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Paula R Strawser's avatar

Wow! Handmaid's Tale on steroids. Your imagination awes!

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

Thanks! The real life oppressive, misogynistic tendencies of contemporary conservatives were my muses for this one!

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Beth A.'s avatar

👏👏👏👏👏OMG yes! I love it, this is exactly what us women need right now! A laugh, a spoof… and to bring attention to how god damn ridiculous it is that all these power hungry cheezus freaks want to control the most intimate & life-giving parts of us! F off gilead-dreamers!

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

Glad to spread the laughs... writing satire is the only thing that keeps me a little sane. I feel like I need to write these absurdist parodies to reorient my moral compass! 🍻

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Beth A.'s avatar

…and reading your satire is keeping me sane!

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

🥰

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Celeste's avatar

Project 2025 is a nightmare for all citizens, not just women! Search project 2025 tracker to get a great look at these policies and where the administration is in implementing them. Last I checked, they were at 42% complete! (But TFG campaigned that he had nothing to do with it!)

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

Yeah it's the smallest surprise of all time that Trump wouldn't read anything or care to learn anything new about how the government works, and just hire a bunch of Project 2025 people to do stuff that makes his administration look busy while he golfs and hosts bribe parties hawking his crypto schemes at Mar-a-Lago.

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Kathy H's avatar

Imagine my shock as a post-menopausal woman to find a "FLO" app connection on my phone. It's part of large coercive changes & no, it sure won't only be women affected.

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Celeste's avatar

Yes, thanks for sharing that. If you find out how it came to be on your phone, please post! I read that the GOP wants to track all cycles of birthing-aged women. They must hv not found the age filter for that corruption of citizen privacy yet.

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Kathy H's avatar

I think it originated with Facebook because I found it drilling down & wading through those settings after they disclosed (as other apps now are) that terms of service include tracking activity when not in the app. It was puzzling to me that it also showed shopping connections when I don't use that device for that as a rule...so the common denominator may be a Google email address. IDK, but there's been indications of shady behavior all along as technology has been monopolized. The difference now is that we could once say, if we aren't doing anything wrong, we don't have anything to hide & there are laws to protect us. Now, that's all being swept away & with no oversight, not only is technology being used as a weapon, but faulty algorithms can cause a lot of harm themselves. We have to pay attention to people that do know how things work & stand against this reckless, destructive behavior.

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William Weaver's avatar

LMAO!

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KellyMC's avatar

This can’t be real .

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

It's in the Uncanny Valley, isn't it? 🍻

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Seraphita's avatar

Sorry for reading any of this lame “satire”. I enjoy great satire but not at the expense of women in this degrading way. You just lost a subscriber.

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

I feel like this is punching up at Republicans for being stupid, sociopathic creeps more than it's punching down at women, but sorry to see you go.

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Kathy H's avatar

You're shooting the messenger. The author isn't promoting the degradation of women, but pointing out the outrageous absurdities in that being done. What makes this hard to laugh at is that it is true.

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Lee Johnson's avatar

Disgusting.

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Lulu's avatar

You’re on a roll this week

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Ehykapoise's avatar

🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🏆🥇🌊🇺🇸👍.

That was one hell of an outing!

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Patty's avatar

That was a riot! Love reading your work….

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Stephen Sovie's avatar

And they thought it could never happen here!

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Seeking Secrets's avatar

😂

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Patricia Taylor's avatar

I’m liking your report on the possibilities of creating pregnant men. Science should make such a stupendous step forward happen asap! Let men enjoy the hormone rollercoaster, the weight gain, the permanent back and bladder problems accompanying massive weight gain, the horror of ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages, the agony (I am NOT kidding here. Try it without a delayed epidural) of labor and delivery, the swollen and aching breasts, edema, constant nausea and vomiting and possible death from the myriad of complications bearing a child can bring. Pregnancy can be such fun, let’s get the men in on it!

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