This post is being reprinted from a new substack publication I have started called The Montreal Dispatch.
It will soon be illegal for women to be butch in several Republican-led U.S. states, the Montreal Dispatch has learned. And guys will not be permitted to wear their hair long. Instead, they will have to sport crew cuts under new legislation to be introduced in the weeks to come.
It’s all part of the MAGA extreme right’s culture war on “woke leftists” and their bid “to make men look like men and women look like women again,” a concerned Republican source, who requested anonymity, told the Dispatch.
The source said Flouride governor Ron DeSatan has told his counterparts in other Republican states that snuffing out LGBTQ lifestyles is not enough.
“What’s the point of doing that if butch women still look like men and long-haired men still look like women,” he reportedly told them. “We must see this through if we want America to be hetero-normal again.”
Under the planned legislation, women will not be permitted to wear pants or shirts in public or in private, the source said. They will be required to wear dresses or skirts that fall below the knees and blouses that completely cover up their cleavage. They will also be required to wear their hair long, with the minimum length set at the shoulders. They will no longer be allowed to wear high heels, with limits set at two inches. And sneakers will be forbidden except for in the gym, where they will also have to wear blue bloomers, black knee socks and white blouses.
Men will have to keep their hair short, with a crew cut being the maximum length. And they will not be allowed to wear any feminine-like or sexually suggestive clothing in public or in private.
“They are banning anything that resembles cross-dressing or androgynous styles,” the source told the Dispatch. “They are rolling back the calendar to the 1950s and ‘40s.”
In a phone interview, a spokesperson for jean company Levi Strouse said it’s too soon to measure the potential impact the legislation will have on its sales.
“If women can’t wear jeans, can they still wear jean skirts? If so, we might be able to mitigate our losses in the jeans market by pivoting to skirts in those states. Who knows?”
One 30something Flouride butch lesbian with a shaved head told the Dispatch that Gov. DeSatan and the others are going too far and that she feels duped.
“Sure, I was OK with Republicans erasing trannies. I supported that; those damned trannies were stealing all the attractive chicks. But I never dreamed they would erase me, too. It’s not fair!”
Still, she says she will comply with the new rules and has already started shopping for dresses, skirts and two-inch pumps.
“It will take my hair a while to grow out, though,” she said, with a laugh.
The legislation will also include a ban on body piercing except for women’s ears. But men will no longer be permitted to pierce their ears or wear any kind of earrings, including clip-ons.
The Republican source also told the Dispatch that a complete ban on homosexuality, for both men and women, is being considered along with bisexuality.
“It’s inevitable,” the source said. “There is no room for same-sex relationships in the Republicans’ America.”
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OK, this is an April Fools Day parody. But you gotta know all of the above and much worse could happen if Americans don’t stand up for their civil rights. Which I think they will. The Republicans’ biggest mistake was in thinking they could impose their extremism on freedom-loving Americans. It’s not going to happen. The youth will rebel first, and adults will join them.
I’m not surprised. Fear is all the republicans have and their constituents are, by design, scared and dumb.
Scared and dumb goes back by generations. There has always been a boogeyman for the republicans to be afraid of. Starting with the communists in the 1960’s, then the blacks, then the hippies, then the gays (note that Reagan administration called AIDS a gay disease and dismissed it as not a problem). Today it’s “woke”. A term that no Republican has defined. None. Today’s republican politicians are the result of that dumbing down.
At the same time the republicans have steadily removed funding for education, forcing local school districts to cut curriculum that wasn’t “readin, writin, and rithmatic”. Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America examined the IQ scores of men born between 1962 and 1991. Researchers found that scores decreased steadily among men born after 1975.
I hope that Trump will mark the end of the republican party.
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I’m startled by the number of Republicans who stepped up to defend Trump after he was indicted this past week. You’d think it would be the opposite: that they would try to distance themselves from him.
As I noted in the post at the end, though, I think Americans will rise up against the Republicans, starting with youth. And you may be right: Trump may bring down the whole party, especially as more indictments come in.
But I fear it may get worse before it gets better. I am praying that extremists don’t start killing people next week in the name of Trump. From where I sit, I think the country may be on the edge of civil war. I hope I am wrong
I’m also wondering about foreign interference. Do you think there is any possibility Russia is pulling the strings of Republican puppets like DeSantis?
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“Do you think there is any possibility Russia is pulling the strings of Republican puppets like DeSantis?”
Not directly. But they hate Biden so much that they have adopted the axiom: “any enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Civil war- No. It won’t happen. Look at the history of civil wars around the world. They were almost always initiated with rogue military commanders, and that is something that trump’s “army” doesn’t have. There will be a few morons trying to start their coveted war, but the local police will bring them to justice quickly.
I don’t think the Late Show as either left or right, but when Stephen Colbert announced to his audience that three minutes before he stepped on the stage, he learned that trump had just been indicted. The audience cheered louder and longer than anything I have ever seen on nighttime TV.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-fallon-jimmy-kimmel-stephen-colbert-trump-indicted-1235365188/
It’s ironic that the republicans are crying that “this has never happened to a former President before”. As if that excuses trump’s likely illegal activities. They should be saying “we have never had a President that was so reckless with illegal behavior.”
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Amen to all this. I am also a little shocked to see right-wing journalists on Twitter defending Trump, even before the indictment has been unsealed. I mean, do they have no objectivity left?
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“do they have no objectivity left?”
THIS is one of the most significant flaw in the current “news” environment. (But I am preaching to the choir).
From Wikipedia:
“The fairness doctrine had two basic elements: It required broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of public interest, and to air contrasting views regarding those matters. Stations were given wide latitude as to how to provide contrasting views: It could be done through news segments, public affairs shows, or editorials. The doctrine did not require equal time for opposing views but required that contrasting viewpoints be presented. The demise of this FCC rule [in 1987] has been cited as a contributing factor in the rising level of party polarization in the United States.”
Reagan was the president then. A lot of shit started going bad during his “leadership”. Broadcasters did not like the Fairness Doctrine because they saw it as free air time.
Today, anyone with a keyboard and internet connection can spread misinformation and lies with absolutely no push-back. They only do it for the money. Fuck the country.
(Can you imagine Fox “News” having to contradict themselves by telling the truth at least half of the time?)
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Fox News is shameless. They appear to be nothing but a propaganda arm of the Republican party. Tucker Carlson is the worst journalist I have ever seen.
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“I’m startled by the number of Republicans who stepped up to defend Trump after he was indicted this past week. You’d think it would be the opposite: that they would try to distance themselves from him.”
They are courting trump’s voting base. If they turn on their deity the backlash at the polls will hurt them. As long as trump stays in the 30-40% approval spectrum, nothing will change.
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