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That was kinda my thinking as I read it. It is no more extreme than standard conservative policy the last 20 or so years. The, and I use the term very loosely, "article" follows up those standard positions with over the top hyperbole about each one, but the actual McCarthy stuff is just all out standard.I loathe what McCarthy has done and I hope that, in a final pique of disloyalty, Trump finds a way to deny him the Speakership he's sold his soul for, but, I'm confused about how any of this is supposedly an EXTREME MAGA AGENDA as opposed to.... standard Conservative policy positions....
These folks aren't pro life, they are pro fetus. Once that fetus pops out, start pulling yourself up by your bootstraps you lazy good for nothing libs.But we have screenshots
OOPS: McCarthy Accidentally Posts & Frantically Hides Extreme MAGA Agenda (But We Have Screenshots...)
From the Speaker's Press Office: OOPS. Looks like Leader McCarthy fumbled his agenda rollout by accidentally posting the webpage of House Republicans’ “Commitment to America” – and then scrambled to password protect the website again… …but not before we got screenshots. Screenshots that reveal...web.archive.org
That was kinda my thinking as I read it. It is no more extreme than standard conservative policy the last 20 or so years. The, and I use the term very loosely, "article" follows up those standard positions with over the top hyperbole about each one, but the actual McCarthy stuff is just all out standard.
I hate the agenda McCarthy and conservatives have, but this thread is a perfect example of why you should not overstate things and go to hyperbole. Instead of opposing the McCarthy agenda, all the thread does is make one question the OP.
But what he said on the webpage referred to was "protect the unborn". That is it.I'm going to have to disagree with this. I was a Republican for 36 years before Trump and the wingnuts who support him turned me off. I hung in very conservative circles and worked on many Republican candidates' campaigns. While most were against abortion rights, it was only a very few, and I mean VERY few, who wanted to make it such that women who got abortions were arrested - and those people were religious nutters on the fringe of the party.
And I don't remember a single person ever suggesting that 5 weeks was an appropriate timeline for being able to procure an abortion. I'm a woman who had 3 children and also lost one pregnancy. Most women have no idea at all that they are pregnant at 5 weeks.
And most of them understood that rape and incest were horrible things, and were not of the mindset that a young child should be forced to carry to term the product of her rape by her uncle or father.
Also, except for the Duggar types, most of them didn't want to ban contraception. In fact, I would suspect that most of the conservatives and Republicans I knew well used it themselves.
But what he said on the webpage referred to was "protect the unborn". That is it.
But the OP is not all bent out of shape about generic proposals from the republicans, but what is on one website.Post #5 provides more detail. That is what the Republicans are proposing. And it is not what they ever proposed in the past. They have gone way off the rails, and need to be called out. These are not the Eisenhower/Reagan Republicans that I ever knew.
And that's the problem - it is standard "conservative" policy. Same diff.I loathe what McCarthy has done and I hope that, in a final pique of disloyalty, Trump finds a way to deny him the Speakership he's sold his soul for, but, I'm confused about how any of this is supposedly an EXTREME MAGA AGENDA as opposed to.... standard Conservative policy positions....
But that's not who's running the party now.I'm going to have to disagree with this. I was a Republican for 36 years before Trump and the wingnuts who support him turned me off. I hung in very conservative circles and worked on many Republican candidates' campaigns. While most were against abortion rights, it was only a very few, and I mean VERY few, who wanted to make it such that women who got abortions were arrested - and those people were religious nutters on the fringe of the party.
And I don't remember a single person ever suggesting that 5 weeks was an appropriate timeline for being able to procure an abortion. I'm a woman who had 3 children and also lost one pregnancy. Most women have no idea at all that they are pregnant at 5 weeks.
And most of them understood that rape and incest were horrible things, and were not of the mindset that a young child should be forced to carry to term the product of her rape by her uncle or father.
Also, except for the Duggar types, most of them didn't want to ban contraception. In fact, I would suspect that most of the conservatives and Republicans I knew well used it themselves.
Be honest they are not pro-life they just picked an emotional issue to rally the Christian wacko's vote.EXTREME MAGA REPUBLICANS ..... are pro life......
Republicans want to reduce government takeover of the medical field EXTREME MAGA STYLE
EXTREME MAGA REPUBLICANS ... support the second amendment, and individual liberty when it comes to expression of one's deepest beliefs..... EXTREME MAGA FIRST AMENDMENT STYLE
Support a minority's right to protest and petition for redress of grievances? YOU'RE EXTREME MAGA.
Look, if ya'll just put "MAGA" next to anything you don't like, then MAGA ceases to have any independent meaning. It just means "thing you don't like".
I appreciate the efforts of those who wish to defend the nostalgic view of the party. I'm sometimes one of those. But, I've recently come to view my own views as horribly naive. Looking into the history of the party, and the influence of the conservatives within it, I realize that those threads have always been there. What is different, now, is that there is no moderation of those views. It's just the extremists.But that's not who's running the party now.
I'm going to have to disagree with this. I was a Republican for 36 years before Trump and the wingnuts who support him turned me off. I hung in very conservative circles and worked on many Republican candidates' campaigns. While most were against abortion rights, it was only a very few, and I mean VERY few, who wanted to make it such that women who got abortions were arrested - and those people were religious nutters on the fringe of the party.
And I don't remember a single person ever suggesting that 5 weeks was an appropriate timeline for being able to procure an abortion. I'm a woman who had 3 children and also lost one pregnancy. Most women have no idea at all that they are pregnant at 5 weeks.
And most of them understood that rape and incest were horrible things, and were not of the mindset that a young child should be forced to carry to term the product of her rape by her uncle or father.
Also, except for the Duggar types, most of them didn't want to ban contraception. In fact, I would suspect that most of the conservatives and Republicans I knew well used it themselves.
That's how the con works, dude. They dress everything up in language to make it sound like they're standing for virtue, so in discussions like this people can always say "but look, all they're saying is that they stand for _________. That's not so crazy, is it?"But what he said on the webpage referred to was "protect the unborn". That is it.
I couldn't agree more.That's how the con works, dude. They dress everything up in language to make it sound like they're standing for virtue, so in discussions like this people can always say "but look, all they're saying is that they stand for _________. That's not so crazy, is it?"
Tres was addressing the actual things they push under the thin guise of that language. When They write "protect the unborn", they now mean exactly what tres said.
Taking them at their word is the only way anyone got surprised that the stacked court would toss Roe. "But they said that starer decisis is important!". Sure. They did. Until it wasn't.
If everyone one is EXTREME MAGA on the right, then no one is, and the term loses it's meaning.And that's the problem - it is standard "conservative" policy. Same diff.
You are fighting a strawman.Be honest they are not pro-life they just picked an emotional issue to rally the Christian wacko's vote.
They have never once done anything to help those living except lower taxes for the rich.
They do not value individual liberty except for those just like themselves.,
MAGA is an anti government movement that wants to tear down the norms and fabric of our society.
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