Elizabeth Warren endorsing Hillary Clinton on The Rachel Maddow Show. Sorry, have you been creeping on my vision board or...? Credit: Screen shot via MSNBC
Elizabeth Warren endorsing Hillary Clinton on The Rachel Maddow Show. Sorry, have you been creeping on my vision board or...?
Elizabeth Warren endorsing Hillary Clinton on The Rachel Maddow Show. Sorry, have you been creeping on my vision board or…? MSNBC

That’s a headline I never thought I’d type outside of my own dreams. It’s been a busy week for presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Last night on The Rachel Maddow Show, Clinton was endorsed by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, and they both tweeted a “Delete your account” at Donald Trump. Someone is going to have to pick me up off the floor if this kind of DGAF feminist Avengers teamwork continues, because it’s a novel, weird feeling to see something you’ve hoped for forever finally take shape.

Clinton’s next move? Stating that so-called “women’s issues” will in fact be central to her campaign messaging in a speech given today at an event for Planned Parenthood. “Women’s issues” including abortion access. Here’s Time:

The speech was a departure for a major presidential candidate. Even Barack Obama, the only sitting president ever to address Planned Parenthood, did not say the word “abortion” when he gave an address on reproductive care access in 2013. In her speech Friday, Clinton said it 16 times.

16 times. Clinton used a word that even hard-left candidates often avoid. Please, tell me more about how this woman has no integrity!

In a week when an alleged rapist gets off easy, and another likely won’t even be prosecuted, when every day serves as a new reminder that we live in a world that devalues women if it doesn’t straight-up hate them, do you know what it’s like to hear the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, who also happens to be a woman, say the word “abortion” 16 fucking times in a speech, not like it’s a shameful scarlet letter, but what it is: a critical part of women’s health care and bodily autonomy?

I have been waiting to see a woman elected president since I was a wacky little kid sitting on my dad’s shoulders while holding a yard sign at a rally in Seattle for US Senator Patty Murray. I know I’m not alone. Feel however you want about Hillary Clinton, but if you can’t see the historical value of this moment, please save your “Actually” statements for Reddit. To many women and men I know, it means something when a liberal woman who’s poised to be our next commander in chief, freshly endorsed by one of the coolest people in Congress, says out loud that women’s reproductive rights matter. It’s both a natural extension of Clinton’s policy background and also something she likely wouldn’t have stated so plainly earlier in her career. There is a word for this, and that word is progress.

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  3. “Please, tell me more about how this woman has no integrity!” Well, if you insist.

    Takes millions in speaking fees from Wall Street while pretending to speak for the little people 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

    Says she doesn’t know what Bernie Sanders means by “the establishment”, says she’s not a part of it 1 2

    Transmitted classified intelligence over unsecured channels… 1 2 3 4 5 6

    … then joked during a press conference about wiping her server clean “with a cloth or something” 1

    … and laughs off everything she doesn’t want to talk about in general 1

    … including when she was asked by a reporter whether she would release the transcript from her paid speeches at Goldman Sachs 1

    Offered a Vermont newspapers off the record anti-Sanders tips 1 2

    Lies about her opponent’s health care program 1

    Is said, by an ex Wall Street trader with 20 years of experience, to have turned the Democratic Party “from a party against Wall Street to a party of Wall Street” 1

    Sends her daughter to lie about her opponent’s health care program 1

    … and to speak to NYC fundraisers hosted by Wall Street bankers, where attendees can “pay $2700 for a picture” with her 1

    Has a son-in-law who is an ex Goldman Sachs investment banker and hedgefund co-founder 1

    Voted for the invasion of Iraq 1

    Voted for the PATRIOT Act 1

    Voted for the 2006 renewal of the PATRIOT Act 1

    Questions her older opponent’s health while she was hospitalized for a concussion and a blood clot 3 years ago 1

    Voted for the 2001 Bankruptcy Legislation which would have made it harder for struggling Americans to declare bankruptcy, after expressing her opposition to the bill when she was First Lady 1

    Believed that marriage was defined as between a man and woman and reversed her position only in 2013 when it became politically convenient 1

    Received millions in shady donations for her foundation while she was Secretary of State… 1

    … the same foundation whose donors got weapons deals when she was Secretary of State 1

    Makes her fans wait hours for a five-minute speech… 1

    … while she gives closed doors fundraisers for rich donors 1 2 3

    Is the first presidential candidate in History to be under investigation by the FBI during a campaign 1 2

    Pretends to speak for the black community when she campaigned for Barry Goldwater back in the ’60s, who was fighting against civil rights 1

    Led a legislative campaign against video games in 2005, by pushing for the Family Entertainment Protection Act, which would have criminalized the sale of games rated “Mature” or “Adults Only” to minors, arguing that “violent video games are stealing the innocence of our children” 1 2 3 4

    Doesn’t support clemency for Edward Snowden 1

    Wants a “Manhattan Project” to break encryption and force tech companies to plant backdoors in their products 1 2 3 4 5 6

    Praised the repeal of Glass-Steagall 1

    Supports the TPP 1 2

    Opposes a carbon tax 1

    Took donations from federally registered lobbyists or PACs for private prison companies until October 2015

    All links (12345, etc) found here:
    http://archive.is/zKX8p

    From this week: “ABC News has reported that a man named Rajiv Fernando, a top donor to the Clinton Foundation, was added to the State Department’s International Security Advisory Board at the behest of the secretary of state’s office. Fernando appeared not to have the same qualifications as many other ISAB members, other than prolific giving to Democratic interests. When ABC started asking the department about Fernando, newly revealed emails show, staffers scrambled to find a way to defend the appointment. Eventually, Fernando stepped down two days after ABC’s initial questions.”

    From:
    http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch…

  5. This could work : Warren gets tapped as VP > Hillary wins in November > Hillary later gets impeached for [pick a reason] > Warren becomes President > integrity restored.

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