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September 25, 2023
A Few Thoughts on This Admission: I Am Old
by Douglas Penick | September 25, 2023 - 5:57am
Much to my surprise, I find that I’m now part of a large minority that is often ignored, frequently disdained, and regularly segregated.
I am old.
And indeed, it’s quite a shock to find that the world in which I worked, struggled, dreamed, and loved now regards me quite differently than it did only 10 years ago. Growing old, it seems, is a condition that Western post-industrial society and culture do not consider meaningful, useful, or even valid. And yet, the truth is, and this is also a surprise, that as we become old, we enter a time of life, even with its losses and deficits, that is not a defective version of youth or middle age, but is something quite different, with its own qualities, discoveries, and surprises.
“Ageism” is an attitude people inflict on themselves. Old people are what almost everyone will become. But somehow, this part of existence is treated as something that must be actively ignored, as if old age were an infectious disease transmitted by acknowledging it. Or a misfortune that can be averted by denying it. “You’re only as old as you think you are,” said my son recently. “Only young people think that,” I snapped. Contemplating dying and death is, it seems, more appealing than imagining being old.
snip//
We cannot escape the fact that old age is a time of loss. Old, we experience depletion in many parts of our lives. Our bodies and senses weaken, become unreliable in unforeseen ways, fall subject to illness, and require more attention simply to continue a reasonable level of function. More difficult is the loss of friends and family and the changes in the social institutions where we once had a place. Most difficult and certainly most frightening is the threat or actual loss of mental capacity. None of these occurrences are part of how we thought of ourselves or planned our future. As we age, our lives become strangely unrecognizable. We realize that life is no longer in our control. And old age ends only when we enter a terrain that is truly and completely unknown.
Thus, more than any other time in life, old age is the time of deepest and most pervasive uncertainty. The uncertainty regarding our financial sustainability is not the least of these, but somehow comes to epitomize the perilousness of our situation. How we will manage being ourselves, being in our world, is no longer obvious. So we feel the world moving away from us. We can no longer reach out and grasp and cling, control and shape what’s happening. Our future is no longer limitless. It is genuinely and utterly unknowable.
But as the world becomes perhaps more distant and out of our control, we begin to see patterns we had never imagined or only dimly sensed. Our world, our selves become less stable and less secure. Everything is more intensely transitory. Situations, objects, places, people become, moment by moment, very deeply to be cherished, valued; loved, not in spite of being impermanent, but because they and we are only together for this moment. Colors become more vivid, momentary smells, sudden sounds, temperatures and textures, memories, ideas, gestures appear, vanish, and only briefly detach themselves from the flow of sensoria. We take less and less for granted.
more...
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/douglas-penick/107804/a-few-thoughts-on-this-admission-i-am-old
A Few Thoughts on This Admission: I Am Old
A Few Thoughts on This Admission: I Am Old
by Douglas Penick | September 25, 2023 - 5:57am
Much to my surprise, I find that I’m now part of a large minority that is often ignored, frequently disdained, and regularly segregated.
I am old.
And indeed, it’s quite a shock to find that the world in which I worked, struggled, dreamed, and loved now regards me quite differently than it did only 10 years ago. Growing old, it seems, is a condition that Western post-industrial society and culture do not consider meaningful, useful, or even valid. And yet, the truth is, and this is also a surprise, that as we become old, we enter a time of life, even with its losses and deficits, that is not a defective version of youth or middle age, but is something quite different, with its own qualities, discoveries, and surprises.
“Ageism” is an attitude people inflict on themselves. Old people are what almost everyone will become. But somehow, this part of existence is treated as something that must be actively ignored, as if old age were an infectious disease transmitted by acknowledging it. Or a misfortune that can be averted by denying it. “You’re only as old as you think you are,” said my son recently. “Only young people think that,” I snapped. Contemplating dying and death is, it seems, more appealing than imagining being old.
snip//
We cannot escape the fact that old age is a time of loss. Old, we experience depletion in many parts of our lives. Our bodies and senses weaken, become unreliable in unforeseen ways, fall subject to illness, and require more attention simply to continue a reasonable level of function. More difficult is the loss of friends and family and the changes in the social institutions where we once had a place. Most difficult and certainly most frightening is the threat or actual loss of mental capacity. None of these occurrences are part of how we thought of ourselves or planned our future. As we age, our lives become strangely unrecognizable. We realize that life is no longer in our control. And old age ends only when we enter a terrain that is truly and completely unknown.
Thus, more than any other time in life, old age is the time of deepest and most pervasive uncertainty. The uncertainty regarding our financial sustainability is not the least of these, but somehow comes to epitomize the perilousness of our situation. How we will manage being ourselves, being in our world, is no longer obvious. So we feel the world moving away from us. We can no longer reach out and grasp and cling, control and shape what’s happening. Our future is no longer limitless. It is genuinely and utterly unknowable.
But as the world becomes perhaps more distant and out of our control, we begin to see patterns we had never imagined or only dimly sensed. Our world, our selves become less stable and less secure. Everything is more intensely transitory. Situations, objects, places, people become, moment by moment, very deeply to be cherished, valued; loved, not in spite of being impermanent, but because they and we are only together for this moment. Colors become more vivid, momentary smells, sudden sounds, temperatures and textures, memories, ideas, gestures appear, vanish, and only briefly detach themselves from the flow of sensoria. We take less and less for granted.
more...
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/douglas-penick/107804/a-few-thoughts-on-this-admission-i-am-old
September 25, 2023
The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
9/24/2023
John Fetterman's Shorts and Hoodie Are Not the Real Threats to Civility
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But we're apparently now numb to this kind of umbrage, this flouting of convention, this disrespect to tradition. We're supposed to dismiss it as more Trumpian bluster and pretend it's what we're putting up with until he loses next year. How did that work out in 2016? How did that work out when we were told he would just fume for a bit about losing the 2020 election and then accept his loss? Used to be the media would have relentlessly hounded Trump and his vile supporters to see if they really believed a decorated, celebrated four-star general should face the firing squad. It would have been a dividing line between sane and insane. Instead, it's just Tuesday. And this could go for a thousand other attacks on civility, decorum, and decency from Trump.
You see, when you start mouthing off about all the traditions that Sen. Fetterman is stepping on, you open yourself up for questioning about all the other things we've decided are normal now. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who, believe it or not, is a member of Congress despite, to all appearances, being a meth-addicted simian of some kind, called President Biden an "old fart" in response to a Biden tweet. That was on her official congressional account, not her personal one. She also showed a photo that included the genitals of the president's son in a real congressional hearing. What was so important to the safety and prosperity of the United States that Hunter Biden's pretty decent penis needed to be seen by the world and become part of the congressional record and thus archived forever so alien archeologists digging through the Atlantis-like ruins of a sunken Washington, DC can find it and think, "This not-bad penis must have ended it all"? Nothing. Not a goddamned thing.
Every fucking day we get another indecency from the GOP, another threat of a shutdown or of shooting migrants seeking asylum or of arresting women trying to cross from their brutally cruel state to another in order to get an abortion so they don't die or of George Santos being there. Every fucking day they break all the guardrails of civility and humanity, and then they want us to get angry because John Fetterman doesn't like wearing suits and Chuck Schumer changed an unofficial dress code to allow him not to for quick votes.
Just fuck off. This is another thing that conservatives with one or two rational cells left believe they can control while the out-of-control conservative animals run around thrusting their flag-colored asses in our faces, hooting and happy that they can shut shit down, and telling us that's patriotism. Some on these assholes bitched about Ukrainian President Zelensky wearing his combat-ready outfit to speak to the Senate this week. It's all just an excuse to degrade something that threatens them.
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https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2023/09/john-fettermans-shorts-and-hoodie-are.html
The Rude Pundit: John Fetterman's Shorts and Hoodie Are Not the Real Threats to Civility
The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
9/24/2023
John Fetterman's Shorts and Hoodie Are Not the Real Threats to Civility
snip//
But we're apparently now numb to this kind of umbrage, this flouting of convention, this disrespect to tradition. We're supposed to dismiss it as more Trumpian bluster and pretend it's what we're putting up with until he loses next year. How did that work out in 2016? How did that work out when we were told he would just fume for a bit about losing the 2020 election and then accept his loss? Used to be the media would have relentlessly hounded Trump and his vile supporters to see if they really believed a decorated, celebrated four-star general should face the firing squad. It would have been a dividing line between sane and insane. Instead, it's just Tuesday. And this could go for a thousand other attacks on civility, decorum, and decency from Trump.
You see, when you start mouthing off about all the traditions that Sen. Fetterman is stepping on, you open yourself up for questioning about all the other things we've decided are normal now. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who, believe it or not, is a member of Congress despite, to all appearances, being a meth-addicted simian of some kind, called President Biden an "old fart" in response to a Biden tweet. That was on her official congressional account, not her personal one. She also showed a photo that included the genitals of the president's son in a real congressional hearing. What was so important to the safety and prosperity of the United States that Hunter Biden's pretty decent penis needed to be seen by the world and become part of the congressional record and thus archived forever so alien archeologists digging through the Atlantis-like ruins of a sunken Washington, DC can find it and think, "This not-bad penis must have ended it all"? Nothing. Not a goddamned thing.
Every fucking day we get another indecency from the GOP, another threat of a shutdown or of shooting migrants seeking asylum or of arresting women trying to cross from their brutally cruel state to another in order to get an abortion so they don't die or of George Santos being there. Every fucking day they break all the guardrails of civility and humanity, and then they want us to get angry because John Fetterman doesn't like wearing suits and Chuck Schumer changed an unofficial dress code to allow him not to for quick votes.
Just fuck off. This is another thing that conservatives with one or two rational cells left believe they can control while the out-of-control conservative animals run around thrusting their flag-colored asses in our faces, hooting and happy that they can shut shit down, and telling us that's patriotism. Some on these assholes bitched about Ukrainian President Zelensky wearing his combat-ready outfit to speak to the Senate this week. It's all just an excuse to degrade something that threatens them.
more...
https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2023/09/john-fettermans-shorts-and-hoodie-are.html
September 25, 2023
Tennessee’s First Elected Trans Official May Be Forced to Use Men’s Room
SECOND-CLASS CITIZEN
Olivia Hill told The Daily Beast many council members have told her they would look the other way on the restroom issue but knows under state law she risks being thrown in jail.
Chloe Stillwell
Updated Sep. 25, 2023 3:08AM EDT / Published Sep. 24, 2023 9:06PM EDT
The first trans person to be elected to office in Tennessee is being treated as a second-class citizen and may be forced to use the male bathroom at work despite identifying as female.
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What is most disturbing is the ambiguity of the law—a one page document that simply states that sex is now defined by anatomy at birth.
The law seems designed to be slippery, so that it can be nefariously enforced depending on any given interpretation. Many trans individuals in the state have proudly changed their government documents to reflect their gender identity. (Tennessee is however the only state to not allow birth certificates to be changed.) The law does not say that trans Tennesseans must change their driver’s licenses, or any other legal documents, back to their assigned gender at birth—but it creates a gray area that leaves sinister wiggle room for discrimination.
The law prioritizes discrimination at the expense of federal funding. Because the law is not in accordance with federal non-discrimination laws, according to the state’s fiscal review, Tennessee runs the risk of losing up to $2 billion in federal funds for passing the law. Bill sponsor Kerry Roberts said it was a risk worth taking. “I mean, if defining sex, as it has traditionally meant for years in the dictionary, costs us federal funds. There’s something wrong with Washington DC,” she said.
State Senator Jeff Yarbro, however, has been outspoken in defiance of the discriminatory laws, saying “I don’t know why on earth we would take the risk of losing $2 billion of annual federal funding in order to provide a definition that nobody really thinks needs fixing.”
more...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tennessees-first-openly-trans-official-olivia-hill-may-be-forced-to-use-male-bathroom-at-work?ref=home?ref=home
Tennessee's First Elected Trans Official May Be Forced to Use Men's Room
Tennessee’s First Elected Trans Official May Be Forced to Use Men’s Room
SECOND-CLASS CITIZEN
Olivia Hill told The Daily Beast many council members have told her they would look the other way on the restroom issue but knows under state law she risks being thrown in jail.
Chloe Stillwell
Updated Sep. 25, 2023 3:08AM EDT / Published Sep. 24, 2023 9:06PM EDT
The first trans person to be elected to office in Tennessee is being treated as a second-class citizen and may be forced to use the male bathroom at work despite identifying as female.
snip//
What is most disturbing is the ambiguity of the law—a one page document that simply states that sex is now defined by anatomy at birth.
The law seems designed to be slippery, so that it can be nefariously enforced depending on any given interpretation. Many trans individuals in the state have proudly changed their government documents to reflect their gender identity. (Tennessee is however the only state to not allow birth certificates to be changed.) The law does not say that trans Tennesseans must change their driver’s licenses, or any other legal documents, back to their assigned gender at birth—but it creates a gray area that leaves sinister wiggle room for discrimination.
The law prioritizes discrimination at the expense of federal funding. Because the law is not in accordance with federal non-discrimination laws, according to the state’s fiscal review, Tennessee runs the risk of losing up to $2 billion in federal funds for passing the law. Bill sponsor Kerry Roberts said it was a risk worth taking. “I mean, if defining sex, as it has traditionally meant for years in the dictionary, costs us federal funds. There’s something wrong with Washington DC,” she said.
State Senator Jeff Yarbro, however, has been outspoken in defiance of the discriminatory laws, saying “I don’t know why on earth we would take the risk of losing $2 billion of annual federal funding in order to provide a definition that nobody really thinks needs fixing.”
more...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tennessees-first-openly-trans-official-olivia-hill-may-be-forced-to-use-male-bathroom-at-work?ref=home?ref=home
September 24, 2023
Pete Buttigieg condemns Trump’s reported remarks about wounded veteran
Ex-president reportedly told Gen Mark Milley in 2019 that severely wounded soldier should be banned from public appearances
Adam Gabbatt
@adamgabbatt
Sun 24 Sep 2023 13.19 EDT
Last modified on Sun 24 Sep 2023 13.47 EDT
snip//
“Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded,” Milley said Trump told him after the ceremony.
Milley told the Atlantic that Trump said Avila should never appear in public again.
On Sunday, Buttigieg – who was a lieutenant in the US navy reserve and served a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2014 – told CNN that Trump’s alleged order was “just the latest in a pattern of outrageous attacks [by Trump] on people who keep this country safe”.
Military members wounded in combat, Buttigieg said, “deserve respect and a hell of a lot more than that from every American, and definitely from every American president”.
Trump has a previously attacked members of the military. In 2020, the Atlantic reported that Trump had said the Aisne-Marne American cemetery – where more than 2,000 American military members who died in France are buried – was “filled with suckers”.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/24/pete-buttigieg-donald-trump-wounded-veteran-remarks
Pete Buttigieg condemns Trump's reported remarks about wounded veteran
Pete Buttigieg condemns Trump’s reported remarks about wounded veteran
Ex-president reportedly told Gen Mark Milley in 2019 that severely wounded soldier should be banned from public appearances
Adam Gabbatt
@adamgabbatt
Sun 24 Sep 2023 13.19 EDT
Last modified on Sun 24 Sep 2023 13.47 EDT
snip//
“Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded,” Milley said Trump told him after the ceremony.
Milley told the Atlantic that Trump said Avila should never appear in public again.
On Sunday, Buttigieg – who was a lieutenant in the US navy reserve and served a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2014 – told CNN that Trump’s alleged order was “just the latest in a pattern of outrageous attacks [by Trump] on people who keep this country safe”.
Military members wounded in combat, Buttigieg said, “deserve respect and a hell of a lot more than that from every American, and definitely from every American president”.
Buttigieg also said: “The idea that an American president, the person to whom service members look as a commander in chief, the person who sets the tone for this entire country, could think that way or act that way or talk that way about anyone in uniform, and certainly about those who put their bodies on the line and sacrificed in ways that most Americans will never understand … I guess wounded veterans make president Trump feel uncomfortable.”
Trump has a previously attacked members of the military. In 2020, the Atlantic reported that Trump had said the Aisne-Marne American cemetery – where more than 2,000 American military members who died in France are buried – was “filled with suckers”.
more...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/24/pete-buttigieg-donald-trump-wounded-veteran-remarks
September 23, 2023
Matic, who headlined a drag burlesque show in January at the Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar co-owned by Gallagher, told TMZ that Aspen, Colorado, was a small town and others knew about the relationship.
more...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/drag-queen-lauren-boebert-not-first-date-tmz_n_650c0af4e4b0fb95353a722f
Drag Queen At Bar Owned By Lauren Boebert's Date Says Rep. Is Lying About Relationship
Is lying a prerequisite for magats?
Drag Queen At Bar Owned By Lauren Boebert's Date Says Rep. Is Lying About Relationship
Kendra Matic refuted a claim by Boebert about her connection to her "Beetlejuice" companion.
Ron Dicker
Sep 21, 2023, 07:20 AM EDT
|Updated Sep 22, 2023
A drag queen who performed at the bar owned by Lauren Boebert’s “Beetlejuice” date said the GOP House member fudged on the details about their relationship. (Watch the video below.)
Performer Kendra Matic said Boebert and Quinn Gallagher were not on a first date, as the lawmaker hinted after they were ejected from a Denver theater performance of “Beetlejuice” for vaping, talking and fondling each other, which was caught on surveillance video.
“First date and somebody’s touching your boobies like that?” drag performer Kendra Matic told TMZ in a clip shared early Thursday. “I know they were dating for a while, months.”
Matic, who headlined a drag burlesque show in January at the Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar co-owned by Gallagher, told TMZ that Aspen, Colorado, was a small town and others knew about the relationship.
more...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/drag-queen-lauren-boebert-not-first-date-tmz_n_650c0af4e4b0fb95353a722f
September 22, 2023
Hakeem Jeffries tells House Republicans, 'We're not paying the ransom note'
Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 4:10:20p EDT
Walter Einenkel
snip//
After taking a few questions about Republicans’ weak attempts at shading Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Jeffries went back to the real issue at hand: the impending Republican shutdown of the government. And he pulled no punches.
Hakeem Jeffries tells House Republicans, 'We're not paying the ransom note'
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/21/2194649/-Hakeem-Jeffries-breaks-down-the-Republican-shutdownHakeem Jeffries tells House Republicans, 'We're not paying the ransom note'
Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 4:10:20p EDT
Walter Einenkel
snip//
After taking a few questions about Republicans’ weak attempts at shading Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Jeffries went back to the real issue at hand: the impending Republican shutdown of the government. And he pulled no punches.
We've seen this done before. The Republicans shut down the government, partially, twice in the 1990s. Why? Because they wanted to end Medicaid as we know it. Bill Clinton and Democrats to the rescue, to stop that from happening. Same group of people, different version, in 2013, shut the government down for 14 days. Why? Again, jam their extreme right-wing ideology down the throats of the American people.
In that instance, they wanted President Obama to repeal his signature legislative accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act, and throw 20 million people or so off the rolls, and deprive them of health care. Like we were going to agree to that ransom note. Once again, Democrats to the rescue. Two-thousand-eighteen into nineteen—same thing. They shut the government down for 35 days. By the way, when the government shutdown began, Donald Trump was president. Republicans controlled the House and the Senate in December of 2018. They shut themselves down. That's how much it's in their DNA.
That time, what was the extreme ransom note? We want you to waste billions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund Trump's ineffective, medieval border wall. Once again we held firm, refused to pay their ransom note, and we were able to get the government reopened.
Why are we going down this road again? We know how it's going to end. We're not paying a ransom note so you can jam your extreme ideology down the throats of the American people and hurt everyday Americans. We never have and we never will.
In that instance, they wanted President Obama to repeal his signature legislative accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act, and throw 20 million people or so off the rolls, and deprive them of health care. Like we were going to agree to that ransom note. Once again, Democrats to the rescue. Two-thousand-eighteen into nineteen—same thing. They shut the government down for 35 days. By the way, when the government shutdown began, Donald Trump was president. Republicans controlled the House and the Senate in December of 2018. They shut themselves down. That's how much it's in their DNA.
That time, what was the extreme ransom note? We want you to waste billions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund Trump's ineffective, medieval border wall. Once again we held firm, refused to pay their ransom note, and we were able to get the government reopened.
Why are we going down this road again? We know how it's going to end. We're not paying a ransom note so you can jam your extreme ideology down the throats of the American people and hurt everyday Americans. We never have and we never will.
September 21, 2023
Accused Groper Matt Schlapp Laughably Blames 'Woke' Politics for His Fox News Ban
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. 
Accused Groper Matt Schlapp Laughably Blames ‘Woke’ Politics for His Fox News Ban
‘THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED’
Schlapp has been persona non grata on Fox News airwaves since he was accused in January of “aggressively” fondling a GOP operative’s crotch.
Justin Baragona
Senior Media Reporter
Published Sep. 21, 2023 3:07PM EDT
American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp, who is currently facing a multi-million dollar sexual battery and defamation lawsuit for allegedly groping a GOP strategist, suggested with a straight face on Thursday that his ubiquitous Fox News appearances dried up because the network became too “woke.”
snip//
Noting that Murdoch’s son Lachlan has been tapped to take over the media empire, Schlapp wondered if the new chairman would “recapture the spirit of the early years of Fox” or if the network is “going to continue down the ‘woke’ road.” In the embattled right-wing activist’s telling, this wokeness included firing primetime host Tucker Carlson and “getting rid of conservative voices” like himself.
Unsaid in Schlapp’s mini-rant, though, was the real reason why he is no longer booked on Fox News.
The chief organizer of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has been relegated to Newsmax and other fringe right-wing media after he was accused in January of “aggressively fondling” the crotch of former Herschel Walker staffer Carlton Huffman. Calling Schlapp a “sexual predator,” Huffman later sued the conservative icon over his “repeated unsolicited and undesired advances,” as well as his attempts to “impugn” Huffman’s character.
more...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/accused-groper-matt-schlapp-laughably-blames-woke-politics-for-his-fox-news-ban?ref=home
September 21, 2023
Trump Slams Charles Koch
September 21, 2023 at 8:39 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Trump Slams Charles Koch
https://politicalwire.com/2023/09/21/trump-slams-charles-koch/Trump Slams Charles Koch
September 21, 2023 at 8:39 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Donald Trump lashed out at billionaire donor Charles Koch, calling him a “very stupid, awkward, and highly overrated globalist.”
Koch has raised more than $70 million to oppose Trump in the Republican presidential primary.
Koch has raised more than $70 million to oppose Trump in the Republican presidential primary.
September 20, 2023
Don Jr. Hacked
September 20, 2023 at 8:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Hacked?
https://politicalwire.com/2023/09/20/don-jr-hacked/Don Jr. Hacked
September 20, 2023 at 8:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
It appears Donald Trump Jr’s account on X has either been hacked — or politics in this country is about to get a lot weirder:
September 18, 2023
Mushy pro-life principles
Published by digby on September 18, 2023
To those who thought that Trump calling the 6-week abortion bans “terrible” in his interview this weekend would cause the “pro-life” movement to abandon him, think again. Aaron Blake of the WaPo asked Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America about it and this is what they said:
If you ever thought the anti-abortion movement was about anything other than rank politics, you know better now. They are just another political interest group trying to maintain its power in the party. It’s what they’ve always been.
These are people who’ve spent the last five decades screaming that abortion is murder. Now they’re talking about “ambition and common sense” and trying to sell a 15 week abortion ban in order to get votes for their side. Apparently, fetuses may be endowed with all the rights of fully formed human beings but maybe a little genocide under 15 weeks is a small price to pay to maintain political power? Looks like it.
digby: Mushy pro-life principles
https://digbysblog.net/2023/09/18/mushy-pro-life-principles/Mushy pro-life principles
Published by digby on September 18, 2023
To those who thought that Trump calling the 6-week abortion bans “terrible” in his interview this weekend would cause the “pro-life” movement to abandon him, think again. Aaron Blake of the WaPo asked Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America about it and this is what they said:
If you ever thought the anti-abortion movement was about anything other than rank politics, you know better now. They are just another political interest group trying to maintain its power in the party. It’s what they’ve always been.
These are people who’ve spent the last five decades screaming that abortion is murder. Now they’re talking about “ambition and common sense” and trying to sell a 15 week abortion ban in order to get votes for their side. Apparently, fetuses may be endowed with all the rights of fully formed human beings but maybe a little genocide under 15 weeks is a small price to pay to maintain political power? Looks like it.
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