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For nearly an hour on Monday night, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina gave an unprecedented speech on the House of Representatives floor accusing four men — including her ex-fiancé — of rape, sex trafficking and sexual misconduct against her and other women.

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[–] mhague@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

Conservative women are objects so I don't really know what it means by rape and trafficking. Aren't those terms that apply to people?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 32 minutes ago
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago

I mean, this is the world she votes for

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 31 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

She's right wing, wtf is she thinking 🤡

[–] painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml 6 points 13 hours ago

Elon will Putin her out of the window.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 68 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

She does realize she's in the Republican party, right?

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago

I'm guessing she actually bought the rhetoric that "Republicans respect women".

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

She should consider herself lucky that they considered her a person

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 24 points 15 hours ago

They don't consider her a person

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 85 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

She remains a strong supporter of Trump, a fellow Republican who has been accused by about two dozen women of sexual misconduct dating back to the 1970s. He has been found liable in court for sexual abuse.

[–] JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.uk 40 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)
[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 99 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Why would Republicans care about this lady after they already elected a rapist who will “grab ‘em by the pussy”?

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They'd probably kick her out of the party if they had a bigger majority in the House.

Wonder if she'll come to her senses.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

She has laid the groundwork as a kind of MAGA-acceptable Super-TERF. She's a power-fantasy for all the evangelical stay at home moms, the Boss Bitch who will protect them from the bad people: yes rapists, but especially any trans women who make them feel uncomfortable.

She'll be given a leash exactly long enough to bite anyone who is less powerful than she is.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Ugh. She's worse than I realized.To be honest, I really need to set my expectations much lower for everyone who calls themselves a Republican, not just the obvious MAGAts.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 81 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Trumps gonna hire those 4 men to be the next government office of rape, sex trafficking and sexual misconduct. I'm sure geatz will be part of it too

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 26 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

government office of rape, sex trafficking and sexual misconduct

Their job will be to prevent those things right?

...

Right?

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago

Bless your heart.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Not under trump 🙃

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 33 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Welp I'm sorry for her and hope she gets justice and closure.
Even though she is a hateful wretch.
Nobody deserves to be raped or abused.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

That being said she's the person Im least likely to believe making these kinds of claims.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 40 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I agree that nobody does.

However, after she's screeched about trans people existing and how persecuted she is for her bigoted version of religion, forgive me if I want to see receipts in her case. Republicans are historically all about optics to push some personal agenda.

You can only cry wolf so many times before it just becomes noise.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The third-term lawmaker from South Carolina, who is considering a run for governor, also accused her would-be GOP rival of not investigating the allegations.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I know. I have decided to believe all victims, until proven otherwise, but I see how bad the optics are.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That's my general practice as well, but I feel compelled to make an exception in her case. She needs to earn back my trust (what little there was to begin with).

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It really doesn’t help that she falsely accused someone of assault over a handshake like 3 months ago. Or that she spray painted her own property to claim she was being targeted by the dreaded antifa. To say that she has a history of history of attacking her opponents this way would be an understatement.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, she has fucking destroyed her own credibility. Maybe this shit happened, and she certainly didn't deserve that. But her say so isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago

No one deserves it, but I have a hard time finding any sympathy for people who want to use legislation to hurt others.

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Even if she wishes this and other harm on others?

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, even then.

You don't have morals if they're conditioned on the identity of the person they're being applied to. That just makes you a different flavor of bigot.

Nobody deserves to be sexually assaulted, even the people you don't like.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

That being said Mace has a history of false claims of attacks on her by others so I am not inclined to believe her since her complaint is that her opponent in a race did not investigate these claims not that these men attacked her.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I hope she gets what she voted for.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Well she certainly didn't vote for the party that's going to do anything about the backlog of untested rape kits.

https://www.domesticshelters.org/articles/ending-domestic-violence/ending-the-backlog-of-rape-kits

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Nope, just the party that wants to force you to give birth to your rapist's rape baby.