• HuddaBudda@kbin.social
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      I think a large part of us assumed that people in power wouldn’t cross red lines that had existed for decades.

      Which was a terrible assumption for democrats to make. Especially when they controlled the house, senate, and presidency in the Obama era.

      That being said, let’s call a spade a spade here. Democrats have been fighting to return Roe v Wade in many states. And Republicans have been standing against it, to the point of fighting their voters on laws they voted for.

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        Especially when they controlled the house, senate, and presidency in the Obama era.

        You mean, for the two whole weeks that they had the supermajority they needed to bypass Republican obstruction?

        This long-debunked talking point really needs to die once and for all.

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          The Freedom of Choice Act was already written and ready to go to vote BEFORE Obama was sworn in. Pelosi referred it to committee where it was sent to die.

          Democrats CHOSE to let it die while they had that super majority.

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            Pelosi was dealing with the Blue Dogs, conservatives who were elected as Democrats. We didn’t have a progressive majority, we had a Democratic majority. And we still managed to get a record amount of progressive legislation through the House, where it went to die in the Senate thanks to the precedent-breaking tactic of filibustering everything Democrats tried to pass.

            Two weeks during a holiday break was not enough to accomplish every single policy goal you expect. Pay attention and stop blaming Democrats for having to deal with complications instead of assuming they wielded total and unrestricted power. Because they never did, and probably never will.

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        We need federal laws protecting abortion access. Roe v Wade was inconsistent with any other bodily autonomy law and always needed to be backed up with concrete laws.

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        Read this clown’s comment history. Dude is purposefully going out of his way to be on the wrong side of every argument he’s been in.

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          Meanwhile, the fact that your team is busy trying to prop up a clown that thinks sending death threats to a judge in charge of a case that will determine wether or not he’s a complete fraud- doesn’t register even in the slightest with any of you imbeciles that you’ve all drank some pretty shit kool-aid.