When she talks about American women making voting decisions for themselves, she nabs former House Speaker Newt Gingrich going apoplectic that women might have voting choices of their own -- as if such a moral possibility invokes the Q as to: "what kind of a totally amoral, corrupt, sick system h…
When she talks about American women making voting decisions for themselves, she nabs former House Speaker Newt Gingrich going apoplectic that women might have voting choices of their own -- as if such a moral possibility invokes the Q as to: "what kind of a totally amoral, corrupt, sick system have the Democrats developed?” Of course, Heather started the para by reminding us of the far greater cheating Newt had practiced on his first two wives -- no Dems needed to spur his depravity.
No end to the hypocrisies, lies, exaggerations, deceptions, and other chicanery normal now in the circles of the political party running a convicted criminal and court-adjudicated rapist for president.
But it's not just idiocy and madness informing Heather's mirth. Remember, she's author of books looking levelly at the presence throughout U.S. history of slave-owning classes for whom human dignity has always stopped at the questions of ownership and short-term profit that comprise the sum total of any possible ethics for both the slave owners and their current varieties of nihilist, cynical, and others of supreme vulgarity.
Yes, the women seem to be pouring out. Let's hope that trend continues, to relegate to history and its dustbins all the patriarchal charades still pontificating, lying, attempting newest forms of oldest slavery.
Thank you Ellie for posting this clever approach to common sense. I will never understand how anyone can find anything admirable in that sleaze bag liar. Some of Heather’s reporting is new to me and shocks me after all these years of his 💩💩💩💩. How can this race be close? Beam me up Scotty! There’s no intelligent life on Earth has never felt more accurate. 💙🙏🏼💙🙏🏼. Think Positive Thoughts for a peaceful transition. 💙🙏🏼💙🙏🏼
"MAGA bro pals," Ellie -- love how human decency stands out in this little video.
And I'm accessing this of yours (your kindness in providing link) at a time when I've just seen the newest of the orange felon in a rally hosted by Tucker Carlson. There the exhausted, deranged, vitriolic criminal convict does nothing but intersperse venom for others with rank public masturbation for himself.
Nothing but? No, Ellie, because in his latest sinking to new lows he now urges Liz Cheney be put up before a firing squad, nine rifles aimed at her head for newest display of the icky fat, fat felon's murderous sickness.
It’s a further demonstration of Trump’s sociopathy, sadism, and mental decay. There is no bottom with Donald, no low he will not reach. He doesn’t want to get his own tiny hands messy with the blood of others, so he encourages his MAGA maniacs to violence.
Almost didn’t post this, Phil, but your choice of words brought to mind an image I can’t unsee based on something some comic (I think) said. Not unlike now always hearing accordion music in my head when TFFFG does that back ‘n forth thing with his hands (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S65jqrHQi_c). Anyway, some comic said TFFFG’s fist-pumping “dance moves” looks like he’s jerking off two guys at once. Can’t. Unsee. That. Image. When he makes those moves!
Are we a nation of cowards. I may be on chump’s enemies list, but anybody who knows me likely knows my sentiments. And I know theirs, we used to coexist, W and the tea party started to change that. Chump ripped that all to hell, with republicans on board all the way.
The "soft" racists allied with the gun-toting militia nuts in Texas and changed the dynamics, with help from Moscow Mitch. I was shocked at some "friends" during that period.
MAGA bros think they want a strong man. Some ideas from Timothy Snyder on that. . .
Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't. In a democracy, elected representatives listen to constituents. We take this for granted, and imagine that a dictator would owe us something. But the vote you cast for him affirms your irrelevance. The whole point is that the strongman owes us nothing. We get abused and we get used to it.
Another pleasant illusion is that the strongman will unite the nation. But an aspiring dictator will always claim that some belong and others don't. He will define one group after another as the enemy. This might feel good, so long as you feel that you are on the right side of the line. But now fear is the essence of life. The politics of us-and-them, once begun, never ends.
We dream that a strongman will let us focus on America. But dictatorship opens our country to the worst the world has to offer. An American strongman will measure himself by the wealth and power of other dictators. He will befriend them and compete with them. From them he will learn new ways to oppress and to exploit his own people.
At least, the fantasy goes, the strongman will get things done. But dictatorial power today is not about achieving anything positive. It is about preventing anyone else from achieving anything. The strongman is really the weak man: his secret is that he makes everyone else weaker.
It's a shame that some have to hide how they vote to stay in good grace with their social crowd, but that is human nature. People frequently avoid telling the exact truth to their friends and family so they can simply get along.
Men must pour out FOR Harris and against Trump, too. We are counting on our husbands, sons, brothers, nephews, cousins and colleagues to have our female backs!
Mika gets it. She has been appealing to men as much as to women regarding women's reproductive rights.
My wife had 5 miscarriages. The 5th one was at 20 weeks. The fetal heart rate was easily detected at this point. She delivered the still born fetus in the hospital under the care of an amazing ob-gyn team. Today, in many states the doctor's options could have been considered illegal and the doctor locked up.
Her 6th pregnancy resulted in the birth of our daughter who was born 11 weeks premature at 2 lb 12 oz. Again the team in the delivery room was incredible. If this had happened today in many of the forced birth states, it is quite possible both my wife and daughter wouldn't have survived.
What father wouldn't have been devastated and never again voted for a single Republican? I haven't for years.
Everything ol’ Newt says applies to Republicans, not Democrats. He’s been a stain on our political life for years, and he should just go away into private life.
How about he finally go to hell. The hypocrite is as vile now as he was when he and Tom Delay, and a host of other monsters, soiled our country. Liz and Adam are two of a precious few who now recognize the reality of the garbage dump they have created, in our own back yard.
Darn it, Ellen, you unleashed my junior high brain. It went to another piece of human anatomy, all brown and wrinkly, way south of the neck and on the backside.
they are threatening every human alive with every degree of invasion of people's lives, to dictate their morals from on high. and to keep the patriarchal order going where men do what they want and make the rules and definitions and laws, when all reason suggests, and history tells us is contra their entire weak spin of history and science. AND a distorted and dis-informational relation to factual knowledge, empirical science.
Is it any wonder that these people fear academia and scientists so much?
They're hyper-paranoid and all worked up about shit that aint none of their bidnisss.
Bodily autonomy is bodily autonomy, like identity is identity and consent means consent, never the other. Voting is the same way.
If that's the position they take, then you know for real you're dealing with fascists.
I don’t appreciate their right to be butting into other people’s private lives, even though I am not doing anything more than hard work and being a single and happy cat lady. Vance is my senator and I didn’t vote for him, and can’t stand him. What I’m concerned about is losing the election to Trump, and losing our good Senator Sherrod Brown to a dishonest car salesman. Moreno and Trump are both grifters.
Just to let you know that this 90-year old did 200 GOTV postcards to OH voters on Sherrod Brown’s behalf and sent him more contributions than she could afford. (Virginian, currently in IL.)
I too am as much concerned about your Senate race as well as others (Montana, PA, TX, etc)..way easier for repubs to win in such red states (not so much PA)
I'm not sure, Nate, that they "fear academia" ("and scientists").
The primal document, the Powell memo of 1971, shows they have contempt for academe. But back then academe still had humanities thriving in it. Still had decent, generous amounts of interdisciplinarity, room for essays, for personal anecdote, patience for citing wider perspectives -- and the literacy for acknowledging apt humanities in many ways.
But that, Nate, is exactly what all members of our latter-day enslaving classes hate.
They want to control. And the first steps to dehumanizing others is to enforce on oneself all of the neutered, abstracted language, all the group think and categorical smallness, all the parades of shrunken, shriveled linearity as if life were ever nothing more than replicating, repeating, monotonous units the living dead can package, themselves first, then others with vengeance.
Yes, Nate, as you say: "they are threatening every human alive with every degree of invasion of people's lives, to dictate . . .."
Funny, too, Nate, how everything you say of our latter-day enslaving classes also applies to all the instruments of their standardized testing by which they've also killed the schools.
They don’t want us to think for ourselves, which humanities encourage. I’ll admit there may be some crazy individuals in academia, but they hardly make up the whole, which is what these modern day philistines want you to believe.
Phil, I know you are an avid advocate for the return of the humanities in education. The business model has been super-imposed on higher ed such that data gathering to assess effectiveness is now a primary task for educators. This, i believe interferes with an actual education as numbers, not ideas gain primacy. We forget the etymology of the word educate: e, a contraction of the preposition ex meaning out from, and ducare, the verb to lead. To educate meant to lead out the person, to allow and promote self-actualization. Now education has turned into an avenue for pecuniary gain, rather than a path to fulfillment.
I enjoyed the Dr. Richardson's humor as well. For the rest of this campaign, I am chilling out on reacting to what they say. No more being aghast, fearful, outraged, stunned, sleepless or hopeless.
VP Harris ran a flawless campaign. The Country is coming together for her. I have never in my 57 years of voting seen endorsements pour in from everywhere like this. Even the dastardly media is somewhat off her back. We have a movement on our hands, folks. One reason I have become so positive is that I have become a devotee of watching VP Harris' rallies. Oh man! The energy! Watch them for a boost in these final days.
We've got this. Our lawyers are as prepared as theirs. Our Democratic President is Commander in Chief of the Military, and he falls under the immunity clause courtesy of SCOTUS too.
Love the sense of humor in Heather's today.
When she talks about American women making voting decisions for themselves, she nabs former House Speaker Newt Gingrich going apoplectic that women might have voting choices of their own -- as if such a moral possibility invokes the Q as to: "what kind of a totally amoral, corrupt, sick system have the Democrats developed?” Of course, Heather started the para by reminding us of the far greater cheating Newt had practiced on his first two wives -- no Dems needed to spur his depravity.
No end to the hypocrisies, lies, exaggerations, deceptions, and other chicanery normal now in the circles of the political party running a convicted criminal and court-adjudicated rapist for president.
But it's not just idiocy and madness informing Heather's mirth. Remember, she's author of books looking levelly at the presence throughout U.S. history of slave-owning classes for whom human dignity has always stopped at the questions of ownership and short-term profit that comprise the sum total of any possible ethics for both the slave owners and their current varieties of nihilist, cynical, and others of supreme vulgarity.
Yes, the women seem to be pouring out. Let's hope that trend continues, to relegate to history and its dustbins all the patriarchal charades still pontificating, lying, attempting newest forms of oldest slavery.
Enjoy this counterpart to the women's sticky notes: Narration by George Clooney that men's votes are private from MAGA bro pals!
https://www.threads.net/@johnlcorbett/post/DBz4pPDOPJ1?xmt=AQGzUthLl8HzKBwef8EwgxFAqtDxcjP2mX__p9_lV3rHZw
Thank you Ellie for posting this clever approach to common sense. I will never understand how anyone can find anything admirable in that sleaze bag liar. Some of Heather’s reporting is new to me and shocks me after all these years of his 💩💩💩💩. How can this race be close? Beam me up Scotty! There’s no intelligent life on Earth has never felt more accurate. 💙🙏🏼💙🙏🏼. Think Positive Thoughts for a peaceful transition. 💙🙏🏼💙🙏🏼
Gigi, maybe THAT’S why we’ve never been visited by aliens…..they cruise by, take a good look & say “nope, let’s not waste our time”…..
"MAGA bro pals," Ellie -- love how human decency stands out in this little video.
And I'm accessing this of yours (your kindness in providing link) at a time when I've just seen the newest of the orange felon in a rally hosted by Tucker Carlson. There the exhausted, deranged, vitriolic criminal convict does nothing but intersperse venom for others with rank public masturbation for himself.
Nothing but? No, Ellie, because in his latest sinking to new lows he now urges Liz Cheney be put up before a firing squad, nine rifles aimed at her head for newest display of the icky fat, fat felon's murderous sickness.
And Newt of all people espousing morality?? What a joke!!
It’s a further demonstration of Trump’s sociopathy, sadism, and mental decay. There is no bottom with Donald, no low he will not reach. He doesn’t want to get his own tiny hands messy with the blood of others, so he encourages his MAGA maniacs to violence.
This is NOT normal political discourse. It is a vicious threat, and he knows it well.
And yet the GOP expresses their [faux] outrage at Biden's gaf
Oh hell. Remember they had a cow when Obama wore a tan suit?
Almost didn’t post this, Phil, but your choice of words brought to mind an image I can’t unsee based on something some comic (I think) said. Not unlike now always hearing accordion music in my head when TFFFG does that back ‘n forth thing with his hands (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S65jqrHQi_c). Anyway, some comic said TFFFG’s fist-pumping “dance moves” looks like he’s jerking off two guys at once. Can’t. Unsee. That. Image. When he makes those moves!
Bill Maher says that always.
Ah, thanks JD, that’s probably where I heard it, tho’ don’t watch him much anymore.
He does tolerate too much crap from his “special” guests, who I have to ff over. No tolerance for deliberate stupidity
Are we a nation of cowards. I may be on chump’s enemies list, but anybody who knows me likely knows my sentiments. And I know theirs, we used to coexist, W and the tea party started to change that. Chump ripped that all to hell, with republicans on board all the way.
Yeah, JD, I was just thinking the other day about the Tea Party being the noticeable beginning of the fraying of the Republican Party.
The "soft" racists allied with the gun-toting militia nuts in Texas and changed the dynamics, with help from Moscow Mitch. I was shocked at some "friends" during that period.
Great link, Ellie! Thank you!
MAGA bros think they want a strong man. Some ideas from Timothy Snyder on that. . .
Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't. In a democracy, elected representatives listen to constituents. We take this for granted, and imagine that a dictator would owe us something. But the vote you cast for him affirms your irrelevance. The whole point is that the strongman owes us nothing. We get abused and we get used to it.
Another pleasant illusion is that the strongman will unite the nation. But an aspiring dictator will always claim that some belong and others don't. He will define one group after another as the enemy. This might feel good, so long as you feel that you are on the right side of the line. But now fear is the essence of life. The politics of us-and-them, once begun, never ends.
We dream that a strongman will let us focus on America. But dictatorship opens our country to the worst the world has to offer. An American strongman will measure himself by the wealth and power of other dictators. He will befriend them and compete with them. From them he will learn new ways to oppress and to exploit his own people.
At least, the fantasy goes, the strongman will get things done. But dictatorial power today is not about achieving anything positive. It is about preventing anyone else from achieving anything. The strongman is really the weak man: his secret is that he makes everyone else weaker.
OH MY GOD!
Ellie--this is, wow, no words this is so GOOD!
Thank you for sharing this, I hope all who have social media will put up this link!!!
It's a shame that some have to hide how they vote to stay in good grace with their social crowd, but that is human nature. People frequently avoid telling the exact truth to their friends and family so they can simply get along.
Men must pour out FOR Harris and against Trump, too. We are counting on our husbands, sons, brothers, nephews, cousins and colleagues to have our female backs!
You know what I've noticed though (just a hunch?) there's more of us out there than they're able to count.
🤞
Mika gets it. She has been appealing to men as much as to women regarding women's reproductive rights.
My wife had 5 miscarriages. The 5th one was at 20 weeks. The fetal heart rate was easily detected at this point. She delivered the still born fetus in the hospital under the care of an amazing ob-gyn team. Today, in many states the doctor's options could have been considered illegal and the doctor locked up.
Her 6th pregnancy resulted in the birth of our daughter who was born 11 weeks premature at 2 lb 12 oz. Again the team in the delivery room was incredible. If this had happened today in many of the forced birth states, it is quite possible both my wife and daughter wouldn't have survived.
What father wouldn't have been devastated and never again voted for a single Republican? I haven't for years.
Everything ol’ Newt says applies to Republicans, not Democrats. He’s been a stain on our political life for years, and he should just go away into private life.
How about he finally go to hell. The hypocrite is as vile now as he was when he and Tom Delay, and a host of other monsters, soiled our country. Liz and Adam are two of a precious few who now recognize the reality of the garbage dump they have created, in our own back yard.
Your first sentence made me lol. That’s the best idea yet for Mr. sanctimony.
Newt is the poster child for Republican hypocrisy and evil. More so than chump
I don't know, Jeri, I think they're neck and neck 😆
Darn it, Ellen, you unleashed my junior high brain. It went to another piece of human anatomy, all brown and wrinkly, way south of the neck and on the backside.
Newt was the first to make it sort of OK. I was shocked in the 90's, more so by repubs than Bill and his zipper idiocy.
they are threatening every human alive with every degree of invasion of people's lives, to dictate their morals from on high. and to keep the patriarchal order going where men do what they want and make the rules and definitions and laws, when all reason suggests, and history tells us is contra their entire weak spin of history and science. AND a distorted and dis-informational relation to factual knowledge, empirical science.
Is it any wonder that these people fear academia and scientists so much?
They're hyper-paranoid and all worked up about shit that aint none of their bidnisss.
Bodily autonomy is bodily autonomy, like identity is identity and consent means consent, never the other. Voting is the same way.
If that's the position they take, then you know for real you're dealing with fascists.
I don’t appreciate their right to be butting into other people’s private lives, even though I am not doing anything more than hard work and being a single and happy cat lady. Vance is my senator and I didn’t vote for him, and can’t stand him. What I’m concerned about is losing the election to Trump, and losing our good Senator Sherrod Brown to a dishonest car salesman. Moreno and Trump are both grifters.
Brown deserves support, and I did donate. Good man
Me too!
Same here, JDinTX.
Just to let you know that this 90-year old did 200 GOTV postcards to OH voters on Sherrod Brown’s behalf and sent him more contributions than she could afford. (Virginian, currently in IL.)
Me too!
I donated!
I too am as much concerned about your Senate race as well as others (Montana, PA, TX, etc)..way easier for repubs to win in such red states (not so much PA)
For the life of me... I just never understood why Clinton didn't just simply say, "Uh.. that's just none of y'alls bidniss."
I'm not sure, Nate, that they "fear academia" ("and scientists").
The primal document, the Powell memo of 1971, shows they have contempt for academe. But back then academe still had humanities thriving in it. Still had decent, generous amounts of interdisciplinarity, room for essays, for personal anecdote, patience for citing wider perspectives -- and the literacy for acknowledging apt humanities in many ways.
But that, Nate, is exactly what all members of our latter-day enslaving classes hate.
They want to control. And the first steps to dehumanizing others is to enforce on oneself all of the neutered, abstracted language, all the group think and categorical smallness, all the parades of shrunken, shriveled linearity as if life were ever nothing more than replicating, repeating, monotonous units the living dead can package, themselves first, then others with vengeance.
Yes, Nate, as you say: "they are threatening every human alive with every degree of invasion of people's lives, to dictate . . .."
Funny, too, Nate, how everything you say of our latter-day enslaving classes also applies to all the instruments of their standardized testing by which they've also killed the schools.
They don’t want us to think for ourselves, which humanities encourage. I’ll admit there may be some crazy individuals in academia, but they hardly make up the whole, which is what these modern day philistines want you to believe.
Phil, I know you are an avid advocate for the return of the humanities in education. The business model has been super-imposed on higher ed such that data gathering to assess effectiveness is now a primary task for educators. This, i believe interferes with an actual education as numbers, not ideas gain primacy. We forget the etymology of the word educate: e, a contraction of the preposition ex meaning out from, and ducare, the verb to lead. To educate meant to lead out the person, to allow and promote self-actualization. Now education has turned into an avenue for pecuniary gain, rather than a path to fulfillment.
Their biggest fears are facts in evidence Phil.
I enjoyed the Dr. Richardson's humor as well. For the rest of this campaign, I am chilling out on reacting to what they say. No more being aghast, fearful, outraged, stunned, sleepless or hopeless.
VP Harris ran a flawless campaign. The Country is coming together for her. I have never in my 57 years of voting seen endorsements pour in from everywhere like this. Even the dastardly media is somewhat off her back. We have a movement on our hands, folks. One reason I have become so positive is that I have become a devotee of watching VP Harris' rallies. Oh man! The energy! Watch them for a boost in these final days.
We've got this. Our lawyers are as prepared as theirs. Our Democratic President is Commander in Chief of the Military, and he falls under the immunity clause courtesy of SCOTUS too.
Enjoy the Autumn. It's so ephemeral.
Please, please, please, may it happen as you say. Men need to join women in standing against this vile misogyny! Thanks for what you write.
trump has always had the white woman vote. I'm hoping that even they can't tolerate the republican hate of women.
Get ‘em Phil👏
Eloquent!