No women will lead a House committee for the first time in two decades after House Republicans revealed their list of committee leaders for the 119th Congress. No people of color were selected, either.
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Why would anyone expect anything different with this current GOP? They've shown us all exactly who they are and what they're trying to achieve. The question is only whether or not the rest of America decides to get off their asses and stop them from reformatting America to their dream.
Did anyone really expect anything different? They ran on taking power and control back from women and brown folks, and they have done just that. But they're not finished. It's going to get worse.
Hang on, running a story of no women running House committees with a pic of Virginia Foxx sends the opposite message. There's many in the house not fit to lead and Foxx is emblematic of such fools.
This is akin to saying House members are very smart, then having a James Comer pic.
I think it is the irony. She likes to tell people to shut up. Now, she is being told to shut up. She voted to be told to shut up. Now, these Republican women will realize they should not have used the rights they had to tell other women to shut up. Now, they can shut up.
They didn't think it through very well at all. They wanted Democratic women to shut up. We won't. Republican women will now be forced to shut up. Instead of admitting being wrong, they will double down publicly & self destruct privately. That's half of MAGA neutralized. That is what they voted for.
Congratulations elections have consequences, women, minorities and Hispanic men? You still not welcome in the Republican MAGA White Nationalist Christian party, that sign tRumpy is giving you is called the Finger! Told you so!
Yep. Sorry everyone if this offends you but Americans have all allowed America to become Hitler Germany 2.0. Just like the Germans anyone who isn’t an ACTIVE member of the opposition and help to fight back will be complicit in literally everything bad that happens as a result of Cheetiloni/Vance
I can explain: On election day, the US people voted out Constitutional democracy in favor of racist fascism led by an obvious moron.
For some reason, people keeping mentioning 'voting fascism out' at a future date as though that was a real thing that ever happened in the history of the planet.
Imagine for a moment Democrats winning the House and not a single white man was selected to chair a committee. The GOP would scream DEI! And reverse racism! But all white men is A-Ok.
I don't understand how they are doing these things now
I know it is a "Practice"
BUT
I always thought
they denying new incoming members the right to vote on the Committee chairs
Virginia Foxx, herself, adds zero value to Congress. EVERYthing she does seems to be created, written, published, organized and pushed by young Republican staffers. Foxx just nods along, does what she is told. Yes, this is my personal and professional experience with her. #TermLimits
👉 pic | The esotropiated, proto-fascist, hyper-racist sea urchin that is Virgnia Foxx (R-NC-05). I miss those days in the 109th/110th/111th Congress, when it all seemed so easy to figure out who was on red/blue team. We're now screaming across the ranger graves "Blue on blue"! "Cease fire!".
The recent developments in Syria only serve to prove what many (including myself) argue: Israel is a destabilizing country, an enemy of peace and human rights! And it has had the (constant and unrestricted) support of the US in that "endeavor"!Shame on you!
While I will not miss Virginia "Shut Up" Foxx, these guys are just embracing the whole 1930's vibe they're working toward.
I wonder if it will backfire?
Hmm...
Does this have anything to do with the extreme misogynist christian doctrine that makes wives subordinate to husbands and prohibits women from holding positions of authority over men? 🧐
I've never been more ashamed of my country than I am now. We're devolving and regressing in every way. It's extremely disheartening and every day there is a new and more disturbing development.
I can’t remember which of them it was (Hegseth? Vance?) but I read there was interest in repealing the 14th Amendment so women could no longer vote. I just worry that half of our country will never learn what’s going on until it’s too late because of where they get their news.
You're thinking of the 19th Amendment. The 14th is the one Fanta Franco wants to repeal because it grants birthright citizenship, amongst other rights.
Why do Republicans hate women so much? Why do they want to kill us? If Paxton‘s lawsuit is successful (& in looking at the courts & Scotus 🤦🏻♀️, we are F’d!) we’re about to have a new law of the land. The climbing maternity death toll will include more of US, our daughters, sisters, mothers, nieces…
When I was under red religious rule, I was told that god cursed women due to eve taking the apple and it was our job to suffer and die in childbirth. Men are supposed to have a series of young wives bearing them children, just like in the Bible. They think fixing us dying is subverting god’s will.
I’m sure it all sounds good to the evangelicals, til they realize life-threatening pregnancies don’t discriminate between left & right. & OMG the HYPOCRISY! The very same people who cheat, sxly assault, traffic, rape - ESPECIALLY in their clergy - making the RULES for women, deciding we should die!
I’ve heard that too. But reality is sobering. How does someone reconcile that belief once THEY’RE the one losing their wife or daughter, watching them suffer needlessly? Beliefs change when reality strikes at home. Doesn’t D Cheney now support gay marriage? GOP aren’t immune to dangerous pregnancies
Foxx did not the help the prospects of women moving forward in government. She is/was/will be incredibly ineffective and embarrassing. Everytime I hear her voice I think some family member really should be putting her in a home somewhere. I bet she makes a horrible neighbor.
A good chunk of them will be relieved, because they were conditioned from birth by their religion to believe women are innately evil and led by Satan (eve,apple), and that men must lead in order for everyone to be safe and not burn in hell. They literally believe this shit, it’s preached openly.
Rather than be inclusive they were prepared to shut it down. No surprises here just a continuation of a plan the GOP began the day the Civil Rights Act was signed and a reminder of the number of white women and POC who are comfortable with it.
Guess they really want us barefoot and pregnant.
Yes, I'm usually barefoot because I live in the desert southwest.
Also, I'm 66 and way past menopause, so good luck expecting me to pop out more kids.
Love Trudeau. All the constant anti-Trudeau bs on mainstream media and social media has been so frustrating when I believe he’s been a great PM. Yes he’s made mistakes but he’s also got us through multiple really tough situations, kept us safe, advocated for women, stood up to Trump.
That’s because apparently, to republicans, women should not be in positions of power. They should be at home taking care of the children. The day a republican trusts a women to lead will be the day that we have fairness in politics and everywhere else and in the distribution of wealth and power. Sad
The reason every woman or POC in any job, anywhere, is slandered as a “DEI hire,” is because the GOP can’t envision hiring anyone who isn’t white and male.
White supremacist male-centric theocracy for America takes a big step forward. If the extremist Republicans have their way, there will be no women serving in Congress. If people are smart, they will vote against this extremist agenda at every opportunity.
Yep nailed it. They’ve already done that. They suppressed a huge number of Democratic voters inc MLK relatives through their vigilante group, redirected thousands of mail in ballots in Democratic areas, intercepted Dem votes and changed vote results in swing states using voting machine hacks.
Oh, I am not counting out anything by an unethical group that spent over 4 years studying and theorizing how to manipulate voting totals. Just because they couldn't find anything doesn't mean they couldn't figure out how it can be done.
That is actually a silver lining. When Republican women finally shut up, it is so peaceful. I would love to be a fly on the wall and see Foxx and/or mtg's face when they are forced to start practicing what they preach. This is what they voted for. They made their bed. They can lie in it, quietly.
I imagine that among the high priests of MAGA there’d be strong support for a move to deprive women of the vote. That would be to restore the natural order of things and to reverse decades of liberal decadence.
To see the smirks wiped off their faces is a small consolation prize, but one worth having. Others might feel sorry for them, but I won't. With half of MAGA forced to shut up, it will be more peaceful. This is what they voted for. Democratic women who didn't vote for this can refuse to shut up now.
No. It’s about the title and the money they can make in office. They don’t give a damn about the country, representation of women, or their own dignity. It’s not like these women have morals. I doubt they even have souls.
The 17 standing committees, whose leaders were selected by the House Republican Steering Committee, will be dominated by white men when the new Congress is seated on Jan. 3. No people of color were selected, either.
Hey, Women Who Voted for Trump and Progressives Who Stayed Home. Here come the 1950s again, if not the 19th century. Shut up and sit down, please, the Menfolk are talking. And ruling ...
"We value those voices. And everybody has an equal say at the table," he noted. "These are thoughtful elections. We have an embarrassment of riches, frankly." He should be embarrassed.
Women will be relegated to being lying shrill harpies to support Trump. Congressional self proclaimed Maga cheerleading trashies Large Marge and Nancy Mace have a head start.
Remember Bush Jr and how terrible we all thought he was? Even my lifelong Republican father left the party at that point! There is no group of Trump voters more mystifying to me than white women.
It was all about race and misogyny. That other stuff was all just a cover.
They complain about the economy, but listen to them when they start talking about something being woke or DEI and they go absolutely bananas.
How funny that when, for the first time, the elected Speaker chooses to take no positions on picking these chairs or to guide the conference, that the Republican majority just picks folks who look like they do. With no leadership, let's look ahead to a two-year reenactment of Lord of the Flies.
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And that includes putting women and people of color in leadership positions.
And shame on churches for promoting racism, misogyny, and white privilege. They are AntiChrist.
Equality is a spiritual value.
This is akin to saying House members are very smart, then having a James Comer pic.
(with a nod to Free)
OTOH cannot understand why Pelosi would go against AOC on the oversight committee....
For some reason, people keeping mentioning 'voting fascism out' at a future date as though that was a real thing that ever happened in the history of the planet.
* - get fucked
I know it is a "Practice"
BUT
I always thought
they denying new incoming members the right to vote on the Committee chairs
I wonder if it will backfire?
Hmm...
https://bsky.app/profile/shannonrwatts.bsky.social/post/3ldbkjm2n7s2c
Yes, I'm usually barefoot because I live in the desert southwest.
Also, I'm 66 and way past menopause, so good luck expecting me to pop out more kids.
"Because it's 2015," Trudeau said, when asked about why parity was important to him
They’re also racists. 🤨
--Who could have predicted it could fall this far, this hard?
The party of misogyny, sexism and racism fails to include women and people of color among leadership positions? Say it ain’t so! 😮
They complain about the economy, but listen to them when they start talking about something being woke or DEI and they go absolutely bananas.