It’s just super revealing to me how agitated the Trumpists are getting about this. It’s a tell. - ThreadSky

kenwhite.bsky.social • 116 days ago

It’s just super revealing to me how agitated the Trumpists are getting about this. It’s a tell.

Trump: "Can you imagine a wife not telling a husband who she's voting for? Did you ever hear anything like that? Even if you had a horrible -- if you had a bad relationship, you're gonna tell your husband."

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angusm.bsky.social•116 days ago

We are a heartbeat away from someone in the Trump camp telling their supporters that men shouldn't even allow their wives to leave the house on Election Day, & that they should confiscate any piece of paper that even looks like a mail-in ballot.

"Only you can prevent the 19th Amendment."

timmorton2.bsky.social•116 days ago

Pretty sure this is why 60 million votes have already been cast

checkedout2.bsky.social•116 days ago

These are exactly the people I’m voting against. Christofascist who believe women are property of the males in their families, and that they need permission to do anything in their lives. This is where we are going if these assholes take over. Fuck em. No better than the Taliban.

frannie.bsky.social•116 days ago

First they controlled our bodies, now they're trying to control our minds. What's next? Burkas?

resonanteye.bsky.social•116 days ago

bible thumping creeps in the USA call it "dressing modestly". public schools send girls home early if they wear a tank top, shorts. entire religious groups use it already as a control tactic

https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/july-2016/institute-in-basic-life-principles-hinsdale/

we're past that point basically

id10terror.bsky.social•116 days ago

fr, it's a part of their sickness, possession, everything belongs to them and they are masters of all. They meltdown if anything challenges this belief. Like the idea of an independent partner that can make their own decisions.

boomer-michael.bsky.social•116 days ago

Dear GOP:

resonanteye.bsky.social•116 days ago

don't underestimate the anger my friend

baturn.bsky.social•116 days ago

My dad has never told my mom who he voted for in nearly 50 years of marriage. I guess it works out if the man is the one keeping a secret 🤷

fbcooper.bsky.social•116 days ago

So tRUmp, you demanded Melania tell you? And then watched her vote?
It's always projection. He's a bully in his own marriage. (Of course)

dinger.bsky.social•116 days ago

Is that something poll workers could have reported or do something about?

gojira1000.bsky.social•116 days ago

Their misogyny and racism platform is showing some holes

thekirz.bsky.social•116 days ago

myandra.bsky.social•116 days ago

Especially if you bury them on the golf course.

katpick.bsky.social•115 days ago

I think Jack Smith is going to find she is not there.

myandra.bsky.social•115 days ago

With that lunatic family, I don't doubt anything malicious.

lafuca.bsky.social•116 days ago

I voted for him/you, honey.

lafuca.bsky.social•116 days ago

They can lie just as you lie, for ever.

larelli.bsky.social•116 days ago

I haven’t seen such an organic vehement and widespread reaction to a single political ad in a very long time

theairisstillheavy.bsky.social•116 days ago

Love to see it.

zestychinchilla.bsky.social•116 days ago

From 1 to 10, how concerned do you think people should be about any potential SC shenanigans? Sorry for the loaded question

circaliz.bsky.social•116 days ago

Yup

beemangler.bsky.social•115 days ago

Sometimes I opine to myself that giving a married woman a vote is the same thing as giving two votes to married men.

Please don't tell my wife I said that.

lizaradcliffe.bsky.social•108 days ago

I already told her 😊

mlobelart.bsky.social•116 days ago

Could you say a little more about what you're thinking? Like a tell re: what they know from internal polls; or more about the psychology of the reaction?

semsu.bsky.social•116 days ago

It shows that it has never occurred to them that women lie to their husbands about this stuff. And if you'd lie to your husband, why wouldn't you lie to a pollster? So if their numbers show a slight advantage among white women--how much of that slight lead can be trusted?

golvio.bsky.social•116 days ago

Fhee-mayles having internality? Egads! What is the world coming to?

bunnyadvocate.bsky.social•116 days ago

To me, it screamed insecurity. You don't worry if your partner is lying to you if you have a healthy, loving, trusting relationship. This only gets under your skin if you know deep-down that you aren't really loved.

robhon.bsky.social•116 days ago

They’re explicitly demonstrating their misogyny, en mass. It’s fascinating to witness.

leesarenae.bsky.social•116 days ago

I think the tell is they see they're losing.

robhon.bsky.social•116 days ago

It’s like they see the boat sinking, it’s making them angry, and to punish the boat they’re actively shooting holes in the bottom.

shinyhexagon.com•116 days ago

What it says to me is that they think lying to your husband is much worse than terrorizing your wife to such a degree that she is scared for you to know how she voted

wlknsn.xyz•116 days ago

That’s it!

mikeytsi.bsky.social•116 days ago

Remember the weird stories like Ted Cruz and his hundred cans of soup, or that dude that would intentionally mispronounce words on dates to try to find someone that wouldn't correct him?

These dudes absolutely cannot handle being challenged, and that their partner might "lie" destroys them.

golvio.bsky.social•116 days ago

But, of course, guys like Newt Gingrich can lie to their wives as much as they want, because they’re Real Human Beings who get to have complex, sympathetic reasons to want to cheat while their wives aren’t. 🙄

bluefrommagioh.bsky.social•116 days ago

wringing the handmaids hands all the while...

philstr.bsky.social•116 days ago

That they see women as property is the first thing that jumps to me

beamdriver.bsky.social•116 days ago

I have my doubts that this is going to be an actual thing out in the real world, but I'd be happy if it was and either way the MAGA dudes' reactions to it are super amusing.

lizamazel.bsky.social•116 days ago

It is an actual thing out in the real world.

mlamb.bsky.social•116 days ago

Controlling women like cattle is their wheel house and then reality intruded.

proudrebelscum.bsky.social•116 days ago

unimaginable

pdelahanty.bsky.social•116 days ago

“What’s the answer to #1?”

proudrebelscum.bsky.social•116 days ago

🤣

kram1032.bsky.social•116 days ago

Gotta say these are pathetically low screens. They ought to go high enough to cover like 95% of people fully, with enough distance between, that the remaining 5% can't spy from a neighbouring booth

snowgall.bsky.social•116 days ago

They're also way too close together. I vote in NY, and at my polling place, at least, the booths are much farther apart, so you really can't look over and see anything.

snowgall.bsky.social•113 days ago

I may have spoken too soon. I voted today, and the booths were closer together than I remembered! (Or maybe there were more of them than usual crammed into the same space?)

I think if I had stood on tiptoe and craned my neck, I could have seen how the people next to me were voting.

swiftone.bsky.social•116 days ago

Every accusation is a confession.

elliotghoul.bsky.social•116 days ago

I guarantee she didn’t vote for him

travis-henderson.bsky.social•116 days ago

snarkysteff.bsky.social•116 days ago

Women have been going after that angle since Kamala was nominated — leaving post-it notes in bathrooms stalls.

These fuckers have no idea.

palelilspydr.bsky.social•116 days ago

What do you mean the women we had under our thumbs, pinned in place with starvation diets and contouring for bedtime might still be defying our power?!

chrissmithmuso.bsky.social•116 days ago

Surely is.

leesarenae.bsky.social•116 days ago

Yep. The last week I've seen some very real desperation from the Republicans.

tomwwhittington.bsky.social•116 days ago

I've read conflicting reports on the frequency with which married couple split their votes, but if this is the response it gets, who cares about it's first-order efficacy? There's high value in getting these Fascist to show what they think about women's rights.

annepaulson.bsky.social•116 days ago

39% of married men are D/lean D.
45% of married women are D/lean D.

So at least 6% of marriages are husband R/wife D.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship-by-gender-sexual-orientation-marital-and-parental-status/

gohexyourself.bsky.social•116 days ago

I absolutely told my first husband I voted one way, and then voted another. I know other women who did, too.

My first husband was a decent guy until he got a job where he was on the road a lot and started listening to Rush Limbaugh. 🤷‍♀️

mpzrd.bsky.social•116 days ago

If you CAN'T [safely] disagree with your husband about who to vote for, moving on seems like a good choice. Imagine if you had to jointly decide on something consequential in your joint personal life.

sarlalian.bsky.social•116 days ago

It’s not always that easy unfortunately.

gohexyourself.bsky.social•116 days ago

Took me over six years to get out of there, once I decided I needed to go. And then it took me about 10 years to recover financially after I did go.

sarlalian.bsky.social•116 days ago

I’m sorry you had to go through that and I’m happy that you are out of a bad situation.

mpzrd.bsky.social•116 days ago

understood

vampirestepdad.com•116 days ago

I grew up conservative, and started listening to Rush as I went to college. He constantly talked about how deeply wrong Dems were, and it just made me feel like there's no way Repubs are completely right about everything.

Started reading and...

Rush is what led me away from conservatism. 🤷

gohexyourself.bsky.social•116 days ago

I was pretty happy when he died.

themel.bsky.social•116 days ago

There's that segment of his Christian base who actively practice the subservient wife thing ("as the Bible says!"). How dare Dems let these women know they're allowed to think for themselves.

bebesbirdhouse.bsky.social•116 days ago

It's that lack of control that bothers them - that someone would actually go against their wishes and demands. It is one of their greatest fears. And it is very much a tell.

babarayagami.bsky.social•116 days ago

More than one male pundit said that they had doubted there were that many female shy-Harris voters but changed their minds after seeing the Right's reaction to the ads.

lizamazel.bsky.social•116 days ago

to me, the discrepancy in multiple states between EV party breakdown (almost even at times) and gender gap (double digits) says a lot.

like, a lot a lot.

Could I be reading the tea leaves wrong? Sure. I'd still stake a fiver on it.

babarayagami.bsky.social•116 days ago

I'd go as high as a sawbuck.

drsaddison.bsky.social•116 days ago

Men just don't listen to women.

ethanjacobs.bsky.social•116 days ago

To be fair, if my wife secretly voted for Trump I’d make an appointment for her with a neurologist.

feralnietzsche.bsky.social•116 days ago

I’d never know because I am not going to ask her. She’s her own person and gets the privacy of her conscience and thoughts.

ethanjacobs.bsky.social•115 days ago

I don’t think you think that’s what I meant, do you?

rutrow.bsky.social•115 days ago

Sabretooth sounds like someone Elon Musk hired to do exit polling. "I'm gonna take the money and not do the work"

ethanjacobs.bsky.social•115 days ago

No, we know each other and he’s a good guy.

feralnietzsche.bsky.social•115 days ago

No not at all. I wasn’t disagreeing with you, just pointing out it’d be weird for me to know unless she voluntarily told me.

my3kats.bsky.social•116 days ago

Guess Donny can't control his wife.

timmorton2.bsky.social•116 days ago

bododenden.bsky.social•116 days ago

Grimly amusing given that they get massively upset when polls show that left-leaning women are reluctant to date conservatives.

drsaddison.bsky.social•116 days ago

[it's the same picture dot gif]

gamedesignerben.bsky.social•116 days ago

Guys who built up a world around them that requires the media and public figures be constantly lying about everything turn out to be vulnerable to the idea that someone might not be totally honest and transparent with them.

megenap.bsky.social•116 days ago

It's just never even occurred to them that women have their own minds.

skywitches.net•116 days ago

May It Be The Final Straw

qlippot.bsky.social•116 days ago

This combined with how weird Carlson was with Trump-as-Daddy.

stretchdad.bsky.social•116 days ago

As creepy as that rant was, the delivery was even creepier. Tucker really worked himself up into a high-pitched frenzy.

kristinarobinson.bsky.social•116 days ago

When this is over I hope Tucker gets the deep dive he deserves. He’s been creepy about teen girls for decades now — not just the Bubba the Love Sponge clips.

Rep. Matt Gaetz also claimed Tucker as an exonerating witness when the investigation into his teen sex romps went public.

qlippot.bsky.social•116 days ago

That's how you always know he's super mad. Especially when the laugh comes out.

bricktosser.bsky.social•116 days ago

Honestly it is delightful.

misterfungi.bsky.social•116 days ago

I remember standing in like to vote in 2008 (for hours) and the couple in front of me were laughing and carrying on about how she was voting for Obama and he was McCain. And that was fine. Nobody was gonna feel threatened or end a relationship over that. Those days are long gone.

winojohn.bsky.social•116 days ago

I'm pretty sure (but did not ask her) that my then wife voted for Bush in 2004. It didn't matter that much because neither Bush nor Kerry were in any way a threat to the republic.

nojustdan.bsky.social•116 days ago

Agreeing to disagree is not a thing anymore.

drsaddison.bsky.social•116 days ago

Those days also did not exist for everyone in those days, unfortunately.

silkscreenfiend.bsky.social•116 days ago

She didn't have to wonder back then why her husband was supporting someone who said they'd throw Americans into camps, intentionally crash the economy and let RFK Jr take over the FDA.

kskm3.bsky.social•116 days ago

Exactly. Anyone who says that you can be friends with people on the other side of the aisle is a Republican because a Democrat would never be friends with someone who thinks that women don’t have rights and that any non-white immigrant is therefore illegal

shawnconnery.bsky.social•116 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/shawnconnery.bsky.social/post/3l7y5srdfbj24

mayt.bsky.social•116 days ago

Have you seen the one with George Clooney telling dudes they don’t have to tell their friends how they voted? Telling how the threat there is still other men, not their wives.

larelli.bsky.social•116 days ago

These two ads came from a progressive religious group so they know the conservative evangelical community gender dynamics better than most

I think that’s why the ad hit so hard

saxonwaker.bsky.social•116 days ago

Trying to imagine the nuclear meltdown the RWNJ’s would have if someone suggested husbands needed their wives’ approval for their votes.

adub01488424.bsky.social•116 days ago

Makes you wonder if his internal polling is telling him something.

saxonwaker.bsky.social•116 days ago

I’m guessing both of them are getting essentially the same data. Harris sees this as an opportunity and Trump sees it as a threat and I am here for it.

calebnbrown.bsky.social•116 days ago

It is 100% a tell. They all assumed they could count on the votes of all women married to MAGA men. Even after Dobbs. Even after all of their explicitly misogynistic policies and candidates.

But now they realize maybe the wives' votes are not assured and they are freaking out.

fplynch.bsky.social•116 days ago

"Honey, who is Elena Ferrante and why do you have so many books by her? Is this chick lit?"

jbook.bsky.social•116 days ago

Of course he’s up in arms about this. He can’t forget those times Melania pretended to be voting, but just wrote “HELP!” on the ballot.

driftingthrough.bsky.social•116 days ago

This will never backfire.

patriotclyde.bsky.social•116 days ago

First, never believe a known liar who lies about the "little lady" always telling her husband the truth! After all, the wife obviously doesn't want to suffer Trump's "retribution" & would tell her husband anything he wanted to hear. A/A DonOld was "the most important person in the family."

elliotghoul.bsky.social•116 days ago

It’s also revealing that they never talk about politics to the point that they would have to ask. My wife has never asked who I voted for because we know each others politics because we talk to each other

natlaowai.bsky.social•116 days ago

The misogyny is strong with this one.

dallas-taylor.bsky.social•116 days ago

Honestly, I think it's brilliant as Harris inviting people to watch Trump rallies at the debate so they could see how many people leave early. Gets right to the heart of their deal (turning women into little better than chattel) in such a way they can't help but tell on themselves.

fincoot.bsky.social•116 days ago

Like The Burning Bed . . . it gets them where they are vulnerable and asleep...and maybe deserve

ucfjake.bsky.social•116 days ago

I told my wife yesterday that her vote is her secret and if she needed to vote Trump that it is none of my business and I thought she was going to hit me

statelyraven.bsky.social•116 days ago

How does this not lead to domestic violence?

bexone.bsky.social•116 days ago

What makes you think it doesn’t?

statelyraven.bsky.social•116 days ago

Maybe the negatives are confusions me - I don't think it doesn't. I think this is a barely-coded call and precursor to domestic violence. It's a short step to 'get your women in line' and implies the man should know how his wife voted and if she won't say (or lies) then their relationship is 'bad.'

golvio.bsky.social•116 days ago

Yeah. It’s like a political version of the abusive husband/boyfriend who’s so paranoid about his wife/girlfriend cheating on him that he never lets her have any social life outside him & constantly snoops on her phone when she’s not looking. It’s an obsessive need for absolute control.

statelyraven.bsky.social•116 days ago

Absolutely right.

statelyraven.bsky.social•116 days ago

And too be clear all of this is terrible and wrong in every way - maybe my objection was worded confusingly.

resonanteye.bsky.social•116 days ago

it is 100% a call to DV. it is.

sunnieskye.bsky.social•116 days ago

He’s never talked to any of his past wives or the present one, has he?

ellenbreezely.bsky.social•116 days ago

Yep...redefining "cuck."

johnkramer.bsky.social•116 days ago

It's super weird. What kind of marriages are people in?

lizamazel.bsky.social•116 days ago

You know how Vance suggested that "people" with children should get one extra vote for each child? And he says his kids are "her" kids? And how he's the VP nominee?

Now ask yourself how that works in his brain. Each parent gets one extra vote pre kid? Or, HoH gets to decide for everyone.

resonanteye.bsky.social•116 days ago

controlling, violent ones, abusive ones, ones in which the church of choice has told the man he owns that woman, and that she's there for him to use; this is American christianity.

johnkramer.bsky.social•116 days ago

I guess I meant it more as a rhetorical question, but yeah. Everything you wrote.

monamo60.bsky.social•116 days ago

The same demographic that includes extremely rich white men who are accustomed to being in power and ruling all around them, can't understand why the women in their lives don't tell them everything nor ask them for permission for their voting choice. Quelle surprise.

golvio.bsky.social•116 days ago

These are the same kinds of men who tune out whenever their wives talk about stuff that’s not sports or stoking their ego because they dismiss it as “Stupid Emotional Woman Stuff™️,” then are shocked (shocked!) when they realize they don’t actually know anything about their wives as people.

khsinclair.bsky.social•116 days ago

So how can they turn this into a colorable argument for SCOTUS?

timmorton2.bsky.social•116 days ago

Something something 19th amendment- originalist

lizamazel.bsky.social•116 days ago

in which Amy Comey-Barrett goes full shocked Pikachu

ineverwashmyjeans.bsky.social•116 days ago

Yeah - no one ever mentions the reverse, the possibility that it’s wrong for a man might do something & not tell his wife …. Because that’s just quietly understood to be an ok thing

vampirestepdad.com•116 days ago

Ironically, my father, staunch conservative, was adamant to never tell anyone, even his family, who he voted for.

gamerdave69.bsky.social•116 days ago

He seems to be worried in a very personal way.

aboutamoo.bsky.social•116 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/aboutamoo.bsky.social/post/3l7yadfmgfu2c

kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social•116 days ago

Smh Ken's becoming Nare Solver

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