The Governor and Legislature want to make sure that women in their state cannot obtain an abortion so they passed a law reclassifying abortion drugs as controlled dangerous substances. Most abortions occur by use of the pills, which the Federal Drug Administration has declared to be safe and effective. Currently they are available by mail, but obtaining them without a prescription will soon be illegal. The new law takes effect October 1.
Louisiana lawmakers have added two drugs commonly used in pregnancy and reproductive health care to the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances, a move that has alarmed doctors in the state.
Mifepristone and misoprostol have many clinical uses, and one use approved by the FDA is to take the pills to induce an abortion at up to 10 weeks of gestation.
The bill that moved through the Louisiana Legislature this spring lists both medications as Schedule IV drugs under the state’s Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law, creating penalties of up to 10 years in prison for anyone caught with the drugs without a valid prescription. Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, signed the bill into law in May. It takes effect Oct. 1.
The new law is the latest move by anti-abortion advocates trying to control access to abortion medications in states with near-total abortion bans, such as Louisiana. The law is the first of its kind, opening a new front in the state-by-state battle over reproductive medicine.
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Evil.
And on another chilling note, what do you fine folks here make of Trump’s telling the Evangelicals that if they vote for him this time, they will never have to vote again?
If this a serious promise to end voting and so democracy? Or is it just Trump, who is in severe cognitive decline, not having a clue what he is saying? Interested in your responses to this.
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I think it’s overblown. Here’s a longer adjacent clip. It’s pretty clear (to me at least) that he’s talking about how a group that traditionally doesn’t turn out to vote (no idea whether that’s true) really needs to turn out this time because it’s an important election, and how if he’s elected, he will fix things so well that there won’t be a need for them to turn out for the next election.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1804575637627142198?s=46&t=vV_4bJ7GuABaalzetJofQA
This shouldn’t need to be added but I’ll add it anyway: I’m not saying Trump is not a threat to democracy. He is. I’m just saying I don’t think the video of him saying evangelicals won’t ever have to vote again is evidence that he’s a threat to democracy.
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Yeah, I have listened to several clips now of his saying a similar thing. He’s just inarticulate and didn’t say clearly what he meant to say.
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If we take Trump’s “inarticulate” comments and others that have dribbled out of his mouth and throw in Project 2025 then we have a fine cauldron witch brew of evil intent by by ever evil people.
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What did Trump “mean to say”?
I thought Trump was quite clear. His “error” is that he sometimes blurts out the quiet part. Which he did this time.
Dems have never urged people to vote “this one time”. Trump said TWICE that Christians only had to vote once because then they won’t have to vote again because “we’ll have it all straightened out, so it’ll be much different.”
Trump said the quiet part – the Project 2025 part – out loud. It doesn’t matter if – after twice reassuring Christian voters that he only wanted them to vote one time because that’s all that was needed – Trump kind of back pedaled. Sort of. The most optimistic view of his last aside that it might be like 2020 again and Dems won’t be totally defeated and he will have to urge Christians to vote again – does not make what Trump said any more normal.
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He has said this a lot more than twice. It’s been one of the motifs of his ramblings at his rallies for some time now. However, he is so inarticulate that he might well mean, vote for me this one time and I will fix everything, and you’ll have nothing to worry about thereafter.
Ofc, this was the same guy who a couple years ago tweeted about Don, Jr., replacing him, and then Ivanka and Barron, and the Trump grandchildren, and on and on. A forever dynasty.
What can I say? The guy is nuts. His are the ravings of a person with profound psychoses.
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Right, but Trump raved over and over again about how he wouldn’t accept the results of any election if he didn’t win.
And in 2016 we brushed it off since he won.
And in 2020 we saw that Trump absolutely meant it and it was only Mike Pence’s out of character resistance that likely avoided a constitutional crisis of unknown harm.
And in 2024 Trump says this stuff again and we again brush this off! He’s just joking! He’s just mixed up! He just said something else that calls for your willing disbelief of reality to embrace!
How many times does someone have to tell you who he is- and then show you who he is – before you believe it?
The whole “Christians are known to never vote and Trump just told that they just had to vote this one time to get them to vote” has to be the lamest excuse I’ve heard.
Trump didn’t just mix up words. He said it TWICE. He emphasized two times that they only needed to vote this one time so he could fix things so that they wouldn’t have to vote anymore. When it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and has behaved exactly like a duck multiple times in the past when given any opportunity, why do people still say maybe he’s a hippopotamus? Who are we to judge? It’s not like there’s something like Project 2025 in the works or anything. It’s not like Lindsay Graham isn’t correct that Donald Trump has a deep and abiding love for democracy and therefore Trump could not possibly have meant what he actually said.
Someone in an article compared Trump to a crime boss in the way he talks. He shows his hand with plausible deniability. Who will help rid me of this turbulent democracy?
Why would anyone, knowing Trump’s actual history and desire he has expressed multiple times that any vote that doesn’t affirm him is not legitimate, twist themselves in knots to offer up an extremely unlikely scenario where Trump saying words that are absolutely not okay supposedly just meant something else benign?
I don’t get it. But history shows that is exactly what people did with Hitler. Including some Jews who just did not believe that his words could possibly mean what they meant, until it was too late. It was very interesting to read the obituaries of Dr. Ruth Westheimer whose affluent parents continued to live in Germany until her father was arrested and her mother finally managed to get her to a school in Switzerland before she herself was “disappeared” with the remaining German Jews.
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He shows his hand with plausible deniability. Who will help rid me of this turbulent democracy?
LOL. True that.
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In what universe are evangelicals NOT turning out to vote? They invited Trump to speak to them!!!
If you take away that false premise — if that premise it made up to justify what Trump said — then Trump’s statement is exactly what it is. A statement that people who DO always come out to vote that they just have to come out to vote one more year and then they can stay home.
Trump has been saying this stuff for years and people excuse it and say he doesn’t mean it, but we now know he does.
The guy said in 2016 he would not accept a defeat. He won, so we thought he was joking. In 2020 he lost, but spent the remaining time in office pressuring election officials to throw the election to him, having his Republican minions replace electors, and when none of that was successful, he incited an insurrection.
Mike Pence is probably the ONLY reason that insurrection didn’t work. I truly do not know what would have happened if Mike Pence had acceded to Trump’s demands. The fact that Pence was Trump’s loyal follower or 4 years and the only thing he refused to do was to overturn democracy was not enough. And even now, Pence should be sounding like Liz Cheney but his criticism is relatively mild, but he is still the enemy.
The actions of the Supreme Court, sadly, make what Trump is saying even more dangerous.
Trump meant every word. It’s interesting to read the NYT reporting in the 1930s – there was a great article about this in the Forward – because the stories normalized Hitler’s statements and reassured folks that Hitler didn’t really mean what he said. He did. The media is starting to understand this – at least for a brief time – and I hope they don’t cave to the pressure to be “fair and balanced” again and normalize and minimize this kind of stuff.
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Like I said, I agree he is a threat to democracy. But I disagree that this video clip is evidence of that. The evidence is January 6. I don’t need to twist and misrepresent video clips to get new evidence of his threat to democracy every day. I remember January 6.
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FLERP,
You are right. All we need to know about Trump is his creation, instigation, and incitement of Jan 6. A President who refused to go along with the peaceful transfer of power, who tried to overturn the election, who violated the Constitution—-should never be re-elected. Instead of claiming for almost 4 years that he won the election, he should live in shame and ignominy.
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Yes. And 147 Republican Senators and Congresspeople, including Ted Cruz, Jeff Hawley, and Jim Jordan as ringleaders, went along with this fake electors charade–with the attempt to get the actually electors’ ballots thrown out and the whole thing sent back to state legislatures to decide, which would have overturned the election and given it to Trump. So, those people were CO-CONSPIRATORS in an attempt to overthrow the elected government of the United States, and they will never be charged with any crime.
Your “Just Us” system at work.
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Josh Hawley
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Remember when people were more upset about January 6, even many Republicans?
It’s practically forgotten since then by all the Republicans who have fallen in line behind Trump – including Nikki Haley. And the so-called liberal news media barely reminds Americans about Jan. 6 anymore. They say it’s because “we already know”, but the message that near-erasure of January 6 as one of the most dangerous times for out country gives to UNDECIDED voters is that January 6 is old news, not important, even the liberal media knows it should not be relevant to how they report on Trump or how undecided voters choose a candidate. After all, the Republicans say it doesn’t matter, so no one can say whether January 6 is something undecided voters should consider.
Reporting on these kinds of “new” statements by Trump is important, because it gives a “news” hook to report on Trump’s past history. It gives validity to why Trump’s past is relevant to this election, and is not “old news” that should no longer be mentioned when reporting on Trump.
This news clip definitely confirms that Trump is a threat to democracy. His telling ANY voters that they only have to vote one more election is outrageous.
I don’t get why anyone thinks this is normal:
“In four years you don’t have to vote, ok? In four years don’t vote, I don’t care. But we’ll have it all straightened out, so it’ll be much different.”
WE’LL HAVE IT ALL STRAIGHTENED OUT?? WTH?
What does that mean, flerp!, “all straightened out” so that the Christians don’t have to vote anymore?
What exactly do you think Trump means when he tells voters WE’LL HAVE IT ALL STRAIGHTENED OUT?
Have you ever heard a Democrat telling voters they only have to vote one election and it will be “all straightened out”? The outcry would be tremendous.
flerp!, why are you critical of the media for not ignoring this? Why do you think this should be played down?
This video clip isn’t being “twisted and misrepresented”. You are doing that yourself when you have invented out of whole cloth a scenario where Christians rarely vote and so Trump just wants to get these Christians to vote to only vote this one year. You are the one twisting Trump’s statement into something normal.
“I don’t need to twist and misrepresent video clips to get new evidence of his threat to democracy every day. I remember January 6.”
YOU may remember January 6, but the polls show that many voters no longer do. Why are you twisting what Trump said to support the right wing narrative that the media is wrong to finally mention the unmentionable — what Trump wants for the country?
January 6 was an attempt to takeover our democracy. Trump said the quiet part out loud in this speech. There is no reason to twist what Trump said as if it is the normal sentiment expressed by politicians. It isn’t. Politicians don’t tell voters they only have to vote in one election and it will be all straightened out (unless the Dems find a way to thwart the attempt to end democracy, in which case the Christians will have to come out and vote again – 3rd times the charm, I guess?)
In a democracy, it is not normal to tell people that they only have to vote in one election because “WE’LL HAVE IT ALL STRAIGHTENED OUT”. Period.
It’s incredible that folks are twisting and misrepresenting that into something normal. Because supposedly Christians always stay home instead of voting.
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Curious, what’s the evidence that voters have forgotten about January 6?
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Robert stated “Josh Hawley”.
Now, now Bob, don’t go using that kind of language on this blog. We’re supposed to keep it civil here. ;- 0
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Oh, I think we need to take him at his word. He would love nothing better than to be Dictator for Life
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I didn’t know you were fluent in German as well as Spanish
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Ha ha ha ha!! German on my dad’s side, but I don’t know any German at all.
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