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F you, Taylor Swift!” shouted Megyn Kelly, “and f all of the people who want to see these children have body parts chopped off.”

For those not fluent in Republican crazy-speak, Kelly’s meltdown was triggered by Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris the night before, barely one hour after Trump all but face-planted on the debate stage. Kelly was especially triggered by Swift highlighting her appreciation for vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s support of LGBTQ+ rights.

Other right-wing commentators, like Ben Shapiro, took another approach: making fun of Swifties. “Note: if you vote for a particular candidate because your favorite singer is doing so, please don’t vote. You are too stupid to vote,” wrote Shapiro on X. Meanwhile, Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet, threatened to impregnate her.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Is Megyn Kelly really against circumcision now or something?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Look, just try and get it done. Go see what it takes, if it's really as easy as they keep telling you. Take your kid and see how far you can get in trying to surgically transition them. You can always back out at the last second. Don't just take the talking heads' word for it, go see for yourself how far you can get along that process before a medical professional tells you "no."

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago

I concur, from personal experience.

Any gender transition related healthcare - even just hormone therapy - is a long and involved process that requires multiple doctor and therapist visits, even for adults. And you have to be quite determined and strongly advocate for yourself the entire time, or the process will get derailed.

People who claim that gender transition healthcare is "easy" or "sudden" are just making shit up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Yeah, that's what you'll hear, immediately. Nobody anywhere is going to surgically transition a kid.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's so dumb, she was never ever ever gonna endorse trump, no matter what A.I. generated images say 🤦‍♂️

In 2020, she baked Biden Harris cookies

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 months ago (19 children)

Did I miss the news cycle where Democrats started dismembering children?

[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You're probably just not consuming the right batshit crazy conservative echo chamber outlet

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

amazing comment.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They are getting harder to find, you know, with all the Russian money drying up

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg all seem happy to foster right wing conspiracy incubators. Its not going to stop until at least there is some transparency in their content algorithms or extreme fines for media companies that promote misleading/fake/nonsense information.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Leading up to the debate, a whole bunch of new propaganda got pushed. Haitians eating cats in Ohio, Post-birth-abortions, and forced transitions for children, prisoners, and illegal-aliens. Totally normal conspiracy theories based on absolutely nothing

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I caught the cat eating thing, and the post-birth abortion thing. I must have been too distracted by the Venezuelan gangs that are supposed to have taken over my city to catch the other stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Once again, we see what the debate between Harris and Trump illustrated very clearly: The GOP in its current state is not pursuing any program whatsoever, but merely builds up imaginary enemy stereotypes that they blame for all their problems - without any even halfway factual reasons. Democratic processes are impossible with this tedious kindergarten approach because they are based on factual arguments, cooperation and the willingness to find common ground. I sincerely hope that there are some rational thinking conservatives left who will refuse to vote for this hateful orange moron and his ridiculous henchmen.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it's almost as if all their talking points and strategies are fed to them by a hostile foreign power that wants to destabilize its enemy. Weird.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"...these children have body parts chopped off."

From an abortion? That's not how it works, Megyn. That's not how any of this works, you disingenuous dunce.

ETA: Oh, she's referring to trans kids? (Thanks for the clarification Dkarma) That makes a bit more sense. But still utter crap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

She's talking about trans kids. Also a lie.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I love the implying the dems when they renew the office will do horrible things they have for some reason waited to do while they have office. Honestly it annoys me people take the what the canidate says they will do things with anything than a grain of salt when its clear the historical precidence has held. tax cuts for rich, deregulation, wars, outlaw abortion go republican. progressive taxes, corpo regulation and monopoly breakup, exiting wars, bodily autonomy go democrat. lambast fed to zero interest so stock market go burr republican, let fed set rates to keep a inflation at a low but not negative rate democrat. (for any repbulicans who don't understand fed rates obama had them up then trump pushed them down to his term which is why we had the inflation we had which cooled down due to biden allowing for extreme fed action which further makes things bad as you want fed adjustments to be small but that can't happen when a president spends his term pushing for them to be the opposite of where they should be.)

[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 months ago (3 children)

the richest man in the world "threatened to impregnate her" holy shit what bizarre world we are living in.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

That actually is weird.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I'm guessing he was trying to be funny. He so desperately wants to be seen as funny.

I hope swift just ignores him.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago

Yea jesus christ, that's creepy af even for him.

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