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The state of the republican party

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  1. NewRoxFan

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    And the look (concern?) on sue collins screams out volumes...

     
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    Seemed to me that Vito Corleone wanted his kids to be in politics so that the crime family could be protected... godfather trumpleone gets his three sons, his daughter and daughter-in-law in the family crime business...
     
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    They are very brave and it has definitely been exposed!
     
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    And yet we see many Republicans flipping out about Biden withholding Offensive aid from Israel.

    So we have Republicans both withholding aid because they are concerned about spending more and creating enemies and then acting like it’s worse than Pearl Harbor when Biden doesn’t give foreign military aid.
     
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    No own is as fun to watch as a self-own...

     
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    This is disgusting. It's wrong on so many levels. How is this still happening?

    Forced and Child Marriage: Survivor Stories
    Think forced and child marriage don’t happen in the United States? Here are the stories of survivors who have experienced forced marriage (where one or both parties do not give full, free, consent) or child marriage

    https://www.unchainedatlast.org/forced-and-child-marriage-survivor-stories/

    Between 2000 and 2018, almost 300,000 children were married in the United States alone, with approximately 30,000 to 60,000 of those marriages occurring at a spousal age difference that should have been considered a sex crime.

    The United States Department of State has called marriage before 18 a “humans rights abuse” that “produces devastating repercussions for a girl’s life, effectively ending her childhood.”

    https://childusa.org/child-marriage/

    Child Marriage: The Devastating End of Childhood

    https://www.savethechildren.org/us/charity-stories/child-marriage-a-violation-of-child-rights

    Early Marriage and Sexual Abuse Among Female Children

    https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/1156339

    Child marriage: a form of violence too often ignored

    https://www.fillespasepouses.org/articles/child-marriage-form-violence-often-ignored/
     
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    I love Raskin. I'd vote for him for President in a heartbeat. He is a no nonsense extremely intelligent man who calls out lies and backs them with truth. Here's another good one from last month.

    Jamie Raskin Wrecks Republican's 'Illegals' Comment With Blunt U.S. History Lesson
    Ben Blanchet
    Updated April 11, 2024

    Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) schooled Rep. Gary Palmer on Wednesday after the Alabama Republican claimed that the Founding Fathers “never anticipated” having a mass number of people “illegally” come to America.

    The comments arrived during a House Oversight Committee markup session where lawmakers addressed the Equal Representation Act, which — if passed — would require a citizenship question on the 2030 U.S. census and every census 10 years after that.

    Raskin said a colleague claimed the founders “never anticipated” there’d be “huge numbers” of people who couldn’t vote who were being counted in the census.

    “Of course they did. The vast majority of Americans couldn’t vote when the country started,” said Raskin before Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) chimed in.

    “He said the founders never anticipated this volume of illegals,” noted Higgins, who clarified Palmer’s remarks. “Don’t twist my colleague’s words.”

    Raskin called it “very valiant” for Higgins to defend Palmer before sending a U.S. history lesson his way.

    “There was no immigration law when the Constitution was adopted at all. In fact, the only illegals in the country, at least according to the native population, were the people writing the Constitution,” said Raskin of the document, which a number of people born outside of the U.S. signed.
     
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    warrants repeating

     
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    It must be really bad if the maga republican house committee is starting an investigation into maga congressman jackson...

     
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    trump does only hire the best...............................................crooks and thieves
     
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    It's sickening to force a child of sexual assault to carry the baby.

    Abortion ban exceptions for child rape, incest fail in Louisiana House committee
    Lawmakers also reject bills meant to protect doctors from criminal prosecution

    The House Committee on Criminal Justice voted 7-4 to reject House Bill 164 that would have allowed persons 16 and younger to have an abortion if they became pregnant after a sexual assault. All seven legislators who voted against the legislation are Republicans.

    Dr. Neelima Sukhavasi, a Baton Rouge doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology, also implored the lawmakers to approve Boyd’s proposal.

    She and her colleagues have delivered babies for pregnant teenagers, including mothers as young as 13, since Louisiana’s abortion ban went into effect two years ago. These young pregnant people can experience health complications that affect them for the rest of their lives, Sukhavasi said, and sometimes don’t have the mental capacity to handle the births.

    “One of these teenagers delivered a baby while clutching a teddy bear,” she told the committee.

    https://lailluminator.com/2024/05/08/rape-incest/

    I'm sure there are some guys on here who would force their child to go through that physical and mental trauma, and probably feel good about it. Grin and bear it girl. Just because some don't care doesn't mean everyone should be forced by law to make their child go through that.
     
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    I would say it is sickening to kill a baby because the father was a rapist. Far more importantly, rape and incest babies make up around 1.5% of abortions. Why is that the go to when talking about abortion, when 98.5% of abortions don't fall in that group? That and fatal fetal abnormalities. Almost all abortions are done simply because the mother would rather not have a baby. Everything else is a smoke screen to try to protect the right of women to kill their perfectly healthy babies. Listen to any of the people that are alive today that were conceived through rape or incest and the vast majority of them will tell you they are happy they were not killed in utero.
     
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    This article was about a group of Republicans voting to deny the right of a child 16 or younger to have an abortion of an embryo, vs making that child carry and go through the physical and mental trauma of carrying and delivering that full grown baby. Are you the kind of man who would feel better about putting your little girl through that trauma if she was already a victim of sexual assault? Would you force her to do that knowing she was already traumatized and possibly scarred for life already? Would you want your child to have to carry and deliver a full grown baby, possibly causing her health complications and mental trauma for years, to spare an embryo? Not all parents want to put an already traumatized child through that, and I don't think they should be forced to. I disagree in forcing a child victim to go through that trauma. Children of sexual assault are victims. They are children, and not adults.
     
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    It is a ****ing embyo. Not a baby. It has the potential to become a baby, but it is not one.
     
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    People are pushing the "not a baby" line back further and further. At least @LosPollosHermanos was only arguing zygotes were not human lives. Embryos are the first 9 weeks of pregnancy. At that point it is no doubt a living human being by any scientific standard. Is being raped horrible? Yes. Should rape victims kill people? No.
     

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