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[Colonel Sanders]

If it pleases them to double their husbands' votes, their option

As is getting beaten, should hubby ever suspect them of voting differently from his direction. It’s a free country though.

That's ridiculous. You're better than that.

Have you ever lived in the Bible Belt?
(Characterization is not argument)

It doesn't matter where I've lived. I no longer practice law but one of my specialties was domestic violence restraining orders (DVROs). I did hundreds. Of all the things I ever saw, a woman getting beaten or even being castigated for not voting the way her husband did wasn't one of them. Further, lawyers talk to each other and I never heard of another attorney representing a client where such facts existed.

The issuance of a DVRO can occur for a very wide variety of reasons. These are extremely serious matters, so to trivialize it by making such an unsubstantiated claim is an insult to actual victims who actually need a DVRO.

I'm sure some assholes somewhere committed DV against their wife for exercising an independent political view, but those must be extremely rare. My guess is that when it does happen, it's part of an already existing coercive control pattern exercised by an abuser who is likely already committing some form of DV rather than it being a sole cause.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Also, the video you posted doesn't help your cause at all. You seem fine with catering to insignificant voting demographics while assuming that women who have families aren't really making up their own minds when clearly they are. This brings me to the same point I've made numerous times here. YOU and those like you have caused people to perceive the left as being disdainful of those who choose to have families and to structure those families the way they wish.

Literally no one objects to "having families". What planet do you even live on? The offensive part of the #tradwife movement is the blatant intent to subject women to servitude under their husbands. Not "having families". Anyone can have a family. You don't have to submit to your husband in all things to have children, and I would argue you're setting a pretty bad example for your sons and daughters like if you're teaching them that god wants women to serve men.

I can't help you read the room, so to speak and I'm done repeating myself on this while you set up strawmen in order to prove the [non]truth of what you're saying.

I do need help, though! Please help me read the room as you do. Perhaps you can provide us with some examples of California Democrats trash-talking mothers as a general class?

He thinks people using tradwife as a pejorative makes them not want to vote for Democrats, as if tradwives were sitting on the fence deciding which party to vote for.

The DNC has been perceived by many as concerning themselves about niche social issues rather than the vast majority of children, and I think that from a policy perspective that it's true. Throw in the pervasive social media attacks by leftists against those choosing to have a traditional family and these things add up.

Democratic politicians won't speak against families but they give a voice to radicals and by their silence tacitly support those voices. Thus, when Democrats advocate for families whether it's sincere or not, the unseemly undercurrent running through the sewers of the party delegitimizes stated policy and goals.

 

[ZiprHead]

Throw in the pervasive social media attacks by leftists against those choosing to have a traditional family and these things add up.

I've asked you for examples of this before and all I got back was crickets. If it's pervasive it should be easy to find.

Democratic politicians won't speak against families but they give a voice to radicals and by their silence tacitly support those voices.

Again, examples, please.

Thus, when Democrats advocate for families whether it's sincere or not, the unseemly undercurrent running through the sewers of the party delegitimizes stated policy and goals.

Sure, Jan.

 

[Elixir]

If it pleases them to double their husbands' votes, their option

As is getting beaten, should hubby ever suspect them of voting differently from his direction. It’s a free country though.

That's ridiculous. You're better than that.

Have you ever lived in the Bible Belt?
(Characterization is not argument)

It doesn't matter where I've lived. I no longer practice law but one of my specialties was domestic violence restraining orders (DVROs). I did hundreds. Of all the things I ever saw, a woman getting beaten or even being castigated for not voting the way her husband did wasn't one of them. Further, lawyers talk to each other and I never heard of another attorney representing a client where such facts existed.

The issuance of a DVRO can occur for a very wide variety of reasons. These are extremely serious matters, so to trivialize it by making such an unsubstantiated claim is an insult to actual victims who actually need a DVRO.

I'm sure some assholes somewhere committed DV against their wife for exercising an independent political view, but those must be extremely rare. My guess is that when it does happen, it's part of an already existing coercive control pattern exercised by an abuser who is likely already committing some form of DV rather than it being a sole cause.

Your lack of experience with wife beaters doesn’t really speak to the issue.
My sister lives in Montgomery Alabama and her husband is a lawyer… do I have to go into detail, or describe the SPLC cases he’s been involved in?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Also, the video you posted doesn't help your cause at all. You seem fine with catering to insignificant voting demographics while assuming that women who have families aren't really making up their own minds when clearly they are. This brings me to the same point I've made numerous times here. YOU and those like you have caused people to perceive the left as being disdainful of those who choose to have families and to structure those families the way they wish.

Literally no one objects to "having families". What planet do you even live on? The offensive part of the #tradwife movement is the blatant intent to subject women to servitude under their husbands. Not "having families". Anyone can have a family. You don't have to submit to your husband in all things to have children, and I would argue you're setting a pretty bad example for your sons and daughters like if you're teaching them that god wants women to serve men.

I can't help you read the room, so to speak and I'm done repeating myself on this while you set up strawmen in order to prove the [non]truth of what you're saying.

I do need help, though! Please help me read the room as you do. Perhaps you can provide us with some examples of California Democrats trash-talking mothers as a general class?

He thinks people using tradwife as a pejorative makes them not want to vote for Democrats, as if tradwives were sitting on the fence deciding which party to vote for.

The DNC has been perceived by many as concerning themselves about niche social issues rather than the vast majority of children...

Yes, that is correct. Many have perceived this. It isn't remotely true, but many people think this is what is happening.

Throw in the pervasive social media attacks by leftists against those choosing to have a traditional family and these things add up.

What is a traditional family? Wasn't one of the problems in America that people like the UberEats woman delivering hamburgers to the President needing to work to make ends meet? The traditional family doesn't exist any more because people can't really afford it.

Then do some addition with people like Kirk who was saying women belong at home, telling high school women, college women to not seek success outside the house. Not merely it is an option to consider.

Democratic politicians won't speak against families but they give a voice to radicals and by their silence tacitly support those voices. Thus, when Democrats advocate for families whether it's sincere or not, the unseemly undercurrent running through the sewers of the party delegitimizes stated policy and goals.

I need to see receipts.

 

[Politesse]

The DNC has been perceived by many as concerning themselves about niche social issues rather than the vast majority of children, and I think that from a policy perspective that it's true. Throw in the pervasive social media attacks by leftists against those choosing to have a traditional family and these things add up.

The imaginary pervasive social media attacks?

In any case, if I were a Democratic politician, I would hope that my constituents would hold me accountable for promoting the well-being of all American families, "traditional" or otherwise.

 

[Elixir]

if I were a Democratic politician, I would hope that my constituents would hold me accountable for promoting the well-being of all Amweican families, "traditional" or otherwise.

I don’t think you know what those Amweicans are like when you’re not around!

 

[TSwizzle]

This is what we have to put up with in the fourth largest economy in the world.

The 39-year-old homeless man who allegedly stabbed a woman in downtown Los Angeles was wanted for allegedly killing someone last year, according to a law enforcement bulletin a source provided to CBS LA. The law enforcement bulletin identified Kenneth Gibson, 39, as a suspect in a homicide that happened at a homeless encampment at the Eighth Street on-ramp to the 110 Freeway on May 23, 2025. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner identified the victim as 48-year-old Byron Fuentes. Fuentes' family said he became homeless because of a drug addiction. Almost a year after Fuentes' death, Gibson allegedly stabbed a 70-year-old woman in the neck while she was walking down the sidewalk, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The woman was left with injuries, including a broken neck and a punctured artery, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said when Gibson was charged on Friday.

CBS News

 

[Politesse]

This is what we have to put up with in the fourth largest economy in the world.

The 39-year-old homeless man who allegedly stabbed a woman in downtown Los Angeles was wanted for allegedly killing someone last year, according to a law enforcement bulletin a source provided to CBS LA. The law enforcement bulletin identified Kenneth Gibson, 39, as a suspect in a homicide that happened at a homeless encampment at the Eighth Street on-ramp to the 110 Freeway on May 23, 2025. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner identified the victim as 48-year-old Byron Fuentes. Fuentes' family said he became homeless because of a drug addiction. Almost a year after Fuentes' death, Gibson allegedly stabbed a 70-year-old woman in the neck while she was walking down the sidewalk, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The woman was left with injuries, including a broken neck and a punctured artery, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said when Gibson was charged on Friday.

CBS News

So the police didn't do their job?

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Throw in the pervasive social media attacks by leftists against those choosing to have a traditional family and these things add up.

I've asked you for examples of this before and all I got back was crickets. If it's pervasive it should be easy to find.

Democratic politicians won't speak against families but they give a voice to radicals and by their silence tacitly support those voices.

Again, examples, please.

Thus, when Democrats advocate for families whether it's sincere or not, the unseemly undercurrent running through the sewers of the party delegitimizes stated policy and goals.

Sure, Jan.

I'm not going to write a book for you. If you're not aware of what happens on social media and the influence it has on social and political issues, then I don't know what to tell you. If you can't see the poorly performing attempts to shove unasked for and unwanted bonk-you-over-the-head shows that Disney has shat out over the last 10 years, along with things like the Oscars now requiring that a certain percentage of a movie have a diversity quota or else the movie won't be considered, then hide your head in the sand all you want, it's not going to change anything.

I've given plenty of examples, btw. That you choose to ignore them is your problem not mine, but here's another: Kamala Harris. I gave money to her campaign and voted for her despite her lack of qualifications and statements that she supported the state paying for transgender surgery operations. Thanks for catering to the 0.03% crowd and doing so with respect to convicted felons, Kamala! Way to go!

 

[ZiprHead]

Throw in the pervasive social media attacks by leftists against those choosing to have a traditional family and these things add up.

I've asked you for examples of this before and all I got back was crickets. If it's pervasive it should be easy to find.

Democratic politicians won't speak against families but they give a voice to radicals and by their silence tacitly support those voices.

Again, examples, please.

Thus, when Democrats advocate for families whether it's sincere or not, the unseemly undercurrent running through the sewers of the party delegitimizes stated policy and goals.

Sure, Jan.

I'm not going to write a book for you. If you're not aware of what happens on social media and the influence it has on social and political issues, then I don't know what to tell you. If you can't see the poorly performing attempts to shove unasked for and unwanted bonk-you-over-the-head shows that Disney has shat out over the last 10 years, along with things like the Oscars now requiring that a certain percentage of a movie have a diversity quota or else the movie won't be considered, then hide your head in the sand all you want, it's not going to change anything.

In other words, "No, I don't have any examples of tradwife attacks by leftists."

Disney puts out content that doesn't cater to my shitty white ass so I'm going to vote for the devil.

I've given plenty of examples, btw. That you choose to ignore them is your problem not mine, but here's another: Kamala Harris. I gave money to her campaign and voted for her despite her lack of qualifications and statements that she supported the state paying for transgender surgery operations. Thanks for catering to the 0.03% crowd and doing so with respect to convicted felons, Kamala! Way to go!

How is that an attack on anyone?

 

[Politesse]

Throw in the pervasive social media attacks by leftists against those choosing to have a traditional family and these things add up.

I've asked you for examples of this before and all I got back was crickets. If it's pervasive it should be easy to find.

Democratic politicians won't speak against families but they give a voice to radicals and by their silence tacitly support those voices.

Again, examples, please.

Thus, when Democrats advocate for families whether it's sincere or not, the unseemly undercurrent running through the sewers of the party delegitimizes stated policy and goals.

Sure, Jan.

I'm not going to write a book for you. If you're not aware of what happens on social media and the influence it has on social and political issues, then I don't know what to tell you.

This is not evidence.

If you can't see the poorly performing attempts to shove unasked for and unwanted bonk-you-over-the-head shows that Disney has shat out over the last 10 years, along with things like the Oscars now requiring that a certain percentage of a movie have a diversity quota or else the movie won't be considered, then hide your head in the sand all you want, it's not going to change anything.

This is not evidence, or true.

I've given plenty of examples, btw.

No, you didn't.

That you choose to ignore them is your problem not mine, but here's another: Kamala Harris. I gave money to her campaign and voted for her despite her lack of qualifications and statements that she supported the state paying for transgender surgery operations.

That anecdote, though very revealing as to your true political motivations, has nothing to do with what you were asked. In fact, arguing that some women and children should be denied necessary medical care due to their supposedly abberant gender ideology is not a pro-family, pro-woman position. A genuinely pro-family position would be generally pro-life, and definitely in favor of letting parents and doctors decide what is best for children, not Washington politicians.

 

[ZiprHead]

IN HONOR OF CALIFORNIA’S 175TH ANNIVERSARY, WE WILL BE ROLLING OUT A VERY SPECIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE FOR EVERY CALIFORNIAN THIS SUMMER! IT WILL FEATURE A HANDSOME, HIGH-QUALITY PHOTO OF ME, GAVIN C. NEWSOM. MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING IT’S THE BEST LICENSE EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. THIS IS ABOUT CELEBRATING OUR BEAUTIFUL STATE (IT IS NOT ABOUT ME, DESPITE THE VERY HANDSOME PHOTO!). ENJOY! — GOVERNOR GCN

 

[Politesse]

I'd get one just to trigger the 'Pubbles, lol!

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

This is what we have to put up with in the fourth largest economy in the world.

The 39-year-old homeless man who allegedly stabbed a woman in downtown Los Angeles was wanted for allegedly killing someone last year, according to a law enforcement bulletin a source provided to CBS LA. The law enforcement bulletin identified Kenneth Gibson, 39, as a suspect in a homicide that happened at a homeless encampment at the Eighth Street on-ramp to the 110 Freeway on May 23, 2025. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner identified the victim as 48-year-old Byron Fuentes. Fuentes' family said he became homeless because of a drug addiction. Almost a year after Fuentes' death, Gibson allegedly stabbed a 70-year-old woman in the neck while she was walking down the sidewalk, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The woman was left with injuries, including a broken neck and a punctured artery, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said when Gibson was charged on Friday.

CBS News

Man, just be glad you don't live in the 15th largest GDP in the world state of Florida. The Florida Man crimes committed in that economic hell hole are quite something else.

 

[TSwizzle]

More news from the fourth largest economy in the world.

Quixote Cuts Most of Its L.A. Soundstage Business. In Los Angeles, the services firm is winding down leases at multiple soundstages including Quixote West Hollywood, which hosted commercial and music video shoots, as well as its Van Nuys lease at Quixote Central Valley (formerly named Chandler Valley Center Studios, aka the backdrop for NBC’s The Office.). "Quixote has made the difficult decision to begin the process of winding down most of our sound stage business in Los Angeles, including our main commercial studio in West Hollywood,” read a note from Quixote emailed to clients on Tuesday that added: “Like many of you, we have persisted through the prolonged and ongoing slowdown in commercial, television, and film production. But ultimately, industry conditions have forced difficult decisions.”

Hollywood Reporter

I read that Rob Lowe's quiz show 'The Floor" is actually filmed in Dublin, Ireland because it is cheaper to film in Ireland than Los Angeles.

 

[Politesse]

More news from the fourth largest economy in the world.

Quixote Cuts Most of Its L.A. Soundstage Business. In Los Angeles, the services firm is winding down leases at multiple soundstages including Quixote West Hollywood, which hosted commercial and music video shoots, as well as its Van Nuys lease at Quixote Central Valley (formerly named Chandler Valley Center Studios, aka the backdrop for NBC’s The Office.). "Quixote has made the difficult decision to begin the process of winding down most of our sound stage business in Los Angeles, including our main commercial studio in West Hollywood,” read a note from Quixote emailed to clients on Tuesday that added: “Like many of you, we have persisted through the prolonged and ongoing slowdown in commercial, television, and film production. But ultimately, industry conditions have forced difficult decisions.”

Hollywood Reporter

I read that Rob Lowe's quiz show 'The Floor" is actually filmed in Dublin, Ireland because it is cheaper to film in Ireland than Los Angeles.

Why?

 

[TSwizzle]

The grift continues in corrupts af Los Angels

Los Angeles officials announced plans to rebuild the historic Griffith Park Pool for a staggering $40 million. It is slated for completion by mid-2029. However, the eye-popping price tag has raised eyebrows, particularly after a plan outlined in July pegged the cost at $28 million.

News

Costs $40m and three years to complete a swimming pool!! No doubt this will turn into a clusterfuck where it will end up costing $100m+ and ten years before it's open.

 

[scombrid]

Families: the term "trad wife" has become a derogatory term directed toward women who want to have a traditional marriage i.e. husband and children. These comments are almost exclusively pointed toward white women and therefore white families.

You need to learn what the terms mean! "Trad wife" is not simply about having a husband and children, but about him being completely in control and she stays at home.

I could go on e.g. illegal immigration, support of Hamas, antisemitism, the university system, etc.

I don't think the university system is flawed as such. Studying the sciences tends to move people to the left.

I do agree there's a problem with with supporting things that should not be supported, but that's due to a very large and well planned campaign of misinformation. The right demonizes those who won't roll over for fascism, the left demonizes those who won't roll over for Islamic fundamentalism.

And few are interested in trying to teach people how to avoid falling for the propaganda because it would work both ways.

"Trad wife" is a pejorative term directed at white American families and nothing less; and how that's spun into the husband dominating the wife is flat out bizarre. Your interpretation is a paper thin attempt to provide cover for yet another reason so many people have been pushed away from voting for more progressive candidates.

The DNC could put a stop to this by vocally rejecting people who say shit like this. It's mostly young people espousing this absurd point of view and they don't show up to vote anyway.

The university system has become a farce when it comes to things like the social "sciences" along with the advocacy of radical political history and systems. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I went back to college fairly late in life and I came away with an understanding of why conservatives are so up in arms. The far left complains about "hate" to the point it's lost any meaning. Anything that one disagrees with = hate. Just like the instant accusations of racism, misogyny, etc., it's an attempt to shut down honest conversation. Case in point: a certain someone here took what I said about another subject and then performed contortions in order to accuse me of wanting trans people put in jail.

I didn't respond because it wasn't worthy of a response.

The understandable perception among millions is that they're not wanted--that the Dems have become a party of exclusion. Meanwhile the GOP welcomes all but the smallest demographics. The GOP and its horrifying support for Trump is awful beyond words but they're a lot smarter than the people running the DNC.

Andrew Tate and Andrew Tate adjacent manosphere “alpha males” are the purveyors of fine trad wives. There is no spin needed to portray the right wanting men to dominate wives when reading the words of Pete Hegseth’s preacher Doug Williams. Not sure why it is okay for the GOP to welcome such people and even protect them from prosecution, whereas it is a capital offense for a liberal to speak against systemic racism or implicit misogyny. Are we supposed to pretend that Doug Williams and Project 2025 don’t exist?

 

[thebeave]

The grift continues in corrupts af Los Angels

Los Angeles officials announced plans to rebuild the historic Griffith Park Pool for a staggering $40 million. It is slated for completion by mid-2029. However, the eye-popping price tag has raised eyebrows, particularly after a plan outlined in July pegged the cost at $28 million.

News

Costs $40m and three years to complete a swimming pool!! No doubt this will turn into a clusterfuck where it will end up costing $100m+ and ten years before it's open.

Ridiculous. Shouldn't they first prioritize Griffith Park itself? I've never been there, but from what I understand, its overrun by drug dealers, homeless, unhoused people and the mentally ill. Who would want to fight all that on the way to going for a swim?