Dan Rather FTW

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By my definition, “pro life” would include making sure elderly rally goers have a bus to take them home from the cold. (Not to mention not surrendering to the pandemic)
1:48 PM · Oct 28, 2020

[OLDMDDEM]

1. Great statement

I wish there were more out there like you.

[Upthevibe]

2. Kick....n/t

[George II]

3. What amazes me is "pro life" people are also invariably "pro death penalty".

[KS Toronado]

4. Exactly, just how "pro life" are they really? Probably just family & friends.

[SoonerPride]

5. "Pro life" means "punish women who are sexually active"

They don’t care about living babies, humans, children, the poor, the hungry, the sick, the disabled, the elderly, or the wrongly convicted.

They just want to punish women who had sex.

Women cannot be allowed agency in their world view.

[RVN VET71]

21. The definition "pro-life" applies to males who like sex but think only female "whores" like sex

and should therefore be held up for scorn -- after sex, of course. These men insist that abortion is murder -- unless, of course, it is their own side-piece that got pregnant.

And it applies to females who were raised to regard sex as intrinsically evil and, therefore, to be avoided except in cases where their husbands demanded it. For these women, the very idea of a woman unshackled by religious indoctrination who freely enjoy life -- including sex -- is repulsive.

Abortion to these men and women is a sacrilegious way for a sinner to avoid paying for her (and it is always "her&quot crime against "God." Speak with one for a while and you will understand that talk about back-alley abortions leading to disfigurement and even death give them a sense of righteous pleasure. If the woman, they say, had controlled herself, she wouldn't have "gotten into trouble" in the first place and, of course, "God" is a just "God."

[MyOwnPeace]

6. I've long thought that their "pro life" stand

counted for those that weren't born.

Once you're "out" - color, income, background, attitudes, beliefs, voting history, and deductions count, not your "life."

[CaptYossarian]

7. The maskless ones are pro-Covid.

They're "Provid".

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. What amazes me more is that

a species ( repuglican ) that is so dull and ignorant in so many ways, is so good at branding. Pro-life and death tax being just two of hundreds of examples.

[coti]

11. To me it's a more stark contradiction that, the second fetuses are born,

Trumpists couldn't give less of a shit about their well-being.

[Cozmo]

9. I know this sounds stupid, but did the campaign even apologize for this?

[SayItLoud]

10. As usual and always "I don't take any responsibility for....(fill in the blank)" tRUMP. nt

[calimary]

12. YESSSSSS!!!!!! "You don't get to say you're 'pro-life' anymore!"

I've been pushing this idea for awhile.

"You don't get to say you're 'pro-life' anymore"... if


... you're okay with putting your fans in danger by first exposing them to COVID by staging these "super-spreader" rallies with crowds packed closely together, to bathe your ego.

... you're okay with putting those fans not only in danger of COVID, but in danger of exposure to extreme cold, A FEW MILES AWAY from their cars, with no way to get to them besides walking in the dark and freezing cold. How do you think THAT'LL work out?

... you're okay with putting those fans at risk - many of them ELDERLY and therefore vulnerable to everything and anything unhealthy.

... you're okay with threatening to deny funding to blue states - when that funding goes toward sustaining life of the poor, hungry, and homeless.

... you're okay with trump trying to get rid of the Affordable Care Act - DURING A FREAKIN' DAMN PANDEMIC, no less; a pandemic that's already claimed almost a quarter million America lives - 228-thousand-plus, last I looked, as of late this morning.

... you're okay with a so-called "president" who helped make all those COVID casualties happen - GUARANTEED that they'd happen, as a matter of fact - by sneering and lying and dismissing it all as a hoax and something that'd go away like a miracle - in the early days of the pandemic. When known steps even back then could have been taken to minimize the sickness and death. AND YOU KNEW IT IN ADVANCE (thanks to what we know you told Bob Woodward, WAY early in the game).

... you're okay with kids in cages, who were snatched from their parents' arms at the border for the simple crime of having been born with brown skin and south of the US border. How's their life now? Still being shuffled around the country in foster homes? Still in custody, sleeping on the cold hard concrete floor with a mylar blanket for warmth? Do some of the really young ones even remember their mother's loving arms or soft voice or their dad's toting them around on his shoulders?

And of course ...

... you're okay with environmental conditions getting worse, and the climate crisis gaining speed, while you do nothing and worse-than-nothing, deregulating polluters and relaxing regulations? What kind of life-sustaining powers will our planet still have by the time you're through? And btw, YOUR OWN grandchildren will pay the price as well, even though you're too myopic to see that far forward. All you care about is what-can-I-get-now/how-much/how-soon?


And there's more. SO much more.

[cwydro]

13. Yep.

Glad to know Dan Rather cares.

I saw some real ugliness here regarding this debacle.

Dan Rather is a good man.

[central scrutinizer]

14. Pro life would mean not using buses at all

Few masks, tight quarters, cold weather so lots of sniffling. Rolling Petri dishes. No way would I get on one. Canceling the rally would be pro life.

[spanone]

15. trump is only pro-trump

[Permanut]

16. Okay, so what happened in 2017 and 2018?

The anti choice wackos had control of the Senate, the House of Representatives and the White House. And they did nothing. I'm beginning to suspect a scam here.

[Blue Owl]

17. K&R

[Sherman A1]

18. Yeah, it would include those things

but, these are republicans and those rules of logic (like every other rule) do not apply.

[burrowowl]

19. Kick

[marble falls]

20. Dan is like Jimmy Carter, they just keep getting better.

[BobTheSubgenius]

22. I can trace my affection for Dan Rather to an exact moment.

it was during a presser about Watergate. Sadly, I can't remember the question DR asked Nixon that started the exchange, but I will never forget the next two.

RMN: (attempt at levity, regarding the minor furor of other press members reacting to DR having the next question) "Are you thinking of running for office, Dan?"

DR: "No Mister President. Are you?"

If looks could kill...

[NoRoadUntravelled]

23. Does Pro life mean anything to Republicans besides their wish to control women?

nt

[DENVERPOPS]

24. What could be more of a "Drink the Koolaid" gathering

to a super spreader rally, among the elderly, in a freezing outside venue, and them being stranded in the Freezing weather outside for hours........