Discussion for article #241716
You know how they know they’ve already lost the argument? They’re calling them “Planned Parenthood’s potential activities.”
On a separate note, when did we ignore the presumption of innocence?
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“You can look at every president up to Zachary Taylor — they owned slaves.”
But that’s ok with conservatives. It’s 'bortion that’s a problem for them, not subjugating people.
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This is precisely what David Brooks wrote about today—the jaw-dropping incompetence of the modern GOP–demonstrated (again) in this letter. These people deny the pro-slavery origins of the Civil War, deny the manner in which the stars-and-bars has been taken out and waved at every racist conclave of the 20th Century—contra mountains of evidence, but want to take down a bust of a courageous and significant woman on the basis of crap that exists only in their recycled and recycled, again, slurs. Margaret Sanger was most assuredly not a proponent of extermination of the Negro race. She advanced the hopes and dreams of every American—black, white, Italian, Slavic, WASP–by enabling people to plan their family size and suit it to their means.
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Re the ‘all presidents up to Taylor’ line, I am pretty sure neither Adams owned slaves…
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Will anyone who knows actual history speak for her? Or will all be silence in the face of ignorance?
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When organizations such as MSNBC and Democrats started preemptively folding?
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Is there some kind of rule that says that you must hold all that is decent, holy and sensible in utter contempt in order to be a Republican member of Congress?
Just asking.
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Yea and Andrew Jackson was a murdering bastard.
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They’re only politically useful in the womb; once they take a breath, they’re on their own.
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The problem with Republicans isn’t abortion; it’s women. They hate them. That’s pretty much it.
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> potential activities in the trafficking of fetal tissue and baby body parts from abortions
That is what I thought as I red this, “potential”… in the new lexicon the word “potential” for these assholes takes on all the meaning of those four-letter words Mama threatened to wash mouths out…
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LOL. Fucking morons can’t tell the difference between something being displayed in a museum and something being flown from the top of a state Capitol building? Foolishness.
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Nah…the Smithsonian will issue a statement that is suitably bland, intellectual, correct and based on actual historical fact and the Teatrolls will simply pivot to screaming about liberals taking over academia, teachers unions and “ivory tower elitists indoctrinating our children.”
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Correct. Here is a the list of Presidents that owned slaves at some point in their lives: (and it goes beyond Taylor; he was just the last one to own slaves while in office).
Washington *
Jefferson *
Madison *
Monroe *
Jackson *
Van Buren
Harrison
Tyler *
Polk *
Taylor *
Buchannan
Johnson
Grant
The eight marked with a “*” owned slaves while in office.
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That’s a serious problem. It’s escalated from a doctored video to “trafficking fetal tissue and baby body parts”, with very little pushback. Where are the passionate liberal voices lambasting the right for these outright lies?
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Sure thing, as soon as you remove Reagan’s name from every federal entity you named after him, in a naked attempt to re-write history.
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Is this some kind of bust?
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I think the opposite’s true: before, they levelled these accusations as though the case were closed and the judgement written in stone; now, they’re walking back from the edge a little by saying these “potential activities.”
They know that none of the investigations has produced anything useful to them or harmful to Planned Parenthood. In fact, they’ve made Chaffetz look like an amateur. They still have to feed their base that red meat, though, so now it looks like they might be starting to weasel themselves a way out.
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Chaffetz is an amateur . . . a rank amateur!
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