Oh, come on. This thread has “… Trump …” in the subject line – at this point, that should automatically qualify it for extra latitude, as far as tempers and sniping.
Man, this stretch thread is pretty stretchy.
Who said anything about the Constitution? We’re talking about how conservatives who are pro-life but then skimp on maternal care are being hypocritical. Or so I thought. Did I get my wires crossed?
Here’s CNN Politics’s latest Electoral College polling summary: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/27/politics/road-to-270-electoral-college-map-october-26/index.html
Og, I love the smell of Sarcasm in the morning…!
Me too. It’s even better when you notice the username who created that gem. It’s so both.
I for one will use this again. With attribution of course. If we’re lucky it’ll become the Elections forum’s “penis ensues” for awhile.
It’s simple. They’re not pro-life, they’re pro-birth.
I am going further and pointing out that they are also just wrong. Our system is specifically designed not to include people’s religious ideas in policy.
We could go further- religious conservatives appear pretty dumb with their climate change denial. Sorry you guys can’t do science, but you are going to get us all killed if you get your way. You appear to have been blinded by the fossil-fuel industry sponsorship of your political leaders.
But hey, stopping abortions is the Top Priority, right? So important it is worth voting for Trump and taking on all the risks that entails? Great. Why don’t you tell us all again how hurricanes are proof of God’s disapproval of gays? Let’s hear some more about how the Earth is 6000 years old, and why I’m going to Hell because the historical person Adam ate an apple. Educated people are just flocking to hear more of that message.
When you’re done with that and ready to focus on your Top Priority policy goal, along the way why don’t you ally with the racists, the white nationalists, and the bonkers conspiracy-theory believers. That’s quite a coalition, guys, one that appears to have set the controls for the center of the Earth.
Meanwhile, we adults are going to set policy in a responsible manner. We aren’t going to be granting personhood to fetuses and turning this country into fucking San Salvador. Nope, the Religious Right is losing influence, as they should, there is going to be legal abortion for another generation at least, and they can keep on nagging us about how this policy violates imaginary legal rights. Nyah 
I’ve always preferred anti-choice, myself.
You got pregnant? Gotta carry to term, you got no choice.
You’re poor? Gotta raise a kid in poverty, you got no choice.
You’re sick? Gotta go to the ER and hope they can help, you got no choice.
Etc.
Agreed. The “two trochees and a dactyl” metrical scheme helps make it memorable. (“I am not an animal,” e.g.)
@Derleth:
In that strain of R thinking you’re entitled to exactly as much choice as you can pay for. Which is why *one dollar one vote *doesn’t really bother many of them.
Right, of course; that even extends to having the choice to go to a more favorable country to get an abortion, if you’re denying them to the poor people back home, as long as you can pay for it.
They aren’t really pro anything. They’re anti everything!
Well, no, that’s not really fair! They’re actually anti everything that doesn’t see Christianity as the de facto religion of state.
But come on, if you’re all about saving fetuses from abortion but not refugee children from misery, maybe it’s time to stop claiming your concerns are Christian motivated! They want ‘Christian values’, reflected in the countries laws. But don’t want any tax dollars to go to help the poor?
Eve brought us original sin, therefore, women are evil. They seem to suffer a lot when they give birth. They deserve to suffer for being evil and leading men into sin.
Personally, I don’t need much leading for temptation, I can find it quite easily on my own.
Interesting Bloomberg article on how a guy in San Antonio became the chief technical/data guy for the Trump campaign, and how Trump now owns a dedicated system to access his followers, derived on data from the RNC but under his own control, which he can continue to use after the election. Closing paragraph of the article:
Trump has the RNC right by the short and curlies. He has already feinted in the direction of my favorite political dream, that he might declare the RNC a bunch of backstabbing traitors, and instruct his onions to vote for him, but nobody else downticket. Which would be the recipe for the Great 2016 Republican Massacre! All those carefully manicured and gerrymandered House districts at risk!
Now, Universe, I know I haven’t been a very good pantheist. but if you could just give me this one sign…
The whole argument for representative government vs direct democracy right there.
Bolding mine.
That’s either an inspired Freudian slip or the best typo of the election season. Or else it’s a stale social media meme I’ve somehow missed.
Whichever it is, congrats. I got a good laugh out of it.
I really don’t understand how people can still believe he’s a good businessman. Someone posted on my feed this morning "do your own research - our country needs a great business leader at our helm " or some such nonsense. someone else posted how Hillary was Hitler.