She got trans cooties!
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Hereâs an article about the incident:
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âI was physically accosted at the Capitol tonight by a pro-tr*ns man.
Even afraid of the word.
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Between this and the time she vandalized her own home, Mace really is the queen of fraudulent claims where she pretends to be a victim, to get attention and demonize a particular group. Ironically in this case there is a victim, her victim. She fund-raised off the fake vandalism, but I really hope this blows up in her face. There are actual witnesses this time.
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Indeed there were. He touched her! She might catch da trans!! (Correct me if I am wrong, I am under the impression that he advocates for trans people, but is not trans himself, yes? But he spoke favorabley of trans so just as bad, I guess?)
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Iâm going to Kansas in about two weeks to visit family I havenât seen in two years. I guess Iâm not going to leave their home while Iâm there.
In June we have our âkinky campingâ event in Ohio - an amazingly inclusive and safe event that so many of us consider a second home with our extended family. (Some donât have a first home in the sense of being safe to be themselves.) Right now weâre planning to go ahead with the event because fuck if weâre going to buckle under that easily and I remember all too well those years during the pandemic where we didnât have camp. Iâm not worried about the campground, but I am worried about driving through the rest of Ohio to get there.
Iâm wondering how much of the country is going to be âDo Not Travelâ by next year.
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I saw that on CNN and wondered how she lied about what happened⌠god, I hate that woman.
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I think they just assume that they can lie their asses off and no one will challenge them. I sincerely hope there was video of the âassaultâ that led to her âinjuriesâ so that she can be properly humiliated in the press (/s, but one can hope) and possibly even prosecuted for false reporting.
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CNN sure as shit did not. They just took her word for itâŚ
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Nancy Mace fights to keep transgender women out of bathrooms while her aide broke into a womanâs home
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He had a pro-trans message! Which they had to come back to him, to get him to repeat what he said, to be sure that it was (retroactively) an assault. Saying something someone doesnât want to hear turns a handshake into an attack, you know.
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I figure that to be a national/state rep in the Republican party, post-Trump, it necessitates being at least a sociopath. You canât be a Republican politician at that level without cynically scapegoating vulnerable groups, doing real harm to people, purely for political advantage - or at least going along with oneâs colleagues doing it. Anyone not fine with it ends up at odds with the rest of the party and doesnât get elected. So yeah, absolutely, itâs a party chock-full of sociopaths and psychopaths.
@KathyPartdeux Itâs hilarious how obvious her fake vandalism was - the dotting of the "i"s alone seems pretty distinct, and it makes even less sense for a spray-painted âi,â where one can easily change the thickness of the paint; thatâs someone unused to using a spray can, replicating handwriting normally done with a thin pen. And she got away with it, which must have really emboldened her. That and hanging out with other Republicans must have made her feel like she could get away with anything.
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I suppose âall of themâ qualifies as chock-full. I really donât see how you can have the slightest bit of empathy and still be a member.
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I think âstudies have foundâ that something like 80% of CEOs are sociopaths, so I would expect the same of politicians; not all, of course. I would be surprised if AOC turned out to be a sociopath.
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More surprised that she turned out to be a politician!
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I wouldnât extend it to all the actual (non-politician) members of the party, though. Everything Iâve read suggests thereâs a huge disparity between what Republicans think their representatives are doing and what theyâre actually doing. Most Republicans disagree with certain party positions, but arenât even aware they are party positions. (And in general - look at surveys about income inequality, for instance. What people think the reality is, and what they want it to be, is very different from the reality. When shown unlabeled graphs of income distribution for various countries, even conservatives think the chart for a country like Sweden is the US, and what they want is even more equitable. When shown the chart for the US, they think itâs a developing nation.)
Trump getting elected really demonstrated how totally ignorant most voters are about whatâs going on, what the positions of the politicians theyâre voting for actually are, and what the consequences of those positions are for anyoneâs lives. So while for some voters, the cruelty is the point, others are unaware that any cruelty is even taking place.
Yeah, I could believe that 80% of politicians might be in it purely because they enjoy the position (i.e. the prestige, the power, the ego boost, etc. and have âflexibleâ positions to stay in power) as opposed to simply wanting to make things better for people, but I donât think theyâre necessarily sociopaths. And only one party is now cynically adopting harmful positions that effectively filter would-be representatives such that only sociopaths or psychopaths take office.
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