Saturday, Convicted Felon Donald Trump spent time speaking in North Carolina to insist he wasn't weird: "JD and I are not weird. We've got a lot of problems but we're not weird." When you're 43 days away from the election and you're speaking in a state you carried in 2016 and 2020 and having to reassure voters that you're not "weird," you're weird and have a great deal more problems than just your weirdness. Looking sweaty and fatter than usual, Donald offered nothing of value making it just one more representative campaign stop for the convicted felon.
Savannah Kuchar (USA TODAY) reports Donald went on TV today and acknowledged that, if he lost, he would not run again in 2024. Of course, he won't. Marcia's not a psychic but she's repeatedly explained that defeating Donald this year means being done with him.
Why? He's already too damn old to be president. He's 78 right now and that's already too old to be running for president.
In other news, a Michigan mayor, Amer Ghalib, endorsed Donald Trump today. Amer is a raging homophobe. He shares that with MAGA and that's why he is their precious token. It's not just banning pride flags, he also had a hissy fit over a Labor Day parade last year -- and he was too much of a little bitch to walk in the parade -- as every other mayor had done -- and had to participate via a ride in a SUV. His endorsement is as meaningless as his entire life.
Meanwhile Mark Murray (NBC NEWS) reports:
A double-digit increase in popularity, rising Democratic enthusiasm and an early edge for representing “change” have vaulted Vice President Kamala Harris forward and reshuffled the 2024 presidential contest, according to a new national NBC News poll.
With just over six weeks until Election Day, the poll finds Harris with a 5-point lead over former President Donald Trump among registered voters, 49% to 44%. While that result is within the margin of error, it’s a clear shift from July’s poll, when Trump was ahead by 2 points before President Joe Biden’s exit.
While Donald spent the weekend attempting to reassure voters that he wasn't "weird," Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris was addressing issues that effect the people. Julia Conley (COMMON DREAMS) reports:
Speaking at a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris paid tribute to two women from the state whose deaths have been deemed by health experts as "preventable" and the result of the state's six-week abortion ban.
Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller, said the Democratic presidential candidate, are doubtlessly just two of many people who have died because they couldn't access abortion care since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade—and she blamed former Republican President Donald Trump for their deaths.
"This is a healthcare crisis and Donald Trump is the architect of this crisis," said Harris. "He brags about overturning Roe v. Wade. In his own words, quote, 'I did it and I'm proud to have done it.'"
"He is proud? Proud that women are dying?" she said. "Proud that doctors and nurses could be thrown in prison for administering care? Proud that today, young women have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers? How dare he."
Stepping out of the line of fire when people are rude
Cheap stuff made in China, someone calls it a sale
Somebody's mama, somebody's daughter
Somebody's jail
Beat down in the market, stoned to death in the plaza
Raped on the hillside under the gun from LA to Gaza
A house made of cardboard living close to the rail
Somebody's mama, somebody's daughter
Somebody's jail
And I feel the witch in my veins
I feel the mother in my shoe
I feel the scream in my soul
The blood as I sing the ancient blue
They burned in the millions
I still smell the fire in my grandma's hair
The war against women rages on
Beware of the fairytale
Somebody's mama, somebody's daughter
Somebody's jail
The noise of elections, the promise of change
A grabbing of power at the top, a day at the rifle range
Somebody's in danger, somebody's for sale
Somebody's mama, somebody's daughter
Somebody's jail
Thursday, Sarah Sanbar (Human Rights Watch) noted:
At 9 years old, a girl should be in primary school. She is not old enough to drive a car, vote or hold a job, but according to some Iraqi lawmakers, she is old enough to be in a wedding dress.
Despite widespread protest and condemnation in Iraq, some Iraqi parliament members continue to try to push forward an amendment that would upend the country's Personal Status Law. In effect, it could legalize child marriage for girls as young as 9 and boys as young as 15, undermine the principle of equality before the law and remove protections for women regarding divorce and inheritance.
This amendment is the latest in a series of attacks by certain political leaders in Iraq against women's rights and gender equality issues. Already, they have succeeded in criminalizing homosexuality, banning use of the word "gender" and stalling passage of a draft domestic violence law. These attacks have forced Iraqi women's rights activists to defend the limited rights they already have, instead of pushing for more.
Iraq's Personal Status Law, which governs matters of marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance for Muslims in Iraq, was considered one of the most progressive in the region at the time of its adoption in 1959, and it still is today. It was the result of negotiations within the nascent Iraqi state between women's groups and anti-imperialist factions, mobilizing against the vestiges of British colonial rule, who wanted one unifying law for all citizens regardless of gender, sect or religion, and certain religious factions, who wanted each sect to govern its own personal status affairs.
The compromise was a civil law rooted in interpretations of Islamic law agreed upon by both Sunni and Shia Islamic scholars that would apply to all Iraqi Muslims regardless of their sect.
Just one page long, the draft amendment now moving forward in Iraq's parliament would overturn this equilibrium entirely by allowing couples signing a marriage contract to choose whether the provisions of the Personal Status Law or the provisions of specific Islamic schools of jurisprudence would apply. Sect, not citizenship, would dictate which rights Iraqis are afforded in their personal life, effectively establishing separate legal regimes for different sects and further entrenching sectarianism in Iraq.
Article 14 of the Iraqi constitution, as well as international human rights law, guarantee all Iraqis the right to legal equality. This amendment would not just undermine this right; it would erase it.
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