Female Millennial gang: put on your tin foil hat and “get ready with me” to embark upon “the okayest blog launch of all time."
Dumb Bitch News (DBN) will be a resource for women at the crossroads of “I’m a cool mom and “Karen”
Site will cover:
what the fuck is happening
what does it mean for my day to day life
skincare
I really need an outlet, so I figured I might as well make it entertaining for those who want to end the day with a couple of bullet points.
Background:
So there’s a whole group of historians, economists, political scientists and republicans, who believe tyranny might actually be here.
These aren’t like…conspiracy theories. We might actually be witnessing history, so you might as well get your popcorn or protest sign out.
Am I quirky? Yeah. But have I lost the plot? No.
Ok…back to business: tinfoil hats ON!!
So when Roe got overturned June of 2022, I was shocked, honey. Shocked.
Then in November of 2022, Trump announced he was running for president again.
Also shocking, considering the guy tried to overthrow an election.
In the preceding year, a shirtless man wearing horns and face paint was roaming the halls of our nation's capital, and a conspiracy theory culture was in full swing.
I felt anxious.
Post COVID, I felt like my reality was shifting.
Patterns were emerging.
I was also becoming an obsessive zealot about the Roe decision and its seismic impact in Texas, because women here live under the strictest ban in the US.
My spidey sense was sensing…my alarm bells were ringing.
Why was I turning into this different version of myself?!?
I think a major factor was: the truth didn’t seem to matter much anymore.
That was really disillusioning.
And simultaneously…my personal values weren’t really aligning with my family’s values anymore.
During the election, I found myself defending my belief that an unapologetic abuser of women and pathological liar wasn’t really a solid option for President of the United Sates, even to my own father.
Surely that was something my dad and I could agree on....so why was I standing in front of the man who taught me to think critically, that a sex offender grifter saying "HE IS A POOR CHOICE, YOU WOULD NOT LET ME DATE HIM!"
My father flatly disagreed.
Trump's outright rejection of the truth, was like…no biggie… to my prison guard dad.
WUT!?!? Am I taking crazy pills??
The ground was officially cracking underneath me.
In the south, I feel like we don’t address politics, especially in female circles. So I just kind of marinated in my weird feelings. Alone.
I legit don’t mind being wrong! So maybe I was wrong about the 20 women accusing DJT of sexual assault…but as Dad always said…where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
And if I’m going to do some critical, thinking here, why would those women speak up? Women are generally on the receiving end of vitriol and hate when they make such accusations. Not praise or admiration.
They weren’t asking for money. It seemed like the truth just kinda mattered to them too…it seemed as though they wanted the public to know that DJT wasn’t a person of strong moral character and might not be a great choice for POTUS.
They really stood to gain nothing.
I was at a turning point.
So, in 2023, I started quietly educating myself on:
WHY didn't truth didn't matter anymore?
WHY such a great country who values FREEDOM would strip away bodily autonomy from 50% of the population. Roe being overturned was a big deal.
WHO wants this?? Who are the groups who financed this...WHO are the judges who overturned Roe, and how do they overlap with Trump?
WHAT do those people believe?
WHAT is authoritarianism?
And what I found was both:
shocking
and explainable.
I was 2 years deep in podcasts, books, journalism, documentaires, and history.
Then reality hit.
On Jan 22nd, The New York Times, a 172 year old (the world’s editorial gold standard) newspaper posted this:
“How does tyranny begin?”
Wow.
172 years of credibility on the line to publish that.
It would no doubt create backlash and inevitably lose them advertising revenue.
My oldest friend studied journalism at Berkeley and watching her has taught me that journalists are generally very neutral.
So history suggests that when a beacon of journalism is ringing alarm bells, they must feel like they have a duty to alert the public to a looming threat.
So here we are.
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