Something Roe-like is happening. Grandmothers are fighting for granddaughters.

[kpete]

@JonesHospodTX

Handed out >375 flyers today and 3 different times the GOP gentleman declined my flyer when finding out I'm a Democrat BUT Mrs GOP reached around him and asked for one. Openly.

Link to tweet

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[malaise]

1. Rec

Go,Grannies! Roe the vote!

[Hekate]

2. KnR

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. This grandma is...I have 3 granddaughters

For whom I will be on the constant fight for to make sure their rights to choose and to vote remain a steadfast part of their legacies.

The overturning of Roe has most women in this country on high alert. Those women who continue to vote Republican need to have their heads examined. For what is happening to suppress their voices is being dismissed by lies and propaganda. THEY want to be controlled, looked at as property with NO Rights whatsoever.

Women! You have a choice this November! Vote for a Party that will FIGHT for your rights(Democrats)! Or one that is hellbent on TAKING them away(Republicans)!

[Lonestarblue]

10. Some women have just been conditioned to let the men in their lives make all their decisions

for them. And they’re happy to be told what to think by a man. I remember a street interview before the 2016 election of a woman who confidently said that she would never vote for a woman because they are just not qualified to be leaders—spoken like a true sheep. I blame a lot of this on white evangelicalism, which teaches that women are subservient to men. I have a friend who is well educated but is strongly religious, and she never follows politics or what’s happening in the world because her husband will tell her who to vote for and whether anything important has happened.

But I’m hoping that all those women who just took Roe for granted have awakened to the peril of electing Republicans who want to take away even more rights will vote this Fall. If Kansas is any indication, they will.

[calimary]

20. No man is gonna tell THIS grandma what to think, OR what to do.

My solid-Democratic husband views me as a total equal and treats me that way. And always has. I couldn’t and WOULDN’T have married him 40-some-odd years ago if he didn’t.

And I’m fighting for MY granddaughters now, too, as well as for our daughter - their mother (who also found a guy like her mom had, otherwise she wouldn’t have chosen him, either.

We had what one of their friend’s moms described as “a very unusual family.” I was one of a small handful of moms who kept her own last name (why not? I was already established professionally with that name before I even got married, and I’m not his “possession,” and my name is every bit as important as his).

And he kept his name, too. When he proposed, he asked me what I wanted to do about that. He brought it up. He said he wouldn’t want to change his last name so he didn’t see why I should have to change mine. Sorta locked him in, for me. I can still remember thinking - “ooooooooh, I LIKE his thinking! THIS ONE’s a keeper!”

He was, and still is, a truly liberated man. That’s why I married him. I liked his thinking. So I grabbed on and held on, with no regrets.

I always had a problem with the whole “woman changes her name when she gets married” thing. Why does it have to be that way? I always bristled at that widely-held assumption. Why? Is MY last name not good enough? Why do I have to give that up? It’s part of who I am. Am I not allowed to keep it that way if I so choose?

[onetexan]

11. Hear hear! My son & soon2be DIL want kids and i'll be damned if anything happens to her and our

other 2 girls. Should anything happen to the DIL while she's pregnant that warrants an abortion i will fight to make sure she has the means to have a safe one. The damn GOP have no clue that hell hath no fury like women whose rights to their bodies have been taken away.

[calimary]

23. Right there with ya, onetexan!

Right there with ya. For my daughter, and HER daughters.

[niyad]

4. KNR

[mopinko]

5. you know what's more dangerous than pissing off the artists?

which, i tell you, is the most dangerous thing an autocrat can do.
piss off the grannies. babushka power will be the end of these fools.

[ShazzieB]

14. Women "of a certain age" are a force to be reckoned with, for sure.

Whether we're actual grannies* or not, the older we get, the fewer fucks we have left to give. I used mine up years ago!

*I'm not a grandmother, but I do have a daughter, a niece, and a grand niece. Anyone who wants to mess with their body autonomy will have to go through me! 👊

[mopinko]

18. doesnt even have to be blood.

3 daughters, 1 still fertile. might have 1. 2 boys, 1 likely to reproduce.

but the day after roe fell, i looked out my window to see the girl baby across the street taking unsteady steps from 1 mom to the other and i thought- i'm so glad to live where i live. if anyone EVER came for that family, the street would be packed w allies that no vehicle but an mrap could get through.

i'm anxiously awaiting the day gloria steinnem predicted- when an army of grey haired old ladies rise up to save the world. i'm so ready to enlist.

[calimary]

24. Yep. Consider me enlisted as well.

[mopinko]

26. wellll.

before you join my squad, we have to stay up late drinking and telling stories at least once.
but if you think you can get over that bar, you're in.

[calimary]

29. You're on!

Lifelong night owl here (morning drive radio jobs were a killer for everything except my ego). TONS of stories I know you’ll enjoy. I was a story-teller by trade. Heavy drinker, too - as long as it’s hot tea. After all, SOMEBODY’S gotta be able to drive everybody home. Experienced designated driver here, already.

Besides, I never liked the taste of alcohol. Tried various kinds in college. The taste issue alone was enough to stop me.

[mopinko]

30. oh hell. dd alone gets you in my gang.

sounds like great fun.
at 68 i'm just full of them. i've had quite a life.
also nothing but irish, so...

i have that love of bitter gene- hoppy beers, dark chocolate, greasy bitter coffee- heaven,

[calimary]

31. Well, we certainly agree on the chocolate part!

Although I like my chocolate smooth or smoothly chewy, with no nuts or cocoanut - although I make an exception for the occasional Snickers bar. When my perpetual dieting will permit, that is.



But I’m very happy to do the driving in any event so you and everybody else can go goofy!

I’m actually also a good “hair-holder.” Found myself pressed into service whenever some girl got too drunk and had to be helped into the bathroom to throw up. If she had long hair, she needed ME!

[mopinko]

34. lol. i wear my hair very short,

midnight milky was is the bomb, tho i mostly boycott mars. my mom worked for them back in the day, and they made her quit when she got ENGAGED. she was a great secretary and a girl from the hood, but...
i indulge now and again. and when i visit my great grands at the cemetery i take them a mars something. a some irish whiskey, and a coupla smokes.

[calimary]

35. Nice!

My hair is loooooooooong by now. I can almost literally sit on it. It keeps growing while I’m still trying to figure out what I want to do with it.

[soldierant]

38. The Haudosenee people, from whom our Founding Fathers got the idea

of a tripartate system of government (and as you will see probably tweaked it too much) had as the equivalent of our judicial branch the council of its older women. Its function - resolving disputes in acordance with rock-bottom principles - was the same as our court systems, as I understand it.

[PatrickforB]

41. A Council of Mothers is a darned good idea. n/t

[mopinko]

42. only thing better would be grandmothers.

we ought to rule the world, anyway.

[JudyM]

45. For the world.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

6. This great grandfather and grandfather is fighting for their right to choose

for themselves, not what some old white men choose for them.

[paleotn]

7. The majority of Americans, including grandmothers, aren't going back.

And certainly aren't going all fascist.

[calimary]

36. NO! We're NOT going back.

I can’t even imagine what our elder sisters remember, or Heaven forbid, experienced back before we had Roe v. Wade!

Seems the GOP is determined to bring back those “good old days” - which WEREN’T so good if you were any kind of female.

[2naSalit]

8. I have five nieces...

And that is enough.

[liberalla]

9. I'm not surprised by this.

Most republican women don't want to lose the right to control what happens to their own bodies, either.
(Even if they are pro-life and want to control choices for other people.)
This was a huge miscalculation for republican MEN.

[COL Mustard]

15. I'm still unsure whether to thank Alito

Or damn him. Either way, he's the author of this horrible decision that has us all energized and angry. Stay that way through the election, and be prepared for another round leading into 2024! He had no idea what he was doing!

[ShazzieB]

39. In a way, it does sorta feel like he did us a favor.

I'll decide whether to thank him or facepunch him depending on how the midterms turn out.

[COL Mustard]

43. I am witchoo

He certainly aroused some righteous anger. Gotta hold on to it at least until November. Or is it Roe-vember now?

[Joinfortmill]

12. Don't underestimate Grammys

[EnergizedLib]

13. Everything I see

Tells me Dobbs was wrongly decided, and the American people saying so.

[Crowman2009]

16. I assume a lot of grandmothers today were around the time ERA was up for vote.

Then the god damn moral majority and their compliant handmaidens ended hope for that in the 80's. So that and the recent Supreme court fuckery has all of them up in arms. Which I am damn glad! It's time to start nailing the coffin for the religious fundies once and for all.

[Wounded Bear]

17. K & R...nt

[Heather MC]

19. I suspect a lot of wives in certain areas, are forced to vote the same as hubby

I've met so many women, who after their husbands have died suddenly realized they were democrats.

And these were women who were married to seemingly nice men. But they certainly changed their political views once their husband's died.

I'm not saying all, but I wonder what is the percentage of women who vote based on how their husbands vote🤔

[gademocrat7]

21. K&R!

[DownriverDem]

22. The voters know

that MAGA repubs have overreached. My hope of hope is that folks vote in mass in November.

[onecaliberal]

25. Recommend.

[c-rational]

27. K&R. nt

[elleng]

28. Of course we are, even tho our granddaughters may be only 3 and 5 years old!

[Aristus]

32. "Mothers are standing in front of tanks. And we're going to go get their backs."

Plus, this grandfather is going to fight for his granddaughters. 100%...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

33. Battle cry of this election: Roe your vote, up and down the ballot!

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

Donate to 38 House candidates: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217067267
Stick 'em up for a blue wave: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217078977

[calimary]

37. Luckovich scores AGAIN!

[Blue Owl]

40. K&R

[sarcasmo]

44. Roe, Roe, Roe, your vote. RoeVember.

[dflprincess]

46. I'm seeing a few yards in my area that have always had Republican signs up

that still have Republican signs up - but there are also signs up for DFLers. This is especially true in the governor's race. I've been assuming it's where the husband is still Republican and the wife has had it with them.

[Danascot]

47. Thanks to Kathy Jones-Hospod

for handing out those flyers! (in Texas yet!) I hope she's able to continue the good fight.

[mnhtnbb]

48. You can find or join a group of Raging Grannies

here: https://raginggrannies.org/

The group in The Triangle area of NC (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) is quite active.



I do not have grandchildren and only have living sons, but I am as angry as I could be over the Dobbs decision. Both my sons are gay and I am very concerned that the Christofascist Supremes are coming for LGBTQ rights next.