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He’s the richest man in the world, which in itself is a crime. He has illegitimate children already, he can afford more so why should he care. Instead of using some of his obscene wealth to help the world, he is choosing to use it for evil. Like trump, it’s all about him.

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If I were able to have children in this day and age, I'd get my tubes tied until I'm For Sure Ready to become a parent. What a messed up time in our Nation's History for all Women. I'm sorry for our Daughter's future,JoJo, God keep them safe 🙏 Thank You, sweetheart for your post today and will reStack ASAP 💋💯👍

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Jojo, I love the way you nail it time and time again!!!

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What a fucking mess. It gets worse as the Senate and the House are complicit and brain dead.

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I wish they were brain dead. They know exactly what they are doing.

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Keep on keeping it real, Jo. Thank you for this.

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The oxymoron of all this is the conservatives want more births and thought their draconian methods would help but now there will only be less births bc of those rulings...

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This one needs to be sent to every rethuglican in Congress. And daily to that incel of all incels, Leon.

As some of you know, my daughter is sterile from radiation treatments she had so she could have a stem cell transplant to make sure her leukemia never came back. I have never been so happy she got leukemia and needed radiation. She is safe from the reproductive part of the hell-scape in donnie-land. Now, I'm not sure it will suit her in good stead when lil Vance takes over - he likes women to reproduce non stop?

I don't understand why the governments of the red states are not amending their draconian, ignorance filled laws. I remember a while back doctors came out in Texas and said the way the law was written they have little/no choice but to let the woman die. That felt insane to write by the way.

While doing chores I had the random thought that maybe Putin has told trump to appoint these people to the departments which they are most unsuited for. I mean, even if half of them manage to get through, they will cause more than enough problems for the citizens of this country. Is is bad that I have a fantasy of right wingers rising up with their guns AGAINST trump when they see the damage he is doing to them?

Oh goody Daily Beast tells me that the wrestling lady he put up for education has her own sex scandal? WTVF?

I continue to hope that your children (all of you) are not impacted too bad by the first 2 years of hell under trump. I am holding on to the belief that dems will take the 2026 election by storm and he will be silenced, but by then, if those in power don't hold firm, it may be too late.

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She's also in an ongoing steroid scandal involving WWE.

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I thought it was enabling child sex trafficking during her WWE days. There are five John Does suing.

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True. But there have been several steroid scandals.

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JoJo, you have such a talent for putting everything together and making it relevant. I don't know what the next four years, four months, or four days hold, but I think your values and your ability to write about it all is going to be really appreciated. Please keep on doing this. We all need your perspective.

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😵😰🤬💀 I'm making more serious plans to leave the country while I still can. There's not enough like minded people in the US to keep me here. Trump can easily close the borders like in the pandemic and keep us all captive here. God help us all. 🙏🏻💔

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We left last year. I let myself have hope from afar when Kamala Harris was offered as our candidate.

I should have realized that the US WAS as far gone as I’d thought. That American white women would vote for a rapist over a breathtakingly well qualified woman.

They did in 2016, and they did in 2024.

I can’t save all of America. But I can work on the three of my four kids left there. Encouraging them to get out.

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Where did you go?

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Every damned word. PREACH. I know several young women who have made a conscious decision to not have children for virtually every reason you have listed. This is not a safe country for women and children.

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Sad but very true.😥😥

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If I could manage to calm the anger, dismay, fear, disbelief, and numbness that is my brain these days long enough to put pen to paper and express my feelings, they would come out sounding much like yours. Thanks for voicing my thoughts so clearly.

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I'm almost 60 years old. I had a hysterectomy and bilateral tube and ovary removal more than 16 years ago, but only after suffering through 28 years of endometriosis and 20 of PCOS. Docs don't listen to women when we try to tell them we don't want children. I'm glad to be past all that. As for the GOP, may all their pregnancies be with nonviable fetuses and lethal chromosomal anomalies. That's what they deserve.

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But do those innocent babies deserve that? How can they claim to be pro- life when they are dooming them to a life of pain and suffering? 😢🙏🏻💔

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Sadly true. The worst thing we could wish for Trump supporters is that they get exactly what they voted for.

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Like. Substack won't let me like you.(???)

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Musk's simpleton tweet is because he's upset there aren't more White babies being born, and he "thinks" (I use quotation marks because IMO he doesn't really think at all) White women are afraid of getting pregnant.

8 Billion people on the planet, most of them not-White is what's bothering Apartheid-boi.

That and since his companies are mostly based in the US and employ Americans, he doesn't feel there are enough future employees he can exploit being born.

I just can't with these people. Though, I do wonder what they'll blame when the price of eggs don't drop. Or gas remains volatile. Or other groceries in fact go up in price because Dumpf imposed those idiot tariffs. Trust me. They'll find someone or something else to blame because God-king-Emperor Trump is never wrong.

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This s**t is SO crazy I don't know where to start. I'm not sure which is worse: the racism, the misogyny or the "low information" level of the voters. We saw what he did the last time and a MAJORITY of voters decided it wasn't so bad (or they liked it)...or they were voting 3rd party to "send a message"...or just couldn't be bothered to vote to save their own lives. Now many of them are starting to realize the "error of their ways (vote)" and regret it or are suffering the consequences (or soon will be when their rights/benefits go away and many family members ditch them). One thing I know: we will do what we can to make the best of it, so buckle up folks; we're all in this together.

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So many questions. Could it be that this is not a war on the white women that voted in the majority for Donald Trump. It should be. The world will be exactly what we make it…, or let it be. They are coming for your children. White women loves them some sexual abuser felons. The fascist playbook is known. How they inflame the populace is known.

What is coming is known. Except few read this history, and most all that lived it are gone. We are doomed to live it again unless people come to truly understand what we face.

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/dictatorship-is-choreographed?r=3m1bs

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