Good morning!

Ok, I know publishing these pictures is usually something only republicans would do. The republican party has proven over and over that there is no low they won’t go to in order to win a point or election. They have no shame and apparently no empathy for the angsts of others.

I say the republicans, because although it is mainly the politicians of their party that resort to this type of despicable behavior, the obvious conclusion is they do it because their constituents reward them for it. So to you republicans who attempt your usual false equivalency arguments with “see the Democrats do it too,” I say NO, we are just retaliating in kind.

This may be too deep for your logic, but reacting to disgusting behavior in kind is not the same as initiating it in the first place. So…Let me put it to you in terms you will understand. Shooting someone that attempted to shoot you is NOT the equivalency of initiating the action of shooting someone. Got it?

Republicans have disgraced the Clinton family at every opportunity from body shaming tactics to accusing Hillary of murder. Trump also claimed Ted Cruz’s father was involved with the assassination of President Kennedy. And when questioned by Megyn Kelly about comments he made denigrating women, he didn’t deny that he made them. He reacted by attacking Kelly.

So…I’m going to be the Dem that has the warrior womb, and give this creep a little of his own medicine back. And I am happy to be the one to do it. Trump’s been doing this disgusting stuff for years beginning with the Obama birth certificate crap. To those who for whatever reason feel this is a tiny penis too far, I suggest you remind yourself that the republicans have rewarded this malicious, vilifying creature with the nomination for the office of POTUS.

It is not as if the republicans did not have candidates with the political, intellectual, economic, and foreign policy experience to choose from. Yet, they chose the idiot with the most vitriolic traits, a creature who has no low. If you have ever wondered how a Hitler could get in power, you are witnessing the how in your own time. I don’t know about you, but to me that says more about the people choosing than it does about the candidate chosen. Therefore any pretentious, moral, or ethical objections by any republicans will be treated with the concern their hypocrisy deserves.

The most common trait of bullies, is that they can’t handle receiving the disgusting shit they dish out so readily to others. So to you, “the Donald,”  you Lying Sack Of Shit, “How do you like it now?”

You like to go nasty. Here’s your triple dose back.

Yes, it’s tiny. Though not like the hands, more like his tiny brain. 

Any comments? Of course you do. 

Blog me.

Oh…notice something else in the photos? Lol. A few of my “friends” decided to join me. :))

Happy Saturday! Peace out. 

CORRECTION: It was Ted Cruz’s father that Trump claimed was involved with  the assassination of President Kennedy, not Mark Rubio’s father, as stated previously.

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Good morning!

Did you watch the Commander in Chief Forum last night? What did you think?

Here’s a few things I noticed. For one, Matt Lauer was all over Clinton by opening up the conversation telling Clinton that this wasn’t the forum to attack their opponent. Clinton didn’t “attack” Trump – she pointed out “facts” about him.  (Trump doesn’t speak factually. He just goes on and on about the plans he has but can’t seem to talk about them – ugh, maybe because he has none!)

And did you notice how Lauer gave Trump deference and didn’t ask Trump not to attack his opponent, Clinton? And then when Trump attacked Clinton, and Obama, and the generals in the military, Lauer didn’t stop him.

I also noticed Clinton made a big mistake when Lauer tossed her a softball.  He asked her why she voted for the war in Iraq and then changed her mind. Unfortunately, Clinton blew it there. She should’ve said what Trump has been saying all along. “Bush lied, and the Republican party knew it.”

All Clinton had to say was, “I was lied to just like the rest of the world – there were no weapons of mass destruction – Bush lied. Look at all the lives lost because of it.” But she didn’t and it was a big missed opportunity. She could’ve garnered some votes on that one – Too bad. Hopefully she’ll learn from it and next time nail the republican party.

Lastly, Lauer knew Trump lied about supporting the Iraq war (Trump says he opposed the war way before the invasion, {He’s such an LSOS} but facts say he didn’t.), but Lauer didn’t say a thing…he just moved on to the next question. Wha’at?! As the Huff Po stated, Lauer Cowers. Yes, he did. Lauer’s no different than the rest of the media: “…reporters have repeatedly let the Republican presidential candidate tell a revisionist version of his past stance without pushing back on the claim.” 

I’ve said all I want to say right now. No doubt you’ll all have more to add. Me? I’m going onto today’s topic.

Trump claims he knows more about ISIS than our military. Uh huh. He also thinks he knows everything about missiles. Right.

Here’s the write from The Trump Files on Mother Jones. The Trump files: A daily dose of telling episodes, strange but true stories, or curious scenes from the life of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.

Donald’s Nuclear Negotiating Fantasy

The billionaire was once convinced he could cut a magnificent nuclear weapons deal with the Soviet Union.

In the 1980s, Donald Trump became a global symbol of wealth and success who was planning to build the tallest skyscraper in the world. But the one deal he really wanted to cut was an arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union that would take nuclear missiles off the Cold War’s battlefield. It’s now clear that Trump knows quite literally nothing about nuclear weapons, but then he fantasized going toe-to-toe with the Russkies at the nuclear bargaining table.

“It’s something that somebody should do that knows how to negotiate and not the kind of representatives that I have seen in the past,” he told the Washington Post in 1984. “It would take an hour-and-a-half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles…I think I know most of it anyway.”

Three years later, growing even more alarmed about Libya and other rogue nations getting the bomb, he told author Ron Rosenbaum that he was indeed working with the Reagan White House on nukes. “I’m dealing at a very high level on this,” he said.

Trump was frightened about the spread of nuclear technology—he seemed at one point during the interview to suggest the United States should bomb France to keep it from selling nuclear know-how—and worried about the deal-making skills of American officials. “They have no smiles, no warmth; there’s no sense of them as people,” Trump complained. “Who the hell wants to talk to them? They don’t have the ability to go into a room and sell a deal. They’re not sellers in the positive sense.”

“I used to laugh when I thought back on Trump and me in [the 21 Club] talking nukes,” Rosenbaum wrote for Slate this year. “I’m not laughing anymore.”

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Readers: Your turn. Thoughts on this or that? Blog me.

Oh…I’m headed out of town. I’ll still be blogging but you won’t hear much more from me personally until I return.

Peace out. 

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Good morning!

I HOPE everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend.

I was asking the same question myself. You?

From the Huff Po:

Hey Does Anyone Find Roger Ailes’ Recent Career Trajectory Puzzling, Or Is It Just Me?

I don’t know if anyone noticed, but he went from being ousted at Fox News under scandal to advising a presidential campaign.

Over at Daily Intelligencer, Gabriel Sherman has a fresh account of the banishment of Roger Ailes from the Fox News Channel, focused mainly on the women at Fox who meticulously built their case against the infamous network head in response to years of sexual harassment. You can revisit many of the gory details of the case: the snide sexist comments, the way Ailes treated his female talent as objects for his on-demand titillations, and the retreat to intimidation whenever one of Ailes’ victims dared to stand up to him. All in all, it paints the picture of an ouster that was justly deserved.

Here’s an interesting side detail to this whole story, though. Ailes went from being forced out at Fox News under a grotesque, career-ending scandal to ― hey, let me double-check this … oh, yeah, here we go ― advising a presidential campaign.

That’s like … fffffucked up, man! I think that maybe more people should talk about this?

Of course, many people have noted that Ailes has ended up in the advisory orbit of GOP presidential candidate and sewage-poisoned log flume Donald Trump. One can’t help but notice this because, of late, the Trump campaign has seemingly made a mission of collecting many of the right wing’s more diabolical characters, “Pokemon Go”-style.

Trump traded up friend-to-dictators Paul Manafort for the dick-to-his-friends Steve Bannon, who apparently nurtured a rancid corporate culture of his own over at Breitbart News. More recently, Trump added Citizens United hatchet-man David Bossie to his camp as deputy campaign manager. They join ranks that include famed “dirty trickster” Roger Stone, trench-mouthed adviser Carl Paladino, and the perpetually hanging on hanger-on Corey Lewandowski, whose relationship to the campaign ― maybe he’s in, maybe he’s not ― seems to depend on the wind direction. (Recent acquisition Kellyanne Conway is the seasoned professional who’s been tasked with extracting a functioning, professional campaign from this rogues’ gallery ― that is, if she has any time left between all the occasions Ailes asks her to “give him a little twirl.”)

So, yeah, maybe it’s easy to lose a Roger Ailes in that sketchy wilderness, but one would think that the fact that Ailes got tossed from the news network he led to prominence after it came to light that he’d been routinely terrorizing his female employees might make it just a little bit harder. (Harder still, when you factor in the allegations he was using shareholder money for what amounted to prostitution, the “black box” espionage operation he set up within Fox, and the massive settlements he paid out to keep all of this quiet.)

Strangely however, the fact that Ailes’ workplace scandal ― the very thing that made it possible for him to advise the Trump campaign in a formal capacity in the first place ― doesn’t seem to come up all that often, and when it does, it never comes with any sort of accompanying comment noting that it’s really, really messed up that the guy went from his specific sort of tawdry downfall to the inner circle of a presidential campaign, or that this is the sort of hire that most presidential campaigns try to not make at this stage of the game.

The New York Times, in its initial report on Ailes’ involvement with the campaign, very quickly notes that Ailes was “ousted … over charges of sexual harassment.” But the same piece moves quickly to suggest that for Ailes, “being connected with Mr. Trump’s campaign could be a form of redemption after he was pushed out of the powerful network that he helped build.” Leaving aside the fact that the Trump campaign seems to the planet’s least likely repository of spiritual salvation, how would this work? It would seem that Ailes’ path to “redemption” would necessarily include a raft of apologies and the making of substantial restitution to the women he abused.

“Still,” writes the Times, “Mr. Ailes’s involvement is certain to stoke controversy.” Not if you suggest that his involvement might lead to redemption it won’t!

CNN’s Brian Stelter, pointing out the strange way the Trump campaign seemed to not want to make its embrace of Ailes known ― endeavoring to distinguish Ailes as an adviser to Trump, but not to the campaign ― notes Ailes’ ouster and provides the understatement: “The distinction is significant because Ailes is a subject of controversy.” I’ll say! And attendant to that controversy is the fact that Trump actually defended Ailes during the swirling scandal. “I can tell you that some of the women that are complaining,” said Trump, “I know how much he’s helped them.” Sure, sure.

“It makes a certain sense,” writes The Atlantic’s David Graham, “that ― as The New York Times reports ― Roger Ailes, the recently ousted Fox News chief, is advising Donald Trump ahead of the presidential debates.”

But, does it??

“Whatever his failings,” Graham writes, “Ailes knows his way around TV and salesmanship.”

I mean, the whole fact that he made a practice of sexually harassing his on-air talent maybe suggests that these skills aren’t as amazing a commodity to a campaign as one might have previously imagined. Moreover, I’m having a really difficult time picturing a conversation between Ailes and Trump in which Trump accepts the premise that Ailes knows more about how to perform on television than the candidate does.

By far the oddest story on the Ailes-Trump team-up comes from The Washington Post’s Callum Borchers, in a piece titled, “Why Donald Trump and Roger Ailes are so cagey about their relationship.” Based on that headline, you’d think that this explanation would be very quickly and capably rendered, because of the rather obvious reason they’d need to be so cagey.

Per Borchers:

Now, CBS News reports that Ailes participated in a debate prep session Sunday. If the TV titan is assisting Trump, why so cagey? Why wouldn’t the two men just say they are working together?

A few explanations come to mind.

Well, there’s the one explanation ― the one! ― that comes to mind, sits there in the mind, pecks at the mind, demanding attention from the mind, that will only finally get on up out of your mind and leave you alone when you acknowledge it. What are these “few explanations?”

1. “These are media-savvy men who understand that restricting information keeps the press interested.”
2. “Another possible reason is that denying basic, factual truths is just a thing Trump does. It doesn’t even have to be bad stuff, necessarily. He just seems to get a kick out of telling journalists that their accurate reporting is actually wrong.”
3. “It’s also worth considering the possibility that Ailes is the one who wants to keep his work for Trump — however informal — on the down-low … On the other hand, Ailes’s jumping aboard the Trump Train could tarnish the accolades he and Fox News received early in the GOP primary for tough coverage.”

Callum! Bruh! Don’t overthink this! They are being “cagey” because Roger Ailes watched his career go up in flames after he sexually harassed a bunch of his employees and then Trump turned around and gave this scoundrel a safe harbor.

“At first glance, it seems silly for Trump and Ailes to be so secretive,” writes Borchers, “But the closer you look, the more it makes sense.”

Okay, in the first place, this piece actually fails to make sense of it. But more importantly, the whole arrangement is what looks, at best, “silly.”

Right now, the Trump campaign should be working to make inroads with women voters. Ailes’ presence on the campaign makes that harder. Right now, the Trump campaign wants to keep attention away from his own sketchy workplace behavior. Ailes presence on the campaign makes that harder. The Trump campaign may want to make more hay out of Bill Clinton’s various sexual pecadillos ― something Trump has been signaling all year that he’s prepared to do. Ailes’ presence on the campaign … well, I’m sure I don’t need to underscore this.

There’s really only one way in which Ailes joining the Trump campaign can possibly make good sense, and that is if what we know as “the Trump campaign” is now in transition from a legitimate presidential candidacy to ― which is perhaps the most credible theory of what Trump is up to. In that context, joining forces with the ousted Ailes makes sense. The two men might very well be able to construct some new media venture on the backs of their combined talent and the teeming fanbase that Trump has acquired on his presidential run. (”Roger Ailes presents the Trump News Network: the global leader in Title IX complaints!”)

Let us reiterate, for the record: Roger Ailes, a man who was forced from his job running the world’s most successful news channel due to the fact he was a serial sexual harasser, has straightaway gone to work as an adviser to a major party’s presidential campaign.

That’s altogether bonkers, right? We can agree on that, can’t we?

It’s just probably something worth mentioning, on occasion.

[POSTSCRIPT: Serendipitously, Slate’s Michelle Goldberg had many of the same questions that I did today. Know hope!]

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Readers: You know the saying that goes something like:  ”Show me who you hang with, I’ll tell you who you are?” I think that applies here. Misogynists hanging with fellow misogynists.

On another note…Happy you all loved the video of our beloved FLOTUS, shakin’ it down for a very good cause. I know it was originally posted over a month ago but I had never seen it {and if I didn’t, I assumed many others didn’t as well}, and most importantly this urgent message needed more exposure. So yeah, I was delighted to post it in the blogosphere – I feel it’s always a good time to post a write in support of my ♀ sisters around the world.♀ Thanks for all the sweet praise. ♡

Carla: Yes, I read about the situation in Brazil with the Olympics. It’s really too bad. Such a happy time for most of the athletes but not so for many who live there. Happy you are both thriving. I won’t ask.

I’m aware of the environmental destruction. But murdering of children? I couldn’t find anything when I googled. I guess they’re keeping it out of the media. Horrific…just horrific. It’s a crazy world. Good to hear from you again.

Fembot: Thanks for bringing this to light. However, you might want to check your story source before you post. It sounded a bit unbelievable so I checked it out. I believe you got snookered. Snopes.com says it is false. Don’t feel bad; it happens to the best of us. I know your intentions were good. In this crazy world, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was true.

Still…I signed with Moveon.org, NOT to fight women for being prosecuted for breastfeeding, {Did you read it?} but because… Idaho is one of only two states that does not provide protection for a woman’s right to breastfeed her child anywhere she is able to be. Breastfeeding women are often discriminated against and harassed for trying to do the best thing for their children. We need to protect the rights of our mothers and babies and help support a strong breastfeeding relationship.

I think it’s super important that mothers are supported. As mothers they have a right and a duty to make sure that their babies are being fed when needed. And they should feel comfortable wherever they are, and free from being discriminated and harassed. Who can’t agree to that? Sign the petition. Thanks.

That’s it for me. Happy Tuesday!

The blog is open. Blog me. 

Peace out. 

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Good Monday Morning! And to my U.S. Readers: Happy Labor Day!

Keeping it light and low key today. Well maybe not low key…The first lady is rockin’ out with James Cordon of The Late Late Show, + Missy Elliott.

From the Huff Po. Watch it!

Michelle Obama Uses ‘Carpool Karaoke’ To Highlight Pressing Global Issue

In between belting Stevie Wonder, dancing to Beyoncé and delighting in a surprise appearance from Missy Elliott, first lady Michelle Obama brought up a serious message during her appearance on “The Late Late Show with James Corden”: the importance of educating girls around the world.

While participating in a “Carpool Karaoke” segment, Obama told the show’s host that she launched a Snapchat account to document her recent travel to Liberia, Morocco and Spain. The goal of the trip was to highlight her Let Girls Learn initiative, which she launched last year to educate more girls. Globally, more than 62 million girls are currently not in school. 

“So much could be corrected in the world if girls were educated and had power over their lives,” Obama said. “My message to kids here is, don’t take your education for granted, because there are girls around the world who would die to get the education that we have. They would do anything. They would move mountains to make it happen. I want our girls and our boys here to be aware of it, I want them to come along on this trip with me, and Snapchat was a good way to hook them in.”

Through the Let Girls Learn, thousands of American Peace Corps members stationed across the globe now get training in gender and girls education. The program works with multiple government agencies and outside organizations to invest in and elevate programs that directly impact girls in at-risk areas.

The first lady wrote about the importance of the initiative in The Wall Street Journal last March.

“The research is unequivocal: Girls who attend secondary school marry and have children later, and they have lower maternal and infant-mortality rates and lower rates of HIV/AIDS,” Obama wrote at the time. “Every additional year of education can increase a girl’s earning power by 10% to 20%; and sending more girls to school can boost an entire country’s economy. National-security experts have even noted that educating women can be a powerful tool to fight extremism, violence and instability.”

🎶♀♡

Readers: I am soo going to miss our first lady. Michelle Obama is just the best FLOTUS. With over 46 million video views, I’d say she’s going to be missed by all. #LOVEHER.

Let Girls Learn:

Such a wonderful movement. If you want to learn more about Let Girls Learn, click here. If you want to get involved click here. Thank you Michelle Obama for all of your efforts in support of our girls!

Off to go play. I hope you are all doing the same!

Peace & Love.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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Good Morning!

From the Wash Po:

Why Clinton Republicans matter

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks in Charlotte, N.C., in July. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

Not since Barry Goldwater’s 1964 campaign has there been such widespread public disavowal by Republicans of their party’s nominee. The Hillary Clinton Republicans will be one of the most important legacies of the 2016 campaigns.

The question is whether they will constitute the forward end of a political realignment, or just a one-time reaction to the unsuitability of Donald Trump for the presidency.

Reasons for skepticism about long-term change are rooted in the differences between today’s polarized politics and the more tempered partisanship surrounding the big-bang elections of 1964 and 1980.

In 1964, there was a lively liberal wing of the Republican Party. GOP figures such as Jacob Javits, Clifford Case, Edward Brooke and John Lindsay had far more in common philosophically with Lyndon B. Johnson than they did with Goldwater.

Thus, 1964 was genuinely realigning, setting off the flight of conservative white Southerners from the Democratic Party but also a defection of liberals from the Republican Party. Many (including Lindsay, Javits and Case) were pushed aside in primaries.

The list of Republicans who reject their presidential nominee, Donald Trump, and support his Democratic opponent keeps growing. (The Washington Post)

The celebrated Reagan Democrats of 1980, in the meantime, came in several varieties. Many were the same white Southerners who began voting Republican in 1964 but didn’t abandon their old party label. Others were Northern working-class whites who started voting Republican in Richard Nixon’s 1968 and 1972 elections. And some were neoconservatives who disliked President Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy. Here again, there was philosophical coherence.

The Never Trump Republicans, including those who have endorsed Clinton, are a far more complicated group. Many of them are devout philosophical conservatives who have little in common with Clinton on either policy or ideology. They see Trump as unacceptable largely because of who he is: his tendency towardcruelty and viciousness, his racial attitudes and his lack of seriousness about policy. Many Republicans are praying the Trump episode will be an interlude and that they will be able to resume control of their party after it ends.

Others are a part of an unusual alliance between hawkishneoconservatives and Republican foreign policy realists who often disagree with each other but are joined in the view that Trump’s foreign policy, such as it is, is entirely outside the internationalist traditions their party has broadly upheld since World War II. Both ends of this anti-Trump alliance are especially suspicious of his friendly views of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his support of policies (on NATO and the European Union) that would advance Russia’s interests.

On foreign policy, there is some coming together between Clinton and her Republican allies. Dovish liberals worry about this aspect of the anti-Trump right. They suspect — partly on the basis of her history — that Clinton’s instincts are more hawkish than President Obama’s.

Her allies on international issues cast the issue somewhat differently — and more positively: that Clinton’s election could restore something close to an older consensus on foreign policy that was blown apart by the Iraq War. They argue that she occupies a middle ground between Obama and his hawkish critics. She is less interventionist than the neoconservatives but would, on some issues, be tougher in her approach to diplomacy than Obama has been.

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Readers: I know Clinton hopes it will be easier, but I think a GOP Congress will be much harder on her then they were with Obama. She may be white but she’s a woman. If the Congress remains Republican we’re going to have a helluva time getting anything done, once again. I HOPE that Clinton realizes this.

Yes, she may have been able to find common ground when she was a Senator or Secretary of State, but I’m not counting on her finding common ground with republicans in Congress. Not that I am questioning her abilities. I just know how ruthless the republicans are. And if they feel they have no choice but to vote for Clinton, they are going to want to CONTROL and have the power to meet their agendas as much as they possibly can, just like they did with Obama. Only my gut tells me it will be much worse with Hillary as POTUS.

And, there’s a lot at stake. What’s at stake? Oh…just a little nomination of a Supreme Court Justice (!) Hillary needs a Democrat Senate because when she makes her choice for SCOTUS, the Senate will need to confirm it. If it’s a Republican Senate, like it currently is, you better believe they aren’t going to like her nomination, because it will most likely tip the balance of the court to the left.

This is how it works: Once Hillary makes her SCOTUS choice she sends it over to the Senate. The Senate leadership, then turns the nomination over to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which then holds hearings. This gives the Senators from both sides a chance to discern how a nominee will side with certain issues that are important to that particular party. It’s not uncommon for this to go on for days, especially if the choice is a contentious one.

The Senate Judiciary Committee then votes on whether to recommend the nominee to the full Senate. And by the way, the full Senate can hold their own hearings as well. In reality, we only need to have a simple majority vote by the full Senate to approve the nomination with the VP casting the deciding vote should there be a tie. However, in recent years, to hold a Senate Vote, it requires the support of at least 60 Senators – the number it takes to shut down a filibuster.

So what do we need to do? Simple. Make sure we take back control of the Senate. Just keep the number 60 in your mind, and go out and vote.

Holly: I guess I see it differently. When things like this are made into law…they may seem small and insignificant or “ridiculous” on the onset. But if we don’t pay attention to them, men are slick – they know what they’re doing to women – it gives men the go ahead to push us even further, and attempt to chip away at our rights and do even more harmful things to us.

If we can’t stick up for what is wrong with little everyday matters pertaining to women’s needs and health, why would men be concerned about the bigger picture of women’s health? If we don’t honor our bodies and stick up for our needs, we know men certainly won’t – they are the ones who are legislating this BS.

Lastly, no one is saying that what is happening in Germany is not important. Womens’ lives, safety and well-being all over this planet are worth advocating for. But if we don’t treat our basic needs, not wants, as something important, men will just keep legislating in their best interest, what benefits them the most, with little regard for what’s important to us.

Let’s look at the laws for rape. The consequences are not harsh enough because men write those laws. If we got stronger laws passed for rape, and men knew the ramifications wouldn’t be worth the disgusting act, they wouldn’t rape. I have no doubt that if men knew their dicks would be cut off or they wouldn’t be able to have sex again if they raped, the act of rape would not even be an issue anymore.

Until women take more power by running for office and voting out the bastards we’ll have to deal with these misogynist and discriminatory laws that pass disrespecting women and their health needs. Thankfully enough women in these states voiced their opinions loud enough to get the laws changed. Hopefully more states will follow suit.

Happy Friday Everyone! I’ve flapped my lips enough, now it’s your turn. You know what to do.

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Peace out.

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