This blog will focus on political images I have found all around the Internet, though I will intersperse some commentary and quotes that I find interesting.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
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Pete Buttigieg on late-term abortion.
Pete Buttigieg with the only acceptable answer RE: "late term abortions:"
Buttigieg: I think the dialogue has gotten so caught up on where you draw the line that we've gotten away from the fundamental question of who gets to draw the line and I trust women to draw the line when it's their own health.
Chris Wallace: So just to be clear, you're saying you would be okay with a woman, well into the third trimester deciding to abort her pregnancy.
Buttigieg: Look, these hypotheticals are usually set up in order to provoke a strong emotional --
Wallace: It's not hypothetical, there are 6,000 women a year who get abortions in the third trimester.
Buttigieg: That's right, representing less than 1 percent of cases. So let's put ourselves in the shoes of a woman in that situation. If it's that late in your pregnancy, then almost by definition, you've been expecting to carry it to term. We're talking about women who have perhaps chosen a name. Women who have purchased a crib, families that then get the most devastating medical news of their lifetime, something about the health or the life of the mother or viability of the pregnancy that forces them to make an impossible, unthinkable choice. And the bottom line is as horrible as that choice is, that woman, that family may seek spiritual guidance, they may seek medical guidance, but that decision is not going to be made any better, medically or morally, because the government is dictating how that decision should be made."
One more thing to worry about - stealing the election.
DO DONALD TRUMP AND MIKE JOHNSON HAVE A DIRTY LITTLE SECRET ??
Will Trump’s and Johnson’s ‘Little Secret’ Be Unveiled on January 6?
New York Magazine Article By Ed Kilgore :
Donald Trump’s bizarre Madison Square Garden rally on October 27 offered a target-rich environment to anyone who wants to criticize his campaign and his followers for extremism. And although comedians’ racist “jokes” about Jews and Latinos drew the most attention, the boss himself made at least one eyebrow-raising remark during the course of his 80-minute speech. It came as he was acknowledging his friend, House Speaker Mike Johnson:
Trump: "I think with our little secret we are gonna do really well with the house, our little secret is having a big impact, he and I have a little secret, we will tell you what it is when the race is over."
The following concerns have circulated on Capitol Hill:
— That Johnson could try to rewrite the rules that govern the Jan. 6 vote-counting session. For the past century or so, the two chambers have unanimously adopted boilerplate, bipartisan procedures for the count. Johnson could decide to try to write his own, inserting provisions that would open up new avenues to challenge the results, or simply refuse to adopt a process at all, creating ambiguity and doubt.
— That Johnson could muster enough Republicans to object to certain contested slates of electors — and, if the GOP also holds the Senate, possibly gather the votes to throw those slates out. If neither candidate receives 270 electoral votes, the House could have authority under the 12th Amendment to choose the winner.
— That Johnson could delay the vote-counting session. While the Jan. 6 date is written in law, it’s the speaker who has to call the House to order first. Democrats worry that Johnson could essentially push pause …
— That Johnson could challenge the Electoral Count Act entirely. Under a novel legal theory, he could ask a court to rule that the law on the books cannot bind Congress from exercising its power under the Constitution.
Even if you think Trump was just trolling everyone with the “little secret” talk, the earnest Christian nationalist Johnson isn’t known for his skill at playfully “owning the libs.” He really does seem to believe Trump is justified in whatever stunt he chooses to pull.
Specifics aside, it’s always a little disturbing when presidential candidates talk about “secret plans” on the eve of elections. Though he never actually used the term, history records that Richard Nixon’s insinuation that he had a “secret plan” to end the war in Vietnam (which he could not, of course, disclose before taking office because it would undermine his predecessor (LBJ), helped him win in 1968 thanks to antiwar voters who were subsequently shocked when the Tricky One immediately escalated the war and then kept it going until the very end of his presidency. It’s well known that Nixon nostalgia runs deep in MAGA land. So it wouldn’t be that surprising if Trump’s nasty little “secret” were one that enabled him to win an election he actually lost.
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