When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it claimed to be removing the judiciary from the abortion debate. In reality, it simply gave the courts a macabre new task: deciding how far states can push a patient toward death before allowing her to undergo an emergency abortion.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit offered its own answer, declaring that Texas may prohibit hospitals from providing “stabilizing treatment” to pregnant patients by performing an abortion—withholding the procedure until their condition deteriorates to the point of grievous injury or near-certain death.
The ruling proves what we already know: Roe’s demise has transformed the judiciary into a kind of death panel that holds the power to elevate the potential life of a fetus over the actual life of a patient.
The economy has vastly improved.
We aren’t sucking up to Putin.
Queer people are not as scared and us parents of them are not as scared (although scared of what could happen this year).
The result is not the same.
Meh…
The wealthy are wealthier, everyone else is worse off.
And those economy gains are mostly from record breaking fossil fuels, and if you haven’t noticed, the climate isn’t exactly doing great.
In that example Biden isn’t failing to pull the chute, he strapped on a jet pack and hit the gas pointing straight at the ground.
Have you ever even talked to someone who is transgendered? Shit isn’t exactly going great for that demographic.
Hell, even just for women. Abortion is kind of a big deal. Biden could" have used those two years to codify abortion, instead he did absolutely nothing.
No. Everyone is not worse off. That’s simply false. The economy was in free-fall when Trump left office and unemployment was sky-high. Yes, prices are higher now and that is not good, but people can now afford to pay for food because they have jobs.
Okay? That would have been the case regardless.
Yes I have, and it was much worse under Trump.
https://www.hrc.org/news/the-list-of-trumps-unprecedented-steps-for-the-lgbtq-community
How? Exactly how could he have achieved this? Please detail it.
Giving Biden credit for more jobs after the pandemic is like saying Bill Clinton’s pro corporate policies caused the dotcom boom…
Or that it was his over zealous crackdown on nonviolent offenders that caused the decline in crime rate and not the normal effect of banning leaded gas decades earlier, something that we saw across the globe on the same timeline after they banned it.
You’re doing the same thing Republicans do, giving credit to your “team” for things that would have happened anyways.
And waaaaaay over exaggerating how much got fixed.
How does anything get made a law?
We had two years where Dems controlled the House, Senate, and presidency…
If you’re saying it’s not Bidens fault nothing got done, how is it he’s the one that got literally anything else done?
You’re making it out to be Biden has zero power, but you just gave him credit for increasing fossil fuels production?
Is there any logic behind this to you? Or are you just saying every good the ng is only because of Biden, and every bad thing is something he couldn’t do.
Who honestly believes that?
No. We had two years where Dems controlled the House and the Presidency and were challenged at every move by Sinema and Manchin. What specifically would have convinced Sinema and, especially, Manchin to agree to codify abortion? Because, if you weren’t aware, the Democrats did try to codify abortion and Manchin specifically blocked it.
So what should they have done to convince Manchin? Or do you think they could have convinced a Republican to take their side? Because I sure as hell don’t.
I’d take that as an excuse if Biden hasn’t spent the whole primary and election telling us that he can get dem legislation thru a Republican Senate…
Then we (luckily) end up with 50 D senators, and Biden told us it was pointless to try.
That doesn’t really change anything, because Biden was already expecting to have to fight a Republican Senate and get a couple votes.
Hell, the whole reason we got 50 was the GA runoff when Biden was still saying 50 D’s would be enough to pass the whole platform.
Do you think Joe “Senate whisperer” Biden just didn’t know who Manchin was?
If so, why couldn’t he still get those few R votes he promised he could get?
They literally tried. Did you even read my link?
So it’s Biden’s fault that republicans are opposing anything the democrats are doing?
You’re playing right into their game with that kind of thinking.
It’s my fault for listening to what Biden said he could?
I should have known he would blatantly lie to get elected and then immediately act like I’m an idiot for thinking what he said was true?
But also…
This time I should listen to Biden and it totally won’t happen again…
Have you ever thought about why voter turnout goes down for incumbents?
Not always.
Trump got more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016 and there’s no reason to believe Biden isn’t going to get more considering it’s an exact repeat.
Biden has been fixing Trump’s dumpster fire and most reasonable people can see that.
Manchin isn’t even a Democrat anymore, and even before he made that official, it was already de facto true.
So you’re saying even tho it was obvious, Biden and his people didn’t see it coming?
How does that change Bidens presumption that it would be a Republican Senate?
Hey, I’m trans, and I feel much safer right now than under trump. And I am very anxious about a second term for trump. Biden doesn’t want me dead and neither do his supporters.
maybe you won the geographic lottery and live in a good state and have the right to vote and are getting paid more and have extra rights and bodily autonomy
overall the economy is in the shitter between food costs, vehicle insurance and ownership costs, and pretty much everything else and since I have been born things have gotten worse every four years with no progress maybe some baby steps that have since stalled
not everybody is on that good bus
I live in Indiana.
Why yes, I am a citizen and an adult and not a felon. What’s your point?
I am unemployed.
Such as?
Well yes, I’m male. That’s not my fault. I can’t make abortion legal again.
I’m not going to go past that. Maybe you can reassess your completely false image of me and we can continue.