THANK YOU DONALD TRUMP!!! Because of you, a female, kinda ethnic/Black/whatever is now absolutely acceptable, downright desirable!, to become the next President of the U.S. of A.
I’m glad Kamala Harris’s campaign is off to a strong start and hope it stays that way. I’m 100% behind her, but am dreading the next 100-days or so. With Trump/MAGA on the other side, it will be extremely ugly and distasteful - which causes me to step back a moment and ponder the “MAGA movement”, if you can call it that. In my view, the MAGA movement is a malignancy in our body politic, a disease that needs curing before it spreads too far. How to do this? Clearly, violence is absolutely the wrong way and the attempted assassination of Trump has set back any solutions to MAGA (the GOP in my state has pretty much deified Trump after the shooting). The only effective way is to have MAGA candidates (not just Trump, but others he endorses) lose in election, after election, after election. They will always claim foul, that the election was rigged, that illegal immigrants and dead people voted, etc…, but eventually, that argument will get old and people will just roll their eyes and move on. Long-term we, as a country, need address the root causes that motivate people to be attracted to Trump’s rhetoric and the MAGA movement. To find answers to this, I lack the skills. I’m not a political scientist or sociologist. Is it the growing economic inequality that has occurred since the 1970s? Is it globalization and the so-called liberal order? I hope that Prof. Richardson will shed some light on this in a future YouTube or Letter from an American.
I am looking forward, licking my chops, to witness the crazihouse reactions from tffg having to compete with a "Black" Female...WAY beneath his Holiness: the Son of God. Well, God just spoke: "Sorry about the failed extermination attempt in Pa. Now I give you Kamala. Let's see if you humans can not screw this up"
As a 70 yo female baby boomer and life long Democrat, my first thought was “Oh no! We will never elect a female, much less a woman with a minority ethnicity. But then, as I listened and observed comments, I started to hope. Let’s just hope she not only wins the popular vote, but also wins the electoral college vote.
A super interesting thing to watch for, is not only who Harris picks for a running mate, but how long it takes. More succinctly, who wants to tie their political fortunes to Harris? Normally there would be momentum from an open nomination process. One that proofs candidates, and builds confidence in their chances. If the VP pick takes a while, or is unexpected, this likely means Harris got stiff armed when she asked around, and good candidates are waiting for 2028. Or maybe, she has no problem at all, and lands a great running mate. Either way, great fun to watch this once in a lifetime election craziness.
Dobbs is DECEIT, invidious discrimination of women by men for prescribed beliefs.
Women’s lives have been whipsawed by the deceit in Dobbs. When Dobbs lumped the moral decision in with the medical procedure, it permitted States to regulate the profound moral decision as if it were no more than the medical procedure (often two pills). States make the moral decision for women through oppressive restrictions on their way of life and behavior; through force of law, States can force women to be mothers against their will. Two ignoble deceits permitted this. I will call them deceits #1 and #2, but there are many deceits in Dobbs.
Deceit #1 is a long-ago discredited 'liberty interest' scheme, and #2 is the mandate that State regulations can withstand constitutional challenge if they satisfy rational-basis review - the lowest level of judicial review.
Deceit #1 is the 'liberty interest' scheme upon which all of Dobbs rests. The scheme was condemned by John Hart Ely - whom Alito (author of Dobbs) called a “prominent constitutional scholar” when it suited Alito’s purpose in Dobbs. Dobbs is everything Ely condemned, it is an "ill-disguised, premature judgement that is a disaster in both practical and theoretical terms". Viewed another way, the 'liberty interest' scheme in Dobbs is an unconstitutional prequalification to access the protection in the Due Process Clause; protection that women forced to be mothers against their will are justly due.
(Dobbs quote) "Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. The Court overrules those decisions and returns that authority to the people and their elected representatives".
This is a reference to the Tenth Amendment’s, Powers retained by the States and the people. As we shall see in the following paragraphs, Dobbs is wrong. The Fourteenth Amendment’s Section 5 explicitly delegates to the United States, not to the States, the power to enforce the Due Process Clause by appropriate legislation. Dobbs knowingly erred in sending women’s explicit, extant, fundamental, Fourteenth Amendment liberty to the States. It is a dangerous precedent undermining the Constitution to have liberty subject to which state a person lives in.
Dobbs held that abortion was not a 'liberty interest', therefore abortion was not a fundamental right, therefore women did not have a constitutional right to abortion. All wrong.
When Dobbs did all that, it gave no further consideration to the woman’s explicit, extant, fundamental, Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process Clause liberty. Dobbs completely excised the woman and her explicit liberty knowing full well women would be forced to be mothers against their will. Because Dobbs excised the woman’s interests, there remained no distinction between the moral decision and the medical procedure; Dobbs had lumped them together into a predictable ill-disguised, premature judgement. The remainder of the 78-page opinion of the Court is window dressing that fails. Remove the woman’s explicit Fourteenth Amendment liberty and you have deleted the woman’s moral judgement and replaced it with the state's moral judgement, a dangerous precedent. Gone forever is her moral independence, her autonomy over her own body. Dobbs knowingly did all that. That was deceit #1.
For deceit #2, please click on my icon; this comment is part of a post on my substack. My substack is dedicated to disclosing the deceit in Dobbs; we have reasons to be angrier than we are.
I paid then you went to substack. I don’t want an audio! I’m visual, need to read it. Don’t want the ap! I’m 85, do NOT like the ap! It wanted to contact all my contacts. THAT’S an invasion of my privacy!!!! So I deleted the ap. Just want to READ your bloody letter. Can you make that happen for me???? Rev. Ruth O Fatur, retired Unity minister.
THANK YOU DONALD TRUMP!!! Because of you, a female, kinda ethnic/Black/whatever is now absolutely acceptable, downright desirable!, to become the next President of the U.S. of A.
Yippee!!
I’m glad Kamala Harris’s campaign is off to a strong start and hope it stays that way. I’m 100% behind her, but am dreading the next 100-days or so. With Trump/MAGA on the other side, it will be extremely ugly and distasteful - which causes me to step back a moment and ponder the “MAGA movement”, if you can call it that. In my view, the MAGA movement is a malignancy in our body politic, a disease that needs curing before it spreads too far. How to do this? Clearly, violence is absolutely the wrong way and the attempted assassination of Trump has set back any solutions to MAGA (the GOP in my state has pretty much deified Trump after the shooting). The only effective way is to have MAGA candidates (not just Trump, but others he endorses) lose in election, after election, after election. They will always claim foul, that the election was rigged, that illegal immigrants and dead people voted, etc…, but eventually, that argument will get old and people will just roll their eyes and move on. Long-term we, as a country, need address the root causes that motivate people to be attracted to Trump’s rhetoric and the MAGA movement. To find answers to this, I lack the skills. I’m not a political scientist or sociologist. Is it the growing economic inequality that has occurred since the 1970s? Is it globalization and the so-called liberal order? I hope that Prof. Richardson will shed some light on this in a future YouTube or Letter from an American.
I am looking forward, licking my chops, to witness the crazihouse reactions from tffg having to compete with a "Black" Female...WAY beneath his Holiness: the Son of God. Well, God just spoke: "Sorry about the failed extermination attempt in Pa. Now I give you Kamala. Let's see if you humans can not screw this up"
Well, if we look at how he has fared with Black women on 3 of his cases, it doesn't bode well for 45!
Way proud of our Black sistas!
As a 70 yo female baby boomer and life long Democrat, my first thought was “Oh no! We will never elect a female, much less a woman with a minority ethnicity. But then, as I listened and observed comments, I started to hope. Let’s just hope she not only wins the popular vote, but also wins the electoral college vote.
A super interesting thing to watch for, is not only who Harris picks for a running mate, but how long it takes. More succinctly, who wants to tie their political fortunes to Harris? Normally there would be momentum from an open nomination process. One that proofs candidates, and builds confidence in their chances. If the VP pick takes a while, or is unexpected, this likely means Harris got stiff armed when she asked around, and good candidates are waiting for 2028. Or maybe, she has no problem at all, and lands a great running mate. Either way, great fun to watch this once in a lifetime election craziness.
Wonderful beginning.
Dobbs is DECEIT, invidious discrimination of women by men for prescribed beliefs.
Women’s lives have been whipsawed by the deceit in Dobbs. When Dobbs lumped the moral decision in with the medical procedure, it permitted States to regulate the profound moral decision as if it were no more than the medical procedure (often two pills). States make the moral decision for women through oppressive restrictions on their way of life and behavior; through force of law, States can force women to be mothers against their will. Two ignoble deceits permitted this. I will call them deceits #1 and #2, but there are many deceits in Dobbs.
Deceit #1 is a long-ago discredited 'liberty interest' scheme, and #2 is the mandate that State regulations can withstand constitutional challenge if they satisfy rational-basis review - the lowest level of judicial review.
Deceit #1 is the 'liberty interest' scheme upon which all of Dobbs rests. The scheme was condemned by John Hart Ely - whom Alito (author of Dobbs) called a “prominent constitutional scholar” when it suited Alito’s purpose in Dobbs. Dobbs is everything Ely condemned, it is an "ill-disguised, premature judgement that is a disaster in both practical and theoretical terms". Viewed another way, the 'liberty interest' scheme in Dobbs is an unconstitutional prequalification to access the protection in the Due Process Clause; protection that women forced to be mothers against their will are justly due.
(Dobbs quote) "Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. The Court overrules those decisions and returns that authority to the people and their elected representatives".
This is a reference to the Tenth Amendment’s, Powers retained by the States and the people. As we shall see in the following paragraphs, Dobbs is wrong. The Fourteenth Amendment’s Section 5 explicitly delegates to the United States, not to the States, the power to enforce the Due Process Clause by appropriate legislation. Dobbs knowingly erred in sending women’s explicit, extant, fundamental, Fourteenth Amendment liberty to the States. It is a dangerous precedent undermining the Constitution to have liberty subject to which state a person lives in.
Dobbs held that abortion was not a 'liberty interest', therefore abortion was not a fundamental right, therefore women did not have a constitutional right to abortion. All wrong.
When Dobbs did all that, it gave no further consideration to the woman’s explicit, extant, fundamental, Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process Clause liberty. Dobbs completely excised the woman and her explicit liberty knowing full well women would be forced to be mothers against their will. Because Dobbs excised the woman’s interests, there remained no distinction between the moral decision and the medical procedure; Dobbs had lumped them together into a predictable ill-disguised, premature judgement. The remainder of the 78-page opinion of the Court is window dressing that fails. Remove the woman’s explicit Fourteenth Amendment liberty and you have deleted the woman’s moral judgement and replaced it with the state's moral judgement, a dangerous precedent. Gone forever is her moral independence, her autonomy over her own body. Dobbs knowingly did all that. That was deceit #1.
For deceit #2, please click on my icon; this comment is part of a post on my substack. My substack is dedicated to disclosing the deceit in Dobbs; we have reasons to be angrier than we are.
I paid then you went to substack. I don’t want an audio! I’m visual, need to read it. Don’t want the ap! I’m 85, do NOT like the ap! It wanted to contact all my contacts. THAT’S an invasion of my privacy!!!! So I deleted the ap. Just want to READ your bloody letter. Can you make that happen for me???? Rev. Ruth O Fatur, retired Unity minister.