Trump's Macho Macho Regime Goes On The Attack Against Women
It wasn't a coincidence that Trump booked the Village People to sing at his 'Victory Rally', he was sending a very clear message - macho men will march all over women's right in his vision of America.
When Meta billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg blathered last week to Joe Rogan that the business world needs more “masculine energy” and that the workplace has been “culturally neutered”, he might as well have been Trump’s paid PR person.
That’s because Trump in the very first steps of his regime is fulfilling a white supremacist’s top wet dream - pushing women back to what they profess is their “natural” place - “supporting” men.
Trump’s fired women from top leadership positions in government, crammed his cabinet full of men unless they are a billionaire donor like WWE co-founder Linda McMahon, who he’s rewarding with the Dept of Education despite her zero education experience.
Or if they are heartless, ‘macho’ dog killers like Kristi Noem, confirmed as Dept of Homeland Security or MAGA bootlickers like Elise Stefanik, nominated as UN Ambassador.
Zuckerberg may be the father of three little girls and married to a Harvard - educated pediatrician, but he has so wildly embraced Trump’s celebration of a ruling ‘broligarchy’ that one of his own top AI lawyers, Mark Lemley ‘fired’ him by quitting his work for Meta.
Lemley spoke out against Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” after he ordered the company to allow vicious and dangerous attacks against LGBTQ and trans people on his platforms.
But the Facebook founder is just one of Trump’s new knee bending inner circle of billionaire bros that includesElon Musk, Jeff Bezos, venture capital king Marc Andreessen, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and likely Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
All of these guys are now complicit in Trump’s misogynist, white supremacist, racist actions including his mass deportation of illegal and legal immigrants and the coming assaults on women’s healthcare that Trump’s right hand administrators are salivating about.
WHITE SUPREMACISTS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Here’s my message to ‘girl dad’ Zuck - Trump has Christian Nationalist white supremacists in his new White House.
And white supremacy and hatred of women, go hand and hand. White supremacists believe feminism is a “scourge” and see women who aspire to be more than housewives and wombs, as a threat to their own power and top position in society.
Many of them also also believe that women should be physically and sexually abused in order to keep them in line - yup, that’s according to a detailed report by the Anti Defamation League on the white supremacist creed that women are the enemy, and need to be treated as such.
It’s no wonder that Trump, a convicted sexual abuser and proud pussy grabber himself has proudly picked accused rapist and wife abuser, Pete Hegseth who wants to kick women out of combat roles in the military, as his Defense Secretary.
To Trump that fact that his Health and Services Secretary nominee RFK Jr is a serial cheater must be a badge of honor.
And it’s no coincidence that Project 2025 mastermind Russ Vought, an anti abortion zealot and Christian Nationalist who believes that women should submit to their husbands and stay in the kitchen, is his nominee to lead the extremely important Office of Management and Budget.
Oh by the way, Vought is the architect of Project 2025 and supports banning the abortion pill, mifepristone, using the 1873 Comstock Act to end surgical and all medication abortions nationally and wants to end IVF by recognizing “fetal personhood”, which means that every fertilized egg will have the same equal rights as its mother.
Then Trump’s pick for his Chief of Staff under Vought, at the Office of Management and Budget, Ed Martin, is an advocate for a national abortion ban with no exceptions ever for rape incest and even the life of the mother!
In fact he opposed an abortion for the 10 year old Ohio child who became pregnant after a rape and had to escape to Indiana for an abortion. He was also an ally of anti feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly, who led the successful opposition to the ratification of the ERA ( Equal Right Amendment) protecting women’s equal rights - for decades, until Biden’s very recent declaration that it was law.
Oh, and are we surprised - Martin supports jailing women who get an abortion.
Russell Vought, the Christian Nationalist Project 2025 architect, Ed Martin, a Phyllis Schlafly protoge ,Pete Hegseth, an opponent of woman in the military.
Do you see the pattern here that I see in Trump’s assembly of the most women - hating administration since Herbert Hoover’s?
Hooever’s successor, FDR finally started the long road to women obtaining real political power when he appointed the first female cabinet minister, the brilliant Frances Perkins, as Secretary of Labor.
Now Trump is determined to roll female gains as far back as he can, as quickly as he can.
Just look at Trump’s choice of VP JD Vance who mocked “childless cat ladies” as “miserable” and accused them of making the rest of the country “miserable”, since they weren’t doing their patriotic duty of producing children like Hitler’s beatified hausfraus.
TRUMP TARGETS TOP WOMEN
Now,Mark Zuckerberg - do you love Trump’s “masculine energy” at work?
He’s ASAP fired the highest ranking female member of the military, Coast Guard commandant, Admiral Linda L. Fagan, who was the first female uniformed leader of a branch of the armed forces.
The excuse for singling out and dismissing Fagan, who worked her way up the ranks in a 40 year career, was ‘excessive focus on diversity, equity and inclusion”.
Former Commandant Admiral Thad Allen called out Trump for dismissing Admiral Fagan purely to send a message.“Her dismissal is not a matter of her performance. It is political performance”, he told Homeland Security Today.
So it’s bye bye to Biden’s record number of 10 impressive female cabinet members including Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines.
And that’s on top of the first female VP - Kamala Harris.
Instead Trump’s got abortion activists orgasmic after he pardoned 23 anti abortion activists - many violent - who had harassed and threatened patients and staff trying to access abortion clinics. These convicts also had blockaded clinics and had been charged under the FACE Act, a 1994 law passed after fatal bombings and shootings at clinics.
Such nice “pro life” people….. yah, right.
So get ready for more danger for abortion clinic staff and patients now that Trump has given a go ahead for violence against them, just like he’s green lit political violence committed on his behalf by pardoning 1600 convicted Insurrectionists.
The bro billionaires must be sooo glad that Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters and white supremacist groups are “culturally neutered “ no longer.
But we can thank Senator Patty Murray for leading the successful charge to vote down a big Republican effort in the Senate’s first week in the majority, to pass the so-called ‘Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act’ , which would have jailed doctors for five years if they didn’t provide ineffective aggressive treatments for newborns with fatal conditions.
As Murray pointed out, it’s already nationally illegal to not immediately provide medical care to any ill newborn. But this new law would have forced doctors to rip babies - born without the organs necessary to live more than a few minutes or hours- out of their parents arms and to subject them to futile painful treatments.
“Families are looking to us to solve problems and lower prices,” slammed Murray. “Instead what they are seeing is Republicans lying about women, lying about health care, and lying about the tragic realities families face when they learn their baby has a fatal diagnosis and cannot survive long after birth. Of all the bills we could be voting on, it is an absolute disgrace that Republicans are spending their first weeks in power attacking women, criminalizing doctors, and lying about abortion.”
Amen.
TRUMP’S NEW DANGEROUS ATTACK ON ABORTION
Finally, can we talk about Trump’s Executive Order declaring that the U.S. government will now only recognize that there are 2 biological sexes from the time of conception and every American is only one or the other, for the rest of their lives.
Aside from the biological idiocy of his Order since cells that differentiate between sexes don’t even start to be produced until six weeks following conception, there is a bomb buried in his order.
And this bomb could be used to explode all of women’s reproductive freedom.
The exploding device is the use of the anti abortionists beloved “fetal personhood” language.
Anti abortion zealots like Russ Vought, who I talked about above claim that every egg, from the nanosecond that it is fertilized, is a person with full rights. And here’s the wording of the two sexes order Exec Order:
“‘Female’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. Male’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.”
Notice the use of the word, “person” to describe fertilized eggs.
You got it - Trump, as president, is calling fertilized eggs - “persons.”
That means that every fertilized egg would have a legal right to life and liberty equal to yours, and any action taken to end their existence, as in, an abortion, and even IVF , would be murder.
Have I made my point? On every front the new macho misogynist -in -chief is attacking women and not just their right to control their bodies.
He’s launched full on attacks on women’s standing in American society as equal citizens.
And the his billionaire boys club - the new oligarchs who are hungering to control the country as his partners - are all in.