“Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.”
–Colin Powell
“Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.”
–Colin Powell
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Vitriolic Mysogyny against Nancy Pelosi. From TPM.
The Cost Of Being A Woman In Politics
The following conspiracy was even spewed here on Colorado Pols by our local gun activist Agit-propagandist:
Technically counter agit-propagandist but you knew that already…
Constitutional Originalism Permits Wife Beating and Lets Abusers to have Guns. Heather Cox-Richardson is profound this morning.
And it was many many years between that initial state court ruling and national acceptance that husbands couldn't legally beat wives.
Opinion available here, and holy fucking shit. This particular federal statute "is an 'outlier[] that our ancestors would never have accepted.'" Cuz having easy access to the means of offing uppity bitches was of paramount importance to the Framers, I guess.
But my "favorite part" is the whole "Oh, and that stuff in Heller and Bruen about 'law-abiding, responsible' firearm owners? Fuck that. The Supreme Court didn't mean a word of it." Tethering a right to keep and bear arms to law abiding behavior wouldn't yield a wingnuttically correct result here, as the defendant was a shitburger's shitburger:
SCOTUS might as just go ahead and rule that there's no such thing as a constitutional firearm regulation. That's clearly where we're headed.
And finally, how is Edith Jones only 73 years old? It feels like she's been on that wingnut court at least that long.
Misogyny and racism were central to the Founding Fathers’ narrow view of who deserved “freedom”, let alone “ life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
It has only been in the last 150 years that this runnel vision has gradually and painfully expanded responding to massive resistance and demands) to include non-white people and women. .
Unlimited ownership of firearms was critical to maintaining that fragile privilege in the face of increasingly diverse enfranchisement and empowerment. It still is the energy behind gun worship…..to keep “them” from going “ too far”.
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I have my own story of domestic violence at the hands of a gun cultist, and survived to tell the tale.
This Supreme Court, if unchecked, would happily return us all to what they consider to be rhe “Good Old Days” of America.
so when someone with an arsenal declares the need to “Take Our Country Back”, this is what they have in mind.
Backlash to Women's Me Too. Interesting article in Vox.com
Advances of women have ebbed and flowed, and this article discusses some of the tides. One observation is that moments of feminist success are often followed by a wave of backlash. To be specific:
IMHO, abortion remains available in all states regardless of what laws get passed by heavily religious, misogynistic, politicians. State politicians can’t control the US mail or its contents. They can’t control women traveling out of state. The two biggest barriers are 1) how to help lower income women get the healthcare services they need, and 2) convincing women in the bad states to be quiet about their activities and convincing all women to stop monitoring periods by electronic devices that can be tracked.
“Pro-lifers” are slowly losing cross the country. Even so, this is not a time for complacency as the anti-choicers are creative, like possible requirements on young female athletes to provide information about their menstrual frequency.
Okay, I tried to answer the question myself. Reading about the shake-up of the primary calendar, I was trying to remember in which year a state went out of order, and was docked convention delegates. Does anyone remember the year and the state?
It was Florida in 2008.
Is George Santos running for Mayor of Denver?
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/next-with-kyle-clark/denver-mayoral-candidate-andy-rougeot-false-claims/73-7a73fdd0-50d4-4586-99b6-9326449c1cae
No, but Rougeot s working from the same playbook: make shit up, lie about his opponents, appeal to peoples existing prejudices and biases, and when confronted, accuse the media of being bought by the other side.