Mad_Machine76
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And by the same token if there are children in more progressive states receiving gender affirming care with few or no restrictions and are plainly and evidently NOT being harmed, then how the hell are they justifying these bans in the first place in other more restrictive states? Gender affirming care in Texas is not uniquely "harmful" in Texas than in, say, Illinois because it's all the same kind of treatments being offered.
I'm not complacent about it
if that's what you mean. That being said, I feel like it would take some health crisis, huge blunder or misstep or (real) scandal to seriously threaten Biden for re-election in 2024 by any Republican. As things look right now, I think that he will probably get re-elected. The 2022 midterms were hardly a disaster for us and we actually increased our majority in the Senate by 1. But we have to make sure to hold the team together, get young voters out to the polls, and attempt to counter voting/election shenanigans by Republicans in some states. Thankfully, we have a strong progressive majority in Michigan, we have Democratic officials in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (even if Tony Evers is the only one holding back the right-wing tide) and Arizona. Hard to know if we will hold Georgia next year, but we didn't need it to win in 2020. Georgia and Arizona were just the cherries on the top of victory.
I'm really glad to see some pushback to abortion bans
People need to realize that these are some of the actual not-so-hypothetical-anymore real-life consequences of abortion bans. I just don't know what SCOTUS was thinking how this was going to work in reality when they overturned Roe. Human reproductive health doesn't change in terms of how it works just because you're within one state or another.
I'm actually getting more nervous now
It sounds like right-wing Republicans are essentially creating their own little kingdoms in their own states where there is a near-total lack of checks and balances, top-down state-level control over every city/town/agency in the state, (selective) censorship and no reproductive healthcare or LGBTQ people allowed.
All of the expanded benefits
Won’t make up for the loss of bodily autonomy. Plus, aren’t they basically then just recreating welfare before welfare reform?
May I respectfully suggest a moratorium
on these kind of posts? People are entitled to their opinions and wish fulfillment fantasies of course, but I feel like, unless it's announced that Joe and/or Kamala aren't running in 2024 or that they have an actual primary challenger(s), Joe Biden/Kamala Harris are the default nominees for 2024 and we should be supporting THEM here on DU. And I also feel that skipping right over Kamala Harris as a replacement Presidential candidate should Biden be unable to run in 2024 is disrespectful.
Yeah
It seems like the right-wing style of Christianity is an endless fountain of redemption except if you're:
Gay (unless you're a Republican, apparently)
Transgender
POC
Poor
Ex-Criminal
Female
Liberal
Did I forget anybody?
Seems like a lot of this junk should be able to be stopped
on First Amendment (real) religious freedom grounds. Not everybody practices Christianity, not all Christians even agree on everything and some people don't practice any religion at all but nobody signed up to have one group of one sect of one religion dictate public policy for everybody in this country. There is also no way that you're ever going to convince me that the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be like this either. We know as a matter of historical fact that most of the founding fathers were non-Christian, if anything, and surely didn't intend to establish a theocracy.
Good lord
If (when) this single person rules against this, then what? Will there be any appeal process that stands a chance of success? It's astounding that one particular judge can have this much power over the federal government and that it's perfectly fine to "judge shop" virtually anything just to get the result that you want. Surely, we have to have some kind of recourse? Right? Right?
Geez
I know that the "buck" stops with the President, but unless there's some evidence that he conspired with others to retain these docs and/or use them for some nefarious purpose, I really don't care. Odds are he probably didn't even know or pay much attention personally to whether he still had those docs. We know he's cooperating with the searches and the investigation, and nobody will probably have much to say until the investigation is through. Other Dems just need to button their holes until all that is done, and we have all the facts before rendering some kind of judgement. And, although I tend to eschew conspiracy theories and we don't currently have any reason to believe there was some kind of effort to frame Biden, it just seems too convenient this is coming out now, right when Republicans are primed the most to exploit something like this.
It's also really sad that there are so many Dems ready to push Biden out of the door in 2024.
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