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Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
Fri Oct 14, 2016, 05:09 AM Oct 2016

Trump Supporters want to get rid of the 19th Amendment!

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/12/trump-supporters-launch-effort-vote-women.html

I keep wanting this to be a joke, but this is not the only place I have read this.

Trump Supporters Launch Effort To Take The Right To Vote Away From Women
By Jason Easley on Wed, Oct 12th, 2016 at 5:05 pm
If you were asking yourself, how could Donald Trump and his supporters could make things worse? The answer came in an effort by online Trump supporters take the right to vote away from women.
The uproar started after 538’s Nate Silver tweeted two maps that showed what the election result would look like if only men or women voted:

https://twitter.com/538politics/status/786175038055600128/photo/1

The fact that the men only map showed Trump winning in a landslide set off the male Trump supporters.
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Trump Supporters want to get rid of the 19th Amendment! (Original Post) Lady Freedom Returns Oct 2016 OP
I heard about that, typicalof the breed. Jim Beard Oct 2016 #1
Ann Coulter previously expressed this wish. no_hypocrisy Oct 2016 #2
Sounds like him. Cha Oct 2016 #3
They say repeal the 19th? I say repeal the 2nd! (nt) stone space Oct 2016 #4
My sentiments exactly. Paladin Oct 2016 #7

no_hypocrisy

(46,038 posts)
2. Ann Coulter previously expressed this wish.
Fri Oct 14, 2016, 06:35 AM
Oct 2016

And unfortunately, I can envision women going to the polls to vote to take away their right to participate in democracy.

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