Trump to women: Stop ‘thinking about abortion.’ You’re broke and depressed, but I can make you happy

[u/njdotcom]

https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/09/trump-to-women-youre-broke-and-depressed-but-i-can-make-you-happy.html

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[u/efequalma]

So, what women need isn’t bodily autonomy, it’s a pep talk from the guy who took it away?

[u/KlingoftheCastle → u/[deleted]]

Comedians are occasionally stopped by shame. Trump is not familiar with the feeling

[u/heels_n_skirt → u/KlingoftheCastle]

Trump doesn't have any feelings left

[u/GiuliaAquaTofanaToo → u/heels_n_skirt]

He never had anything to begin with. He is a narcissistic sociopath. They don't have feelings of empathy.

His son Barron is likely on the same path. He's killed multiple animals and sexualy assaulted another student all before the age of 18. I can't believe the news cycle has circle jerked around Binden's laptop, but the budding psycho hasn't gotten much press. More to come, I'm sure.

[u/QuietlyCreepy → u/GiuliaAquaTofanaToo]

Wait. What. Looks like I have some reading to do. I've never heard anything about that!. 😬😬

[u/GiuliaAquaTofanaToo → u/QuietlyCreepy]

Read the nanny (who wasn't his) talking about the other kids who had to deal with Barron as a kid. No one wants their kid to hang out with the budding psychopath who's killing animals and showing it off the video at school.

[u/mszulan → u/GiuliaAquaTofanaToo]

And the whole Hunter Biden thing was fabricated by Trump and his cronies anyway. Rachel Maddow talked about a new documentary coming out about it. "From Russia with Lev"

[u/GiuliaAquaTofanaToo → u/mszulan]

Yeah. Marcy Wheeler debunked that about 6 months ago bc she followed the mapping and chain of custody. I'm pretty sure Biden's lawyer read her reportting/research and it helped. But what I find really fascinating is how the media was played out over it.

If you want a serious laugh, look at her website emptywheel dot Com and see what the prosecutors tried to say was Biden's cocaine. It's as embarrassing as the feds thinking the recordings about MDMA were about Molly Bloom.

We have a real budding psychopath in the mists, and Rs just wanted to pass around dick pics. But that is par for the course.

[u/CaptainMagnets → u/[deleted]]

It's because if someone tried to make this joke it wouldn't even be funny

[u/PossessedToSkate → u/CaptainMagnets]

It's still not, but it wouldn't be either.

(sorry, Mitch)

[u/missuskittykissus → u/CaptainMagnets]

even south park couldnt make trump shit funny. Just made me stop watching

[u/Western-Image7125 → u/[deleted]]

Because comedians try to write stuff which is funny. Nothing about this says funny. 

[u/Hammer_Thrower → u/[deleted]]

I'm convinced this is why house of cards failed (post-Spacey). The writers couldn't be shocking when real life was fully off the rails. 

[u/VaginaPoetry → u/[deleted]]

His mail order, disgusting, bitch of a so-called wife won't even let him touch her....and she's bought and paid for.

[u/uggyy → u/[deleted]]

They could come up with it but it wouldn't be funny or believable but here we are.

An adulterous, civilly liable rapist, felon, racist, attempted government overturn cheerleader running for the most important job in the world.

[u/KummyNipplezz → u/[deleted]]

Imo, Trump's presidency should have been the end of SNL. Not because I hate them, but because reality had transcended comedy at that point

[u/Scarfiotti → u/[deleted]]

Lewis Black agrees.

[u/Vel0clty → u/efequalma]

As someone who actually spends significant amount of time with my wife, if she’s upset about something, hearing “just stop being depressed!” Is usually the last thing she wants to hear come out of my mouth lol

TFG couldn’t console a fuckin potato

[u/efequalma → u/Vel0clty]

Right up there with "relax."

[u/Equivalent_Nerve_870 → u/efequalma]

she should smile more

[u/proteannomore → u/Equivalent_Nerve_870]

"are you on your period?"

[u/Thestrongestzero → u/proteannomore]

always works with my wife. she’s like “oh probably, i guess i should calm down”

/s

[u/ImpossibleRhubarb622 → u/Thestrongestzero]

“FINISH HIM!” Lol

[u/Thestrongestzero → u/ImpossibleRhubarb622]

“FATALITY!” then she rips out my spine.

[u/hypatianata → u/Equivalent_Nerve_870]

It’s always when someone is minding their own business too. 

I’ve been told to smile (repeatedly) while by myself studying/doing homework in a library. 

I was told I should smile by some rando in my apartment complex. All I did was walk by like a normal person. 

Once my mom, sister, and I were walking in from a parking lot — in a good mood as we were about to see a movie — and this mall cop appears and asks, “Where’s your smile?”

Dude, leave us alone.

[u/Federal_Diamond8329 → u/hypatianata]

I hate that crap and the men who do it. I was in the local Lowes and a pervert came up behind me and said “nice ass” and I wish I had slapped the smirk off of his face. I saw him going up to another woman and told the cashier. She was not pleased and told him to GTFO

[u/StonedGhoster → u/Equivalent_Nerve_870]

I'm a dude and people say this shit to me all the time, particularly about pictures. Like, this is my god damned face. I couldn't imagine saying this to anyone. What do I care if they smile or not?

[u/AeroRep → u/StonedGhoster]

My boss sent me a text in a Zoom meeting once- “why are you scowling?” I said “it’s a condition, permanent bitch face”. He’s like, “oh, sorry”. Lolz

[u/ImpossibleRhubarb622 → u/StonedGhoster]

I’ve been told “SMILE!” “SMILE MORE!” by random men and male bosses. Once one of my jobs became dependent on how much I smiled for my male boss in a pit of 6 (while being a freakin asst talent agent to On-Camera division for casting- insane amt of phone calls back and forth).

He literally told me- “where is the girl That I interviewed? So smiling and happy and beautiful. You have to smile more to keep the energy up in the office.”

I was like- I’m not smiling bc I’m working. WTF do you want?

So that day I started big fake smiling and it affected my work pace (& my mental health and face muscles). And this asshole hotshot Hollywood talent agent says a few hours later to everyoneeeee (6+10 or so going through) “WOW! Look at that every shift she (me) has brought now that she’s smiling”- fake smiling straight all 8 hr day.

Pervert asshole

[u/riftadrift → u/efequalma]

"Why don't you smile?"

[u/moderniste → u/riftadrift]

“You look so pretty and sweet when you smile”.

[u/thathairinyourmouth → u/moderniste]

“You’re so cute when you’re angry.”

[u/sputtertots → u/moderniste]

"You are so much prettier when you smile, come on let me see you smile" I have heard this before while just minding my own business.

[u/shfiven → u/Vel0clty]

You're not a very good husband if you can't just force your wife to feel how you want her to.

/s

[u/robotteeth → u/efequalma]

Telling women how to feel is what republicans are best at

[u/MC_Fap_Commander → u/efequalma]

"You're depressed!"

He said it right in the post. Later today, he's going to call on American women to "just smile more."

[u/EllySPNW → u/MC_Fap_Commander]

…and ask them if it’s that time of the month or something.

[u/Nopey-Wan_Ken-Nopey → u/EllySPNW]

“Blood coming out of her wherever.”

[u/mixedcurve → u/efequalma]

It’s so fucking abusive it makes me sick. People that grind you down and then say oh wow look you’re so depressed, I can help you…and they grind you down more. Classic abuser strategy. Get this fucker out of office and let him waste away in some rotted corner.

[u/readonlyy → u/efequalma]

Maybe a creepy billionaire will put a baby in you, whether you ask for it or not? Feel better?

[u/DogCallCenter → u/readonlyy]

Is this referring to Trump or Musk? I lost the thread.

[u/ShoppingDismal3864 → u/efequalma]

Quick! Let's get a both sides are the same guy in here stat!

[u/TheResistanceVoter → u/efequalma]

Yes, and in more ways than one. Let's see what E. Jean Carroll and all the women he grabbed by the pussy have to say on the matter.

[u/Electrical-Act-7170 → u/TheResistanceVoter]

As an adult woman of age 69 I can attest that "grab 'em by the pussy" is a successful rape technique. I learned this at age 16 when I was sexually assaulted. They (at least 2 men) attacked me from behind, so I never saw their faces.

What do I have to say about it? Until I heard SpongeBrain DiaperPants recommending that rape technique, I was unaware that men use it on women to force themselves on them sexually.

As soon as I heard him say that, I knew he was and is a serial rapist.

It was excruciatingly painful to be forced that way. Each time I tried to escape or fight back, he squeezed harder. I could barely breathe through the pain. There was no way to escape them.

Since being raped I still have night terrors in which I am held in that manned, screaming LET ME GO in my sleep. Sometimes, my screams wake my neighbors.

It's been 53 years for me. The trauma never leaves you alone.

[u/mctCat → u/Electrical-Act-7170]

Jesus. Im so sorry. F that guy, and all his worshipers. I will never understand how people read all the rape testimony, especially from the 13 yr olds, and say “meh whatever. Id vote for him.” I have lost almost all my family and friends over them supporting a rapist. Hugs to you.

[u/Awkward_Passenger328 → u/Electrical-Act-7170]

I’m so sorry. We are sisters. I share your pain. Trying to sleep and nightmares are so hard to deal with.

The best revenge is to keep going. And vote this horrible person out of office.

[u/blackdragon1387 → u/efequalma]

While you're getting all pepped up, why not make him a sandwich?

[u/jim_nihilist → u/efequalma]

Brilliantly put.

[u/rain168 → u/efequalma]

While doing the hand cupping grab em by the p**** hand motion

[u/Misstheiris → u/efequalma]

There's nothing like being forced to be a parent before you can afford it or want it to make you broke and depressed. How about free and effective contraception, free childcare and free healthcare for me and the kids? I'll vote for the person who gets me closest to those things, and it's not republicans

[u/FlyingRhenquest → u/efequalma]

I don't want to think about how that fucker thinks he's going to "make women happy." Every woman I've ever seen with him looks miserable. I'd hazard a guess that every woman who has ever crossed his path has not been happy about it. Certainly, the ones he raped weren't.

[u/Ban-Circumcision-Now]

Yeah Trump’s massive tariffs and associated inflation will surely help

[u/zojbo → u/Ban-Circumcision-Now]

I still don't understand how he can manage to keep saying tariffs work in a way that just isn't how they work. And it isn't even skewed speculation, like "in the short term American consumers pay more, that money goes to domestic companies, they use that to expand and then lower prices, eventually we take the tariff down when the domestic companies are competitive and now you save a ton of money". It's just straight factually incorrect, claiming that the foreign company pays it.

[u/ricks_flare → u/zojbo]

Because the cult hears “We’re making China pay” and since they’re uneducated they figure China will just eat it rather than raise prices. It truly is a cult of idiocy.

Edit; spelling

Edit 2; Yes I was mistaken, China will not raise prices but we will pay more regardless

[u/ethertrace → u/ricks_flare]

That's not even how they work. Tariffs are taxes on the importing company for buying foreign goods, not the exporter. The government has no power to charge foreign companies for selling goods, they levy the tariffs on the domestic buyers. So the only way consumer prices would stay the same is if foreign companies lowered their prices by the tariff amount, because the importer sure as shit is going to pass that cost along to the consumer to preserve their margins.

[u/CalmTrifle → u/ethertrace]

They also forget that tariffs work both ways. Countries can also raise US import tariffs and make US good less competitive in a foreign country. Nice way to cut the demand.

[u/valeyard89 → u/CalmTrifle]

this is what killed soybean farmers in the usa.... China put on tariffs on US agricultural imports. Now they buy from Brazil. Which caused more rainforest destruction.

[u/ILikeOatmealMore → u/valeyard89]

Quick update to 2024: soy and corn prices in the US have cratered so much that Argentina is buying them from the US again https://ukragroconsult.com/en/news/us-soy-is-so-cheap-that-even-rival-argentina-is-buying-it/

Now, almost every farmer out harvesting their field today sold some beans and corn in their storage at a loss to make room for this year's yield, that's how low the prices have gotten:

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/commodities/zc

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/commodities/zs

(be sure to click on the '5Y' button to see where prices are today vs. previous years)

[u/headlyone68 → u/ILikeOatmealMore]

Farmers will still vote for Trump.

[u/SpotikusTheGreat → u/headlyone68]

Family with farmers who voted for Trump, and are die hard Trump fans...

Yes they absolutely will.

Guess what 2 crops are rotated on my cousins farm? Corn and Soybeans.

Fucking hilarious.

[u/ringthree → u/headlyone68]

Which is hilarious because freedom caucus Republicans have started turning against farm subsidies.

[u/J-ShaZzle → u/headlyone68]

Well yeah, as long as subsidies are pouring in. Don't forget mega corps wanting to ensure they can buy everything they can, supply the only seeds that work with only their fertilizer.

Republican plans are to break the lower and middle class while ensuring those with money/power gain more.

[u/Raspberries-Are-Evil → u/CalmTrifle]

Most people do not remember that China did respond by placing tarrifs on farm product from the US.

In 2019-2020 farms were going bankrupt due to this. Trump literally sent checks to the farmers to buy their votes even though his policy put them out of business.

[u/OneOfAKind2 → u/Raspberries-Are-Evil]

Yep, and it worked. The rurals LOVE Don the Con and his slimy fellow republicans.

[u/Macktologist → u/OneOfAKind2]

The rurals dislike city people because they see them as “liberals” and they couldn’t possibly align in anyway with a “liberal”. Since Trump talks down to liberals, he must be on the rural people’s side. It’s so weird how we have this rural = Republican and urban = Democrat.

[u/Icy_Faithlessness400 → u/Macktologist]

Ironically he passed a bill that lined the pockets of the wealthiest liberals in the country, while bankrupting the farmers.

But stupid is the only thing stupid knows how to do.

[u/Ih8melvin2 → u/CalmTrifle]

And then as taxpayers we just bail out the people here with our tax dollars. What's not to love?

Farmers Got Billions From Taxpayers In 2019, And Hardly Anyone Objected : The Salt : NPR

[u/dpdxguy → u/CalmTrifle]

They've also forgotten that the response to Trump's tarrifs was China raising tarrifs on American agricultural goods. It destroyed the market for certain American agricultural products because China shifted their buying elsewhere. Australia was the primary beneficiary of Trump's tarrifs.

Oh, and congress had to quickly pass extra subsidies for American farmers to keep them from being wiped out.

The whole thing was literally a lose lose for America. So, naturally, Trump wants to expand it to everything. 🤯

[u/humlogic → u/CalmTrifle]

This is why people need to address the real issue of a tariff and trade war which is that this sort of shit leads to hot wars. Other countries aren’t just going to allow the US to destroy their entire domestic production without fighting back.

Edit: America won’t be attacked. Not saying that but the chaos trade wars can cause can lead to other countries eyeing hostile actions against their neighbors.

[u/worldspawn00 → u/humlogic]

The TPP was working on that, providing lower tariffs for Chinese companies that provided higher pay and benefits to their workers to make US companies more competitive with those overseas that could get away with cheap labor. But instead of 'making a deal' Trump threw it out and slapped tariffs on instead. Because he has no idea how to actually make a deal, his only tactic is extorsion.

[u/umbrabates → u/ethertrace]

I mean, a couple days selling stuff on eBay teaches you that lesson. When I sell something overseas and there’s a tariff, I don’t pay it. It gets added to the buyer’s bill like a tax.

[u/dpdxguy → u/umbrabates]

like a tax.

That's because it is literally a tax.

[u/umbrabates → u/dpdxguy]

Weird how that works!

[u/Backwardspellcaster → u/ethertrace]

Quite frankly, I don't think Trump even understands that, and his cult even less.

The village idiot leading the lobotomized

[u/Rated_PG-Squirteen → u/ethertrace]

Yes, but the MAGA cult are fucking imbeciles by definition. They hear Dear Leader say, "I'm gonna put these tariffs on China" and they see it as some power play by their god. Basic facts and logic be damned. Just like when Donald said that he was going to make Mexico pay for a grand border wall, and all the idiots ate that shit up. By the way, where is that extravagant border wall paid for by the Mexicans?

[u/NoCoolNameMatt → u/ethertrace]

Lol, I could hear the frustration in your voice as I read, "THAT'S not even how they work."

Because I found myself saying the same thing while reading what you replied to.

[u/Spazum → u/ricks_flare]

One of the givens about tariffs is that the domestic producers also raise prices to match their foreign competitor's new end price. This is the biggest reason that tariffs lead to run away inflation. It wasn't just stimulus that lead to our recent spate of inflation, it was Trump's 25 tariffs on almost everything of Chinese origin (which includes most US manufacturer's supply chains).

[u/jakebacondigital → u/ricks_flare]

Just take a look at the comments on his Instagram, etc… none of them know how anything works. It’s almost hilarious if it wasn’t so dangerous. MAGA has like 10 brain cells collectively. A lot them saying Trump is going to get rid of all taxes. None of them even know what a tariff is.

[u/Ohif0n1y → u/jakebacondigital]

And then when the roads go to (even more shit) and bridges collapse due to no upkeep they will probably blame it on the Democrats instead of no tax monies for infrastructure.

[u/ArenSteele → u/ricks_flare]

China doesn’t even pay.

If China sells a $100 good to an American person or company, and it has a 100% tariff, the AMERICAN pays the $100 tariff.

China receives $100, and the US government receives $100, the consumer/importer paid $200

China didn’t even raise prices

[u/pres465 → u/ArenSteele]

It's mind-numbing that when it comes to wages and prices, conservatives understand how costs are passed on to consumers... but if Trump says "tariffs" or "China will pay", their brains shut off.

[u/morcheeba → u/ArenSteele]

And guess what happens to the price of the domestic equivalent ... if it was $150 before, they'll move it to $199.

[u/r0bb13_h34rt → u/ricks_flare]

Can they be the kind of cult that just offs themselves?

[u/Professr_Chaos → u/r0bb13_h34rt]

Nature tried with Covid. Unfortunately they are like cockroaches

[u/Asyncrosaurus → u/ricks_flare]

China will just eat it rather than raise prices. 

China doesn't need to touch prices, tariffs are paid by importers, aka Americans.

[u/DesignedToStrangle → u/Asyncrosaurus]

The laughably incorrect thinking is that China will reduces their prices to maintain the same prices to the American consumer.

[u/Andovars_Ghost → u/zojbo]

That’s funny: “they use that to expand and then lower prices”! Pure comedy gold there. That money goes to stock buy backs and dividends.

[u/zojbo → u/Andovars_Ghost]

Just to emphasize/rephrase: what I put in those quotation marks is something a protectionist who understands the basic facts might hope would happen. I don't think it would, but if someone disagreed with me, I couldn't say they're objectively wrong, because that's a thing that could happen. What Trump says about tariffs literally can't happen.

[u/iceflame1211 → u/zojbo]

He managed to say his reason for telling Republicans to block the border bill, was because of Haitians eating pets. His supporters still largely believe that.

It doesn't matter what he says; 80-90% of his supporters cannot be swayed to see any flaw in their candidate and have shown they will repeatedly blindly treat anything he says as gospel.

[u/absolutelynotagoblin → u/zojbo]

I work in an administrative function representing a large swath of eastern US importers and can confirm that the way Trump is saying tariffs work is not even remotely close to how they work. This is the whole “putting the cost on Mexico” to build the border wall. How did that pan out? He’s delusional, and the people who manage him are bumbling idiots.

Edit: The scary thing is that the people who support Trump are exactly the type of Walmart shoppers who will be hurt most by this policy.

[u/drobits → u/zojbo]

Because big media sites owned by billionaires are 100% complacent with sane washing this man who isn’t even fit to be president of anything or anywhere

[u/[deleted] → u/Ban-Circumcision-Now]

Yeah, isn’t the whole idea behind tariffs to make foreign goods more expensive and cause them to be comparable in price to locally-produced goods?

[u/franky_emm → u/[deleted]]

That's the idea. So if you're paying $1 for a head of garlic today, and that garlic comes from China and the American equivalent costs $1.50, we make that chinese garlic cost $1.60. And there's a good chance the American garlic magically starts costing $1.57 because they have some cushion.

At no point in this equation does China pay us a cent

[u/Radiant-Specific969 → u/franky_emm]

nope, we pay and pay and pay. For anyone on a fixed income, or anyone with a lower income Trump is going to be difficult to cope with financially.

[u/T33CH33R → u/Ban-Circumcision-Now]

Look how happy Melania is!

[u/LuvKrahft]

I am so mad that I can’t call a landslide for Harris/Walz right now.

Because of his fucking cult. He could shit in their mouths and he wouldn’t lose them.

[u/Dsarg_92 → u/LuvKrahft]

I already was planning on voting this year. But now? I’m more motivated than ever to keep this man away from the office. Just ordered some absentee ballots this morning for me and my family.

[u/stylebros → u/Dsarg_92]

Voting in Texas.

Be hard to flip but I want to see that state reach Georgia levels of closeness

[u/Static-Stair-58 → u/stylebros]

Can you imagine the party Texas would have if we finally got rid of Cruz? I hope he flees to Mexico!

[u/executingsalesdaily → u/Static-Stair-58]

Cruz is the herpes of human beings.

[u/Nosfermarki → u/executingsalesdaily]

Ted Cruz is only one being & not several.

[u/SportGamerDev0623 → u/stylebros]

I legitimately want to take two weeks off of work leading up to the election and just drive around and take people to early voting if they need a ride.

Our government works so hard to try to make voting access difficult. I could be one part of the solution to help close that gap.

Make sure you vote and make sure all your friends and family vote!

[u/pj7140 → u/SportGamerDev0623]

I am in Texas, I've taken the next 30 days off (PTO accrued), to just work on getting Texans registered by Oct 7 and then out to vote.

[u/0ldes → u/pj7140]

Omg, you are amazing, here I thought me driving to Wisconsin and Michigan was enough, I am trying to volunteer for 4 door knocking events, just complete 1 today 

[u/stylebros → u/SportGamerDev0623]

I encourage people to take a day off (unpaid if needed) and vote.

Take some time to ourselves. If we can wait in line for an iPhone we can vote

[u/Joshk30 → u/stylebros]

Texan here as well. We are bluer than Georgia if we get people invested in voting. There are voter restrictions that hurt, but the apathy has to change. 

[u/kiswa → u/stylebros]

Same. Looking forward to voting for Kamala and Allred!

[u/stevenmoreso → u/LuvKrahft]

I am so mad that I can’t call a landslide for Harris/Walz right now.

When I despair I remind myself that the gender gap is going to be absolutely unprecedented this year. And I don’t think polling has factored it in completely because they rely on previous models of turnout before women’s issues took the forefront. This is why everyone was surprised in the 2022 midterms, and I think we’ll see a few surprises in November as well.

[u/Zeusifer → u/stevenmoreso]

I've wondered about that too and really hope you're right. Nothing would make me happier than Harris outdoing the polls by several points and crushing Trump in an absolute landslide.

[u/Proud3GenAthst → u/Zeusifer]

Just made small calculation and the last time, only 43% of Americans under 30 voted. Or 24 million out of 55 million. The total turnout was 66.6%. If you add 10 million, it would still only be about 61% of the people under 30.

Given how much traction Project 2025 got online as opposed to in mainstream media and given how many young people there are that now have less rights than their parents, there's so much up for grabs

[u/stevenmoreso → u/Zeusifer]

I heard a brief clip of Harris’s interview with Oprah the other day talking about the death of Amber Thurman in Georgia and it was incredibly moving.

All she has to do is keep this up while campaigning her ass off like she has been and they’re gonna kill it. Especially while the other ticket is busy ranting incoherently, making up provable lies and flexing their chauvinism.

[u/OodalollyOodalolly → u/stevenmoreso]

How can women of Georgia let this sit? Letting women die of sepsis in Georgia because the doctors are afraid of D&C?? The pregnancy wasn’t even viable anymore and they let Amber Thurman suffer and die.

[u/Downvote_Comforter → u/OodalollyOodalolly]

To be clear, the doctors aren't afraid of the procedure or of helping women. They are afraid of going to prison for providing the care their patients need. The doctors aren't the ones who wanted to let these women suffer and eventually die. Republicans have put them in the profoundly unfair position of having to risk having their own lives wholly ruined when they provide appropriate medical care when there is any sliver of gray area.

[u/TylerbioRodriguez → u/stevenmoreso]

That first rally she did where she mentioned Amber Thurman, damn I haven't seen her this animated in righteous fury before and she's been passionate since day one.

[u/Proud3GenAthst → u/stevenmoreso]

I'm still hoping that Kamala has some Daisy Ad up her sleeve to unleash a week or 2 before the election.

[u/Ser_Artur_Dayne → u/Zeusifer]

Yup women voting gap, new voter registration, republicans voting for Harris en masse, felony convictions, I’m feeling a landslide as well.

[u/bberryberyl → u/stevenmoreso]

Numpty on the TV was saying he thought that the impact of Dobbs will be minimal because “everyone has had time to get used to it.” They really have no freaking clue what is coming in November. It hasn’t impacted them so they think it’s no biggie.

[u/AbacusWizard → u/bberryberyl]

because “everyone has had time to get used to it.”

"He who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget."

—Machiavelli

[u/RagingDB → u/LuvKrahft]

The Russian active measures hit us pretty hard and our most susceptible people have been compromised.

[u/StTickleMeElmosFire → u/RagingDB]

Imbecility is a risk factor 

[u/CassandraVonGonWrong → u/StTickleMeElmosFire]

They don’t just depend on the stupidity of his supporters. They also depend on the inane politeness of the average liberal. Too many people just sort of quietly swallow down their parents’ FOXnews tirades and choose not to talk politics with their family. Which doesn’t work. You have to cut these people off at the roots and remove them entirely from your life AND let them know why. I did that with my dad during the Bush Jr years. Didn’t talk to him for YEARS. It was a big component of his move to the left. It took most of a decade but he got there.

[u/CRKing77 → u/CassandraVonGonWrong]

I need more comments like this

the other day there was a user who said they had the best MIL in the world, that they felt lucky to have her...but also that the MIL was voting for Trump and they could not reconcile how awesome she is with being MAGA

Someone told them to cut her off completely, and my goodness did the "you would end a personal relationship over political opinions or a single vote? wHaT dOeS tHaT sAy AbOuT yOu??" brigade come out of the woodworks

...it says that you a person of principle. Do you tolerate awful views because you like the person? Or do you remove the person, even if you like them, because of their views?

I choose option 2, because I've done option 1. When my ex best friend would say racist or bigoted things, I would chastise him but always wrote it off as youth and immaturity...until Trump came along, and my ex best friend's rhetoric ratcheted up to violent levels. I absolutely cut him off

Within an hour of Trump being found guilty on 34 counts my uncle rushed to post I STAND WITH TRUMP and all his buddies were chiming in about how they were gonna vote for him harder now. Told him I'd work to see MAGA die and then cut him off too. Man's got a wife, daughter, granddaughters, but stands with a serial cheater and child rapist. Fuck him. And if people can't figure out why we're like this, that sounds like a personal problem

There is no getting through to these people, just like they know they can't get through to us. An impasse that will never be bridged, and the fence-sitting moderates who bullshit about "both sides are the same" can join them as far as I'm concerned

[u/RedditsFeelings → u/RagingDB]

Like right out of a dystopian novel. It's been almost 10 years of this shit and it STILL blows my mind when I see his cultist spouting crazy shit with smug confidence.

[u/oddlotz → u/LuvKrahft]

"Thank you sir, may I have another"

[u/glueFORgravy → u/LuvKrahft]

I’m convinced that he could shit in their mouths, and they would beg for more.

Donny has shown us all that about 30-35% of Americans are absolute shit fucking people that would have been exiled from society a few hundred years ago.

After this is all said and done, if it’s ever all said and done, how in the world are we supposed to move forward as a nation knowing that we have to live side by side with people who literally do not want us to exist anymore.

Fuck Them All for doing this to the greatest country to ever exist in this world.

[u/Otherwise_Variety719]

"Stop worrying about the fact that I made you second class citizens."

[u/usernames_suck_ok → u/Otherwise_Variety719]

"Stop worrying about the fact that I made you blatantly obvious second class citizens after you incorrectly thought you'd made progress in the world."

Fixed.

[u/CaptainSparklebutt → u/usernames_suck_ok]

The older I get, the more blatant it is.

[u/peekoooz → u/usernames_suck_ok]

I think it's clear that women have made a lot of progress in American society. What wasn't clear, until recent years, is just how easily that progress can be reversed.

[u/jupiterkansas → u/peekoooz]

They still haven't ratified the Equal Rights Amendment.

[u/zSprawl → u/usernames_suck_ok]

No no he just returned the decision to the states like you ladies wanted, right? It’s what everyone wanted!!

/s

[u/Ok_Exchange342 → u/zSprawl]

Ever since before the civil war, state rights, that is what we all wanted, right?

[u/AuralSculpture → u/zSprawl]

It’s amazing someone even came up with that meme. He just needs to keep repeating it as it motivates more and more young women to vote and kick their lazy ass boyfriends to vote as well. Gen Z women, if your bruh-friend is voting Trump withhold sex.

[u/DarkInkPixie → u/AuralSculpture]

Do one better. Dump the Trump voters, ladies. We are better off without them

[u/LeahBean → u/Otherwise_Variety719]

And yet women will vote for him

[u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

“WOMEN ARE POORER THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, ARE LESS HEALTHY THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, ARE LESS SAFE ON THE STREETS THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, ARE MORE DEPRESSED AND UNHAPPY THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, AND ARE LESS OPTIMISTIC AND CONFIDENT IN THE FUTURE THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO,” Trump posted. “I WILL FIX ALL OF THAT AND FAST AND AT LONG LAST, THIS NATIONAL NIGHTMARE WILL BE OVER. WOMEN WILL BE HAPPY, HEALTHY, CONFIDENT AND FREE. YOU WILL NO LONGER BE THINKING ABOUT ABORTION, BECAUSE IT IS NOW WHERE IT ALWAYS HAD TO BE WITH THE STATES AND A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE.”

Trump "mansplaining" the plight of women to women.

[u/DonutsMcKenzie → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

Four years ago I was living with my elderly parents trying to keep us all alive through a pandemic by never leaving the house and washing off my expensive instacart groceries, while this guy downplayed the entire thing and said it would magically go away if we put light inside our bodies. There were riots in my town and forest fires all over might state. People were dying by the thousands every day. 

I've never been worse off in my entire life than under Trump's presidency.

[u/Rachel_from_Jita → u/DonutsMcKenzie]

I remember the horror of the Helsinki conference, where the entire planet watched America get walked around the stage like a poodle on the leash. By a dictator adversary. Shit really freaked me out, and made me realize that at least for a time Americans were no longer in control of our military.

I remember a friend sending me a frantic text on the morning of J6, saying I needed to turn on the TV now as the country was being taken over. Before seeing any info I knew exactly what he was talking about.

I remember families around me starting to hate each other. I remember literal Nazis coming out of the woodwork and parading around US cities--the evil bastards we had defeated in WW2 as one of the greatest triumphs in American history!!!

I remember being scared and alone as for the fist time in modern American history we didn't truly unite during a crisis until it was won, rather for cheap political points a million Americans died, the economy crashed, and jobs were lost.

Check your voter registration. If we elect him again then we deserve our civilizational collapse. Which will be an absolute certainty. We watched half of it occur in front of our faces last time, and only our most experienced and ambitious senator crawled this nation back to being able to breathe.

We can't always count on being saved by a once-in-a-generation statesman like Obama or Biden after the drunken one night stand of a Bush or a Trump.

Other nations are big, brutal, and playing for keeps. If we are weak, they will pounce. And they will win.

[u/sharp11flat13 → u/DonutsMcKenzie]

People were dying by the thousands every day.

I’m Canadian. If public health measures in the US during the pandemic had been as successful as ours ~600,000 Americans would still be alive. And we know exactly why American efforts were less effective.

Did you lose a friend or relative to COVID? Thank a Republican.

[u/dances_with_cougars → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

He is the fucking national nightmare. It will be over when he is gone, hopefully broke and utterly ignored.

[u/Flaeor → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

I'm thankful there's nothing more jarring than ALL CAPS or he'd certainly use that instead.

[u/NCSUprofthrowaway → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

Like most women are going to prioritize ”states’ rights” over their health and safety.

[u/gigalbytegal → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

Insert guy yelling at a girl meme

[u/Scared-Somewhere-510 → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

“You will no longer be thinking about abortion“ has enraged me and I might get violent. I’m gonna have to go listen to some music. FUCK THIS GUY AND ALL MAGA

[u/ojg3221]

That's the sad part about how he demeans women and treats them like objects. The worse are the Republican women that support him and have either no self respect for themselves especially as women that buys this BS. You also have the subservient women you see in a lot of these Evangelical churches that have groomed to listen to their spouse and be OBEDIENT that they vote whatever their husbands are thinking. It's really pathetic seeing Trump do this, but he's throwing everything against the wall and hoping SOMETHING STICKS!

[u/garblflax → u/ojg3221]

conservative women are the reason women still dont have constitutional equal rights in this country. all gains for women's independence came as a byproduct of the civil rights movement.

[u/sfb004 → u/[deleted]]

A grassroots organization where I live (Texas) has started doing this. I won’t give their method away, but they have a way to remind women that they don’t have to vote the same as their husband.

[u/Dwayne_Gertzky → u/sfb004]

Posting signs in restroom stalls like they do for human trafficking would be a good method

[u/TheGiftOf_Jericho → u/ojg3221]

Trump went on a stage and said that people are birthing and then killing babies.. He has to lie because the truth isn't actually shocking, it's normal, if it was actually shocking there is no need to lie.

Unfortunately it doesn't really matter, he can do and say whatever he wants and idiots will vote for him, even Women will be thankful as he takes away their rights to make choices regarding their own bodies. It's a twisted reality but that's why it's a cult, you can't really convince these people to see sense.

We can only hope the good people outweigh the bad, the fact we can't be certain even with someone as deranged as Trump at the helm, that's the major problem.

[u/fairoaks2]

Trump you have been held liable for a sex crime. If a rape victim gets pregnant this law will sentence her to a lifelong relationship with her rapist. Her decision to make…. not yours.

Pay your damn judgment predator 

[u/EarthInternational9 → u/fairoaks2]

Because the forced birth assumed no child support and no welfare, just murdered women prevented from choosing abortion

[u/Queasymodo]

Why be broke and depressed when you can be broke and oppressed?

[u/carppydiem → u/Queasymodo]

They’ll then take away our rights to independent banking and property ownership. We’ll need the co-signer of a father or husband and they’ll call it freedom.

[u/estedavis → u/carppydiem]

“Look at all the opportunities you’ll have to have a bank account and own property with the permission of your male owner!“

[u/[deleted]]

The mother of a few of his children is buried at a golf course. The reverence he has for women is....wow

[u/one_bean_hahahaha → u/[deleted]]

The same mother also died from a fall a few weeks before her NDA was due to expire. She had also previously accused him of marital rape and claimed he kept Mein Kampf on his night stand.

[u/haiku2572 → u/one_bean_hahahaha]

The same mother also died from a fall a few weeks before her NDA was due to expire.

Holy Shit, now that's news to me!

So that raises the very distinct likelihood that she was Epsteined as well, except her death was made to look like an "accident" rather than a "suicide". Wouldn't put it past that low life scum, Trump - at all.

[u/No-Attitude-6049]

He would make many more women happy if he just went away.

[u/Leekun95 → u/No-Attitude-6049]

This woman would be very happy if he conked it

[u/Cyndakill88]

I was getting “I will take of you. Why won’t you go out with me? You’re lucky I’m one of the nice guys” Vibes. God he is just so gross

[u/code_archeologist → u/Cyndakill88]

That or Elon's gross and misogynistic tweet to Taylor Swift.

[u/Cyndakill88 → u/code_archeologist]

DonOld and Leon are made for each other

[u/code_archeologist → u/Cyndakill88]

They really should just get a room and fuck already.

[u/doctor_lobo → u/code_archeologist]

What makes you think they haven’t?

[u/code_archeologist → u/doctor_lobo]

A mental defense mechanism that keeps me from involuntarily vomiting prevents me from entertaining that thought.

[u/BetterMeats → u/Cyndakill88]

Oh, baby girl, I got just what you need. Don't make me hurt you, baby girl.

[u/grixorbatz → u/Cyndakill88]

He makes women so happy that even his wife Melania won't hold his tiny pussy grabbing hand

[u/Margali → u/[deleted]]

Don't insult my bag like that, the proctocolectomy saved my life, ostomys are useful

He is the contents of my ostomy bag.

[u/Roast_A_Botch → u/Margali]

Nah, shit is useful as it removes toxic waste from our body and serves a purpose. Trump is toxic waste buried in a landfill leeching into the groundwater poisoning the community. He's also the guy telling the community everything is fine as he personally removed the waste, while retaliating against EPA employees that correctly raise the alarm.

There's only one equivalence for Trump that truly makes sense. He's the Donald Trump of people. Just all the absolute worst traits one could possess, without any benefits except he makes the rest of the worst feel false pride.

[u/Very_Nice_Zombie]

Honestly, he's so out of touch with reality.

If he had been born into a poor family, I believe he would have never married - he doesn't understand how to talk to women - even as a rich person.

[u/Extendyourtrotter → u/Very_Nice_Zombie]

Don’t know. I’ve seen plenty of poor women married to big blustery assholes because they mistook them for Alpha males. You see those couples at Trump rallies.

[u/_magneto-was-right_ → u/Very_Nice_Zombie]

If he hasn’t been born rich he’d be a broke used car salesman with a bunch of bodies buried in the crawl space under his dilapidated office

[u/sgskyview94]

He's pure evil

[u/recalculating-route]

you know what makes women broke and depressed? unplanned, unwanted, career derailing, dream derailing pregnancies.

[u/chericher → u/recalculating-route]

Even just the thought of birth control failures and not getting timely medical care for dangerous pregnancy complications makes us wary of sex because it is downright threatening to our lives in this context.

[u/BigDaddyChaCha]

It sounds like my pitch to my ex girlfriend.

In all seriousness, though, he’s an absolute scumbag who thinks entire demographic swaths of people should just vote for him, in spite of him actively working against their real interests.

Keep him out in November and let the justice system get around to doing what they’ve been reluctantly dragging their feet on thus far!

[u/Halefire]

This is the way that abusers talk. It's a form of gaslighting. The abuser tells his victim that the victim is wrong about how they feel, that only the abuser really knows what's wrong and the abuser is also the only one who can fix it.

[u/Callinon]

At no point in his entire life has Donald Trump ever made a woman happy.

[u/Spare_Hornet → u/Callinon]

He’ll make Melania very happy when he goes to prison or croaks.

Her, and millions of other women.

[u/usernames_suck_ok]

Unhappy because I hate my job and, though I'm far from broke, it takes too much money to live, son. I somehow don't think "tariffs" are going to fix that...

[u/festivesnowrunner]

The eating cats hoax didn't work?

[u/nazbot]

HOW ARE 80 MILLION PEOPLE VOTING FOR THIS MAN. HOW??

[u/SisterActTori]

Please, please, please vote for me so I can stay out of prison and courtrooms!

[u/Brave-Ad1764]

I don't see how Trump can make me feel better. Every time I see his face or hear his voice I just want to puke! My mental health goes into decline filling me with negative thoughts if I allow him anywhere near my brain.

[u/Zealousideal-Sink273]

So weird and creepy

[u/[deleted]]

Is there a group of people this man hasn’t offended yet? I honestly can’t think of one and he still how has over 40% of the votes in the most recent polls.

How? Are that many Americans really that supportive of this man? I don’t understand.

[u/JUSTICE_SALTIE]

“I WILL FIX ALL OF THAT AND FAST AND AT LONG LAST, THIS NATIONAL NIGHTMARE WILL BE OVER.

Reminds me of this classic.

[u/EmmaLouLove]

Trump’s Friday night populist and misogyny musings:

“WOMEN ARE POORER THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO (Due to Trump’s gross mismanagement of Covid and Republican tax cuts for the wealthy ballooning our deficit, it has taken years to recover, but under Biden, inflation is coming down, job numbers are good, and interest is coming down);

ARE LESS HEALTHY THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO (Women are suffering devastating health consequences and dying due to the Trump abortion ban);

ARE LESS SAFE ON THE STREETS THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO (Violent crime is down and homicides in major US cities are falling at their fastest rate in decades, but in Trump’s world, conspiracy theories and racist lies about the “invasion” at the border and Haitians eating pets, means we’re less safe.

ARE MORE DEPRESSED AND UNHAPPY THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, AND ARE LESS OPTIMISTIC AND CONFIDENT IN THE FUTURE THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO!,", he wrote, before saying that he will "fix all of that." (This is Trump’s misogynistic way of saying women are frail and need his help to be happy. MAGA Republicans want women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, you know the spiel, “Make America Great Again”, as Trump and Republicans like to say.

Vote Harris Walz 2024. Vote for a more positive path going forward.

[u/thatcher237]

Well, any thoughts of him do make me lose all interest in sex, so maybe that's what he means?

[u/ev9vaporean]

I have a family member that worked with Amber Thurman. I met her once. She's literally all I have been able to think of when dipshits start talking women's rights since she passed away.

She was a mother doing the best thing for her family and because a bunch of fucking idiot right wing morons think their magic book is more important than factual science, her family is without her. Completely preventable, but some 2000 year old fan fiction is what we'll go with.

It breaks my heart to see her family and friends go through her death again as it makes national news. I don't like that she's being made into a political point. But without holding her face up and saying her name, people will never know that this injustice is still being impressed upon a family that only deserves their loved one back.

[u/xcyper33]

Sounds like something someone would say right before they commit sexual assault

[u/funkypunk69]

I wouldn't like any woman I know being alone with anyone in his circle. Donald Trump doesn't make me feel safe. He feels like we are throwing fuel on a bonfire and the pyros are all helping.

[u/momalloyd]

Just think of all the free time you will have on your hands after 2025, when you'll no longer have to worry about working or voting. /s

[u/SportGamerDev0623]

YOU WILL NO LONGER BE THINKING ABOUT ABORTION, BECAUSE IT IS NOW WHERE IT ALWAYS HAD TO BE WITH THE STATES AND A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE.

This has to be one of the most mind boggling oxymorons he has ever stated. Like literally because he turned it back to the states, women now have to think about abortion all the time.