Two Messages to Think About:

 

Trump Abortion Bans have had devastating consequences for women across America.

Donald Trump is the architect of this health care crisis. If elected, he will go even further to ban abortion nationwide and strip away reproductive freedom in all 50 states. pic.twitter.com/eglE7Smdrr

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 1, 2024

VS.

Sorry we want MALE only voting. The 19th might have to go. 👨🏼#JohnMcEntee #McEntee2028 pic.twitter.com/OJzXadROgo

— McEntee 2028 (@JohnMcEntee28) October 28, 2024

I don't know that it gets any starker than that--do I have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or am I the appendage of male society?

If I was not already a Democrat, this stark comparison would be everything I really needed to know. And it is not a joke--it's a vintage concern in the age of Trump. 

I am not going back.  I don't want any woman to feel like she has to accept she has to go back to when we didn't have choices and we didn't have voices. 

 

Here's a Bit of History

 

If your spirits are down, lift them with this thought:

Jimmy Carter lived long enough to vote for Kamala Harris today. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/rODaa8Yzlp

— Steven Senski 🇺🇦 🌈 🥥🌴 (@StevenSenski) October 15, 2024

This is the first president whose inauguration I can remember. Now, if you know my age, you might think that is improbable, but 1976 was a big year in Philadelphia with the Bicentennial and all. And I guess I imbibed political sensibility a bit from my mom. In 1977 I had a turntable, a Kiss album alongside my Sesame Street records and was a fan of Happy Days and watched some documentary about the 25th anniversary of rock and roll on PBS about a dozen times, it felt like. 

I remember the 1970s. I was already me by the time I was a toddler cleaning up shot glasses after parties (the taste of blackberry brandy and the sound of Steppenwolf) and listening to the Midnight Special. when I definitely wasn't supposed to still be awake and turning on the sole tv in the house and was lifting cold pizza out of the fridge. Mom finding me zonked on the floor with the farm report or Chief Halftown on in the morning.

He reminded me of Mr. Rogers then, and that was all right by me. He still does, and I don't have a greater compliment. He cares, and he acts on his sense of caring. It's the best thing you can say anyone ever does. 

Madame VP Harris Has a Word

 

Vice President Harris: This is the most significant election of our lifetime. The United States Supreme Court just essentially told Donald Trump, who has been convicted of 34 felonies, that he will be immune from the activity he has told us he is prepared to engage in if he gets… pic.twitter.com/E9Jee1Fpx9

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) July 7, 2024

Donald Trump very recently tried to deny that he has anything to do with Project 2025, even though it has an awful lot to do with him. To use the analogy of a very intelligent person, Trump didn't just fall out of a coconut tree, and NEITHER DID YOU, so when he says things like that, in the context of all that has gone before, you know he's lying. 

This election isn't just about Trump being an awful person (he really, really is though) but what he, in all his awfulness, is planning to do. Consider this--the stories to tear down President Biden's running mate are about to take off--some subtle, and some very much not. 

It hardly seems fair for Republicans to beat up on the Democratic running mate when Trump doesn't have one yet, having tried to get the last one lynched.