Originally published at: Trump thanks the Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade - Boing Boing
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But hey… he’s not REALLY anti-choice! I mean, he’s recently said that the 6 week ban in FL was too short… I mean, he’s gonna vote FOR it, but he SAID he disagreed, so we know it’s the truth, because he never lies or anything like that… at least that’s what the MSM tells us! Also, he was just “returning it to the state” which everyone wanted!!! /s
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He’s never given any evidence of respect for women, so “f” them on their reproductive rights, to hell with their votes; who needs them… right? He’s swaggering now, messaging that he owns the SC, and that’s what he wants to remind everyone of, crowing about it. Right now, it’s all ego and reptilian-brainwork. In the effort to free himself from a trap, he’s chewing his leg off — and doesn’t know it.
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Oh, he contradicts himself at least every couple days on the subject (and sometimes within seconds). He knows the anti-choice position in generally unpopular, but also the anti-choice forces got him in office, so he’s not so much vacillating as trying to adopt both positions simultaneously. Of course the reproductive rights stuff he’s promising now (e.g. state funding or health insurance coverage for IVF) aren’t feasible and the Republicans have been actively opposing them, so he can promise all he wants safe in the knowledge that it’ll never happen.
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“The courage to overturn”
It is almost as if he is thanking them for being, what’s the word? Activists.
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Yeah, the red meat stuff he saves for his rallies where the short feedback loop convinces him he enjoys unwavering support. He saves the mealy-mouthed hedging for the press knowing they’ll knod along and pretend that he isn’t serving up some bizzaro-world nonsense. He knows none of his supporters will look into his claims outside of the rally, so any criticism will go right past them. If he picks up a few votes with interviews it’s a net gain with zero risk.
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The NYT and WaPo will feign puzzlement over the “mixed messages” coming from the campaign, just like they pretend that Il Douche and the Shillbilly aren’t fully behind Project 2025.
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steviebaby64s comment @threads is on point here;
Why would they need courage if everyone supported it, Donold?
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And, as obviously ridiculous as it is, the last 9 years have shown there are people who will look at one of his particular statements, in isolation, and say, “See, he supports my position!” and use that as a justification for voting for him.
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All his supposed actual policy proposals still seem to parrot Projunk 2025.
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It’s almost as if Donald Trump would say anything to get elected, and he just changes his message according to his mood of the moment or, more likely, according to who he’s talking to. But that would make him unscrupulous, and we all know that Donald Trump is probably the most honest and upright man ever.
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I don’t think he would say anything. For instance I’m sure he would never say the US should be more welcoming of immigrants from non-European countries, because he genuinely is a racist who despises those people. His admiration for dictators is honest, as is his weird hatred for wind turbines. Here it just happens that he doesn’t really care about women one way or the other, so he is free to say whatever.
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Oooh! Schroedinger’s politician.
I’d gladly leave the box closed, possibly in some nuclear waste storage facility but I know what I’d like to find when opening it.
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Slime is good at coating everything.
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What IS IT with Americans and their (I don’t use the term lightly) OBSESSION with abortion?
Um, well, for SOME of us, we just happened to be OBSESSED with not being told what to do with our bodies… super-fucked-up, I know! Demanding to be treated like people… /s
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But why the thing about abortion in particular? Where does it come from, historically, in the US? It’s not as if you have much of a Catholic history, is it? (pretty much the opposite in fact). Maybe I’m just in this British bubble. I guess I need to Google it.
Locale aside, human beings tend to get all up in arms when someone else tries to take away or infringe upon their agency and/or autonomy over their own bodies.
Go figure.
The Reagan Era.
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Well, you COULD try reading some of this thread, which talks about how the focus on abortion is not about abortion, but about controlling women’s bodies. And the many, many other places where this topic comes up right here on the BBS… Do you just skip these threads when they’re presented (which is quite often). We’ve had years of super-indepth discussions on this topic since before Roe fell, in this thread, in BB threads, in the ongoing end of Roe thread, in the misogyny thread, etc.
And yes, we DO have catholics in the US, as we have a sizable percentage of the population that is of Irish, Italian, and German ancestory, but they are not the majority of the Christian population and the primary driving force is Protestants since the 1970s (who recruited conservative Catholics to the cause, not the other way around). This is and has always been an attempt to roll back women’s rights, nothing more, nothing less. It’s a direct attack on gains made by women in the US since the 70s. Abortion was just a useful wedge issue, that could be weaponized and turned into a “moral” issue. There has never been a point where the majority of americans opposed abortion rights since Roe. Which is why the far right had to use the courts to get this done.
Or just read what people have written here, instead of pretending like it’s some big mystery. 
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