'Lie Back and Enjoy It' if Raped, State Rep. Jokes He'd Tell Daughters

[Judi Lynn]

BY DANIEL VILLARREAL ON 3/7/22 AT 6:23 PM EST

Critics are blasting Robert Regan, a Republican nominee for the Michigan House of Representatives, for publicly comparing the 2020 presidential election to a rape.

"I tell my daughters, 'Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it,'" Regan joked on a Facebook livestream.

"That was a shameful comment," said Amber Harris, a Republican strategist, of Regan's rape remarks. The livestream's host, Adam de Angeli, told WXMI that Regan "misspoke," adding, "Maybe not the best analogy, but he was speaking extemporaneously."

Advocates say rape victims are often asked why they didn't "fight back" and are often blamed for their own rape because they "secretly enjoyed it."

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/lie-back-enjoy-it-if-raped-state-rep-jokes-hed-tell-daughters-1685698?piano_t=1

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Daughter of hardline politician says: ‘For the love of God don’t vote for my dad’

Jimmy McCloskey
Friday 26 Jun 2020 4:17 pm


A hardline conservative politician had been slated by his own daughter in a tweet saying: ‘pls for the love of god do not vote for my dad…tell everyone.’ Robert Regan’s daughter Stephanie has spoken out against her dad’s ambition to become a Michigan state representative on Twitter after opposing his right-wing views.

Stephanie’s tweet was widely shared online, with the college student explaining her stance in a follow-up. She wrote: ‘Do a quick fb (Facebook) or google search to find out about his campaign.

‘I don’t feel safe rn sharing further information about his beliefs, but please look him up and just read for yourself.’ Stephanie’s sister Natalie has also spoken out against her Republican dad, and urged people to vote for someone else in Michigan’s August primaries.

Regan’s campaign website boasts that he was one of the first people to come out in support of Donald Trump while the now-president was running for election. He is also pushing for English to become the ‘official language’ of Michigan, says he is strongly anti-abortion, and branded the Black Lives Matter movement ‘destructive.’

More:
https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/26/daughter-hardline-politician-says-love-god-dont-vote-dad-12908239/

[bahboo]

1. Bobby Knight quote if I remember correctly...

reprehensible then, even more so now. Listen to the daughter....

[dchill]

2. The most stunning anti-endorsement I've ever seen!

From his daughter, no less!

Deserved, of course.

[Abolishinist]

6. x 2, no less.

Stephanie’s sister Natalie has also spoken out against her Republican dad, and urged people to vote for someone else in Michigan’s August primaries.

What a rancid, disgusting, worthless piece of human garbage. And it makes not a bit of difference whether he's a D or R or I or whatever.

[smirkymonkey]

13. What a sickening POS.

I feel so sorry for his poor daughters. They are probably not telling us everything that should be told.

[Hortensis]

29. Yes, BOTH daughters, and for more reasons than just this statement.

It's sad, but this is an empowered and responsible way for them to deal with the problem of his extremism.

Everyone knows what's meant by that last, of course, and I agree. But fwiw...he wouldn't BE a Democrat.

[sakabatou]

3. What a disgusting POS!

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Stephanie for state rep!

[Behind the Aegis]

5. Michigan state House candidate posts, calling feminism 'a Jewish program to degrade white men'

Michigan state House candidate has shared antisemitic posts, including one calling feminism ‘a Jewish program to degrade white men’

Robert Regan, the Republican nominee for a safely conservative state House seat in Michigan, has frequently re-posted antisemitic content and shared his own extreme views on Jews.

Regan is in a good position to win a May 3 special election for a vacant seat representing Kent County, Michigan’s 74th state district, after winning a crowded Republican primary last week by a narrow margin of 81 votes (according to unofficial tallies). Michigan’s Republican Party congratulated Regan on Wednesday for winning the primary.

In May 2021, Regan’s personal Facebook page shared two posts, still visible on his page as of Monday, in which he expressed antisemitic opinions. In one, he shared an image of a quote branded by the logo of Smoloko News, a now-defunct antisemitic website. The quote described “feminism” as “a Jewish program to degrade and subjugate white men.”

In January of last year, Regan shared a link to an antisemitic “family history” of the Rothschilds, the Jewish banking family often at the center of conspiracy theories about Jews and world banking domination. Two months later, he shared a meme made by a QAnon influencer that called “(((Them)))” the “real virus” in a post calling public health measures to combat COVID-19 “nonsense.” The triple parentheses, or echo symbol, is used online by antisemites to identify Jews.
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[Judi Lynn]

9. Even more deeply diseased than the first article revealed. Thank you for your posts & the links. ⭐️

[Ray Bruns]

30. It always comes back to the jews with these people.

[Bettie]

48. Wow, this guy ticks all the MAGAt boxes

he's just an overall POS, in every possible way.

[Kittycatkat]

7. Really, these are the fuc#ed up creeps who may be passing laws for women? And children? And men?

[3catwoman3]

8. That any father of a daughter would...

…joke about rape is beyond comprehension.

What a disgusting creep.

[SunSeeker]

10. He isn't much of a father. nt

[Demovictory9]

12. they are girls...he doesn't care about them..he is into patriarchy

He also manages his own business called Big Boyz Shorts, which bills itself as a subscription service “to provide meaningful and inspiring stories about manhood” and to encourage “chaotic boys” to become “young orderly men” and “creative patriarchs.”

https://forward.com/fast-forward/483559/michigan-state-house-republican-candidate-robert-regan-antisemitic-posts/

[SunSeeker]

14. He sounds like a total piece of shit.

I feel sorry for his daughters.

[smirkymonkey]

44. How fucking repulsive.

I honestly pity his daughters. The poor girls must have felt so discarded their entire lives. And I am wondering if all he did was make them feel "less than". It was possibly worse.

How could anybody vote a creep like this into office?

[Demovictory9]

11. he's very racist too

https://forward.com/fast-forward/483559/michigan-state-house-republican-candidate-robert-regan-antisemitic-posts/

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

15. Wow, I 'm shocked! s/

The daughters' negative endorsement tells me all I need to know about Regan.

[betsuni]

16. "Bend over and enjoy it," if raped to you too Regan.

[alphafemale]

17. I can't imagine a man making a rape joke referencing his own daughters

And using what looks like a photo that is at least 20 years old in campaign literature.

[eShirl]

19. I can imagine, and it's very ugly.

[struggle4progress]

18. "Remember: if you kick me in the nuts, my philosophy is just to enjoy it!"

[Hugin]

24. "If you get your ample buttocks kicked in a Presidential Election, just enjoy it."

Actually, this hypocrisy is typical of the do as we say, not as we do crowd.

[raccoon]

20. Good God, so much for family values! I wouldn't be surprised if this SOB

Good God, so much for family values! I wouldn’t be surprised if this SOB Hasn’t sexually abused both of his daughters.

[Achilleaze]

21. Republican Family Values belong in a cesspool

disgusting

[Paladin]

22. Hey, Regan: Google "Clayton Williams, 1990 Texas Governor Election"

Dumb-fuck Williams used that same offensive line, and all his oil money couldn't prevent his losing to Democrat Ann Richards. In Texas. Hope the same happens to you, you piece of shit.

[Liberal In Texas]

25. I remember it well.

Ann Richards made mincemeat out of "Clatey."

[hamsterjill]

32. +1

Republicans don’t even have original ideas. They just repurpose the same ugly lines.

[keithbvadu2]

34. No worries now. Abbot is eliminating rape in Texas.

No worries now.

Abbot is eliminating rape in Texas.

He said so.

[Caliman73]

38. Different times unfortunately.

The 1990's was still a time when character meant something. Your political career could be ruined by saying something like that. Today, I am not so sure that this will sink the fool. I am hoping that I am wrong.

[Hugin]

23. The vast majority of my speech is extemporaneous.

Yet, I have never said anything even remotely as heinous.

[no_hypocrisy]

26. 1976: Tex Antoine said the same thing on television.

TV weatherman.

In 1976, Tex Antoine, the weather man, joked that a five year old girl should have just lay back and enjoyed getting raped. He was fired. That line had been comic gold since forever. In 1976, it just wasn’t funny anymore. Blame women’s lib. Blame the cancel culture. Weathermen, even popular weathermen, couldn’t joke about raping kindergarten kids anymore on the nightly news. It didn’t help that the story just before the weather forecast was about a five year old girl being raped.

https://medium.com/@kaleberg7/in-1976-tex-antoine-the-weather-man-joked-that-a-five-year-old-girl-should-have-just-lay-back-85c96d41add6

[Vinca]

27. What a fucking jerk.

I was going to say fucking pig, but I don't want to insult them.

[70sEraVet]

28. He's got some Interesting views on Putin, too.

“Everybody knows how weak we are. Putin is a tyrant. Putin is KGB. We all know who he is. He understands the United States cannot be trusted to protect him against corrupt Ukraine, the money laundering capitol of the world, human and drug trafficking,” Regan said during the stream. “Putin said, ‘I have to protect my country, have to protect my children.’ I can’t count on the United States. So what he did, he took some proactive action. He went in Ukraine, knocked out the bio labs, knocked out the missile sites so he can protect his people, which was all a direct reflection on a weak president.”

https://www.woodtv.com/news/kent-county/state-house-candidate-questioned-over-putin-comments-rape-analogy/

[smirkymonkey]

45. The guy's a real peach.

Ugh!

[flying_wahini]

31. I thought that the Texas Gov Clayton Wms said that when Anne Richards was running.

I know he said it because she jumped his ass bad…..

[Paladin]

40. He did. See my post, up-thread.

And Clayton Williams was never governor, by the grace of God.

[niyad]

33. may he, and all like him, receive everything they deserve.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

35. I first read that charming little homily

In a Harlan Ellison short story, I think somewhere in “Deathbird Stories”, though I can’t remember which one. He was a pretty dark writer who didn’t pull punches. Ellison used the phrase in sketching out rancid morals of one of his characters, who said “Confucius say…when rape inevitable…”. Leave it to shithole pukes to transform that purposefully horrid statement into a policy statement towards women. We have to defeat these fucking taliban.

[sarisataka]

36. I understand why his daughters are against him

"Misspoke" my ass

[Marcuse]

37. Did he tell that to Stephanie and Natalie during his criminal acts? Who are these advocates?

Advocates say rape victims are often asked why they didn't "fight back" and are often blamed for their own rape because they "secretly enjoyed it."

[twodogsbarking]

39. Scum.

[Caliman73]

41. The defense : He was speaking "extemporaneously"

The question then is, "Why would you go to THAT analogy off the top of your head" There are plenty of analogies an idiot like him can use regarding their 2020 election lies.

That he went to RAPE at the top of his head, just shows what his mentality is. Whenever there is a violation of some norm, rule, or law; my first instinct is never to go to rape. Rape is an especially heinous crime that should never be trivialized.

[smirkymonkey]

46. +1000

Exactly. It reveals his true, despicable character. I deeply pity his daughters. I would feel so enraged and betrayed if my father behaved this way.

[Grins]

42. Oh, c'mon. He "misspoke'! He was "speaking extemporaneously"!

A lot of that going around on the Reich. Like a contagious mental disease.

[AdamGG]

43. There's a long list of Republican candidates who have made the same comment over the years

There was the guy in Missouri that Claire McCaskill beat, another one who said something about the woman needing to hold an aspirin between her knees and countless others. It's not just one extreme guy who's a douche, minimizing rape and blaming women is a regular theme on the far right.

[Evolve Dammit]

47. What a disgusting POS.

[Aussie105]

49. Oh No! He didn't say that, did he? Really?

It's the old 'Boys will be boys, and girls shouldn't complain' argument.

But really? His own daughters?

Dad is anti-abortion too.
I guess he wants grand children whose birth certificate say 'father unknown'?

Run girls, run! dad has gone mental!

I guess mom isn't on the scene anymore, she may have something to say.