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Sorry, we have all the cards, if we just become aware and act like it.
Most Americans want to keep abortion legal and safe, where are the Republican moves to compromise on it?
You can denigrate it with loaded words, like tit for tat, but, basically, fuck 'em
No, I understand you completely. You think the Democrats must rise above partisan politics to rule from the middle for the good of the country.
And I say, I'm sick of hearing people state that Democrats must do that when no Republican ever thinks the same way when they're in power. They are happy to go about their business without any Democratic input.
I say, let's give them a taste of their own medicine, for once, let's stop trying to be nice guys. Look at the Supreme Court, do you think it has a conservative super majority because Republicans are trying to rule from the center?
If they want partisan conflict, let's give them partisan conflict, we have the numbers.
Incorrect. Dems represent the majority of American voters. It's only through voter suppression, gerrymandering, and the inequality of the Senate and Electoral College that Republicans can hang on to power.
Let them rise above, I'm sick of your construct that Dems have to move rightward. Look at a so-called liberal publications, like WaPo, for example. They all have conservative columnists and are obsessed with presenting the views of Trump voters.
Now look at so-called conservative publications and tell me if they have any regular liberal contributors.
Well, time for god to get a new plan.
I agree. And let's have the Republicans show the way it's done. Remember the Garland nomination for Supreme Court? The battles over the ACA? The votes to not certify Biden's win? It's on them, there is no equivalence whatsoever with anything the Democrats have done.
More bullshit. Let the Republicans get back to the center. This country has moved so far to the right in the past few decades it's their turn.
Bullshit! Why is it that the Democrats have to always reach out to the Republicans. When Republicans are in power, they never try to build a consensus, you think Mitch cared about what the Dems wanted?
You think this doesn't count as anything?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-deficit-national-debt-reduction/
Of course, during the previous 4 years nothing was proposed or accomplished so it's only theoretical.
There are more Dems than Repubs in the country, let's start acting like it.
Yes, except if they can establish there's no right to privacy in the Constitution, then they can go after contraception and gay marriage. And all sorts of other things that help people.
To your point, have you heard any anti-choice agenda for caring for the increase in babies or children left motherless because of botched illegal abortions?
The Constitution is like the Bible, all sorts of shiteheads use them in similar fashion, to justify the worst impulses of mankind. Beware of people who insist on strict interpretations of outdated texts.
I'm no expert on Hasidim but I think those women as well as the run of the mill ultra Orthodox women do wear wigs, after they're married. Not sure if they shave their heads underneath all that.
I thought the lead actress was so strange looking, so tiny and whatever that is was an unnecessary distraction.
So Trump's not going out on any limbs by endorsing real dark horses. These people that vote in the midterm primaries are such a tiny portion of the general electorate and it's a much tougher slog to win in the generals.
This abortion thing is going to energize Democrats and Progressives to get out the vote, like nothing else. The Conservatives were not careful about what they wished for and are now going to have to deal with the unintended consequences.
We'll see. May 9 is the day of reckoning, no idea how it will shake out.
Actually, abortion is not illegal in Mexico:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2022/04/27/abortions-women-america-mexico/7308923001/?gnt-cfr=1
I wish people would realize that this anti-abortion movement is a war on poor women. The middle classes will always be able to afford to go to NY or CA or Mexico for an abortion. It's the poors who will either have to have an unwanted child or will be killed in a back alley.
And, not weirdly at all, the states most anti-abortion are the one's who fought hardest against the ACA and Medicare expansion. So who's going to help pay for all this new life, feed them and give them medicine?
that's nice dear, but they're primaries.
if you think Oz or Walker or, in fact, Vance, are going to win the general elections, I'd really like to get you to see a bridge I'm selling.
very few people turn out for primaries, it's a matter of getting them out and the MAGAATs did that well.
see you in November.
You think that Vance beating Mandel is a thing? Pigasus could have beaten Mandel. Now he's got to face Tim Ryan in the general, the incumbent, a real opponent, who actually knows how to work a doorknob on his own, unlike Mandel. That will be the test of the power of Trump's endorsement, although it's going really well in Georgia, too, right?
Another thing to keep in mind about Ohio is that you don't have to be registered in the party to vote in the primary:
https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_Party_primaries_in_Ohio,_2022
So clearly, you have the likelihood that many Dems voted for Vance because he will be the weakest candidate in the general.
What has to be addressed is the subject of birthright citizenship. If someone who is born in America is automatically a citizen and if a fetus is a baby, then it would seem to follow that when a pregnant woman comes to America, the fetus, then, becomes a citizen of America, too.
They're all very liberal, professionally and otherwise, although Mitch got custody and raised them.
He is a coward turtle.
HIs first wife and their 3 daughters are an interesting story.
Noted, thanks.
That's it. She breaks away from a religious cult. Netflix takes some liberties with the story but it's still very watchable.
Fiddler on the Roof is interesting, was interesting, a period piece, though, not sure how it would hold up now.
I think I saw the version with Herschel Bernardi on Broadway, his role taken over by Zero Mostel for the movie.
It's non-fiction, I've done both, the book is better and available in Canada. There's a follow up, which is not as good, so be sure you're viewing the original.
Yes, it takes an effort to think for yourself and act on the conclusions that follow. Check out "Unorthodox" on Netflix or the book.
There's a new-ish historical novel, Booth, about John Wilkes. His family were strict abolitionists, yet he grew up to embrace the institution of slavery, so it works both ways.
And the legions of stories of brother vs brother in the Civil War and, now, Ukraine.
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/06/1084800742/relationships-across-the-ukraine-russia-border-feel-the-strain-of-war
Nor is privacy, so that's the way we're heading.
And, slavery was a constitutional right.
If you're going to be a strict constitutionalist, you're just rationalizing the taking away of rights.
How's that mooching off the blue states' tax revenues working out for you? If you don't want to be in the union, pay for your own damn roads and airports and dams and ports. If you do want to be in the union, you have to recognize the supremacy of federal law. There's no third way.
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives..." John Stuart Mill
Why does every state have to have slavery illegal?
If you don't want' an abortion, don't get one. Otherwise, keep out of my womb, please.
Can you imagine being a 13 year old girl who gets raped and is forced to carry the rapist's child? At long last, have you no decency?
So, you do think that individual states can legalize slavery within their borders?
Again, where do you draw the line on the states' rights issues?
Maybe you guys who live in the mooching states can start paying your fair share instead of taking tax money from the blue states.
https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal-government/
You hate the federal government yet suck at its teat, shameless hypocrites.
You clearly don't understand what's going on here, it goes way beyond abortion, it's about privacy issues which include birth control, same sex marriage etc. A law maker in Missouri is currently trying to make it a crime to travel out of state for an abortion:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/missouri-considers-law-to-make-illegal-to-aid-or-abet-out-of-state.
How do you defend this crap, where do you draw the line? Next, you going to claim that individual states have the right to legalize slavery?
Sorry, it's not up to individual states, this was settled in the 18th century.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/supremacy_clause
A writer elsewhere remarked that if the Supreme Court can force you to not have an abortion, then they can force you to have one, ala China. Which makes sense, in that if they're going to take away your personal autonomy, you're not going to have any.
As for the leaker, an impartial Supreme Court reporter makes a different case:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/03/alito-roe-leaked-draft-disaster-for-supreme-court/
I can hardly wait to read what Breitbart's take is on all this, I'm sure you'll be soon posting it.
I don't accept the narrative that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was some sort of debacle. It worked as well as it could have, there was no correct or better or cleaner way to do it. At least he got us out of a pointless conflict, in which many more people would have died if he hadn't. It's nit picking.
Watch Israel. They've been neutral in the Ukrainian war because Russia has troops in Syria. Two things have happened recently which, I think, will lead to their greater involvement and if Ukraine can access the Iron Dome system it will be a game changer.
All that being said, it's clear Russia's military has been vastly overrated, as has their digital conflict capabilities:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00753-9
Ukraine will win this war.
I think that if you're disappointed in Biden, your expectations are out of line. Of course, you want troops on the ground in Ukraine and he has enough common sense to not do that.
Otherwise, you can't blame him for inflation or the rise in hate crimes, for example. What did you think he was going to do to wipe off the shit stains left by Trump? There's no magic wand and he's plugging away, having some successes and some failures, as is par for the course. But, at least he's trying to make things better for the majority of Americans.
And that's why the right wing hates him. They are an anti-democracy group, at heart, and only want lower taxes and privatizing government services and the extinguishing of the line between church and state. They don't recognize the common good.
Not only Federalist Society members, or sponsored by it, but also hard core, old school, practicing Roman Catholics. Good piece in the NY Times today about it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/opinion/roe-v-wade-abortion-supreme-court.html
At first, you have to wonder if a ruling overturning Roe would take the wind out of the culture warriors' sails. But, no, there's so much more privacy to invade!
I mean talk about going against the tide of history:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/07/mexico-abortion-supreme-court/
https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2018/8/9/17484884/why-are-catholic-countries-debating-abortion
What we have here, right now, is one messed up country. And no, it's not because of Biden.
So sick of Ryan, Bolton, Barr and the rest of them who worked hard enabling Trump and now have written books to try to capitalize on their proximity to him, when he was in office. And who now, when it's too late to have any impact, explain in their writings what a stupid, unqualified, petty, man he is.
Yup, they saved it for their books and now to sell those books they're on some weird "literary" tours explaining what he's really like behind closed doors. They have no guts, whatsoever, too interested in keeping their little fiefdoms intact to alert the public in real time. A pox on the lot of them.
Agreed. We seem to have a situation where the silent majority has morphed into the loud minority. Take schools, for instance, numerous polls (previously posted) have shown that parents like their kids' teachers and what's being taught. But we have a group disrupting school board meetings, threatening board members, and trying to create a wedge issue against public schools.
We can, maybe, remember, during the various town hall meetings about the ACA, much the same scenario unfolded in many locations, a disruptive minority getting the attention. They were mostly so-called astroturf groups, claiming to be natural eruptions of peoples' real feelings, but were actually bankrolled by the big money crowd.
And then go back to the Brooks Brothers Riot in Florida, it worked there on behalf of W, so it's in the playbook. Make no mistake, the goal is to privatize education along with most other government services. Which has worked well exactly nowhere else, but like the zombie theory of trickle down economics, it remains a powerful force.
I feel sorry for you, really, your is a small life.
I wouldn't argue about any of your points. I feel like having open borders is a legitimate topic for a discussion. One that doesn't include demonizing immigrants and otherwise trying to scare people.
Greed is the problem, I was just listening to the radio and they were discussing the development of Russian style oligarchs here at home. Billionaires, like Musk, who not only don't pay federal taxes but also get extremely favorable rates on loans.
Look to the Kochs. Democracy is the enemy of the leisure class and that's why they support voter suppression, for one thing. A truly democratic country would vote for more money going to the greater good.
I agree, but it's two different issues, at least. You do know that most of the people living here "illegally" have overstayed their visas? So, it's in no way strictly a southern border problem.
We need people to work in the fields and the food processing plants and etc., traditionally lower wage situations. I'm all for unions, that's the way the middle class was formed in the 1950's and 60's.
That and free college education.
John Kenneth Galbraith cited income inequality as the likely primary reason for the Great Depression. I don't have time to cite a link but his famous book goes over the concept in detail. The stock market crash at the time, was just an add-on.
I remember being out in a bar with a friend shortly after Reagan had won re-election. I didn't understand it, I thought Reagan was obviously a charlatan (at best) and not a very bright one at that.
I asked my friend, a very educated guy, how he would explain it and he did so in words that will live forever in the annals of political discourse: "Brooklyn 13, it's a country full of stupid effing people".
And if you liked that, you're gonna love what's coming.
Thanks. Ask any poster, here, who's claiming our borders are now open, to name one way that's directly negatively impacted their life. Other than the shortage of agricultural and food processing low wage workers that's driving up food prices. A problem of their own making.
Dupes, rubes, suckers, whatever, give them a B List movie actor or reality tv star to vote for and they're happy. If government's the problem, what say we privatize government services to increase the revenues for the political donor class.
The thing that gets me is the apparently easy manipulation of the masses. Starting in the Civil War, when the wealthy Southerners somehow got the impoverished masses to be convinced that they should fight for the right of the wealthy to continue owning slaves. It's all about pitting the working / middle classes against each other to distract from the bigger picture.
And, to this day, the Kochs, DeVos family, the Bushes, the Trumps, the Mercers, the Broads, Bezos, the moneyed conservative elite has convinced the less moneyed to take up their causes, "What's the Matter with Kansas"?. It boggles the mind what fools these mortals be.
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/07/billionaires-and-stealth-politics
In return, we get the usual scapegoats, the blacks, the Jews, the immigrants, Asians, the coastal elites, welfare mooches, and, actually, women, all groups to resent and blame for our problems. Why tackle the enormous problems caused by income inequality, when we can just get the rubes to resent the poor? Paul Ryan is still pissed we haven't gutted the social safety net, those damn lazy people should just get third and fourth jobs:
https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/paul-ryan-griped-that-trump-didnt-pursue-cuts-to-medicare-and-other-safety-net-programs-since-they-were-too-unpopular/articleshow/91134183.cms
The Republicans have no platform, no actual agenda to change anything. They present no ideas about how to tackle any important civic issue, from crumbling infrastructure to voter suppression to climate change to income inequality to student debt. Nothing.
Medical expenses leading to bankruptcies? They're unaware..
https://www.thebalance.com/medical-bankruptcy-statistics-4154729
Low literacy rates? Nothing to see here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/09/09/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-could-be-costing-the-economy-22-trillion-a-year/?sh=6fe9b3ad4c90
The entirety of their construct is to create social wedge issues and to scare people about them and to try to convince people that, whatever it is, it's the Democrat's fault. Which is a reasonable plan to run elections but not so much on governing when they win. How can you run a government when your campaign has been based on being anti-government, anti-expertise, anti-education?
Is being anti-Critical Race Theory (without knowing what it actually is), womb control, prayer in schools, anti-LGBTQ legislation, repealing the ACA, pro all guns, really any way to move the country forward? Conservatives are doing what they've been doing since the Civil War. Fighting the rich man's wars, sacrificing their children and their lives so that the plantation owners can continue their lives of luxury.
The more things change the more they remain the same. There's still a sucker born every minute.