by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Today marks the one-year anniversary of when Donald Trump's disgusting remark about grabbing women by the genitals became public. His filthy rhetoric, in an un-aired taped portion of an "Access Hollywood" segment, was such a foul affront to public decency that many people suspected the election had ended right at that point and The Donald had lost. A few weeks later, however, the Electoral College corrected that flawed thinking.
A pig was headed to the White House - to live there!
Some might have hoped that Trump's disparagement of women was just a temporary aberration, but those hopes were quickly dashed as the new administration demonstrated time and time again that women's issues were not a priority. Perhaps Donald saw widening the gender chasm as key to his continuing war with that "nasty" Hillary.
Earlier in the week in this space I spoke to the hypocrisy of the GOP pushing a twenty-week ban on abortions while failing to re-authorize the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a pairing that seemed to be very pro-fetus and anti-child. Then, just yesterday, as if to further highlight their sustained war on women and families, the Trump administration rolled back the birth control mandate for Obamacare, a move which will allow employers to not cover birth control in their insurance packages if doing so conflicts with their religious beliefs. Trump's move could cause millions of women to lose that important coverage.
Less birth control, fewer abortions, more babies, more children without access to health care - yeah, that makes for viable, healthy families.
Yesterday a person named Emmy Bengston (@EmmyA2) posted a tweet that seemed to capture the whole dynamic. It has been re-tweeted nearly 50,000 times. Emmy described the war on women this way:
America should have taken Donald Trump at his word a year ago. He was no friend of women - and he still isn't - nor will he ever be.
Citizen Journalist
Today marks the one-year anniversary of when Donald Trump's disgusting remark about grabbing women by the genitals became public. His filthy rhetoric, in an un-aired taped portion of an "Access Hollywood" segment, was such a foul affront to public decency that many people suspected the election had ended right at that point and The Donald had lost. A few weeks later, however, the Electoral College corrected that flawed thinking.
A pig was headed to the White House - to live there!
Some might have hoped that Trump's disparagement of women was just a temporary aberration, but those hopes were quickly dashed as the new administration demonstrated time and time again that women's issues were not a priority. Perhaps Donald saw widening the gender chasm as key to his continuing war with that "nasty" Hillary.
Earlier in the week in this space I spoke to the hypocrisy of the GOP pushing a twenty-week ban on abortions while failing to re-authorize the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a pairing that seemed to be very pro-fetus and anti-child. Then, just yesterday, as if to further highlight their sustained war on women and families, the Trump administration rolled back the birth control mandate for Obamacare, a move which will allow employers to not cover birth control in their insurance packages if doing so conflicts with their religious beliefs. Trump's move could cause millions of women to lose that important coverage.
Less birth control, fewer abortions, more babies, more children without access to health care - yeah, that makes for viable, healthy families.
Yesterday a person named Emmy Bengston (@EmmyA2) posted a tweet that seemed to capture the whole dynamic. It has been re-tweeted nearly 50,000 times. Emmy described the war on women this way:
"No abortion. No birth control. No maternity leave. No health care for your kids. No care for you.
This is what a war on women looks like."
America should have taken Donald Trump at his word a year ago. He was no friend of women - and he still isn't - nor will he ever be.
1 comment:
He is a fiend not a friend.
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