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Geoff Anderson's avatar

A righteous rant, 13/10, no notes.

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Liz's avatar

Thanks Geoff. I appreciate you. I'm going to go scream/cry now and break things.

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

My weekly post about Human Garbage has plenty of contestants, all worthy, all deplorable.

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Liz's avatar

no lack of choices in shit box red states. these lawmakers shit the bed daily and are proud of it.

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Incel Theory's avatar

Women's refusal to play their game is really getting on their nerves and hitting their bottom line. The dating app Bumble had to remove its billboards begging women to sleep with men.

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Liz's avatar

that's interesting. any links I can use for posts?

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Incel Theory's avatar

Conservative GenZ commentator Brett Cooper of the Daily Wire covered the Bumble fumble but she completely dropped the ball on it. Her take was that since the Bumble app had it that only women could make the first contact, women were leaving Bumble because women don't want to make the first move. So now Bumble makes it that men can make the first contact and yet women are not flooding back, so what's the issue? Brett thinks it's some sort GenZ awakening that young women are foregoing online "hook ups" and "casual sex" and preferring instead to meet men in the more organic "traditional" way - offline and out in real life. But no, women aren't doing that either. You would think that after all the conservative whining and crying over mainstream and social media about "the male loneliness epidemic" and "plummeting birth rates" that these conservative blabber mouths could figure it out. But no, they can't put 2 and 2 together. Conservative media and dating apps are completely shook over the absense of women's interest in meeting, dating, sexing, marrying, carrying forward the DNA of men, and yet they still can't quite figure out WHY.

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Incel Theory's avatar

Here's a good video touching on Andrea Dworkin's views in her book Right Wing Women and how they intersect with today's Bumble fumble, the 4B Movement and the reversal of RoevWade.

Dworkin posits that left wing men of the 70s were pissed that the Sexual Revolution didn't net them all the sex they thought it would so they began to abandon abortion rights and "waaaaaah......if we can't get laid we're leaving revolutionary politics!!!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYaFYqwrMKE

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Liz's avatar

Thanks for sharing!

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Guscat's avatar

One of the annoying thing about people like Harrison is whenever they post something a bunch of MAGAs come on and say they didn’t say what we say they did even as they back up every nasty thing people like Harrison said because we libs can never be right about anything.

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Julie Duggan's avatar

Well, he's on video so there's no denying

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Guscat's avatar

He’s written enough of it in code so that people can deny it if they want, much like the MAGAs do with say Trump and his Jan 6 speech.

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Julie Duggan's avatar

I hate this fucker. We should let Patrick Mahomes wife kick his ass, I'm sure she could.

My husband says that there are several petitions out there requesting the Chiefs to terminate him. NFL is distancing themselves from Butt-ker he read.

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Liz's avatar

NFL needs him too bad. he won't suffer any backlash, if anything he will become a mascot for the far right and the manosphere. This will not hurt him at all. he will make money off of it.

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Julie Duggan's avatar

The NFL does not *need* him. I'm sure they definitely want to keep him though, but his comments went far beyond misogynistic and degrading women as a whole..... he was also outright hostile against LBGTQ as well, and there a few openly gay NFL players, so overall this prick offended a lot of people. He stopped short on racism but I suspect he's also a racist, most Christian nationalists are.

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Used2Balwyr's avatar

If the chiefs keep him, I am forever against them, mahomes, kelce, reid, and their entire organization. I'll be wishing their permanent demise, all of them.

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Julie Duggan's avatar

I was thinking about Annie Wilkes today, from that old movie Misery. Where she breaks his ankles. 🤣

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Julie Duggan's avatar

Totally agreed. This might bring them some bad juju in their upcoming season.

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Tim Moore's avatar

So are you saying then that everyone in the NFL who thinks or believes similarly should be terminated by their franchise? That is also an extremist and scary position. Do you wish to punish anyone who thinks differently than yourself? Your comments lead me to believe so.

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Used2Balwyr's avatar

If the NFL had any principles, which we know they do not (except for money), they would ban him from the league forever, and let him live with his abusive behavior and beliefs.

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Sue Haley's avatar

I live in Lawrence, Kansas. I am appalled. I am no longer of child bearing age nor do I have the proper equipment to do so. But my friends and my friends’ children are.

Honestly? I blame 🍊45

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Liz's avatar

Greetings fellow Kansan! Yes. This backlash to 2nd wave feminism is unsurprising, especially since the orange menace gave these men (and the supreme court) permission to be the worst version of themselves. We have to vote these ghouls out in November. All the way down to the dog catcher.

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Kathy Hick's avatar

I’ve been so frustrated by all the chatter and fuss on Instagram (about Butker’s tirade) that is focusing almost exclusively on seeing him as an individual rogue misogynist. Rather than as a prime example of what Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation are planning for a Trump win in Nov. What’s happening across the country at the state government level is chilling, yet so few people are joining up the dots.

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Liz's avatar

Y E S SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Because the press is failing on such a level similar to the fictional press in the movie "don't look up", I feel like most folks have no idea what PR2025 is and that it will alter their existence in this country. We are literally watching the comet come towards earth and the press is opining about Joe Biden's age. Somebody shoot me.

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Kathy Hick's avatar

I know. I literally feel like a conspiracy theory nutcase when I mention Project 2025 anywhere — yet it’s no theory; it’s already becoming reality. But you’d never know it from trawling through the media.

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Kay-El's avatar

Mad props for this piece. I understand people’s concern over Gaza, anyone with a heart and a brain can. However, our country’s future is at stake and I don’t relish living in a Project 2025 hellscape.

I hope Buttkick’s wife is happy being a handmaiden to such a jerk. If I had a husband that said this, I’d have been packed and out the door before he even left the stage.

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Liz's avatar

100% YES

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Janine Agoglia's avatar

I am grateful to live in a blue state where abortion rights, LGBTQ, and general sanity prevails. My heart breaks for anyone who is not a cis-het white man living in a red state. Handmaid's Tale is becoming a reality before our eyes and it's terrifying.

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Liz's avatar

And sadly it will be coming to every state if Trump wins. He can simply ban abortion and contraception by enforcing the Comstock act., then withhold federal funding for blue states that fail to do so. It will literally be civil war. Sorry to be grim….thank you for coming here and contributing!!

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Janine Agoglia's avatar

I can't even imagine the devastation if he wins.

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Liz's avatar

I'll swim to mexico if I have to.

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JP Shores's avatar

Very well written and spot on! I asked my group last night if Butthole even wrote that speech!? I doubt he did.

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Liz's avatar

His pal Josh Hawley probably conjured up that hot garbage.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Excellent, Liz. I'm new-glad to find you.

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Liz's avatar

Thank you for being here!! I very much admire your work.

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Kay-El's avatar

Susan is dynamite and so are you.

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Liz's avatar

Than you sis.

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

I’d be DELIGHTED to fill in that rage blank. I’d be delighted to talk about the kind of mentality that just found out there is this place called the Mideast where they have serious problems. I’d be delighted to express my opinion of people who don’t think it’s possible that America could turn Baptist Taliban. My delight would include addressing people who think keeping their soft white hands free from the schmutz of politics makes them, you know, attractive and debonair. If asked, I’d be, well, delighted, that’s the word, to say a few short Anglo-Saxon words to those who are just so over Old Joe and wish they had someone who wasn’t such an old…nobody in particular, just, I don’t know, someone not so OLD.

Yeah, good times. Thanks for the piece, and, no, I hadn’t heard about the Republican supermajority doing that. Kansas was once known for the strength of their women, and I expect we’ll be hearing from them in November.

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Liz's avatar

Kansas isn’t as bad as Missouri, where I crossed over from. I’m glad you are here. We gotta stick together and sharing our collective outrage is therapeutic. We are in this together.

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Maureen C. Berry's avatar

Over here from Summer Koester’s stack and I’m also swimming blue in a sea of red! Lord do I have typos. Love your style! 🙌🏻

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Liz's avatar

Welcome Maureen! I’m glad you are here… I also have many typos.

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Kate Bergam's avatar

This great! I’m so glad I found your Substack. We’re in this together!

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Kate's avatar

My mind is blown by the people I hear will not vote Blue because of …. Gaza/Israel, etc. In what world will it be better for us or Palestinians or Ukrainians if Herr Pumpkinfuhrer returns to power!? It enrages me!

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Liz's avatar

It blows my mind too. I honestly think most of these voters will return to Biden when faced with another Trump term, but our voicing their outrage over the Israel situation. The voters who refused to return to Biden or vote for a third-party or threaten to not vote at all I believe, never supported Biden to begin with, and if it wasn’t the Israel Gazza issue, they would find another reason to be outrage shit, Biden, and the “system“. Nihilism mixed with idealism is never a great combination. I understand that a lot of young people are angry at our two party system, but I feel that many who think that voting third-party will somehow fix that don’t really understand the nuance of how government actually works.

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Liz's avatar

Voice to text so please excuse typos lol

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Kate's avatar

Not bad for voice to text. I’ve gotten some interesting texts from my sister. 😉🤣

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Ginny's avatar

Women (in the past & now) threatening this election with their vote for Republicans have & are just playing Russian roulette with Democracy and it is so incredibly stupid, and it has gotten us where we are now (…there, I fixed your sentence in that last paragraph). In peace & solidarity

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Used2Balwyr's avatar

Reminds me of nazi germany! Hope, for my children and grandchildren, that we’re not headed that way, but my confidence is weakened.

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Liz's avatar

Project 2025's agenda has been a very well funded 50 year plan that started in the late 70s/early 80s when Reagan courted the evangelical vote. Since then, the heritage foundation, started by Dr. Evil himself, Leonard Leo has been producing 'A mandate for leadership' which is a detailed guide to be followed by whomever should be the elected republican president. You can read more about it here: https://project2025istheocracy.substack.com/

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