Politics: I am now too angry to do anything useful today.

Aug 19, 2012 17:23

"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." - Rep. Todd Akin 8/19

I donated to his opponent: http://clairemccaskill.com/ and to http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/ Planned Parenthood today, thanks to this ( Read more... )

i hate politics, planned parenthood

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sptmbrwind August 19 2012, 22:37:25 UTC
Who the fuck is this, and where does the line start to punch him in the balls?

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karmaschild August 19 2012, 22:49:44 UTC
Senate nominee for Missouri. Also a member of the House's science and technology committee. Because, clearly, he knows how things work.

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sptmbrwind August 19 2012, 22:57:51 UTC
I just give the hell up. The world does not make sense and never will.

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karmaschild August 19 2012, 23:01:25 UTC
sptmbrwind August 19 2012, 23:07:19 UTC
By "I misspoke" he clearly means "you silly women don't understand my advanced thinking" and "rape victims will have no stronger advocate" as they are forced to raise the child conceived during their rape. I mean, how is this fucking real? This can't be real, right? We can't be this far behind still.

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karmaschild August 19 2012, 23:13:04 UTC
I dunno, man. I guess we'll find out in November.

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sptmbrwind August 19 2012, 23:15:43 UTC
I'm holding onto the hope that if this spreads quickly enough, the internet will rip this motherfucker apart/back the hell out of his opponent. Look at what fandom can do when it's happy?

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karmaschild August 19 2012, 23:18:43 UTC
I'm just worried that it's only August now and people have short fucking memories for politics.

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sptmbrwind August 19 2012, 23:19:36 UTC
I'm sure he'll say something stupid again soon. How could he not? That much ignorance bottled up has to be let out sometime.

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karmaschild August 19 2012, 23:28:08 UTC
I hope so. If he gets elected I don't even know what I'll do. It's too horrible to think about.

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nesmith August 20 2012, 01:21:59 UTC
Exactly. Gibletheads like this are never wrong, it's WE who fail to understand them correctly.

I have a nicked-up sword blade that would love to make his acquaintance.

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