It's rooted in the Bible and the beginnings of our country where men are the the rulers and women and children are their property to do with as they see fit. Alito actually quoted famous jurists from 1700's England in his ruling (the person he quoted believed women were property with no rights and that there was no such thing as marital rape because a wife's body belonged to her husband). Women who've grown up in the evangelical church are brainwashed into the cult. Misogyny and racism in this country are inextricably linked because both are based on the belief that the only "true" Americans who should make all the rules are elite white men. Despite all the progress of the last hundred years, they never stopped believing this. Then Trump opened pandora's box and gave them all permission to let it fully out into the open. They are drunk on their own power now.
And some of it has do to with low male self-esteem (due to income inequality, loss of blue collar jobs, lack of higher education, GOP decades long agenda to blame liberals for their problems) and their rage when women and blacks (Hillary and Barack) surpass them in success. They need to beat women, POC and gays back into submission in order to "feel good" about themselves. It's sick and gross and backwards. And they must be called out on it over and over again.
I think that also partly explains how fast conspiracy theories spread that have no basis in reality. We have tens of millions of people in this country that have been conditioned since childhood to accept many wild claims without evidence related to their religion, and then end up accepting wild claims without evidence related to politics. And that's a worldwide problem.
I was just coming back to post more insight into "Christian women" and why they behave as they do:
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Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn (Chaplain and instructor of New Testament, Ferrum College)
One part of growing up as white evangelical woman I don’t quite think gets enough air time is being raised to be arrogant. It fits weirdly with a lot of gender issues in the church, which might not be why we talk about it. On one hand, girls and women are raised with a sense
of shame, guilt, inferiority to men, inherent sense of things they can’t do, etc. But the flip side of being socialized to be under men is the coaching to be insanely smug and feel superior to other women. You can pick up almost any complementarian book for women by women
and hear it almost immediately. Women who don’t participate in patriarchy are dumb, slutty, rebellious, undersexed, ugly whores whose children are getting molested in public school. You, participant in patriarchy, are valuable, smart, enlightened, treasured, and blessed.
It’s not hard to see where this comes from because getting to feel better than other women is a decent consolation prize for a lifetime of being inferior to men you actually have to live with. But its also a tone that is SO familiar to me and one I think we probably don’t
investigate enough. Evangelical women can have low self esteem and apathy, but it’s also paired with a tendency be really elitist, arrogant, smug, and self righteous, and we start socializing girls to be like this pretty quickly.
The dominant script for evangelical women is that they are supposed to be humble, but the insularity and performativity in a lot of churches actually encourages cattiness, haughtiness, and pride when women interact with each other.
*strums ukelele* Christian women are smug, everyone knows it, nobody says it, because they’re Christians
(I also guarantee conservative Christian moms are going to find this thread and respond by being really smug)
I know and like a lot of homeschooling moms but the lifestyle marketing in a lot of the culture is that if you live a certain way, other women will envy you and you will be better than them.
So once they *believe* something (Q conspiracy, vaccines are evil, Biden didn't win, Obama was a Muslim), they will not listen to facts or reason because they believe they know better (than science, liberals, college-educated people, the main stream press). Just look at Sarah Palin, Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene. They are some the dumbest and yet most arrogant women in the public sphere.
To be fair, the right wing men are just as bad or worse. But it's a peek into why these women seemingly vote against their own interests -- they think they will be protected from the worst of these policies via their husbands' privilege and standing. Wait until they figure out abortion, ectopic pregnancy treatment, miscarriage treatment and the right to travel freely between states is no longer protected by hubby, their minister or the big daddy in the sky.
Republicans would rather hurt/kill their own voters than do something jointly with Democrats where Democrats might get credit in the mid-terms. Red states have the highest incidence of diabetes and also the poorest populations and worst health outcomes. But Republicans don't care and apparently neither do their voters. They will kill and die just to own the libs.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1
Breaking: Senate Republicans have just blocked the $35/month insulin price cap for Americans on private insurance from Democrats' spending bill.
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Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT
Almost every single Republican - including many up for election this fall - voted against a bipartisan effort to cap insulin prices.
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Grace Segers @Grace_Segers
Seven Republicans voted to keep the insulin price cap in the bill: Cassidy, Collins, Hawley, Hyde-Smith, Kennedy, Murkowski and Sullivan. But seven Republicans was not enough - it needed to be 10. So that provision has been stripped from the bill.
(See McConnell’s telling prediction about 2022 elections)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) predicted the US Senate will likely be close to a 50-50 split after the midterm elections despite President Biden's slumping poll numbers.
We voted against a $35 cap on insulin!
We don't think Medicare and Social Security should be automatic!
We think women are baby vessels and should not have the right to determine their own health care!
We also don't think women should have birth control!
We believe if 10-year old girls are raped by their fathers, they should be forced to carry the pregnancy to term! Because 10-year olds can be good mothers if they just apply themselves!
We will make all abortion in every state illegal as soon as we grab power!
We think even more people should own and freely carry AR-15s!
We think hedge fund managers and giant corporations aren't rich enough!
And while we're at it, we don't think gay marriage should be legal!
And in fact, we should criminalize gay sex!
We want the government in your bedroom, in your doctors office and monitoring your computer, phones and travel at all times!
Oh and don't tell anyone, but we just hosted a foreign fascist leader at our annual conference and his statements that race mixing should be illegal were cheered! Along with all the rest his Nazi speech!
We are openly Christian Fascists, White Supremacists and Nazis now but we don't care!
We aren't even pretending to govern or win your vote because we are planning to gerrymander, restrict voter access and steal elections from here on out!
Republicans managed to kill the insulin cap. There was a tweak to the corporate tax due to Sinema's insistence (surprise!!!), but it's a good bill overall.
House will pass it and then Biden will sign it.
It's a big win.
Time to distract people with Hunter Biden and caravans from Mexico. _________________ ¡Hala Madrid!
Republicans managed to kill the insulin cap. There was a tweak to the corporate tax due to Sinema's insistence (surprise!!!), but it's a good bill overall.
House will pass it and then Biden will sign it.
It's a big win.
Time to distract people with Hunter Biden and caravans from Mexico.
And Paul Pelosi. _________________ Nobody in the NBA can touch the Laker brand, which, like the uniform color, is pure gold.
Not even a single Republican voted for it. Not surprising but still utterly disgusting. Republicans have no desire to do the work of governing. They only want to block Democrats even when the legislative goals are popular and would help their own states. None of them deserve to be re-elected. ZERO.
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 1:19 pm Post subject:
This is a good time to put pressure on Mark Cuban to help Democratic policeis imho
He is old enough that his lifestyle and money are secure and even libertarians want to protect civil rights.
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 1:22 pm Post subject:
ChefLinda wrote:
Not even a single Republican voted for it. Not surprising but still utterly disgusting. Republicans have no desire to do the work of governing. They only want to block Democrats even when the legislative goals are popular and would help their own states. None of them deserve to be re-elected. ZERO.
What was that quote "Who knew Healthcare could be so hard?"
All they do is (bleep) and moan and steal and lie and project their crimes on to others
Cried for 10-20 years about free healthcare being all wrong and they had a better plan but had 4 years to pull it off and NOTHING but lies and theft and murder (stealing ppe supplies from Blue States is premeditated murder - with some lower level name)
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 1:27 pm Post subject:
Keep worshipping Trump and this is what it creates
POS MAGAT thought this Asian family caused the CHINA VIRUS..
WHO CALLED IT THE CHINA VIRUS
ONE big piece of (bleep) who the IRS has protected since birth.
A Texas man who attacked an Asian family he believed to be "Chinese and therefore responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic," was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison on hate crime charges, the Department of Justice announced.
Jose Gomez III, 21, of Midland Texas had pleaded guilty to three counts of committing a hate crime in February in connection with slashing a customer, their 6-year-old child and a Sam’s Club employee on March 14, 2020.
I know this will not shock anyone here, but according to a new book -- Trump wanted to go full-on Hitler and said as much out loud:
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt
"I will fight from the inside": How Trump and his generals went to war -- with each other. An excerpt from our new book "THE DIVIDER; Trump in the White House, 2017-2021," with @sbg1 in this week's @NewYorker: Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals. How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.
When Trump kept pushing to have a military parade down the streets of Washington, one general pushed back: "It's what dictators do."
Trump soured on generals who he thought should be loyal like he thought Hitler's officers were.
“You (bleep) generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?” Trump demanded.
"Which generals?" John Kelly asked.
"The German generals in World War II," Trump said.
After Lafayette Square, Milley wrote out a never-delivered resignation letter obtained here for the first time.
In it, he wrote Trump: "It’s obvious to me that you don’t hold those values dear and the cause that I serve."
"And lastly," Milley went on, "it is my deeply held belief that you’re ruining the international order, and causing significant damage to our country overseas, that was fought for so hard by the Greatest Generation that they instituted in 1945."
Milley opted against resigning but to stay and resist efforts to politicize the military.
"(bleep) that (bleep),” he told his staff. “I’ll just fight him.” He added: “If they want to court-martial me, or put me in prison, have at it. But I will fight from the inside.”
(How the Inflation Reduction Act aims to reduce prescription drug costs)
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48 million Americans get prescription drugs through Medicare Part D, but Medicare has had no ability to negotiate prices. A provision in the Inflation Reduction Act would change that in some cases. The bill would also cap out-of-pocket drug costs for Medicare recipients. Stacy Dusetzina from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine joins Lisa Desjardins to discuss.
(Report confirms Trump habit that was bad for plumbing and his presidency)
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The New York Times' Maggie Haberman joins CNN's New Day to reveal images backing up her reporting on former President Donald Trump's habit of flushing key White House documents down the toilet.
(Report confirms Trump habit that was bad for plumbing and his presidency)
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The New York Times' Maggie Haberman joins CNN's New Day to reveal images backing up her reporting on former President Donald Trump's habit of flushing key White House documents down the toilet.
Actual photos (taken by a staffer)
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Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance
If you're POTUS, whatever you're up to that's so bad that you have to (try to-so inept) destroy records by flushing your notes (in violation of the official records act among other things) must be really bad. Subpoenas for Stefanik & Rogers (Ark or AL)?
(How 'Dark Brandon' Memes And Schumer's Machiavellian Moves Gave Dems A Summer Surge)
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Ryan Cooper joins Emma for a closer look at the beautiful bates-and-switches Chuck Schumer pulled on Mitch McConnell and Krysten Sinema to get an IRA deal along with his cherished CHIPS act, as well his forcing the GOP into digging their own grave over veteran victims of burn pits getting healthcare. Expanding on this, Cooper explores McConnell’s behind-the-scenes freak-out regarding the legislative rug that was once under his feet but is no longer, and how Dark Brandon memes have reportedly lit a fire under Joe Biden's ass to get stuff done.
(MSNBC can't confirm but Trump himself is saying it's so....)
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Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins
The FBI executed a search warrant today at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, the former president confirms to CNN in a lengthy statement.
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Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins
Trump says the raid was unannounced and adds, "They even broke into my safe."
I know this will not shock anyone here, but according to a new book -- Trump wanted to go full-on Hitler and said as much out loud:
Quote:
Peter Baker @peterbakernyt
"I will fight from the inside": How Trump and his generals went to war -- with each other. An excerpt from our new book "THE DIVIDER; Trump in the White House, 2017-2021," with @sbg1 in this week's @NewYorker: Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals. How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.
When Trump kept pushing to have a military parade down the streets of Washington, one general pushed back: "It's what dictators do."
Trump soured on generals who he thought should be loyal like he thought Hitler's officers were.
“You (bleep) generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?” Trump demanded.
"Which generals?" John Kelly asked.
"The German generals in World War II," Trump said.
After Lafayette Square, Milley wrote out a never-delivered resignation letter obtained here for the first time.
In it, he wrote Trump: "It’s obvious to me that you don’t hold those values dear and the cause that I serve."
"And lastly," Milley went on, "it is my deeply held belief that you’re ruining the international order, and causing significant damage to our country overseas, that was fought for so hard by the Greatest Generation that they instituted in 1945."
Milley opted against resigning but to stay and resist efforts to politicize the military.
"(bleep) that (bleep),” he told his staff. “I’ll just fight him.” He added: “If they want to court-martial me, or put me in prison, have at it. But I will fight from the inside.”
I'm pretty sure if a judge approved an FBI search warrant to search your residence unannounced, you are probably A TARGET and not just a witness or person of interest.
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:04 pm Post subject:
ChefLinda wrote:
I'm pretty sure if a judge approved an FBI search warrant to search your residence unannounced, you are probably A TARGET and not just a witness or person of interest.
What a week. And it's only Monday!
Yes I think this is a major deal. They had to have really compelling evidence for a judge to agree to a no-knock warrant on the former POTUS. You don't just do this on a whim or a hunch. There's too much at stake.
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