Sanders is unlikely to tap Warren as running mate, not out of disrespect, but because both are over 70 white liberal New England senators. I can't see Democrats running an all white ticket and if 78 year old Sanders is the nominee he'll want a younger Veep. I still think Stacy Abrams is a leading choice, although if Sanders had trouble in California he could pick Kamala Harris.
Feeding the hungry will be a growth industry if you get your way,
@ABM. Do they ever talk about how Trump's cuts to the SNAP program and the Women Infants Children food aid has made them hungrier? Or how making it harder to get disability will cause some to lose their only income? Or the impact of his proposed trillion dollar cut to Social Security and Medicare on hunger in America? Or of family separation? Forced pregnancy? Are any formerly incarcerated? Do they wonder why they paid for their misdeeds but Trump says he is above the law? Do they wonder why the rich need another trillion dollar tax cut while they lose their tiny services? Or do you just hand out bibles and MAGA hats with a bowl of soup?
A woman wrote an op-ed recently in the New York Times after Trump, who tried unsuccessfully to force his second wife to have an abortion, asked what kind of monster would have a third trimester abortion. She said she had done so when tests late in pregnancy showed the fetus had no neurological connections. The parts of the brain were there but there was no function. As in zero. Unable to function on the most basic animal level, let alone human. The article resulted in a lot of letters. Most were sympathetic; a few called her baby killer and said their god wanted her to carry to term. (So easy to say your god wants someone else to suffer!) Some of the opposed letters deliberately misconstrued as simply a handicapped child. The heartbreaker was from a woman who said that test was not available when she was pregnant and her son was born with that condition. He can't see, hear, speak, is incapable of purposeful movement. Some profoundly intellectually disabled people still have enough awareness to have an emotional tie with their care givers; he has none. Her marriage broke up under pressure of caring for him although she and her ex still share responsibility. Neither remarried or had other children. Because of the demands of his care, neither has ever taken a vacation and they have no social life. They put him in a wheel chair in the morning. He is fed through a tube since he can't chew and swallow. He sits all day drooling as he has no muscle control. They put him to bed at night. The real gut punch: he is 47 years old. Assuming the parents were at least 20 when he was born, they are now pushing 70 or older. Their whole adult lives have been in a prison of full time caring for someone less responsive than a potted plant. The kind of person Trump thinks it's funny to publicly mock and ridicule. Presumably ABM thinks that's just dandy. Hey, if they worship the same way he does maybe they will go to heaven. (Although if they aren't his religion they just face even more hell, correct?)
ABM references himself as happily married. Got any daughters? If, heaven forbid, your 11 year old daughter was raped and pregnant, could you be hateful enough to tell this actually born suffering child while she sobbed and pleaded and begged you not to force her to carry the pregnancy that she is just an incubator for a rapist's sperm? Or that if she wasn't such a slut she wouldn't have gotten raped? Trump clearly loves cruelty, he's a schoolyard bully who gets off on other people's suffering. And having been a clinic escort it seems that is a trait shared by most of the anti-choice activists.
There are few things that piss me off more than a bunch of smug self-righteous sanctimonious men sticking their noses in the air and talking about how awesome it is for them to force their will on women's bodies either by physical force or by passing law after law. I swear I sometimes just want to slice off their .... noses....
