#Future of women in politics

[eugenedebs1920]

I was going through my pictures from 2020, I’m a little embarrassed to say that there’s probably more memes, posts, articles, and pictures taken of whatever I was trying to make a point of on the tv, than there is actual pictures.

This is a Tweet (remember those!? I don’t know what they’re called now. Hates?) from Robert Reich ( no sh*t Eugene!? Get to the point!)on the morning of Election Day 2020. It’s the same plan then, as it is now.

Donald Trump has no respect for America, it’s institutions that have endured 248 years, our systems of government or democracy in general.

This will be Americas 60th presidential election. You know how many of those were accused by one side or the other of being “rigged”? Three!!! Before a single vote had been cast in 2016, the election was said to be “rigged”. The 2020 election there was accusations of fraud and a stolen election that were prominent. The other election that had claims of being “rigged” is this one, the 2024 election. What is the common variable in all three of these elections? 🤔

I can already see the comments now, ‘People said that Hilary won’, and ‘Democrats said the 2000 election was stolen’, and to an extent they’re not wrong, but they’re not right either (well they’re right wing but, you know). The Florida recount in 2000 was a bit interesting how that conclusion came, to be to say the least, but, Gore went on television and conceded (I would recommend looking up Gores 2000 concession speech on YouTube, THATS what class looks like. THATS what politics used to be before reality tv people became involved.). In an utter display of class he told the American people that the Supreme Court had ruled, and that it was time, for the sake of Americans good, to move forward. He went to the inauguration of George W Bush. The 2016 election, I think everyone was in shock that Hilary was defeated in the electoral college by a failed businessman and two bit reality tv personality. Hilary won the popular vote by over 3.5 million votes but that doesn’t count (no pun intended) for whatever reason. (I know the reason, but it’s too much to go in to at this moment) Yet Hilary conceded when the counting was finished, and had the grace to show up at the inauguration of Trump, which I sure was utterly painful.

We all know how the 2020 election went. Trump and his allies doing everything they could to stop the vote before all the ballots were counted. That’s not how it works. That’s like a sports team getting a lead in the game and saying, ‘we won! Games over!” It’s not how real life works. You “play” till the end.

Trump is going to do the same thing this time. Because Democrats work (😉) Trump will be up in many states throughout the day and early evening. As the night goes on, Kamala’s numbers will continue to rise until her eventual victory, which will take several days to count and officially be over.

I want to say this now, to liberals, Republicans and especially MAGA. THE ELECTION ISNT DONE UNTIL ALL THE VOTES HAVE BEEN COUNTED. THATS HOW IT WORKS, WE ALL HAVE A VOTE AND IT IS ENTITLED TO BE COUNTED. DESPITE WHAT YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, MIDNIGHT IS NOT WHEN ELECTION DAY IS OVER, IT IS OVER WHEN EVERY SINGLE VOTE HAS BEEN TALLIED AND IS COUNTED FOR ITS RESPECTIVE SIDE.

This is going to be an ongoing issue until, somewhere between the 7th and the 10th. This is perfectly normal. This has happened in almost every modern election. It’s Trump and his narcissism, Republicans grasping on to relevancy, and powers that wish to benefit themselves, not the nation that will be pushing the narrative that it’s “illegal” or the “election is being stolen behind closed doors”. In all actuality it’s professionals, doing their job, to ensure every Americans voice is heard.

Trump is going to lie and lie and lie some more. He will throw wild accusations out there, he already is, he will tout crazy conspiracy theories, he already is, he will whine and b*tch and complain, he already is. Don’t listen.

For 57 presidential elections, our system has been the envy of the world. The most accurate and fair system developed. It’s only 3 that have EVER has accusations of fraud, or being rigged or stolen. The common denominator in those 3 elections is Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is a traitor, a selfish human being, and a terrible person. He does not deserve to be anywhere near the White House. Let’s keep it that way and vote for a real leader, Kamala Harris.

[troythecatfish]

[kneelingshadowsalome]

OK OK OK, but can we revisit the daughter "sitcom" scenarios?! I loved them sm.

Imagine Engel is out somewhere, like the store or whatever. Their daughter, who is about 12-13 at the time, just got her first period...😦

She just kinda awkwardly walks into the room and is trying to figure out how to tell him...

Konig is totally panicking, probably frantically calling Engels phone to get home ASAP. Poor boy probably didn't even know that you can get your period at that age and thinks some really bad is happening 😭.

But once everything has settled down, he starts to treat her the same way he treats Engel on her period, maybe even letting her stay home from school.

König is 1000 miles away from his comfort zone

I imagine the conversation goes something like this: (D=daughter, K=König, R/E=reader/Engel)

D: “I think my period just started…”

K: “Ja? Just remember to do your homework.”

D: “No, I mean… I think I just got my first period? I’m bleeding–”

K: “Bleeding? Where?? ”

D: “…??? There...?”

*uncomfortable staring and silence”

D: “I just… Do you know where mom keeps her pads?”

K: “...Pads?”

D: “Dad!! You’re just repeating my words!”

She leaves the room to look for the pads herself while König calls her mother: now imagine a colonel, a commanding officer of thousands of soldiers, responsible for important pre-decisions throughout the whole organization, calling his wife and asking what to do in this kind of a situation 🧍‍♂️ König is rubbing the back of his neck while walking anxious circles in the living room, almost bumps into a sofa while Engel calmly explains what's going on and that this is all completely normal.

When she comes back, König has just closed the phone, sighs, then takes a rather stiff stance to indicate he is about to give an important speech.

“Now then, my pretty young fawn. You are not my little girl anymore… Today, you’ve become a woman–”

“Dad, wtf?!? Ughh….”

She storms out of the room again, about to die from cringe: why does his father have to be such an embarrassment and an awkward mess? Why the hell did her mother even want this odd big loser as her man???

She’s sick of his stupid speeches and ridiculous rules and poor attempts at jokes, she's more than sick of listening to her parents’ disgusting cooing all the time. Only the noise canceling headphones can block out his dad’s profuse lovesick confessions before they start to bonk each other, thinking she can’t hear it all upstairs. Meanwhile she's not allowed to have a life of her own because the "world is a dangerous place"...

She can't wait to get out of this household, especially when even more cringeworthy conversations follow once her mother comes home. The only reason she's eavesdropping is because they're finally speaking of her instead of "how beautiful his sweet Engel looks" or "how silly and clumsy her big bear is":

K: “Does this mean she starts to have boyfriends?”

E/R: “She probably has had a few already.”

K: “What?!”

E/R: “Well not really. They’re just kids, fooling around. I wouldn't worry about it yet.”

K: “Should I talk to her about… you know, birds and bees? Just in case?”

E/R: “You? Absolutely not.”

K: “But–”

E/R: “I’ll talk to her at some point. They probably have sex education at school.”

K: “She can’t go to school. She said she was in pain.”

E/R: *sighs*

K: “What...? I already called them and said she's ill.”

E/R: “She's not ill, silly. It's just a period, it comes every month. You of all people should know...”

K: “Ja, I know... The torture days :)”

E/R: “Torture days for who?”

K: “I'm in so much pain every month, you have no idea...”

(Daughter upstairs makes a furious dive for her headphones :|)

[apnourry]

this IS a political post so if you need to scroll, feel free💜

for the most part I think I'm definitely preaching to the choir on this but like..I just wanna type things out.

so many of the people I know who voted for him didn't expect him to win. they seem disappointed even. I think they knew that they didn't agree with him but couldn't admit it and saw that at WORST their lives would mostly be unchanged under a dem president so they were quietly relying on her to win while maintaining face(if you can call it that) by staying on the trump ship. it obviously emboldened hatred and vitriol and we've known that since last time, but now there are so many /we can disagree and still be friends/ posts amidst SO many filings for divorce because that is true and this isn't that. it's not "disagreement" to erase a person's humanity and strip away human rights more easily. it's not "disagreement" to think no one's life should be marginally easier if yours isn't also getting easier. it isn't "disagreement" to openly and loudly say you're happy that people are frightened and upset and hurt. it isn't "disagreement" to say everyone should have to live according to your own religious beliefs (which may or may not be aligned with what is explicitly written in your religion's scripture). we can disagree about if pineapple belongs on pizza. we can disagree about which lotr movie is the best. we could even disagree about whether the dress is black and blue or white and yellow. it feels asinine to think that everything would be fine when at the time it mattered most to someone you call a friend or family, you could look at them and choose to send the very clear message that you do not see them as a person worthy of living a good life and having hope for the future. when it came down to it, you chose someone who will never EVER see you as respectable or look out for you over people who gave you chance after chance after chance and finally chose peace.

anyway, I love you to everyone who feels uneasy and apprehensive about the future. I hope the next 4 years and some change is boring as hell.

[xrk-art]

How wrong is the world when with only 18 years of life I already have been sexually harrassed, eyed by old mens and have learn to walk as fast as possible with my head down and with no music in my headphones when a man is behind me ?

I see all those people on Tiktok being aweful to women after Trump winning the election (and even before) and it's horrible how they never seems to understand, to try to understand, to care enough to understand. Men and Women (as much as incomprehensible it is).

[hislittleraincloud]

Meet New Zealand's Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke. She's an MP in NZ's parliament. Her haka is in protest of a bill that would have taken rights afforded to the tribes and applied them to all New Zealanders (defeating the purpose of the Treaty of Waitangi).

She is 22 years old, and this isn't the first time she's done it.

🫴🏽✨👑✨

[kuntya]

This may be a moment of weakness, but I'm starting to have more sympathy with female separatists.

"Women are people and deserve the same rights as you" didn't work. The first generation of men to see first-hand that equal rights means they won't get a wife/mommy/slave went hard right.

50% of marriages end in divorce. 70% of divorces are initiated by women. For every 2 divorced men who want to remarry, there's only 1 divorced woman who wants to remarry. 1/3 of men 18 - 24 haven't had sex in the last year.

Men are better off with you barefoot and pregnant. And they know it.

The incentives and opportunities for men to enslave women are just too strong. I don't know what to do about this.

[ryukisgod]

TRAs talking about how history will judge us poorly reminds me of that quote “isn’t it an amazing coincidence that the good guys won every war?”

[rookflower]

im not really on the "i hope curlfeather killed her husband" train yet purely because i think they fumbled the bag with the pacing of her reveal a bit and i wish frostpaw had more time to emotionally grapple with it like she did with splashtail, and i think pushing her evil into cartoonish levels kind of removes any chance of that ever having the time to be more satisfying by fully cementing her as Pure Evil off the bat. i love curlfeather i think they've got a great setup for her as a villain i suport women's wrongs, but i want a look at her motives! if they are confidently never gonna show us an even more complex or interesting side to her though then Fine yeah okay let her kill jayclaw or whatever go off. but i think any kinda sympathetic backstory or revealed puzzle piece beyond the few pre-reveal glimpses of genuinity we've seen from her and besides "im evil so i want power" would be more interesting rn

[just-4-thought]

Waited in line for 2 hours in the pouring rain yesterday to vote for Harris

[nando161mando]

Wake up women of America this could be your future, do nothing wrong but pay the price.

[eugenedebs1920]

The hits keep coming folks! Here on; Things Fascists Say!!!!

Accountability!? Not for a dictator! Ha!! Our psychotic sociopath, Dementia Don the diapered wonder f*ck boy tyrant, goes after anyone who would dare show people the things he says or does. How dare the press show the insane things I say and do!? There will be no criticism of the supreme leader! Honestly, I’ve had tacos more supreme than cook!

I want to thank all my pro-democracy friends out there! Together we stand, divided we fall, and together we shall stand! For our nation! For our freedom! For our rights and the rights of those who come after us. Because these American people, we don’t believe in oppression, we don’t believe that any man is above the law. We believe in hope! Liberty! Our right to pursue happiness. We believe in a brighter tomorrow! We believe in each other. Friends. Thank you 🙏 Get out there and show the world what we’re made of. My brothers, my sisters, my fellow Americans. 🇺🇸

Together we will keep fascism where it belongs, not in America!!!

Vote Kamala Harris for President

Vote blue down ballot

And let’s make a future together

One of unity and joy

Of personal freedom and success

One where we all get our shot at the American dream ☮️🇺🇸🇺🇸

[minotaurfemme]

got to hang out with a friend i made at a punk show a couple months ago and it has reaffirmed my love of trans women i love y'all so much

[swagging-back-to]

theoretically, if the democracy is still standing November 2028, how long will it take the next president to fix all the damage? how many presidencies would it take to go back to 'normal'?

'fix the damage' as in repeal everything he has done. the lives, experiences, knowledge, and futures that will be lost are irreplaceable.

[lucialeevermillion]

I’m not resigned

I am angry.

I am sad.

I am scared.

I am not resigned.

I sit here drinking my morning coffee and looking at the state of the world and I do the only thing I can, I put pen to paper. That has always been my go to, my escape, my way to get my thoughts out in a world where my voice is overshadowed by the mass of people who don’t care about my life.

I am a pansexual woman living in America. I won’t say I’ve always been proud of my country, quite the opposite actually. There are things both in history and currently happening that make me sick to be an American, I won’t lie about that. But I also won’t lie about the fact that even now, I’m disappointed in us.

We all know what happened. Forget about what side you fell on and just read, just take this in for a moment.

We put freedom on the ballad of 2024.

That’s right 2024. Marty McFly went to the year 2015 in ‘Back To The Future’ and was met with flying cars, shoes that adjusted to your size, and holograms in the streets.

In 2024 we have none of these things, we have less. We have women bleeding out in their cars in Texas because Roe v. Wade, which was put into place in 1973, was overturned by a 78 year old man with more money than sense.

These women are not 18 year old women who ‘had unprotected sex and decided they didn’t want to deal with the consequences’ they were mothers with children already and wives with husbands. Think about that. Put yourself in that place. You are miscarrying, or your wife is, and because of some law they can’t receive the help they need to live. As a husband you’re now a single father, as a child you’re now motherless. And as the woman in that place you’ve been suffering for hours with no relief only to die, with nothing. For nothing.

Amber Thurman, age 28, a mother. Died in Georgia because of the ban.

Nevaeh Crain, age 18, died in Texas after three hospital visits begging someone to help her. Her mother pleaded the doctors for help. No one listened in fear of imprisonment.

The NBC news reports, “Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period.”

The men’s response? “Your body, my choice.” After winning the campaign, their response is to rub it in to the women LOSING THEIR LIVES AND FREEDOMS.

Durning the witch trials in Europe from 1450-1750 it is estimated that roughly 40,000 to 50,000 witch executions were held. Anywhere from 75-80% of them were women. That places the number of dead women at 40,000 or less.

They burned women, not witches.

They burned WOMEN.

They burned sisters, daughters, mothers. Crime against women is nothing new, not in Europe, and not in America.

Every 68 seconds a woman in the U.S is sexually assaulted.

WE ARE SUFFERING! WE ARE IN PAIN! WE ARE HURTING! WE ARE ANGRY!!

I sit awake at night and I look at my life. I have personally been assaulted by two different men, in both cases it was repeated multiple times. 12 years of my life was spent with a man sneaking into my room at night. I am 22. OVER HALF MY LIFE. Because of this there was a time when I couldn’t accept a hug from my own mother. My skin would crawl. Because of this I am germaphobic and have issues with being clean and others touching my skin. Because of this I have nightmares and thoughts of killing myself because at least then the nightmares will go away. I have been broken and to my 2 year old self, for her first time, I am writing this. I’m sorry. Someone should have protected you and it’s about time I start.

Donald J Trump is a rapist and a felon and we as the people elected him. Why? It’s said the people elected him because “things were better when he was president before”. Okay, sure, I don’t disagree. Here’s the thing you may not know though, this time isn’t the same.

His policies have changed, they are more aggressive.

Inflation is made by the companies not the president, no matter who it is. You argued that Kamala couldn’t bring down the price of produce, yet Trump can? Why? How?

Here’s the danger with Trump. He’s curated a mob mentality, a God like status. He is not a god. He is a man who wants power just like all of us. The issue? He takes from those who don’t have.

You argue his economy is better. It’s not. Look at the calculations and data. Kamala was backed by 82 Nobel prize winners. Scientists and economists, professionals. Trump is predicted to be putting the economy, and us, into trillions more in debt.

Kamala cared about the following:

1. Cutting taxes for middle class families (most of us)

2. Making rent and housing more affordable.

3. investing in small business

4. Strengthening and bringing down the cost of health care.

5. Protecting and stretching social security and Medicare.

6. Support American innovation

7. Education

8. Affordable child care.

9. Climate change and lowering energy costs.

10. Restoring and protecting reproductive rights.

11. Protecting civil rights and freedoms.

12. Lowering gun violence.

13. Fixing our broken immigration system.

14. Tackling the opioid and fentanyl crisis.

15. Ensuring no one is above the law.

16. Standing for our allies and against dictatorships.

17. Investing in America’s strength.

18. Supporting the military and their families.

How many of you knew that? How many of you bothered to look? All of that is available on her website. I’m not saying that she’s perfect. I personally believe that absolute power corrupts absolutely. But I am saying that in a world where we have two options, we choose wrong.

All my life I heard “politics don’t concern me,” or “I don’t get into that.” That’s just the thing, we all NEED TO. Don’t trust Facebook and word of mouth, don’t trust bias news sources that piece together things from what they have to sell an agenda, on either side. Do your own research. Read your own articles. Being uneducated isn’t your fault unless you allow yourself to remain ignorant to the things happening in the world. Ask your children, ask your family, ask the women in your life what they care about. Ask them what they have been through.

My mother is a victim of sexual assault.

My grandmother a victim of domestic violence.

WE ARE SUFFERING!!!

The world is changing and we need to change with it. America has always been known for our hatred. Hatred of Blacks, Italians, Latinos, Women, the list is endless. At what point do we stop hatred? At what point do we look at ourselves and choose to be better? At what point do we stop preaching ‘bloodshed’.

We are all immigrants. We killed the people who lived here and took their place and everyday we dishonor their memories.

Mass deportation of immigrants will ruin families and cause more crisis than people realize. Who do you think builds our homes? Who do you think does the jobs, we as Americans, have no desire to? Racism has never been something I understand and it never will be. I am appalled.

Project 2025. Before you get on me, yes I know it was brought by the Heritage Foundation and is not actually a Trump creation, that being said he has admitted to liking several (many) of their suggestions and plans to implement them.

This includes:

* Complete ban on abortions without exceptions: pages 449-503

* End marriage equality: pages 545-581

* Elimination of unions and worker protections: page 581

* Defund the FBI and Homeland Security: page 133

* Eliminate federal agencies like the FDA, EPA, NOAA, and more: pages 363-417

* Mass deportation of immigrants and incarceration in "camps": page 133

* End birthright citizenship: page 133

* Cut Social Security: page 691

* Cut Medicare: page 449

* Eliminate the Department of Education: page 319

* Teach Christian religious beliefs in public schools: page 319

* Use public, taxpayer money for private religious schools: page 319

* End the Affordable Care Act: page 449

* Ban contraceptives: page 449

* Additional tax breaks for corporations and the 1%: page 691.

* End civil rights & DEl protections in government: pages 545-581

* Ban African American and gender studies in all levels of education: page 319

* End climate protections: page 417

* Increase Arctic drilling: page 363

* Deregulate big business and the oil industry: page 363

I am angry.

I am sad.

I am scared.

I lay awake thinking of all the little girls like me who will never have justice. Who will grow in a world knowing that their voice matters less than human perception.

In my medical records it states that I’m not a straight woman. Do you know what impact this will have on me?

I know what you’re going to say, that won’t ever pass. NO YOU HOPE IT WON’T PASS. And yet we, as a whole, voted for someone who supports these ideals. The republicans won. Is there enough voice of opposition to stop these things from going through? In my opinion, no, there isn’t.

These are the things that matter. These are the lives impacted. Women, children, the unhealthy, the working class, the disabled, any persons of color, immigrants illegal or legal, persons of a differing religious belief, and the LGBTQ+ community.

Is this what our people fight for? Is this the American ideal? We are more divided than we ever have been before. We, as a people, are full of mistrust and hatred and fear.

Christians preach about loving thy neighbor, does that change just because your neighbor isn’t a straight white male? Is the love you say God has so dependent on circumstance of birth?

How long will my voice be able to ring?

How long will I be able to put pen to paper without consequences?

How long will my voice matter?

How long will I be a member of a democracy?

When my nieces and nephews, when the next generation asks me what I did to stop a dictator, what I did to protects freedoms of all people? I want to be able to say that I did everything in my power.

Can you say that?

I know of at least three women who made votes based on half the story and misinformation. I know of at least two women who didn’t vote at all despite being of the same mindset. This is the age of information, use it.

I write this hoping that the world I see coming never comes to pass. I write this hoping the world will repair itself. But I also write this knowing that hope isn’t enough. When your boat is going over the falls you don’t just pray, you paddle.

This is me, paddling.

-Lucia Lee Vermillion

Sources:

https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death

https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna171631

https://www.gendercide.org/case_witchhunts.html#:~:text=Instead%2C%20modern%20research%20points%20to,witches%20at%2040%2C000%20or%20less.

https://rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/science/kamala-harris-nobel-winners.html

https://kamalaharris.com/issues/

https://www.heritage.org/impact/trump-administration-embraces-heritage-foundation-policy-recommendations

https://www.project2025.org/policy/

[labyrinthe-system]

i know we're all pretty scared right now, but please remember this world is so much better with you in it— i know the world just got a whole hell of a lot scarier, but if people are anything, we are resilient and strong—

if we band together, we can get through anything even if it seems impossible. log off, get a little treat and take care of yourself. you are important to this universe even if it seems like the people of the world are telling you that you aren't. love y'all and remember that you are tough asf for just living every single day that you do <3

i wish i could say i'm optimistic, but i've really never been that type of person. all i can say is— life is worth living and this is not going to be the end because we won't let it be, okay? this is not the end. we won't let it be.

be safe, take care of yourselves and don't stop fighting.

it's scary that our lives always have to be a fight to gain what we deserve just by existing as a human, but fear does not control us. we can overcome and we will.

this world is not the same without you. don't let the hatred of humanity let your light snuff out. shine, okay?

poc, lgbt, immigrants, women, children, etc.:

you are needed. you are loved. please don't leave this world because no matter what anyone tries to tell you, you are worthy, strong, deserving, needed and loved. you deserve to see a future where you are appreciated for everything that you give to this world by existing.