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Dan Bornstein 5d ago

Ok, maybe this is the indica talking, but... I should run for US President. And my VP and all my cabinet will also be menopausal women. Cranky, put upon, tired of people's shit, just freaking done performing niceness, menopausal women.

And our campaign slogan will be "Just get out of the damn way so we can fix it" and our logo will be an exasperated eye roll. (tagline: I can see you.)

Our campaign will basically be the New Deal, only Newer. And with Tribunals. There must be a reckoning.

Sure, there will be a messy transition as we drag the reprobates to their timeout corners, but these things happen. That's why stain blocking paint was invented.

Vote MissConstrue's Cantankerous Coven: Let's Give Matriarchy a Try

(this is really good indica)

@MissConstrue You 100% have my vote. Bring on the blunt force wisdom.

thomas yager-madden 5d ago

@MissConstrue My usual response to immediate presidential runs by outsiders is that they are always vanity projects and to be serious any new party needs to build support at the local level first and run people for school boards and county clerks and stuff. But given the present emergency, and in the case of the Menopausal Women’s Party, although I don’t qualify for holding office, I am prepared to go door-to-door for this campaign

@tym @MissConstrue totes on the campaigning.

The gummy + vape hit just right)

That’s a moray 5d ago

@tym @MissConstrue erm...who do you *think* runs local everything, if not menopausal women?

@Bumblefish Yes, absolutely. That's been my own observational experience, for well over a decade now.

@tym I work in govt offices a lot, and all the competent ones are run by women like this. I'm 100% on board.

@MissConstrue As a cranky, menopausal woman, I agree, and suggest we roll it out to the UK as well, since we're hell-bent on following the US down whatever path its on. Might as well choose a good road for a change.

Anne Hulbert 5d ago

@HollieK72 @MissConstrue I'm with you - always been cranky, and still menopausal.

@amokura @MissConstrue Still menopausal, and wondering when on earth it's going to end.

@amokura @MissConstrue And yes, I know menopause is a year after my last period, so it's at least a year away. Grumble, grumble, grumble.

MissConstrue 4d ago

@HollieK72 @amokura

Oh my gosh, no! Perimenopause can start 10 years before end of menses. And irregular periods at that age don’t mean you’re not potentially fertile. That’s why so many menopause babies!

If you’re suffering from menopause symptoms, you may consider asking your doctor about the bioidentical hormone replacement patch. I didn’t think it would make a difference (in my case post radical hysterectomy), and holy mother of emotional rollercoasters, it’s been amazing. I feel like me again.

@MissConstrue @amokura I've gone through the bad bits, thanks, and I seem to be in the tailing off but not quite stopped yet part, so it's more of an irritation than anything else. But yes, it's likely to be 10 years before I become post-menopausal. I'm in my ninth year of perimenopause at the moment.

MissConstrue 4d ago

@HollieK72 @amokura

They never warned us about this. They should have warned us. I’m warning 30 something’s, like the Johnny Appleseed of menopause. 🤣

@MissConstrue @amokura Yeah, I mean I assumed it would take a year or two, and was appalled that it can go on for so long!

@MissConstrue Burn the patriarchy! You'd have my sober vote. 🤘

@MissConstrue at this point i'd be givin' it a try. too bad i don't have a vote down there

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES 5d ago

can i do your slogans

"MissConstrue will get you who evildo"

"MissConstrue nothing, the Queen is coming"

"it's MissConstrue if you please, miss me with that sleaze"

hanktank61 5d ago

@benroyce @MissConstrue I will vote for you , as 72 yr old male with wife same age. Grown up in mixed family, most of my life working in mixed teams. Even now in a volunteer-team.
Yes, once a woman survives all the troubles of being young well, has seen it all: She will go on forever, nobody will stop her..
Like, we live in the Amsterdam-area. Town -mayor is female. She is about the last ¨Man" still standing in Dutch political theater.

@MissConstrue
I'm ok with this proposal.

klegdixal 5d ago

@MissConstrue
Does this menopausal matriarchy mesh with your views on the HRT?
I was led to believe that a coven is a maiden, a mother and the other one 🙃
New Deal happened because of the Depression and only after the idea that the invisible hand of the market will sort it out didn't work.

@MissConstrue You had me at 'tribunals' because you're literally the only one talking about that.

Firehorseart Lives!5d ago

The ICC have something to say about that. They'll warn you to make sure your tech isn't tied to US corporations before you announce who'll be put in the naughty corner.

@MissConstrue cranky & menopausal here for work! Happy to help wherever needed.

Dmian 🇪🇺5d ago

@MissConstrue Vote Menoparty! 😄

MissConstrue 4d ago

@dmian 🤣🤘🧐

Leipoa ocellata 5d ago

@MissConstrue
As a postmenopausal woman tired of people's shit I'd like to roll out your idea in Germany as well.

Urban Hermit 5d ago

@MissConstrue at this point, I would vote for witches over anyone else.

Real witchcraft. We need some "newt-i-fication". Witchcraft with attitude - Bitchcraft!

Because you know what patriarchy has brought us to - the whole world may become uninhabitable in the next 100 years. Why? Because the preservation of unregulated Capitalism must be preserved. Somebody must make a profit, and it must be so huge that it bends reality around it.

Oh, wait, that's delusion. Enough money to live in delusion.

Doubledado 5d ago

@MissConstrue I am onboard.

Duckbilled Plattypus.5d ago

Lol. Eye roll slogan: "Why are you still here?"

100% Post menopausal vote.

It's absolutely freeing not to have any F's left to give, and to be able to collar and scold the old reprobates who still act like they think 100% of women tolerate their same stupid tired old shit. "It's old, I'm old, you're even older... (eyeroll)."

Walt Wooton 5d ago

TIRED: Beckoning

WIRED: Reckoning

Ludwig Vielfrass 5d ago

@MissConstrue I’m a white cishet male who is a non-partaker in cannabis products. You have my vote.

@MissConstrue You have my vote!

@MissConstrue if I were US'ian you'd get my vote.

@MissConstrue I love it! If I join your cabinet, can I get some of whatever you're smoking? 😶‍🌫️

MissConstrue 4d ago

@SueDiOh First executive order, removing cannabis from the Scheduled List. 2nd? Someone find me a glass of water…cottonmouth. 🤣

@MissConstrue Lol. And some cookies!

MissConstrue 4d ago

@SueDiOh Cool ranch Doritos and cartoons!

@MissConstrue I watched Bugs Bunny just the other day...

Asbestos 5d ago

@MissConstrue
Sugestion for an alternate slogan
" I don't care how cold it is outside, open the fucking window, its hot AF in here"

MissConstrue 4d ago

@Asbestos Now close it! Do I look like I’m made of money?

Asbestos 4d ago

@MissConstrue
My wife has all the windows open all the time. She's always hot now.

Stumpy The Mutt 5d ago

@MissConstrue Addled old men and their sycophants just ain't working any more.

Amateur Human 5d ago

@MissConstrue I have a plan I've called "make them do what they said they would". Yes it's a shit name but I'm just an ideas person
Perfectly happy to pass this on and step out of the way :)

CEOs, directors, senior managers and all their enabling politicians have to both open their wallets to pay for, and turn up to work on a "normal" salary until ALL their promises are delivered.
If this involves PPE and shovels, so be it. They promised...

MissConstrue 4d ago

@djstreethawk I don’t know how to legislate this, and I’d need a real economist to give me actual numbers, but I think there is a scale at which executive pay is so out of touch with worker pay that it should be illegal.

Among the 100 largest publicly traded low-wage employers (retail, food service, etc.), the average CEO-to-worker ratio was 632:1 in 2024. In this group, average CEO pay was $17.2 million, while the typical worker earned only $35,570.

According to the Economic Policy Institute, the ratio for top firms has grown from 21:1 in 1965 to 281:1 in 2024.

That’s obscene and shouldn’t be legal.

@MissConstrue You probably know about Frances Perkins, and how the original new deal was, in fact, engineered by a her. But it's worth repeating.

Throughline: Frances Perkins Goes To Washington

Episode webpage: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5826026/frances-perkins-goes-to-washington

Media file: https://tracking.swap.fm/track/XvDEoI11TR00olTUO8US/prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-510333/npr.simplecastaudio.com/923a8c19-6266-45f0-88de-3997479f3ca3/episodes/153139dc-284f-41ab-a090-106b0846cff6/audio/128/default.mp3?awCollectionId=923a8c19-6266-45f0-88de-3997479f3ca3&awEpisodeId=153139dc-284f-41ab-a090-106b0846cff6&feed=gvAZ3nqF&t=podcast&e=nx-s1-5826026&p=510333&d=968&size=15494670

MissConstrue 4d ago

@gabriel I did not! Thank you!

Tara L. Campbell 5d ago

Where's the #LGMT merch? I'm thinking cozy mugs, beanies, craft bags, scarves and shawls, etc. 💛😁

Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️‍🌈5d ago

@MissConstrue
I am in total agreement and in complete favor of this arrangement ❣️😹 This is what we have needed for (how long has it been? Ya know, too long!😹)

@MissConstrue 👍 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 👍 Absolutely; I would vote for you

DavidM_yeg 5d ago

I would absolutely vote for this.

draNgNon 5d ago

@MissConstrue Do Eet

wy knott 5d ago

@MissConstrue yo, don't bogart