Radical Feminist Lawmaker Maims Herself To Make A Statement That No One Cares About

If you have a job or any kind of normal human interests whatsoever, you probably haven’t heard of something called the “50501 Movement” to protest Donald Trump and Elon Musk. But it’s a real thing that just happened in this country. This is one of several protests — along with the recent “day without an immigrant” protest — that have apparently occurred, and that pretty much no one has noticed. This is the state of the anemic anti-Trump resistance this time around.

The idea of the “50501 Movement” in particular was apparently to have 50 protests in 50 states in 1 day. And so they mashed all of those numbers together, and told everyone to show up to their local state capitol on Wednesday. This is something that started as an idea on Reddit, in some kind of semi-viral post. And it’s turned out exactly how you’d expect a Reddit-created movement to go. Every aspect of this movement has been a colossal failure. In fact it was such a failure — in so many entertaining ways — that it’s worth talking about what happened at some length.

First of all, the turnout was abysmal. I skimmed about a dozen news articles on this protest — from the AP to ABC to various local news outlets — and not a single one of them mentions the total number of state capitals that were involved in these protests. And that obviously suggests that they didn’t get anywhere near all 50 of them. Instead, it looks like a handful of protesters — less than 1,000 people in many cases — showed up to a handful of state capitals and they held signs that contradicted themselves in many cases.

Here for example was the scene in Salem, Oregon. You’ll notice that they have signs that say “Deport Elon,” alongside signs that say “Education not Deportation” and “No Human is Illegal.” Watch:

You have to wonder what would happen if one of these protesters with a “No Deportations” sign happened to bump into someone with a “Deport Elon” sign. It’s like the beginning of a Netflix rom-com. They’d look at the signs, then look into each others’ eyes. And then they’d say something that no one could understand because they’re both wearing N-95 masks and a ventilator. If Emilia Pérez can get 13 Oscar nominations, that idea’s worth at least 14.

In any event, this is one of those little inconsistencies that you always notice, very quickly, whenever you pay attention to Leftists for five seconds. They support gun confiscation, unless you want to use your gun to shoot a health insurance CEO. They say the legal system is corrupt and we should defund the police, and then they celebrate as prosecutors attempt to destroy pro-lifers, Donald Trump, January 6 protesters and so on. And now they say they oppose deportations, unless we’re talking about one of their political enemies, like Elon Musk— even though Elon Musk is a U.S. citizen.

But as entertaining as all of this is, there was one moment that really stood out from these 50501 protests. And it occurred on the lawn outside the Michigan state capitol. Here’s what happened, according to the outlet called Michigan Advance:

Michigan state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky said Wednesday that she underwent surgery earlier this year to become voluntarily sterile out of fear for the future of reproductive health care access with President Donald Trump back in office.

Yes, a Democrat state lawmaker sterilized herself because, in her estimation, Trump might end her “reproductive health care access.”

Here’s how the representative explained her decision on Wednesday:

Just under two weeks ago, I underwent surgery to ensure that I would never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump’s America. I refuse to let my body be treated as currency by an administration that only sees value in my ability to procreate.  …If you know people who are questioning how serious this is, I’m going to repeat myself: A sitting government official opted for voluntary sterilization because she was uncertain she would be able to access contraception in the future.

Now, before we even get into the specifics here, we need to talk about that last line. I’m not usually one for nit-picking how politicians deliver their speeches, but this crosses a line. She starts talking about herself in the third-person, as a way to lend some gravitas to what she’s trying to communicate. She says, “A sitting government official opted for voluntary sterilization because of Donald Trump! That’s how serious things are!” But the government official that she’s talking about is herself. So, this just doesn’t work, as a rhetorical device. It just makes her look crazy. If things were really this serious, then other people would be sterilizing themselves too, and she could use them as examples. But she has to use herself as an example, because no one else — even in a state like Michigan — is quite as insane as she is.

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But the bigger issue, of course, is that Pohutsky’s decision to spay herself like a house cat makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. First of all, believe it or not, it’s possible to avoid getting pregnant without sterilizing yourself. Even if Project 2025 outlaws contraception and abortion, that would still be true. So, this is like if you decided you really hate jogging so you cut your own legs off to avoid it. It’s overkill, to say the least. But at a Reddit protest, this kind of thing apparently gets applause, so presumably that’s why she did it.

But the other problem here is that, even by Pohutsky’s own logic, she has no reason to sterilize herself. That’s because abortion is legal in Michigan. And it’s legal in Michigan because Leftists like her have spent their entire political careers making sure that mothers can kill their children pretty much any time they want, for any reason. Pohutsky has put out several videos on social media talking about how abortion is readily available in Michigan thanks to her efforts. Here’s one of them:

So voters “protected” the right to an abortion, but they still have their work “cut out” for them. At the time it wasn’t clear what she meant by that. But I guess now we know. It means women have to get sterilized. That’s the final stage of Laurie Pohutsky’s abortion advocacy. It’s not really about giving women the “right to choose.” It’s about making sure that women don’t have children, period.

On social media, Pohutsky has been desperately defending her decision. For example, she wrote: “The fact that so many conservative men take personal offense to a decision that I made with my husband about my health care and future just proves the point that we shouldn’t assume that right is secure.”

Just to be clear, nobody is offended by the fact that you sterilized yourself, Laurie. We just think it’s very dumb. This is like if you started banging your own head against a brick wall, and we watched and said, “this behavior seems a bit strange,” and then you shouted, “Ha! You snowflakes are triggered, aren’t you?!” As you continue to bash your skull into dust.

I will say though, assuming what she’s saying is actually true, there probably does need to be an investigation of whatever doctor performed this procedure. If I go to my doctor tomorrow and say I need to get sterilized because Democrats are going to force me to have kids, then it’s pretty clear I’m not sane enough to consent to any kind of surgery.

At the same time, I don’t really need to say much more about this particular politician. Every post she makes is getting completely roasted on social media. Her stunt has backfired on her. And it’s not the first time that this kind of thing has happened to Laurie Pohutsky, by the way.

Take a look at this footage from a couple of years ago. It shows her making some remarks in the statehouse about the importance of repealing an old abortion ban in Michigan. As you watch this clip, pay close attention to the big law book she has on the desk next to her. Watch:

Did you catch it? Pohutsky has the law book opened to the page where the abortion ban is. Then the page flips a bunch of times when she starts speaking, so that she loses her place. It’s no longer on the page with the abortion law. And then at the end of the clip, in her big moment of rhetorical flourish, Pohutsky grabs the book — which is now open to the wrong page. It’s turned to some completely different law. And she seems to notice this, and hesitates, before she decides she doesn’t care. She just rips the random page out of the law book and performatively tears it up. It was a simple stunt that this woman somehow managed to screw up.

Now I’m wondering if she actually did sterilize herself, or did she go in wanting to be sterilized but instead she accidentally got a root canal instead or something.

Laurie Pohutsky is a self-described radical feminist — one of many — who has spent the last few years engaging in dumb performances instead of actually accomplishing anything. And now, as Trump’s second administration gets underway, these people look more pitiful than they have ever looked — which is saying something, because they’ve always looked pitiful.

You may remember a few years ago we were promised a massive backlash against Republicans with women rising up across the nation because of Roe. We were told that fighting for the unborn would doom the party to irrelevance. But that didn’t happen. And still hasn’t happened. Instead, Trump has turned around and defended “women’s rights” more than Joe Biden ever did, or Kamala Harris ever would have. Because of radical feminists like Laurie Pohutsky, Democrats have thrown all of their political capital behind the deranged proposition that men can transform into women — and that men should be able to invade women’s private spaces, as well as women’s sports.

Democrats’ commitment to this insanity led to this moment at the White House this week, which we talked about the other day:

Contrast that footage — of Trump signing an executive order preserving women’s sports, as he’s flanked by smiling young women — with the footage from the so-called  “50501 Movement.” Contrast the footage of Trump with the bitter, vengeful feminists who are now maiming themselves for no reason that they can explain. Less than three years after the Dobbs decision, Republicans are more appealing to most women than the so-called “feminist movement,” and it’s not even close. This is a victory that a lot of people — including conservatives — thought was impossible not too long ago. They made the case that we should compromise on abortion and gender ideology, out of political expediency. But as lunatics like Laurie Pohutsky embarrass themselves, and Leftists hold protests that no one attends, it’s hard not to notice that no one’s making that argument anymore.