"Trump aides think it’s a net plus. The longer the discussion is about migrants, the less it is about tougher topics for them.
'We talk about abortion, we lose. We talk about immigration, we win,' said one Trump adviser."
~ Marc A. Caputo
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #abortion #PoliticsofDistraction
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-team-takes-hit-on-cat-eating-springfield-haitians-immigration
Trump Team: ‘We’ll Take The Hit’ on Cat Eating to Keep Immigration in the News
The ex-president’s team, led by JD Vance, would rather talk about migration than abortion. And Springfield allows them to.Marc A. Caputo (The Bulwark)
William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"But what about spreading an incendiary story for which there is no evidence?
'We’ll take the hit to prove the bigger point,' the adviser said."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #abortion #PoliticsofDistraction
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William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"Sending abortion 'back to the states' has proved wildly unpopular, particularly as conservative legislatures passed draconian bans with criminal penalties for health care providers."
~ Liz Dye
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #abortion #PoliticsofDistraction
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https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/no-one-wanted-this
No One Wanted This
Liz Dye (Law and Chaos)William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"These laws are an albatross around the neck of every Republican who hopes to carry a swing state, and none more than the presidential candidate who appointed the three Supreme Court justices who made it happen."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #abortion #PoliticsofDistraction
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William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"ProPublica obtained reports that confirm that at least two women have already died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state.
There are almost certainly others."
~ Kavitha Surana
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #abortion #PoliticsofDistraction #Georgia
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https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death
Under Georgia’s Abortion Ban, She Died After Delayed Care
ProPublicaWilliam Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"I see covering abortion rights in this moment as covering democracy. Newsrooms need to be vigilant to not distort the fact that 65 to 70 percent of Americans support legal access to abortion."
~ Amanda Becker, author of You Must Stand Up
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #abortion #PoliticsofDistraction #media
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https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1726489730551c935b920081b/raw?utm_term=1726489730551c935b920081b&utm_source=cnn_Reliable+Sources+–+Sept.+16&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=9vojC1WBHFCq2zDhi1OubqFU%2F7vNq%2B6%2B7JT5l4VIg1VjFLZzpUb2FSNx0fPIy7Hy&bt_ts=1726489730553
William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •"To give equal weight to each 'side' in coverage is already a distortion of the electorate that often fails to account for the anti-democratic forces at work in the anti-abortion movement's fringe."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #abortion #PoliticsofDistraction #media
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Kevin Leecaster
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to Kevin Leecaster • • •Kevin Leecaster
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/politico-owner-pray-for-trump-mathias-dopfner-axel-springer-1234587243/
Politico Owner CEO Mathias Döpfner Told Execs to Pray for Trump: Report
Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to Kevin Leecaster • • •TCat - Vote Blue, Vote Harris
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to TCat - Vote Blue, Vote Harris • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •@TCatInReality
The same states that ban abortion provide absolutely no help for medical expenses, therapy, etc.
Republicans wage war on women, rape campaigns are part of that war.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/republican-abortion-bans-pregnant-women-deaths.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/abortion-laws-roe-v-wade.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/03/abortion-bans-pregnancy-miscarriage-men/
https://coppercourier.com/2024/06/13/abortion-ban-nearly-killed-wife/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/study-counts-64000-pregnancies-from-rape-in-states-that-enacted-abortion-bans-post-roe
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/64-000-pregnancies-caused-by-rape-have-occurred-in-states-with-a-total-abortion-ban-new-study-estimates/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/abortion-ban-anti-choice-college-students_n_65d7d3dde4b0189a6a7d5b98
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2024/02/09/idaho-abortion-ban-impact-tirrell-pkg-lead-vpx.cnn
A louder voice in fighting abortion bans: Men in red states
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux (The Washington Post)Nicole Parsons reshared this.
William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Michael Gemar
in reply to TCat - Vote Blue, Vote Harris • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Michael Gemar • • •@michaelgemar @TCatInReality
Republicans do not see women as human beings with agency or autonomy.
The GOP view women as livestock. They are breeding vessels. Merely a host for sons & heirs. A vehicle for eugenically-driven "make America white again" Christian Nationalism.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-fight-to-ban-abortion-is-rooted-in-the-great-replacement-theory/
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/republicans-are-using-fear-of-eugenics-to-attack-reproductive-rights/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/23/body-politics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/05/31/clarence-thomas-tried-link-abortion-eugenics-seven-historians-told-post-hes-wrong/
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/politics/clarence-thomas-eugenics-abortion/index.html
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/strange-bedfellows-abortion-and-white-supremacy/
https://theweek.com/politics/1007741/cawthorn-sparks-outrage-by-using-phrase-earthen-vessels-in-anti-abortion-speech
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-martin-virginia_n_4847959
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Clarence Thomas tried to link abortion to eugenics. Seven historians told The Post he’s wrong.
Eli Rosenberg (The Washington Post)Nicole Parsons reshared this.
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Just a "vessel" in their creepy worldview.
https://www.themarysue.com/madison-cawthorn-earthen-vessels-abortion/
They are a source of low cost paid labor & unpaid societal labor.
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/09/womens-work-americas-social-safety-net-is-built-on-sexist-exploitation/
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2024/06/04/uw-madison-professor-traces-the-ways-women-are-pushed-to-serve-as-a-social-safety-net/
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/other-countries-have-social-safety
https://nwlc.org/press-release/republicans-block-the-paycheck-fairness-act-on-a-party-line-vote-dealing-a-blow-to-women/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/06/09/gender-pay-gap-minimum-wage/
They are convenient scapegoats for the problems of America & serve as distractions from the truly culpable.
https://truthout.org/articles/vances-cat-ladies-remarks-reflect-broader-gop-effort-to-weaponize-family/
https://www.salon.com/2019/02/27/republican-witch-hunt-trump-and-the-gop-need-a-scapegoat-naturally-they-attack-women/
https://www.salon.com/2022/11/15/why-did-women-voted-for-democrats-have-an-asinine-theory/
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/judith-butler-whos-afraid-gender-review
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/01/republicans-fake-crises-five-biggest
Democrats hit major political wall in efforts to close gender pay gap, raise minimum wage
Tony Romm (The Washington Post)Nicole Parsons
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •PS
https://newrepublic.com/article/140641/trump-turned-gop-party-eugenics
Trump Has Turned the GOP Into the Party of Eugenics
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in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •EarthMomma
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01
While at the same time not recognizing that they are among the stupidest among us....................
Nicole Parsons
in reply to EarthMomma • • •@LaNaehForaday
Some brilliant minds were eugenicists.
It's a stupid idea that provides overly simplistic 'solutions' for bigotry.
Unfortunately, high intelligence in the service of evil...
RA Fisher
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-020-00394-6
Marie Stopes
https://theconversation.com/marie-stopes-opened-the-uks-first-birth-control-clinic-100-years-ago-she-was-also-a-eugenicist-157182
Oliver Wendell Holmes
https://www.nature.com/articles/530418a
Francis Galton
https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/big-thinkers/francis-galton.htm
Keynes
https://fee.org/articles/when-keynes-lectured-mises-on-eugenics-migration-and-population-control/
David Starr Jordan
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/david-starr-jordan-high-school-renaming-former-stanford-president-eugenics-backer/
Elon Musk
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/20/pro-natalism-babies-global-population-genetics
https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/daffodils-baby-response-eugenics-sperm-bank.html
‘Hipster eugenics’: why is the media cosying up to people who want to build a super race?
Arwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @LaNaehForaday A disgrace of a Supreme Court justice:
“It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. . .
Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes —
EarthMomma
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01
This is only true if you equate intelligence to education.
One of our biggest problems in modern day society is the underestimation of the natural world.
When you are a HUMAN and you are creating ways to 'euthanize' YOUR OWN SPECIES, you are inherently STUPID no matter how educated you have become.
TCat - Vote Blue, Vote Harris
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @michaelgemar
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The wealthy love desperate, hungry, sick people with few options. Repressing women also creates an entire repressed working class. It's no accident.
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in reply to TCat - Vote Blue, Vote Harris • • •@TCatInReality @michaelgemar
The politics of the immiseration of women... to a Republican billionaire, making women poorer is worth it.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gops-deficit-plan-spoil-the-rich-starve-the-kids
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-republicans-plan-to-hurt-american-families/2017/03/16/3e4a952c-0a86-11e7-a15f-a58d4a988474_story.html
https://nwlc.org/nwlc-in-the-press/7-vital-things-women-could-lose-if-the-gop-gets-its-way-on-medicaid/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/opinions/gop-abortion-pregnant-workers-lawsuit-filipovic/index.html
https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/The-Millennial-View-GOP-plan-is-to-help-the-poor-11010159.php
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/26/17044440/gop-tax-cut-tax-reform-law-chart-regressive-rich-poor-graph
https://indivisible.org/resource/unmasking-maga-exploring-gops-war-women-womens-history-month
https://prospect.org/health/2023-12-13-republicans-would-ban-all-abortions/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-problems-with-women-go-far-beyond-donald-trump/2015/08/11/d13a1c56-3f97-11e5-bfe3-ff1d8549bfd2_story.html
https://theconversation.com/3-myths-about-the-poor-that-republicans-are-using-to-support-slashing-us-safety-net-89048
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gop-fiscal-irresponsibility
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/immiseration
The GOP’s contempt for women
Katrina vanden Heuvel (The Washington Post)Nicole Parsons
in reply to TCat - Vote Blue, Vote Harris • • •@TCatInReality @michaelgemar
I still remember Republicans' reactions to the covid pandemic lockdowns.
The outrage over "Well! Who will do my nails!" as salons filled with underpaid Asian-heritage women were closed, and paid for it with their lives.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/14/dallas-asian-salon-shooting-hate-crime/
Making oneself unavailable for serving a ruling class is dangerous apparently.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/17/us/shooting-atlanta-acworth
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/17/1099453183/dallas-koreatown-hair-salon-shooting-arrest-hate-crime
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/us/dallas-salon-shooting-hate-crime.html
Ditto for Hispanic-heritage landscaping workers...
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Shooting at Asian-run salon in Dallas may be a hate crime, police say
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... & the GOP's "Who will do my lawn?!?!" faux outrage during their antivaxxer protests at hospitals.
Republicans believe they are entitled to the underpaid labor of the poor, even during times of crisis
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/14/i-dont-think-its-defensible-under-trump-a-pentagon-campaign-spread-anti-vaccine-misinformation/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/09/victor-rohe-anti-vaxxers-sarasota-hospital-board/
https://newrepublic.com/article/162871/anti-vaccine-pandemic-danger-democracy?&ms=FITwitter
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/09/anti-vax-radio-hosts-dying-covid
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/desantis-antivax-florida-trump
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/measles-cases-are-rising-in-the-u-s-heres-why-misinformation-about-the-vaccine-persists-today
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/27/us-warning-pandemic-anti-vaxxers
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02981-z
Anti-vaxxers tout ‘medical freedom’ — and raise the death toll
Editorial Board (The Washington Post)Nicole Parsons reshared this.
TCat - Vote Blue, Vote Harris
in reply to Michael Gemar • • •@michaelgemar @Npars01
Exactly!!
Why not push the decision down to the individual?
To take it further, the GOP is obsessed with letting service providers make individual decisions - just not the people who need the service.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to TCat - Vote Blue, Vote Harris • • •@TCatInReality @michaelgemar
Just what American women need, their employer's health insurer deciding if they get to bleed to death of a miscarriage in a red state hospital parking lot....
/sarcasm
https://www.axios.com/2023/01/19/mothers-anti-abortion-bans-states-die
https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-have-the-highest-maternal-mortality-rates/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08/27/arkansas-maternal-mortality-rate-abortion-ban/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/health/maternal-infant-death-abortion-access/index.html
https://www.dcreport.org/2024/02/21/pro-life-republican-states-have-a-dying-problem/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-maternal-mortality-rates-are-getting-worse-across-the-u-s/
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/slideshows/infant-mortality-rate-by-state
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/12/abortion-ballot-measures-states-november/
https://www.vox.com/scotus/24139251/supreme-court-abortion-emtala-idaho-united-states-moyle
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/12/abortion-ballot-measures-states-november/
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1111344810/abortion-ban-states-social-safety-net-health-outcomes
Abortion foes use government power to fight red-state ballot measures
Molly Hennessy-Fiske (The Washington Post)Nicole Parsons reshared this.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •Pete Buttigieg described in detail why the GOP are clinging to the malign influence narrative about immigrants & pets.
It's to hijack a news cycle after the debate where Trump was a failure & avoid focus on issues. It's a deliberate media strategy.
Issues like women's rights, climate, gun violence, taxes on the rich, Project 2025,
https://www.comicsands.com/buttigieg-trump-eating-pets-distraction-2669201295.html
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/13/2270088/-Pete-Buttigieg-Explains-Why-There-s-Even-More-To-Trump-s-Racist-Debate-Lie
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/12/politics/buttigieg-trump-migrant-claims-distraction-cnntv/index.html
https://www.showbiz411.com/2024/09/14/buttigieg-warns-the-media-and-voters-trump-using-eating-pets-is-strategic-distraction-so-is-loomer-gossip
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-buttigieg-trump-racist-haitian-immigrants-eating-dogs_n_66e3e316e4b0056e8291bc4f
https://www.advocate.com/election/pete-buttigieg-trump-pet-eating
Buttigieg Warns the Media, and Voters: Trump Using "Eating Pets" Is Strategic Distraction, So Is Loomer Gossip - Showbiz411
Roger Friedman (Showbiz411)Nicole Parsons reshared this.
William Lindsey :toad:
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Nicole Parsons reshared this.