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Really good essay Celia! So timely and so glad to have time to respond this am and so glad to have you back! Alot to unpack-- I see a basic lack of trust between people all the way around which seems to have definitely settled along race and gender lines, not just political. Years ago I was privileged to do ceremony with the Sami people in Lappland. A traditional female lineage shaman from Siberia was also there and I was so impressed and amazed by her complete claiming of power and authority without having to be the slightest bit aggressive about it. I have known many powerful caring women of several different races and traditions, but they have always had to fight in some way to maintain enough power and authority to be effective. They have also often, in numerous ways had to 'apologize' or downplay that power in order to be accepted by the world around them. This Siberian woman did not have to do that, in any way that I could see, because her culture, her community and her family, as well as generations of tradition had invested her role as a female shaman, with full power and authority. As she shared about her life and people, I realized how much deep respect and trust and dependence on each other was necessary in a Siberian reindeer herder group, just to survive the harsh lifestyle. Also they had to survive the genocidal Soviet policies etc. I am sure there were many things under the surface which I did not see, but she had a long lasting impact as she exemplified for me personally what true inherent power as a woman can look like. American culture is obviously different and power for a woman will look different here. I believe part of the attraction with Kamala for other women, is not just that she is female, but because they see themselves in her in other ways. It is almost de rigour in American culture in general for powerful women to apologize for that power and downplay their authority in multiple small and often unconscious ways This is what Kamala basically does every time she opens her mouth and she reinforces that apologetic demeanor with her body language, while at the same time she is desperately attempting to claim the power and authority suitable to her role. Very frustrating mixed messages and exactly what many women feel and act out every day. This to me appears to be all mixed up with the need to be seen as a 'nice' person that so many women are forced to believe in and is especially reinforced by the political left message of 'We are the good guys, the rational reasonable caring inclusive people'. Recently a man of long time acquaintance went off on me and got really angry when I respectfully refused to back down. His parting shot was, " and I thought you were a nice person.'. He said it as tho I had failed some basic litmus test. I didn't respond because I did not want to escalate the situation, but I really wish I would have said what I was thinking which was, " Whatever gave you the idea I was a nice person? And why the hell would you ever expect me to be effective if I was only 'nice' all the time? I believe that many women are trying to push back against that outer and inner messaging and too often go too far the other way. In otherwords they become bossy and bitchy and aggressive to try to feel empowered, because they don't actually feel empowered at all.

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Disa sacks's avatar

Chris Rufo has posted the biggest fraud of Kamala Harris to date. She plagiarized huge chunks of her book on crime( until yesterday I didn’t know she that she published a book)

https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1845856003205796165?s=42

There is no doubt that the claims are true. The NYTimes is trying to smear Rufo as they did when he broke the Claudine Gay plagiarism scandal, by calling Rufo a racist and trying to minimize the stealing of other pol’s work. Harris actually lifted verbatim from Wikipedia

The Free Press did cover it in a small mention in their list of news items but this too is dishonest. Harmeet Dhillon’s testimony on T Carlson was not covered at all and alone should have been enough to have Harris resign .Rufo never breaks a story without hard proof to fortify the claims he makes.

Harris is an incompetent fraud and should resign as VP and as candidate for the corrupt DNC

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