before people get all "this isn't going to stand up," he knows this the game here is clearly (imo) to give the (not terribly informed on how ratifying things works) public the view that all this trad/misogynist shit is in fact illegal, to create an *understanding women have rights* - ThreadSky

eleanor.lockhart.contact • 45 days ago

before people get all "this isn't going to stand up," he knows this

the game here is clearly (imo) to give the (not terribly informed on how ratifying things works) public the view that all this trad/misogynist shit is in fact illegal, to create an *understanding women have rights*

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BIDEN IS A GOOD PRESIDENT WHO IS, EVEN NOW, STILL DOING GOOD THINGS.

Biden says Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, kicking off expected legal battle as he pushes through final executive actions

www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/p...

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lacrunk.bsky.social•44 days ago

srs respons, you have the clearest take on this and I subscribe to it wholeheartedly

The Equal Rights Act was ratified. I dare anyone to explain to my why it wasn’t. If it’s violated, I will fucking howl.

lacrunk.bsky.social•44 days ago

Ratifying things is like when you control them by tugging on the hair

I don’t know why Biden thought that would work but maybe it will? I’m treating it like a weapon either way

mikewasson.net•45 days ago

i want to believe, but i think it would show more faith in the underlying concept if he didn't do it on the last day of business before he's gone

mikewasson.net•45 days ago

he isn't even recommending/ordering the national archivist update their prevision decision

it's going to be very easy to spike this for technical, not substantive, reasons--technical reasons I don't agree with, but still. SCOTUS'll say "sorry, time expired, just reratify it" and nothing will happen

eleanor.lockhart.contact•45 days ago

it's not about trying to actually pass the ERA, it's about, again, creating the perception of what rights people have, again, in a public that isn't very informed and he knows this and we all know it

mikewasson.net•45 days ago

I think I understand your argument, I just don't believe it's going to have that effect; there's a lot of space for republicans to nod sadly and say it can't be helped--and if anything, dems did it wrong!--which is enough for an environment of low information cynical people

eleanor.lockhart.contact•45 days ago

it's not about Dems. It's about us.

like, collectively. He's asking *us* to make this part of the platform going forward

mikewasson.net•45 days ago

Hrm…maybe. I think I could see how it could work, or at least as a Hail Mary there’s not much downside. I’ll chew on it.

romwriteenable.bsky.social•45 days ago

he's also giving the incoming folks a mess, a lot of people aren't going to get beyond "trump is trying to get rid of a constitutional amendment on his first day"

eleanor.lockhart.contact•45 days ago

let me do the abusive family metaphor, this is mom who has to hand over custody to dad saying we get to have x so that dad has to take away x, after noticing that dad had been making progress convincing some of us that it's ok he hits us because he also is going to raise our allowance supposedly

czhorat.bsky.social•45 days ago

This is a low bar, bur in one term Biden might be the best president within my memory.

Obama gave us the ACA, but not that much else and got way bogged down in the Tea Party battle.

Clinton gave us FMLA, but also DADT and got himself impeached.

The others I remember are Reagan, Bushx2, DJT.

czhorat.bsky.social•45 days ago

I was almost 8 when Reagan was elected, so don't have a real memory of Carter.

The Biden presidency was almost miraculously restorative from the Trump years and far more progressive than I'd have expected of him.

He left the country better off, even if we can't see it.

chbarts.bsky.social•45 days ago

And Clinton's impeachment was a masterstroke of the Republicans turning nothing into something that almost looked like a controversy. (Yes, *now* Clinton would be reviled for abusing his office. Believe me, nobody saw it that way back then. Him lying was the main point of contention.)

czhorat.bsky.social•45 days ago

You're not wrong on either part of that.

I was a Reoublican back then (I got better) and even I thought it was a stupid prosecution.

Ironically, today I more align with Clinton's political values and see his actions re: Lewinsky more wrong.

chbarts.bsky.social•45 days ago

Yeah, the Republicans fell into doing the right thing for the wrong reason, in that abuse of an office to have sex is, in fact, an abuse of the office, and should be impeachable, but goddamn the Republicans didn't see it that way at the time and we do *not* have to hand it to them.

foghorn453.bsky.social•45 days ago

Even on its own terms, Starr was tasked with figuring out if Vince Foster committed suicide. (He did.) $70 million later, the Starr Report recommended impeachment of Clinton for lying to the FBI about his affair with Lewinsky. Starr, of course, is a Federalist Society hack who knew the assignment.

chbarts.bsky.social•45 days ago

Yes! It was a massive fishing expedition and almost nobody remembers that.

And some GOPpers still believe in the Clinton Death List.

foghorn453.bsky.social•45 days ago

John Durham was tasked with finding out which FBI officials improperly spied on Donald Trump’s campaign and ended up charging a few people for lying to the FBI. He understood his assignment, but wasn’t as successful.

wanderlib.bsky.social•45 days ago

I'll defend Clinton on DADT.

It sucked, but ending the witch hunts for queer personnel was a good thing. Very much a "necessary, but not sufficient" move.

I won't defend his personal malfeasance, though. No one can.

astruckpersonn.bsky.social•45 days ago

it was literally an improvement in gay rights

wanderlib.bsky.social•45 days ago

Yep.

It's not great that "be closeted at work and we don't care" was an improvement. But it was an improvement nonetheless.

czhorat.bsky.social•45 days ago

That's a very fair point.

drewweisserman.bsky.social•45 days ago

Yeah, I’m with you. That might be an indictment of past presidents more than praise of the current one, but Biden has been the best president in my Gen Z ass’ lifetime, full stop.

leahaviv.bsky.social•44 days ago

I can accept this take. Thanks.

thegrilledhamm.bsky.social•44 days ago

I see my orders, and I am ready to drag the whole Republican Party for this when they start stonewalling it.

eleanor.lockhart.contact•45 days ago

in other words, Dark Brandon has just made an effort to start the next wave of feminism

myhist.bsky.social•44 days ago

During that period "it won't stand up" are weeks of great politics, people picking the wrong side, GOP looking like "you can't do this" ninnies.

and a great dissent by Jackson that gets picked up later in a moment of reason.

neuroticlesbian.bsky.social•45 days ago

I don’t think it’ll work but sure

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mike10010100.bsky.social•45 days ago

It drastically increases the chances of it working if we *believe it will work* and keep that momentum going.

eleanor.lockhart.contact•45 days ago

I'm gonna be realistic that i don't think the ERA will be treated as ratified, but this will create, among other things, grounds for people in sympathetic blue states to demand equivalent policies from their states, and a perception that misogynist laws are illegitimate

mike10010100.bsky.social•45 days ago

Exactly. By "it will work" I meant more of the kicking off the next wave, not the actual ratification process.

lunacinnic.bsky.social•45 days ago

If it crowds other things out of headlines and occupies some of the government’s time, that is useful, too

eleanor.lockhart.contact•45 days ago

it's very clear that we're basically in a vibes war as well as a culture war; the ERA *should have been ratified by reasonable standards*, there probably is a technicality that means it isn't and the legal establishment believes that, but, as we've noted, americans generally aren't legal geniuses

neuroticlesbian.bsky.social•45 days ago

Well they’re not gonna listen to women! We saw that happen!

mike10010100.bsky.social•45 days ago

Exactly. And it's better to force the issue onto the Trump admin and SCOTUS to *force* them to make the argument that women don't deserve equal rights because of bullshit time limit nonsense.

ajaxsinger.bsky.social•45 days ago

At the very least it forces the fuckers to *prove* it hasn't been ratified which means an extended court battle and the eventual creation of new jurisprudence that holds up congress' right to put time limits on Amendment ratification. The legal battle will be its own rallying cry.

executiveotaku.bsky.social•45 days ago

It seems to be their eleventh hour tactics. There have been lots of criminal and regulatory cases launched in the past few weeks, from right to repair laws to sanctions on Russia.

Either the Trump admin lets these obvious things proceed or they have to be seen to block them and pay the price.

darthhippy.bsky.social•45 days ago

The question for me is, Does the Trump admin care about the political price if they feel like they can tell and not listen?

wanderlib.bsky.social•45 days ago

Making someone shut things down still takes effort.

This is like running through an office building before you are evicted, turning every light switch on.

Even if people outside don't pay attention to the lights, someone still has to shut them off.

executiveotaku.bsky.social•45 days ago

They might not care but it won't matter what they think of it in the next election, the next poll, the next protest, the next court case.

None of those things are surefire fixes individually but every bit of support or resources they lose helps degrade their efforts.

eleanor.lockhart.contact•45 days ago

I don't even like this scene very much but it's this, come on people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-asb8zTiuZ4

astruckpersonn.bsky.social•45 days ago

“freedom is a pure idea. it occurs spontaneously, without instruction” and “there are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause” are baller lines

darthhippy.bsky.social•45 days ago

Heck yeah. I mean if we can't vote them out because the DOGE becomes permanent then well. We can talk about those adjustments when we get there.

pitaenigma.bsky.social•45 days ago

Listen here, Jack, we're gonna start respecting women around here, all right?

srslymagenta.bsky.social•44 days ago

"We just do that here, respect all genders equally. That includes everybody. It's a very old law, no big deal, just became a Constitutional Amendment." (Sits back in sunglasses and smiles, knowing he just changed history for good)

srslymagenta.bsky.social•44 days ago

This is SUCH A GOOD!!! it also has potential to thwart a lot of bad. Spectacular!

drewweisserman.bsky.social•45 days ago

Hell yeah. I wish this had been done 3.5 years ago, but this is a huge move regardless.

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