I'm sure I'm not the only one that gets tired of the cards (sexist - racist - homophobic) that the left continues to throw even when that isn't the case.
Rep. Pressley Claims Legal System Is Biased Against Women, but They're Only 7% of Prison Population
Rep. Ayanna Pressley was supposed to be the rational member of “the squad,” if just by default.
That was because we didn’t really ever hear a lot from the Massachusetts Democrat — or at least we didn’t listen as much, because she wasn’t spouting arrant nonsense.
This wasn’t New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez telling us how “famed economist Milton Keynes” (smashing together the names of conservative economist Milton Friedman and liberal economist John Keynes to come up with the name of an English city) said we’d all be working 15 hours a week by 2030.
She wasn’t Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar tweeting out something nakedly anti-Semitic.
She wasn’t Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib telling us how “we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherf—er!” Nothing she did was so identifiably strange.
The ERA is a proposed (and problematic) constitutional amendment that was meant to, in theory, codify equality between the genders. There’s quite a bit more to it than that, but that’s homework for those of you who want to research it and fully immaterial to Pressley going full squad.
The point is that the deadline for the states to ratify the amendment — as stipulated by the amendment itself — was 1982. Considering “E.T.” is no longer in theaters and Betamax is no longer a viable video platform, you might indeed notice this isn’t 1982.
Thus, the stage was set. I present to you squadding, Ayanna Pressley version, in which she says “the American Constitution is sexist by its very design”:
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