I love it when they eat their young. Just a quick setup. As I wrote yesterday, when it comes to American history, the right of white women to vote is still a pretty new franchise, although not as new as the right for Black women to vote.
But the right to vote came with a catch. When the law was passed, women were prohibited from opening a checking account, obtaining a credit card, or applying for a mortgage in their own name without their husband’s co-signature. And since at that time white men voted 60-40 GOP, it was expected that the good little wifey would vote as she was told, unless she wanted real trouble when they got home.
Believe it or not, there actually are socially enlightened Evangelical groups with their heads out of their asses, and one of them is causing quite a stink. They’ve just put out a new political ad in which they not only empower women to vote, they actually tell them it’s OK to Keep it a secret!
I love this ad. It shows a typical rural redneck couple walking into the polling place. The redneck is wearing jeans, a check shirt, and a John Deere style ball cap. His wife is wearing jeans, a short sleeve blouse, and a cap of her own. As they walk with their ballots into voting booths the voice-over kicks in;
There is still one place left in America where you’re still free to make your own choices, and that’s the voting booth. You’re free to vote your own conscience, and nobody will ever find out, it’s your secret. The ad closes showing the wife rejoining her husband, who probingly asks, Did you make the right choice?, to which the woman smiles and replies, Yep! I sure did, the voice-over closing with, Remember. What happens in the voting booth stays in the voting booth.
Sweet Jesus. To hear the outraged squeals of all of those fine, upstanding Christian sexist pigs in conservative media, you’d think the group took out a 30 second ad proudly proclaiming that Christ didn’t die on the cross for our sins!
Fux News sea slug Jesse Watters made it sound like the ad was promoting married Christian women to perform the moral equivalent of engaging in an extramarital affair. He basically nod-nod, wink-wink redneck men to divorce the little tart if they ever found out about it. The far right podcast worm he was interviewing more or less ordained that God fearing men should actually follow the untrustworthy wenches into the voting booth.
A fundamentalist Evangelical group backing Traitor Tot put out a Tweet solemnly intoning that it was a wife’s Divine Duty to follow her husband’s lead and vote in concert. The man is the head, but the two are of one body.
I have the suspicion that the detestable Mother Tucker may have seen an early cut of that ad, and that’s why he took to the podium at the MSG rally and ranted that sick sexist sh*t about Daddy Trump coming home to the White House on January 20th and Bending his bad girls over for a serious spanking.Â
These ass hats just keep making Kamala Harris’s closing arguments for her. This is today’s GOP in all of its sick glory. Reading between the lines, you’re left with the sentence, Just because we gave you the right to vote doesn’t mean that we gave you the right to think! Get back in line!
So far El Pendejo ex Presidente has been strangely silent on this, but it’s new. Although it does lend a new interpretation to yesterdays I’m going to protect women whether they like it or not. Rest easy. Still four more campaign days after today. Plenty of time for Emperor Numbus Nuttus to blow a mental gasket. One can hope.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
I’m sorry but it’s a woman’s “divine duty” to vote as her husband does???? Well I can attest to this fact–it ain’t in Torah. My neighbor is a Vicar and she told me it isn’t in the n.t. either.
People, these xtians are corrupt liars and deserve not even the slightest bit of anyone’s attention EVER. If you’re giving your money to these clowns, and NEVER forget they run a BUSINESS, you’d do better to just throw your money into the deepest hole you can find. At least the hole won’t do evil with it like these con xtians do.
This particular version of Christianity says the husband is in charge. Patriarchy is another word for it. It’s like many other patriarchal religions, men are in charge and us girls have to follow. Ick. Makes my head explode.
My Dad voted for Reagan first time around. Six months later he said he regretted it because Reagan,like every Republican after Eisenhower, hated the poor. As he came out of the voting bokth, my mother practically stick her finger up.his nose and announced,”My vote just cancelled yours out.”
The were !0marrived for 62 years, together for 67.