ProfessorPlum
ProfessorPlum's JournalMark my words: Republicans will be begging to go back to Roe v. Wade standards before this is all over
Even now they have to strawman the abortion rights argument as women and doctors wanting to "kill babies minutes before or after they are born".
Roe v. Wade already addressed that. Late term abortions were only in play in the rare case of danger to the life or health of the mother.
And now Trump is walking back these early abortion bans. "Six weeks is too little" he says. Yeah, it's almost like Roe found a great and acceptable balance between the rights of the mothers, the emerging rights of the gestating person, and the interests of the state.
Like I said, they will bring back Roe before this is all settled and call it something else.
Tim Walz is not embarrassed to actually be for working people
and I am here for it. For so long we've had a Democratic party that seems to be about half ashamed to just be blatantly on the side of workers. As if they could campaign on things that would be good for the common people, but it was all a little embarrassing and kind of beneath them and needed to be couched in terms that were more palatable to rich donors and not emphasized and kept under wraps.
And now here is Walz, unapologetic, unembarrassed, fully aware of how good and wholesome and RIGHT his politics are. Propelled by the self-evident need of the populace to have some things, finally, break in their direction after the rich have had it all or mostly all their way for decades. You can just hear it in his voice, as he says things that break over the crowds and energize people because of the TRUTH in what he is saying.
And the icing on the cake is that it is coming from a non-billionaire. I give FDR a lot of credit for what he managed to do for this country coming from the upper class. But a true working class person, with the knowledge of what people are actually facing in their day to day lives - that is a real treasure. A big thank you to Kamala for recognizing the potential power of Walz's approach and viewpoint and giving him this chance.
Biden has been THOROUGHLY vetted. And came out remarkably clean
The demons in the GOP announced that they wanted to impeach him WAY before they even had any idea what for. And then proceeded to investigate all of their fever dreams and came up with exactly ZERO.
Biden is, remarkably, especially for a national politician at his level, quite free of personal corruption.
That is a HUGE advantage which the Democratic Party should not throw away lightly. All of their accusations that they come up with (and come up with them they will) against ANY Democratic candidate will take time to adjudicate in the court of public opinion EXCEPT for those against Biden, because we already know he is quite clean.
I'm not sure what will make me hate Trump more . . .
when he talks about this attempt on his life, if he
1) suddenly acts like he doesn't think political violence is a good idea, after fanning the flames of violent rhetoric and aiming it at his political enemies and the most vulnerable people in our society - but now advocates against it because his dumb ass just realized that his moronic followers could hurt HIM
or
2) if he doubles down and calls for political violence in revenge for what happened.
what if . . and I know this is crazy but hear me out . . what if corporations are controlling more and more
of our lives (including more and more of the government) and making things better and better for corporations and worse and worse for people?
What should people do about this? Because as far as I can see, the levers of power are all being removed/placed in corporate hands.
Giving the President total immunity would destroy any power the Supreme Court has
as they would now be under a dictatorship. So why does the Orange Halfwit think they are going to do it?
Today is the start of my 23rd year here on DU
I had lurked for a while here in 2001. It was a place for me to help retain my sanity as I watched W steal the presidency. Along with Bartcop, Media Whores Online, and Atrios, it gave me vital information that often ran counter to the prevailing media narrative.
The day after 9/11, I made an account and started to contribute. I met and have read so many fantastic posters here. I have been through 5 election cycles, and all of the in-fighting that goes with Democratic primaries. DU has seen me through four job changes, a house fire, and cancer.
Just wanted to shout out to the founders, the mods, the contributors here. All of the news gatherers and posters that make this such a vital place. Looking forward to many more years ahead.
It's nice to know that so many people actively support the party of human values, kindness, care, and equity.
did this latest SC decision kill the movement to make the Electoral College obsolete?
I support the movement to create a popular vote for president via having states representing the required number of EC votes pledge their electors to the winner of the national popular vote.
However, the mechanism - having states assign their electors not based on how their vote tallies come out but rather on some other basis - sounds very much like the schemes that were voted down this week. Where Republican-run states could just assign their electors arbitrarily.
Does this effectively kill the plan to end (the relevance of) the Electoral College?
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