Vance: "...via Democrats, via corporate oligarchs..." -- lumping these two demos together into a bloc in this way is so graceless in its transparency as to be laughable. People are getting more alert to your telegraphing what you wanna soften the ground for next, Party of Putin; will need new strategy that isn't in the Big Book of Authoritarians.
It's pretty weird how eager these MAGAts are to admit in public that they are unable to care about anything that doesn't directly affect them personally.
You know what damages a uterus? Getting an infection because you are unable to remove a dead fetus. That can cause uterine damage, infertility, and even death.
I just retired from 30 years of teaching, 18 of it special education. The very worst part of retiring is no longer being with my kids.
That's the way I always put it: "my kids." I had them on my caseload (cold, impersonal term) for 4 years as they made their way through high school. I got to know them, their families, their pets, their dreams and despairs.
I have a child of my own ("child," she's 33 and an electrician!), but working with my sped kids for 18 years was probably far more significant in my moral development, and in my connection to posterity.
"It’s not normal to care about people’s personal choices in this way, which is why you don’t see me chiming in with the criticisms of Loomer’s adjustments to her face. It’s not my face so it’s not my business. "
Fair enough.
"I'm willing to bet she's had so many abortions that she damaged her uterus."
So now she loses that consideration, so let me fix that for her:
"I'm willing to bet she's had so many face lifts that she can see the curvature of the Earth from there."
I wonder if there is any journalism, articles or books, out there on people who just go nuts with plastic surgery. I am not thinking of malpractice-type disasters, I mean cases where people look in the mirror, tell themselves: "Hey, I am lookin' FINE" and then the Elephant Man winks at them.
Since many men, particularly the power-hungry ones, have no involvement with their children beyond donating some sperm, by Loomer's standard, no man should be allowed to be president, only women with children.
I’m pretty sure even the GOP aren’t taking campaign advice from Loomer or Milo these days. But yeah, if they think voters will refuse to embrace Harris because she has sex for pleasure or chose (so far) not to have kids, have at it. By comparison to Trump, soon to be thrice divorced, twice adjudicated to have sexually assaulted a woman, a felon, a liar, a conman and a payor of hush-money to porn stars for adulterous acts, Harris is Mother Teresa. They have nothing on her except she’s a woman of color with no kids. Those attacks are misogynistic and only hurt the gop. They best stick to her policies and hope America isn’t ready for a woman potus. But they are wrong.
Wasn't Loomer the one that was drunkenly trying to pick up Nazis in her hotel bar that one time? If so, who the fuck is she to be talking about childfree women who have had premartial sex?
Despite the benefits of our enlightened age, there is still a differential on this between men and women in this. As an illustration, think of all the words you know for "loose woman": slut, skank, ho, etc. Then think of any comparable for a man. "Ladies' man," "stud," etc., they refer to prowess rather than moral turpitude. And it will not matter with some that in Trump's case the turpitude is real, and completely made up in Harris' case.
The cultural ground for this was set centuries ago. We'll see how it plays out.
What a recent resume he has! He was interning for Marjorie Taylor Greene, then worked with Nick Fuentes and Kanye West on Kanye's 2024 presidential election campaign. In May he quit his job as Chief of Staff at Yeezy Apparel because, he said, he was morally offended by the company's plan to start a division called "Yeezy Porn."
These are only the starting attacks. She'll be attacked on everything for the next 4 months. If she wins, it will be Obama-redux. She's a secret Muslim. She hates all white folks. She's secretly the lovechild of Idi Amin and Evita Peron. She really studied Marx in kindergarten. She's got a p*nis. She's a secret lesbian. She turned tricks from age 11. Cheated her way through school. It will be nasty.
Agreed, and all highly likely to land flat and hurt the gop as it reeks of desperation. They don’t need to convince their maga base not to vote for Harris. No risk there. What they needed was voter apathy about Biden and his age and cognition. Now, that’s all gone out the window. Harris is young(ish), capable and qualified. She’s also a prosecutor and looks totally presidential. Trump is in deep trouble.
I am frankly amazed at how the energy has turned. I think the main way the attacks will fall flat is that Trump will be unable to regulate himself and will go too far.
It reveals that the GOP really have nothing but personal attacks. The way Trump has been moaning that the Dems "made" him spend months attacking Biden on his irrelevancies, and now their old personal attacks are no good. If he had been running on policy and what he can do for the country, he would barely need to recalibrate.
The energy shift is amazing. It will level off and still be a street fight, but I expect Harris to surprise people with her ability, charm, and fight. She’s no shrinking violet that Trump can stalk and intimidate. She’s got more juice than he can handle.
i have all the cats and no children which is exactly as i want it. i also have a wonderful man who also has all the cats and no children. we do theatre instead.
Joking of course. I have one kid, she's 33 and doing fine on her own learning to be an electrician. Now it's me and Patty and Gussie (two cats), and I still get to be a referee.
My ex and I have one daughter, and despite our best efforts she jumped right into heroin first chance out of high school. after 15 years she has finally (I hope) pulled out of it, and I guess it's a terrible thought, but I wonder at times if the first 18 years was worth the past 15.
It is for others to judge how good a parent I was, and how complicit in my kid's outcomes, but I can tell you: there are worse things than being without children.
Heroin addiction is a scourge I have no children, but I can’t count on both hands the number of nieces, nephews and cousins I have lost to heroin addiction Others spent years in prison or suffer permanent disabilities due to heroin use. All of them had nice homes and loving parents. it’s not your fault. I pray your daughter can stay clean People who have kicked and then slip are much more susceptible to OD, because their tolerance is gone.
Republicans really want to bring up Kamala Harris’ sexual history while they’re backing a candidate who has spent decades bragging about his affairs, was recently found liable for sexual abuse, and was BFFs for years with known pedophile Jeffrey Epstein?
Really?
The man who has cheated on all three of his wives?
Vance: "...via Democrats, via corporate oligarchs..." -- lumping these two demos together into a bloc in this way is so graceless in its transparency as to be laughable. People are getting more alert to your telegraphing what you wanna soften the ground for next, Party of Putin; will need new strategy that isn't in the Big Book of Authoritarians.
It's pretty weird how eager these MAGAts are to admit in public that they are unable to care about anything that doesn't directly affect them personally.
You know what damages a uterus? Getting an infection because you are unable to remove a dead fetus. That can cause uterine damage, infertility, and even death.
I just retired from 30 years of teaching, 18 of it special education. The very worst part of retiring is no longer being with my kids.
That's the way I always put it: "my kids." I had them on my caseload (cold, impersonal term) for 4 years as they made their way through high school. I got to know them, their families, their pets, their dreams and despairs.
I have a child of my own ("child," she's 33 and an electrician!), but working with my sped kids for 18 years was probably far more significant in my moral development, and in my connection to posterity.
"It’s not normal to care about people’s personal choices in this way, which is why you don’t see me chiming in with the criticisms of Loomer’s adjustments to her face. It’s not my face so it’s not my business. "
Fair enough.
"I'm willing to bet she's had so many abortions that she damaged her uterus."
So now she loses that consideration, so let me fix that for her:
"I'm willing to bet she's had so many face lifts that she can see the curvature of the Earth from there."
Also, is she REALLY only 31? I figured early 40s.
I was surprised about that too — that is one ROUGH 31 year-old.
I wonder if there is any journalism, articles or books, out there on people who just go nuts with plastic surgery. I am not thinking of malpractice-type disasters, I mean cases where people look in the mirror, tell themselves: "Hey, I am lookin' FINE" and then the Elephant Man winks at them.
For the people who go way overboard, its related to body dysmorphic disorder or something like that.
Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.
Since many men, particularly the power-hungry ones, have no involvement with their children beyond donating some sperm, by Loomer's standard, no man should be allowed to be president, only women with children.
And then Tim Scott enters the chat...
Whatever happened to the keep government out of your personal business republicans?
That applies only to conditions existing in 1877, and they used to call it "states' rights."
We call them centrist Dems these days.
I’m pretty sure even the GOP aren’t taking campaign advice from Loomer or Milo these days. But yeah, if they think voters will refuse to embrace Harris because she has sex for pleasure or chose (so far) not to have kids, have at it. By comparison to Trump, soon to be thrice divorced, twice adjudicated to have sexually assaulted a woman, a felon, a liar, a conman and a payor of hush-money to porn stars for adulterous acts, Harris is Mother Teresa. They have nothing on her except she’s a woman of color with no kids. Those attacks are misogynistic and only hurt the gop. They best stick to her policies and hope America isn’t ready for a woman potus. But they are wrong.
"...twice adjudicated to have sexually assaulted a woman, a felon, a liar, a conman and a payor of hush-money to porn stars..."
You sure you're not just wired in to Trump's latest cognitive screener?
Go ahead. Run Harris's sexual history against the Felon's. Go ahead
HE'S A MAN, BABY!
Could be one difference in a bigger demographic than we like to think.
Wasn't Loomer the one that was drunkenly trying to pick up Nazis in her hotel bar that one time? If so, who the fuck is she to be talking about childfree women who have had premartial sex?
Ah, I *am* remembering correctly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnUbeQYZ9a4
Is there anyone alive with a more sordid history than Donald TrumP?
Despite the benefits of our enlightened age, there is still a differential on this between men and women in this. As an illustration, think of all the words you know for "loose woman": slut, skank, ho, etc. Then think of any comparable for a man. "Ladies' man," "stud," etc., they refer to prowess rather than moral turpitude. And it will not matter with some that in Trump's case the turpitude is real, and completely made up in Harris' case.
The cultural ground for this was set centuries ago. We'll see how it plays out.
Yes, Trump men, take all your tips on gallantry from Milo Yiannopoulos. You'll certainly get Trump elected now.
"Whatever you do Br'er Fox, don't throw me in that briar patch!"
Milo back from oblivion? Who resurrected that creep?
What a recent resume he has! He was interning for Marjorie Taylor Greene, then worked with Nick Fuentes and Kanye West on Kanye's 2024 presidential election campaign. In May he quit his job as Chief of Staff at Yeezy Apparel because, he said, he was morally offended by the company's plan to start a division called "Yeezy Porn."
LOL, oh, stop it! "Morally offended!" Mercy!
These are only the starting attacks. She'll be attacked on everything for the next 4 months. If she wins, it will be Obama-redux. She's a secret Muslim. She hates all white folks. She's secretly the lovechild of Idi Amin and Evita Peron. She really studied Marx in kindergarten. She's got a p*nis. She's a secret lesbian. She turned tricks from age 11. Cheated her way through school. It will be nasty.
"She's a secret Muslim."
They should go with "secret Hindu," at least it is true her mom used to take her to temple.
Is that the right way to describe going to a Hindu place of worship? Or is it, in the immortal words of Hedley Lamar: "Too Jewish"?
Agreed, and all highly likely to land flat and hurt the gop as it reeks of desperation. They don’t need to convince their maga base not to vote for Harris. No risk there. What they needed was voter apathy about Biden and his age and cognition. Now, that’s all gone out the window. Harris is young(ish), capable and qualified. She’s also a prosecutor and looks totally presidential. Trump is in deep trouble.
I am frankly amazed at how the energy has turned. I think the main way the attacks will fall flat is that Trump will be unable to regulate himself and will go too far.
It reveals that the GOP really have nothing but personal attacks. The way Trump has been moaning that the Dems "made" him spend months attacking Biden on his irrelevancies, and now their old personal attacks are no good. If he had been running on policy and what he can do for the country, he would barely need to recalibrate.
But computer says: "No."
The energy shift is amazing. It will level off and still be a street fight, but I expect Harris to surprise people with her ability, charm, and fight. She’s no shrinking violet that Trump can stalk and intimidate. She’s got more juice than he can handle.
i have all the cats and no children which is exactly as i want it. i also have a wonderful man who also has all the cats and no children. we do theatre instead.
it costs less.
Theater, yeah, but you're missing all the drama!
Joking of course. I have one kid, she's 33 and doing fine on her own learning to be an electrician. Now it's me and Patty and Gussie (two cats), and I still get to be a referee.
No drama? Watch what happens when a Jay finds its way into the fireplace when the chimney cap isn't where it should be.
(Ended happily, but the cats were very round-eyed about watching Mom move the bird outside. Supervision was close.)
Childless couple here as well 52 years together We have dogs
My ex and I have one daughter, and despite our best efforts she jumped right into heroin first chance out of high school. after 15 years she has finally (I hope) pulled out of it, and I guess it's a terrible thought, but I wonder at times if the first 18 years was worth the past 15.
It is for others to judge how good a parent I was, and how complicit in my kid's outcomes, but I can tell you: there are worse things than being without children.
Heroin addiction is a scourge I have no children, but I can’t count on both hands the number of nieces, nephews and cousins I have lost to heroin addiction Others spent years in prison or suffer permanent disabilities due to heroin use. All of them had nice homes and loving parents. it’s not your fault. I pray your daughter can stay clean People who have kicked and then slip are much more susceptible to OD, because their tolerance is gone.
Mrs. Wookiee is happily childless and is definitely not a crazy cat lady.
She’s allergic to the little hairballs.
Republicans really want to bring up Kamala Harris’ sexual history while they’re backing a candidate who has spent decades bragging about his affairs, was recently found liable for sexual abuse, and was BFFs for years with known pedophile Jeffrey Epstein?
Really?
The man who has cheated on all three of his wives?
No, really?
Don't forget the way he lost his deposit on the sheets at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton.