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Soph0571

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October 2, 2019

Patriarchy be like...



And...
She had too much to drink
She talked back when she shouldn't
She knew what she was doing
She made the choice and now she can't live with it

Etc et al

Me to patriarchy

October 2, 2019

#70YearChallenge



Sooooo many feelings...
My apologies.. hehe
October 2, 2019

And therein in lies a bigly difference...



There is a truth here...
Heh
October 2, 2019

The international reputation of the USA tanked the day Trump was voted in...

...Who would have thought it could sink any lower? The Ukraine call has shown the world that the USA today is just as corrupt as the regimes of emerging democracies and tin post dictatorships.

Let’s face it, the section of America who voted for the vile pit of corrupt callowness knew who and what he was when they went into the voting booth. They champion his mob tendencies and applaud his ‘white America first’ policy agenda, which for outside observers looking it, tells us as much about America as it does about the President.

For a nation of laws America has always had the tendency to be operated by mob rule. This has been exacerbated by a gangster sitting in the white house. The rot set in a while ago and it has now seeped out into international territory. These countries who have looked to America as the beacon on the democratic hill are shaking their head in bewilderment whilst also enjoying (dare I say laughing at) the absolute spectacle of the fascist, loofa-faced shit-gibbon trying to chatter his way of his nefarious, shady double dealing. The citizens of the countries he has dragged into his unscrupulous profiteering know exactly what misuse of power looks like. They mostly live with it every day from their own leaders and see what they do mirrored in Trumps actions.

The apology tour when the uniquely under-qualified and overblown king of bragging and whining gets put out the door is going to huge…

October 2, 2019

I want our countries back...



Of course nothing is perfect. There is no idyll. But progressive liberalism was so much more representative than what we are currently faced with. I want our countries back...
October 2, 2019

Warnings that millions more could go hungry as Trump pushes $4.5 billion in food benefit cuts

“The Trump administration’s latest proposal to cut SNAP would leave millions of people, including struggling families, seniors, and people with disabilities, with less help putting food on the table.”

In its latest potentially devastating attack on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Trump administration on Tuesday unveiled a proposal that would slash food stamps benefits by $4.5 billion over five years, a move analysts warned would increase hunger for millions of low-income families.

The new plan, announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), would cut food benefits for nearly 20 percent of the millions of households that use SNAP to afford groceries.


[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/warnings-that-millions-more-could-go-hungry-as-trump-pushes-4-5-billion-in-food-benefit-cuts/|]

Maximum cruelty all of the time and just when the economic indicators predict the forth coming shadow of a 2nd great recession. They are hideous...
October 2, 2019

Like two peas in a far right nasty pod

I was reading an article about the Conservative Conference over here this week and one paragraph jumped out at me as representative of where both our countries are right now... like two peas in a far right nasty pod...

Exactly this...

October 2, 2019

Risking everything for idealistic bullshit...


[link:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-independent-daily-cartoon-a8575981.html|]

PM strikes secret deal with DUP as he draws up 'final Brexit offer'
Boris Johnson agrees pact with Northern Irish party as details emerge of ‘two borders’ plan

The proposal that Ireland would have “two borders for four years” once the transition period ends after 2020 is likely to receive a frosty welcome in EU capitals. The broadcaster RTÉ quoted an Irish government source saying Johnson’s deal, as reported on Tuesday evening, would not be acceptable to Dublin.

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/01/johnsons-final-warning-to-the-eu-accept-my-brexit-deal-or-its-no-deal|]

Welcome back to bandit border country if they get their way...
They care nothing about Northern Ireland. They risk everything with this two border bollocks.
Of course they know that the EU will not accept this border plan on the Ireland of Ireland. This will be rejected by the EU and this will delight these hard right wankers.
He will break the law and he will break the peace cause Brexit and the opposition is just shit...

The anti-no-deal-Brexit alliance has agreed on what not to do – but is struggling on everything else
In the end, whether we get a no deal may not come not down to the decisions of the MPs opposed to it, but to two different groups – the Palace, which will be weighing up whether or not it should simply sack a prime minister who refuses to obey the law, and the top layer of the government, where a fierce debate is raging over whether or not Johnson can survive seeking an extension to the Brexit process.

[link:https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2019/10/anti-no-deal-brexit-alliance-has-agreed-what-not-do-struggling-everything|]

Everything is on the line and they are pissing outside the room as Rome burns...more concerned about the positioning themselves post BoJo administration than anything else. All of them risking everything.

Bah humbug...
October 2, 2019

Strong, smart teen girls have had enough. No wonder men like Trump are rattled

Republicans are due a reckoning. Where do they really stand on 16-year-old girls? Are they children, manipulated by George Soros and their parents, when they are saying intelligent things? Or are they women? They certainly seem to be treated as “women” when it’s time to hang with the likes of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein or former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore, who was accused of sexual misconduct by numerous women and girls and still had many Republican supporters.

It’s no wonder so many Republicans are scared of teenage girls. If teenage girls can accomplish so much and live so powerfully even as they are mocked, condescended, demeaned and shamed, imagine what they could do if we just shut up and got the hell out of their way.


[link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/01/greta-thunberg-teenage-girls-donald-trump-opinion|]

Indeed.

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About Soph0571

I am a Brit. I am a working class child of the troubles in Belfast who now lives a life of privilege. I am an anti-racist, progressive monster for truth. If I fail in being that monster, call me out....
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