I have too many things to think about this election. I have no time to look at the past. I voted for Hilary in 2016. But I knew what she came in with. I didn’t think Bernie could win in a general election. And I’ve always found Trump to be morally corrupt.
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You might be interested in an exhibition I’m having at the American University Museum right now: “Faces of the Republican Party.” As I’ve mentioned on this board, policy has been a small part of this campaign. Morality and the direction of this country is what this election is about. I use verifiable facts and quotes at the bottom of digital portraits I make of Trump and his sycophants. Here’s the museum’s page on the exhibition (and you can download the catalogue). There are only 37 of the 67 images I’ve made on display. Here’s a page where you can see all of them.
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Neat! I would be.
‘Tis. I have a lot of faith in America(ns), but this is most certainly a critical gate we are passing through.
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If you’re in DC, come to the show. BTW, a review of the exhibition appeared last Friday in the Washington Post. Early this week, the Heritage Foundation sent an intern to photograph the work. I think I just might be part of the “Enemy Within.” And I take this seriously. “Healthy paranoia” is underrated.
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Um, you are repeating yourself. You posted the same comment three hours ago in this thread. Did you mean to post the exact same thing again, I wonder?
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It works so well, they want to create essentially the same thing in Texas.
Instead of Statewide offices being elected directly by popular vote, it’'s whoever wins the most counties, thereby insuring Texas remains a one-party State forever.
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“On Undecided Voters: "To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.”
― David Sedaris
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Misogyny was the clear #1.
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But there are two ways to appeal in a bipartisan manner: one is to trend to the right in terms of morality and rhetoric, the other is to tend toward what’s popular in a bipartisan manner in terms of policy.
These are different things. Lots of people on both sides of the aisle (such as they are) favor elder home care being covered by Medicare. People on both sides of the aisle favour giving small businesses bigger tax breaks. Heck, people on both sides of the aisle favour taxing the rich more.
Playing to both sides of the aisle doesn’t need to be about embracing the likes of Liz and Dick Cheney. I feel like they conceded to much to get her support. Regardless of what Harris’ policies she pitched during the campaign, Cheney is FUBAR if Trump wins. And I question how many people long for the good old days of Neocon foreign policy.
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Women have been around since humanity came into being. I can’t help wondering when it will be OK to have women candidates.
Also:
The woman King Hatshepsut (1507–1458 BCE) would like a word.
As would Merneith, Queen Regnant during the early 1st Dynasty
[ETA: When her tomb and that stela were found, they were assumed to belong to a Pharaoh, because only kings’ tombs had similar stele, and only kings had tombs of such vast size.]
“Another rival to the claim of being the first female pharaoh is Khentkaus I (4th-5th Dynasty). On the doorway of her tomb in Giza, there is written a title which can be translated to either “Mother of Two Kings” or “King and Mother of a King.” There are also images of her that show her in king-like poses and even wearing a false beard!”
Sobekneferu (mid-18th C BCE)
Nefertiti (c. 1370 – c. 1330 BCE) is now thought to have taken a Pharoah’s titulary, ruling Egypt herself after her husband Akhenaten had passed, instead of being Queen Regnant while his son Tutankhamon was a very small child.
Twosret (d. 1189 BCE) took a king’s titulary, becoming the last king of the 19th Dynasty.
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We often do.
It doesn’t always seem to help.
But I guess that was your point anyway.
ETA: Thank you for the link.
Quite amazing graphics, but not for the faint of heart.
Those images will haunt me.
Still, you made the effort: Faces of the Republican Party (2022-Present)
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But… but… the mens will get their widdle feelings hurt if they have to take orders from a woman!!! /s
Apparently, though, it’s only American men who are so fucking fragile on that front, that they will literally elect a fascist before a woman, as long as it’s a man… I mean, as you note, women have held positions of power across history. And even in the modern era, plenty of countries have had women as heads of state.
Wait til you learn about Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher!!!
She was not a fascist. The depth of misogyny in the rejection of Clinton. Rather than election a woman some men voted for someone who was even then apparent as a fascist for anyone paying any attention. People can whine about her being a neoliberal (which is not wrong), but at the end of the day, men just believed whatever bullshit the GOP was shoveling down their throats about her, because they are just that scared of competent women. Like it or not, that’s what Clinton is.
You are aware that the party who has been MOST destructive to workers rights WAS and IS the GOP, right? I agree that NAFTA was a huge problem, but that was negotiated by the previous republican administration and Pres. Clinton (note, not Hilary, who was the first lady and not in a position to sign laws), doing the very thing that everyone demanded of the Democrats (but for some FUCKING REASON) never of the GOP, he worked across party lines to get a bill over the finish line. The GOP has always been anti-labor and the fact that you are ignoring that speaks volumes. Was NAFTA the right bill to sign and did it do real damage to labor? Yes. That’s not the fault of the person who was not president, and the Democrats are not the only ones to blame for that, either. I’m really fucking sick of the Democrats being the only party with any agency, when there are two political parties in this country who wield power, and only one of those has been consistently anti-labor for most of the past century.
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I honestly do not understand my fellow dudes objections to women being in charge. Obviously the men have made a right fucking mess of everything and I mean EVERYTHING. Put the women in charge and watch the world get better. What’s so hard about that?
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They think it’s an attack on their manhood. They are fragile and can’t imagine that someone they consider lesser than them could do a better job in charge…
Depends on the woman, after all. I don’t think that Thatcher was that great a leader, after all…
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Well I mean Thatcher’s right up there Elizabeth Bathory in the evil woman tyrant rankings, no doubt.
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Misogyny. Every single time.
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It hurts being wrong, but men are supposed to be about being tough, rugged and so on, I’ve still not understood why being wrong( when it means a woman is right) is somehow a pain worse than spraining your knee.
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The other side doesn’t want change. They don’t want progress. They want to take the country backwards. That’s the problem.
Biden campaigned on being a unifier and it got him nowhere because the R side refused to do anything that might be seen as a “win” for Dems. They would repeatedly torpedo their own bills when they started to get D support, FFS.
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Harris might be morally gray, but Trump is not. He’s a fascist, plain and simple. He has been announcing his plans to hurt people in no uncertain terms. He is black in a white circle on a bright red background.
Theory: this “oh, but you’ve got to pivot to the center” that people keep demanding from Democrats but never Republicans has nothing to do with undecided voters. After all, the majority in America is to the left of the party, and it wins by inspiring voter turnout, so it makes no sense to focus on a handful of obstinate fools instead. Instead it’s purely to do with courting the rich, who will use their purchased outlets to tell you that their positions are the sensible ones all politicians must take.
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