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CousinIT

(12,753 posts)
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 02:59 PM Aug 2025

Hillary Clinton is never wrong about Republicans. They're planning to take away women's right to vote.

You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)?

Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next.

www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...

Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social) 2025-08-11T17:15:50.850Z


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Hillary Clinton is never wrong about Republicans. They're planning to take away women's right to vote. (Original Post) CousinIT Aug 2025 OP
Would not surprise me. They have made that law that screws with married women who changed their names. kerry-is-my-prez Aug 2025 #1
No they have not made that law. Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #35
H.R.22 - SAVE Act UpInArms Aug 2025 #47
They only ran out of time to prevent it in Iowa this time JT45242 Aug 2025 #65
Oh, but she got paid to give speeches!!11 mcar Aug 2025 #2
But ... establishment! Status quo! Coastal elites! Neoliberals! Wall Street! Identity politics! Campaign contributions! betsuni Aug 2025 #52
Warmonger!!11 And we're vagina voters mcar Aug 2025 #53
She killed everybody in the Iraq War (same Kerry, Edwards vote OK), made Planned Parenthood part of the establishment! betsuni Aug 2025 #55
SCOTUS didn't matter because of her! mcar Aug 2025 #57
Thank you for bringing back to me the name "Edwards." slightlv Aug 2025 #68
The book "Game Change" has juicy details about what happened, what a mess he turned out to be. betsuni Aug 2025 #69
The older I get, the more cynical I get of men I don't know personally. slightlv Aug 2025 #70
I'm moving out of the USA if that happens. poli-junkie Aug 2025 #3
They'll do it sneakily - like by striking them from the voting rolls. kerry-is-my-prez Aug 2025 #10
there are lots of ways to make it hard for women to vote DBoon Aug 2025 #39
That would take repealing a constitutional amendment Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 #4
Sure, but the Constitution is imperiled by SCOTUS. Raven123 Aug 2025 #9
The constitution spells out the process for repealing an amendment Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 #11
Many people thought that when Trump said he was running for president Raven123 Aug 2025 #19
38 states won't ratify such stupidity. roamer65 Aug 2025 #60
They are absolutely working on creating barriers to prevent women from voting. Quiet Em Aug 2025 #12
It is the SAVE Act and it has not and never will pass the Senate. Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #36
Yes, you are correct, it's the SAVE act Quiet Em Aug 2025 #45
You sound naive and gullible mgardener Aug 2025 #24
Speaking of naive and gullible... Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 #31
Show me where this SCOTUS majority gives AF about mcar Aug 2025 #58
Show me where they have the power to repeal an amendment Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 #59
Perhaps you might consider paying attention to what the misogynist, niyad Aug 2025 #64
Right! SheltieLover Aug 2025 #67
They have been openly and proudly saying it now for months...nt Wounded Bear Aug 2025 #5
Definitely possible IzzaNuDay Aug 2025 #6
No. It's not. Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #37
Do you have information that HRC does not have? still-prayin4rain Aug 2025 #61
No, not possible. nt Raine Aug 2025 #46
Kick Demovictory9 Aug 2025 #7
I highly doubt the 4 women on the Supreme Court will go for that nt EX500rider Aug 2025 #8
How many times have we highly doubted something could happen only to see it happen with this administration? Native Aug 2025 #17
Justice Rabbit might. She and her husband belong to a sect haele Aug 2025 #18
It's a Christian belief popularized by Bill Gothard Seinan Sensei Aug 2025 #28
I was raised in a Gotherdite family. Coventina Aug 2025 #63
They only need 5 votes. nt pnwmom Aug 2025 #25
SCOTUS doesn't get to vote on the repeal of constitutional amendments Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 #33
Funny thing... Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 #32
Which is never going to happen, is there a single mainstream politician calling for this? nt EX500rider Aug 2025 #48
Nope, but Pete Hegseth laughs and says... Fiendish Thingy Aug 2025 #49
Spread the facts, over and over and on twodogsbarking Aug 2025 #13
I wonder how many babies were made on epstein island? Hornedfrog2000 Aug 2025 #14
1st they went after immigrants, then they go after the homeless, next will be the disabled. rickyhall Aug 2025 #15
First, they "have to" overturn cilla4progress Aug 2025 #16
I believe that women damn sure shouldn't vote.. chouchou Aug 2025 #20
Hillary was right then (about so many things) and she's right now peggysue2 Aug 2025 #21
I've been saying for years they'd try to do this, and probably succeed. slightlv Aug 2025 #22
They will not succeed. Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #38
When they tell you what they believe, believe them. bronxiteforever Aug 2025 #23
Hillary is always right MustLoveBeagles Aug 2025 #26
If they try it time for a Lysistrata protest Ritabert Aug 2025 #27
It's difficult to argue they won't try Torchlight Aug 2025 #29
I believe her Rebl2 Aug 2025 #30
They either hildegaard28 Aug 2025 #34
Fuck anyone and everyone that didn't support and vote for Hillary in 2016. W_HAMILTON Aug 2025 #40
As an attorney, she should know that the only way to overturn a constitutional amendment valleyrogue Aug 2025 #41
Bless your heart, thinking fascists care about the law. W_HAMILTON Aug 2025 #42
They can't do it. It seems like people don't understand the US constitution. valleyrogue Aug 2025 #43
They "can't do it?" Just like they couldn't deport American citizens? End birthright citizenship? Deny due process? W_HAMILTON Aug 2025 #44
Didn't a majority of white women vote for Trump? Kaleva Aug 2025 #62
Great irony. There are women who woud vote to take away their own right to vote. Ping Tung Aug 2025 #50
Of course they are, she's usually right about stuff Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #51
Happy you "won", oh principled voters of 2016 and 2024? EllieBC Aug 2025 #54
When "Vote your conscience" means "Vote your stubborn ignorance, gullibility and hatred." betsuni Aug 2025 #56
Back To The Future czarjak Aug 2025 #66

kerry-is-my-prez

(10,333 posts)
1. Would not surprise me. They have made that law that screws with married women who changed their names.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 03:03 PM
Aug 2025

I’m not sure if that’s in certain states or everywhere.

Wiz Imp

(10,433 posts)
35. No they have not made that law.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 06:33 PM
Aug 2025

That bill has not and Will not ever pass the US Senate. That is not law in ANY states.

UpInArms

(55,378 posts)
47. H.R.22 - SAVE Act
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 08:05 PM
Aug 2025
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22

Shown Here:
Introduced in House (01/03/2025)
Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act or the SAVE Act

This bill requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections.

Specifically, the bill prohibits states from accepting and processing an application to register to vote in a federal election unless the applicant presents documentary proof of U.S. citizenship. The bill specifies what documents are considered acceptable proof of U.S. citizenship, such as identification that complies with the REAL ID Act of 2005 that indicates U.S. citizenship.

Further, the bill (1) prohibits states from registering an individual to vote in a federal election unless, at the time the individual applies to register to vote, the individual provides documentary proof of U.S. citizenship; and (2) requires states to establish an alternative process under which an applicant may submit other evidence to demonstrate U.S. citizenship.

Each state must take affirmative steps on an ongoing basis to ensure that only U.S. citizens are registered to vote, which shall include establishing a program to identify individuals who are not U.S. citizens using information supplied by certain sources.

Additionally, states must remove noncitizens from their official lists of eligible voters.

The bill allows for a private right of action against an election official who registers an applicant to vote in a federal election who fails to present documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.

The bill establishes criminal penalties for certain offenses, including registering an applicant to vote in a federal election who fails to present documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.

….

Has not passed the senate

JT45242

(4,133 posts)
65. They only ran out of time to prevent it in Iowa this time
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 01:50 PM
Aug 2025

They will push it through more quickly next time.

The heritage foundation and others will have version s ready to be introduced on day one of each session into rethug trifecta states next year and some of not all will pass.

I will predict it passed in Iowa legislature next year

betsuni

(29,297 posts)
52. But ... establishment! Status quo! Coastal elites! Neoliberals! Wall Street! Identity politics! Campaign contributions!
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 10:03 PM
Aug 2025

Thanks, idiots.

betsuni

(29,297 posts)
55. She killed everybody in the Iraq War (same Kerry, Edwards vote OK), made Planned Parenthood part of the establishment!
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 10:37 PM
Aug 2025

Ignored nice white working class by not doing empty populist promises yelling and pointing finger rallies! Rigged!

slightlv

(7,946 posts)
68. Thank you for bringing back to me the name "Edwards."
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 02:29 AM
Aug 2025

I was just talking earlier to hubby about how basically decent most of our democratic politicians are... especially the local ones. And then I tried to bring up Edwards and how he burst my bubble of innocence.

betsuni

(29,297 posts)
69. The book "Game Change" has juicy details about what happened, what a mess he turned out to be.
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 03:05 AM
Aug 2025

Surrogates who campaigned for and supported him went from totally forgiving him for his Iraq vote and saying things like "I think Jesus would be very supportive of John Edwards" to urging people not to vote for Hillary Clinton because she was more dangerous than Trump and would plunge the U.S. into a war two seconds after being inaugurated.

slightlv

(7,946 posts)
70. The older I get, the more cynical I get of men I don't know personally.
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 12:53 PM
Aug 2025

And that goes double if they're in public service. Medicine made sure the men could outwit nature when it came to their sexual desires and proclivities. Woe be it if they had to live under the microscope of "nature" like women. No viagra, no cialis, no testosterone replacement therapy. Just a wind down into old age like nature declared.

Instead, because from time upon time everything was centered around men, they got all their needs taken care of with the newest and best medications. And now we have 80 year olds boinking 15 year olds. I was disabused of the idea that democrats were better than that. Men are men; in many ways, it makes no difference who they are. But I STILL think we have more honest and ethical guys in the Democratic party.

DBoon

(25,148 posts)
39. there are lots of ways to make it hard for women to vote
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 06:53 PM
Aug 2025

you may still have that right in the constitution, but effectively exercising the right can be made difficult.

Blacks in the pre civil rights era nominally had the right to vote, but obstacles placed in their way made actually voting difficult.

Fiendish Thingy

(24,098 posts)
4. That would take repealing a constitutional amendment
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 03:22 PM
Aug 2025

Hillary neglected to explain just how that would happen.

Raven123

(7,899 posts)
9. Sure, but the Constitution is imperiled by SCOTUS.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 04:11 PM
Aug 2025

I no longer believe anything is out of reach. We cannot depend on an idea that the GOP ignores and SCOTUS won’t defend. I get what you are saying, but I have lost my faith.

Fiendish Thingy

(24,098 posts)
11. The constitution spells out the process for repealing an amendment
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 04:21 PM
Aug 2025

And nowhere in the process is SCOTUS mentioned.

The court simply doesn’t have the authority to overturn an amendment.

There is no room for interpretation- either women can vote, or they can’t.

Meanwhile, nobody in the MSM is talking about the Epstein files.

(And Hegseth laughs and says to them “made ya look!”)

Raven123

(7,899 posts)
19. Many people thought that when Trump said he was running for president
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 05:27 PM
Aug 2025

It wasn’t a distraction. It wasn’t a joke. As crazy as it sounded, it appealed to enough people to start a movement.

Yes, the MSM is easily distracted. No, they shouldn’t let go of the Epstein files issue and let Trump get away with distractions. A judge just said as much in denying released of the Grand Jury Records. They can address both issues.



roamer65

(37,974 posts)
60. 38 states won't ratify such stupidity.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 11:43 PM
Aug 2025

DOA.

I agree with you.

Suppression of women’s votes? Very possible in states like Texass.

Quiet Em

(3,023 posts)
12. They are absolutely working on creating barriers to prevent women from voting.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 04:28 PM
Aug 2025

Last edited Mon Aug 11, 2025, 07:16 PM - Edit history (1)

The Save Act was their first step towards it. Charging women with felonies for reproductive care would be another way. They don't need to repeal the 19th Amendment to make it very difficult for many women to vote.

Quiet Em

(3,023 posts)
45. Yes, you are correct, it's the SAVE act
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 07:15 PM
Aug 2025

I will correct my post.

Still, they are indeed looking for ways to create barriers in States that prevent women from voting. I don't take their threats lightly. They are eroding women's rights. There is no denying that.

mgardener

(2,405 posts)
24. You sound naive and gullible
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 05:53 PM
Aug 2025

Republicans will not stop them and the neither will the S C.
Wake up and look around you.

Fiendish Thingy

(24,098 posts)
31. Speaking of naive and gullible...
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 06:28 PM
Aug 2025

Only the naive and gullible believe that Trump is omnipotent, and that the states and the people are powerless.

Do you even understand how amendments are repealed? (It would take the repeal of the 19th amendment to take the right to vote away from all women)

(Hint: the Supreme Court has no role or authority over the ratification or repeal of amendments to the constitution)

Fiendish Thingy

(24,098 posts)
59. Show me where they have the power to repeal an amendment
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 11:09 PM
Aug 2025

Stop believing the myth that Trump, and by association, the Roberts court, are omnipotent, and the states and the people are powerless.

Hegseth retweets a video, and everybody suddenly thinks the 19th amendment can and will be repealed based on a SCOTUS ruling?

niyad

(134,035 posts)
64. Perhaps you might consider paying attention to what the misogynist,
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 01:27 PM
Aug 2025

theocratic, patriarchal, christofascist assholes have been saying for decades, and all the bs they are currently doing. They don't have to repeal 19A, just create insurmountable barriers. But you know this, so why pretend otherwise?

IzzaNuDay

(1,342 posts)
6. Definitely possible
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 03:38 PM
Aug 2025

If Cheeto is diddling around with the 14th amendment and is successful, then the other amendments are fair game!

Native

(7,389 posts)
17. How many times have we highly doubted something could happen only to see it happen with this administration?
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 05:17 PM
Aug 2025

I don't know about you, but I lost count a long time ago. And there are nine members on the Supreme Court, as you know. Adding to that is Hillary's perfect track record when it comes to predictions.

haele

(15,600 posts)
18. Justice Rabbit might. She and her husband belong to a sect
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 05:25 PM
Aug 2025

Where the women are expected to be subservient to their spouses.
The only reason she was allowed to go as far as she did was because she was the talented daughter of one of the cult elites (like Tulsi Gabbard), and was granted the ability to be educated and pursue a profession so she might be able to assist the husband of her father's choice to rise higher than he had the capability to.
She has acted in ways where it appears still believes her husband (and his friends) is "right" when it comes to his judgement, no matter what her feelings might be And her understanding of the Law has always been colored by her religious sensibilities. She refuses to risk Hell if she thinks the situation reflects God's Will.

Sort of like Jane Roberts; the way she gets clients before the court, I suspect she also had a lot to do with politically positioning her spouse into a Supreme Court position.

They won't be required to give anything up, should they go with the guys. They're in a privileged position, and they're promised all due respect and rewards for their service to their "menfolk", no matter how evil it may be to others less fortunate.

They are proper Helpmetes. No one will piss on their graves. They can blame it on their husbands and religious duty.

Seinan Sensei

(1,645 posts)
28. It's a Christian belief popularized by Bill Gothard
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 06:15 PM
Aug 2025

Same belief system associated with the Duggars from TLC’s "19 Kids and Counting"

Coventina

(29,938 posts)
63. I was raised in a Gotherdite family.
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 02:05 AM
Aug 2025

It is so incredibly damaging.
I have no words to describe my grief and rage over losing so much of my life to a cult and its followers.

Fiendish Thingy

(24,098 posts)
33. SCOTUS doesn't get to vote on the repeal of constitutional amendments
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 06:32 PM
Aug 2025

SCOTUS has no role or authority over the repeal of amendments, which is what it would take to remove women’s voting rights.

Fiendish Thingy

(24,098 posts)
32. Funny thing...
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 06:31 PM
Aug 2025

SCOTUS has no role or authority over the repeal of constitutional amendments; it would take the repeal of the 19th amendment to remove the right to vote from all women.

EX500rider

(12,774 posts)
48. Which is never going to happen, is there a single mainstream politician calling for this? nt
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 09:07 PM
Aug 2025
 

Hornedfrog2000

(866 posts)
14. I wonder how many babies were made on epstein island?
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 04:58 PM
Aug 2025

Why isnt the press asking if melania and donald conceived their baby on that plane?

rickyhall

(5,510 posts)
15. 1st they went after immigrants, then they go after the homeless, next will be the disabled.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 05:06 PM
Aug 2025

chouchou

(3,313 posts)
20. I believe that women damn sure shouldn't vote..
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 05:27 PM
Aug 2025

...for cockroach Republicans. It hurts women and ruins counties.

peggysue2

(12,597 posts)
21. Hillary was right then (about so many things) and she's right now
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 05:27 PM
Aug 2025

The assault on women's freedom and rights has been ongoing. Christofascists want their women submissive and two steps behind. Barefoot and pregnant will do.

We've already heard the 'suggestion' that women should be denied the vote.

We're too emotional, they say, too irrational, prone to hysteria.

These bastards haven't seen anything yet!


slightlv

(7,946 posts)
22. I've been saying for years they'd try to do this, and probably succeed.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 05:38 PM
Aug 2025

It fell on ears that were listening just as closely as they were when I was hollering about taking away our bodily autonomy. And I'll tell you another thing that will happen. They will either move us out of the workforce (as they did after WWII), or restrict us to only certain types of jobs (as they did thru the 80's). We're going to be lucky if we don't end up being restricted to our own version chadors. They'll probably look a lot like the old, traditional nun robes. We are quickly moving towards not only a dictatorship, but one enveloped by a theocracy (much like Putin and the Russian Orthodox church). The NAR is one of the prime movers behind everything that happens in the maladministration, and they've been working towards this moment for decades.

bronxiteforever

(11,212 posts)
23. When they tell you what they believe, believe them.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 05:44 PM
Aug 2025

Project 2025 wasn’t going to be enacted until it was. T

Torchlight

(7,066 posts)
29. It's difficult to argue they won't try
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 06:18 PM
Aug 2025

There’s no law, statute, tradition, or norm they won’t delegitimize, bully, or attack when it suits them. I once believed the system could withstand his assaults until I saw him wield the nation’s loudest bullhorns, dictating to the public what their opinions should be.

I thought we’d learned our lesson. Instead, the lowest common denominators, bankrolld by the rich and foolish were elected, and have persuaded millions that ignorance is not only equal to reason, but superior to it, because it delivers simple, shallow answers fast that always blame someone else.

It's difficult to argue they won't try

valleyrogue

(2,795 posts)
41. As an attorney, she should know that the only way to overturn a constitutional amendment
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 06:56 PM
Aug 2025

is through another one. It is nearly impossible to do it given the numbers in Congress and the makeup of the state legislatures.

It is not happening--ever. The only scheme they can pull is with something like SAVE.

The only reason these idiot men--and it is almost entirely men--are yapping about the 19th amendment is because far more women than men vote Democratic. These men are so stupid, they cannot ever admit they have voted the wrong way for decades. Better to attempt to suppress the vote for Democrats.

valleyrogue

(2,795 posts)
43. They can't do it. It seems like people don't understand the US constitution.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 06:59 PM
Aug 2025

They would have to start all over from scratch like a constitutional convention. Even then, the votes aren't there to have one.

W_HAMILTON

(10,438 posts)
44. They "can't do it?" Just like they couldn't deport American citizens? End birthright citizenship? Deny due process?
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 07:11 PM
Aug 2025

Fascists don't follow the rules.

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
50. Great irony. There are women who woud vote to take away their own right to vote.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 09:17 PM
Aug 2025

Last edited Tue Aug 12, 2025, 10:29 AM - Edit history (1)

Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)
51. Of course they are, she's usually right about stuff
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 09:18 PM
Aug 2025

But you know she wouldn’t guarantee Medicare for all, so some folks said hey you only will do 99% of what I want so the hell with you I won’t vote for you I’ll let the other candidate who won’t do anything I want take over

EllieBC

(3,639 posts)
54. Happy you "won", oh principled voters of 2016 and 2024?
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 10:36 PM
Aug 2025

Eat shit I hope you suffer like you’ve made us all suffer.

Never ever ever want to hear from a voter of their conscience or sit him crybaby again. Never.

betsuni

(29,297 posts)
56. When "Vote your conscience" means "Vote your stubborn ignorance, gullibility and hatred."
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 10:45 PM
Aug 2025

czarjak

(13,678 posts)
66. Back To The Future
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 02:40 PM
Aug 2025

Agenda 2025. It is what you were told it would be. Best come to terms with it?

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