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Dawn Kucera's avatar

Danielle Sassoon - and YET AGAIN it is a woman who is showing courage, a backbone and integrity. Add her to the long list that includes Liz, Ruby, Shaye, Cassidy, Sarah, Olivia and others I can’t ’ recall right now.

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Charles's avatar

Unfortunately, none of these women are in the Republican Senate. Instead, we have "folders" like Collins, Ernst and

others. The women with backbone and gonads don't appear to be part of the Senate Republican Caucus.

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Dawn Kucera's avatar

No, we have Marsha Blackburn (TN), Katie Britt (AL) and Susan Collins (ME)

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Wolf's avatar

Marsha has a degree in home economics

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Hortense's avatar

Lovely to see these names in print, and with the list getting longer.

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Tim Coffey's avatar

It's always women who are stepping up because us men are, to be frank, awful.

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Julie's avatar

I don't think all men are awful, not at all. Many of my very favorite people are men. While some men do truly awful things or are bad people (I'm looking at you, T-Hump), awfulness is not territory exclusively inhabited by men (Marjorie Taylor Greene anyone?). Right now, though, I have to agree that these men on the right in Congress *are* awful. I can't think of one standing on principle, not one. It's sickening.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Makes me proud to be a member of the “weaker” sex.

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T Jefferson Snodgrass's avatar

There is no more compelling testimony to the tangible reality of grace than a smart, strong woman. All these cowardly little Lost Boy chucklefucks--Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Patel, Bove, Bannon, Charlie Kirk, the entire pantheon of militant evangelical manfulness lickspittles--aren't worth the soil trod by a single smart, strong woman. Perhaps it's that only a rare man is able to distinguish between physical courage and moral courage, and so spends his life aping manfulness. Whatever the case, it's going to be up to women to save this great Republic from hegemonic masculinity. I really believe that.

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Dawn Kucera's avatar

As you indicate with your quote marks, nothing weak about us. I wonder if it has to do with we've had to fight for every darn thing for hundreds of years.

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