All-American Non-Political (Sure!) Middle-Aged Wife & Mom Snaps [UPDATE: Bye Bye Twitter Account]
[guest post by JVW]
The Washington Post had an exasperating piece on Tuesday on their fairly awful PostEverything blog (which seems to be a catch-all forum in which tiresome lefties get to demonstrate that they have the same conventionally-acceptable opinions as the rest of the paper’s staff). The piece, in which a 52-year-old wife and mother in Falmouth, Maine recounts the night that she and her friends drove along their town’s major street swiping yard signs touting the GOP nominee for the Presidency. Here’s how she tries to explain it:
I committed a crime this month, along with two of my friends. I’m not the lawbreaking type. In fact, as a 52-year-old mom, my life is pretty predictable and boring. But this election, a particular candidate’s boasts about women pushed me over the edge.
In the suburban, upper-middle-class part of Maine where I live, Republicans and Democrats live together mostly in harmony. In every election cycle, there’s some tension. But the 2016 presidential campaign has been different. Tensions in my town are running at a fevered pitch.
Which is how three middle-aged moms came to be running down the road, tearing up the Donald Trump signs along our version of Main Street. We’d been talking about the infamous Billy Bush tape and the women who have since come forward to share their own stories of abuse. We were angry. Getting Trump’s name off our median strip seemed like the best way to express our rage.
In retrospect, I realize I shouldn’t be proud of my transgression. Hanging out with a bunch of moms, we started grousing about the proliferation of signs. Can you believe someone would put that many Trump signs so close together on our roads? It’s so rude. Who is this jerk? We felt assaulted by the number of signs. The idea of “cleansing” our streets seemed like the fastest way to restore balance and alleviate our election stress — at least, that night it did.
She then recounts how, unfortunately for her and her two partners in crime, a local police officer observed them in action and stopped them before they could leave the scene. The next day the woman (and presumably her friends) were informed that the signs were owned by a local businessman and that he wanted to press charges, and she was given a court summons for December. Seeming at least slightly chagrined, she wants all of us to know that this is really out of character for her:
I’m not a deeply political person. Yes, I vote, and I’m a registered Democrat, but I’m no political animal. This year, motivated to support anyone but Trump, I bought my own sign for Hillary Clinton and have it placed in my front yard. I know a lot of families who are doing the same.
Reflecting back, I realize that I momentarily snapped.
And, because we still live in psychobabble America, she wants us to know that there is a troubling part of her personal history which made her exceptionally prone to this outburst of censorious thievery. Naturally, it involves an obnoxious, sleazy man:
Like so many American women, I have my own story about a powerful man using his position of wealth and influence to demean my integrity and put my job at risk. My version of Trump was a board member of a nonprofit where I worked more than a decade ago. Over a period of many months, he called to talk about personal and board-related matters. He was married, so I never believed he had serious ulterior motives. Then, one day, he called to proposition me to enter an illicit “relationship” with him where he would fly me around the world to exclusive resorts. For sex.
[. . .]
I was afraid that declining this man’s offer would insult one of my organization’s largest donors. So I told him I needed “to think about it.” A few days later, he told me he’d made a mistake.
I should have told him to go to hell. Instead, I told my boyfriend (now husband) about it and buried the secret. I was silenced, until now.
Yep, you’ve got it. She was so traumatized by a powerful and predatory male using his power to solicit — even demand — sex from younger women who depend upon him for their livelihood that she plans to vote for the big creep’s enabling wife in twelve days.
[UPDATE] This is funny: the author of the piece helpfully had her Twitter handle on the WaPo piece with an invitation for all of us to follow her and, I guess, commiserate with the trials and tribulations of living near people who openly and unabashedly support the GOP candidate. Wonder of wonders: her Twitter account now appears to have been deleted. Let me state emphatically that I don’t like the idea of people harassing her, and I am certainly staunchly opposed to any moron who would make online threats against her or her family, but this goes to show what an insular echo-chamber she lives in if she really thought that her essay would be so well-received that inviting us all to communicate with her on Twitter was a particularly good idea. It’s hard to feel sorry for anyone that blinkered.
– JVW
One saving grace of the woman’s blog post: If you scroll down to the readers’ comments (change the display to show them with Most Liked coming first) it is clear that hardly anyone is buying her tortured justification for her deeds.
JVW (6e49ce) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:19 pm“Liberalism is a mental disorder.”
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:21 pmPence Plane Plows Path to Poughkeepsie… film at elebenty!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:23 pmwhat did trump say again?
http://www.weaselzippers.us/303790-wikileaks-exposes-the-podesta-steyer-climate-mccarthyism/
narciso (d1f714) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:29 pmSometimes I wish I were insane, too, so I could fit in with the rest of 2016 America.
Sometimes.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:30 pmSpeaking of insane:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/27/army-enters-new-era-10-women-pass-first-gender-int/
Is there anyone insane enough to believe this?
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:34 pmSteve57, soon sanity will be a mental disorder, so hang on a bit.
felipe (023cc9) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:35 pmJust wait for the next DSM.
felipe (023cc9) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:36 pmThat was a rhetorical question. Obviously there are people who are just that insane.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:37 pmYou wish it was rhetorical.
felipe (023cc9) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:38 pmThe good news, felipe, is I’ll be 100% disabled per the Social Security Administration and the rest of you will be picking up the tab down at the bait shop as I go fishing every day.
Who’s the crazy one now, beeotches!
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:40 pmr.d laing, is the muse of the age, bezos allowing every discontented hausfrau their say, well only the select, hohum, dadgum taking credit for purging pieke from 538, that’s something else again,
narciso (d1f714) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:40 pmI try to laugh on the outside, but inside I’m weeping, felipe.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:41 pmjohn Podesta having dinner, meetings on multiple occasion, and corresponding on emails with Peter Kadzik, the DOJ official who denied Congress’ request that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate the Clinton email crimes.
What was that Trump was saying again?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:44 pmWhen did America have its left brain removed, and where was I?
Kevin M (25bbee) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:44 pmAt your Thursday afternoon appointment with the dominatrix.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:47 pmProbably the same place I was when it decided to remove those pesky testicles.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:47 pmand it’s a coincidence that mook was mcawful’s campaign manager, and red queen sponsored a fundraiser where nearly half a mil, went to ms mccabe, the wife of the no 2 official in the bureau,
narciso (d1f714) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:49 pmThere’s some they do
And some they don’t
And some you just can’t tell
And some may will
And some may won’t
With some it’s just as well
I think that guy that allegedly propositioned her dodged a bullet, is what I think. Even if it is fiction.
nk (dbc370) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:50 pmsince I mock the ethical probity in your fair city, lol, it’s only fair I show an example from my former local environs,
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/rubios-sketchy-pal-david-rivera-probed-over-ana-alliegros-battery-claims-8312054
narciso (d1f714) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:52 pmWhoa! Let me distance myself from that. Truthfully.
I was no doubt on liberty in Olangapo City after a satisfying show-the-flag mission against the CHICOMs. In other words, someplace else, looking in the wrong direction.
Who knew back then it was really the faculty lounge we should have guarding against?
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:52 pmIt’s no wonder that “tensions in her town are running at a fever pitch”. This is the legacy of affirmative action and grievance politics. Her problem, come election season, is that she discovers a whole lot of people can see her and her kind for what they are, and although these clear sighted neighbors are a minority, they still vote. And they aren’t running a fever. Mao knew the answer, as did Stalin. She will eventually support solutions to her discomfort that are a bit more final.
BobStewartatHome (b2bab4) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:54 pmI must disagree with you Colonel, liberalism is not a mental disorder. Liberalism is a religion. Only people with religious faith can believe the utter nonsense that is liberalism. Plus liberalism actually replaces God with government, has sacraments like abortion, gun control and transgenderism. They will not tolerate apostasy. They are very similar to Islam in that they don’t give a damn what you think or believe because they will MAKE you bow to their phony god or they will grind you into the dirt.
Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 10/27/2016 @ 5:56 pmPoint taken, Hoagie. But some folks are okay with the Dems equating unbelievers with Islam’s dhimmitude, but more disadvantaged.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:05 pmSome folks are proudly voting for Hillary Clinton.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:13 pmI wish that lady would someday become as angry at ISIS members who take underage girls as sex slaves, as she is angry at the board member of the non-profit who propositioned her for sex, then apoligized.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:13 pmLiberalism? Not menopause? Not neurotic small-town middle-aged housewives on a two-quart chocolate ice cream high?
nk (dbc370) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:15 pmallegedly, like with some of the accusers against ailes as well as trump, the doors don’t retract all the way back if you get my drift,
narciso (d1f714) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:16 pmBob, it’s really not hard to recruit concentration camp guards, torturers, or executioners in any society. It’s always justified for the greater good. It’s always the righteous thing to do.
Sez the progs.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:18 pmIt’s not necessary to recruit them at all. They’re already part of the system.
nk (dbc370) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:21 pmOk. I agree with you, believe it or not, nk. It would be more accurate to say it’s not that hard to identify them.
Steve57 (0b1dac) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:27 pmthere’s enough real news to choke a bantha, strikingly bezos, rupert and carlos slim rarely skim it, and then like the three blind men and the elephant, misread the whole thing,
narciso (d1f714) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:31 pmIs Carlos Slim actually involved in the paper, other than as a tax write-off? The last time I looked at the NYT corporate structure, only Ochs-Sulzberger owned stock was voting stock. The stock owned by outsiders was non-voting.
nk (dbc370) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:36 pmI use shorthand, I could say the barclaygraph, instead of the telegraph which was stolen from conrad black, but I don’t,
remember what they used to say about communist party gatherings in the 50s,
https://twitter.com/catoletters/status/791702347273633794?lang=en
narciso (d1f714) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:40 pmThese toady old broads need to be locked in a cell for 72 hours with several pitchers of martinis, a DVD player, TV and a set of all seven seasons of ‘Mad Men’ to reacquaint themselves with their proper place in Trump’s America tpbe ready when it is great again.
“People want to be told what to do so badly that they’ll listen to anyone.” – Don Draper [Jon Hamm] ‘Mad Men,’ AMC TV
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:44 pm[UPDATE] This is funny: the author of the piece helpfully had her Twitter handle on the WaPo piece with an invitation for all of us to follow her and, I guess, commiserate with the trials and tribulations of living near people who openly and unabashedly support the GOP candidate. Wonder of wonders: her Twitter account now appears to have been deleted. Let me state emphatically that I don’t like the idea of people harassing her, and I am certainly staunchly opposed to any moron who would make online threats against her or her family, but this goes to show what an insular echo-chamber she lives in if she really thought that her essay would be so well-received that inviting us all to communicate with her on Twitter was a particularly good idea. It’s hard to feel sorry for anyone that blinkered.
JVW (6e49ce) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:53 pmFeminists say they’re all for freedom, independence, choice, and all that jazz, but at the end of the day, they’re always voting for more intrusive government which limits their freedom, independence, and choices.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:59 pmsome actual verifiable news, how is that possible,
http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-reveal-first-solomons-temple-era-artifacts-ever-found-on-temple-mount/
narciso (d1f714) — 10/27/2016 @ 6:59 pm“I’ve been trying to figure out what common trait binds Clinton supporters together. As far as I can tell, the most unifying characteristic is a willingness to bully in all its forms.
If you have a Trump sign in your lawn, they will steal it.
If you have a Trump bumper sticker, they will deface your car.
if you speak of Trump at work you could get fired.
On social media, almost every message I get from a Clinton supporter is a bullying type of message. They insult. They try to shame. They label. And obviously they threaten my livelihood.
We know from Project Veritas that Clinton supporters tried to incite violence at Trump rallies. The media downplays it.
We also know Clinton’s side hired paid trolls to bully online. You don’t hear much about that.
Yesterday, by no coincidence, Huffington Post, Salon, and Daily Kos all published similar-sounding hit pieces on me, presumably to lower my influence. (That reason, plus jealousy, are the only reasons writers write about other writers.)
…
Team Clinton has succeeded in perpetuating one of the greatest evils I have seen in my lifetime. Her side has branded Trump supporters (40%+ of voters) as Nazis, sexists, homophobes, racists, and a few other fighting words. Their argument is built on confirmation bias and persuasion. But facts don’t matter because facts never matter in politics. What matters is that Clinton’s framing of Trump provides moral cover for any bullying behavior online or in person. No one can be a bad person for opposing Hitler, right?
…
As far as I can tell, the worst thing a presidential candidate can do is turn Americans against each other. Clinton is doing that, intentionally.
Intentionally.
As I often say, I don’t know who has the best policies. I don’t know the best way to fight ISIS and I don’t know how to fix healthcare or trade deals. I don’t know which tax policies are best to lift the economy. I don’t know the best way to handle any of that stuff. (And neither do you.) But I do have a bad reaction to bullies. And I’ve reached my limit.
I hope you have too. Therefore…
I endorse Donald Trump for President of the United States because I oppose bullying in all its forms.”
— Scott Adams
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/366542.php
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/27/2016 @ 7:07 pmas david plouffe, said in a slightly different context, ‘it is not enough to defeat, we must destroy’
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/10/about-the-groping-allegations-against-justice-thomas.php?
narciso (d1f714) — 10/27/2016 @ 7:42 pm