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"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)
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"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."

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"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

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https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/no-one-wanted-this


No One Wanted This

Trump claims ending Roe is what we all "wanted."
Liz Dye (Law and Chaos)
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"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."

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"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

At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found.
ProPublica
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"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."

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@GreenFire He seems to be one of those Politico folks who claim to have an inside track on Trump's inner circle, Trump whisperers.
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Döpfner, the CEO of Politico, lauds Trump as having had the most accomplished administration in the last 50 years in his email.
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

Mathias Döpfner has long been accused of infusing the publications in Axel Springer’s docket with right-wing politics
Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
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@GreenFire I had seen news about that earlier today. Yes, that outfit leans very much in a Republican direction. I read articles there only when they occasionally pop up in feed of commentators I prefer to read.
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Sending abortion "back to the states" has only shown how undemocratic and extreme many states are.
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@TCatInReality Well-stated. It has, for sure. And, of course, we knew from the outset that the whole concept of states' rights was crafted to preserve the institution of slavery by thwarting democratic attempts to overturn it.
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@TCatInReality @Npars01 If the federal government is too removed to decide about abortion, why leave it to the states? Why not take it to the counties, or cities, or blocks…or maybe, just maybe, the INDIVIDUAL.
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@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.

“Thomas is guilty of a gross misuse of historical facts,« one professor said of Thomas's work to link abortion and eugenics. “It’s really bad history, » another said.
Eli Rosenberg (The Washington Post)
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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

Acknowledging the political stakes for their own party, Democrats on Tuesday said they do not plan to abandon either of the fights over workers’ wages and are actively exploring other legislative avenues in the months to come.
Tony Romm (The Washington Post)
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PS

https://newrepublic.com/article/140641/trump-turned-gop-party-eugenics


Trump Has Turned the GOP Into the Party of Eugenics

The long-discredited theory is newly relevant in 2017—but maybe it's always been embedded in the Republican platform.
The New Republic

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@Npars01 Well, that should be the roadmap to Trump's party's self-destruction then, as a creature not fit to survive & meet the standards of America's contemporary sovereign public, not to mention the Constitution's requirements.
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While at the same time not recognizing that they are among the stupidest among us....................

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@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?

There’s a thin line between the ‘pro-natalist’ movement and the ‘great replacement theory’
Arwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)
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@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 —

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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.

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@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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@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

Republicans’ problems on gender go far beyond Donald Trump.
Katrina vanden Heuvel (The Washington Post)
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@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

Dallas police chief Eddie Garcia announced Friday that the recent shooting at Hair World Salon in Dallas's Koreatown may be a hate crime as it could be connected to at least two other similar incidents at local businesses run by Asian Americans.
Lindsey Bever (The Washington Post)
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@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.

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@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

Critics say abortion opponents are employing legal challenges, administrative maneuvers and even outright intimidation to derail proposed amendments.
Molly Hennessy-Fiske (The Washington Post)
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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

Pete Buttigieg has become a Trump Whisperer. He gets it. On CNN, he explained very simply what’s going with “eating pets” in Springfield, Ohio. Pete also correctly classifies the current Laura Loomer lunacy similarly.
Roger Friedman (Showbiz411)
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@Npars01 Thank you for these links. Astute commentary by Pete Buttigieg. Through the entire Trump era, the catch-22 has been that if we totally ignore their malicious statements and actions towards vulnerable people, those people have no defenders. But if we respond and highlight what's going on, we fall into the cycle of letting Trump and his epigones drive news cycles. The key here is media awareness of what's going on and refusal to be led by the nose.
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