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irisblue

(33,019 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 08:12 PM Oct 2019

Jacob Wohl & Jack Burkman have issues, big ones with Women Politicians

Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) Tweeted:
Look, we all had fun with Warren's Marine boy toy, but would it be asking too much for every single reporter/gawker/insult comic to completely ignore this one? https://t.co/5BQg7p05cD






I'd like to see someone beat their asses.
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primary today, I would vote for:
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Jacob Wohl & Jack Burkman have issues, big ones with Women Politicians (Original Post) irisblue Oct 2019 OP
Throughout history, women who managed to wield great power tanyev Oct 2019 #1
Get Al Franken flotsam Oct 2019 #2
That's not how their minds work. herding cats Oct 2019 #5
We demand? What a pair of idiots and assh**es. Like they have the right to demand ... SWBTATTReg Oct 2019 #3
Incel Wankers. Marcuse Oct 2019 #4
 

tanyev

(42,600 posts)
1. Throughout history, women who managed to wield great power
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 08:23 PM
Oct 2019

have been targets of lurid lies and accusations.


It must be understood that all women who have wielded political power have been subjected to accusations of sexual deviance or voracity. Cleopatra was said to have offered men a night of lovemaking with her at the cost of their lives. Anne Boleyn was falsely accused of affairs with five different men, including incest with her brother. Catherine de Medici was portrayed as the devious madame of a harem of seductive ladies-in-waiting whom she ordered to seduce noblemen, and was accused of securing prostitutes for her young sons. Elizabeth I, in order to avoid this kind of speculation, had to present herself as the similarly implausible “Virgin Queen.”

These women, who did not conform to the reductive vision of second-class submissive wife to a more powerful man, suffered repeated slander always based in invented accusations of sexual insatiability.

At each point, these stories originate in the minds of their greatest enemies. Accounts of Cleopatra’s life, for example, all originate from Romans, who were eager to glorify the Roman Empire and its founder Octavius Augustus, who had been Cleopatra’s rival.

https://www.history.com/news/catherine-the-great-enemies-sex-myths

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flotsam

(3,268 posts)
2. Get Al Franken
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 08:26 PM
Oct 2019

to do a commercial of a press conference with a variety of farm animals making wild sexual claims against the pair...done right it could end their bullshit.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

herding cats

(19,566 posts)
5. That's not how their minds work.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 11:00 PM
Oct 2019

I see what you're saying, and I respect it. This is the lowest hanging fruit, the ones I keep saying we shouldn't campaign to for whom this resonates with. They're dead to us and won't change.

In my opinion, we're better focusing on people who don't align with these freaks. We can be disgusted but that's all I'm willing to give to Asshats like this.

They're not nearly as relevant as some here think anymore. Did you know FOX cable only reaches 1% of the population here? That's true, we keep pretending they have more influence then they do. Without outside influences these nuts mean nothing. They're marginalized out of the box. What we need to watch for is places like Facebook spreading their lies verbatim again. Then we need to mobilize. It's already happening. We need to unite against it.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

SWBTATTReg

(22,156 posts)
3. We demand? What a pair of idiots and assh**es. Like they have the right to demand ...
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 08:50 PM
Oct 2019

anything in anybody's book, eh? What a joke these two certainly are. I hope that they get their a&&es sued off.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
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