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By JILL COLVIN WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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PTownsend
Trump's at this rally trying to appeal once again to US fundamentalists (roughly 35% of US population) because his political handlers know cracks are appearing in his evangelical base, some of whom calling his actions IMMORAL:
But those in his base who say TRUMP'S IMMORAL are probably a minority. After all, hard core Cult45ists see him as their messiah.
I don't see many people I call 'conservative' backing Trump. I think instead they're far right authoritarianists, people who want big brother to take control, especially take control over the demons (aka those not in their demographic) they fear.
Chip Star
Donny, like all men, have never faced the choice of what to do. Most of the time in this debate, us men should keep our mouths shut.
Conservatives love big government when it is handing out subsidies to farms and telling a woman what to do with her body
Chip Star
Agreed. I was referring to those that claim to be conservative, not republican, but are clearly not conservative.
stormcrow
What's next? The goosestep? It's scary thinking about what these people would do if they ever get to be fully in charge of people's lives.
otherworldly
yTrump is not Anti Abortion, he is Pro choice! Big difference
Chip Star
Nobody is in support of abortion, per se, but rather support a woman’s choice.
You people that want to control a woman always make it sound as if pro-choice people are handing out abortion stamp cards. Buy 10, the 11th is free. Ridiculous.
Chip Star
Okay. Thanks for the rebuttal.
What?
u_s__reamer
“Unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White House.”
...if you can believe the “I am pro-choice in every respect" moralizer, but it's the "born" children (into poverty) who need protecting from the dubious "defender in the White House".
And you don't have be a cynic to ask yourself the question that arises naturally, given what we know of the orange womanizer's notorious baggage of numerous transactions with the opposite sex: how many abortions has he personally paid for in his murky, mucky past?
bass4funk
The latest annual, nationwide Marist/Knights of Columbus poll shows most Americans, 70 percent, desire significant restrictions on abortion, such as limiting it to the first trimester, permitting it only in cases of rape or incest or to save the mother’s life, or prohibiting abortion altogether. In fact, even 47 percent of people who identify as “pro-choice” want some form of these restrictions.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/22/nearly-50-years-after-roe-65-of-americans-want-a-candidate-who-supports-significant-abortion-restrictions/
Not at all, but we do see him as the first Republican President that won’t turn the other cheek and take attacks from liberals in the way the last 3 previous Presidents have done which is refreshing.
No one said there aren’t conservatives that don’t like Trump, there are, but overall they support him. That’s why he’s polling so high with them. I see quite a few liberals that are warming up to Trump seeing what Democrats are doing to this country.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-trump-has-kept-solid-gop-support-through-impeachment/ar-BBZ7d7T
stormcrow
"Republicans are always going on about how they're going to get big government off our backs, but they don't mind government being in a woman's uterus."
George Carlin
SuperLib
Time to buy the votes. Tax breaks will be next, no doubt.
PTownsend
Big church like all the other US and global bigs operating in the US already have big tax breaks. Trump and his fellow bigs, i.e. the elite (so called) establishment, have enacted policies where the working and middle class taxpayers pay higher taxes so the bigs can continue being subsidized (aka welfare/socialism for the rich and powerful).
bass4funk
No imagine how much the middle class will be paying you have a Democrat socialist in office, omg.....all these richest liberal 1% elites will be become richer.
Yrral
How many abortion has Trump paid for personally,probably many
CrazyJoe
If Trump and everyone else is against abortion, they shouldn't have one.
I'd love to see a real 'march for life' that stood for providing children with adequate nutrition, medical care and an education. This crowd cheers when a child is born and then turns their backs on them - "not my problem."
lordoflys
Trump panders to the religious right for support to his waning re-election bid.
ulysses
So the life of a living person is less valuable than that of an unborn fetus!!!
I hope double standards gets rewarded in nutter land!!!
JenniSchiebel
Good for him.
I applaud President Trump for speaking up in defense of the right to life of unborn babies -- who are undeniably, as confirmed by science, human beings.
And to anyone who thinks otherwise, apparently you must think that pregnant women have two sets of DNA (the baby's exists from conception), two hearts, two sets of chromosomes, two hearts, two brains, two pairs of arms and legs, and approximately half the time, a penis.
Yes, you have a right to control your own body. But that does not extend to the "right" to kill someone else's body -- which an unborn baby's body undeniably is.
It's high time to set aside the ideology and shrill angry emotion of the pro-abortion crowd. It's time to get with logic and science. Unborn babies are human beings -- fact. And killing human beings is murder.
Again, I laud Mr. Trump for defending, by his words as well as his actions, the weakest and most vulnerable human beings there are -- unborn children.
Serrano
I don't see many people I call 'conservative' backing Trump
I don't see anyone I call conservative backing any of the Dems.
Conservatives love big government when it is handing out subsidies to farms and telling a woman what to do with her body*So it's OK for a woman to snuff out the life growing inside her? You sure?
Pukey2
Who was that republican who was so anti-abortion, but then sneakily asked his pregnant mistress to have an abortion?
As they say, if you against abortion, then don't have one.
I often find that it's the people with the 'holier than thou' who have the worst skeletons in the closet. Kinda like those really anti-gay Republicans who get caught with their pants down! Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Ha ha ha!
lincolnman
So true.... And when they get to be two-years old, trying to flee death and starvation in their home countries, we'll lock them up in cages at the border...
Chip Star
Good thing I’m not arguing that men have no right to say anything regarding an abortion that affects them.
plasticmonkey
And, as the song goes, every sperm is sacred.
Wolfpack
With half the aborted children being male, men have every right to be in the middle of this debate.
bass4funk
Do you have irrefutable proof of that or did you hear that from Brian Stelter?
You can say the same about hypocrites that support abortion rights.
I remember two of the most primate Democrats in recent memory that were totally against gay marriage or gays in the military and trying to pass themselves off to their base as woke or tolerant.
Chip Star
Human beings can live without a host. Can all unborn babies live without a host? Nope, which means that until a fetus is viable, it should be considered part of the host/mother.
Chip Star
Yes, 100% on both accounts.
Chip Star
Only when it involves the man personally.
Chip Star
Yes, we do. It’s right along with your irrefutable evidence of the Deep State, Mueller’s bias, and every other nonsense conspiracy theory you push.
Are you claiming everyone that supports the right to privacy, which is what the right to an abortion is all about, is a hypocrite? Your writing is really unclear.
Wolfpack
Thats like saying if you are against rape don’t get raped. The Left is focused on the woman. The Right is focused on the victim of violence- yes abortion is a violent act.
It is not that i am against all abortions, just those that snuff out the life of a sentient human being. Once a baby has a heart beat and a functioning brain, abortion is no different than an execution. When Dems in Virginia and New York talk about post-birth abortions - I can’t understand why Dems are not disgusted. But their ideology is so blinding they cannot see how sick it has become.
Jason
Democrats: How dare Trump try to save God's children, he just wants votes.
Maybe you aren't religious, I guess you have nothing to worry about then?
nishikat
I applaud President Trump for speaking up in defense of the right to life of unborn babies -- who are undeniably, as confirmed by science, human beings.
But if they are aborted it means their innocent souls go to heaven, so what's the problem? I think evangelicals would approve of abortions then, right? In that case I wish I had been aborted, then I would be in heaven right now. Now I'm not sure if I would be able to go to heaven because I'm no longer innocent.
bass4funk
Ok, can you present it?
So is the right to oppose it.
Wolfpack
Therefore only when a woman is personally affected can they speak about abortion? I don’t see much logic in such an argument.
bass4funk
But it’s OK for pro-choice activists to block and prevent the opposition of pro lifers?
Chip Star
When you present your evidence of the Deep State, Mueller’s bias, and all the other conspiracies you constantly push to excuse Donny’s incompetence.
Incorrect. The right to oppose abortion is protected by free speech. Nice try though, champ.
Chip Star
Nope. The ability to have an abortion affects every women that can give birth. An abortion only affects a man directly involved with a woman that is thinking about it. See the difference or do I need to get my crayons out? Perhaps if I change it into a bible-like parable you’d understand.
nishikat
Evangelicals used to not care about abortion. But if they stay in power The American economy will eventually be like one big Mississippi or Alabama. In other words very stupid and poor unlike smart Connecticut. Trump evangelicals don't believe in science.
Chip Star
False equivalency. An abortion is something a woman chooses, rape isn’t. Wow, you’re really struggling today.
The human being that wants control over their body.
A fetus that is not viable outside the womb cannot be a victim.
So is a root canal.
PTownsend
How dare they to have had beliefs that did not fit completely into one pole or the other, for them to have strayed from a partisan extremists's sense of consistency, i.e. you're either completely in favor of all issues representing an extreme pole, or you're completely in favor of all issues in the other extreme pole.
For whatever reason partisan extremists refuse to accept that individuals can have an array of perspectives shifting over time from issue to issue. Instead they bifurcate the world and people to fit their binary beliefs. kisS after all. SMH
Chip Star
Nobody is arguing it is okay to censor pro-lifers. We are arguing that we don’t want pro-lifers shoving their worldview a down our throats and forcing us to live how they think we should.
nishikat
I see a lot of logic in abortion since the souls of these unborn and destroyed fetuses will automatically go to heaven. Darn!! I wish I was aborted because I would be in heaven right now. Because if I die now in my adulthood I would probably go to hell now.
GO ABORTION!!!
Andrew Crisp
Men have every right to act and make comment on this matter, Men are the net taxpayers in society, as these procedures are subsidised by the taxpayer in some form, Men have the right in how our money is being spent.
nishikat
Sounds like Alabama or Kentucky
wtfjapan
all life is precious , until it steps on my property
ulysses
Boy o boy, misogynist much????
I hope you get some help.
ulysses
Supporters of a man who boasted of assaulting women opposing the right of a woman to choose what she wants to do with her body as a result of that assault.
Not surprising!!!!!!
bass4funk
Mueller? We are talking about abortion
Well whether you oppose or support abortion, the rights of both sides are protected, but yeah, nice try.
bass4funk
Even if she is mentally compromised? Nope, I disagree.
What?
We do accept them, but it seems that liberals don’t accept the conservative point of view, so where’s the tolerance?