When Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, in a single tweet, equated the fight for reproductive freedom with “over-educated, under-loved millennials who sadly return from protests to a lonely microwave dinner with their cats, and no bumble matches” on Wednesday, I was far from insulted.
Instead, I laughed all the way upstairs to my husband, who’d been working in his home office. He’d been blissfully unaware of Gaetz’s latest round of nonsense and rolled his eyes (apparently he’s not as easily amused as I am). We openly wondered how it was possible for a sitting member of Congress to behave in ways so unbecoming of — so disrespectful to — such an important and public-facing position. After my husband went back to work, I reread Gaetz’s tweet, treated myself to some of the responses he received and laughed some more.
While Gaetz specifically called out millennials, it felt like an attempted attack on “over-educated” women of any generation.
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I lived in Florida for 17 years and know a lot of the population consists of retired people who are older and predominantly Republican and still think the Republican party is a good one, which I admit was good in their youth but has changed over the decades into a fascist regime with bad outcomes from every decision they make!
P.S.: I still remember Dwight D. Eisenhower who I believe was a good Republican President, especially his last big speach in which he warned us about the possibility of the “Military Industrial Complex” taking getting too much power and taking over our country, which has happened. We should have recognized his warning, instead of ignoring it!