Women of MN - What do you like about Trump?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/live-update/election-news-2024/where-trump-stands-on-abortion

Nov 5, 2024 9:05 PM EST
Where Trump stands on abortion
By Erica R. Hendry
During his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump said “you have to ban” abortion and advocated for “some form of punishment” for women who get illegal abortions. A major part of his campaign platform in 2016 was to appoint Supreme Court justices to overturn Roe, which became reality in 2022.
In 2024, Trump has said in interviews that states with abortion bans have a right to monitor pregnancies and prosecute violations. The former president is also open to restricting access to abortion pills, like mifepristone.
Trump has pledged to:
Veto a 15-week national abortion ban, which multiple members of his party and the anti-abortion movement support.
Allow states to restrict abortion access.

Well, this is depressing as hell. #slitswriststhatwomensupportembryosratherthanexistingwomen

Whats wrong with immigration?

I like that he'd be a lot tougher on immigration than the democrats are.

I'm not a massive fan of him though he acts like a complete clown sometimes haha

What's to like?

He has no policies. He doesn't care about anyone or anything, except himself. His so called opinions are all fluff, recommended by his advisers so he would have something to say when on stage. Even then he can barely get the words out and can't remember what he was supposed to talk about, even when asked a direct question.

The reason "his opinions" are not at the tip of his tongue is because they are not at the forefront of his mind. With him what you see/hear is what you get, a head full of saw dust. Those who can't see it are willfully ignorant.

Trump is a true grandiose narcissist. The only reason he even went to that McDonald's kitchen is because he could not handle that Harris was getting props for having worked at a McDonalds once.

Did people forget that he literally shoved people out of the way for foto ops? Or that he had the secret service do it for him?

Unfortunately there are no circumstances in which I can be okay with a baby being killed even where the mother’s life is in danger. If a woman will die or be seriously harmed if she remains pregnant, labour should be induced, the baby delivered, and given every chance to survive if past viability. If the baby was killed first, it would still need to be delivered, whether vaginally or by c-section.

There is nothing in Trump that I like

@batt3nb3rg why homeschooling the norm? Who do you expect to do that?

I don't think the Dems are anything like extreme left. More, a bit left of the Republicans.

I don't think may people (men or women) like Trump, they had to vote for him because they did not like some of the extreme left views of the Democrats.

Excellent comment.

He appeals strongly to people who don't care about women and who believe the law is only there to hold them back.

They are not really his policies. They are the hooks dangled in front of the electorate.

His policy is as he stated in his victory speech - to remake the federal government.

The Health and Human Services dept and its agencies - the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration - are all in the crosshairs, as is the US Dept of Agriculture, which is the agency running food stamps and school meals. The ACA is in grave danger - affordable healthcare for millions is on the line.

The creeping influence - the power grab - of Elon Musk is something everyone should be terrified of. He is the real winner of this election, and has been very vocal about dismantling the federal workforce and the agencies, enriching himself beyond imagination, and Trump has welcomed him into the centre of the fold.

The withdrawal from Afghanistan and how it was handled actually lies at the feet of both Republicans and Democrats.

So not just Biden. Trump wasn't a great peacemaker by any stretch of the imagination.

Me too. How utterly grim to think this way and admit it

I personally think people have had enough of identity politics and just want politicians to get on with dealing with the very real life problems in front of us and this might be a bit of wake up call.

Abortion is a very important subject for women of childbearing age but the people it doesn’t directly affect are most probably more invested in things like the economy and fuel prices etc.

You must know it’s happened already? One mother died with a wanted pregnancy.

another young woman visited three hospitals who wouldn’t touch her as the fetus had a heartbeat. She died of sepsis.

Why would you induce birth with a baby who is before viability! They can’t live!

I'm British not American and I don't really have a full view of American politics.

I also agree young men turned out in record numbers and swing the vote, but some women must support him.

Trying to find positives

Last time he was in power a lot of wars that were brewing didn't happen and I didn't like the way Biden pulled out of Afghanistan.

I also felt that all that crap about Biden being fine health wise would have made my distrustful of that party.

My understanding is trumps ideas on immigration and taxation are very popular with working poor.

I dont think I would have voted for him as lots of his policies don't chime with my world view

It's also fair that just because I think abortion is a women's rights issue, plenty of women in the states are religious. I mean there's all those amish, Mormons and lots more catholics than England.

I thought that was China

@batt3nb3rg
You're 'obviously' entirely ignorant about your own stance.

This teenager in Texas died with blood streaming from her nose and mouth when doctors were legally prohibited from giving her lifesaving healthcare during an abortion

Nothing, absolutely nothing. I would never have voted for him.

Couldn't agree more!!! The irony of these people to refer to themselves as 'pro-life' when they're happy for a grown adults woman to lose her life is baffling to me 🤯

It's pro-control!

Literally nothing. Horrible man.

Homeschooling as a rule? Why?

I guess it's one way to keep women at home 🙄

Ive only read the first page of this rather shocking thread

I have no idea why we align ourselves, or try to, socially, culturally, politically sometimes with this banana republic in all but name

The way people think and frame the world over there is so far removed from what I see as British values that I have no idea why we think we have or should have a special relatinship with them (which I know was all spin anyway)

Its as bizarre as if we kept hearing, promoting, simulating Russian political culture and current affairs. I see america as alien to me as somewhere like that.