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TygrBright

(20,756 posts)
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 12:02 AM Aug 2021

I am afraid...

...the first GOPpie I run across who expresses pious horror over the fate of women in Afghanistan will end up with a knuckle sandwich.

The hypocrisy of pearl-clutching over the Taliban forcing Afghan women into burkas when the GOP would love nothing better than to stuff American women into burkas just rankles.

disgustedly,
Bright

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calimary

(81,192 posts)
12. I third it. But don't throw fists at them.
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 12:39 AM
Aug 2021

Throw that comparison at them. You Republicans would have us women in burkas and out of their jobs and their achievements, in a heartbeat if you thought you could get away with it. We know you deep-down see us as occupants of the kitchen, the bedroom, and the secretarial pool.

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
2. Totally right
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 12:08 AM
Aug 2021

Taliban and the Christian right are literally no different from one another. Except America has laws

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
7. Considering every GOPer will be using that, don't punch out more than 3.
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 12:19 AM
Aug 2021

Three time losers spend a lot of time in jail.

But I get it.

niyad

(113,224 posts)
10. I have an extra set of brass knuckles that I could lend you. My reaction will be the
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 12:29 AM
Aug 2021

same as yours.

progressoid

(49,964 posts)
13. In the recent past they were praising TFG for not getting us into any wars.
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 12:40 AM
Aug 2021

But now they...oh never mind...there is no point in trying to understand their "logic".

Hekate

(90,627 posts)
15. Completely understood, sister....
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 02:58 AM
Aug 2021


The GOP record on women’s issues at home and abroad is nothing short of vile, including the Global Gag Order.

We will not forget and we will not forgive.


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