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White dudes need to stop using “witch hunt” and “lynch mob” just because an asshole is facing public consequences. Invoking the methods by which women and POC were murdered to prop up white patriarchal society so you can roleplay victimhood is fucking obnoxious.
In closing, fuck every arrogant forced birth pontificator that walks the earth and thinks they get to rule over someone else’s body autonomy.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
So when old white men disguise their pathetic misogyny as concern for unborn children, I think of my mother at 20, sobbing alone in shame and depression and helplessness and terror while dealing with the stress of being a new mother.
A reminder to my fellow white women:
We can end all this nonsense in a single election if we collectively just agree our sisters, mothers, and daughters should have body autonomy instead of carrying water for white patriarchy.
It’s our demo that is failing to hold the line.
I’m tired of correcting ignorant posts about “why can’t Biden just fire DeJoy” so here’s the fucking civics lesson you’re all too lazy or intellectually dishonest to Google. 1/
How this one man’s arrogance and indifference to my mother’s body autonomy influenced my entire primary family unit cannot be overstated.
We have no idea how many other women he exercised such influence over.
And when I hear smug right wing women spew their toxic bile about how it “infantilizes women” to recognize not every young woman can say no to male authority, all I hear is that they’d be okay with my mother facing a death sentence for acquiescing to the authority of her doctor.
I like being alive. Love my family and friends. Love my brother. And I believe my mother had every right to never have me and should never have had that choice made for her.
Fuck your “it was an impossible stage” takes. Hillary Clinton stood on a similar stage and held him to the fire while your entire industry played burn the witch and sucked the table scraps off GOP filled midwestern diner floors.
Her first doctor used his authority to put her life in danger, to weaken the bonds she formed with me, to make her fear being intimate with my father, and to shame her into not confiding in her support system.
He did this out of what he considered her best interest.
It was only at this point — after two children, two miscarriages, and five years of life-threatening trauma, terror, and shame, that she was able to have her choice over her own body respected.
For the entirety of my teen years and adulthood my friends made fun of me for the family stories about me reading the encyclopedia as a little girl.
But now I know I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE.
Thank you, interwebs.
Too many women live through her kind of shame and terror. Too many more have it worse. Still others have to deal with additional horrors like spousal or date rape when facing the biggest health altering choices of their (often too young) lives.
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The decade where an unstable orange game show host gets to pick lifetime appointments because a bunch of corrupt old racists and religious zealots would rather give over to a hostile foreign nation than let poor people have healthcare.
This is going to sound like a joke, but it’s not.
When they said “Make America Great Again” *this* is what they meant.
They were talking about white supremacy and treating brown people like animals.
Maybe you didn’t understand dogwhistles before. You do now. Do not forget it.
Thankfully, the new doctor was not just appalled at how her concerns had been regarded, but also recognized she needed help with her depression and other issues.
Mercifully, my father and grandmother, aware of what was happening with her at this point, fully supported her terminating. She and my father just stopped sex entirely until she was well enough for the final surgery because who the hell knew anymore.
But here’s the most horrific footnote. Before my mother was deemed healthy enough to have her tubal litigation surgery she got pregnant again (that’s number five and she’s been on birth control the whole time because no one’s bothered to tell her that her meds negate the pill).
Her doctor yelled at her for her selfishness at wanting to deny my father future children — especially a son — and shamed her for even thinking about not wanting more children when she should be “embracing her new role in life as a mother.”
My mother was so ashamed by how her doctor made her feel that she didn’t tell my father or my grandmother or her best friend about any of it. This complicated her depression.
I’m not going to get into how this affected her support relationships or parental bonding. But it did.
OMG. Katie Britt has that Amway wife voice that is so triggering for Gen Xers like me.
That lunatic PTA mom at every school function crying about how D&D was the work of the devil and Halloween was a gateway to sin.
She brought the gross shit that never sold to bake sales.
Over the next five years my mother was pregnant three more times. Two were horrific miscarriages that caused her a great deal of pain and emotional and physical trauma. The third resulted in my brother.
She hadn’t planned to get pregnant with me. She didn’t plan any of her pregnancies, in fact, but she was unaware that her birth control was frequently being rendered ineffective by medication she was prescribed for a chronic problem at that phase of her life.
Following my brother’s birth, she mustered the courage to ask him about having a tubal ligation again. She did so in absolute fear for her life convinced her next pregnancy might actually kill her.
For my brother’s delivery, her regular doctor was on vacation. A younger doctor filled in for her (again, stressful and difficult) delivery. The younger doctor was much more sympathetic and supportive.
Afterward, my mother was convinced she didn’t ever want to go through that again. She was exhausted, depressed, and terrified. She asked her (Catholic, old, white male) doctor if she could get her tubes tied.
Her pregnancy with me was utterly miserable. She actually lost weight while pregnant. The delivery was problematic and she had to stay in the hospital for a long time after I was born. I was actually ready to go home before she was, but they kept me there until she was released.
So the answer to your question of “why hasn’t Biden fired him” is LITERALLY that Congress took that power away from the office of the President over fifty years ago and you can look that easily obtainable information up at any time. 9-end/
There were vacancies to the board that could have been filled under Obama. But Obama’s nominees were held up and denied by — wait for it — BERNIE SANDERS. 4/
A lot of you “Democrats don’t do anything” types do not understand the trauma you caused in 2016, the anxiety and stress you caused in 2020, or the slow-burning rage you’re causing by pulling this exact same shit right now.
Because Bernie held up Obama’s nominees, those vacancies were filled with Trump sycophants.
That’s how we ended up with DeJoy and all his gifts that keep on giving. 5/
Hopefully Biden has someone in mind to nominate and the Senate can approve them before November. Then, hopefully, the Board will choose to oust DeJoy. 8/
Okay, I read that whole CNN article and all I can say is this…burn it all down. Nuke it from space. Only way to be sure.
Also The Atlantic writer makes it clear that expecting white dudes to hold their peers accountable is why American newsrooms are so very broken.
So, talking directly to my own demographic here.
This is why Black, POC, LGBTQ+, etc people say they cannot trust us to be allies. Next time before you start whining “not all white women” remember this photo.
**FOOTNOTE: It looks like the source I used that said Marty Walsh was confirmed last month may have confused this with his previous position in the Biden admin. So, he may still be pending Senate approval. Call your Senators if you want to put pressure on his confirmation.
After Trump was dragged out of office, Biden began filling vacancies. But Biden has had to wait for vacancies when board members’ terms expire. Three are already seated. A fourth — Marty Walsh — was approved by the Senate just last month. 6/
FYI: If you’re going to try and pull that misogynistic “poor little Kaitlan Collins did her best” white knight bullshit do not tag me in it, because I will remind you that her sorry ass started out spewing racist anti-Black and antisemitic propaganda for The Daily Caller.
Every white dude in the media that mocked liberals on election night and misogynisticly blathered about our “hysterical” reactions should no longer have a job. Sitting there sighing at each other and muttering “I didn’t think it could be this bad” should be disqualifying.
The President *can* appoint members to the US Postal Service’s Board of Governors which he hopes will align with his wishes, but only with Senate approval.
He cannot fire the US Postmaster General. 3/
“I was a lifelong Democrat, but then Biden didn’t solve peace in the Middle East in the wake of a horrific terror attack so now I’m going to help the party that bases their foreign policy on trying to bring about the rapture.”
The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 made the US Postal Service an independent organization. It hasn’t been part of the Cabinet for over half a century. 2/
Biden can appoint one more nominee from the Dem Party. The Board is limited to a maximum of 5 members from any given political Party (there are currently 4 Republicans, 3 sitting Dems, 1 Independent, 1 pending Dem). 7/
It was not an impossible stage. It was set up to favor a twice impeached traitor and sexual predator that everyone in journalism has had years to prepare for but somehow is never ready for.
It was not an impossible stage. It was a deliberate stage.
And you all helped set it.
Megyn Kelly didn’t get fired by NBC for being racist. She was hired for being racist in the hopes she’d bring over some of her FOX followers for ratings. She was fired for failing to translate her racist fan base into NBC advertising.
I refuse to spin this for NBC.
Imagine having so little meaning in your life that you volunteer to become the forever image of toxic white feminism. Smirking handmaidens. Every single one.
I do not care what else you disagree with about Pelosi or any other Dems. The more we see how 1/6 went down, the more impressed I am that they went back in and got certification done mere hours later.
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I absolutely refuse to post her name again on my TL, but I just want to say that woman did active, deliberate harm to survivors of sexual assault and abuse. Opportunistic journalists and clout chasers elevated her because it let them get cheap shots at Biden. We will not forget.
When Republicans destroy things, they do so in a way that ensures it will take generations to repair.
Then everyone complains when the sabotage isn’t fixed in a single election.
The University of Florida has eliminated its diversity, equity and inclusion offices, firing its full-time employees and ending DEI contracts with outside vendors
I know people are just assuming a neighbor accidentally tried to connect to her wifi and she’s being her usual drama llama self, but I think another possibility is that she might be anticipating some dirt to drop and is making this up to lay a “I was hacked” foundation for later.
Stacey Abrams, Cheri Beasley, and Val Demmings all deserved better.
Black women are the demographic most committed to saving this country and we do not show them the respect and support they‘re owed.
Biden is now Nixon because he won’t give private interviews to the outlets that employ journalists who do things like mock him for visiting his son’s grave.
All you guys on the left who think we are going to support the dudes jumping on tables and pandering to racists need to realize our criteria is which woman is going to walk into office and yell “dracarys” the loudest.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
The fucking gall.
Your bothsidesism, lazy, access-addicted industry gleefully enabled the rise of Trumpism for profit and continues to fail to meet the moment every fucking day.
No one owes you a fucking thing.
Biden hasn't given a single in-depth interview in 3 1/2 years to the New York Times, Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Trump's no better. This isn't normal.
I have zero interest in someone trying to sell me more false hope that the GOP and media will pull the same shit on.
I want a fighter. I don’t care how small she makes your white dude penis feel.
Your entire industry should have had a soul-searching reckoning in 2016. Instead you stood by your “reporting” and circled the wagons around your white dominated newsrooms.
But you want us to believe you’re all just so helpless against the magic powers of a snake oil fascist.
Joe Biden lost his wife and infant daughter in a car accident. Two of his sons were critically hurt.
This is the joke. This is the GOP. This is the soulless Trump crime family begging you to believe that they have no bottom.
HRC was over prepared.
“Don’t boo, vote” was too cringe.
Biden is too old.
VP is too unlikeable.
But somehow Trump remains the magic riddle no one in your industry can be expected handle.
Look, I’m not a huge Bill Clinton fan but no one is going to gaslight me that Bill Clinton’s dick set some precedent for the executive branch getting away with shit.
Watching Yang carelessly pretend to be a NYer while I reflect on how both Kamala and HRC got accused of “pandering” for eating things they enjoyed all the time is...a lot.
Texas right now is why many women were crying and dealing with anxiety on election night 2016.
You know, when all the smug white media dudes were insisting they were being ridiculous.
And yet you believe you deserve to be the way Democrats filter their messages to the American people and cry about not getting invited to parties.
Seriously. Fuck the lot of you.
Watching Brad Pitt walk around like royalty at the Golden Globes, despite being revealed as a longtime domestic abusing asshole is why I cannot take anyone seriously who felt “threatened” by Will Smith popping a dude in the mouth for relentlessly harassing his wife.
White Supremacists: “But the Black man was yelling and making people feel unsafe.”
Anyone who has ever helped escort a pregnant person through a screaming mob of unhinged forced birth white evangelical assholes:
Okay. I sure I’ll have to read through it all again. But two things:
1. Jack Smith and his team dotted i’s and crossed t’s and got the goods. I don’t know how they got all those people to roll over, but apparently no one wants to go to jail for orange baby hands McGee.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but Peggy Noonan is a racist white woman who, like most racists, is offended at the sight of POC expressing any public emotion, but especially excitement or joy.
She was a Reagan handmaiden and has always been garbage.
Stop calling what Jeremy Clarkson wrote an apology.
It’s not. It’s a laundry list of excuses with a dash of “no one’s ever happy” and “we’ve all done this.” Then it ends with “I can’t be mindful and still do my job.”
He’s looking to be validated and allowed to move on.
Misogyny is a man at a job interview for the Supreme Court foaming at the mouth and being excused for it because “of course he’s angry” while a woman gets criticized for being chilly toward the man constantly leading his cult in chants to imprison her without cause.
The passing of Dianne Feinstein is going to showcase how the far left and the right both unite over their shared hatred of Democratic women by shifting the blame of Republican fuckery onto her legacy. And the media will love it. Just as with RBG.
It’s fucking depressing.
We tried hope for eight years. The GOP pulled out all the stops to obstruct and refused to operate in good faith as part of a functioning government. The media enabled the rise of white nationalist Trumpism.
Here is what pisses me off about intellectually dishonest asshole takes like this one — Biden and Dems cannot fight an entire country that doesn’t want to accept the reality of a pathogen.
White dudes will kill women and children and a segment of white media will immediately start humanizing them as having “mental health issues” or being “a family man.”
A Black woman suspected of being in danger is found alive and that same segment can’t scream hoax fast enough.
“Dems keep giving power to Republicans.”
No. You’re confusing Dems with the white electorate. Elections give the GOP power, and the majority of the white electorate votes GOP.
Now ask yourself why someone might want you to blame Dems instead of white supremacists.
“We won you all three branches of the government. You’re in control! Do something.”
No. And this is where you all trumpet your lack of a civics education.
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1. Get a good simple toolbox with basics. Hammer. Screwdrivers. Box cutter. Duct tape. Add to it over time.
2. Learn how to turn off water lines and flip breakers even if you don’t know anything else.
3. Never live next to a peacock farm. Ever.
“Biden should beat him at the ballot box, not through the justice system.”
1. Biden already beat him at the ballot box.
2. Biden has kept his hands off the justice system.
3. Part of the reason for 1 was the expectation of 2.
Those of us without kids pay public school taxes so that a majority of the nation’s children have a chance to not grow up as racist and ignorant as you want to make them. Go fuck yourselves.
“She ran a bad campaign” is AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN a blanket to cover up and excuse the misogyny and racism that made Trump possible.
No candidate runs a perfect campaign. HRC’s was better than most.
GOP allies are being exposed for literally running underage sex trafficking rings and making sweetheart deals with pedophiles.
Feinstein explained the boring realities of legislation to a bunch of kids in a way some people find condescending.
Clearly, Dems are the problem.
Stop saying “Congress must act” when you mean “Mitch McConnell must put the HEROES Act to a vote in the Senate.”
Using just “Congress” when it’s just one party and largely just one man holding up relief is bothsidesism nonsense.