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calimary's JournalCall me crazy, but I can't help wondering if Russia had a hand in that latest round of leaks
from trump's calls to other world leaders. That followed rather quickly after he was forced to sign the sanctions bill.
I can't stop thinking that maybe Putin's going to start making him pay for not being the obedient vassal his Russian mentor paid for.
I think Vlad is going to expect to get the results he paid for when he helped trump win last November. Now that his boy isn't living up to the assurances he gave to his benefactor, I suspect problems could easily arise.
Yes, he IS right.
Holding out for the perfect instead of going with the good - is how we got donald trump.
PERIOD.
And NEVER forget, either, that there ARE those in this country whose "sincerely-held belief" is
that America started going downhill when women got the right to vote.
I've HEARD these assholes spout off on the limbaugh show. I've HEARD them. Btw - they're all male.
Yep.
That's it.
AND you can't be pro-war, either, and still say you're "pro-life." Because war is only about killing and wreckage and horror and death and more killing.
Welcome to DU, CatMor.
Exactly. Look what happened in Texas, after they choked the life out of women's health clinics. Maternal death rates DOUBLED.
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-tops-developed-country-lawmakers/
(snip)
Advocates point to major family planning cuts in 2011 as one possible factor in the rise in maternal deaths, by severely reducing access to preventive screenings and other women’s health services. The closure of many Planned Parenthood clinic has forced women to drive hours to the nearest provider, said King Hillier, vice president of public policy and government relations at the Harris County Hospital District. Hillier was one of the first to notice anecdotally a large number maternal deaths in Houston; he worries the problem will only worsen if the Legislature does not deal with the issue of access.
“The key is prevention, prevention, prevention. We can either put money up on the front end or more expensively on back end,” Hillier said. “Medicaid expansion or granting postpartum women longer eligibility for Medicaid coverage would go a long way to address this issue.”
Sheesh - if you just google "maternal deaths increased in Texas" you'll get a staggering horror in the list of titles alone. Every one of them states that the Texas maternal death rate is the worst in the nation - AND ALSO in the entire developed or industrialized WORLD.
Exactly. NO ONE'S stopping you from NOT having an abortion.
That's what the whole idea of CHOICE is about. Being pro-choice means you can absolutely choose NOT to have an abortion. That's why I call that side of it "anti-choice." The pro-choice movement allows for true choice. You can choose to have one or not to have one. No one's telling you what you can and can't do - in the privacy of your own life, your own body, AND the most intimate and personal parts of that body OF YOURS. The anti-choice movement offers NO choice at all. It only seeks to dictate - and dominate. NO flexibility. NO alternatives. NO relief or solutions to desperate situations and problems. NO options.
If the anti-choice movement was open and generous about supports for women to whom they give NO options, I'd sympathize. But they would dictate that a pregnancy goes, whether or not. A pregnancy goes whether you wanted one or you were raped into one. A pregnancy goes whether you're physically able to sustain it or your life is put in danger by it. More of the "IGMFU," "Sucks to be You" myopic, closed-minded, short-sighted, cold-hearted, and most often downright CRUEL policies of that side.
Welcome to DU, thbobby.
I'd join you enthusiastically in that last paragraph you just wrote.
Seems to me one cannot claim to be "pro-life" and at the same time deny human-caused climate change.
Seems to me one cannot claim to be "pro-life" and oppose reasonable regulations on what is now wanton and reckless access to guns of any and all kinds.
Seems to me one cannot claim to be "pro-life" if one is in favor of the death penalty.
Seems to me one cannot claim to be "pro-life" if one is against any and all efforts to SUPPORT that life once that baby is BORN. If one approves of canceling or otherwise doing away with programs that support the poor, single heads-of-household (usually women raising kids alone), public school lunch (and sometimes breakfast) programs, assistance programs and food stamp programs - that HELP PEOPLE CONTINUE TO SUSTAIN LIFE when they otherwise would not be able to afford even the basics of life support.
If one is going to insist he or she is "pro-life," then by Jove he or she needs to be full-on about it instead of just focusing on how to control a woman's body and therefore - HER freedom and HER life.
Sheesh, that's the understatement of the year.
YES this is the craziest time we have experienced! At least from my perspective, as an Anglo woman in my 60s.
I suspect trump will always have a "let trump be trump" mentality. He's 71. He's one old dog who probably can't be taught new tricks, particularly since he can certainly claim that his "let trump be trump" behavior got him where he is. I imagine the prevailing viewpoint is and probably will always be - "why should I change now? I'm the president and you're not."
Definitely! I forgot Bill Maher, too. And Jimmy Kimmel.
Fortunately, we're blessed to have a wealth of them.
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