"I do not plan to watch his speech

"The Trump regime does not deserve normalization. It does not deserve applause. It does not deserve the trappings of democratic ceremony while it attacks democracy itself.

This is the same regime covering up the Epstein files.

The same regime pushing unlawful tariffs after being rebuked.

The same regime attacking judges, immigrants, journalists, and political opponents."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott
/16

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/important-message-from-meidastouch-0ce

"This is the same regime sending masked agents to torture and terrorize and kill people accross the United States.

The same regime that treats the Constitution like a piece of trash.

So we are not playing along."

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott
/17

"How can we endure the constitutional equivalent of a WrestleMania extravaganza?

First, don’t watch. No guilt. You have better things to do than watch a speech designed to insult and upset you. Any activity that does not involve voluntary exposure to someone emotionally assaulting you will be a more productive use of your time. There will be plenty of commentary to fill in the details worth knowing."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott
/18

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/how-to-watch-the-state-of-the-union

"Second, participate in counterprogramming. ... Third, watch the speech with confidence and professional distance, knowing that Trump will further injure the prospects of the Republican Party heading into the midterms."

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott
/19

"Tonight is President Epstein Files’s State of the Union. You won’t be watching it, neither will we."

~ Evan Hurst

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #Epstein
/20

https://www.wonkette.com/p/us-womens-hockey-those-other-scumbags

Joyce Vance invites readers to join her for the SOTU at Notes:

"Notes is rapidly becoming my favorite social media platform, and I’m looking forward to finding you all and following you. … I’ll be posting hot takes, serious takes, and maybe even a little snark on Notes, and I hope you’ll join in and respond so we can gnash our teeth in the comments and get through this together."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott
/21

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/how-to-watch-the-state-of-the-union

"Fox: 'Speaker Mike Johnson says he expects both the men’s and women’s gold medal winning hockey teams to attend State of the Union tomorrow night.'

… But the women’s team politely declined. A spokesperson for the US women's hockey team said the players are unable to attend 'due to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments.'"

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #WomensHockey #MensHockey
/22

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-314-22326

"… Expect the men’s team to be there. Also expect Trump to take credit for their win while using them as political props. Many of them appear to be Trump supporters, so they probably won’t care."

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #WomensHockey #MensHockey
/23

"The difficulty with State of the Union in particular is that the audience in the chamber is captive. If Democrats commit to maintaining a 'dignified presence' while Trump speaks, as Jeffries requested last year, they will sit there unresponsively absorbing abuse and lies.

That leaves them in an inherently weak posture."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #Democrats
/8

https://www.offmessage.net/p/why-the-state-of-the-union-boycotters

"The women politely alerted the White House they would not be accepting any invitations to the State of the Union, because apparently they have a firm grip of what the state of our union really is right now.

And that important statement resonates far more loudly than any meaningless 'U-S-A ... U-S-A' chant ever will."

~ D. Earl Stephens

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #WomensHockey #MensHockey
/24

https://dearlstephens.substack.com/p/u-s-a-u-s-a

"Look back at the Epstein files and you can see the future," says Kate Manne. Specifically, you can see the future of what patriarchy has morphed into at this point in history, with the Epstein Class illustrating the shift:

"Girls and women are being treated as human and sexual property, yes, but of the form that may be rented out and traded rather than jealously safeguarded."

#Epstein #patriarchy #misogyny #abuse #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #women #girls
/1

https://katemanne.substack.com/p/the-prescience-of-epstein

"It is a particular kind of capital that is a basis for male bonding and camaraderie, rather than strenuous competition—and it is easily disposed of rather than hoarded as something precious. …

But what one finds in the Epstein files is a kind of preview of what was to come, and what we are now seeing unfolding."

#Epstein #patriarchy #misogyny #abuse #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #women #girls
/2

"Men bond in deep—and deeply disgusting—ways over their sharing of girls and women and their enabling of each others’ sexual abuse of them. hey share the kind of intimacy and friendship that those hand-wringing about male loneliness (which my brilliant student Ryan Bollier has in his crosshairs) can currently only dream of."

#Epstein #patriarchy #misogyny #abuse #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #women #girls
/3

"Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, trying to prevent another shouting match, has suggested Democratic members either sit silently or not attend. No one should take the 'sit silently' option."

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #boycott #Democrats
/12

"It’s not just locker room talk; it’s a shared sport and lifestyle. It’s as if the fear of homosociality and even queerness is allayed by all the raping (gallows humor)."

#Epstein #patriarchy #misogyny #abuse #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #women #girls
/4

"Over the past week:

A bunch of drunk male hockey Olympians laughed it up while our leader insulted female hockey Olympians for winning a gold medal

The state of Louisiana began a court case to outlaw abortion medication nationwide, even for those in Blue states where abortion is currently legal"

~ Andra Watkins

#Epstein #patriarchy #misogyny #abuse #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #women #girls
/5

https://andrawatkins.substack.com/p/this-newsletter-is-for-us-women

"The state of Tennessee proposed the death penalty for women who get abortions

Reports indicate that the regime is kidnapping and trafficking pregnant teenage girls to Texas where they cannot get access to healthcare"

#Epstein #patriarchy #misogyny #abuse #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #women #girls
/6

"According to other reports, the regime is also kidnapping, trafficking, and sequestering teenage girls to Texas to be guarded by ICE and Border Patrol, two of the rapiest, sexual assaultiest, pedophiliest branches of federal law enforcement

The regime continues to push the Voter Elimination Act (which they call the SAVE Act)," (continued in /8)

#Epstein #patriarchy #misogyny #abuse #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #women #girls
/7

(continued from /7)

"which will cause millions of women whose current names don’t match their birth certificate names to be unable to register to vote (80% of US women take their husband’s last name upon marriage; this is an effort to bar women from voting)

One of the worst US white men said all women need to be sent to gulags"

#Epstein #patriarchy #misogyny #abuse #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #women #girls
/8

"What should have been a shared moment of national pride instead curdled into something more familiar. On speakerphone, with FBI Director Kash Patel holding the phone inside the locker room, Trump invited the team to the White House and joked that he would 'probably be impeached' if he didn’t also invite the gold medal–winning women’s team, reducing their victory to a political aside."

~ Crystal Bell

#Trump #KashPatel #WomensHockey #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
/9

https://mashable.com/article/trump-mens-hockey-team-usa-viral-locker-room-call-reactions