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2012/08/21 19:29:45
Subject: Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
I don't understand how anyone can defend this guy.
Do you really want someone telling your wife/girlfriend she can't abort the seed planted there by some fuckhead who raped her? Because you both really want to raise that child, the child of the rapist.
Put yourself in the shoes of someone who was raped, or their significant other for feths sake.
But whatever, this guy is slime, and will hopefully be completely ostracized from politics so we never have to hear, at least, his diarrhea of the mouth ever again.
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2012/08/21 20:58:43
Subject: Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
It's kinda sad how people are ACTUALLY defending this guy at all. Do you not know how much trauma (of all kinds) A rape causes? I mean the consequences aren't just felt by the person who is raped, but by friends, family, and if said person becomes pregnant, and carries the child to term, there are all kinds of problems that child will face, one of the worst of which could be the parent/child relationship, because chances are, no matter how much the parent loves the child, it is a constant reminder of possibly the worst day in that person's life.
Also, not your vagina, shouldn't be your choice, or anyone else's, on whether or not someone gets an abortion. End of story.
2012/08/21 22:20:14
Subject: Re:Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
George Spiggott wrote: Not to be outdone. Everyone's favourite cat impersonator George Galloway has jumped onto the 'say something stupid about rape' bandwagon.
um, from the looks of it the allegations are for sure BS, it is an attempt from the US to get him sent here
this is a clear case of the little kid sending a copy of his dad's journal to all his co workers and the dad wanting to kill his kid, but he really will kill him, so.....................................................
I say mail him to Ecuador
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2012/08/21 23:09:11
Subject: Re:Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
Rep. Steve King, one of the most staunchly conservative members of the House, was one of the few Republicans who did not strongly condemn Rep. Todd Akin Monday for his remarks regarding pregnancy and rape. King also signaled why — he might agree with parts of Akin’s assertion.
King told an Iowa reporter he’s never heard of a child getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest.
“Well I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” King told KMEG-TV Monday, “and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.”
Dear conservatives: every time you let the gag fall out of one of these trogolodytes mouths, you make it that much harder for the less insane of you to claim there isn't really a GOP war on women.
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2012/08/21 23:13:29
Subject: Re:Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
Rep. Steve King, one of the most staunchly conservative members of the House, was one of the few Republicans who did not strongly condemn Rep. Todd Akin Monday for his remarks regarding pregnancy and rape. King also signaled why — he might agree with parts of Akin’s assertion.
King told an Iowa reporter he’s never heard of a child getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest.
“Well I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” King told KMEG-TV Monday, “and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.”
Dear conservatives: every time you let the gag fall out of one of these trogolodytes mouths, you make it that much harder for the less insane of you to claim there isn't really a GOP war on women.
Contacted by TPM, King’s office said that King didn’t mean he had never heard of pregnancy resulting from statutory rape or incest but that he had no direct, personal knowledge of such instances. “What he was saying was, he personally does not know a girl who was raped,” Brittany Lesser, a spokesperson for King said. “He never says, ‘I’ve never heard of that.’ There’s a fine line between ‘I’ve never heard of that’ and ‘I don’t know personally anybody who’s been raped. There’s a difference. There is a difference.”
I would wager that he almost certainly knows a girl who was at least molested, if not raped. Just betting on statistics here.
2012/08/21 23:35:32
Subject: Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
The politician was an idiot...but abortion in any form is the greatest crime in Human history.
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2012/08/21 23:43:23
Subject: Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
King told an Iowa reporter he’s never heard of a child getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest.
A five year, seven month old girl was impregnated, likely by family members.
At least two more have been impregnated at six years, ten more at eight, and almost thirty at nine. And that's just the ones that are publicly known. Most of these pregnancies were the result of incest.
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2012/08/21 23:54:36
Subject: Re:Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
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2012/08/22 00:00:37
Subject: Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
Tadashi wrote: The politician was an idiot...but abortion in any form is the greatest crime in Human history.
The Nazi Holocaust. The Rape of Nanking. The Inquisition and various witch hunts. The countless tales of genocide in Africa. The gassing of Kurds in Iraq. The various terrorist attacks. The various mass shootings. The various cult mass suicides. Dresden, Nagazaki, Hiroshima. The deployment of landmines in populated areas. The organized and law-endorsed killing of homosexuals in African states.
Even if you consider abortion to be killing, all of these are worse. Shall I go on and keep listing more?
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2012/08/22 00:03:27
Subject: Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
Peter King? Isn't he the piece of gak who wanted every Muslim in America investigated for ties to terrorism?
While simultaneously supporting the IRA?
AND! Claiming the IRA aren't terrorists because they "don't kill Americans"?
As to the main topic, the original politician in this thread is also a complete fething idiot who should shut the feth up and go the feth away. Maybe read a book or two on biology that doesn't start with "The world was created by Jesus 6000 years ago hurrrrrrr"
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2012/08/22 00:07:02
Subject: Re:Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
As is calling abortion the greatest crime in history, also the holocaust could certainly fit as the greatest crime so not exactly hyperbole
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2012/08/22 00:07:57
Subject: Re:Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
Rep. Steve King, one of the most staunchly conservative members of the House, was one of the few Republicans who did not strongly condemn Rep. Todd Akin Monday for his remarks regarding pregnancy and rape. King also signaled why — he might agree with parts of Akin’s assertion.
King told an Iowa reporter he’s never heard of a child getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest.
“Well I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” King told KMEG-TV Monday, “and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.”
Dear conservatives: every time you let the gag fall out of one of these trogolodytes mouths, you make it that much harder for the less insane of you to claim there isn't really a GOP war on women.
Really because every time I hear the phrase "war on women" I'm turned to the liberal cause that champions women. Then I realize that female Democratic staffers make between 5 and 30% less than their male counterparts. Especially if they work for Minority leader Pelosi. Then I realize that the predictable and dishonest rhetoric of the war on women is just that: predictable and dishonest. So for every troglodyte that says he/she is open for discussion, I hope there is a thoughtful and evolved liberal spouting support for women while paying them unequally and attempting to break the healthcare system by empowering insurance eventually raising the cost and lowering the quality of care provided. Care women rely a great deal more on than men, but at least they'll have abortions.
A Town Called Malus wrote:
Tadashi wrote: The politician was an idiot...but abortion in any form is the greatest crime in Human history.
Really? You actually believe that?
'Cause I can think of 11 million people who might disagree.
It's more like 13.3 Million or more according to CBS.il but your point was made.
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2012/08/22 00:08:01
Subject: Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
RatBot wrote: Peter King? Isn't he the piece of gak who wanted every Muslim in America investigated for ties to terrorism?
While simultaneously supporting the IRA?
AND! Claiming the IRA aren't terrorists because they "don't kill Americans"?
As to the main topic, the original politician in this thread is also a complete fething idiot who should shut the feth up and go the feth away. Maybe read a book or two on biology that doesn't start with "The world was created by Jesus 6000 years ago hurrrrrrr"
I would have thought just killing a living human person would be a greater crime than aborting a zygote. But the pro-life lobby are very keen on hyperbole.
2012/08/22 00:10:36
Subject: Re:Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
As is calling abortion the greatest crime in history, also the holocaust could certainly fit as the greatest crime so not exactly hyperbole
The gak the Japanese did is every bit as evil as what the Nazis did. People should remember that.
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Howard A Treesong wrote: I would have thought just killing a living human person would be a greater crime than aborting a zygote. But the pro-life lobby are very keen on hyperbole.
and QFT. Zygotes aren't people, and are only alive because of the fact that they are made of cells. It is no more conscious than E. Coli.
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2012/08/22 00:12:22
Subject: Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
RatBot wrote: Peter King? Isn't he the piece of gak who wanted every Muslim in America investigated for ties to terrorism?
While simultaneously supporting the IRA?
AND! Claiming the IRA aren't terrorists because they "don't kill Americans"?
As to the main topic, the original politician in this thread is also a complete fething idiot who should shut the feth up and go the feth away. Maybe read a book or two on biology that doesn't start with "The world was created by Jesus 6000 years ago hurrrrrrr"
What book starts like that?
While I'm quite sure no book starts with that verbatim, there's at least one, possibly more Creationist/Intelligent Design based textbooks out there. "Of Pandas and People" specifically springs to mind. To put things things less abrasively, maybe he should consider reading something about biology, with the caveat that the book should be written based on actual accepted scientific evidence.
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2012/08/22 00:15:12
Subject: Re:Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
AustonT wrote: Then I realize that the predictable and dishonest rhetoric of the war on women is just that: predictable and dishonest.
The politicians are dishonest; they're politicians.
But I already gave NUMEROUS examples of Republicans attacking women.
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2012/08/22 00:16:56
Subject: Re:Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
Hey, do you know where the word "hysteria" comes from?
That's trick question, right? It's clearly marked in the "Extra Emotions" area of the Lady Parts Diagram.....duh.
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2012/08/22 00:26:34
Subject: Re:Idiot Politician (R, MO) talks about "Legitimate rape"
Abortion there is a "choice". The Holocaust there was no "choice".
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