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Joan Breibart's avatar

Women should dismiss any man who is against abortion. This is a women only issue and no man on the supreme court should have been allowed to vote on it. That is what the women on this court should have said. Then crazy Amy would look so bad. Yes Democrats will win because the male republicans are so afraid of their own impotence.

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Monika Lenz's avatar

Good article, thank you Mike. On another note: I notice you used the term "locked and loaded". I'm always seeing references to weapons in our culture used to express action. References like "ready to pull the trigger on that", "going nuclear ", and even subtle expressions like "duck shoot" are ubiquitous in our cultural dialog. Just wanted to draw your attention to this because you have great influence in our culture. Thanks.

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Francy Badoux's avatar

Thank you. My thoughts exactly.

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DeeDee D's avatar

Right you are!

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JRV's avatar

You are spot on!!! Woman make this world a better place and will take good men with them on this journey! Gratitude!!

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SUE Speaks's avatar

Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap be ready to receive a ton of shit.

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Laura's avatar

It goes without saying it's TIME for women to have a seat at the table, especially since we are the majority! But numbers should not make the difference - EQUAL VALUE of women AND children should be what moves us and changes the World.

(This was a GOOD one Michael! Thanks!!)

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Marcia Z Bookstein's avatar

I find it interesting: single women live longer than married women. Married men live longer than single men. Hmmmm?

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Linda's avatar

While I totally support a women's right to choose, the supreme farce did us a favor by taking our right to abortion away because it got so many to wake up! This has really backfired on them! But seriously, after this mid-term we need to get going on passing more great things and who is going to run in 2024? We can't have 2 old guys competing for the presidency (I am their age, so not a diss on our elders) but we need someone new and dynamic, someone we can really rally around!! Ahhh, if Bernie was only 20 years younger.

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DeeDee D's avatar

Roevember! (Hear us ROAR... and tremble, little white maga-brain!)

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Drew Degen's avatar

Probably the best argument for a hopeful outcome.

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Vic Symonds's avatar

It's high time the GD ERA is passed nation wide!! Many an American man, Republican as well as Democrat, are terrified of U.S. strong willed women, Many Bernie boys voted for trump because they couldn't bring themselves to vote for a woman, ESPECIALLY Hillary!!! They were in there chanting "Lock Her Up" right along with the best of the misogynistically inept idiots. I'm very leery of a Bernie boy. Many of them in New England turned into trumpers and are dreadful humans. That last word in question some days.

To be fair Michael, it's not just a Republican issue. Discrimination of women has been raging for centuries. You are definitely right about the Republicans committing political suicide. You are welcome to use pic of my She Shed BTW... I called it on June 25th ! Blue Waves gonna drown them rats !!!

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K. Lauren de Boer's avatar

And Michael, as if to bolster your point, thousands of women and other people (like kids and men) who support them are in the streets this weekend for a National Weekend of Action — a women’s wave to show strength and solidarity against the GOP stupidity. Here is a link for anyone to join up: https://www.womensmarch.com/.

This March will only strengthen the wave and get people to the polls.

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Jan poole's avatar

Thank you

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🌈’z&MotherFucking🦋’Z's avatar

( . )( . )’s

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Elizabeth Ellis's avatar

I’m hopeful.

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Susan Borodemos's avatar

I can hardly wait to see the number of women who vote on Roevember! Might be the biggest number in our nation’s history! Ruth will be watching! We can’t let her down!

Vote as if you life depended on it! It just might!

Thank you for all you do Michael!

❤️🌻❤️

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Juan Gil's avatar

Open Letter to the Republican Senators in Congress.(2)

Dear Republican Senators in Congress,

The recent Trump term as President threw this country into a dark era, one which will be very hard and long to mend. His actions during this period could not have been achieved without “You” his helpers in Congress. The callous behavior deliberately displayed by most Republican Senators in Congress over the last few years, has done nothing to “Make America Great” as it is being boasted in rallies. Sadly, quite the opposite has been the case. America has been tragically spiraling into a dangerously dark place in the country’s former history that was marked by extreme division, misery, poverty, political violence, anti American sentiment abroad and widespread hopelessness. All the social progress attained for many decades seems to be vanishing through malevolous political maneuvering. Nevertheless, you, the Republican Senators in Congress can still put a stop to this dark trend. You STILL have the power to stop the madness and simply honor your oath of office once and for all. But until then, our nation keeps following a tragic course that threatens to throw us all back almost one hundred years. There may still be time for you to redeem yourselves, though, by simply doing the right thing. I am sure, your wives, children and grandchildren would certainly appreciate it if you turned around and simply follow your human conscience. In the meantime, we, in America, are witnessing daily before our very eyes how continuing on the same destructive course will keep causing harm to most Americans and we will not be able to escape the dire consequences for decades to come. As one of millions of concerned American, I demand you, the Republican Senators in Congress that still have any spine and/or moral compass in you that you answer the following pressing questions with honesty:

Are you happy with helping build a “ Backward America” for future generations, of the kind you have deliberately been fabricating with your actions in Congress?

Are you happy with helping build an America where women’s decades-long legal rights to their reproductive health decisions have been suddenly trampled over and arbitrarily taken away from them by a highly corrupt Supreme Court?

Are you happy with an America in which 3 of the 9 US Supreme Court justices lied under oath?

Are you happy with helping build an America saturated with weapons of war, assault weapons with large capacity magazines in the hands of neighbors and their children who can easily start a mass shooting after getting “mad” over any issue?

Are you happy with helping build an America where it is very possible and very real now, for a young mother to drop off her kid in school in the morning and come at the end of the day to pick him up at the nearest funeral home?

Are you happy with helping build an America where a mass shooting happens several times a week with over 40,000 Americans killed by guns every year (49,000 in 2021)?

Are you happy with helping build an America where violence, armed militias, and shootings are just the new order of the day?

Are you happy with helping build an America where Senators in Congress deliberately conceal and even joke about the President lies and support every one of his criminal attempts to violate the Constitution and the rule of law?

Are you happy with helping build an America where the US President incited, organized and coordinated an armed attack to our sacred US Capitol by militia groups with the criminal intent to overthrow the legitimate results of the presidential voting reported by the states?

Are you happy with helping build an America where future national elections run the risk now of being easily manipulated by continuous politically tendentious rules and the right to vote can be easily suppressed for political gain?

Are you happy with helping build an America where democracy and the Constitution seem to have lost any meaning?

Are you happy with helping build an America in which our country is not admired or even respected by the rest of the world anymore?

Are you happy with helping build an America where our nation is falling dangerously deeper into discrimination, racism, misogyny as the new “normal”?

Are you all happy with leaving behind for your children and ours this kind of dark world that you are now embracing and are so deliberately helping build in the name of remaining in political power for still one more term?

Are you really happy with THIS “Great America” you are helping to build for future generations that you so much brag about?

Obviously, I am not the only American disturbed and alarmed by your behavior as Senators of this nation.

Many millions of Americans just like me deserve an intelligent and honest response to these very alarming questions.

This country will always thank you for doing the right thing. Conversely, history will judge you harshly if these serious issues remain deliberately ignored by the people’s representatives in Congress.

Would you have the elementary decency to answer these questions?

Yours Sincerely,

Juan Gil

Retired Teacher

427 Chandlee Drive

Berwyn, PA 19312

610-2462056

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Susan Borodemos's avatar

Thank you!

❤️🌻❤️

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