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  Like Democrats and gun control, which caused the loss of the House.
context: Those midterms were not bruising enough. >
  
  No they weren't, many were razor-thin margins. It's a damn good thing that the GOP is a hair better than the Dems at shooting themselves in the foot. >
  
  The thing about that is, by several measures, the republicans should’ve swept congress up. Between the gerrymandering, ownership of many crucial roles in state governments, and the midterm schlacking every dem pres seems to receive after their first two years, the fact that they didn’t even fully take congress, even if by razor thin margins, is a disaster for them. >
  
  Ya if it's even close to the same environment in 2024 they are fucked and they know it because a new voting rights act will destroy all their gerrymandering. >
  
  Wouldn't the House (and Senate, but the House'll be held by the GOP) need to pass a new voting rights act? Or did they pass one and I missed it? >
  
  As I recall, the House tried by passing it and it died in the Senate. >
  
  The House will deliberately pass bills knowing the Senate won't pass them. Too many corporate shills in Congress. If it weren't for Biden getting on their asses all the time they wouldn't have passed ANYTHING. >
  
  The only thing the House is planning to do for the next two years is attack Biden. Because somehow that'll lower inflation and crime. 🤷‍♂️  The WH is already hiring lawyers in preparation that's how little of a secret it is. >
  
  Strategy??
  "The people don't want to ban abortions"
  "I know, but how do we make them THINK they want to ban abortions?" >
  
  Invent terms like “partial birth abortion,” and pretend they’re commonly used by irresponsible hussies and evil devil worshiping democrats and ignore the fact that they’re one of the rarest forms of abortion that’s almost exclusively performed when a woman’s life is in danger or the fetus is no longer viable. It’s actually an effective strategy to get votes. The problem is when you get enough votes to create change, the change reveals the lie. >
  
  Go further, actually. Keep spreading stories about “a new law” democrats are trying to pass that allows children up to X months after birth to be killed.
  Watched that one happen in my family idk how many times at this point.
  “No literally no one wants that what the fuck?” They don’t care. It validates their hate of dems. >
  
  How is it that the same argument in the opposite direction does not work ?
  "You want to force women to marry their rappist."
  "You prefer that a woman dies because her foetus has a medical condition than abort her. It is just murder at this point." >
  
  Republicans are good at victim blaming. The replies to your questions would be
  "What was she wearing?"
  And
  "Should have kept her legs closed." >
  
  True. Sad though. >
  
  Minding their own business would be a good strategy. >
  
  They’re incapable of this. >
  
  How does one classify a "deeply held moral or religious belief" as something that can be altered for strategic use...
  ...l mean, unless of course it ISN'T a deeply held moral or religious belief by the person making the claim.
  I'm sure that's just me being cynical on acold Thursday morning and not at all the modus operandi of Republican politicians. >
  
  I find it interesting that this party has a greater hand in creating the welfare state it so heavily rejects by floating legislation and political agendas that encourage the birth of more unwanted children.
  Guess it's God's Will™! >
  
  They don't dislike welfare, they dislike having to give welfare money to poor people. They will happily spend it on all kinds of things including giving it to a rich former NFL player to build a volleyball stadium for his daughter.
  There is an ongoing effort on the part of republicans to switch to a Block Grant approach for welfare. As it currently stands the Federal Government has rules on how it can be spent. Republicans claim the rules don't allow for the states to craft spending on local needs...which is really just code for "we would like to decide how to spend the money wealthier states are giving us for our poor without any pesky oversight, but you can totally trust that we will spend your money on only the very needy it is intended for because that is currently what we do...even though we don't." >
  
  Welfare should go to poor people. Full stop.
  'financial support given to those in need.' is the textbook definition. I know the Rs wont abide by that since they live in a whole other reality or whatever. >
  
  A rising tide lifts all boats.  
  Helping people out of poverty means more educated people, more healthy and successful children, more money going into the economy.  It means people get a chance to reach their potential and do good for others through a career they might not have been able to access, for instance.  Welfare and other social safety nets benefit our whole population. >
  
  If you have an ectopic pregnancy in Tennessee right now they will literally let you die in your hospital bed. Unless you can make it to Illinois in time to be successfully treated it is a death sentence. And Republicans think this is a "messaging" problem. >
  
  The messaging problem is the one where they fail to listen to reason. >
  
  There is a branch within the conservative movement rejects the enlightenment and liberal values, so yes, there are those that literally reject reason in order to embrace faith. >
  
  “Republicans think about lying about their stances on abortion to try to appeal to citizens now that they got what they wanted from scotus”
  This is like claiming that the reconstruction era was filled with confederates trying to right their wrongs >
  
  
  Republicans are recalibrating their messaging on abortion...
  
  No, they don't get to rethink something that's already been implemented. The damage is done and the Republican's did it. The women who's lives have been drastically changed due to the Republican's wedge issue cannot recalibrate. 
  Republican's have demonstrated they want to legislate women's bodies, our bedrooms, and our relationships according to the rules they pick and choose from  their bronze age religion. They will govern us back to the 1600s with their push for an American theocracy; that is who they are. >
  
  It's already their brand.
  They can't abort it. >
  
  Best strategy? Their best strategy now is hoping the Dems screw up so bad, Dems don't vote. The GOP overplayed their hand.  When you trigger the youth vote, you done messed up. They'll never get those voters as they age, at least not easily. >
  
  I think the subtle, very good shift that has occurred in the general public's mind is that Republicans went from the stability guys to the instability guys, and there's simply no way of fixing it without reducing the Republican Party to just George Will, more or less. >
  
  Yea, they definitely got over confident that no matter what they do, they'll win and voters don't care. They really doubled down on the being an unapologetic asshole routine that that's all people associate them with, not policy, not family values, and definitely not stability. 
  They have major hurdles with that aging base and the fact that other minority groups aren't shifting over in droves. >
  
  Who'd have thunk that saying 10-year-old rape victims should be thankful for the blessing of having to not only give birth to but raise their rapists baby, women suffering from non-viable, life-threatening pregnancies can die, and that the answer to abortion is forcing more women to give birth so that affluent families will have babies to adopt isn't a winning strategy.
  Remember right after the Dobbs decision, when the entire Republican party gleefully entered the race to the bottom of just how cruel the party can be by trying to top each other with ideas of how to speedrun their way to the handmaid's tale?  
  Next year when those same Republicans suddenly become a lot more moderate on abortion, the mass media needs to dig up those clips of them cheering on the idea of 10-year-olds being forced to give birth and cram it right down their throats.
  I know it won't happen.  It should, but it won't. A man can dream, right? >
  
  Desantis is aiming for a full 6 week abortion ban without exception for rape or incest. 
  They are going to go much further. 
  They are going to go after birth control and title 9. >
  
  They're Republicans. They will double and triple down, they can't help themselves. >
  
  They will do what it takes to get elected >
  
  But that's the thing
  A significant portion of their voters have banning abortion as their #1 goal.  If Republicans back off, those voters won't be Dems, they'll just not vote.
  Republicans are a very loose coalition of a lot of people that care about one or two issues and almost nothing else.
  That's why the party is like a dog chasing a car.  They're fine as long as the car is moving.  But when it stops and the dog "catches" it, the dog has no fucking clue what to do. >
  
  “It was probably a bigger factor than a lot of people thought,” McDaniel said in an interview earlier this month with radio talk show host John Catsimatidis. “We’ve got to get conversant on that.”
  Conversant = come up with better lies, get elected, and continue to increase restrictions on abortion. >
  
  It's our personal rights that the "Big Government GOP doesn't get.  Stay out of our bedroom, stay out of our bodies and stay away from telling us who we can love.  Stop the constant lying to us.  Stop supporting Fascist Authoritarian leaders. >
  
  Well, clearly the issue is women voting, so they will probably set their sights on repealing women's suffrage next.  
  /s, but not really. >
  
  Sounds like they are trying to come up with creative phrases and sound bites to fool independent voters who support abortion rights into thinking they really arent trying to ban ALL abortion. See? They left in a 3 week eye-of-a-needle exception for under 10 year olds who get raped by a family member. >
  
  Non family members.
  If its the weirdo uncle expect to carry that child >
  
  They don't really care about abortions or any of this bullshit, power, money and votes are all they care about period. >
  
  Conservative are really out of step on this issue ...its to late >
  
  Republicans stand for nothing and their voters fall for everything. >
  
  Not so fast….consistently changing your hard stance on what you thought would get you votes after finding out it does the opposite, that’s a big NO.  Republicans want power - period.  They stand for NOTHING >
  
  Haven't heard them pushing the whole "post-birth abortion" thing in a while. Guess they finally figured out that murder is already illegal in every state? >
  
  The only strategy republicans know is to double down >
  
  So their strategy will be to push the unpopular topic even harder.