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WE EXIST (Original Post) kpete Friday OP
If you gave a hint of what this was about I might take the time to watch it. Or not. nt LAS14 Friday #1
Here you go kpete Friday #2
The first paragraph at the link Wednesdays Friday #7
This message was self-deleted by its author ArkansasDemocrat1 Friday #23
So much of a juxtaposition that he would even ask that question while casually enjoying his lunch. Uncle Joe Friday #31
Another great article about John McEntee, who made J6 happen. LauraInLA Friday #19
This message was self-deleted by its author Hekate Friday #3
The disgusting maga pig asshole went on Twitter Eliot Rosewater Friday #4
In a very powerful role TommyT139 Friday #11
The willful ignorance of so many MAGATS. Whyisthisstillclose Friday #5
Now she'll be forced to drive hundreds of thousands in medical bills that will raise MAGAts copays. TheBlackAdder Friday #28
What DiverDave Friday #6
And that's just the women who get that far. Many have died from illegal abortions throughout history. lindysalsagal Friday #8
This person thinks his inhumane-ness is normal uponit7771 Friday #9
It is, in the Trump cultist world. canuckledragger Friday #14
It is to him and his kind ArkansasDemocrat1 Friday #24
I'm so sorry. Hugin Friday #10
That was painful to watch... sheshe2 Friday #12
I hope that smarmy Brylcreem-slathered asshole saw her response. Efilroft Sul Friday #13
nevermind the women who die from pregnancy. way worse in the old days. cemeteries are full of children + younger women. pansypoo53219 Friday #15
Had this POS taken even a minute of time he could have found multiple articles. JoetheShow Friday #16
just horrific et tu Friday #17
thanks for this. open their eyes. AllaN01Bear Friday #18
Powerful. twodogsbarking Friday #20
This man is just yuk and hate to give him a view. Working hard getting him off my FB LizBeth Friday #21
Almost didn't watch, because urge to perform a week-long, no anesthesia vasectomy on POS turdball bros Timeflyer Friday #22
And WE VOTE Wild blueberry Friday #25
that gal is so brave Skittles Friday #26
Outraged. marble falls Friday #27
He's an example of why men shouldn't be in charge of women's healthcare Sogo Friday #29
This is absolutely infuriating! MLF1981 Friday #30
This guy strikes me as the ultimate Sky Jewels Friday #32
His name is John McEntee ffr Friday #35
Gawd, what a DICK! Sky Jewels Friday #37
Now involved with Project 2025 edbermac Friday #33
Thank you Carmen Broesder for speaking out! Your American democracy thank you too! ffr Friday #34
All the worst vermin in the country have flocked to Trump. hadEnuf Friday #36
Hey little man. Seinan Sensei Friday #38
I find myself ashamed of my people Picaro Friday #39
I'm so sorry that happened to you, Carmen Clouds Passing Friday #40
I would have probably ended it with drmeow Friday #41
Dude with the tanning booth tan GenThePerservering Friday #42

Wednesdays

(19,290 posts)
7. The first paragraph at the link
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 03:33 PM
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The man at the beginning is close Trump confidante Johnny McEntee, a really sick piece of work, demanding that someone produce for him an example of women bleeding out in parking lots because doctors can’t offer necessary medical care for women who are having miscarriages or other medical emergencies. As you can see from that woman’s horrific story, it happens all the time. And there are plenty more like her.

Response to Wednesdays (Reply #7)

Uncle Joe

(59,640 posts)
31. So much of a juxtaposition that he would even ask that question while casually enjoying his lunch.
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 05:59 PM
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It's amazing to me how people can be so disconnected from the cold reality of different experiences.

People walking around thinking their highly limited personal experience is or should be the rule of the world.

You don't have to walk a mile in someone's shoes to understand empathy, just a little logic or common sense can work as well.

Response to LAS14 (Reply #1)

Eliot Rosewater

(32,158 posts)
4. The disgusting maga pig asshole went on Twitter
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 03:26 PM
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And asked Can someone please track down these women Kamala is talking about having issues because of abortion bans, so hundreds of women responded to the vile disgusting fucking goddamn pig with their stories.

I read somewhere on there this horrific disgrace of a human being pictured above will be working in the traitor's White House if he takes power.

TommyT139

(387 posts)
11. In a very powerful role
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 03:47 PM
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He had started out as Donny's diaper boy.
By the end of the last administration, he was hiring and firing, and is thought to have drafted "policy" documents for Trump to sign. Word is he has been vetting magats for loyalty for jobs in the next administration if Trump is allowed back.

From The Atlantic, "The Man Who Made January 6th Possible."
https://archive.is/9NTYy

5. The willful ignorance of so many MAGATS.
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 03:28 PM
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The inability to understand the consequences of the overturning of Roe v Wade from so many Americans is appalling and terrifying. If something does not literally affect them they DO NOT CARE.

TheBlackAdder

(28,667 posts)
28. Now she'll be forced to drive hundreds of thousands in medical bills that will raise MAGAts copays.
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 05:33 PM
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Oh, just one of the hidden costs of their anti-abortion actions.

Just wait until they find out that each extra birth above stasis adds between $200-360K in education and supplemental service taxes over an 18-year period. Those Red States are driving themselves into bankruptcy. And when those MAGAts complain as to why their school taxes keep going up, they have no one else but themselves to tanks for it.

lindysalsagal

(21,855 posts)
8. And that's just the women who get that far. Many have died from illegal abortions throughout history.
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 03:38 PM
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And he doesn't need proof of that, either.

sheshe2

(86,052 posts)
12. That was painful to watch...
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 03:54 PM
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I want to scream and cry for what she and others have been put through.

pansypoo53219

(21,480 posts)
15. nevermind the women who die from pregnancy. way worse in the old days. cemeteries are full of children + younger women.
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 04:15 PM
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JoetheShow

(56 posts)
16. Had this POS taken even a minute of time he could have found multiple articles.
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 04:15 PM
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But he had to be a willfully ignorant DICK. It's not that they don't know, they don't want to know. That way they can pretend they are being moral.

et tu

(1,685 posts)
17. just horrific
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 04:19 PM
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my heart aches for all the women who have been tortured and traumatized
by the extreme rw's ignorance and indifference. dehumanizing/gop


AllaN01Bear

(22,368 posts)
18. thanks for this. open their eyes.
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 04:21 PM
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she mentioned afib. afib is no fun. had ablation . that failed a year later . this makes me ,grrr.

Timeflyer

(2,467 posts)
22. Almost didn't watch, because urge to perform a week-long, no anesthesia vasectomy on POS turdball bros
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 05:05 PM
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who pontificate about women's reproductive healthcare becomes overwhelming. Maybe throw in large recurring kidney stones lodged in his ureters, forever. And then deny him medical care.

Skittles

(156,984 posts)
26. that gal is so brave
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 05:24 PM
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and the guy asking the question - typical fucking MAGAt.....he'd go NUTS if this was a loved one of his suffering like that

Sogo

(5,545 posts)
29. He's an example of why men shouldn't be in charge of women's healthcare
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 05:39 PM
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He’s an example of why men shouldn’t be in charge of women’s healthcare. He doesn’t know anything about it!

MLF1981

(84 posts)
30. This is absolutely infuriating!
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 05:57 PM
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This poor young woman went through so much unnecessary suffering. Just imagine if this becomes the reality in every state, not just those run by right-wing nutjobs (like mine is). The US already has the highest rate of maternal death in the developed world, and these sick bastards want that rate to increase? There are no words in the English language strong enough to express my contempt for them.

Sky Jewels

(8,537 posts)
32. This guy strikes me as the ultimate
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 06:11 PM
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entitled overgrown misogynistic frat dude/finance bro prick. He probably puts roofies in women’s drinks. Fuck him.

ffr

(22,964 posts)
35. His name is John McEntee
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 06:24 PM
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John McEntee, former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office in the Trump administration and senior adviser at Project 2025. He's also the same guy who posted on TikTok about giving away fake money to homeless people so they will be arrested for using counterfeit money.

Is a true MAGAt


Sky Jewels

(8,537 posts)
37. Gawd, what a DICK!
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 06:29 PM
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He’s like an ‘80s movie rich white guy asshole villain. Hopefully one day he’ll get his well-deserved comeuppance like those characters always did.

edbermac

(16,066 posts)
33. Now involved with Project 2025
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 06:12 PM
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The party adopted a new policy platform that reflected priorities laid out on the Trump campaign website. Another person involved in Project 2025 is John McEntee, a former White House personnel chief who began Mr. Trump’s systematic attempt to sweep out officials deemed to be disloyal in 2020.


https://www.nytimes.com/article/project-2025.html

hadEnuf

(2,522 posts)
36. All the worst vermin in the country have flocked to Trump.
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 06:24 PM
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He gives them purpose, legitimacy, recognition and a home, whereas in normal society they are shunned. And they will follow and love him to the end for it, without question.

Hitler did the same thing. The unmistakable pattern continues.

Picaro

(1,675 posts)
39. I find myself ashamed of my people
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 06:39 PM
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I faced this long ago. I'm a white, privileged male. I was, in my day, a tech bro. I saw this contagion developing in the mid-90's when the internet came into being.

I've always been a liberal, but I was surrounded by people who listened to Limbaugh, read Drudge religiously, read Bill Kristol (I can't believe that we're on the same side now), and watched Fox religiously.

Before Facebook/Twitter/MySpace etc. we started up (at my suggestion) a primitive email chatroom. Me and a couple of other people were the liberals and the anti-everything crowd got so riled up we had to shut it down. You couldn't have a conversation with them. The insults would start to fly and I had to go to our district manager (a talented female manager) and suggest we just shut it down. She agreed.

The amazing thing is that this was an office of about 50 people and we all knew each other. There were a number of guys (it was always guys) that no longer spoke to me after that.

The things I discovered then are still true now.

Facts don't matter. What they felt determined their positions. You could not move them off their positions. If you tried they didn't argue they got mad and would start with the name calling. Their eyes, ears, and brains were sealed.

And then it got worse. A lot worse.

I don't know how we fix this. Even when Trump dies all of these people are still with us. They have no problem fighting dirty. They have no sense of honor. They lie and make things up without hesitation and when called on it just go off on you.

This hits me where I live. My wife had two miscarriages and two DNCs in the late 80's--today, in Missouri, you most likely have to travel to Illinois to get that kind of healthcare.

We have to defeat them and then defeat them again and again and again. Because they won't stop. The angry evil that lives in their heartless chests is like some kind of possession.

Our country needs an exorcism.

Clouds Passing

(1,024 posts)
40. I'm so sorry that happened to you, Carmen
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 06:51 PM
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I know what bleeding out is, it’s happened to me, but I was lucky enough to live in times when I could get treatment so I didn’t end up with severe complications.

Go back to hell where you slithered out from, John McEntee!

GenThePerservering

(2,305 posts)
42. Dude with the tanning booth tan
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 07:27 PM
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has the same attitude men in power have had toward women for millenia. That stops here. Now.

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