I found Erick Erickson's banning of Trump and his speech about how he can't have someone who talks like this about a woman's menstruation cycle with his daughters in the audience nauseating.
See the great thing about Trump is he brings reality to the fore. But banning Trump from Red State was meant to obscure just how misogynistic the entire party really is.
For one thing Erickson himself can hardly talk nor for that matter can Megyn Kelly.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-sexism-of-erick-erickson.html
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-racism-of-megyn-kelly.html
Erickson has more than his share of 'interpersonal sexism' himself and certainly has lots of experience insulting the physical appearance of women.
"But at least Donald Trump is upfront about his sexism. The other candidates are just blowing smoke up our ... skirts."
"It’s true, Jeb Bush has never suggested – as Trump did – that a woman’s menstruation cycle has an impact on her ability to effectively moderate a debate. "
See the great thing about Trump is he brings reality to the fore. But banning Trump from Red State was meant to obscure just how misogynistic the entire party really is.
For one thing Erickson himself can hardly talk nor for that matter can Megyn Kelly.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-sexism-of-erick-erickson.html
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-racism-of-megyn-kelly.html
Erickson has more than his share of 'interpersonal sexism' himself and certainly has lots of experience insulting the physical appearance of women.
"But at least Donald Trump is upfront about his sexism. The other candidates are just blowing smoke up our ... skirts."
"It’s true, Jeb Bush has never suggested – as Trump did – that a woman’s menstruation cycle has an impact on her ability to effectively moderate a debate. "
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/10/donald-trump-misogyny-republican-candidates
Maybe not although the same can't be said for either Erickson or Rush Limbaugh. By the way, I was reading people at the comments section at Daily Kos today complaining that the Black Lives Matter shouldn't protest Bernie Sanders but Donald Trump!
Maybe not although the same can't be said for either Erickson or Rush Limbaugh. By the way, I was reading people at the comments section at Daily Kos today complaining that the Black Lives Matter shouldn't protest Bernie Sanders but Donald Trump!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/09/1410125/--BowDownBernie-No-GrowUpBLM
That just shows what I've always felt: the commentators at those places like Kos to say nothing of Firedolglake have no sense of strategy. They really are 'EmoProgs.' They just get totally focused on one or two issues that they see as the be all and end all but they never guess there is a forest they just fall in love with this or that tree.
Why would you ever waste time protesting or even criticizing Trump? Talk about low-hanging fruit.To me criticizing Trump just helps the GOP. Criticize the other GOPers-the serious candidates like Jeb, Rubio and Scott Walker. Trump is helping us as any liberal with a brain can tell-Krugman sees this, Warren Buffet sees it, Paul Waldman. Any liberal who can't see this is pretty suspect. Bill Clinton really sees it.
Why would you ever waste time protesting or even criticizing Trump? Talk about low-hanging fruit.To me criticizing Trump just helps the GOP. Criticize the other GOPers-the serious candidates like Jeb, Rubio and Scott Walker. Trump is helping us as any liberal with a brain can tell-Krugman sees this, Warren Buffet sees it, Paul Waldman. Any liberal who can't see this is pretty suspect. Bill Clinton really sees it.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/bill-clinton-republican-party-kingmaker.html
"But he did say that women on welfare “should be able to get their life together and find a husband.” While Florida governor, he refused to veto a bill that forced women who put their children up for adoption to publish the names of possible dads in the newspaper – it was called the “Scarlet Letter law.” And up until last year, Jeb didn’t even know what the Paycheck Fairness Act was."
"Scott Walker has never publicly called women “dogs” or “fat pigs” as Trump has. But while governor, he repealed Wisconsin’s only equal pay law and supported an anti-choice law that would force women to have invasive and unnecessary transvaginal ultrasounds before seeking abortions. Walker also refused to raise the minimum wage – and women in Wisconsin are more than twice as likely as men to have a job that pays less than $10.10 an hour."
Rubio played a clever game yesterday on Meet the Press:
"If Rubio is at all different from other members of his party, it’s only in his tone. Here’s what he said when Chuck Todd asked where the line is between the fetus’ rights and those of the woman:
"That’s why this issue is so hard. There is no doubt that a woman has a right to her own body, has a right to make decisions about her own health and her own future. There’s no doubt. And there’s this other right, and that’s the right of a human being to live. And these rights come into conflict when it comes to this issue, and so you have to make a decision. And it’s hard. I don’t say it’s easy. Listen, you’re 15 years old, and you become pregnant, and you’re scared, and you have your whole life ahead of you, and you’re facing this, that is a hard situation. I tell people all the time, don’t pretend this is easy. This is a difficult question. But when asked to made a decision between two very hard circumstances, I’ve personally reached the conclusion that if I’m going to err, I’m going to err on the side of life."
"There’s a lot of empathetic language there, but here’s the substantive difference between Marco Rubio and other Republicans on this issue: Other Republicans won’t even acknowledge that women have any right to control their own reproductive lives, while Rubio says women have such a right, but believes that in practice that right should always be trumped by the state’s desire to force her to carry that pregnancy to term. Which means that he doesn’t actually believe her right exists. He sounds a lot friendlier when he says it, though."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/08/10/republicans-make-their-incredibly-unpopular-abortion-position-crystal-clear/
"But he did say that women on welfare “should be able to get their life together and find a husband.” While Florida governor, he refused to veto a bill that forced women who put their children up for adoption to publish the names of possible dads in the newspaper – it was called the “Scarlet Letter law.” And up until last year, Jeb didn’t even know what the Paycheck Fairness Act was."
"Scott Walker has never publicly called women “dogs” or “fat pigs” as Trump has. But while governor, he repealed Wisconsin’s only equal pay law and supported an anti-choice law that would force women to have invasive and unnecessary transvaginal ultrasounds before seeking abortions. Walker also refused to raise the minimum wage – and women in Wisconsin are more than twice as likely as men to have a job that pays less than $10.10 an hour."
Rubio played a clever game yesterday on Meet the Press:
"If Rubio is at all different from other members of his party, it’s only in his tone. Here’s what he said when Chuck Todd asked where the line is between the fetus’ rights and those of the woman:
"That’s why this issue is so hard. There is no doubt that a woman has a right to her own body, has a right to make decisions about her own health and her own future. There’s no doubt. And there’s this other right, and that’s the right of a human being to live. And these rights come into conflict when it comes to this issue, and so you have to make a decision. And it’s hard. I don’t say it’s easy. Listen, you’re 15 years old, and you become pregnant, and you’re scared, and you have your whole life ahead of you, and you’re facing this, that is a hard situation. I tell people all the time, don’t pretend this is easy. This is a difficult question. But when asked to made a decision between two very hard circumstances, I’ve personally reached the conclusion that if I’m going to err, I’m going to err on the side of life."
"There’s a lot of empathetic language there, but here’s the substantive difference between Marco Rubio and other Republicans on this issue: Other Republicans won’t even acknowledge that women have any right to control their own reproductive lives, while Rubio says women have such a right, but believes that in practice that right should always be trumped by the state’s desire to force her to carry that pregnancy to term. Which means that he doesn’t actually believe her right exists. He sounds a lot friendlier when he says it, though."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/08/10/republicans-make-their-incredibly-unpopular-abortion-position-crystal-clear/
Krugman gets it. This is why he got under Sumner's skin.
"Remember how Mr. Trump was supposed to implode after his attack on John McCain? Mr. McCain epitomizes the strategy of sounding moderate while taking extreme positions, and is much loved by the press corps, which puts him on TV all the time. But Republican voters, it turns out, couldn’t care less about him."
"Can Mr. Trump actually win the nomination? I have no idea. But even if he is eventually pushed aside, pay no attention to all the analyses you will read declaring a return to normal politics. That’s not going to happen; normal politics left the G.O.P. a long time ago. At most, we’ll see a return to normal hypocrisy, the kind that cloaks radical policies and contempt for evidence in conventional-sounding rhetoric. And that won’t be an improvement."
"Remember how Mr. Trump was supposed to implode after his attack on John McCain? Mr. McCain epitomizes the strategy of sounding moderate while taking extreme positions, and is much loved by the press corps, which puts him on TV all the time. But Republican voters, it turns out, couldn’t care less about him."
"Can Mr. Trump actually win the nomination? I have no idea. But even if he is eventually pushed aside, pay no attention to all the analyses you will read declaring a return to normal politics. That’s not going to happen; normal politics left the G.O.P. a long time ago. At most, we’ll see a return to normal hypocrisy, the kind that cloaks radical policies and contempt for evidence in conventional-sounding rhetoric. And that won’t be an improvement."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/opinion/paul-krugman-from-trump-on-down-the-republicans-cant-be-serious.html?_r=0
P.S. Ok Trump is terrible on 'interpersonal sexism' but on institutional and structural sexism he probably is superior to the other candidates. He's clearly really pro-choice. He's gone pro-life so he can run as a Republican.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-sad-thing-is-trump-still-sounds.html
I don't get how a liberal would spend more time-or any time-going after Trump than Bush, Rubio, and Scott Walker. These are the pre-ordained 'serious candidates' and all three have staked out some extreme positions against a woman's right to choose. Now if you want to criticize, protest, pound on them all day I'm all for that.
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