Excellent political instinct as the "harm reduction" candidate to announce your opposition to the concept of bodily autonomy. Eager to see how the Dems will attempt to claim that he misspoke or something.
"I don't agree with the right to choose, but it's the politically expedient position, Jack!"
beginning to sense that voting for him isn't about harm reduction so much as culpability reduction. the exact same shit will happen either way, it'll just be someone else's fault.
Complete inability to read the room. It’s not 1992, the kind of voters he’s trying not to alienate with this shit have been dead for a decade and change.
Maybe (very?) soon Biden says "President Clinton is workin' to solve this problem. And I as senator am doing my part. Hold on. That doesn't sound right. Not at all. I feel funny. Does anybody else smell burning rubber?"
The emperor is loudly declaring that he has no clothes and anybody who says he does is a dog faced pony soldier, followed by 48 hours of MSNBC saying anybody who says Biden has no clothes is a Russian shill.
The absolute masterclass in politics of Joe Biden coming out right now and clarifying that he's begrudgingly pro choice from a polical expediency stand point but against it personally.
Democrats did this "abortion is a right but I morally object to it" song and dance for decades. Biden's mummified brain can't read the room and understand that excuse isn't important anymore.
"It's just my personal belief, it won't effect my decision making" okay cool how about you just shut your fucking mouth about it then? You're talking to a reporter not pleading your case in the court of almighty judgement.
"I guess I'll do the right thing but I want to make it really clear I'm doing it for political reasons and wanna make sure everybody knows I'm still on the wrong side of history and this isn't a firmly held belief."
Are you telling me that an octogenarian conservative catholic who was best buddies with Strom Thurmond has absolutely dogshit opinions about women's bodily autonomy?
Tell people you're a sex offender without saying it directly, holy shit.
Also what the hell do you mean "this is probably the most rational allocation of responsibility that all major religions have signed on", why do women need anyone's permission over their own bodies? Because then you'd have less kids to snort, you sick fuck?
Screw anyone that tries to guilt you into voting for Biden this year, regardless of what state you live in.
Wtf even is "abortion on demand"?? It isn't Netflix, you have to see a doctor to do it. It has the same fascist ring to it as when they say "omg they're now killing babies when they're born"
No, but it sure is possible to do it at home in the most unsafe way, just like downloading movies, but now it's dangerous to your body! Wow! And people are going to do it because they don't have proper health care
"I've never been supportive of 'It's my body I can do what I want with it'. Look, I'm a walking counter-example, Jack. Most of the time I can't even remember what I want or am even supposed to do, much less being able to."
Lmao this is a great point obviously the guy who's body routinely tries to mutiny him and make him walk off into the sunset doesn't support his bodies coup d'etat
Honestly not to get too conspiracy brained but I've always kinda thought this is part of the reason conservatives and religious institutions oppose abortion
The Catholic church being a perfect example of this shit
The interview he did in the middle of that push to paint him as more progressive than FDR where he described his own personal ideal presidency as being Reagan reborn; man I nearly pissed myself laughing. It still makes me giggle thinking about the looks on the faces of his staffers.
I'm convinced - with very little evidenced - that she and her husband are very much anti-abortion but they lie because if they were honest - their audience would dry up and they'd lose a lot of money.
The once-beloved “leftist” is facing backlash for her anti-abortion views. Why did it take this long?
Jul 20, 2022
This bit is highlighted...
To strip women and trans people of agency, violate their bodies, kill thousands of them, and then throw the survivors some free diapers isn’t “leftism;” it’s barbarism with a sheen of feel-good charity to make it sell.
There's a lot more I could quote but I'll just mention this...
Consider a sentence from that 2014 piece on “pro-life liberalism:” “Since we care enough about the outcome of pregnancy to insist against abortion, then we must continue to care about the outcome when abortion is no longer a legal option.” Did you catch it? I didn’t, at first. It’s so subtle, just a whiff of a suggestion of a hint of a teeeeeensy tell: “When abortion is no longer a legal option.”
Not “if.” When.
For Elizabeth Bruenig, the overturn of Roe has always been both possible and desirable. Her “leftism” is simple cleanliness: She wants to be standing just far enough away that she won’t be spattered with blood when the axe falls.
Thank god for archive.today. The article is now behind a paywall.
I think the media is choosing to ignore this quote. Haven't seen it on reddit at all. Haven't seen it on twitter much, but twitter has become impossible to navigate.
I see the quote posted on Fox News, but they made the article about Biden laughing at the mention of Clarence Thomas.
The only website that I see that has actually made an article about the quote is Jezebel. Who reads Jezebel?
It's not very coherent. He couldn't remember the slogan: "my body, my choice". He says "you know" because he couldn't remember the slogan and was thinking to remember it, probably even took a long pause. The cadence matches how he speaks.
"But I have been supportive of the notion that this is probably the most rational allocation of responsibility that all the major religions have signed on and debated over the last thousand years."
??? what does this sentence even mean ???
roe v wade was decided by a council of religions over 1000 years?
oh i guess you're right, it just looked more coherent in writing than it sounds when he speaks, but yeah it's pretty well the same i guess. it helps when it's not just a stream of gibberish from him all at once