Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer suggested that President Biden should talk about abortion more so people know he is a president who is “fighting” for the right to an abortion.
Asked by CBS News “Face the Nation” anchor Margaret Brennan if Biden, who is of Catholic faith, needs to talk about abortion more, Whitmer said, “I think it would be good if he did.”
“I know that one tenet of his belief system is that women and only women at — with their families and — and health care professionals are the ones who know what decision is right for them,” said Whitmer, co-chair for Biden’s reelection campaign. “And that he is fighting and going to continue to fight to make sure that that is squarely the ability … [of] an American woman to make that decision.”
Brennan then asked if Biden needs to be the messenger on that more, to which Whitmer said, “I don’t think it would hurt.”
Bullshit. They’re simply saying that now probably isn’t the best time for infighting. As Levitsky and Ziblatt show in their book, “How Democracies Die,” a disunited and squabbling opposition is how authoritarian dictatorships come to power.
You can agree or not, but don’t misrepresent the argument.
I certainly hope that isn’t the argument they’re making. Because now is the exact time to make demands, especially from the left. Talking about student loan forgiveness is because of concessions that had to be made when Bernie Sanders dropped out. That’s the same pathetic argument. The right makes whenever there’s a mass shooting and someone wants to talk about gun control. It’s the weakest most defeatist argument that could possibly be made because what that argument is saying is that your actual morals and politics don’t matter. But they do.
You can in fact have it both ways. You can make demands and still not want some right-wing nut job to get in office. This argument is exactly why abortion has not been protected by law for well over 40 years, and it’s why we’re never going to see it protected by law in our lifetimes. People too afraid to upset the cart and make demands of the people they’re going to elect.
Significantly more important than the presidency is all of the state elections. Without those politicians on board, the president can’t do anything. Now is the exact time to demand any of those politicians wanting to be elected must agree that codifying abortion in law is a top priority. We’re already seeing the effects of radical right-wing bullshit killing women because of lack of access, and I’m personally not willing to trade the lives of those women just to make some dipshit political organization happy.
I’m not misrepresenting a damned thing. It’s never “the time” to criticize the useless-on-purpose centrist inaction wing of the party. The last time centrists didn’t get everything they wanted, they formed a PAC to elect McCain.
Here’s the thing; we are trying to treat a figurative heart attack while you are bitching about a figurative cancer.
In medicine we have the concept of triage, wherein we treat the most immediately life-threatening issue first, and then, once the patient is stabilized, we move on to the next treatment.
What you are arguing in favor of is basically treating the cancer while ignoring the full pulmonary arrest that is happening right before your eyes.
What part about this do you not understand?
I don’t get it. I truly don’t.
Nothing about what you ultimately want will happen if you and I do not stand up together right fucking now.
The plane is about to crash into the fucking mountain and you want to bitch about your little fucking objections?
Really? That’s who you are?
Your analogy is worthless because we never move onto the next treatment.
What always happens is we treat the emergency and don’t care at all if the patient’s cancer gets worse. Ever.
You regard literally anything that isn’t “shut the fuck up forever and vote like we order you because anything you’re upset about will never matter and we’ll never do anything to fix it. I got literally everything I want, fuck you” with absolute contempt.
That’s all you are.
Buddy, we’ve been suffering since 2008. We’ve been patient. You can go fuck yourself.
Sorry. When was the appropriate time? Because when Democrat politicians are in a strong position they just give leftists the finger like they did when Obama was in office. They’ve created this adversarial relationship.