When I say ‘let’s talk’ does this scare you? For some it should, you know when a woman says, ‘We need to talk,’ it can cause some men to pull up short, shiver in their boots in the sun’s heat, or run and hide. But truthfully, I think it is time for us to have a serious conversation about our shared world.
Now, most of us know we are not the same. Men and women, that is, we are not the same. We were never intended to be the same; we are different for a reason. We complement each other; we balance each other. Men and women are the yin and yang of the world, we are inseparable yet contradictory opposites.
What does this mean in today’s world of division, opposition, and power struggles.
First, it means we don’t understand our real place in the world, so we are constantly clinging to old ways. What is fascinating is watching not just those who have something to gain if they win, but those who have everything to lose and yet still follow the path of either least resistance or worse belief the old ways are best.
Every time I see a woman who supports ‘traditional’ roles without considering outcomes, I want to gnash my teeth, or shake her. Now, do not mistake me, there is nothing wrong with making a personal choice to become a ‘stay-at-home’ wife and mother, if this is truly a personal choice. There is nothing wrong with celebrating the opportunity to raise your children and care for your home, not one single thing. However, what are you doing to ensure your future? Do you have a fallback position? Is your future secure? Can you financially care for yourself if something were to happen to your husband, or should your husband decide you are no longer what he wants and he throws you out for a newer model?
Just asking the question that needs to be asked.
Then there are those women with a platform who use their megaphones to deride other women and strip other women of their opportunities and choices. I honestly don’t just want to shake them, I want their mouths to be duct taped and their megaphones to be stripped from them, permanently. These women
are dangerous. They are in it for no reason but performance and attention. While they are making more money than their education would command in the private sector, they are intentionally promoting other women’s loss of rights and opportunities. Let’s be clear, these are the women who cheered the Dodd decision, while actively swallowing their birth control pill every morning. THEY ARE NOT PRO LIFE! What they are is Anti Choice for any woman that is not them. What they are is anti opportunity for any woman that is not them, does not look like them, and does not vote like them. What they are is members of a cult that wants to strip men and women of the right to vote unless that vote is cast for them and theirs.
Just pointing out the obvious, at least I hope it is obvious.
Now we come to the present.
Joe Biden made the hard decision to drop out of the Presidential Race. I hate how he was publicly pressured. I hate how he was publicly embarrassed. I think he deserved better. I am proud of our President and the grace he ultimately showed in his withdrawal and his endorsement of Kamala Harris, his own Vice President.
Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States of America and Presidential Nominee of the Democratic Party. First Bi-Racial Vice President. First Bi-Racial Presidential Nominee of a major party. First Woman Vice President. She has energized the Democratic Party with her campaign. With ninety-three (93) days before 
the election, she has had to kick-off campaigning, vet potential vice presidential governing mates, and raise money. She has had to reach out to the cohorts that were indifferent to the Biden campaign and try to win them over, and she has had to try to figure out how she is going to Beat Trump.
What do you think so far?
I have heard a great deal of nonsense so far especially about how America is not ready for a Woman President, and White People won’t vote for her. Here is what I think based on what I see.
- She has outpaced fund raising, by millions. The grassroots think she is worth backing and so do many others.
- She has the infrastructure in place to knock on doors and talk to people. The volunteers are already out there, it is amazing to see her team at work in just three short weeks. Just to point out the obvious, her team is from all races, all genders.
- She hit the campaign trail without blinking an eye. She has crisscrossed the country and she is talking policy. Even where her policy might differ from the administration policy she is plain spoken, unafraid, and clear about where she stands.
- She doesn’t insult or play childish games with her opponent, she simply answers with, “I am ready, Say it to my Face.” I love her for this!
I am fascinated by the fact the Trump team do not know what to do with a Woman at the head of the ticket. I am even more fascinated they don’t know what to do with a bi-racial woman at the head of the ticket. So what do they do? Drag out their old tired attacks from the Obama years and hope they land. All I can say, we are not the same; men and women that is, we are not the same. This applies equally to the nation, we are not the same nation we were eight years ago and I believe many of us don’t want to go back. I strongly believe there are Democrats, Independents, even Republicans who are looking at the very real differences between the old and tired Donald J. Trump and the new and energized Kamala Harris and saying to themselves, “It is time for change, time for positive energy to move us forward.”
For me? I believe in the country and I believe that most of us will not be held back by ignorance when we step into the polls to cast our votes. We are not the same, but sometimes we come together for the right reasons.
Not respectfully. But full on and with nothing but disdain, I Dissent.
on the very edge of losing our Democratic Republic with their latest rulings. When we add the swamp of the GOP and their unwavering loyalty to a man who is wholly unfit to be on the grounds of the White House, let alone in the Oval Office as President, the most powerful man of the free world.
lead to one thing, and we see it at Trump Rallies, on bumper stickers, and even the halls of Congress every single day, an escalation of violence. Now, a Presidential candidate has escaped an assassination attempt. Yes, I think this makes it worse; no matter how I view the man himself, I believe violence doesn’t solve any problems and, in fact, only makes him both a martyr and a hero in the eyes of his base. With his ear winged and Secret Service surrounding him, he pumped his fist in victory. Members of the audience who were interviewed said this ensured his victory in November, does it? Nevermind one person lost their life, or others were critically injured, it took a bit to acknowledge them in the race to blame the Democrats and pump up the Orange One as a Hero.
free and standing alongside their progeny as equals. Clearly, with the words “all men,” they failed to imagine that one day, women would rise up, independent of their fathers and husbands. Yet here we are, men and women, standing in the town square and speaking out with diverse voices and experiences.
Here is a sad truth about Americans, one-fifth of Americans between 18-29 believe the Holocaust is a myth. WTF you say, right that is what I say, too. The truth is, the genocide of six million Jewish people, the destruction of the European Romany people, the cruel murder of those deemed ‘less’ the crippled, the mentally disabled; all of this isn’t taught in many US public schools today. But there you have it, the failure of the local systems to teach ‘real’ history about genocide, slavery, and land theft; all of it means we have two, maybe three generations of ignorant, myopic, selfish, and ill-prepared human beings entering the world and these are the leaders of the future; God help us.
and neck right now. One is currently sitting in court every single day as a ‘defendant’ in one of many of his criminal cases. The other is the President of the United States. One wants to be a Dictator. The other wants to be President one more time. Both are in their sunset years. One is a vulgarian, a want-to-be despot, and a traitor to everything this nation says they hold precious. The other, well, he has served this nation his entire adult life; I know that I haven’t always agreed with him, but I also know that he doesn’t want to burn this nation down.
So, we now have our two candidates, a repeat of the 2020 Presidential Election, though it is not really.
That about sums up the difference between 2020 and 2024, though there is certainly more. Let’s dive into what this election season will look like; it will be long and ugly, of this I have no doubt.
“The people of the US were more united under Trump.”
By the way, Citizen Trump is broke. Tomorrow we will find out just how broke. But the Lying out his azz Billionaire is broke.
I want to consider the United States of America a mostly intelligent nation with mostly kind and compassionate people. I want to, but these days it is difficult. I can’t watch and read the news and say, “Yes, look at all these kind, Christian, and intellectually honest people voicing their political views.” I am unable to listen to the candidates or public servants from the other side without becoming terrified by their rhetoric and thoughtless diatribes.
accused of raping a young woman who were later exonerated. He took out full-page ads and gave interviews during this time.
and 2014.
White Evangelism is here, and it is led by a man who never once in his life cracked open a Bible, never once met a sin he didn’t want to commit, and never once met a Commandment he didn’t break.
Now y’all know I love politics. The push and pull of the election season is exciting, most of the time. But this year, damn, it just feels nasty, like someone has taken a bucket of slime and poured it over the entire United States. The stench of ugly is permeating everything and everywhere. It is gangrene on a national level.
charges stemming from his criminal acts both while in office and after leaving office, and yet none of this seems to deter his followers one iota. His followers include both the unwashed, unschooled, and ignorant masses but also those who currently hold office in both the Senate and House and who continue to do his bidding. These sycophants who hold high office elected by the people, paid by the people to do the work of the people, and who continue to refuse to do a single thing but trail behind this lunatic would-be dictator, holding his drool cup and beg for the crumbs from his table.
do anything, up to and including giving away democracy. What is fascinating and terrible about this is that most of those White Men are poor, under-educated, and under-employed. Truthfully, they are no better off and in some cases, worse off than the people they despise. What they know is that their hero has promised them a better, whiter world where they will thrive because they will once again be at the top of the food chain.
Business fraud? They lied and cheated; it’s a witch hunt.
Are the members of the GOP both of the above? It is a fair question in light of their actions and active participation in the attempted coup by Donald J. Trump, outgoing President of the United States and his team of legal geniuses. What is there to say about those who took the following Oath:
Having close disputed elections is not unusual.” Mitch McConnell
basic job requirements. Our future must never see another person so utterly unprepared and ill-equipped as Donald J. Trump sworn into the Presidency. We can never again allow the last four years to be repeated; honestly, we can never again allow the previous twelve years to be repeated. Make no mistake, the polarization and partisanship began when Mitch McConnell uttered this famous phrase, signally the top GOP priority under the Obama administration:
That is it for me as a starting position. I know there is plenty to keep them busy in the first 100 days. There is more to keep them busy bickering and backbiting going forward after that. Yet, we the people have the power and we the people must demand a better nation. If we want the big stuff to get done, we must demand that they start changing the rules in our favor.
We have a long history of partisanship within our state and federal legislatures’, power begets power. Those with power want to hold on and those without power snivel, whine and plan their next move. This is the way of the world since history began to be recorded; it is undoubtedly the way of the Divided States of America. The one thing missing from the above? We the people, we seem to be the silent and all too frequently forgotten victims of the one-upmanship and gameplaying that takes place in the halls of power.
demand revenge? Will we escalate the cancel culture and just like the current administration demand, all our political enemies be ‘locked up’ for real and perceived crimes.
through this again. Perhaps Kamala Harris will run, maybe not. If the Democrats get the next two years right, they will hold onto both houses of Congress and there will be no divided government during Biden’s tenure in the White House. If they get it really right, come 2025, we will have a shoo-in for the next 8 years.
so much healing. Each item seems to be a priority. But if we could at least seem to be moving toward action, that is something. Gloating and revenge doesn’t heal us; it might give us a momentary thrill, it might make us feel good for a minute or two, but it does not heal us as a nation and healing the nation is what we most need now.
She is the Federalist Society’s darling, and for excellent reason, she is by far one of the purest Constitutional Originalists I have read in over thirty years. She goes much further than her mentor Scalia ever did in his interpretations. She absolutely terrifies me, in part because she is bright, pragmatic but even more, she is an absolute ideologue. She hides it well; she dances brilliantly. Still, it is there, and she is the antithesis of everything Ruth Bader Ginsberg stood for. Yet after hearings that were polite and without real merit, Lindsey Graham, without qualms and without a full committee, pushed her nomination to the full Senate for a vote that will be taken on Monday 26 October 2020. For those of you that are counting, that is six days before the next president’s election. She will be the next Justice unless some GOP members of the Senate find their moral backbone and say NO to Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and the rest of the spineless enablers and say YES to the American People.
been on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals since October 2017, three (3) years. Prior to her short time on the bench, she was a Professor of Law; much of her time in this role was spent at Notre Dame, where her published writings are protected. Her limited exposure to litigation was in private practice, with the only notable case being as research assistant on Bush v. Gore. She never argued a case, certainly not in front of the Supreme Court. I do not want to entirely dismiss her; she clerked on both the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. She has earned a great deal of praise for her research, writing and teaching. She is beloved by her students. However, none of this makes her ready for prime time; none of this makes her a worthy inheritor of the seat left vacant by Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
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