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In reply to the discussion: A pessimistic prediction from Joy-Ann Reid. Read it anyway: she could well be right about everything [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Her constituents--whether or not they will admit it now--WANTED her to vote the way she did. They didn't care who the fuck "did" it, they wanted a head on a pike.
She explained her vote at the time, and acknowledged later that it was a mistake to trust GWB. But hey, that's important now? Yeah, sure. So damn important that the only one who gets scolded for a bad vote is Clinton. Everyone else, it seems, gets a pass. So stow that Sarandon - level nonsense (she who couldn't support Clinton FOR THAT REASON, yet managed to support John Edwards, who cast the EXACT SAME VOTE). Too obvious.
Obama opposed marriage equality too--where's your poutrage for him? It's just HILLARY that gets gigged on that -- funny how that shit works. Hmmmm.
You know, politicians that don't do a fucking thing, despite decades in office, never ever make mistakes. Give me someone who strives and learns over someone who sits on their ass and tries to take credit for signing on to the work of others.
I think most sane people would call the need to have an abortion tragic. It's not like getting a zit popped, it's a significant medical procedure that is not without risk and one that does present a whole "road not taken" thought process for some (not all, but some). I think most people who have gotten abortions would have greatly preferred to not have to have been in the position to need one, but they were glad that the procedure was available to them. And "safe/legal/rare" doesn't mean anything more than that. Would you prefer the opposite? Hmmm? How's about "risky/illegal/common as peanuts at the ballpark?" I mean, come off it. That's just wingnut FUD. She has expressed a clear and unwavering support for a woman's right to control her own medical decisions, so trying to drag up that shit is -- AGAIN -- that right wing bifurcation that was stirred up out in Berniestan, created for the faithful to vomit, meaninglessly, where there's no damn difference, and yet, you're persisting in trying to create one, well, it's bullshit--and obvious.
If you're so concerned about "moneyed interests" you probably should check to see who's Trump's frontrunner for Treasury. Talk about something to cry about... HRC would have included Betsy (her childhood name) Warren in her inner circle--probably as an informal advisor initially, with an eye towards FED CHAIR when that gig opened up. Alas, not to be. Ironically, the most sanctimonious assholes who smugly voted Green or Libertarian rather than vote for the GIRL will probably be the worst screwed by the Trump adminstration. They can pay their bills and do their grocery shopping with that sense of "Ah HA! I showed HER and her supporters!!!" that they got.
I don't think the party should kiss their asses--I think they should just tell them that they can go where their racist hearts take them--to the GOP. Because THIS is the bottom line:
https://vimeo.com/191751334
It is a MUST WATCH. And I agree with
every.
single.
word.