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We do not comply: how do we disrupt the momentum of Trump’s cruelty?
The Guardian ^ | 27 Jul, 2025 | V (formerly Eve Ensler)

Posted on 07/27/2025 7:53:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Every day brings more devastation. But daily forms of rebellion can restore our sense of purpose.

The exterminating force of Project 2025 is plowing through the culture, the government and people’s hearts and bodies like a drunk on a violent tear. We wake each morning, holding our breath to bear witness to the new devastation: PBS and NPR defunded, cuts to the fight against human trafficking, Medicaid gone for millions, Ice working to surveil critics, tons of food for the poor ordered burned and wasted.

The momentum of cruelty always feels inevitable. Cruelty is by definition “a callous indifference to or pleasure in causing pain”. For those of us who have suffered physical, political, racial and emotional abuse, it feels like a familiar steamroller of violence. We only have to witness the cries of parents being separated from their children, men screaming out for “libertad” from cages in Everglades detention center (AKA Alligator Alcatraz), non-violent protesters beaten for trying to stop a genocide, to be frozen in that same incapacitating dread and fear.

What is the antidote to this destructive environment of mendacity possessing us now with fear, ennui and self-mutilating rage?

Ash-lee Woodard Henderson, a powerhouse activist and brilliant organizer, told me: “It’s not decided where we go yet. Which is why it feels tense. What we know is that there’s no going back to an old normal because our economic system has failed us and our governmental structure is being destroyed. They’re trying to replace what was with this minority rule of disgustingly wealthy humans dictating what can happen not only in this country, but globally.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrattruth; domesticterrorist; enemycombatant; eveensler; leftism; lesbianpedo; liberaltruth; marxistsubversive; mi6propaganda; sedition; theguardian; treason; v
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To: MtnClimber

The extreme cruelty was Biden’s encouragement and allowing millions of illegal aliens to cross the US border at all. The way Trump is rectifying that is the most humane way possible. It is the parents who abandoned their children that are cruel.


21 posted on 07/27/2025 8:12:44 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those [Leftists] struggling with inferiority complexes)
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To: MtnClimber

The socialists lamenting “creulty”. Thy hypocrisy runneth over.


22 posted on 07/27/2025 8:13:08 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MtnClimber

Those folks leaving the country is the best all-encompassing solution.


23 posted on 07/27/2025 8:16:03 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: MtnClimber
Be like Ben

“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
― Benjamin Franklin

24 posted on 07/27/2025 8:19:32 AM PDT by budj (Combat Vet, second of three generations.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

The link to the full Wikipedia bio is below

The Vagina Monologues! Now there’s a blast from the past! And here she just strings together the leftist verities, what passes for thought among these people

Per the article, I sincerely regret she was molested by her father when young. I don’t blame her for rejecting his surname. But her adoption of the single name, “V” is just a performative selection and, Done in 2019, coincided with the loss of her prominence. She was a one hit wonder with the monologues; now apparently taking another run at having people give a damn about what she says
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Ensler


25 posted on 07/27/2025 8:20:26 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


26 posted on 07/27/2025 8:22:19 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

And they were the ones that defend antifa?


27 posted on 07/27/2025 8:23:48 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: MtnClimber

Thanks for the daily V-gram or Vaginalogue. Otherwise I just wouldn’t know what in the world to think about anything.

I thought she might have been Christian Bale’s stepmother for a while, but that was Gloria Steinem. She was actually Dylan McDermott’s stepmother for a while.


28 posted on 07/27/2025 8:26:03 AM PDT by x
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To: MtnClimber

Thanks for the daily V-gram or Vaginalogue. Otherwise I just wouldn’t know what in the world to think about anything.

I thought she might have been Christian Bale’s stepmother for a while, but that was Gloria Steinem. She was actually Dylan McDermott’s stepmother for a while.


29 posted on 07/27/2025 8:26:03 AM PDT by x
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To: Secret Agent Man

I liked the part about burning food for the poor.


30 posted on 07/27/2025 8:26:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

At the core of the Left’s agenda is a visceral hatred for America, its institutions, liberties and the human rights of its citizens. They mean to transform it, destroy it and make it into a cog of a globalist gulag run by elites by any means necessary. There must be no concessions to them. The Democrat Party is their political means to achieve their goals. It must be destroyed. Decent, rational Americans must come to realize that any vote for any Democrat, anywhere anytime is a vote to destroy America. Those that fund the Left must be identified and held accountable. Either the decent and rational prevail or the country will be lost.


31 posted on 07/27/2025 8:29:44 AM PDT by allendale
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To: MtnClimber

What do you mean “we”, pale face?


32 posted on 07/27/2025 8:31:05 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: MtnClimber

V for Vacuous.


33 posted on 07/27/2025 8:34:09 AM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: MtnClimber

Vagina Chronicles? Stupid is as stupid does. Can’t help themselves.


34 posted on 07/27/2025 8:34:42 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: MtnClimber

I think it is a good thing that illegals are afraid they might be sent to alligator Alcatraz. Go back to your country


35 posted on 07/27/2025 8:36:36 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: MtnClimber

What a pile!


36 posted on 07/27/2025 8:36:39 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

Just completely bonkers of course.

BTW, since when does the left give a rat’s ass about human trafficking? Their preferred policy of lawless open borders practically guarantees human trafficking. But they consider it acceptable collateral damage in order to expand the Democrat electoral base. For the left it’s always about empowering the revolution, and human consequences be damned. Their abstract compassion leads to concrete suffering every friggin time.


37 posted on 07/27/2025 8:40:14 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: MtnClimber

WTF does former mean and V and why? V for vitriolic and Vomitous


38 posted on 07/27/2025 8:44:31 AM PDT by albie
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
In 2006 Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called The Vagina Monologues "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade."

DYSWHDT?

39 posted on 07/27/2025 8:46:22 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: MtnClimber

Eve “See You Next Tuesday” Ensler is the author of The JayJay Monologues.

Sounds like a real nutter.


40 posted on 07/27/2025 8:50:51 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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