GOP official argues in favor of child marriage: Girls are ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’

All school-girls are attracted to gross old men, therefore it's consensual and perfectly ok. And even if it isn't, they're only kids; what do they know? They'll learn to love their husbands in time. And if they don't, who cares? They're only women

They’re degenerates.

When they screamed about the degeneration of Western society it wasn’t a warning it was an announcement. Everything is just projection with these evil cunts

Full context:

If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative

I think this can be interpreted as "young people will inevitably get pregnant", not "young people should get pregnant".

Still wrongheaded and cringeworthy, but maybe not as monstrous as it initially looked.

Repubs love voting for rapists and pedophiles.

He’s representing his constituency.

Have you seen the GOP before?

Oh, are the /r/Conservative mods here too?

Cuckflakes.

Are people posting lemmy links on reddit? Why?

Can I get banned from there too?

The tired, old trope of "Every accusation is a confession" tends to be true with conservatives.

It’s grounded in disgust over violations of what they perceive to be natural. They see a 16 year old girl having a husband to be natural, they see a 16 year old AFAB boy as being a violation of the natural order. And since they see queerness as a sexual perversion and marriage as the sacred outlet of sexuality they see queer people as pushing sex on teenagers when they’re just encouraging them to settle down and have a family

"Biden has said worse"

"They didn't mean it like that"

"Your source is corrupt"

"They are lying about their age because they are immigrants"

Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

The more you get angry, the more they can play victim.

Because the GOP have taken Mitch McConnell's mantra of "if the Democrats are for it, we must speak out against it, no matter what" to ridiculous extremes.

I would make a hyperbolic example about the GOP arguing in favor of murdering puppies and kittens if the Democrats wanted to save them, but they've already argued in favor of forcing 10 year old rape victims to give birth, telling those children they should be happy for the "blessing" they received, murdered schoolchildren being nothing more than the price we pay for a 'free society', and guns being necessary and more important than the safety of our children because they need to shoot prairie dogs. I don't think any hyperbole is necessary.

But this is how we get here. When the default is to be against literally anything the Democrats support, and the answer to the "what if...." questions that follow are to either double down on the extremism and/or just say "ban that too!", this is the only logical outcome.

It's a brain malfunction where cognitive dissonance apparently feels good.

We are right, you're wrong.

There is a defense for these laws! Which makes it doubly fucked up that I've never once heard a Republican utter it.

(Among other issues, marriage wipes out many legal complications of inheritance.)

Well that’s a gross new dog whistle to listen for.

“Freedom-loving couples” is shorthand for “oh shit I knocked up this ripe fertile child I was fucking, and I love freedom, so now I need to marty/own her instead of going to jail.”

I mean, I don’t know what he’s whining about. In most states all he has to do is get the parents’ permission, and he can marry her even if she’s underage. Maybe he’s mad that 12 states ban it completely?

On a side note, why is that a fucking exception in the law!?

Heyyyy 4chan’s b exposes paedos, conservative people DEFEND paedos. There’s a difference there!

I wish he gets every kind of cancer.

Fucking groomers going after kids with nothing but sex on their mind.

"We need child marriage because it's the only solution to child rape!"

These people aren't even pretending anymore.

Me, who was adopted as a child: "Oh they forgot about adoption again. I'm shocked."

"Freedom of Marriage".

So these two men who have been together for 10 years can get married?

"No, not like that..."

Someone please shut this degenerate up for good.

let's shut them all up for good. the world would turn on a dime within one decade.

That’s not even a conspiracy theory; It’s literally why reps like MTG, Boeburt, and Ted Cruz exist. Their entire goal is to drag the Overton window farther to the right. They’re in safe seats where they don’t need to worry about reelection. So they’re able to spew batshit crazy far-right propaganda, and it makes the republicans in threatened seats look less crazy. Because if you’re in a threatened seat, you need to appear moderate to catch the swing votes. It allows those threatened republicans to continue to quietly vote along party lines without looking like a hardline republican.

Yep, to move the Overton Window to the right. The left should do this as well. If a group of real leftist put out a political platform it would make Biden look like a Republican.

• Completly ban lobbying
• Free healthcare for all
• Free college for all
• Housing guarantee - homelessness not acceptable
• Billionaires fortunes taken and redistributed
• Ban fossil fuel subsidies
• Military exit from all countries except as part of multi-lateral peace keeping forces

Stuff like that

I wish it was some strategic play to manipulate public opinion. But this is sincerely what white nationalists who have ingested too much Great Replacement Theory honestly think.

Teenage girls are just baby-making factors for the "correct" ethnicity. Everything about our civilization hinges on the level of pigmentation in our skin and the shape of our foreheads/lips. We need to be prepared for a War To End All Wars, and that means churning out an army of Ubermensch to combat the savage hordes.

It isn't an act. This is what they sincerely believe. 20 years of post-9/11 hysteria and migrant-bashing has produced a party dead set on doing Nazi shit all over again, but from the inside of the country that won the last big war.

20 years ago that was their plan, but now they used the BS to control the masses so long, and so thoroughly, that the rubes that the were playing have taken control of the party.

Whoa whoa whoa...he didn't say ripe, fertile and likely to survive child birth... this is pretty consistent with thier priorities.

Yup. Whenever someone tries to justify underage marriage with “most fertile period” or “it’s always been the norm”, you know they’re a pedo. Teenage pregnancies are risky because the pelvis hasn’t fully developed, and the girl is more likely to suffer severe depression as well. Most fertile age is more like 19-32 not 12-18. Also, I live in the UK and marriage records kept by the church from the 1400s show the vast majority of girls married for the first time in their early twenties, not teen years :)

"Remember, its not pedophilia if it makes me come" - Republicans.

Relevant Classic Trevor Moore Song:

Songs of Olden Times https://youtu.be/l_fIWlu5zuo

Let us see if it shows up at the GOP convention...

I’m voting as hard as I can, but they’re making it as difficult as possible and even some of our leaders advocate for ignoring the votes.

Yo I live in California. I can’t vote for people in Mississippi.

Because whatever disgusting, vile thoughts run through their heads is what they assume others must be doing.

Some call it projection... but it's projection because these are things they are OBSESSED with. They are so sick and lacking empathy and experience that can't imagine that others genuinely think differently than they do. Every accusation is an admission.

As always, it is all about Projection.

With a statement like this, it's more likely he has grandkid-kids.

The exceptions in the law:

If the child is pregnant

If a judge okays it

If the parents okay it

Nothing wrong with this picture, nope, nope, nope. No abuse could possibly happen with this setup.

The issue attracting republican women, it's controlled republican girls. By marrying their female children at a young age, they've reduced their ability to escape the indoctrination cycle.

That and they want to be able rape post prepubescent children legally when their men hit midlife crisis age.

It's an angler fish thing. Sometimes you see the nightmare lurking in the darkness, but usually you get the "some of the nicest people you'll ever meet!" facade.

Probably most. You'd see 1000s of articles every day non-stop, if 20%+ of people were this disgusting.

The fact that you can still be surprised is proof that most of them aren't this disgusting.

All. But as with most things, it's a spectrum.

Something tells me the phrase A.R.A.B. isn't going to catch on

One of the few parties deserving of Jim Jones fruit punch.

They're cheering it on.

It’s a total coincidence that they want to force little girls to give birth too.

Child marriage is already legal in quite a few states with parental permission. And there are a lot of terrible parents.

Indeed. The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population

My sis is 2 decades younger than me. She now the age our mom gave birth me to me. The idea of teen pregnancy kind of make me want to cry to think about it. Just so sad.

They are not, but I'll gladly buy all the bullets required to keep children safe from religious idiots and republikkklowns.

Dude's not nearly rich or connected enough to hang with the Wall Street freaks or the Silicon Valley geeks. He's probably raping his way through his local church group, though.

So after searching a bit, "豆蔻年华" appears to translate to "cardamom years".

In case anyone else thought that the post above wasn't terribly clear.

Because a single representative represents a lot fewer people their.

The lyrics are so creepy, but the music slaps