Yesterday was the 55th anniversary of the moon landing. In the coming days, let us channel Neil Armstrong and take "one giant leap for humankind.”
TWO women?? “Crazy he calls me / Sure, I'm crazy.” I don’t think so.
The just completed "Republican” National Convention" in Nuremberg ... uh, Milwaukee, was the most anti-woman, anti-freedom, anti-American, anti-middle class and poor, anti-people of color, anti-democracy, anti-America, anti-ordinary people, pro-Russia, pro-sexual assault, pro-billionaire, pro-corporation, pro-authoritarian ... total misogyny, Acute Masculine Insecurity major party convention in American history.
The once Grand Old Party of Lincoln has devolved into a Greedy Old Party set on “Taking America back’—back not only to before the huge progress in the 1960s toward making the ideals of 1776 reality for all Americans, but to before 1776. The extremist “Republicans” on the Supreme Court have approved ending the basic ideal of a nation ruled by law, law that applies to all. Donald Trump is eager to become America’s first king since George III.
The Trump-controlled convention doubled, tripled, quadrupled … down on fake “manhood.” The choice of J.D. Vance, a protégé of Peter Theil, who has said he “no longer believe[s] that freedom and democracy are compatible,” that allowing women to vote was a mistake, and “longs for a world in which great men are free to work their will on society,” and who himself has taken extraordinarily anti-woman and anti-freedom positions, including outlawing abortion even in cases of rape and incest, thinks women should stay in marriages in which they are being violently abused, said our country is “effectively being run by a bunch of childless cat ladies,” made plain that Trump thinks he can focus entirely on riling up insecure males. Throw in Hulk Hogan, Kid Rock, Trump’s deranged lies in his acceptance and so much more.
But … TWO women? No way Americans will go for that!
With Kamala Harris as the presidential nominee, all the anti-women vote is already going to the Evil Ones. Another woman won’t add significantly to that vote.
In 2016, I strongly supported Elizabeth Warren as Hillary's running mate. She would have brought more enthusiastic support from the backers of Bernie Sanders. I firmly believe that that ticket would have won, and we would have been spared the nightmare of the Trump years.
And, in the recent election in Mexico, a nation with a deep machismo culture, Claudia Sheinbaum won and her major opponent was also a woman. Are Norte Americanos more sexist? I don’t think so.
Gretchen Whitmer is an amazing human being. I urge everyone to read—or, better, listen to—her new book, True Gretch. She is smart, funny, relatable. She has gone head-to-head against Trump and his armed followers. And she has a team that has made her a major presence on TikTok and other social media. That is a large factor in getting young people to support the Democratic ticket and to come out and vote.
Imagine Kamala and Gretch running against this:
Women and secure men, believers in America, freedom, equality, inclusion, decency, and democracy vs men who are acutely insecure about their “manhood.”
Harris-Whitmer can not only save us from the catastrophe that Trump back in power would be; they have a real chance to win big and put this threat down.
Lisa Senecal writes, "Beyond voting, she needed to make her support known publicly. For her, the urgency was about more than knowing we were in the final days of an election she cared deeply about; she was also in her final days."
Last week on Fox the term misinformation became a code word for a crackdown on free speech while Vice President Kamala Harris was vilified for not doing enough and for doing too much to help hurricane victims. Kayleigh McEnany’s friend might have met a Black person, Melania Trump was pushing her merch on ‘The Five,’ while Jessica Tarlov revealed Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA Bibles’ were printed in China.
With 20 days until election day, whodda thought talking about Fox News could be so fun and funny?! Catch up now with host Maya May and Decoding Fox News' Juliet Jeske. Punches were landed!
Stuart Stevens writes, "After I replied to Mr. Ackman’s post, he invited me to refute each of his 33 justifications for supporting Donald Trump. So, I did."