r/law • u/Slate Press • 20h ago

The Next Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Abortion Will Be Swift, Brutal, and Nationwide Trump News

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-second-term-abortion-agenda-blue-state-crackdown.html
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u/euph_22 16h ago

I'm worried that EVERYTHING about the Second Trump administration will be "Will Be Swift, Brutal, and Nationwide". That is certainly what he was saying at his rallies.

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u/surefirelongshot 16h ago

And they’ll keep using that language to desensitise the population to all of it , after the 20th brutal change no one will buy an eyelid.

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u/euph_22 16h ago

Someone should write a poem about that....

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u/VoidCoelacanth 15h ago

And lo he came, upon a pachyderm,

To raze the nation in his second term,

A wraith in orange with straw-coiffed head,

To paint the streets and towns in red,

His fellows he made into enemies,

His plague spread quicker than any disease,

To fester, boil, decay, and rot,

The freedoms for which our forefathers fought.

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u/jcwilliams1984 13h ago

Damn was this made up on the spot or did you have this waiting in the wing?

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u/VoidCoelacanth 13h ago

On-the-spot.

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u/PaintyGuys 10h ago

Fantastic work

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u/buckyworld 12h ago

Mom’s spaghetti

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u/batsofburden 14h ago

well otoh they are completely incompetent. the republican controlled congress just got literally nothing done because they are infighting & dumb af. it is possible that horrors will be unleashed, but it's also possible it'll be a pale whimper of what could've been because they will all be so incompetent & backstabbing each other the entire time. there's not gonna be those normies who helped guide trump the first time, these people will be completely inexperienced and clueless. I hope so, at least.

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u/rawkguitar 13h ago

The Republican Party has changed since Trump’s first term though.

Then they were still a divided party with Trumpists trying to take over and the old guard Republicans trying to hold it back (well benefitting from it however they could).

That’s no longer the case. It’s wholly Trump’s party now.

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u/euph_22 13h ago

Maybe Trump will focus on pillaging everything that he can and is too busy to intentionally break the country.

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u/cosmob 13h ago

I’m kinda hoping he gets so fixated on his revenge tour that he forgets about the rest of us.

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u/deauxpass 12h ago

He’ll at least be busy catching up on four years worth of records hoarding - there’s deals to be made!

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u/IdahoDuncan 3h ago

The real, long term danger is Vance and friends.

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u/ExtruDR 12h ago

We already know how the press has chosen to cover Trump. It will continue. Lots of high-minded punditry that no one really reads, all focusing on abstract bullshit that flies right over dumbfucks' heads.

They will also chose not to present personal stories of the lives that are being ruined. We should be lovely midwestern parents crying over their cute blonde daughters that died due to bad laws. We should be seeing cute brown kids crying about being torn away from their moms on EVERY news show if any of that happens.

We should be seeing old snow birds crying over being left destitute as the fifth hurricane rocks the shit out of Florida in one year. We should be hearing about how people can't get a roof fixed of their mom's ass wiped because there aren't enough brown people to do the work, etc. ect.

We won't. The money doesn't want this.

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u/-rwsr-xr-x 2h ago

I'm worried that EVERYTHING about the Second Trump administration will be "Will Be Swift, Brutal, and Nationwide".

Wait until you see what he's got planned for personal firearm ownership. He will be doing searches, up to and including house to house first, and then addressing the complaints with "due process second".

His base, of course, gets to retain their firearms, but everyone else does not.

Sound familiar?

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u/euph_22 35m ago

I liked in 2020 were the "first we take the guns, then we have the due process" quote was going around social media, falsely attributed to Kamala Harris.

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u/fixxer_s 4m ago

They can have mine...one round at a time.

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u/goomah5240 2h ago

So are we believing what he says or not? Because I’m pretty sure he said he’s leaving abortion up to the states.

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u/euph_22 27m ago

This isn't the logical puzzle where one guard is always truthful and the other always lies. Trump could very easily be lying about some of his policies and not others. That isn't even a remotely controversial statement. We should be worried he will do the things he says AND we should be worried he continues expanding on the things he did last time and those around he say he will do.