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Nikki Haley Marks “Roe’s” 51st Anniversary by Saying She’d Sign Nationwide Abortion Ban (truthout.org)

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 229 points 9 months ago

Yes, I’m unapologetically pro-life. … I am fine with a federal law

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your “moderate” Republican candidate.

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 83 points 9 months ago

I mean, that IS moderate for a Republican. The more typical party view is Make America Handmaid's Tale.

[-] Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago

Their point is that that's only moderate by today's standards. It wasn't 20 or 30 years ago. But like they said, "MODERN" republican

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[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago

I don't usually wish for this, but I hope she gets an ectopic pregnancy and is forced to carry to term

Realistically she'd just fly herself to NY

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

I don’t wish that pain and suffering on anyone. Ever her terrible ass.

That said, she’s 100% the type of person that would get the medical care, and never mention it on the trail, and continue to try and win over the nuts who want a ban.

She already lies to her base in order to get votes.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 27 points 9 months ago

That's okay, I'll wish hard enough for both of us.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Some people deserve bad things to happen to them no matter how unethical it is to wish for, or do. Unethical maybe, but justified entirely. Our society is up against the clock on ecological and social issues and being ethical in the current system will not save it.

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Of the party of freedom!

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[-] Maddie@sh.itjust.works 145 points 9 months ago

Stockholm Syndrome is the only explanation for women continuing to support Republicans

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 134 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There were anti suffrage women's groups.

There were pro-Nazi Jewish people in Germany until they came for them too.

There's always some people within a population who just choose to side with power, even power that loathes them, in hopes they'll become a favorite pet.

The log cabin Republicans come to mind.

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 23 points 9 months ago

Famously, Mother Jones didn't believe in women's suffrage. She believed it was a distraction from class warfare.

I tend to align more with Simone de Beauvoir who saw women as a disadvantaged class as well. I think it's a helpful lens for how we consider gender dynamics and patriarchal structures.

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[-] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 9 months ago

No it's not.

They genuinely believe that only bad people need abortions.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 59 points 9 months ago

"Mrs. Haley, have you ever had an abortion? You have a daughter. Has she ever had an abortion?" -- The press, if they had any balls.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 46 points 9 months ago

She would say no regardless of the truth. Asking questions like that without knowing the answer and being able to prove it is basically just tossing a softball.

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[-] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 24 points 9 months ago

Seriously. The way they treat all the candidates with kid gloves is ridiculous.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

She could say, "Yes I have had many abortions. I'm having one tomorrow! Abortions should be illegal because it's the only way to stop me from constantly having abortions!"

Hypocrisy doesn't matter to them.

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[-] silverbax@lemmy.world 56 points 9 months ago

"I am going to step on this rake again and again, harder and harder, until the rake no longer slaps me in the face when I step on it."

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

Sideshow Bob, surrounded by abortion rakes.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

I mean, she is kind of a sideshow in the Trump Circus

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If she weren't a degenerate buffoon, she wouldn't be campaigning as a Republican.

Anyone who still identifies themselves with the (R) in this day and age can be written off as an idiot and bigot..

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[-] taanegl@lemmy.world 52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You ever get the feeling that certain people are anti-abortion simply because they want neglected, sad children to grow up and become ignorant, angry adults that will vote to give sociopaths, narcissists and psychopath power?

The Dominionists say yes...

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[-] TMPinSYR@lemmy.world 50 points 9 months ago

Obligatory sharing. If you have not read this essay, please take a moment.

https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/

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[-] Pohl@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago

The only difference between Haley and trump is that I am slightly more confident that Haley will leave the office when her term ends. Beyond that, same shit.

[-] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 42 points 9 months ago

If she ends up being the first woman ever to be president my head is going to explode.

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[-] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

What a cunt.

[-] the_q@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

I think Republicans are afraid of abortion because deep down they know that the only reason they're here is because abortion wasn't easily available. Gotta keep the garbage coming.

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

deep down they know that the only reason they’re here is because abortion wasn’t easily available. Gotta keep the garbage coming.

This kind of rhetoric doesn't help resolve anything.

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[-] menemen@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What is mind boggling is that either her or Trump will be the next candidate and it still isn't a sure win for the democrats.

But, tbh, looking at politics in the EU nowadays and I feel ashamed of making fun of the USA in the past. We are outfascisting you again, it seems.

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[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago

Bitch.

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

Well, that’ll at least going to earn her the respect and appreciation of every conservative voter

It isn't, because this is table stakes. If anything, her status as a mother of a daughter will raise serious concerns that she'll backpeddle if her own daughter has an unwanted pregnancy or miscarriage.

That's the big hurdle that conservative women have. Voters just reflexively see them as more-liberal than their male peers, because the conservative mode of politics is inherently patriarchal. How can you be a True Believer when you're acting against your own best interests?

She needs to be even more sinister.

She needs to be a TV personality with 40 years of accumulated history and its simply too late for that to happen.

There's nothing Haley can do to turn her campaign around. She was doomed from day one, shy of Trump having a sudden cardiac event on the campaign trail. No matter how cruel she behaves, she'll always be seen as a conformer rather than the Real Deal because of who she is and where she comes from.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Let's face it: all GOP challengers this year are banking on Trump going behind bars or having a heart attack. Maybe, maybe, trying to get the VP nomination, but you don't do that in fascism by trying to be more popular than the boss.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 9 months ago

Psycho shithead.

[-] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Wait. She's a woman, right?

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

With Republican bills going the way they are, we might see her publicly inspected to confirm it.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 months ago

In the same pathetic kind of way Trump is man I guess, yes.

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[-] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 9 months ago

Because that's proven to be such a winning topic.

[-] pottedmeat7910@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Small comfort... After she gets smoked in NH tomorrow, we'll never have to care about anything Nikki Haley thinks or says ever again.

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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

Don't worry everyone, when not voting and protest voting lets her or Trump into office to do it, the white left will be here to remind us why we should spend energy being mad at the Democrats about it.

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