SoS Clinton: "Is the Republican ticket aware that women can vote?"

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Hillary Clinton
"Childless cat ladies..."

"Postmenopausal females..."

Is the Republican ticket aware that women can vote?

Apparently not...

[Biophilic]

1. Really. Are the republicans that far off from reallity?

[peggysue2]

4. Think the answer is, yes.

The entire party is living in its own bubble in which women don't count (or vote).

And then, there's always stealing the election, results be damned.

[Wednesdays]

8. They're counting on white women to stay in the fold

53% of the white women vote went to TCF in 2020. However, I think that number will be markedly changed this time around.

[ShazzieB]

18. Yes, there counting on that.

And they're going to get a big surprise in November. The abortion issue alone will push many of those women into voting blue. 🌊

[birdographer]

21. I think we are going to get the vote

from a fair number of MAGA wives who, being smarter than their husbands, know that Kamala is the better candidate. I have said that a lot of them are too cowed to dare to do that even in the privacy of a voting booth, but I also believe another group of them are pissed off enough to do it. Depends on whether their husbands join them in the booth.

[calimary]

26. I don't understand why ANY woman would marry someone like that

who’d go into the voting booth WITH her to tell her how HE wants her to vote.

I wouldn’t waste two seconds on a “man” like that.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

49. That is MARRIED white women. The single ones vote Dem.

That’s why they hate that’s there’s a lot of single women out there.

[raising2moredems]

52. You're right...

IF he gets even close to 40% of the white (too man Karens) vote I'll be surprised. Roe v. Wade was a game changer, is a game changer, and will continue to be a game changer from here on out. Four generations of women lost rights - a long time before all can't vote. And I don't see women gravitating to that party (if you can even call it a party these days).

[JHB]

23. Yes. Yes they are. The ones in control of the party, and the ones who let them control the party

Thirty-plus years of believing their believing their own advertising may finally be coming home to roost ... HARD.

[calimary]

25. Yep.

[niyad]

2. Yes. And they want to stop that.

[Walleye]

3. I think they aren't even aware that women are people

[BattleRow]

32. Perhaps some of these women

don't feel they are people.either.
Indoctrinated from birth that their worth lay outside of themselves..not of value in and of themselves..only the reflection of husband and children to validate their self worth.

There's a lot of syndrome in the GOP..apparently all female and many from Stockholm..

[et tu]

40. biblical patriarchy- urgh!

and welcome to du!

[Sky Jewels]

42. The Bible is just a collection of moronic male supremacist mythologies.

It floors me that any modern person still believes in any of this nonsense. Magic isn't real, and neither are magical creatures like god/s.

But I digress...

[et tu]

53. but o so true nt

[BattleRow]

45. Much

appreciated,thank you!

[et tu]

54. i have some family members

who are firm believers- i respect their beliefs but
feel so sad for them

[unblock]

5. Given the chance, they'll change that....

[Sneederbunk]

6. Vance too young to remember Helen Reddy song.

[zorbasd]

7. Oh, believe me, they know and hate that as well,

I have no doubt their next Project, say 2030, is to eliminate women's rights, including voting rights. They hate women with any rights whatsoever. We just have no idea what these utterly fascistic marauders are brewing in their reptilian minds.
Fascism has landed on our shores and spreading like a cancer on our body politic in America.

[electric_blue68]

19. "have no idea"? The Handmaid's Tale comes to mind

[kerry-is-my-prez]

50. The evangelicals are trying to do this.

[ScratchCat]

9. In the mind of the average conservative male

They see women as little more than baby-making sex dolls that should clean your house, cook your dinner and not talk back.

[JHB]

27. Or, as I've occasionally described it...

...as "eff-able" livestock. In their heads they don't really count women as actual people.

[bdamomma]

43. They

are in for an awakening that will rock them to their core.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

10. Let's hope they don't figure that out. (n/t)

[The Magistrate]

11. They Must Be, Sir, Or They Wouldn't Propose Stripping The Right To From Women

[William Seger]

12. Yes, they're aware that women can vote; they complain about it regularly

[FoxNewsSucks]

13. They're aware. And they're working diligently to fix that.

[IronLionZion]

14. Many of them want to repeal the 19th amendment

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

[Botany]

15. Is the Republican ticket aware that women can vote?

Go HRC.

[Danmel]

16. And millions will vote for him anyway

Maybe they all need to see Madam Secretary's spectacular Broadway production of Suffs.

[pandr32]

17. They presume to understand the female 'purpose'.

It is mind-blowing.

[Volaris]

31. Yeah but even then, they cant say the word vagina without cringing.

[3catwoman3]

33. Or the word menstruation.

Horror of horrors!

[PCIntern]

37. I had one dental student consistently call it

MENESTRATION

He also talked about the LARNYX (sic) and the PHARNYX (sic) and the Nizolizoid Muscle (doesn’t exist).

There’s more of this than you can imagine.

[bdamomma]

44. and giving

birth, which shows how strong we are as a gender. They hate it.

[barbtries]

20. pretty sure

he thinks it shouldn't be a thing.

[hauckeye]

22. I'm post-menopausal with no grandchildren...

Apparently I have no purpose in life. I’ll just quietly wait here for the Republicans to drag me off to the extermination camps. 😂

[thesquanderer]

24. It at least shows that the people who vetted Vance for VP had no such concern. (n/t)

[dalton99a]

28. Kick

[Stinky The Clown]

29. Hillary, you were and are right about everything

[Skittles]

30. she would have made a fine president

FUCK these repuke losers trying to define MY WORTHINESS

[DemonGoddess]

34. Post menopausal

Have grandchildren AND cats. The other votes they're not counting on? The husbands, fathers, sons and brothers who respect us. It's why my R hubs has voted D the last two elections and will be voting D this one. He, and many others like him are horrified at what their party has become.

HRC was right in 2016 and is right now.

[walrus314]

35. Risky and Awkward

I'm guessing that Republicans' verbiage is due to an underlying series of risky assumptions, and then manifesting them in the most awkward way

1. They know they're losing the women vote broadly, so if you segment women, you can "divide and conquer"
2. They believe there are rifts within American women where some snipe at/scorn others
3. They believe these segments of the American women will antagonize each other enough to mobilize them
4. They believe those women with children will value their family / "fear" for the family's future / etc. based on their chip on their shoulders against this segment that has antagonized them and that agita will outweigh or at least counterbalance some of the other reluctance to this off the rails ticket
5. They know that this race really boils down to 100K voters in a series of few counties, and they're possibly guessing these are the particular women who feel this way

Risky assumptions (and risky to say they even have a plan to do this v. they're just calcified in being classless and mendacious) overall, but worse is just the terrible characterizations/language/method to try to stir the pot in public speeches like this. Republicans have always been better with whisper campaigns for these types of bogeyman fallacies they produce. Much of this may just be the arrogance of both Trump and Vance, v. Bush/Cheney for example.

[SamKnause]

36. They are very aware and would like to put a stop to it.

[Roxi]

38. They are aware

But they are signaling their intent to change that as soon as they can.

[Evolve Dammit]

39. They are seriously fucked up. Crush them in Nov.

[bdamomma]

41. That weirdo

Peter Thiel said in this article that women should not vote. Look up this weirdo. Old article from 2016.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-women-democracy_n_5747079be4b03ede4413f6f5

snip of article:
The secretive tech billionaire who recently admitted to funding a lawsuit meant to crush the media company Gawker is known for having some radical opinions. But in an essay published in 2009, he surprised many when he wrote that giving women the right to vote -- by constitutional amendment in 1920 -- was a blow to democracy.

Here's Thiel, writing on Cato Unbound, a blog affiliated with the libertarian think tank:

Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.

Thiel is well known in the tech world: he was an early funder of Facebook and sits on its board. His remarks on women earned the billionaire a lot of criticism at the time. That he also seemed to blame Social Security and other New Deal-era benefits for the decline of democracy -- a fairly common conservative and libertarian view -- got less attention.

[TNNurse]

46. Well there are those women who follow them mindlessly.

But some would be fine if women could not vote.

[GopherGal]

47. But in their fantasy world, we all obediently vote for whomever our daddy/hubby tells us to.

... or something like that.

[Johonny]

48. Isnt their party platform to end women suffrage?

[patphil]

51. I think they're so anxious for the day that women can't vote, that they forget that woman still can and do vote.

If Trump is reelected, you can expect they will do whatever is possible to stop women from voting.
Actually, they only want white men to have the vote.
They'd take it away from blacks, hispanics, latino's, asian's and native americans if they could.

What they don't realize is that they're alienating far too many people to maintain a hold over the election process, and are about to experience a blue wave the like of which they've never seen before.

[Clouds Passing]

55. And girls and women of child bearing age

[applegrove]

56. They are trying to appeal to men who want to turn back the clock

and not do anything at home but wash the car and mow the lawn.

[dlk]

57. Not for long, if Republicans get their way

It’s stunning to think that in 2024 there are so many Americans living in the Dark Ages. As always, Hillary gets to the heart of the matter.

[boston bean]

58. It's like the ability to have a baby is your only worth. These people are creepy weirdos.

[Jack Valentino]

59. They think they already repealed that 'women voting' amendment