This is how Ken Paxton gets off. Not just a plain old boring rape fantasy, but the heartbroken crying mother, the forced birth, the forced birth of dead or dying babies, and dead or dying mothers as a result of it. That what gets him off. Pure Sociopathic Evil. And there are lots of rank and file Republicans who also get off on the idea of forcing women to have sex, forcing them to give birth--anything involved with making women suffer and cry and bleed and die.   That is the ultimate GOP sex fantasy: to rape women--body, mind, and soul. To own their sex, their tears, their bodies, their babies, their lives and their deaths. 

Take note: this woman being an apparently solidly middle class (at least) pretty white woman DID NOT save her from the GOP evil.  No matter how safe you think you are, no matter how you may rationalize that only 'those people' are being punished, only 'those people' are being harmed (and even if in your opinion, it's the right people being punished and harmed by the Right)....you aren't safe. You and people you love are being harmed, or will be. 

And there is one party who will get off on it and laugh in your face... and women still vote for them.
 

Why? What is this country doing to deserve that loyalty? What is the US doing to serve and care for those children? You don't want to feed them. You don't want them to have healthcare. You don't care if they have anywhere decent to live.   You don't care if they have clean water and air. You aren't doing anything to ensure that they'll have safe infrastructure and liveable wages when they grow to adulthood and enter the workforce. You don't want them to have books or education. You don't want them to have bodily autonomy if they identify as female, you don't want them to be safe from gun violence in that same school where they're making their pledge to a flag which stands for NOTHING if the GOP continues to have its way. Why should they pledge allegiance to a flag or a country that is LITERALLY killing them? And I'm not even going to get into how many Republican politicians have been caught committing pedophilia, child sex trafficking, child porn on their computers, etc.  All they want kids in this country for, apparently, is to be able to freely rape and/or  murder them. Here in TX, kids in the CPS/foster system are raped, abused, and trafficked.  WITHIN state funded care facilities AND by the people they're fostered to, and Gov Abbott has done absolutely fuckall about it.

Piss off with that nonsense unless you are willing to commit to making this country a worthwhile place for children. Forcing school children to 'pledge' to a country and 'love' a country that demonstrably DOES NOT love them...is child abuse. Period.

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Trump is practicing what is called “Stochastic Terrorism"—a rhetorical device whereby he is inciting his followers to commit unspecified atrocities on his behalf. He gets out of being held accountable because he has an ‘out’ —he just said ‘bad things’ would happen, he didn’t tell them exactly what to do.

On January 6, He said “Mike Pence disappointed us, Mike Pence betrayed all true Americans,” and his followers interpreted that as “hang Mike Pence”….and since he didn’t specifically tell them to kill Mike Pence he can shrug and say he was just expressing his feelings, not telling anyone to do anything bad to good old Mikey.

For whatever reason, there is no law enforcement agency in this nation or in the world (NATO, the Hague) that is willing to call it what it is and take action.

I wonder if there were sane and decent people in Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, or present day Kim’s Korea, Putin’s Russia, or Xi’s China who, like me, saw what was happening in their nation and felt powerless to stop the rising tide of bloody authoritarianism.

There are some low level foot soldiers of the Jan 6 coup attempt who have seen consequences, but no one who was organizing, funding, or promulgating the insurrection has been touched by law enforcement. All they learned from that attempt was how to do it better next time.

The best hope we have is that people who followed and believed in Trump either died of Covid or are finally maybe seeing that there is no sane and decent future under the leadership of such a petty, stupid, morally and financially bankrupt person. Or perhaps the folks who got put in jail for Jan 6 and have received no help or pardon from Trump will decide to sit the next one out.

On the other hand, there are likely more fascists in law enforcement and the military than we care to recognize or admit. If Trump calls for violence again upon his arrest, if those people stay loyal we may be in for a second civil war. If people smarter than Trump manage to take the reins of the monstrous hateful beast Trump has created with the MAGAts and Q-nuts, we may be in for a bad time. The best most of us sane and decent folk can hope for is that they turn on each other and ruin the movement from within before they get their shit together enough to create a theocratic authoritarian regime on the ruins of what used to be the USA.

Trump voters would like to think they are half the country (by weight and volume, maybe!). The reality is that they are a small and shrinking minority in this country, no more than 1/3 of the nation (still too many, but what are ya gonna do?). They are a loud, obnoxious and politically active minority, which is what gives them the illusion of power and control.

However, if the sane and decent people in this country were to actually get off their butts and vote each and every election, the MAGA bunch would quickly lose even more power even more quickly. They are dying out. We are witnessing the demise of the old white, mostly male, majority and as with any dying beast, they are frightened and lashing out in every direction.

Given their treatment of others when they were the majority, they feel that others will treat them as badly as they treated minorities once they are finally firmly in the minority. And, sadly, no matter how much education and critical thinking skills are available for all, it seems there will always be about a third of any group who chooses to remain willfully ignorant, obstinate, backwards, and ridiculous.

Being loud and ignorant (and proud of your ignorance) does, unfortunately, lead to people thinking that you are a backwards idiot. Far better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove the point. On the other hand, I’m glad that these crazed racist bigoted poopnoggins have made themselves so easy to spot, so they can be avoided by sane decent citizens.

Melania Trump has nothing to say.  She was a not-very-smart, low rent 'model' call girl before Trump made her his bride. She has nothing to gain from being any kind of public figure. She did not want to be First Lady, and I don’t think she has enjoyed the spotlight during those times when she received pushback from the public about her atrocious fashion choices, her retweeting of birther lies about President Obama, her disdain for decorating the White House for the ‘f*ing christmas’. I think the only reason she did any of it at all was because she didn’t want Ivanka usurping all of the attention (and money) associated with being on the arm of the president and doing White House duties.

I think she has a great deal of contempt for the kind of lowlife bigmouth morons who follow and praise her husband and does not want to be associated with any of the tabloid trash news outlets that feature him. If anything, she’d want to be on the cover of Vogue and such, just looking pretty and wearing fantastic couture and jewels, but thanks to her gross idiot husband she doesn’t have that kind of clout, and is in fact a figure of contempt and scorn for the moneyed, intelligent high society she would have loved to be a part of.

Another theory is that she is a Russian ‘honey trap’ who was placed in Trump’s life by Putin and/or the KGB because Trump has been laundering Russian money for decades using his businesses and his colossal debts that he’s constantly finagling with Deutchebank. Like any other tool or beneficiary of the Russian crime network, it benefits her to keep a low profile and stay out of the limelight as much as possible.

To sum up: I don't give a F*** about Melania Trump or anything she might have to say. I'm sure Putin has a better use for her mouth.