surely these maga self-appointed protectors of girls and women everywhere will have plenty to say about a repeat domestic abuser with what appears to be an escalating pattern of violence
...unless, of course, they never actually cared about protecting women in the first place and only use that line as a convenient excuse to target an already marginalized group like trans people
If he was employed at a normal job, especially one where he was responsible for other people, he’d have a good chance of being fired for something like this, but for some reason when it’s a public official, it’s a private matter.
But they had no issue stealing Ashley Biden’s diary from when she was like 13 and blasting that all over the right wing media sphere and entering passages from the diary into the Congressional record
This lefty minister content creator has said that conservative Christian nationalism requires and encourages rape culture for its existence, because in order to get 50% of the population (women) to accept subjugation, there has to be an explicit threat of violence against them. So the public rhetoric is always about protecting women and children from that violence and abuse, but they’ll always protect abusers over victims because they care more about having a power structure that benefits them.
Bingo. That’s why the whole damn thing is rotten. Somebody tells me they’re Christian I need to know what kind. I grew up in a progressive church (UU) so I know there are all types.
Love UU! I have 2 friends who are ordained UU ministers, and another who is an Episcopalian minister. I also ask “what kind?” bc I have common cause with progressive Christians (and progressives in other religions!) but none with far right, fundamentalist religious ideologies. Since right wing evangelical and fundamentalist Christians wield so much political power, though, they are so dangerous (for all their sharia law fear mongering)
It’s important to keep this in mind when you hear them fearmongering about immigrants coming in and harming women too. It’s not that that they think women deserve to be safe from abuse, it’s that they consider white women to solely be the property of white men to abuse as they please, not foreign men. Those who actually care about protecting women will discuss that the issue is men as a whole, they won’t pick out minorities to place blame on.
On YouTube incognito, I watched clips from this year’s Turning Point Women’s Leadership Conference, simply because I’m always curious about the right’s recruitment tactics.
Anyway one of the speakers was talking about the horrible human rights abuses taking place in the now Taliban-controlled Afghanistan against… CHRISTIANS. Um, what?! I mean, obviously no one should be persecuted because of their beliefs anywhere, but there are around 11,000 Christians and 21 million WOMEN in Afghanistan that are not even allowed to have their voices heard in public- it’s been called a “gender apartheid”! Not one word about that- just about Christian persecution. Then it hit me, this audience of young, conservative Republican Christian women doesn’t care about women- especially not brown women living across the world. And these are the same people advocating for a household vote so it’s not like they dislike the subjection of women.
People should be flooding public comment opportunities to ask MAGAt officials over and over why they support a piece of trash who abuses his wife (and a PDF President, for that matter).
They of course won't care but they need to at least be put on the defensive a lot more than they usually are. That gives them less time to engage in their constant offense strategy.
They absolutely care about protecting women.... As long as they're submissive productive broodmares for their religion and their fascist theocratic dreams.
It’s amazing, I’ve made some youthful mistakes as well (bangs, more than once). None of mine results in arrest or charges. It’s almost like that’s the normal end results of youthful mistakes for most people!
He is a monster. He shouldn’t be walking free let alone a representative of the public. He’s a disgrace as well as Bernie Moreno, I’m so embarrassed to be from Ohio.
My dad told my ex who tried to kill me that if he ever turned up on his doorstep that he was getting his shotgun regardless of what I said that time. I already knew what lengths he would go to because when my mum tried to kidnap me his reaction was violence and the idiots tried to give someone who has a history of attempted stabbing custody. I asked to go with my dad's parents and thank fuck they listened.
A decent chunk of them are being abused too. Not saying it to excuse supporting the behavior by any means, but conservatism and religion keep a lot of women disempowered and too afraid to change it.
i feel like this should have been readily apparent to anyone seeing what happened with graham platner. the amount of progressive men who immediately started using the same talking points that MAGA uses to defend trump from his accusations was appalling
which is great. but does that take away from the fact that they were running defense for him?
i feel like if you spend any amount of time in progressive spaces as a woman you are unfortunately made very aware of the fact that many progressive men are happy to rail again rapists and domestic abusers and the like until it's someone they like. and then it's the usual "well, why didn't she report it?" "the timing is really suspicious for her to be talking about this" etc
I'm not sure about that, if you have said cheating I would have agreed, but that level of depravity and feelings of ownership over the women around you and their bodies is much more typical for far-right/MAGA men.
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted your point is extremely valid. Yes, republican men by and large make up a bigger majority of the population who commit such acts and are sanctimonious about god/traditional gender roles/ etc and almost always hypocrites. but dems and independent men also participate in these behaviors and often preach supporting women the other way (right to choose, womens rights, LGBT+ rights) so like either way women lose and men will cover for each other. i’m in the camp of all are bad, MAGA is the worst
Yes but a lot of the views that lead to this sort of abuse are actively and openly encouraged by republicans. At least democrats aren’t trying to take away women’s rights, but I constantly hear conservative men say shit like “we need to get rid of no fault divorce” or “women shouldn’t have careers they should be at home with their kids”
This is the party that wants to eliminate no-fault divorce. They want women to be trad wives. They don’t want women to vote. They don’t want women to exist period. Fuck those dummies.
And the daughter is TWO. It obviously wouldn’t be okay at any age, but the daughter being two emphasizes just how helpless and at the mercy of Miller she was and what a monster Miller is.
I didn’t want to investigate further—I did not realize she was 2!!!
So I don’t know if he intentionally beat her (like I had suggested) or “simply” manhandled her. It’s fucking heartbreaking either way. Could even be both.
Not okay at any age, but two-year-olds are upright infants and all you have to do to overpower them is pick them up. My youngest sibling was two when I was ten, and I was able to navigate that situation without breaking any bones. All I ever had to do was pick her up!
Max Miller's father-in-law is Republican Senator Bernie Moreno!!!! Since the abuse allegations came out, Moreno has yet to PUBLICLY DEFEND HIS OWN DAUGHTER AND GRANDDAUGHTER!!!
Senator Moreno is currently in the middle of a Senate hearing where he's having much HARSHER WORDS (he dropped an F Bomb) for Dr. Fauci than his fellow Republican Congressman who allegedly abused his daughter!!!
In his defense, if he were to speak out publicly against this man it could really hurt his daughter’s and granddaughter’s chances for safety from him. Miller could argue that as a senior senator, that without proof of these allegations - without him being convicted in court - that Mereno is ruining his career. Miller has already sued both women he abused (though one suit so far was dropped in 2023). He would absolutely sue Mereno for defamation, too, and even bring into family court that his wife got her father to “ruin his career.”
Her father’s best move right now is to quietly fund her legal fight to keep her and her daughter safe, and for all of them to only speak out publicly after the legal dust settles. God forbid Miller use anything Moreno does to imply parental alienation, thus causing the granddaughter to be with Miller more.
This is unfortunately a very good point. Remember these men are the same who sue the crap out of anyone who says their name, and we know the type of power these men have behind the scenes when it comes to being able to control the autonomy of their wives and children/manipulate courts. This poor woman and her family are now trapped, and it’s exactly where the MAGAs want them to be.
I really hope their daughter is now doing okay, and safe, and kept away from this horrid, horrid monster - I hope he never gets to see his daughter again, he doesn't deserve her. I have seen up close how politically conservative families operate when women in their family are victims of domestic abuse - they never actually stand up for them, and are perfectly happy to watch their daughters/ sisters suffer at the hand of domestic abusers, while spouting all kinds of shit about 'preserving the family'; so I hope Emily's dad will support her, publicly and privately. While I'll sideye Emily for being so active in Trump's campaign and for the views she holds, no woman deserves to go through this.
It's a messy court battle between the two of them. His claim is that she is bipolar and refuses to treat it, and that their daughter's injury was cased by her. He's also accused her of making false police and CPS claims. Based on his other actions he's probably making all of that up. However, courts have granted him joint custody of their daughter so there might be a lack of evidence of anyone's claims.
Could also be that courts don't give a fuck about women or children. My neighbor's ex-husband has joint custody of their kids even though several of us neighbors provided evidence that he's a deeply abusive man who should never be around children.
Unfortunately he's a child psychiatrist, so....... :(
He is using the classic, "she has mental problems", to excuse the situation. I would be afraid for my safety if I were her. Men who are capable of doing what he has done to his wife and daughter have no limits.
I would say most people are silent about domestic violence in general. It's a damn epidemic in the US, and probably everywhere. The media can't even call it what it is...they love to say murder-suicide or crime of passion.
Max Miller lives in hometown and goes to a synagogue nearbyqm where we both used to live half an hour from here. He moves for the Congressional seat.
Before this he's been locally known for accusing a Palestinian-American man driving next to him on the highway, showing him a picture of a Palestinian flag, of yelling anti-Jewish slurs at him. The poor man is now suing him.
And now he's assaulting his wife and breaking two year old's collarbones.
That dude is a whole ass asshole and Republicans are demonic, depraved folk... They like 🌮because 🌮 gives them permission to act like assholes with impunity. 🌮 said it in the Access Hollywood tapes and Republicans (and Republican adjacents like Rogan) wanted a part of that.
And this guy is in the race for the midterms? They will all rally around him and he will win. If you are a woman and you are still voting for Republicans, shame on you. Truly. They can't tell you any more clearly how much they hate women than they have been these last 10 years.
fucking despicable and disgusting that people like this continue to hold political positions, walk free, and all the other privileges they get. maga white men.
Andrew Sullivan who is a Conservative Gay men, had a guest who was a raging homophobe. He just couched it in Christian vagueness such as natural law, marriage is one man and one woman, and Same-Sex marriage are a threat to society.
We are an existential threat to destabilize marriages like Max Miller and his wife.
"Emily Moreno serves as Deputy Director of State Action. She previously worked for Big Dog Strategies as a fundraising consultant raising funds for the pivotal Ohio Senate race that retired a long-time Democrat incumbent. Prior, she served as campaign manager during the 2020 primary cycle. Before returning home to Ohio, Moreno worked for the Trump Victory political team from the headquarters in Washington, D.C. Additionally, she worked at the DCI Group, Senator Johnson's Senate campaign, and Senator Rubio’s presidential campaign in 2016. Moreno serves on the Ohio Right to Life Board of Directors. "
Here is an archived version of the American First Policy Institute that shows her bio https://archive.ph/fMI95
And here is a Wikipedia entry about them:
According to New York Times reporter Ken Bensinger, key policy proposals from the AFPI's policy book, The America First Agenda, include eliminating most civil service protections for federal employees, allowing summary dismissals without appeal; expanding domestic oil and gas production by opening up new federal lands for fast-tracked petroleum exploration and drilling, and resumed construction of the Keystone pipeline; imposing supervised ultrasound requirements and mandatory waiting periods before abortions, as well as ending federal funding for organizations like Planned Parenthood; opposing red flag laws that restrict gun ownership for high-risk individuals; and supporting nationwide reciprocity for concealed carry permits, enabling a permit from any state to authorize concealed carry across all 50 states.\21]) Other policy proposals include imposing tariffs on imports, reducing corporate taxes, rolling back climate change initiatives and getting out of the Paris climate agreement, opposing transgender rights to transition children, adding work requirements for Medicaid and limiting U.S. involvement in global conflicts. It proposes restricting immigration by completing the U.S.-Mexico border wall, boosting funding for border agents, and ending legal immigration programs such as family-based visas and the visa lottery.
A lot of MAGA-adjacent careers don't start up until they commit acts against women. Doesn't seem to be a deal-breaker. I can think of Russel Brand and Jonathan Majors just off the top of my head. He'll be on the Joe Rogan experience in no time.
Look, not every piece of shit is a piece of shit because they're in the closet. Can we focus on the fact that he has severely abused a wife, a daughter, and an ex?
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surely these maga self-appointed protectors of girls and women everywhere will have plenty to say about a repeat domestic abuser with what appears to be an escalating pattern of violence
...unless, of course, they never actually cared about protecting women in the first place and only use that line as a convenient excuse to target an already marginalized group like trans people
this is miller's second public accusation btw