Two old ladies.

Standing with ya, Auntie B!

Let's also remember something that I think a lot of people don't realize about black women.

Their fathers, brothers, cousins, husbands, sons, and nephews were granted the right to vote FIFTY YEARS before they won that right, themselves. The 15th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified in 1870. It applied only to Black MEN. Black women had to wait FIFTY MORE YEARS for the right to vote - when all other women finally gained that right in a specific Amendment. The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing the right of all women, regardless of skin color, to vote wasn't ratified til 1920.

Welcome to DU, KALD!

I'm not a raging James Franco fan the way my daughter is. But I can certainly get behind this! Moustache or not. I thought I liked my husband clean-shaven, but when he grew a moustache and beard, I realized I liked that, too!

THIS ^^^^^

Speaking of "tie it around their necks" (like a cheap-ass made-in-China Donald Trump necktie),

I'd just like to remind everybody that George P. Bush is actively FOR Donald Trump. Yes, that's Texas, and not Wisconsin. But I just wanted to throw that in there. Young "heir apparent" to that self-anointed "American royal family" has ambitions to follow Grandpa George HW, and Uncle dubya into the White House someday. Take that to the bank. He's already started on the road toward there, with this little minor bureaucratic elected job in Texas. From there, he'll try to climb upwards. Maybe running for governor next.

THESE individuals NEED TO BE WATCHED. Kept track of. This Ron Johnson dude, in Wisconsin - I think we need to keep an eye on him, too. When he loses (I think it's pretty certain that Feingold will beat him), he'll want back in, in some other way.

KEEP TRACK of these guys, my friends. It's ESSENTIAL!

Welcome to DU, redwing69!

Good point. I'm hopeful that the results next Tuesday night deal The Donald one humdinger of a public humiliation. America Says "NO" to Donald Trump! I've known a few people who, I strongly suspected, had never been told "NO" when they were misbehaving kids who NEEDED some adult behavior-checking.

I have at least one distant relative like that. I actually told him "NO" in a really loud and jolting way at a large extended-family dinner table one night. In front of everybody. Sorry - I'd just reached my breaking point with him. His reaction: so stunned and shocked that he was literally rendered speechless. He dropped his napkin on the table, got up, and made a beeline for the door, in complete silence - never to be seen again at ANY further family gatherings where he knew I'd be attending. That told me everything I'd ever needed to know about his inner psyche. This was one individual who had NEVER been told "NO" before. He was kind of an extended-family "sun god," the "golden boy" who was the star jock in high school, the A-student, the good-looking cocky swaggering dude who always got the prettiest girl. I suspected he'd never been disciplined, put in his place, told off, scolded or in any way reprimanded for bad behavior, never had to pay for any shit he pulled, never ANY consequences for acting like an asshole and treating people badly. Everybody always coddled him and flattered him and made excuses and let him get away with everything and anything. "Free-pass Freddy," you might call him.

Well, I'd finally had enough of him that night, and I reached critical mass in front of everybody. And he skedaddled outta there like the phony arrogant blowhard paper tiger he really was. We didn't see him again for another 20+ years. By then, btw, he'd lived a little. Got banged around and roughed up by life and times and the real world in which we ALL have to find a way to function. By the time we saw him again, he'd had a chance to taste a few servings of humble pie and reality smacking him in the face. And he was a lot more human, and even approachable - even by me. Sometimes life has to sand the rough edges down on some people. Life, and the passage of time, and the fickleness of fate can all serve as great levelers.

WUNNNNNderful!

Thanks for posting this, stage left. To the Marys everywhere - THANK YOU! Your heartfelt message is being heard.

I have heard this again and again through the years. Corporate America doesn't like uncertainty.

Every time Trump says something along the lines of "I want to be unpredictable," that kind of statement sends chills down the spines of industry, Wall Street, the big-ticket financial betters. Above all, as I have heard from commentators and industry insiders and other insider talking heads, they want STABILITY. They don't want the flighty, the flaky, the jittery, the unpredictable, the volatility, the unstable. The money people want steady-as-she-goes. Upheaval is what they DO NOT want, and what they run from, nearly screaming, into the night. And that's what Trump is selling as some sort of "benefit." YIKES!

It makes total sense. Volatility is a bad thing. Especially with the big money people.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/volatility
Volatility is the trait of being excitable and unpredictable.

Welcome to DU, bdamomma1!

No kidding about that! That's why we ALL have to get out and vote. Democrats have the numbers - more than ever now. IF we come out and vote, we win. Unfortunately, that's too often a BIG "IF".

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Aren't they great? Some of the photo essays here are The BEST! I'm saving these for next Earth Day.