“We are the first generation in half a century to give our daughters a country with fewer rights than we had,” she tells the Women for Biden crowd a few minutes later. “Book bans. Voting laws gutted. Court decisions that strip away our most basic freedoms. But circumstance is not destiny.” The women here are fighting mad.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240702093403/https://www.vogue.com/article/first-lady-jill-biden-august-2024-cover-interview

and the meme this inspired me to make: https://hexbear.net/post/2898629

  • footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    And there’s a version of political power as Jill Biden embodies it, and as she expressed it at the Women for Biden event in Bloomington. This is power from the ground up, built on listening and coalition building.

    How she can honestly think that after having Obama make all the other candidates drop out during the 2020 primary, is black-pilling me

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      built on listening and coalition building

      having Obama make all the other candidates drop out during the 2020 primary

      Folks, you need to listen up and build a coalition behind Joe, otherwise we’re going to have a problem obama-drone