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applegrove

(131,060 posts)
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 09:36 PM Mar 2024

Barack Obama: "For those that think their social security is sacred and Republicans wouldn't dare destroy it,


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Barack Obama: "For those that think their social security is sacred and Republicans wouldn't dare destroy it, should ask women about Roe vs. Wade."
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Barack Obama: "For those that think their social security is sacred and Republicans wouldn't dare destroy it, (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2024 OP
Excellent Suggestion form Obama.. TY! Cha Mar 2024 #1
President Obama... Ohio Joe Mar 2024 #2
President Obama hit it out of the ballpark! Omnipresent Mar 2024 #3
This Ferrets are Cool Mar 2024 #4
And this is true not only of Social Security B.See Mar 2024 #5
People who believe markodochartaigh Mar 2024 #6
People took Roe for granted. They take Democracy for granted. And they take Social Security for granted. CousinIT Mar 2024 #7
I never took Roe for granted. murielm99 Mar 2024 #8
I never took Roe for granted either Skittles Mar 2024 #9
That is why I went to DC for 3 Choice marches, rallies... electric_blue68 Mar 2024 #10
Right. On. Time. Drum Mar 2024 #11

Omnipresent

(7,341 posts)
3. President Obama hit it out of the ballpark!
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 09:51 PM
Mar 2024

He just crafted a carefully, concise wedge issue that could be used against republicans this fall.

B.See

(8,026 posts)
5. And this is true not only of Social Security
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 10:21 PM
Mar 2024

but of Medicare, Obamacare, Contraceptives, Public Education, Black History, Fair Housing, Consumer Protection, Civil Rights, diversity and inclusion, a free press, and A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER THINGS that TOO many take for granted, and don't believe MAGA's fascists WILL take away.

They'd better WAKE THE FUCK UP before it's too late.

markodochartaigh

(5,234 posts)
6. People who believe
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 10:48 PM
Mar 2024

that the Republicans would destroy Social Security are probably the sort of people who believe that a Republican Senate Majority Leader would refuse a hearing for any nominee of a Democratic president, or believe that a Republican president would refuse to accept that he had lost re-election and stand by as the Capitol was broken into by a mob.

CousinIT

(12,362 posts)
7. People took Roe for granted. They take Democracy for granted. And they take Social Security for granted.
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 11:20 PM
Mar 2024

And they take voting rights for granted.

They can lose ALL of it.

murielm99

(32,820 posts)
8. I never took Roe for granted.
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 11:41 PM
Mar 2024

I was a young woman when Roe was decided. My friends and I rejoiced. We never forgot that. We won't forget now.


VOTE

electric_blue68

(26,409 posts)
10. That is why I went to DC for 3 Choice marches, rallies...
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 11:59 PM
Mar 2024

and the 3 Women's Marches here in NYC! (pre-covid)

GOTV'd by phone in 2020, and will do so this Nov.

(I've done GOTV before that, too)

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