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Post by femalebusiness on Oct 6, 2022 21:38:52 GMT
Anyone dumb enough to vote for Walker is as dumb/stupid as he is.
My mama always told me, water seeks it's own level.
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Post by aj2hall on Oct 7, 2022 11:55:41 GMT
The problems with the Republicans supporting Walker no matter what heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-6-2022?r=1f0orz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=emailThe scandal involving Herschel Walker, the staunchly anti-abortion Georgia candidate for the Senate who appears to have paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009, got worse today. After he claimed he did not know the woman who said he paid for an abortion, the woman said she was the mother of one of his other, newly acknowledged, children, so of course he knows her.
Just five years ago, Representative Tim Murphy (R-PA), who belonged to the Republican Pro-Life Caucus, resigned just hours after the story broke that he pressured a woman with whom he was having an affair to get an abortion. Now, Republicans are rallying around Walker, with former NRA spokesperson and former Breitbart writer Dana Loesch saying: “I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I want control of the Senate.”
In the Philadelphia Inquirer, columnist Will Bunch pointed out that Republican leaders have not condemned Walker for his hypocrisy on abortion, his lies about it and about the many other things he has lied about during the campaign, or the many allegations of domestic violence women have made about him. Instead, his campaign says it has raised half a million dollars since the news broke, while Walker recorded an ad claiming he has been “saved by grace.”
Bunch noted what many observers have already called out: that the Republicans no longer care about anything but winning. But he went on: they insist on winning so they can put their vision of Christian domination into effect. “[T]he so-called ‘family values’ of American fundamentalists…turn out to be mere window dressing that can be tossed for the movement’s true aim: authoritarianism,” he wrote.
Bunch linked to a piece that scholar of fascism Brynn Tannehill published in today’s New Republic, noting that religion in the U.S. is declining among younger folks and that older evangelicals are increasingly concerned they are losing power, at the same time that their Christianity has become a political identity. Tannehill wrote: “The real danger of this widening schism…lies in this creating the conditions for a future that looks more like present-day Russia or Iran.” |
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Post by aj2hall on Oct 7, 2022 12:03:34 GMT
Sorry, I know this is the older thread, but I posted here because it's related to Walker This is a great perspective, too www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/10/06/herschel-walker-daily-beast-abortion-story-republican-response/It’s nice of them to make the messaging so plain. The personal life of Herschel Walker is less important to some conservatives than Senate Republicans securing their ability to interfere in other people’s personal lives.
What’s not fine is if Republicans, in a winning-is-a-virtue strategy, protect themselves with morality exceptions that they would not permit for others, while binding others by morals that they do not apply to themselves. What’s not fine is the idea that morality — and who it binds and who it protects — is dependent on whether someone is wearing a MAGA hat.
It’s the hypocrisy, stupid. It’s the hypocrisy and the idea that to get what they want, some prominent Republicans are happy to either deny any chance that the story could be true, or to defend the idea of Herschel Walker making use of the reproductive freedom that they want to take away from you.
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Post by Merge on Oct 7, 2022 12:54:58 GMT
Another coked-up rant from junior.
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Post by aj2hall on Oct 7, 2022 13:19:54 GMT
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Post by femalebusiness on Oct 7, 2022 15:46:04 GMT
Jr. is as unbalanced, ignorant and sick as those who support his father.
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Post by Merge on Oct 7, 2022 19:00:08 GMT
Well, if he says he read it somewhere then it’s his personal experience and we’re not allowed to question it. 🙄 |
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Post by Scrapper100 on Oct 7, 2022 19:19:11 GMT
Well, if he says he read it somewhere then it’s his personal experience and we’re not allowed to question it. 🙄 Bat shit crazy is right. Where do they get these crazy ideas? Only an insane person wants a nuclear war. No one wins. |
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