#conway rants

[wasteland--cicadas]

was editing textures for my vrc avatar and i had a thought

[mrsnancywheeler]

OMG MORE BRAIN ROT. It just occurred to me while reading through your post that Finnick blames himself for the sexualization of his sweet girls tears. He’s the one who told her to show off her tears, he blames himself so much…he condemned her to a world where not only is her body not hers but her emotions aren’t either.

(Also may I be 🌾 anon? I’ve been out here ranting to you so much LMFAO)

triggers of trafficking and nsfw

yes, he tells her not to wipe them all away, encouraged her to present herself like she's delicate, flirty, but in an innocent "light feminine" way, be a princess not a siren, she's alluring in a way that seems pure. she's emotional and perceived as so sweet

but that all plays into how she's sexualized, being pretty when she cries, wanting to "ruin" someone innocent, the sick need from the elite to hurt to delicate to exert power, additionally I think some people in the Capitol would get a sick pleasure in bringing up Conway. As if they're putting her in her place for what she did, for leading someone on, living vicariously through tha because they're the worst people imaginable.

so now reader had to live in this weird dichotomy where crying is part of what's expected because she's supposed to be sensitive, but people also want her more when she does cry.

yes ofc pookie and I love it, I get so excited to answer these 💋

[allie-leth]

OH I DARE.

Is it considered harassment to use other people's 'self blog' posts in my posts....

@the-typing-dragon

[lindszeppelin]

Austin's MOTA Press Planner ♥

Since I like to stay organized, here is a list of all the upcoming MOTA promo over the next few days. Most are confirmed, and those that have hangups will be annotated :) and anything else that crops up I will add to this post.

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links to video interviews: [LA Premiere 1] [LA Premiere 2] [London Premiere 1] [London Premiere 2] [This Morning] [Cinema Blend] [Bonnie Laufer] [Stephen Colbert] [Access Hollywood] [Total Film] [The Hook] [ExtraTV] [9Honey] [Hoda & Jenna] [Today Show] [Screen Rant] [IMDB] [Cosmopolitan UK] [Pay or Wait] [E Talk] [GogglerMY] [ET] [Fox Washington DC] [Fox Houston] [AlloCine] [The Nerds of Color] [Heart] [TV Insider] [blackfilmandtv] [CW33]

links to print interviews: [Forbes] [Hollywood Reporter] [Variety] [Variety 2]

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Planner:

Sunday 1-21: AppleTV+ Screening and Q&A in London with Austin, cast, and producers at 6:30pm GMT (in person) [COMPLETE]

Monday 1-22:

-Television interview on UK program called This Morning with Austin (time is TBD) (in person most likely) [COMPLETE] -Masters of the Air premiere in London with Austin and cast (in person) [COMPLETE]

Wednesday 1-24:

-Television interview on Hoda & Jenna program in NYC with Austin and Callum Turner -Interview with Forbes writer Jeff Conway with Austin and Callum Turner (already recorded) (in person video interview and accompanying print article) -Screening and Conversation in NYC with Josh Horowitz, Austin, cast and producers at 7:00pm EST (in person) -Guest appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert at 11:30pm EST on CBS (in person) (pre-recorded earlier that day) -Video Interview with Bonnie Laufer and Callum Turner [ALL COMPLETE]

Thursday 1-25: Masters of the Air screening in Tribeca, NYC with Austin and cast [COMPLETE]

Friday 1-26: Masters of the Air releases the first two episodes on AppleTV+. New episodes will release every friday thereafter. [COMPLETE]

Saturday 1-27: Screening and Conversation at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC with cast and producers at 7:30pm EST. (in person) [COMPLETE]

Wednesday 1-31: The Drew Barrymore Show with Austin and Callum Turner (in person, pre-recorded already taped while in NY) [COMPLETE]

[skittlespizza]

"What have you been doing for the last few weeks" Ive been liveblogging pd in my friend's dms. Some of the shit is so funny and so not normal.

Ghostkicks brainrot, Mallard Conway and PD liveblogging featuring my friend @dawnlotus1

Also I wasn't aware images could get this long but I was taking a screenshot of our like hours long ghostkicks rant and it goes on for longer but it wouldn't let me get that too.

[tomorrowusa]

Trump lies constantly and so do his craven lickspittles.

The very first lies of the Trump administration involved inflating crowd size at his 20 January 2017 inauguration.

Kellyanne Conway continues the Trump tradition of inflationary crowd numbers.

Kellyanne Conway tried to draw some distinction between Donald Trump and Joe Biden during an appearance on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futures, noting that Trump was making outreaches to Black voters. “You got Donald Trump in Detroit talking to 8,000 people at a Black church,” she told Bartiromo. However, what Conway failed to note was that Trump did not speak to 8,000 people nor was the majority of the crowd Black when Trump spoke at 180 Church in Detroit on Saturday.

I went to Google Maps and and looked up 13660 Stansbury Avenue in Detroit - the address of the church. Using satellite view and Google's instrument for measuring distance, I measured the exterior of the building which was roughly 160' X 93' or 14,880 square feet. For comparison, a college basketball court is 94' X 50' or 4,700 square feet.

Here's the front of the 180 Church. It's no megachurch., perhaps 8 car lengths wide.

Kellyanne Conway is asking us to believe that 8,000 people were squeezed into an area the size of 3 basketball courts. Keep in mind that my calculation of 14,800 sq. ft. covers the whole building, not just the church sanctuary where Trump ranted. There are offices, presumably classrooms for Sunday school, a foyer, hallways, storage areas, and bathrooms.

Of course, being an attendee at a Trump event at a "Black church" does not necessarily make you Black.

A Reuters report noted that the crowd was a diverse mixture of white and Black attendees and “numbered in the hundreds, not thousands, and some attendees said they had just happened upon the scene by chance.” The report also said that the event was not at capacity once it started.

The MAGA zombies are impervious to factual reality, so they'll believe that there were 15,000,000 people there if told that by the Trump Mendacity-Industrial Complex. But calling out bullshit by Trumpsters can have a cumulative effect on people who aren't hardcore Trump cultists.

Somebody who has more time than me should devote a blog to actual crowd sizes at Trump events.

[massiveladycat]

so i paired two of my main pjo ocs together because i couldn't resist!! HARRIS CONWAY

harris is one of my SWEETEST ocs. he's really big brother like and is very affectionate to others. he used to be very timid when he was little, but his confidence started growing, and he didn't need to start fights or do anything that went against his morals to do it!! harris is the co-counselor of cabin 2 (poseidon cabin) and he absolutely loves his siblings. he even convinced his mother morgan to adopt roman, an orphaned 13-year-old poseidon son!! harris is too polite for his own good, though, and tends to let people walk over him even when he did nothing to deserve it!! harris is very family-oriented, and he even has a good relationship with poseidon. when someone harris cares for (for example, roman), it is going BERSERK in a few seconds. harris can canonically control water and control blood when he's panicked enough. he doesn't do it, though; it makes him feel inhumane. harris will actually listen to a lot of the campers rant; he's easy to talk to, and the campers like him so much that they can, will, and have fought people who thought they could hit harris and get away with it because harris excuses them. harris has lightly tanned skin, blue eyes, and wavy black hair with a lean body AINSLEY RIDDLE

ainsley is one of my oldest ocs (meaning, she's been here for a long time; not in age, she's 18 or 19)!! she's a mature daughter of bacchus, and an augur's assistant. she doesn't take shit from anyone and is confident (though insecure in a few points, like her body) and is very duty-oriented, though she's just full of love and she protects and helps anyone she cares about ! she can and will drive through a freak snowstorm to get someone she loves out of there. she loves her siblings very much, even if dexter's an idiot (son of dionysus) and izabel's a sassy thirteen year old girl (related to ainsley by mortal mother). ainsley is the type of person to get to the point quickly, and it doesn't take long for her to understand something. ainsley's usually reserved but give her a party to plan and i promise every part of it is going to be CRAZY. bc you cannot convince me that every camp jupiter doesn't occasionally have secret parties with ainsley as the planner. and they hide it from the higher-ups (and sometimes even the centurions will join in). she's passionate and driven; when her composure shatterrs, it cuts. ainsley is black in race, has dark black curls that she will normally wear in a bun, brown eyes a few facts on them and their dynamic!!

harris helps ainsley to open up and not be scared to be vulnerable

harris comforts ainsley when she's feeling stressed about augury

ainsley gets very frustrated when people walk all over harris; she WILL fight and harris has to tell her its okay (but its not)

ainsley isn't super good at understanding emotions, reading people, or comforting them or making herself seem approachable

harris is good at that, so there are quite a few scenarios they would be the dream team in

ainsley doesn't know how to control the vine aspect of her bacchus bloodline, so harris tries to help her the best he can

ainsley keeps a level head while harris can and will panic; ainsley comforts him

because ainsley is direct, she won't hesitate to tell harris not to downplay his own needs for other's wants

harris trusts his girlfriend enough to do almost any battle plan she asks

ainsley trusts harris enough to know he'll succeed (though she will occasionally get nervous watching him fight)

harris is more of a pacifist; he doesn't like to fight, but he will if he needs to defend himself.

harris is a long-distance fighter, and ainsley is a close-up fighter

they both went on a quest together with hector campbell (another pjo oc) and thats how they connected • harris and ainsley are both 18

[intertexts]

mallard conway jurgen leitner rant..

[luvrlou]

Spy Deal

Pairing: Charlie Conway x fem!reader

Summary: Coach Orion has a little job for his younger sister.

Warnings: Charlie's anger issues lol

A/N: I think I'll make a part 2 for this.

Word Count: 1.9k

Coach Bombay had heard wonders about you, since he had met Ted Orion, to him you were the best marketer in the Hockey world, of course, Orion was a bit biased considering you were his younger sister. You had controlled advertisements for some of the biggest teams in the USA, even the National team. At your ripe age of sixteen you were really making a name for yourself.

"Y/N!" Your older brother called through to you, for a few years you had been living in Minneapolis with your brother, his wife and your niece, Jen.

You left your bedroom and walked down the wooded corridor to the living room, "yeah what's up?"

"I have a little research job for you, perhaps you could help me learn more about this new team I'm taking on this year," he told you, offering you a seat on the sofa across for him.

You were instantly interested, your work had been quiet ever since the local hockey team had moved on to bigger things, "yeah I would be happy to help, under one condition."

He let out a chuckle, despite being twenty-two years older than you, you always had a price when it came to a bit of help, "okay, okay, you help and I we go on a brother-sister laser tag and sweetie shop run. Just like the old days."

"Oh my god! Yes! We haven't done that since I was like nine!" You grinned, reminiscing about your ninth birthday where your parents both had meetings all day so Ted took you out.

He smiled softly before continuing, "I have a new team coming via scholarships, they like to call themselves the Ducks, they won the Junior Goodwill Games last season."

"I'll be through with whatever I find later, then it's shooting time buddy!" You chuckled, standing up.

"Whatever you say baby sister," he mocked, drawing his attention back to his television as you left the room.

You quickly ran back to your room and flung yourself into your office chair and turned on your computer, after a few minutes your home screen appeared. You hummed a little tune as you opened up the internet.

"I'm sure there will be some newspaper files about them," you spoke to yourself, finding the local Minneapolis news paper. Despite the world wide web being a new phenomenon the archives were easy to access.

You slowly grew more intrigued as stories of this so-called 'wonder team' popped up, you filtered the site to only show clippings that contained the words 'ice hockey', 'ducks' and 'Bombay', their coach and a close friend of your brothers.

More and more clippings came up, this team were incredible, you had noticed that they had 4 'star' players, Captain Charlie Conway, Adam Banks and the Bash Brother, Fulton Reed and Dean Portman. They had even beaten Iceland's team, which was coached by the Wolf, a well-respected genius in the hockey world.

• • •

Bombay felt much more at ease knowing his beloved team would be passed onto the great Ted Orion, and after learning of your work in the hockey industry, he was thrilled that the ducks could gain even more attraction.

However, the Ducks were not too fond of their new coach, he had stripped Charlie of his captaincy and had taken away the team's spirit. They were no longer the ducks, they were Eden Hall's JV team.

"They hate me it's impossible to work with!" Ted groaned as you were all sat around the dinner table, knees deep in yet another of his rants.

Jen, who always tried to see the best in a situation spoke, "who knows, they might just be scared of you?"

"Darling, I don't think so," he smiled almost sadly.

"How about this, I can come with you to practise sit at the side and see if I can get some information off of them, I'll try to see why they haven't taken a liken to you." You suggested, Ted seemed to enjoy this suggestion as he nodded slightly.

"Are you sure they would talk to you?" Your sister-and-law asked, "I mean you are the younger sister of their coach."

"Well I am the same age as most of them, they might feel like they could say something." You answer, hoping you were right.

• • •

"Gather round team," your brother called, before growing impatient, "god gave you legs for a reason, use them!"

They all grumbled while they skated over, stopping in a messy semi-circle around you and him, peculiar looks on their faces.

"You may be wondering who this is-" Orion began before getting cut off by a tall looking boy with brown hair.

"Y'all that's Y/N! That girl who made that team in Chicago mega-famous!" He shouted.

"The team can't be that famous if you don't know the name, Dwayne," another boy quipped back, this one had off-black hair and was shorter than this Dwayne character.

"Yes Dwayne, this is the Y/n and she is my younger sister, she's just here to supervise the game. She finally decided that lying in her bed all day fawning over Michael J Fox in Back to the Future wasn't being productive." He introduced you, his last comment making you shake your head and flush.

They all exchanged looks, before yet another boy, this time you recognised as Charlie Conway, spoke up, "What age is she, shouldn't she be a bit older if she's your sister?"

"I'm sixteen, our mum had him quite young," you clarified. "Okay Ted, I'm going to go sit down." The team's uproar started again after hearing that their new coach's name is Ted. You laughed, something so normal was causing quite the stir.

The practice wasn't anything interesting, just some drills and a mock game to finish. You were brought out of the trance, that you had caught yourself in when the sound of skates dragging to a halt in front of you.

It was girl who had a long plait in going down her back, "Hi, I'm Connie!"

"Y/N, it's lovely to meet you," you smiled.

She smiled back before pondering her next question, "does coach Orion always act grumpy?"

You laughed slightly, "no, don't worry, he does really want to see you all succeed but he just doesn't know how to get around it."

"Well he doesn't act like it, look!" Connie gestured to the rest of the team, who were all shooting at Goldberg as Orion barked out orders. That's when you noticed that one of the players who had played with them since the PeeWees wasn't there.

"Connie, is there not meant to be another boy, he's blonde, wears number ninety-nine?" You inquired, looking back at the girl.

She smiled slightly, "awe yeah, Banks, he plays for Varsity now." She spoke, almost proud of her ex-teammate. "Well, I better get back to practising, we need to speak again Y/N!"

You grinned, "definitely!"

the girl skated away, lapping around some of the other players, then shooting a puck past Goldberg into the net.

When practise finished Ted approached you, "so did you speak to anyone?"

"Only Connie, she's super nice, but she thinks you're dead grumpy." You answered, this made him frown slightly.

"I know this is a lot to ask, but do you think you could find Conway and try to talk to him?" He asked, a glint of pleading in his eyes.

You smiled, "yeah I'll speak to him, just because I love you so very much," you teased lightly, which caused him to gently slap the back of your head.

"You're a cheeky prick," he laughed, helping you up.

"That's what you get for having a sixteen-year-old sister when you're thirty!" You grinned back, walking off the ice with your beloved older brother.

• • •

You spotted the brunette boy in the distance walking out of Eden Hall, quickly, you jogged after him.

"Charlie!" You called out, which made him turn around.

He grimaced when he saw you fast approaching, "what do you want?"

"I just want to talk, you seemed kind of," you hummed. You tried to think of a way to make this sound like you weren't being bitchy, "agitated, earlier."

He huffed slightly, "Obviously, have you seen my coach!"

"Hey! Let's remember that's my brother!" You faked annoyance before laughing.

This made him smile, "Fine we can talk, under one condition."

"Woah there Conway, take me out for dinner then we can see where it goes!" You joked, making him flush under the blinding sun.

He shook his head sheepishly, "no! Not like that, I meant to buy me ice cream!" He scrambled out, "if you buy me ice cream, I'll talk to you about anything you want."

You pondered his requirement, "are you asking me on a date Conway?"

"It's a get-together, not a date! Don't be so silly!" He groaned.

You chuckled at his comment, "come on!" You cheered, beckoning him to follow you towards the seafront. Where an ice cream truck would roll on by tweeting out a chirpy tune at exactly ten past five every evening.

The pair of you reached the boardwalk next to the swirling sea just in time to hear the merry tune which signified it was ice cream time. Charlie immediately sped-walked over to where the truck would park and scowled at you as you slowly traipsed over.

"Okay, number ninety-six what are you for having?" You quipped looking up at the boy.

"Two scoops, chocolate orange and vanilla," he answered back after studying the array of flavours intently.

You only smiled at him before going up to the window, "a two scoop cone of chocolate orange and vanilla," you hummed, "and a rocket ice lolly for me."

"That'll be four dollars and fifty cents, doll," the woman in the truck said, handing Charlie both of the sweet treats while you reached for a five-dollar note then slid it over to her.

"Thank you!" You grinned, taking your ice lolly from Charlie.

"Since we never introduced ourselves directly to each other," you spoke before tasting your lolly. "I'm Y/N Orion, I'm sixteen and I grew up in Tampa."

Charlie gave you an odd look before reluctantly speaking, "I'm Charlie Conway, ex-captain of the Ducks and the USA team and I'm also sixteen. Oh and I'm from Minneapolis."

"Lovely to meet you, Charlie Conway!" You smiled towards him, a smile which he returned apprehensivley.

You grabbed his free hand and pulled him towards a free bench and sat down, indicating him to sit down next to you.

"So, Y/N what brings you to Eden Hall?" He asked.

"Well I don't go to school there but Ted just wondered if I could help him gain some information on the players." You explained, Charlie didn't seem to be fond of this answer.

"So you're only here right now with me for some sort of spy deal?" He accused, anger radiating off of him.

"No! Of course not, he just wanted to know how to get you guys working as a team!" You defended, hoping this answer would calm him down.

He scoffed, "well excuse me, we are a team, the ducks, it's just Orion is not a part of it!"

"Come on Charlie! He just wants whats best for you!" you pleaded.

He huffed again and silently got up and stormed away, you quickly followed him, "Charlie, he doesn't mean anything bad!"

•••

You trudged back into the Orion household, swiftly going to your room and slamming the door.

"Y/N you good?" Ted shouted over towards your room, there was a lengthy silence that followed which made him enter your room.

"Charlie hates me!"

[wasteland--cicadas]

I still want my fucking car back btw

[the-typing-dragon]

I love your short fic writing it is very gender

do you post stories anywhere else?

tbh i really dont write that much 😅 every couple months i enter a chrysalis and when i emerge a new art thing is generated. usually its some pixel art, sometimes its writing, and sometimes it's left field things like a Conway's game of life simulator ^-^

if i write something more than a couple sentences that isnt a rant i drop it under "#the dragon writes" but i dont really post on like. ao3 or anything :P

Thanks for asking tho!

[mrsnancywheeler]

I would need to know what goes through Conwan's head when he plans his attack on her.

okay okay okay I'm so ready to write this bc we only know what reader thinks is happening

conway has been having an entire dilemma this whole series bc he loves you so much, you've always been his everything besides his family. and all the sudden you're admitting your love, being so beautifully you, and it's thrilling to finally be loved back. but he has a family, a big family who needs him, and he feels so guilty whenever he thinks about how he should prioritize survival for them. but then there's that talk when you say you'd do what it takes to survive, even if it's being dishonest.

and he knows, he knows that you've never planned to die with him or do something dramatic, the only drama has been to perform for him and the sponsors. and he's angry, he hatres being angry with you, but he's livid. he's spent his whole life pining after you, being there for you, and then you play on that to survive. he was there for you when finnick broke your heart, he held you, and comforted you, and now he has to die while you get to be with somebody else and it's not fucking fair.

I imagine after everyone's eaten him and birch make an excuse to get water before you all head to the Cornucopia and conway just lays a plan out, "we should kill them and then fight it out between us after."

Birch looks shocked for less then a second before he chuckles, "You finally caught on to it? Took you long enough." And it pisses Conway off to know everybody knew you were using him except him, that he would've been your sun, your stars, your protector and you only wanted him when it was required, so he's giving a short nod to birch and they've formed a plan

he knows you don't trust him right away and part of him is screaming that he can't do this to you, but the louder part hates that he really would've given up his life for you and you wouldn't have really mourned, it hates you

there's a sick pleasure in kissing you so you fall for it, like you did to him, in you trusting him enough to let him slide the knives away. it's like he's snapped, not in half, 85% of him wants to lose it in you and they percentage wins

15% of him sees the fear in your eyes the longer you travel and wants to let himself die because he loves you so much, you've always been his princess. but you're exactly that a greedy, selfish princess who always wants more, climbing social rings every chance she gets. and then the rage takes over when he's chasing you, yelling for you, pulling you out of the tree, ranting on and on about everything because this is the last chance you'll have to hear it, he's barely even registering your screams and pleading. you of course refuse to go out without a fight, finger nails digging into his hands, kicking, and the finger jamming into one of his eyes. now it's more then just rage, it's adrenaline as he's trying to cover it, but find you. and the next thing he knows he's on the ground, you've hit him with the spear and he wishes he died loving you before you push that spear in and he's really gone.

I think most of readers nightmares are specifically about that because she never imagined her sweet best friend would do that to he, but he never imagined the girl he loved would do that either.

but yeah basically I think conway devolved into all the anger he'd kept down, but I've said it before, conway wouldn't have won. if he'd killed reader he'd been consumed by guilt and regret, try to bring her back in vain and I think Marlowe would've won.

[kaz-curlymonster]

Rant about an article regarding female voters. Do not misconstrue my criticism of the republican party as support for the democratic party. They’re both abject failures.

This has to be one of the funniest articles I’ve ever read to date. Just bringing up my own points and such, if any of you gyns think of something else, feel free to add.

“…as Ms Soucek lays out her case for the Republican presidential candidate, she avoids mentioning the latest spate of controversial remarks Trump has made, including personal attacks on Democratic challenger Kamala Harris.

“I try to tell people to focus on the policies and ignore the candidates,” she says, knowing that Trump’s brash personality has deterred women previously.”

You can’t entirely focus on the policies being put forward without looking at the candidate. What policies did this candidate support in the past? Is have a history of lying? Accepting or giving out bribes? The candidate can say they support one policy and then enact a different one because they knew they wouldn’t get your vote otherwise. When a politician is making promises, you should ALWAYS assume its just for the sake of getting your vote. Not being forthright about your candidate of choice is deceptive. You should encourage people to be fully informed about your candidate.

Trump’s remarks are unprofessional, and the people touting it as honesty (“But the former president’s campaign rhetoric does not bother some ardent female supporters like *Dixie, a 59-year-old Republican from Door County “He’s not going to tell you what you want to hear. He’s going to tell you the truth,” said Dixie, who declined to share her last name for privacy reasons.”) would clutch their pearls and demand managers if they were told the truth about their behavior towards minimum wage employees.

*Maybe her name really is Dixie, but given the Confederate ties to it, I think “Dixie” just wanted to be inflammatory. Par for the course.

“…some who spoke to the BBC said [Trump’s] campaign had remained fixated on men - not women.

Republican pollster Christine Matthews said Trump’s team is “doubling down on a strategy of motivating the [MAGA] base and hoping to motivate men - particularly non-college-educated men including those who are Hispanic in addition to white - in a way that will overpower the gender gap”.

The Trump campaign has leaned into “bro culture”, emphasising masculinity and a contrast of “weak versus tough”, said Chuck Coughlin, a political strategist who works with Republicans in the battleground state of Arizona.

“That appeals to a lot of men,” he said. “It doesn’t appeal to unaffiliated voters.””

Who could have foreseen that a male dominated party who have, up to this day advocated for the US to return to the way things used to be, including putting women back in “traditional” roles. I also find it hilarious that they ADMIT to aiming their campaign towards non-college educated men. Of course you want them, they’re of the sex you’re trying to put forward as being superior, trying to convince them they’re tough for wanting a “candidate who isn’t afraid to speak his mind.”

“Former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, who served as his 2016 campaign manager, told the BBC that voters could not have his policies without his “strong and resolute and tough” personality.

“People, and particularly women, tend to kvetch and converse and complain about what offends them, and then they vote according to what affects them,” she said.”

You absolutely can have his policies without his perversion. He doesn’t need to brag about walking in on 15 year old pageant girls to suggest economic policies. He doesn’t need to call other countries shit holes to discuss his opinion on border control. He is in the highest possible position in the US, and is behaving completely inappropriately and unprofessionally. The last bit there saying “women especially get offended” (as though males don’t get offended to the point of raping and murdering women) is one of the most (but not THE most, we’ll get to that one) ironic comments from a WOMAN who supposedly wants to garner female support for her misogynistic candidate.

The other hilarious part of this is, what I consider to be, a Freudian slip. I believe what miss Conway wanted to say was “vote based on what offends them” given the comment about people taking offense, but what she knows to be true came to the surface. EVERYONE votes based on what affects them. That’s what you’re banking on with economic votes, border policy votes, and so on.

"”If he dials down the attacks and his brand of fiery kind of politics, then he can pick up...female voters in particular," said Ariel Hill-Davis, co-founder of Republican Women for Progress, which advocates for female representation in the party.”

You expect female representation from the people who claim women can’t be the leader of a country because, as Miss Conway (fitting last name btw) put it, and tried to imply, we’re easily offended and try to act on it.

“Republicans in swing states have struggled with another issue that has animated women across the country: reproductive rights.

Democrats have seized on abortion rights as a way to galvanise voters after the fall of Roe v Wade in 2022, while Ms Harris has become the White House’s leading voice on the issue.”

You mean the same way you galvanize republican voters by being pro-forced-birth? Shock and horror.

“Tom Eddy, the chair of the Erie County Republican Party, a swing district in the must-win state of Pennsylvania, said he’d found the best approach is to avoid the issue altogether.

“I tell my candidates, ‘Stay the hell away from it,’” he said. “I can tell no matter what policy you promote with regard to abortion, you’re going to be wrong, because half the people are going to think the other way.””

Soooo, lying by omission? Great. The issue is that more Americans are in favor of abortion than not. And you can bet that, if pressed on the issue, he would dance around an actual answer. We need to stop encouraging this response by not voting for people who aren’t forthright. This is what happens when you look only at what’s being said, and never who is saying it. What ISN’T said is just as important as what IS said.

[Link 1] [Link 2]

“With polls suggesting the majority of suburban women support access to abortions, Ms Soucek said the Republican Party needs to find a unified message.

“It’s just a matter of making sure that we’re sending the right message to women that we care about women, while also caring about unborn babies,” she said.”

The unified message is there, they think women should be forced to give birth. They just can’t agree to what degree. Aborted fetuses also aren’t babies, but that’s an opinion that isn’t likely to change. No, instead I would like to point out that you don’t care about babies after they are born. The “adoption” argument doesn’t take into account the inherent trauma that comes with knowing your parents died, didn’t want you, or gave you up at all. You are punishing the child every single time you force a woman to give birth instead of allowing her to make the choice she wants. If you cared about women, you wouldn’t advocate for us being reduced to breeders/incubators.

“Mr Trump’s former senior adviser, Kellyanne Conway, said that while Democrats are focused on “the waist down”, the Republican Party is concentrating on the “waist up”.

“We women, from the waist up, are where our brains, ears, eyes, hearts and mouths are, so we can figure out all the issues: the kitchen table economics, entrepreneurship, taxes, regulation, energy independence,” she said.”

I know “kitchen table economics” is an actual term and all, but really poor choice of words given the context. Not only that, republicans are the ones literally attempting to subjugate women because of what is below the waist. How is advocating for forced birth, something that sets women back financially, educationally, and so on, anywhere near above the waist? The republican party does not advocate for anyone’s education, hence why they are targeting non-college educated men, let alone WOMENS’ education. Their claims are disproven by their actions.

“Trump could make strides with female suburban voters by directly addressing their concerns about his personality, according to political experts.

“If he were to say something like: ‘You may not like me personally, you may not like my rhetoric, but if you want to worry less about grocery bills .. I'm your guy,’” Ms Fischer Martin said.

“I don't know if he's quite capable of getting there.””

The last comment allows this portion to speak for itself.

And finally, THE most ironic quote from one of the people trying to encourage female swing voters to cast a ballot for Trump;

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Kellyanne Conway knows Trump better than most. She believes his core message - are voters better off now then when he was in office? - is the same for all Americans, regardless of gender.

“As I told him recently,” she added, “*He beat a woman before. He can beat a woman again*.””

HOOOOOOOOO BOY. Even if you read it in the exact context it’s meant to be read in, instead of overtly DV, it is hilarious that you are trying to win over female voters by lording the 2016 ELECTORAL COLLEGE decision (Hillary won the popular vote, if you’ll recall) over their heads. You are actively rooting for someone to keep a woman out of a position that has been exclusively male since its conception, and think that is somehow going to win swing female voters? I’m sure some will vote for him despite the fact that he is subpar. He doesn’t care about female voters. No politician does. Republicans will take away our rights while the democrats claim they’re “Trying to reach a compromise UwU.”

Rant over

[neuropsyche]

Trump’s uncontrollable ranting, puffing, and self-serving exaggeration on “Truth” Social may be violating the SEC rules and regulations. ⚖️👮

SEC laws prohibit the use of “manipulative and deceptive devices” to pump up stocks. Trump’s bragging in the face of heavy losses by his company could fall under that category, Trump critic George Conway tweeted Thursday afternoon. Maybe this can take him down like tax fraud snagged Al Capone. 🙏

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-rant-truth-social-may-144816989.html

https://mpost.tribel.com/public/posts/56e8ad00-f370-11ee-8c08-638cb31b5452

[steamedtangerine]

Rant coming on: which is all why I rail incessantly against the Council for National Policy (Devos, Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway)...they are no different than Del Close's character in the re-make of the Blob.

Hal Lindsey states in one of his apocalyptic books that "we should not keep living like people who will be here much longer" (written back about 50 years ago, mind you--I mean, Biblically speaking, Jacob got pissed waiting 14 years to get married to the person he worked hard for. I use that as my metric, because, I lost my virginity at 13. People being screeched at as Seniors in some parochial High School about the "imminent rapture" will get married and have a kid who will grow up to be a 13 yo. losing their virginity like me-and life goes on waiting for and siting on their hands for something they never brought enough lamp oil for). So, Hal makes a killing on his books. Does he even put one ounce of those profits into bettering the lives of others? No. He invests in real estate....so much for "living like not going to be here long"

Even if they had "little time on this Earth", they should be on the good side of history investing everything they can towards easing the genuine material suffering of others and working for social justice in their little pointless span of life on this planet. Instead, they are serving themselves and expanding an empire of an empty ministry and insisting that we let tribulations and war and global disaster go unhindered (once again, Del Close's character in the 1988 Blob)-as if they won't be judged for any of this because they go "Lord, Lord!" all the time and have this puffed-up, unself-examined presumption that they will be saved.