What is feminism for if not to protect the right of 89-year-old multimillionaires to keep their jobs at the public’s expense?
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for women’s rights. You see, if our male president doesn’t get to appoint his judges to the courts this very instant, a future Republican administration might hypothetically get to appoint more pro-life judges. And if that happens, it will, of course, be a woman’s fault. After all, Democrats need a majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee in order to advance judicial nominees. And since Feinstein is a member of that committee and currently on medical leave due to shingles, the party doesn’t.
If those last few sentences are glowing, that’s because they’re chock full of gaslighting. And ageism. And male fragility. And. It might sound like these dudebros are genuinely concerned that a senile, 89-year-old multimillionaire is putting her vestigial thirst for power above the interests of Democratic constituencies in general, and women in particular, in much the same way that adid a few years ago.
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