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We Will Not Be Silenced


How dare you?!

You take a heartbreaking, life ruining moral problem and make it political.

This girl has been thinking about this for 37 years!

37 years!

And you decide you want to use it to your advantage.

Manipulate this woman like he did all those years ago.

You decide it's best for everyone to use her against him simply so you can get your way.

Well, guess what?

You still lost.

And yet she lost so much more.

 

The majority of voters in the USA are women.

You think this won't affect you?

You think this won't affect any of you??

You're wrong.

Because we heard.

We watched and learned and read about how you twisted this girls story.

About how they brushed it off.

Making it some horrible political scheme just to get who you wanted on or off your court.

 

Yes, your conflict was important too.

But to use this unexplainably courageous woman against each other?

 

You are disgusting.

But we heard.

We all heard.

And we will win.

 

“They cannot defeat an idea with an army.”

Because we are stronger than that.

And we will be heard.

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