Yes, Barbie dolls hold an unrealized standard of female beauty, but when playing with Barbies, we were in charge. Nobody I knew had a Ken doll. Girls didn’t really need them to play Barbies. Were they marked to boys? They had GI Joes, in the way-back before action figures were a thing.
“The film is premised on the idea that Barbie and Ken visit the human world where men are in charge and Ken, relishing his treatment in a patriarchal society, sets out to try and turn Barbieland into one.”
“Despite strides towards sex equality that have been gaining momentum for more than a century, the US remains a patriarchal society.”
“A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male-dominated, male-identified, and male-centered. It is also organized around an obsession with control and involves as one of its key aspects the oppression of women.”
“…always strong, shows little emotion, is the provider not the caregiver, dominates over others, must always be in control — that have led to what is popularly referred to as toxic masculinity.” <— see the goons who invaded on J6
“Data shows that the US lags behind many of its allies around the world when it comes to paid parental leave, maternal healthcare, adolescent fertility rates, and, increasingly, reproductive rights. It also has a persistent gender pay gap, with women earning on average 82 cents to every dollar earned by a man in 2022…”
“The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), first introduced in Congress in 1923, was never ratified by enough states…”
“In the face of "sexual and reproductive rights being rolled back" and "women's rights … being abused, threatened, and violated around the world," UN Secretary General António Guterres said in March that gender equality seemed to be "300 years away."
And that’s why “Barbie” has made over $800 million dollars in its first week at the box office. Not streaming…yet. You actually have to leave your house to be indoctrinated!
Pat, his insightful niece Mary would say the word on your list he fears most is LOSER. I’ve noticed that’s the word Christie uses a lot, he knows Trump well enough to know that’s what cuts deepest.
Smith’s masterful Indictment reads more like a screenplay than a nerdy legal document. I’ve uploaded it to our site at this address:
It’s 45 pages but worth printing out for bedtime reading.
The indictment simply tells the story of Trump’s maniacal obsession with stopping the congressional certification of Biden’s victory, until the bitter end. It’s final scene could describes a fallen king worth of Shakespeare.
Even after the riot had ended and Congress was returning to Capitol Hill to resume the vote Trump still wouldn’t give up:
“At 7:01 p.m., while Co-Conspirator 1 [Guiliani] was calling United States Senators on behalf of the Defendant , the White House Counsel [Pat Cipollone] called the Defendant [Trump] to ask him to withdraw any objections and allow the certification. The Defendant refused.”
Drooling Marius goes to trial to defend his drool.
Yesterday on Trailmix – “45 thoughts on “Forty-five pages for the Forty-fifth””
Too bad that couldn’t have happened on 4/5.
That movie is a critique of patriarchal power-structures, not an endorsement of them. Ken goes on a journey of self-discovery because he feels useless in Barbieland because girls like you didn’t play with him, as you stated.
Credit where due: the personification of “Weird Barbie” is brilliant, every girl i knew had one like that 😆
Maybe we’re on a cultural upswing and shedding off some of the stupidity 🤞
ok tell your friends Team Trump’s defense is that lying is protected-speech ✌️🇺🇦⚖️🇺🇸
L is for the lies you’re always telling.
O is the onerous behavior and
S is for all the shit resulting.
E is for the egregious evil and
R rounds out the racist route you’re taking.
donald,
🎵 Put them altogether they spell LOSER a word which means what the world thinks of you 🎵
Would Willie have called him Donald the Dumb?
So if lying is protected speech as Donnie’s television liars are claiming, Hunter Biden. (I know… but I doubt that Gym is smart enough to pick up on the nuance)
Poobah, thanks for the link to the indictment – I’ve got it in my open .pdf files for quick reference.
One of my favorite paragraphs.
3 . The Defendant had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been outcome-determinative fraud during the election and that he had won. He was also entitled to formally challenge the results of the election through lawful and appropriate means, such as by seeking recounts or audits of the popular vote in states or filing lawsuits challenging ballots and procedures. Indeed, in many cases, the Defendant did pursue these methods of contesting the election results. His efforts to change the outcome in any state through recounts, audits, or legal challenges were uniformly unsuccessful.
That never gets old. It also skewers his spokesliars’ “criminalizing speech” claims.
I am enjoying the many problemsof Guiliani. He deserves everything he gets.
Another day (hooray) in the slow descent of the orange moron, along with is enablers and minions. This day promises to make “5 p.m. somewhere” a better happy hour. From some court watchers there were more indictments flowing out of the D.C. court, hopefully those will include some of the rest of the grifters.
As Donald Trump sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election, a chorus of top Republicans told him repeatedly that his claims of widespread voter fraud were false.
That pushback now sits at <a href=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/01/trump-indictment-jan-6-2020-election/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2″ target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow ugc”>the heart of the federal indictment</a> brought against Trump this week in the Justice Department investigation of his attempts to cling to power.
Special counsel Jack Smith is setting out to show that Trump knew he was lying when he unleashed his torrent of election falsehoods that culminated with the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol — an important part for convicting Trump on the four charges he’s facing.
To that end, the indictment lays out a drumbeat of episodes — many of them already public — when Trump was told that bogus statements about fraudulent ballots being counted or votes being flipped to Joe Biden were false. They came from a range of people in his orbit, including White House lawyers, administration appointees, state GOP officials and his campaign staffers. Trump has denied wrongdoing.
The indictment references at least nine administration officials, among others, who told Trump that the election was not stolen or that his schemes to remain in the White House were untenable. The officials are not named in the indictment, but some of their identities can be discerned by matching descriptions of their activities in the indictment with public reporting. Here are the key people who corrected Trump on his election lies and what they said:
Mike Pence, Bill Barr, Jeffrey Rosen, Richard Donoghue, John Ratcliffe, Chris Krebs, Pat Cipollone, Mike Shirkey, Lee Chatfield, Rusty Bowers, Brad Raffensperger.
Jen finds 3 more than the indictment mentions.
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The Republican Accountability Project is out with a new ad in response to former President Trump’s third indictment, and it will run in swing states on programs Trump is known to watch. Sarah Longwell joins Morning Joe to discuss.
One of the nation’s biggest anti-Trump groups is poised to launch a six-figure advertising campaign Thursday in four swing states – including Pennsylvania – in response to the former president’s indictment on efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The Republican Accountability Project said Wednesday it will be running the ad campaign on Fox News nationally as well as in targeted placement in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona.
The ad features images of the Jan. 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol, which Trump has been charged with fomenting, along with Trump’s statements leading up to the incident and a reminder to voters that “Trump did this. He’ll do it again. Unless he faces consequences.”
The Republican Accountability Project is a sub-group of Defending Democracy Together, a political organization founded by Trump-critical Republicans and led by conservative commentator Bill Kristol.
[…]
The four states targeted by the Republican Accountability Project are states that Trump won in 2016, but lost in 2020, and which Democrats must hold in order to secure the 2024 race.
Efforts to put the aftermath of the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack at the center of the 2024 contest are also of particular impact in central Pennsylvania given that the region is home to U.S. Rep. Scott Perry and state Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin County.
Both men are the subjects of investigations into efforts to convince the Justice Department to endorse unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud. Perry is alleged to have leaned on the White House to replace the U.S. Attorney General with someone who would enact a plan to delay or throw out electoral results under false pretenses, according to Congressional reports.
Both men have previously dismissed the inquiries as politically-motived.
Perry and Mastriano’s efforts are referenced in this week’s indictment against Trump, although neither have been charged with a crime. Both Perry and Mastriano are up for re-election in 2024.
KC, Rudeeee, also now known as Co-conspirator 1.
The defense of the day seems to be “the Eastman did it” (KO)
jamie, when I clicked your link it sent me to facebook and the 1st randy-rudy interview “Rudy and the Beast” 5 yrs ago. here’s the 2nd one they did 3 years ago
patd
This one is better
It’s those snooty Manhattaners’ fault If they had just let him play in all their reindeer games instead of constantly harping on and on about “you can take the garbage outa queens, but yada yada yada”Well, he MIGHT have grown up to be a nice, well-mannered, well-adjusted mature-type adult.
Nah.
Gallows humor?
Well, he’ll get his wish in the first instance. I hope to god he won’t get his wish in the second. I’m beginning to like the sound of U.S. Virgin Islands.
CNN: Trump and Smith seated about 15 feet apart, have “exchanged several looks’
Why do they bother with swearing him in?
Ah, the dreaded stink eye. Nothing like using skills learned in kindergarten to intimidate the guy making your life hell on earth. Reminds me of the orange moron stalking Hillary in debate. I sill think she should have stepped back and put a heel through the top of his foot.
He’s headed back to NJ, where he has golf course and there are intermittent thunderstorms forecast for tomorrow. Maybe he can squeeze in a few holes between lightning strikes.
Waiting for him to dig a deeper hole for himself by tweeting (or whatever it’s called on his nazi platform) the truth, a thinly-veiled threat, more evidence of wrongdoing, admission of an additional crime…
We need a real mugshot, not his fake-grifter one.
It’s a sad day for America because he’s running for a second term and Republicans don’t have the guts to shut him down and save our democracy.
Walt Nata standing there with that umbrella like a good, little soldier. Man, you hitched your wagon to the wrong horse.
When they get to the classified documents trial, do you think Orange Adolf promised to pardon him if he takes the fall and gets time?
On to Georgia! RICO!
I want him held liable for his mishandling of the pandemic.
Absolutely.
I guess Mittens told Rhonda she could never use the Romney name again. Probably notbut it would be great if she could go to jail too. What a giant loser
Family, friends and campaign donors are the only people who can get a lost-cause candidate to exit the race. After Feb. 26, they should start doing just that.”
“Left to their own inclinations, expect several of the contenders to stay in the race for a long time. They will split the non-Trump vote, giving him the prize,” warns Romney.”
Willard isn’t wrong.
I want him held liable for his mishandling* of the pandemic.
“Giorgia Meloni has filed a lawsuit against Placebo singer Brian Molko for defamation after the musician called the Italian Prime Minister a “racist” and a “fascist” during an expletive-laden rant in the middle of a concert last month.”
“Molko’s verbal assault on the PM prompted an investigation by prosecutors in Turin for “contempt of institutions.” Members of Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy party, which has its roots in Italy’s neo-fascist movement, denounced the insults and demanded an apology.”
If you don’t want to be called a fascist, maybe don’t be a fascist. Oh, maybe she’d prefer to be called a neo-fascist. Everything old is new, again.
Attribution: Interview with Trump Fans by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com
5+ years ago, but still resonates within today’s situation
Happy Arraignment, for all who observe!
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/world/what-is-patriarchy-explainer-as-equals-intl-cmd/index.html
Yes, Barbie dolls hold an unrealized standard of female beauty, but when playing with Barbies, we were in charge. Nobody I knew had a Ken doll. Girls didn’t really need them to play Barbies. Were they marked to boys? They had GI Joes, in the way-back before action figures were a thing.
“The film is premised on the idea that Barbie and Ken visit the human world where men are in charge and Ken, relishing his treatment in a patriarchal society, sets out to try and turn Barbieland into one.”
“Despite strides towards sex equality that have been gaining momentum for more than a century, the US remains a patriarchal society.”
“A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male-dominated, male-identified, and male-centered. It is also organized around an obsession with control and involves as one of its key aspects the oppression of women.”
“…always strong, shows little emotion, is the provider not the caregiver, dominates over others, must always be in control — that have led to what is popularly referred to as toxic masculinity.” <— see the goons who invaded on J6
“Data shows that the US lags behind many of its allies around the world when it comes to paid parental leave, maternal healthcare, adolescent fertility rates, and, increasingly, reproductive rights. It also has a persistent gender pay gap, with women earning on average 82 cents to every dollar earned by a man in 2022…”
“The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), first introduced in Congress in 1923, was never ratified by enough states…”
“In the face of "sexual and reproductive rights being rolled back" and "women's rights … being abused, threatened, and violated around the world," UN Secretary General António Guterres said in March that gender equality seemed to be "300 years away."
And that’s why “Barbie” has made over $800 million dollars in its first week at the box office. Not streaming…yet. You actually have to leave your house to be indoctrinated!
Pat, his insightful niece Mary would say the word on your list he fears most is LOSER. I’ve noticed that’s the word Christie uses a lot, he knows Trump well enough to know that’s what cuts deepest.
Smith’s masterful Indictment reads more like a screenplay than a nerdy legal document. I’ve uploaded it to our site at this address:
https://trailmix.cc/home/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/TrumpJ6.pdf
It’s 45 pages but worth printing out for bedtime reading.
The indictment simply tells the story of Trump’s maniacal obsession with stopping the congressional certification of Biden’s victory, until the bitter end. It’s final scene could describes a fallen king worth of Shakespeare.
Even after the riot had ended and Congress was returning to Capitol Hill to resume the vote Trump still wouldn’t give up:
Drooling Marius goes to trial to defend his drool.
Yesterday on Trailmix – “45 thoughts on “Forty-five pages for the Forty-fifth””
Too bad that couldn’t have happened on 4/5.
That movie is a critique of patriarchal power-structures, not an endorsement of them. Ken goes on a journey of self-discovery because he feels useless in Barbieland because girls like you didn’t play with him, as you stated.
Credit where due: the personification of “Weird Barbie” is brilliant, every girl i knew had one like that 😆
Maybe we’re on a cultural upswing and shedding off some of the stupidity 🤞
ok tell your friends Team Trump’s defense is that lying is protected-speech ✌️🇺🇦⚖️🇺🇸
L is for the lies you’re always telling.
O is the onerous behavior and
S is for all the shit resulting.
E is for the egregious evil and
R rounds out the racist route you’re taking.
donald,
🎵 Put them altogether they spell LOSER a word which means what the world thinks of you 🎵
Would Willie have called him Donald the Dumb?
So if lying is protected speech as Donnie’s television liars are claiming, Hunter Biden. (I know… but I doubt that Gym is smart enough to pick up on the nuance)
Poobah, thanks for the link to the indictment – I’ve got it in my open .pdf files for quick reference.
One of my favorite paragraphs.
That never gets old. It also skewers his spokesliars’ “criminalizing speech” claims.
I am enjoying the many problemsof Guiliani. He deserves everything he gets.
Another day (hooray) in the slow descent of the orange moron, along with is enablers and minions. This day promises to make “5 p.m. somewhere” a better happy hour. From some court watchers there were more indictments flowing out of the D.C. court, hopefully those will include some of the rest of the grifters.
WaPo – Jennifer Rubin.
Mike Pence, Bill Barr, Jeffrey Rosen, Richard Donoghue, John Ratcliffe, Chris Krebs, Pat Cipollone, Mike Shirkey, Lee Chatfield, Rusty Bowers, Brad Raffensperger.
Jen finds 3 more than the indictment mentions.
</blockquote>
The Republican Accountability Project is out with a new ad in response to former President Trump’s third indictment, and it will run in swing states on programs Trump is known to watch. Sarah Longwell joins Morning Joe to discuss.
more on that ad impacting one swing state
GOP group set to air anti-Trump ads in Pa. as post-indictment pressure ramps up – pennlive.com
KC, Rudeeee, also now known as Co-conspirator 1.
The defense of the day seems to be “the Eastman did it” (KO)
https://fb.watch/mbuWnHKuy6/
jamie, when I clicked your link it sent me to facebook and the 1st randy-rudy interview “Rudy and the Beast” 5 yrs ago. here’s the 2nd one they did 3 years ago
patd
This one is better
It’s those snooty Manhattaners’ fault If they had just let him play in all their reindeer games instead of constantly harping on and on about “you can take the garbage outa queens, but yada yada yada”Well, he MIGHT have grown up to be a nice, well-mannered, well-adjusted mature-type adult.
Nah.
Gallows humor?
Well, he’ll get his wish in the first instance. I hope to god he won’t get his wish in the second. I’m beginning to like the sound of U.S. Virgin Islands.
CNN: Trump and Smith seated about 15 feet apart, have “exchanged several looks’
Why do they bother with swearing him in?
Ah, the dreaded stink eye. Nothing like using skills learned in kindergarten to intimidate the guy making your life hell on earth. Reminds me of the orange moron stalking Hillary in debate. I sill think she should have stepped back and put a heel through the top of his foot.
He’s headed back to NJ, where he has golf course and there are intermittent thunderstorms forecast for tomorrow. Maybe he can squeeze in a few holes between lightning strikes.
Waiting for him to dig a deeper hole for himself by tweeting (or whatever it’s called on his nazi platform) the truth, a thinly-veiled threat, more evidence of wrongdoing, admission of an additional crime…
We need a real mugshot, not his fake-grifter one.
It’s a sad day for America because he’s running for a second term and Republicans don’t have the guts to shut him down and save our democracy.
Walt Nata standing there with that umbrella like a good, little soldier. Man, you hitched your wagon to the wrong horse.
When they get to the classified documents trial, do you think Orange Adolf promised to pardon him if he takes the fall and gets time?
On to Georgia! RICO!
I want him held liable for his mishandling of the pandemic.
Absolutely.
I guess Mittens told Rhonda she could never use the Romney name again. Probably notbut it would be great if she could go to jail too. What a giant loser
https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/07-24-2023/romneys-trump-plan/
Family, friends and campaign donors are the only people who can get a lost-cause candidate to exit the race. After Feb. 26, they should start doing just that.”
“Left to their own inclinations, expect several of the contenders to stay in the race for a long time. They will split the non-Trump vote, giving him the prize,” warns Romney.”
Willard isn’t wrong.
I want him held liable for his
mishandling*of the pandemic.* malfeasance
https://www.foxnews.com/world/italian-pm-giorgia-meloni-suing-placebo-singer-brian-molko-calling-her-fascist
“Giorgia Meloni has filed a lawsuit against Placebo singer Brian Molko for defamation after the musician called the Italian Prime Minister a “racist” and a “fascist” during an expletive-laden rant in the middle of a concert last month.”
“Molko’s verbal assault on the PM prompted an investigation by prosecutors in Turin for “contempt of institutions.” Members of Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy party, which has its roots in Italy’s neo-fascist movement, denounced the insults and demanded an apology.”
If you don’t want to be called a fascist, maybe don’t be a fascist. Oh, maybe she’d prefer to be called a neo-fascist. Everything old is new, again.
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