This surprised you. Really? This mfer honestly is running on the gop taking away freedoms. Your freedom is on the ballot this time around will. Don’t you know. If Trump wins. We are locking your ass up. From the same guy that told the press to cover him correctly. I will tell you what to say. The same mfer who said buy electric if you don’t like it. He has 100 other freedom taking expressions.
I know you can quote trump too, but this rhetoric here is exactly the same as was out there in 2016 about Trump. This is what literally drives me crazy. You can’t see that. Or won’t acknowledge it. And act like what is happening here is egregious and unprecedented. Bullshit. It was happening leading up the the 2020 election. Biden will have you believe anyone associated with the gop or trump wants to take away your freedoms. It is not just wrong. It is using fear and insanity. Divisive is not the word.
Whether Biden’s description of the choice between he and Trump is accurate or not is an interesting topic. Stunning news, I agree with him.
The reversal of Roe is by far the single most impactful reversal of rights in our history. I’m not commenting about whether it was the right legal decision or not and I’m not going to debate the moral implications. But a minority, whose views are primarily derived from their religious beliefs, successfully removed a right and are now implementing further removal of rights on a state by state basis.
A national anti-abortion advocate recently testified that a ten year old is old enough to carry a baby and the fact that the pregnancy was the result of rape doesn’t matter because “God doesn’t make mistakes”. Can you possibly say that limiting or eliminating the options in this scenario doesn’t represent a removal of freedom?
We definitly aren’t done with IVF. If you insist that life begins at inception, banning IVF is an entirely logical outcome. Is banning or inhibiting IVF impinging on my freedom? Hell yes.
The same goes for minors, parents and doctors whose right to explore medically accepted and approved gender treatment options have been eliminated. Agree or disagree, that’s a removal of freedom and again, the driver of those who passed the laws were their religious beliefs.
Book banning? Same thing. If you didn’t see the recent 60 Minutes segment on book banning efforts in Beaufort County public schools. I highly recommend it. We have friends who were involved and they successfully reinstated 92 of the 96 books that were initially banned, after a fair and thoughtful process and reasonable input from all citizens. The segment made our local republicans look reasonable and evenhanded and the Mom’s for Liberty not so much. I know enough about what happened to say it was a fair representation of events.
There are also some very loud and influential voices on the right who state unequivocably that the United States must be a Christian nation led by Christians. These people are not a fringe element, they are people like the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, who couched his decision regarding IVF entirely in terms of his Christian beliefs. You can say that this is not an issue but facts suggest otherwise.
Where does it stop?
And none of these legitimate differences in opinion compare to the new chief council for election integrity at the RNC spewing, the nonsense that I shared in the two videos above. The 2020 election was not stolen. Nobody installed the wrong president. It’s all an awful intentional lie meant to divide and incite. It’s the excuse for J6, the excuse for the fake electors and it will be the excuse for whatever happens in November and after.
