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Marla's avatar

Old trope (but still true)

Newt Gingrich is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person is.

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The_Shadout_Mapes's avatar

These people are not well. Do they have to pretend “The Left” murders month old babies because that’s something the “Abortion is Murder” crowd actually wishes they can do with impunity? Why are they so obsessed with the evil and macabre? It’s sick.

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Anotherangle01's avatar

I'd tell Newt that yes, babies have been murdered in the neonatal units. These murders did not take place in the United States. These murders took place in Great Britain. They even had a trial by jury (just like here), and they, the jury, found the nurse accused of killing seven babies guilty and attempting to kill six more from August 8 to18, 2023. She's expected to get prison for life. If something like that were to happen here in the US, Newt, you and your ilk on Fox, Newsmax, et al, would make sure that hypothetical case would become a showcase trial for reviving the death penalty. Now Newt, go away, and while your at it, go impale yourself on something rusty for awhile!!1!1!

According to the BBC,

"Nurse Lucy Letby is due to be sentenced later after being found guilty of murdering seven babies, making her the UK's most prolific child serial killer in modern times.

The 33-year-old was also convicted of trying to kill six other infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

The trial lasted for more than 10 months and is believed to be the longest murder trial in the UK.

She has indicated she will not be in court for the hearing."

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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-66545358

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Letby

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I have a fun game Newt and I can play. We take turns. He names a Democrat who has openly advocated for abortions up to thirty days after birth, and I'll name a Republican who supports abortions up to fifteen weeks and exemptions for the health of the mother, rape, and incest, and we keep going until one of us can't come up with a name. In the interest of civility, I'll let Newt go first.

What's that you say? Game over?

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Joe Schmoe, Troublemaker's avatar

Newt is just so *blatantly* insincere in his alleged 'intellectualism.' 🙄 🤦🏼‍♂️ Always has been.

He's like a walking, talking, individual version of a think tank — with said tank showing E for empty...

Thanks for all you do, Lady Robyn of Pennacchia, as always! Keep up the good works. 🥰

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Arolpin's avatar

I think I’m the only person beside Robyn who remembers, let alone “appreciates”, Dead Baby Jokes. Truly Tasteless Jokes Volumes 1-123 occupied a lot of my adolescence.

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Ellie Alive In 25's avatar

Where do they get the "30 days after birth" thing from? There must have been a beginning somewhere. I know the story of the teenager who had an abortion at 9 months so she could go to her prom, originated in a story about a pregnant teenager with PROM (Premature Rupture Of Membrane).

So what is the origin story of this ludicrous claim? It isn't the Democrats that are the ones with the Fisherman Mentality: throw 'em back until they get bigger.

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Alpaca Suitcase's avatar

Maybe the fact that families sometimes opt for palliative care instead of life saving measures for newborns that are not going to survive. That's what gov northam was talking about when they twisted his words to say Dems just leave unwanted newborns to die. Ghouls.

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Ellie Alive In 25's avatar

Could be. Pretend To Be Pro Life People do not appear to be averse to a little torture before the little ones pass.

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Alpaca Suitcase's avatar

Or the big ones. See Terri Schiavo.

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Ellie Alive In 25's avatar

One of the absolute worse things about that travesty, IMO, was the Grandfather who had to die alone (well, it was Hospice, so workers were there), because his granddaughter couldn't get to him in time because of the circus her parents called in. At the same time, in Texas, a baby was taken off life support (probably a good thing), and allowed to die. But IIRC, his family was Hispanic, and didn't have friends in high places (or low places, because Randall Terry came from underneath a rock) to protest outside his hospital.

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Davis's avatar

If Newt was asked for an example, he would provide one, but without specifics than can be checked. Oh, and that 15 week with exceptions idea is not acceptable to the base.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Health of the mother, rape, and incest exemptions aren't too popular either.

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

Inducing the labor of a severely deformed fetus who has zero chance of surviving birth is "killing your baby on the last day," according to Newt.

First of all, NO IT FUCKING ISN'T. Second, that is a hideous tragedy that is, blessedly, extremely rare. Interfering in such a scenario increases the agony exponentially.

Third, Newt Gingrich is a useless lying fatmouthed piece of shit with no morals or character, who has done nothing but harm the Republic since his entry into public life. But you all knew that.

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clairence's avatar

still, it bears repeating

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eliz_'s avatar

Mostly the babies who are killed soon after birth are those from young people/kids who are in denial about what is happening to them and/or cannot share with their families or people who are in some sort of mental health crisis (or a combination thereof).

Maybe I just watched too many real-crime type shows with my Mom when I was taking care of her, but the number of Evangelical, southern, cheerleader-types who actually did the "post-birth abortion" seems to outweigh the actual medical professionals who DO NOT DO THAT.

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marcus816's avatar

Pretty soon it will be all,

“If Democrats haven’t aborted your child by the time it’s 6 years old they will immediately send it in for sex reassignment where it will be mutilated and sterilized! This will prepare it for being forcibly gay-married when it* reaches adulthood.”

*Democrats have decreed that all gender-specific pronouns are discriminatory. Therefore, the only acceptable pronouns will now be “they”, “them”, and “it”.

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clairence's avatar

Shh! Is a secret plan.

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Demodocus's avatar

I'm guessing that the only time when a neonate is murdered instead of having been aborted months earlier is when a teen with unforgiving, almost certainly conservative, parents, gives birth in secret and then abandons or smothers the baby.

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eliz_'s avatar

I was typing a similar reply while you posted this. Seriously though, come the eff on, people!

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Villago Delenda Est 🇺🇦's avatar

This is the guy who stood in front of the main gate of Auschwitz with his moll, smiling.

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Delmarva Peninsula's avatar

I keep forgetting how much I hate this guy, and then he shows his face. Or opens his mouth. Or exists.

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

"I could definitely rally a ton of support for universal healthcare by insisting that the alternative is Viking funerals for everybody who gets sick or injured."

This is just objectively awesome...

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Mx.le Maerin's Luxury Comedy's avatar

"A far higher level of scrutiny is placed on any suggestion of entirely reasonable social policy ideas implemented with great success, for decades, the world over. "

Surely this has nothing to do with the consolidation and corporatization of our major news media. No, no, can't possibly be that.

https://twitter.com/RubenBolling/status/1696208849806450787

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