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Trump is scrambling. He's worried that since he's the one responsible for overturning Roe the voters will hold him accountable in 2024. Well, I have news for Donald. They will.
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Donald Trump made it clear once again today that he is more than anyone in America the person responsible for ending Roe v. Wade. He is more than anyone in America responsible for creating the cruelty and the chaos that has enveloped America since the Dobbs decision.
Trump once said women must be punished for seeking reproductive health care and hes gotten his wish. Women are being turned away from emergency rooms, forced to go to court to seek permission for the medical attention they need, and left to travel hundreds of miles for health care. In states like Florida, abortion will likely soon be illegal before many women know theyre pregnant. Because of Donald Trump, one in three women in America already live under extreme and dangerous bans that put their lives at risk and threaten doctors with prosecution for doing their jobs. And that is only going to get worse. With all his empty words on fertility treatments, Trump doesnt tell you the MAGA Republicans he controls in Congress have put forward bills that could ban fertility treatments and that the Speaker of the House he empowered is one of the strongest supporters for a national abortion ban in the nation. Let there be no illusion. If Donald Trump is elected and the MAGA Republicans in Congress put a national abortion ban on the Resolute Desk, Trump will sign it into law.
Heres what Donald Trump doesnt understand: When he ripped away Roe v. Wade, he ripped away a fundamental right for the women of America that the United States Supreme Court had affirmed and reaffirmed for 50 years. As a fundamental right, it didnt matter where you lived. It was granted to you as an American, not as a resident of any state. Generations of women had come to rely on that right. Now were in the extraordinary position where women today have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers. That has never happened before in America. And it cannot be allowed to stand. I am determined to restore the federal protections of Roe v. Wade. So it wont matter where you live in America: The fundamental right to choose for women will once again be the law of the land. If you give me and Vice President Harris a Democratic Congress, that is exactly what we will do.
Trump is simply lying. There was no groundswell of support in America for overturning Roe. In fact, support for Roe is higher today in America than it has ever been. The real truth is Trump made a political deal in 2016. He promised to appoint a Court that would get rid of Roe. And he had to make good on that debt. So he did. It was never about public policy or what was right or what Trump believed. It was always about politics.
Trump admits as much in his statement today. Having created the chaos of overturning Roe, hes trying to say, Oh, never mind. Dont punish me for that. I just want to win.
Trump is scrambling. Hes worried that since hes the one responsible for overturning Roe the voters will hold him accountable in 2024. Well, I have news for Donald. They will. America was built on personal freedom and liberty. So, there is nothing more un-American than having our personal freedoms taken away. And that is what Donald Trump has done.
As I have said many times since the Dobbs decision, Donald Trump and all those responsible for overturning Roe dont have a clue about the power of women in America. But they are about to find out.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-is-simply-lying-biden-goes-off-on-trump-over-abortion-in-blistering-statement/
Think. Again.
(8,435 posts)I really do like Biden's straightforward approach to this campaign.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,658 posts)Wheres my bumper sticker?
CrispyQ
(36,527 posts)if he has the senate & house he will implement a nationwide abortion ban of the strictest kind.
Here are some snippets from an article I read this morning about men slugging random women in the face on the streets of NYC.
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/08/men-punching-random-women-in-nyc-a-desperate-last-gasp-of-the-male-rage-fueling-maga/
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These stories resonate, as well, because the nation is having a moment of increasingly unhinged male fury at women for daring to have lives that are centered around something other than catering to a man's every whim.
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The rise of MAGA is fueled by misogyny. But it's less a backlash than a tantrum, a rage explosion by men who want to restore their dominance but fear that, this time, women won't buckle to their bullying.
Fuckin' A we're not gonna buckle, you small-minded pricks.
Ping Tung
(703 posts)Kath2
(3,089 posts)Women will oppose him in droves. Vote blue for choice. Ratify the ERA. Codify Roe. Make them pay at the polls for their sexism and bigotry.
calimary
(81,508 posts)But there are MANY other reasons. A womans right to choose is just the first one on my list. Number ONE.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)Warpy
(111,359 posts)when he opens his big fat mouth about anything, but especially abortion. He's had his fat chest all puffed out for months because Roe was overturned. Now that there is massive blowback, he has no clue what to do.
And now that sick fuck Alito is trying to trot out the Comstock Act to kill off any health care women still have.
I know how angry I am at these stupid men meddling in things that are none of their business. I have to think I'm not alone.
Blowback? He hasn't seen anything yet.
Hekate
(90,829 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,812 posts)Paladin
(28,276 posts)Keep at it, Joe! Every day, day after day. Take no prisoners!
Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)Cha
(297,723 posts)TY & PJB