Joyce Vance is a lawyer. She served for eight years as US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, appointed by President Barack Obama. She blogs at Civil Discourse. This post could be subtitled “Ladies, Don’t Worry your pretty little head about ‘rights.”
She writes:
This is what was on Trump’s mind at 11:49 p.m. last night.
What did he intend? Were patriarchal family-man types supposed to read it to their wives and daughters while they did chores and prepared meals? It certainly reads that way. You can easily imagine Trump hoping these men would say to the women in their lives: You’re worse off and less healthy than you were four years ago; less safe, more depressed, less happy. Or maybe American women are just supposed to take Trump’s word for it.
Women celebrate in Washington DC after Joe Biden wins the presidency in 2020
Trump thinks women can be told that they are less confident about the future than they were four years ago and they will simply accept it. Women will get on Truth Social, read his post, and think, I don’t need to worry anymore because Donald Trump will fix all of that.
These women are looking pretty happy about not-Donald Trump
Donald Trump to women: If you will just listen to Donald Trump, the national nightmare you are enduring will be over.
Winning ticket
Donald Trump also wants you to know, if you’re a woman voter, that you won’t have to think about abortion anymore if he’s president. Why? Apparently, because abortion will be one less right to worry about since you won’t have it anymore. Say goodbye to what remains of your control over your health care. But it will be okay, Donald Trump tells you: It will make you happy.
Trump says in one breath that there are “powerful exceptions” to his abortion bans while also saying that the status of a woman’s right to an abortion is up to her state. Many of those states don’t have exceptions for the mother’s health or have passed laws criminalizing abortion so doctors are afraid to provide care to women until it’s too late. In some of those states, attorneys general are threatening to prevent women from leaving the state to obtain abortion care or to prosecute them for doing so.
“I will protect women at a level never seen before,” Trump concludes. “They will finally be healthy, hopeful, safe, and secure. Their lives will be happy, beautiful, and great again.” He writes it with all the fervor of a man envisioning a future that is part “Stepford Wives” and part “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Trump: You will be happy. Your life will be beautiful. It will be that way because I say so. It is not up to you.
That’s the future Donald Trump has in store for American women.
Donald Trump is a lunatic. I don’t say that casually. His post from last night was a stark reminder of what it’s like to live in Donald Trump’s America. I’m sure you all remember it—waking up in the middle of the night to check Twitter for news of unfolding disasters. Had he praised a dictator, enacted a Muslim ban, separated children from their parents at the border, called white nationalists “decent people”? What would be next? Don’t worry your pretty little heads about that, he’s telling women now.
We are 45 days away from the election. We all know the assignment. We are never ever getting back together with Donald Trump. Never ever.
In 2020, early exit polls showed Biden winning the votes of 57 percent of women. A majority of American women were eager to end Trump’s power over their lives. If the best argument Trump has to convince those women to vote for him is that they’ll lose more rights while he tells them to be happy about it, well, good luck with that.
Here’s some better advice for women:
- It’s okay to vote for Kamala Harris, even if you’re a lifelong Republican voter.
- If you don’t want to, you don’t have to tell anyone the truth about who you voted for.
- Women should be able to make their own choices about their healthcare, and they shouldn’t have to watch their daughters suffer and even die because of Donald Trump’s abortion bans. Woman and their families should have access to IVF. Try telling men they can’t get lifesaving medical care, or even a prescription for Viagra, and see how far that gets you. Don’t vote for someone who treats you like a second-class citizen.
Donald Trump is losing women from inside of his fold. It’s not just Liz Cheney and the never Trumpers. Dawn Roberts, the Iowa state co-chair of the Nikki Haley’s campaign and a lifelong Republican, endorsed Kamala Harris, telling The Des Moines Register, “My husband, Steve, often questioned why the U.S. has never had a female president. I think the time is now and Kamala Harris is the person to lead our country into the future.”
Iowan Harris supporter Dawn Roberts, lifelong Republican
Donald Trump complains that Kamala Harris is too joyful, that she laughs too much. Trump thrives on a dark vision of America in chaos, casting himself in the role of faux superhero coming to save us all. He benefits from fearmongering. Trump made the deliberate choice to talk about “American carnage” in his inaugural address in 2020. As he loses votes among women, Trump resorts to telling us what to think and how to feel. It has nothing to do with our well-being and everything to do with helping him win the election. Sorry Donald. We are not going back.
We’re in this together,
Joyce
Diane Ravitch's blog 
That’s it. Switching my vote in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,….
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Mary Trump had a terrific reply to DJT’s patronizing comments about women. Her reply was, “So says the rapist.”
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TRUMP FEARS WOMEN
Trump is intimated by and fearful of women, which is why he overcompensates for his psychological fear of women by physically assaulting them or by bullying them; he has never been able to sustain a normal marital relationship and turns to extramarital affairs because he is afraid of the spousal gender equality of a normal marriage — and Vance is his protege.
Trump’s bullying didn’t intimidate Harris, and many millions of women of all ages who saw her stand her ground are going to vote for her because it’s a vote for themselves and for all women.
And a self-determined woman like Taylor Swift who has made herself a billionaire terrifies Trump and his cult followers, so he and his MAGA Minions try to demean her.
Trump’s anger about his inadequacy makes him incapable of maintaining a normal relationship with a woman, let alone debating a strong, competent, knowledgeable woman like Kamala Harris.
Trump wants to “keep women in their place” — which he and his mindless MAGA Minions say is at home and pregnant.
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His marriage to an American woman was only six years long. Maybe part of the appeal of an Eastern European wife is that she “knows her place.” Trump is a serial womanizer regardless of his marital status. He doesn’t take his oaths too seriously.
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He hates immigrants yet 2 of his 3 wives were immigrants.
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Here’s the part of this piece that chills me: “Donald Trump is a lunatic. I don’t say that casually. His post from last night was a stark reminder of what it’s like to live in Donald Trump’s America. I’m sure you all remember it—waking up in the middle of the night to check Twitter for news of unfolding disasters. Had he praised a dictator, enacted a Muslim ban, separated children from their parents at the border, called white nationalists “decent people”? What would be next?“
I remember all too well those 4 yrs of floating dread. I have never been one to ‘wake up in the middle of the night to check Twitter,’ but throughout those yrs I checked Google News headlines 1st thing every day just to see if I could breathe easy he hadn’t done/ said another thing with potentially ominous repercussions. For the past nearly 4 yrs I’m back to my usual habits: Amanpour or BBC maybe 3x/wk for international news, CSPAN in the a.m. for interesting domestic developments. Anything else I need to be thinking about I know I will find out through Diane’s posts!
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ABOUT IMMIGRATION: I haven’t seen every commentator talking, specifically about the “Immigration problem,” but I have noticed that even when MSNBC people talk about it per their coverage of Trump, they ignore that TRUMP HAD HIS MINIONS IN CONGRESS CANCEL a qualified BIPARTISON IMMIGRATION BILL so that he could run on immigration problems . . . which is what he is doing as we speak. Why should he hide his nefarious ideas? They work either way.
Kamala did talk about it in at least one speech. In my view, however, and unless I’ve missed references to it, Trump’s interference in the passage of that bill should be pasted on the foreheads of all concerned . . . it’s a BIG mis-q on the part of commentators and any democratic responder to Trump and his purveying of ANOTHER LIE.
Trump shot my horse then complained to me that it was bleeding in the street. What’s next? CBK
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