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For nearly an hour on Monday night, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina gave an unprecedented speech on the House of Representatives floor accusing four men — including her ex-fiancé — of rape, sex trafficking and sexual misconduct against her and other women.

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 119 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would Republicans care about this lady after they already elected a rapist who will “grab ‘em by the pussy”?

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They'd probably kick her out of the party if they had a bigger majority in the House.

Wonder if she'll come to her senses.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She has laid the groundwork as a kind of MAGA-acceptable Super-TERF. She's a power-fantasy for all the evangelical stay at home moms, the Boss Bitch who will protect them from the bad people: yes rapists, but especially any trans women who make them feel uncomfortable.

She'll be given a leash exactly long enough to bite anyone who is less powerful than she is.

Ugh. She's worse than I realized.To be honest, I really need to set my expectations much lower for everyone who calls themselves a Republican, not just the obvious MAGAts.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 110 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She remains a strong supporter of Trump, a fellow Republican who has been accused by about two dozen women of sexual misconduct dating back to the 1970s. He has been found liable in court for sexual abuse.

[–] JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.uk 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago (2 children)

She does realize she's in the Republican party, right?

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She should consider herself lucky that they considered her a person

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't consider her a person

I barely consider her a person.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing she actually bought the rhetoric that "Republicans respect women".

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 90 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trumps gonna hire those 4 men to be the next government office of rape, sex trafficking and sexual misconduct. I'm sure geatz will be part of it too

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

government office of rape, sex trafficking and sexual misconduct

Their job will be to prevent those things right?

...

Right?

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Bless your heart.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Not under trump 🙃

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She's right wing, wtf is she thinking 🤡

[–] painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Elon will Putin her out of the window.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Welp I'm sorry for her and hope she gets justice and closure.
Even though she is a hateful wretch.
Nobody deserves to be raped or abused.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree that nobody does.

However, after she's screeched about trans people existing and how persecuted she is for her bigoted version of religion, forgive me if I want to see receipts in her case. Republicans are historically all about optics to push some personal agenda.

You can only cry wolf so many times before it just becomes noise.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The third-term lawmaker from South Carolina, who is considering a run for governor, also accused her would-be GOP rival of not investigating the allegations.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I know. I have decided to believe all victims, until proven otherwise, but I see how bad the optics are.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's my general practice as well, but I feel compelled to make an exception in her case. She needs to earn back my trust (what little there was to begin with).

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It really doesn’t help that she falsely accused someone of assault over a handshake like 3 months ago. Or that she spray painted her own property to claim she was being targeted by the dreaded antifa. To say that she has a history of history of attacking her opponents this way would be an understatement.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, she has fucking destroyed her own credibility. Maybe this shit happened, and she certainly didn't deserve that. But her say so isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

No one deserves it, but I have a hard time finding any sympathy for people who want to use legislation to hurt others.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That being said she's the person Im least likely to believe making these kinds of claims.

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Even if she wishes this and other harm on others?

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, even then.

You don't have morals if they're conditioned on the identity of the person they're being applied to. That just makes you a different flavor of bigot.

Nobody deserves to be sexually assaulted, even the people you don't like.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That being said Mace has a history of false claims of attacks on her by others so I am not inclined to believe her since her complaint is that her opponent in a race did not investigate these claims not that these men attacked her.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure, but there's a large difference between questioning someone's credibility and approving of them being sexually assaulted.

That is to say there's a large moral difference between "she has a history of making up claims for attention, so I don't believe her" and "she wishes harm on others, so I hope she gets sexually assaulted".

I mean, just on the face of it, it is hypocritical to wish harm on someone because they wish harm on someone. Is wishing harm on someone wrong, or is it not?

Unfortunately, people seem to have no grasp of nuance and just react with the most outrageous takes. In my mind I just assume that these commenters are literally children, who're simply copying bad behaviors and not actual functioning adults with the ability to self-reflect. But, that's more for my own sanity.

[–] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

P diddy does. And o j Simpson. And, probably, Kanye

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope she gets what she voted for.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well she certainly didn't vote for the party that's going to do anything about the backlog of untested rape kits.

https://www.domesticshelters.org/articles/ending-domestic-violence/ending-the-backlog-of-rape-kits

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Nope, just the party that wants to force you to give birth to your rapist's rape baby.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I mean, this is the world she votes for

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Conservative women are objects so I don't really know what it means by rape and trafficking. Aren't those terms that apply to people?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

As an aside, what are these little round bumps under her lips called? I’ve seen them on some folks and I’m guessing there’s a name for them but I’ve never come across it.