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erronis

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Thu Aug 25, 2022, 09:08 AM Aug 2022

Republicans Worry That Midterm Voters Might Believe Women Deserve Rights :: Borowitz

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/republicans-worry-that-midterm-voters-might-believe-women-deserve-rights

In the aftermath of the decisive Democratic win in New York’s special congressional election on Tuesday, Republican leaders are suddenly concerned that midterm voters might believe that women deserve rights.

The Democrat Pat Ryan’s thumping win in Tuesday’s election has made Republicans wonder, in the words of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, “Is this thing of women having rights going to be a problem for us in the fall?”

“You look at the results in the Ryan election, and it sure seems like a lot of people thought women should be considered human,” McCarthy said. “The question is: is this a part of something bigger or just kind of a onetime fluke?”

McCarthy said that he hopes midterm voters will “think big picture” and consider other issues besides whether women should have rights.

“With our emphasis on environmental deregulation, book banning, and easier access to guns, the Republicans have created a big tent,” he said. “It would be a shame to see that wrecked by an obscure special-interest group like women.”
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Republicans Worry That Midterm Voters Might Believe Women Deserve Rights :: Borowitz (Original Post) erronis Aug 2022 OP
Great! There's truth in "his" view of women as an "obscure special interest group." Hortensis Aug 2022 #1
So Borowitz is stealing their talking points? niyad Aug 2022 #2
Yeah - I guess the repugs should accuse him of plagiarism! erronis Aug 2022 #3
Reality as satire...or is it the other way around... Wounded Bear Aug 2022 #4

Hortensis

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1. Great! There's truth in "his" view of women as an "obscure special interest group."
Thu Aug 25, 2022, 09:26 AM
Aug 2022

After all, women have always been, in effect of oppression, the biggest minority group. If McCarthyite wishes were horses, we'd be forever obscure.

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