed to attract a woman. It's a mission ICE can probably handle really well.
Huh? There's a problem with that? I wonder what Hegseth thinks...
Exactly so, Deborah. Our household (est 1983) has no men in it (well, except for the orange boy feline, and he isn't old enough to vote). What of a widowed woman? What of the wife of a felon? (That one oughta hit close to home for someone...)
Well, Deborah, according to biblical history, widows fall under the jurisdiction of either their brothers-in-law, brothers, or some other male relative.
If no such male relative can be found, they will be homeless, economically powerless and must follow the lifestyle of their never-married sisters, surviving through prostitution or begging.
Kelli, and we are not going back to pre-1920 America. We are going to push even harder for our rights and to get as many good caring women into office around the country as possible. Our next push has to be to get bratty white child-men out of positions of authority in the richest corporations!
Yes! I heard yesterday that Hegseth is contemplating a Presidential run -- as he is out there campaigning for other Republicans in a blatant violation of the Hatch Act. Hegseth??? Really?? The extremist church he belongs to is one of those 'women should be submissive to their husbands' because men are superior. This from the genius who got us into the un-winable Iran war and the guy who wipes his nose with his hand and then runs it through his oily hair. Yuck.
He brought the pastor so callee Doug Wilson to the Pentagon There are required services and some religions shunned. He needs to be removed and also charged with war crimes. In the attack that killed all the school girls the operation folk were operating on old sources of information.
Doug Wilson is absolutely abhorrent!!
Can him with rotten beans……
Pete slept with his Momma too long, prancing in the bathroom, he needs to be whacked until no snot comes out!
I think it's fairly simple. Women are perceived as more liberal than men. In the MAGA view, most women vote for "the wrong candidate". Take the vote away from women and only white male MAGA types will run the country, I'm a male American living in Japan. I'm in favor of giving women a chance at governing in every country. Here, a woman, Sanae Takaichi is the Prime Minister. She seems, in my view, to be doing an excellent job of governing.
Julius Marod,
Yes women are excellent leaders! In the Bible, there is the story of the brave, intelligent female leader, Debra!
Women did not just begin to be powerful and excellent leaders. These gifited women have been serving and leading since the beginning of time!!!
Let’s not forget the lessons of the excellent book, *The Chalice and the Blade*. Important women were routinely written out of the Bible, which was of course authored by men with an agenda.
Elaine Pagels and Sr Elizabeth Johnson, Sr Chris Shrenk and others have all documented the real history of women in sacred texts and in the early Christian society. Whenever and in any sacred text you hear of a woman named stand up and be alert. In the Hebrew bible me both midwives to Moses’ mother were named as well as his mother and sadly the names escape me right now.
Women and trans people have been stripped of the rights to privacy and bodily autonomy. We have already been demoted to second-class citizenship.
To me, imposing a patriarchal one-vote-per-family policy is heaping more indignity on top of a much more grievous loss of rights. A loss of rights that literally can lead and has already led to women's deaths.
In all of the insanity of the MAGA flood-the-zone strategy, the impacts of the loss of abortion rights and denial of gender affirming care, and the implications of the fetal personhood movement have been submerged.
Those issues need to be brought back up out of the depths because they strike at the most fundamental rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Hello Georgia... It still Shocks me that so many Women Vote for DJT, and his Ilk...
And it shocks me that so many people of color vote Republican and even run for political office as Republicans.
Of course, in most places, it's less than 15%, but still.
There’s a mental disorder called Dependent Personality Disorder, in which the sufferer is terrified of making decisions (and it’s usually a woman) and constantly defers to others (usually males). I wonder if this is at play in some cases? Certainly in many cases it’s B3: Biblically-Based Brainwashing.
Or abuse.
It seems the more history somebody knows about the right to vote, the more likely they are to exercise it. Americans have fought for, killed for, died for the right to vote and so many Americans still can’t even be bothered to do it. Maybe the right wing effort to disenfranchise so many voters will serve to remind us of its importance. But it’s a damn shame we need a reminder.
It seems as if the current regime appeals to an era before the Declaration of Independence or even the Magna Carta in embracing autocracy. For all of their contradictions, the official precepts of our American way of governing the founders signed off on radically expanded distribution of universal rights and power, and we have expanded on and refined those principles since. Never without opposition of course. Predatory behavior is always an option, and did not simply stop with a declaration of unalienable rights; but the founders might have chosen to crown their own king, and did not. This was not simply, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. It wasn't Utopia, but is WAS different, and the world took notice. Naturally, those who would be king never just melted away.
"It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong -- throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings." - Lincoln
And struggle we must.
"I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now."
Kurt Vonnegut
Let's try not to go back to the suffrage efforts of Anthony and Stanton, though, who made the case that white women should have had the vote before Black men. Universal suffrage is the goal and we can demand and vote for everyone's civil rights at the same time.
''Republicans Have Discovered a Problem With Voting: Women Keep Doing It''
After 106 troublesome years of female citizenship, Christian nationalists have a solution: let your husband handle the democracy.
America has apparently been doing democracy wrong since 1920.
For more than a century, women have been walking into voting booths, making up their own minds, and casting ballots without first checking with the nearest husband.
Some Christian nationalists would like to correct that oversight.
Pastor Doug Wilson has argued that the Nineteenth Amendment was a mistake and favors household voting, where the household gets the vote and the husband ordinarily casts it.
At last, freedom has been streamlined.
This is an odd position for a movement that never stops talking about individual liberty. Government must not tell you what to do. Personal freedom is sacred. Americans must resist tyranny.
Unless, apparently, you are married and female.
Then perhaps your democracy should be handled by your husband.
The timing is almost too perfect.
On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the decisive state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Representative Harry Burn cast the deciding vote after receiving a letter from his mother urging him to support women’s suffrage.
A mother helped persuade her son to give American women the vote.
A century later, some men would like Mom to give it back.
And this is not merely some obscure theological argument. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has associated himself with Wilson’s church network and reposted material featuring pastors opposing women’s suffrage and supporting household voting. His spokesperson later clarified that Hegseth supports women’s right to vote.
Reassuring.
Apparently we have reached the point where the Pentagon occasionally needs to confirm that the secretary of defense is still okay with women voting.
Christian nationalism often presents itself as a return to traditional American values.
That depends on which America you want to return to.
Women already lived in an America where husbands held enormous legal and political power over them. They spent generations fighting their way out of it.
The Nineteenth Amendment was not a historical mistake.
Women are citizens. Citizens vote.
And if your political vision works better when millions of citizens have less political independence, the problem is not women voting.
The problem is your political vision.
Pete deserves to choke on his tiny DIC!
Does something in our nature compel us to repeatedly bring hell upon ourselves? This question is posed in this live historical moment in the US. I thank Heather everyday for revealing important, crucial historical facts. If schools don't teach it, students won't know it....
Women therefore hav to keep fighting... and will. There is something in the American psyche that will keep this battle going. Which is why I have hope for us against this present scourge. We, all of us, will not go gently.
I will never understand how woman can be so ignorant. Are they completely unaware?
Bonnie, as an intellectual and a woman who is 83, I have put up with mansplaining for years. It is easier to be ignorant and spend hours trying to look good.
The Taliban would be all for that!
Why have women allowed their rights to be chipped away? Women stood by for years while people opposing abortion openly went after Roe v Wade. Why did women sit on their hands when their right to bodily autonomy was stripped away? Roe was always about more than abortion. It was about the right for women of all ages to make decisions about their bodies. The right to vote was always next.
Why are the candidates most for women's rights barely winning? As long as people continue to support the centrist Democratic Party, we remain in danger of losing our right to vote. This is the part of the Democratic Party that has been there the whole time America is now under a fascist Government.
John Oliver's show recently covered the Fetal Personhood movement, a bizarre but logical extension of the so-called pro-life movement.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/aug/17/john-oliver-abortion-fetal-personhood
It culminated with Alabama's supreme court's decision that frozen embryos were children.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/20/alabama-supreme-court-frozen-embryos-children-ruling-ivf
In protest and mockery of this movement, two Ohio state representatives tabled the Conception Begins At Erection act.
The serious side of this, of course, is that women's lives are being put at risk by these anti-abortion laws
https://www.propublica.org/article/high-risk-pregnancies-chronic-conditions-abortion-bans
and women are dying because of them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/abortion-critically-ill-patients
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/06/us-abortion-restrictions-causing-preventable-deaths
Thank you, Professor. When did the Republican party turn so insane and start groveling to a madman. It’s unreal. I want to scream every day. November, come quickly. ☮️❤️🌻
November will only be the start as the newly elected won’t take office until January 2027. They will still have over a month to reek even more chaos and scream about the results of the election.
And they'll wreak it too.
I will address the statement made by Heather that Christian Nationaliats want to end women’s suffrage. There are certainly fringe groups that will always be amplified and perhaps given some credibility within members of the Trump administration. It sounds as if I’m hootin’ and tootin’ against this proposition. I’m not. I don’t like religion in politics nor in any aspect of life. There is no God. Dogs yes. I just rather to keep it in perspective. I would prefer to make a case on other aspects of voter restrictions instead of propaganda on repealing the 19th amendment. But it makes for a good flash story and ending. That I admit. I seek the same in my own writing. And it is a Fredrico Fellini circus that is for sure.
Maybe G.O.D. and D.O.G. are the same? 🐶
Point.
It will be more of the same dystopian anarchy of these.. I'm sorry, authoritarian crackheads, until then.
People understand that ice has no authority that it hasn't stolen, its staff better jump ship soon because what they're doing IS ILLEGAL and they will be prosecuted.
Lying and spitting and still trump’s eyes are FULL OF PUS!!
Tlaib, Cortez, Omar, Pressley, the new loonies from the DSA will not wreak chaos?
Why did you single them out?
Wanda, the only chaos that you’ll find in America is found right here on this Substack service 2 million people in chaos for nothing except being let around by the nose by somebody who doesn’t tell you the whole truth and nothing but the truth. There is no chaos. This country is a rocketship to the stars right now successful in every venue in every town and city, in fact, some interesting crime statistics came out today. Crime has never been lower in this country and it’s down two years in a row in Washington DC because of Donald Trump‘s diligence to lower the murder rate the violence rate the theft rate of automobiles down 30% this year after being down last year as well amazing huh with a little policing and a little focus will do and you’ll notice you haven’t heard a peep from the mayor of DC who used to complain about not wanting Donald Trump there until she sees the results
The problem with you, you don’t want to see the results. Which are nothing short of amazing
Tell Mr. Savage instead of thanking her, ask her why she never posts a right wing link in any of her commentary why she never compliments anything the Republicans do no matter how good it is no matter how much it benefits all Americans it never happens you’re listening to someone who doesn’t tell you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth all you liberal lemmings do is bow and genuflect with every word that comes out of her mouth when it’s very disingenuous, she used to be a respected historian and now she’s become a capitalist, making millions on a bunch of brown nosing lemmings who don’t wanna know the whole story who probably were with Twitter and then ran over to blue sky, so they didn’t have to hear a contrary point of view very sad very weak
Why don't you go to hell, you motherfucking worthless persistent ignoramus. Just go fuck off and when you're done, fuck off over there, and then over there, and then over there, till you fuck your way off the cliff. I'd love to have five minutes with your entitled ass, after which you wouldn't be so entitled, you white piece of shit, you goddamned embarrassment to the demographic.
The reason she doesn't cite any of you scumsucking right wing morons is she only deals with factual truth, something you've never dealt with in your worthless life.
Go Make America Truly Great Again by dying in the cold and the dark of a disease that's socially unacceptable to your fellow fratboy fuckoffs.
Truth, TC. Bravo!
For what? Insolence and ignorance. Did you meet my lovely response to TC? Who now lives in the armpit of the United States
Thanks, TC.
Morning, TC!! Me thinks this guy's obsession with the professor is a bit much. It could be jealousy that motivates?
Gods only know, Lynell.
I believe I made myself perfectly clear their Lynell. Be nice if Heather told you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, but she doesn’t do that
The capitalist basically now tells you what you want to hear so you continue to contribute to her amazing wealth for which I congratulate her, except for the fact that she’s leading people to hate this country,AND THEIR PRESIDENT when there is no reason to do that
I believe I answered your question but if you didn’t get it, I will do it again here since now I am awake and have my arsenal of facts at the ready for your hate, unsupported, accusations, and childlike insults. Like I said earlier, I can almost hear the giggling in the background. What a surprise I just noticed where you live. How could you be anything but deluded by your surrounding? Try getting out more.
I don't like people who take advantage of others. that's why I'm here. I'm here To provide awareness for people who are ostensibly almost completely unaware
What a glorious morning it's going to be 4me. So much stupidity, so little time to answer these Ignoramuses
But you make it so easy guys.
After a little Breakfast nourishment I will love, exposing the irrational hate
And commentary by the subscribers To the ex historian
Now capitalist who is taking advantage of the Some of the most gullible human beings on planet Earth
I admire her for making the money It's wonderful, but it's about as disingenuous as it gets Taking advantage of the mentally disabled Who can't dissect Truth from fable
My entitled ass My entitled ass. What my wife and I did for Los Angeles County alone you should kiss my ass that’s right you should absolutely kiss my ass. What we created in California while we were there my wife alone created. More than 5000 new jobs Out of finn air in newly established businesses there and I created 1000. millionaires in California alone.
And I started with Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah a furnished rental apartment when we first moved to California from Florida with a three-year-old son and a Datsun B2 10 with to our name.
We came with nothing and we worked our asses off 80-90 hours a week in developing businesses and success stories. Not to mention, created the largest Number of new businesses in California than any other chain in the country right there in Los Angeles County.
You’re nothing but a fucking ignoramus And your shielding destruction of a state that was once beautiful
You know actually stupid you sound anybody with a brain which apparently has left your Cerebrum would want America to be great again, regardless of who is in office of the presidency But you as a totally consumed hater, take that saying and tie it to Donald Trump for no reason whatsoever because it wasn’t even his in the first place it belonged to Ronald Reagan and Trump is just borrowing it
But it means what it says make America great again and if you’re against that, then you should get the fuck out of the country let alone out of LA
My wife and I did more for Los Angeles then you could’ve ever imagined in your entire dreams in your wetness of dreams.
And it’s sickened us when we left because we saw it started to decay We saw the crime continually grow. We saw the homeless continually grow. We saw the taxes continually raised. We see the prices continually rise. And we see the waist and abuse of the tax dollars that seemed to consider the illegal immigrants more so than California citizens and Residence themselves
So you can use the F word all you want and maybe that’s a good release for you, but as I’ve said earlier, the only reason that people are here not the only reason but one of the main reasons misery needs company Welcome to the Substack service
You delusional Dick. What a shame.
Wanna know what the Shame is. let me show you what the shame is.
By the way, apparently, David Ronald went and hid again. So many cowards, so little time
Well, I made a little response to the welcome you gave me here and I hope you appreciate it because it accurately depicts the shit hole that has become California. When I was there, you could smell the opportunity in the air. Now all you smell are human feces, having to walk around it the smell of urinated cardboard everywhere the streets completely decomposing and Karen bass running around
and repairing potholes. Now that her term as mayor is in jeopardy.
Not to mention the recent discovery of a major organization, putting out a fake pole about the mayoral race it’s gonna be funny when Californians read it to whether they’re Pro or Kong. They’re gonna realize what a fraud California has become. Oh, I mentioned I forgot to mention in my earlier. One of the largest states In the country where people are leaving the state For good, including major businesses and billionaires where you want to text them, and Gavin knew some a little bit too late with his pushback on that one Wacko liberal Congress there put that on the ballot it’s absolutely hysterical pretty soon as much as the mayor of San Francisco is trying to put back the pieces of a decadent Citi you’ll be running out of other people’s money very shortly. If you keep pushing people out of the state, especially the wealthy.
Projection, much?
David, you better go back and take a look at one of your posts you actually said you liked one of my post and I laughed because I thought well you probably didn’t read it or we’re going to try to like someone else’s but you instead like to one of my pretty funny, huh
You are NOT listening I don’t give a shit about Trump. I’m a policy wonk
And everyone of Trump’s policies is working for the benefit of all Americans and for democracy and for the world.
Are you on the other hand as I’ve said, if Trump cured cancer you would say. OK, but he put all the oncologists out of work
The idea that the right of women to vote is endangered is ludicrous. That right will never be taken away. Even if some Christian nationalists, surely a minority, want that, it would be opposed by the vast majority of Republicans, by Susie Wiles, Nikki Haley, Susan Collins, etc and just never happen. We know what needs to happen to amend the Constitution, right? 38 states to approve. A non-starter, a straw man you could say. But a useful comment at the end of the Letter if you want to tar Christians.
I like to think you are right, Robert. Yet, many a "norm" got its start with an initially unpopular - "not happening" - idea.
But I believe it's good to get this "non-starter" out in the open so we can...grab it by its beginnings!
Morning, Lynell. An excellent last sentence!!!
Magat talking.
Well, there’s two kinds of Maga now by the way… maybe three kinds. Where is the Maga that 99% of Americans should be supporting which simply means make America great again and if anybody here is against that they’re just fucking haters and nothing else because they’re trying to tie the words Maga for Donald Trump and they’re not even his words were actually the words originally of Ronald Reagan
The acronym Maga means make America great again. People you make it sound like a bad thing a horrible thing because it has anything at all to do with Donald Trump
Just fucking lunacy, ignorance, and arrogance all at the same time.
Pierre and the socialist are coming to invent a new America and a new Maga
New acronym means make America go away. No more incentives to do well, frowning on all success, taking away from the greatest country on the planet right now, and for many many decades before.
Funniest part is if every one of you never heard the person in front of you and the person in front of them and the person in front of them and Heather‘s bullshit which gives you only what she wants you to hear you might not even hate like you do
This Substack service gives you an incentive to hate. And that’s why many many of you who used to be involved with Twitter. Is that it was 85% liberal and 15% conservative and you didn’t have to hear the truth the facts of the other side of reality but as soon as musk bought it and it became a 5248 proposition you all slithered over like little worms and blue sky. You could you could Brown knows and commiserate with each other without interruption and unfortunately, without a single thought between your ears
Perhaps you can help me I’m looking for Rhonda I can’t seem to find the post that I want to address. I will keep trying, but if anyone sees Ron doane and ask her please to send me the last worthless diatribe full of what she thinks or fax but they’re not, and I would love to see them and take them apart like a little tinker toy set.
When did Republicans do something for the American people?
By the way Dolores, I believe there was a president that actually was able to close an officially “CLOSED”border. Lmfao. Unless you would like to see some more murders and rapes by illegal criminals, and illegal immigrants. The problem with you supposedly compassionate assholes should go visit one of the 400 Americans that were killed by illegals during Biden’s term in the White House and 1000 that were sexually assaulted. You should go to their homes and apologize or at least give some fake sympathy instead of bolstering illegals over American citizens. People like you and some of the other others here are going to kill this planet with what we call suicidal empathy.
And I believe you can figure out what that’s all about. If you’re not sure, check out a lady by the name of Elizabeth Ross from Ireland.
Why do you overeducated ignoramus’s ever talk like that? You know Hillary Clinton made a comment that lost her an election and when you make comments like that, you lose total and utter credibility with anybody but the lemmings here.
http://Whitehouse.gov.
how do you put every single person that happened to vote for Trump in the same basket of deplorable’s that Hilary did. You’re sitting here in a cult Substack service where you have 2 million people with brown noses that bow and genuflect whenever Heather breathes sickening You never question you never research. You have no awareness of the outside world whatsoever to use a sentence like that. Or to think that way, so freaking close minded it’s really sad
Oh please go away….
Not a chance I will be here for the duration. And I have a huge supply of popcorn
just my opinion, but I think as Nixon as the warmup. It was enormously popular showman Reagan who decisively departed from government of the people, by the people, for the people; and sold the alleged natural leadership of the very rich and powerful.
Absolutely true. And now, a reality tv “star” is running the show…
Americans and their love of snake oil. It's overwhelming how stupid and dangerous things are.
Chris, you’re on to something here. There are so many instances of people applying appallingly simple solutions to complex problems, and those efforts fail, of course. Then the simpletons blame the nearest persons (immigrants, women, etc).
He destroys everything in his path because he was destroyed by his parents as a child.
True, but I think it's more than that -- lots of people who had terrible childhoods with love-withholding parents turned out ok -- I think he's a born sociopathic narcissist.
No, it’s environmental it’s not genetic.
I believe there is at least a predisposition.
Yeah, that's really it, huh... "Look, daddy! I destroyed the world! I am just like you now, I know because you destroyed my world. Will you love me now?"
Something like that.
Enormously popular showman? He was a B grade movie actor. Is said to have joked about himself that he was the Errol Flynn of B grade movies.
His “acting” did not correlate to his *popularity*. He was elected Governor of CA, and from there to 2 terms as Pres of the US, tho his 2nd term ended in some ignominy, as his cabinet was mostly indicted in Iran-Contra.
Anne-Louise, as I recall, Reagan was "enormously popular." While he wasn't a great actor, he wasn't terrible either. He likely didn't become a superstar because he was unwilling to engage in the "extracurricular activities" that propelled other actors to stardom.
But as a public figure, he was enormously popular, due to his patrician carriage, trustworthy face and velvety-smooth voice – and expert speechwriters.
And, as an experienced actor, and a true professional, he'd stick to the script. Unlike someone we know of. Yes, a good voice and a trustworthy face will carry you far.
When the madman was compromised by Putin. He is a traitor & all those who stand behind him are traitors too! That includes you also, Fedderman.
Amen
Amen! It cannot come too quickly...
A man who screams over politics? Time for a wellness check. November will relieve your pain, and then two years later, revive it when the far left Democrats anger the public and a Republican is elected again. Careful what you wish for.
Aahhh, today’s “wit and wisdom” from our very own little fascist. Hope your therapy sessions are working out for you. Now, back under your rock, we’ll see you tomorrow.
Mike, are you like lost in another universe like maybe you’re still looking for planet Pluto, which is not a planet anymore.
The insanity unless you haven’t been watching Is entirely with a Democrat party right now in fact, I’ll call them the Democrat parties right now splintering like a piece of bamboo. With five different tentacles, you have your few sane SANE Democrats left then you have your DSA socialists, which are trying to take over the country then you have your communist brigade and then you have your antisemites and then you have your sexual Challenge challenges to the party.
The Republicans have not changed only the Democrats have changed so much that even the family of John Fitzgerald Kennedy have said that the Democrat party has gone so far left that if John Fitzgerald Kennedy were alive today, he’d be a middle of the road republican
Oh dear, Rick I am so sorry you have totally lost all grip on reality.
Grab yourself a big mirror because tomorrow you’re gonna need one. Everything almost every word you said in your post that I’ll address it specifically tomorrow is a projection of everything that you’ve been doing and the liberal Democrats have been doing including Mr. Biden. I’m so anxious to waking up and getting to it tomorrow, but I actually go to sleep with a smile on my face
Delusional.
Take your meds.
(And don’t keep saying you aren’t on any). 🙄
You’re right I’m not on meds I’m on your mother. You feel better now, that you’re correct. ? Just asking for a friend. That’s what happens when you fuck around with someone’s mother like I apparently did with yours
😳
I can’t wait to watch you parrot all the bs from the gaslighting right-wing fake news you seem to have swallowed like Jim Jones Kool Aide. You are living in an alternate invented reality that simply doesn’t exist. But you go ahead and spew your well manufactured propaganda because I have heard it all and wasn’t fooled by it. Accusations and claims that aren’t backed by legitimate evidence or sources can easily be dismissed by reasonable people. That’s why you will only just be wasting your time and floundering around for nothing. You actually look silly with your pathetic parroting propaganda.
By the way, the Jim Jones of the world or right here amongst these links right here in this Substack, 2 million of them bowing and genuflecting with every word that Heather says even though she’s only telling you half the story less than half the story no story at all, or the store if she wants you to here and nothing else
And if you had a brain in your head, which is that thing about 3 feet above your ass, you would do some investigation you would do some research you would do some questioning you would do some challenging of the things that she says, because if you look at her links, every single one of her links is from a wacko left-wing website source
Entitled to make as much money as she wants. And as she can, but I hate when she takes advantage of people, stupidity, ignorance, and gullibility. You guys wanna hear every single scratch kitchen pimple of anything possible that’s negative towards Trump and that’s why you’re here because misery needs company and I’m going to continue to follow up and find your post
Here’s your defense, Rhonda and I can’t find it yet, but I found something similar. Here’s your defense. Well, you’re gaslighting you have fake news you swallowed fake
Spewing, manufactured propaganda, accusations, and claims that aren’t back by legitimate evidence but they’re all back by six by significant evidence every single one of them. I’m not floundering around baby I’m winning because I’m making people aware of what they don’t know what they don’t see and most importantly, of what they’re never told or exposed to. That’s all you do. Use the word propaganda propaganda propaganda propaganda but just like a liberal never defined it never push back on. It never have a factual point to disapprove any of my so-called propaganda. None zero zilch nada and that’s who you are Ron doane but I’m gonna find that post and continue looking till I’m done.
Get a life hon. You are one sick puppy. 😂
Oh gosh Jhee really I had my own clothes ready and I went to pick up a nice little meme for you but when I came back, my post was gone so I’m gonna have to restate it quickly. So here I’m giving you the opportunity to have some fun Donald Trump is the best president of your life. You’re gonna have to deal with that someday
In the meantime, check this out. You see every administration posts what they believe to be there accomplishments so I want you to see what Trump thinks they are and then you can have fun tossing them.. laughing, refuting each and everyone. If y’all have a good time facing something, you’ve never seen before. Hey, smidgen of reality
Every administration puts out a little post that indicates what they think their accomplishments are so I’m gonna make it easy for you go to http://whitehouse.gov
You will be able to laugh, refute, or probably deny what you see before your very eyes which is totally fine, but at least you’ll see it for the first time ever EVER
By the way, one of the key “ tells” so to speak , is when one of you take your rent people mention Fox News when you couldn’t find it on your dial if you tried, you’ve never watched you’ve never seen it you’ve never evaluated it. You’ve never researched it but out of hand you critique it. Pretty fucking ignorant.
Unfortunately for you, it is the number one news network by viewership on TV and it has the top 14 out of 15 news programs. And I think Rachael comes in at 15 last time I looked. That’s not an issue because I view six different sites and pieces of input before I come to any conclusions on my own. Where is you? Don’t have a clue what goes on outside of your little enclave of Flemmings, who sitting here complementing each other and commiserating with each other sticking your nose up each other’s butt making you feel better.
Because you’re only two reasons that you’re here. What is that you’re not in control
You are in control of nothing and when liberals are not in control, they go fucking apeshit and are out of control. Tied to that complicating it even more is it Donald Trump is in control and you hate that with a passion that is unimaginable when we call that in many circles malicious envy or malicious jealousy.
Now the second reason that you’re here especially people like you, Rhonda it’s because misery needs company. And you’ve got 2 1/2 more years to be miserable
OR MORE.
How can you be so stupid? Truly.
Thanks for the belly laugh. You certainly didn’t disappoint and did exactly what I predicted.
Rhonda, you again qualified as a Blow average liberal let’s see insult, unsupported, insult, unsupported accusation and how would you possibly come up with an assessment like that without any kind of backup support evidence proof etc. you know that’s how America works otherwise I could say things like hey Rhonda, how did you enjoy your time on epstein Island? I heard you were with both boys and girls. See, I could say things like that too, but without proof for evidence or fact or back up, it would be hard to convince people certainly hard to convince a court. So do yourself a favor if you’re gonna make ridiculous, outrageous, and ignorant statements like that make sure your brain is engaged before you put your mouth in gear
Rick, I love that you are so triggered by truth and people wiser than you. Your master is down in the polls to 32% approval and Democrats are winning popularity by leaps and bounds. The tide is turning as people are waking up by the millions as they see negative impacts to their lives. It’s going to get worse the longer trump stays in office. Even our troops are seeing the deterioration. The illegal war is costing us $1 billion plus per day. The national debt is soaring. Meanwhile trump continues to enrich himself and his crime family by $ billions and lots of it coming from foreign sources. Slapping his name all over the place and his vanity projects are abhorrent. He’s destroyed our food safety network, our preparedness for natural disasters, our farmers can’t afford fertilizer so crop yields will be greatly reduced next year, and his ICE thugs are crippling our labor force many contractors and farmers need to provide services and produce. Concentration camps are not America but he has made them similar to those in Nazi Germany. People and children are being crammed into warehouses with inhumane conditions and treatment. Many citizens, legal immigrants and legal visa holding students have been caught up in those as well. He’s heading the biggest cover up of pedos because they are his cronies. He’s been credibly accused of at least one instance of sexual misconduct with a minor that’s in the files that were released. He’s had his AG bring vindictive prosecution cases against innocent people which fortunately go nowhere for lack of legitimate evidence. He has lost what marbles he has ever had. He’s alienated all of our allies so that we are less secure and becoming vulnerable to our enemies, some of which enemies he seems to favor over our own country. Oh and remember he demanded his Congress republicans to not pass the border bill they all had worked on and were happy with so he could campaign on immigration instead of them passing a great immigration reform bill they worked so hard on. Lastly, his health is going downhill fast. He can’t even keep his eyes open in press conferences.
Triggered by the truth where the fuck do you think you posted one word of truth in your post holy shit. I think that in your delusion dunning Kruger is the first thing that comes out of your mouth, but for you, I suggest a padded room along with Robert De Niro and Keith Olbermann. I may be a slow I’ll be former MSNBC characters that have been fired and let go and now are floating around and ignorant land. I respond to falsities. Not false titties, but falsities
And you are a win bag of falsities and you don’t even know it because you think your education got you somewhere and guess what got you into theory land. Where facts are nonexistent
How does that song go? Good night my love. You’re a liberal pimple and whether you know it or not the people here or .2% of the Democrat party and their delusion is that everybody thinks like them which is really narcissistic and pathetic just what you choose to try to assign to everybody else that’s all you are and I’m going to tear apart every single word you said that’s a lie. That’s a delusion that’s a fiction. That’s a word you learned from the asshole in front of you who learned from the asshole in front of him and reload it from the asshole in front of her and on and on and Lemonville. And you all of a sudden get cold, and everybody stands up with a brown nose isn’t that amazing
So sad for you dear. When you grow up maybe you will learn better.
I just read a little bit more of your post and I can’t wait for tomorrow to reply. You poor thing
You’re not very good at math are you? Yeah, well then we have another 180 days to overcome the money that Biden sent to Ukraine aren’t we. On the other hand, Biden’s money kill 200,000 people. Hmmmm
It’s late tonight, Rhonda but tomorrow I’m going to take your post of Tara to shreds every hateful, dishonest, deceitful word.
You’re not very good at math are you? Yeah, well then we have another 180 days to overcome the money that Biden sent to Ukraine aren’t we. On the other hand, Biden’s money kill 200,000 people. Hmmmm
It’s late tonight, Rhonda but tomorrow I’m going to take your post of Tara to shreds every hateful, dishonest, deceitful word.
Trust me, you are not going to be a happy camper. And in the future, what I suggest is this make sure your brain is totally engaged before you put your mouth in gear
I told you to turn off Fox “News”. Do as your mother says. (You are SO embarrassing)!
I want to see every woman who is a citizen voting on November 3, 2026; November 7, 2028 and every election thereafter. Voting can be discussed in the home, but no one should vote under duress.
I volunteered as an election observer in FL a few years back, and we were trained to look for instances of one person pressuring another in the voting booths (stalls, really). If that happened, we were to alert a supervisor who would intercede. Even in FL! I was surprised.
I'd prefer to suggest that voting can be discussed in the home, but not disclosing one's voting intention.
Heather today worries about “the degree to which the craziness is getting normalized.”
These are words from her podcast today, Aug. 18, looking at how criminal Donald is shafting long-time democratic ally South Korea in order to placate the dictator in North Korea – who is, Heather also notes, sending 50,000 troops to aid the Russian dictator’s aggression against another democracy, Ukraine.
It is craziness. And it is getting normalized.
Why? Because you lose civilization if your only priorities are money, monopoly or near-monopoly market share for the largest corporations, and mind-defying obscenities of gold gilt everywhere.
We will not be all right until we restore teachers and schools. Not testing.
This means essay writing centered on seeing others as individuals in their cultures. It means remembering how our best novels, memoirs, histories, and other arts feature individuals all facing hurt and complications.
Thugs, cynics, and dictators always elevate money, gilt, and power. We’ve sunk America and the world largely to them. Craziness normalized.
Phil, I also want to see literature, essays, poetry, and more that present community as a great good. Individuals do work through things, but the most successful goals are reached by groups. The women's movement and civil rights both prove that. It seems the white male goal is the success of the individual where only that guy wins. However, the best sports teams are those where the entire team works toward the goal and celebrates together. We need to do more to promote community, cooperation, collaboration, and coalition. Women are pretty good at these, which is probably why white men in power usually undermine them. We women need to work harder to prove the superiority of that approach to life so that we all will benefit.
Brava, Ruth! Then on to helping those who've integrated caricatured masculine values like competitiveness and militarism, and amassing of personal wealth over sharing, and rivalries over land ownership, to see the light.
Donna, I would love to find ways to ween men and some women from the need for competition, militarism, and utter greed that so many in power exude. I would love to find a spray that could be used in rooms where men gathered to cut down on the hormones and slightly alter their brains to look past the constant rivalry, the need to undermine others, the violence against women and anyone they think is vulnerable, etc. Maybe we just need to get more women and decent men into office and high positions in business at all levels to start to curb the incessant male violence or need to control everyone and everything~!.
It's not the hormones, Ruth. That is just a lazy way to explain away inexcusable behavior and thinking. This focus on competitive individualism based on power and greed is embedded in our culture, not our biology. But it is a sickness, the kind of sickness that comes out of treating abnormal behavior as normal, and then adopting the same behavior in defense. The majority of cultures still do not live this way if they can choose. It's just that somehow one dominant culture went off the rails, and has spread the cult of greed and power everywhere they have gone. Even as we congratulate ourselves about having democracy and strive for equality, our gains have always resulted in the costs being passed onto the peoples we have harmed and used. We still have not even begun to address our culpability as a nation in that. And now we are concerned because it has been turned on us, who thought we were the rightful heirs of something that was already here before Europeans got here.
Annie, I do believe it is at least partly due to the hormones. Wars occur all over the world and in most societies, women are relegated to some type of second-class membership in the group or citizenship. That is not an accident or caused solely by white male interventions. There may have been a time in the distant past when there was peace among groups and more equality between men and women, but that is not within recorded history. Things were great as long as women "knew their place" and men could fight whenever they needed/wanted to. It seems men do need to prove some kind of manhood no matter who else is harmed by it. That is not to say that there are a large number of men, probably a significant majority who have been able to choose a different life, maybe due to different hormone levels or by fighting those hormones for some level of peace. We have to find ways to stop the massive violence that is found all over the world, especially when men think they are not getting everything they want or will do better if they harm others or want conflict. Maybe one positive related to screen use by younger people is that a lot of guys aren't interested in going to war or committing crimes of violence or other negative pursuits of previous generations. I don't know the answer. It is a conundrum!
Ruth, you are right. Annie is also right. It is both culture and biology. Studies have shown that when women transitioning to become men (transgender) are given testosterone, there is a marked increase in aggression (brain/thoughts) and sex drive. This also occurs in men taking testosterone supplements. We also live in a culture that celebrates “might makes right”, which many of us despise.
Nice, Annie, as to how "one dominant culture went off the rails."
I think this manifested most evilly in how testing and its narrow IQ conceits took over all the schools. So simple to engineer. Machines (computers) do all the grading. Just a totally humanly empty environment. Or, as you say, a sickness. As Heather says, normalized.
And know the cell devices atrophy learning as well.
Hm, I like the idea of a spray! It could be passed off as air freshener.
What incredible ambitions to have, Ruth! A spray would be wonderful! :) It'a a gargantuan task, to turn people away from violence as a way of resolving conflict and competitiveness as the way to establish self worth. I would like to see conflicts resolved by a game of chess or badminton instead of by warfare. The first step is opening minds, which the substacks contribute to. Cheers.
Hegseth is such an exaggerated and cartoonish example of this twisted notion of manhood.
Donna, great idea! Maybe the selected players would have to meet several different challenges. The winner would get the medal and go home to try to make life better for his own people. Maybe the loser would have to have a joint government leadership of men and women to govern equally. There are so many options. Unfortunately, men only think of war and destruction and everyone else gets to clean up their mess. And Doug Wilson wants men to rule the house when they can't even clean up their own messes! That is truly nuts and Wilson should be told so!
Spot on, Ruth. From time immemorial it's been the midwives who delivered the babies, assisted by the mother's close friends - no male person was allowed in the room. They knew exactly what had to be done. I've seen a facsimile of "The Christian Midwife", a 17th century German handbook (with illustrations) of the entire procedure, with and without complications.
My program, Ruth -- Essaying Differences -- stresses the community.
In home class, everyone reads everyone's first, self-intro essay. Discuss them. Then rewrite, citing others who in the writing or subsequent oral conversations come closest to one's own concerns.
Good one, Phil.
your comment about civilization triggered a memory about 'civilization', phil, involving Gandhi...stop me if you've heard this one before...
when Gandhi returned to England as the Mahatma he was greeted by a number of news people...one of them asked him, obviously not knowing that he was educated there, 'so...what do you think of civilization?' and Gandhi replied, 'civilization, yes. that would be nice'.
i'm in full agreement all these years later...have a good one, Mr. Balla. i'm going to sleep...
I gave my 😆👹3 3 minute speech at the board of education last evening. I recounted that New Zealand and France do not allow cell devices in schools. I believe you gave me those leads and thank you.
Correct, and in France a law has just been passed banning all social media for under-15-year-olds.
Hey Phil, what the fuck are you doing? Worrying about South and North Korea are you fucking kidding me. Yikes you know nothing about American politics and your meddling and Donald Trump is heading South Korea, Korea, and North Korea Korea when you don’t know a fucking thing about the background information or anything about the factual stuff going on there. The president made a decision just like Biden made a decision to open the border and then lied to you about it. I didn’t hear you complaining then and that was about America not about a country 12,000 miles away. That will never impact your life.
OMG, Rick, do you actually pay attention to anyone except those who see the world exactly as you do? Insulting folks is so white male, so I suspect you fit that category. Alas, I am guessing no hope here.
If Donald Trump took a dump in Rick’s front yard, Rick would find the words to glorify it and make it a national treasure. Assuming he has a yard.
And by the way, Ruth I pay very close attention, detailed detention, and when somebody lies distorts re-create a fantasy or fiction or tries to put words and other people’s mouths so that they repeat them then I take exception. And I voiced that exception, knowingly and purposefully Now, do you have anything else to say other than your ignorant fantasy land that only white folks insult other people?
Being fluent in Spanish written and oral and have spent time in many Spanish-speaking countries I have myself witness in fact, people of color believe it or not insulting other people No, really I actually have Witnessed that myself. Isn’t that incredible? Do yourself a favor Ruth Like I say change the channel go see the world and grab a life stop wasting yours in misery Which is of course, why you’re here because misery needs company
Insulting people is so white world. ? So I guess you’ve never left the plantation is that what you’re trying to tell me ? People insult other people who ostensibly deserve the insults by their primary commentary And then the insults become a defense posture, indicating at the stain for the commentary that was made
And it also indicates to me that you have no clue at all about the world around us absolutely none Because people all around the world, insult other people, people of all colors, creeds, races, genders, upbringing, backgrounds, etc. So I would suggest you get out of your cave and go visit the real world
I’m here for the purpose of awareness and I don’t take insult very readily No matter who they come from, no matter whether or not I know the color of their skin or their gender or the ethnicity or where they come from It is of no consequence
So my poor dear, you really should get out more go see the world like I have Like my wife and I have Then perhaps you’ll expose yourself to a little bit of reality IN TODAY’S REALITY, NOT IN ANCIENT HISTORY
The only craziness Phil is right here right here in the middle of this morass of political liberal insanity. Hard to find a irrational thought amongst the entire bunch.
Or, Rick are you just a white male orchestrated bott made up of weird insults? Hmmm!
I don’t know . I don’t think the insults are very weird. I think they’re very direct and appropriate How’s that? you feel better now or worse. Do you know what the definition of a racist is , there Ruth.
In today’s world there are actually People who believe there’s a difference in the races.. obviously you’re one of them. Which is really sad because that’s a real ancient philosophy. I certainly Am not a follower of talk like that and I actually take Umbridge accordingly.
I am a citizen of the world like everybody else equal in every way And assuming you from and live in the United States we are all born equal and have the same opportunities for success as the next guy or a girl
Now, if you have some information that lies my commentary, I would be more than happy to hear So I could readily dismiss it factually.
Otherwise, I would I would cease with that kind of rhetoric because it doesn’t. Do you know good to be labeled as a racist.
Rick, you are right and you should just look in the mirror for the cause!
Mr Stupidity do speak up so we can all laugh at you!
Do you know what that laughter speaks of Dolores? Are you familiar with the laughter that covers up the feeling inside of embarrassment and shame. I will get to Ronda pretty soon. And I’ll be snickering the whole time But laughing the way you wanna laugh is the best defense mechanism To save your soul and inner beliefs from damage. So have a good laugh on me and I’m gonna love every minute of it Nothing like denial to Minimize The reality of the truth
It took women. It will take women again. History has shown that it always takes women.
It takes all of us together.
Cat Cat, when I think of all the sacrifices, all the threats, all the jail-time served, and all the dangers those brave women faced so that women can be heard today, I want to cry at how people like Hegseth are disrespecting and diminishing their efforts. Their courage and determination to enable women to cast their views in a vote helped shape and further our democracy. Narrow minded people are now trying to dismiss, erase their work, and tear our democracy to shreds.
My mother did not have her own name. She was Mrs. (My father's name). She could not have a credit card or take out a loan in her name without his permission and his signature. We can NOT go back to that.
Cat cat, I was single for 12 years after my divorce before I married again. My checks had my name on them, and when I got married, I was told that I should have Mrs.....,instead of MY name. No way.
In the 19th century, women were frequently institutionalized for expressing independent religious or political views, challenging male authority, grief, or "eccentric" behavior rather than verifiable mental illness. Having no real means, ie. job opportunities or educational opportunities, no property, voting rights...you were owned. In 1864, after being commiitted by her husband, Elizabeth Packard challenged her committment. After defending her sanity at trial, Packard campaigned to ensure the rights of the mentally ill as well as those of married women. She publicized the story of her hospitalization at the hands of her husband in order to prevent the abuse and neglect of others vulnerable before the law. It took a woman.
Historically, both laudanum and Valium were disproportionately prescribed and marketed to women to treat the societal and physical stresses tied to gendered roles.
cat cat, all this speaks to how unconscionable it is for wanting to put women back in these conditions.
There is no way in hell that we women or at least most of us) will go back into the cave of ignorance, subjugation and obedience to a set of values which negates our integrity and personhood. Try to do so and you will see why women are the ones chosen by nature to carry life into the next generation--we have the grit, the commitment and the strength to do so.
And why do you think you’ll ever have to do that? Suffrage is an ancient civilization issue. It has no bearing on today zero bearing on today Jesus do you guys push back on any bullshit at all?
You don't have the guts to use your own name, you phony.
And you shouldn’t call people liars unless you know they are. It’s not nice… very unprofessional. And it’s also ignorance to do something so foolhardy.
Most of the people here for one specific reason because they didn’t get the accolades and financial rewards that they thought they would get what their Advanced degrees and what I see here many times is what I call malicious jealousy. Followed by unsupported and unsubstantiated accusations, like the one you mentioned above. Next will come the sixth grade insults where you can almost hear the giggling in the background. And I’ll save the best for last later.
So have you anything to say?
I will answer your question Frank but what was my name have to do with anything but the facts you want to dispute the fact you want to discuss the facts I’m right here, but the liberals don’t know how to find a fact in fact, I’ve said something earlier that I’ll say again to you. It would be easier to find a fact from a dog sniffing another dog’s ass that to get a fact from a liberal. So while you ask circumnavigation questions, what is your real point here? I’ve been here for two years amongst the liberal rubble and I’ve watched the irrational insanity from 2 million gullible human beings well educated I must say but the most gullible human beings I’ve ever encountered.
Now, if there’s something you’d like to discuss on topic, I’d be more than happy to fulfill your wish what you’re doing right now is what a typical liberal does and that is a deflection so I’ll wait for a fact to be presented so I can destroy it because it will be too flimsy to withstand research
I will await your answer.
The Senate was more opposed to women voting than the House. The concern was that women's social concerns- child labor, poverty, education, etc. would interfere with and be a drag on business concerns. It was always profits over people.
Thank you for that information. It makes SCOTUS’ decisions about women (trying to drive US back to the Middle Ages) clearer. Will we ever get to the Enlightenment in America? Will we ever fully embrace “our” constitution?
'was' more opposed?
IS more opposed.
All of those things are still issues for the bosses. To this day they are still fighting against family leave because women are the ones that use it the most.
Yes! Bosses never change until we make them “illegal.”
That's fascism for sure, as the Germans under Hitler said there were only 3 roles for women -- Kinder, Kirke, Kuchen. Children, church, and kitchen. MAGA philosophy, fascism, must be destroyed.
It is because a bunch of whiny white boys are so scared of women and our power and their inability to do so many things women can do and that women are often better at doing the things usually assigned to men, that we need to vote out as many of those whiny white boys as possible. Men like Doug Wilson are pathetic examples of manhood while they smugly push their ridiculous idea of one vote per household, the male vote, of course.
He claims he doesn't want to force his will upon the nation and that through chatting and pushing their point women will come to want this as much as he does. Obviously Wilson and his Klan are living on a different planet. Some women have taken to the "tradwife" BS, but others who have turned to the home have done so because they can't stand male bullying at work anymore. How is it men should think they should have the vote in each household when they do nothing to keep that household together? The majority of women and probably most men too are not going to go along with the BS, particularly after women and their male allies had to work so hard to get any rights at all in this nation. Yo Doug, we're not going back. Why don't you choose a better cause to put your whiny white self into, say renewable energy, stopping climate change, ending a stupid personal Trumpian war, working for clean air and water, support for families, affordable housing for all - not just rich white guys, supporting quality public education for all children, and so on. I bet you and your ilk can't manage that because you might appear to be decent human beings. Can't have that!
Waj Ali confronts Doug Wilson and leaves him speechless…👊
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXYN7toDp_F/
Oh that was priceless. Thanks for sharing the link. Doug Wilson is pathetic, but also dangerous, and I enjoyed seeing him put in his place.
AMEN SISTA!!
If these people who want to claim every household gets a vote, they may be forgetting that there are millions of households headed by women with no male involved. Millions more single women own their own homes and fully support themselves. Women make up 51% of the population.
Women, make your voices heard in November! Don't let the efforts of those early suffragists be in vain. We must not turn back the clock, but instead push forward with the power of our vote.
My mother, born in January 1922, was very aware of this struggle, and was a lifelong member and activist in The League of Women Voters.
She saw this victory for women as empowering and a coming to life of women's power.
She took the responsibility of participatory democracy as a primary value that all citizens should take seriously.
Unfortunately, too few people take their vote seriously enough to gather full information, and disrespect the millions that came before them to fight and win voting rights.
Most of us remember Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" when it came out in 1964. One part of that wonderful movie was about the perfect nanny and her wild, wacky friends, with low-class chimney sweeps dancing with upper-class children on the sooty rooftops of London.
The other was Winifred Banks dressed in her yellow votes-for-women sash (in America it was white) quietly defying her stuffy husband, in love with money and order, whose world was about to be turned upside down both by his wife and his nanny. We remember "Well done, Sister Suffragettes!" as no less a hit than "Chim-Chiminey-Chim-Chim-Cheroo."
Thanks for this reminder of Winifred Banks and " welldone,Sister Sufgragettes!"
Others of us read all of the 8 "Mary Poppins" books written by Australian-born P L Travers, illustrated by Mary Shepard, and published between 1934 and 1980.
I remember my mother saying, “No man is going to tell me what to do with my body!” She was in her 90s at the time.
If you were a white christian plutocrat male in the 1920’s life was great. For everyone else, not so much.
Guess what we now live in 2020 we left 1920 far behind, but most of the people here are still like living in that era or any era other than real life today and I pity you for that
The only reason the Substack sustained itself is because misery needs company
Reported.
By the way, TC, how are things in LA? It’s a complete shit hole now thank you for the Democrats been in control for how long. ? By the way, he hopped on that train to nowhere yet that costed you billions and billions of dollars a waste of taxpayer money You know I think that officers and government who promised something and then spend the taxpayer money and don’t come through should pay for it in someway shape or form maybe some jail time maybe some financial penalty etc.
I watched a little bit of the insanity tonight. We’re about 50 cars. I guess we’re doing dollies in the middle of the street with hundreds of people watching and the police couldn’t even get to it to stop it.
I saw a auto parts store being ransacked twice to the tune of $50,000 worth of lost Merchandise That’s the beauty of Los Angeles
But let me help you I’ll define it for you a little bit clear the highest cost of living, if not the highest one of the high, Some of the highest property taxes, some of the highest income taxes and penalties some of the highest gas prices and grocery prices, some of the highest crime, some of the highest homelessness And some of the most inept, governmental leaders, they are to allow an entire city along the coast of California to burn to a crisp because of their incompetence Not to mention the financial deficits in supporting illegals before you support American citizens of California
I live there for 30 years in Calabasas at the end what a beautiful beautiful place And now The entire San Fernando Valley it’s a shit hole With homelessness outrageous cost of living. Beverly Hills is almost out of business as I’ve heard so do yourself a favor why don’t you get a mirror and take a long hard look at what you’re trying to protect there and realize what you’re doing. You’re enabling the worst
TC I have heard your threats for a couple years now when you’re the one who should be reported for threatening the life of people here.
You have no right to continually threaten me and if you report me, you better be damn sure, Mr. Atty, that you’re portraying the entire case, including the insults and accusations made against me prior to my responding because if you don’t, you could be not only in jeopardy with Substack, but with legal consequences and laws of the land for defamation as well
So have a nice evening
If trump and his sycophants think this has a snowball’s chance in hell, they clearly haven’t witnessed the wrath of women at full throttle. Every. Single. Day brings a chilling and infuriating abomination that seems beyond belief. It is exhausting, but we cannot afford to lose sight of what these people are proposing or how quickly the unimaginable can become a serious threat.
The idea of resurrecting a world in which women would not have the right to vote is unfathomable but we live with an authoritarian dictator at the helm and we have already seen the destruction that can happen. VIGILANCE!
"Now, in 2026, Christian nationalists, whose ideas are powerful in the Trump administration, want to repeal women’s right to vote. They say that voting should be by household and that women must defer to men."
"It’s a plan that seems designed to resurrect the world in which Americans lived before August 18, 1920."
Yep and they can kiss my white ass! Women will become Lysistrata.
But that was only a stage comedy - and it made them laugh. Would certainly be worth a try, though!
I highly recommend the filmed version of the fabulous Broadway musical, "Suffs," all about the Alice Paul, NAWSA, and the other suffragists who achieved the 19th amendment. I keep watching it for inspiration - plus wonderful characters, story, music, and acting! It's on PBS - Great Performances at https://www.pbs.org/video/suffs-efgkiq/
Thanks for the link, neighbor!
My pleasure, Ally.
White christian plutocrat males are malignant cancers in society. It’s so obvious that the GOP, the Trump family, and all their devotees are nothing but traitors intent on destroying America. Are we just passively watching while they succeed, hoping the November elections will save us?
Trouble is, it’s already too late. There won’t be any (fair) elections in November, and even worse: trumpism has already infected western civilization. A patient of mine runs a big international business, and he says that things are fast becoming “normal” that would have been unthinkable 5 years ago: unilaterally cancelling of contracts on a whim, raising costs at enormous rates without previously telling so, refusing delivery when a client doesn’t want to pay extra, etc. In his words: “The trust in the business world is gone, along with respect.It’s a dog-eat-dog world now, with everybody in it for themselves, it’s not give-and-take anymore, it’s only ‘take’. Looking for compromise is weakness. But hey, everybody says, if the president of America does it, why can’t we? Or even worse: we _have_ to run our business like that, because if we keep playing fair, we’re going to be outrun by someone else.” In that sense, civilization, as in, civilized behaviour, is already gone. Just look at the “discourse” on social media. And it will take many, many years to get that back - if ever. Trump-style narcissism is now the norm.
That's gloomy news, Mike. Social media! I got out of it years ago when I saw the way it was going. Let's hope that a good example will repair the damage faster than it was made.
Same here. Had to get out social media as I saw how fast it went downhill in the Corona pandemic...