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Pic Of The Moment: Pssst, Greg... You Missed One (Original Post) EarlG Sep 2021 OP
+33. n/t Harker Sep 2021 #1
Zzzzzzing! ffr Sep 2021 #2
Rapists are usually family members or boyfriends; they don' t "roam the streets behind bushes" magicguido Sep 2021 #3
And they seldom carry... SergeStorms Sep 2021 #12
And if he really has the means to rid his state of rapists... Mister Ed Sep 2021 #4
You're not a rapist central scrutinizer Sep 2021 #5
Exactly.... KS Toronado Sep 2021 #6
But it's not about the pregnant victim. With guys like him, calimary Sep 2021 #17
excellent assessment, calimary Skittles Sep 2021 #27
Can we just build a wall around those two? Initech Sep 2021 #7
yepper , it's called a jail cell ! monkeyman1 Sep 2021 #10
K&R LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2021 #8
I think he is mistaking real life for the movie Minority Report. Jon King Sep 2021 #9
I heard a stat this AM Traildogbob Sep 2021 #11
No. SergeStorms Sep 2021 #14
He really means Mexican Immigrants. Tommymac Sep 2021 #13
Well first they have to rape someone ToxMarz Sep 2021 #15
OMG, that's great! Martin68 Sep 2021 #16
Women must be snapping up UHAUL trucks across the country Submariner Sep 2021 #18
How about white cloud Sep 2021 #19
So...rapists or would be rapists in Texas must have a big R tatooed on their forehead I guess?? Bengus81 Sep 2021 #20
I guess they'll also have flashing neon signs over their heads "Sexual Predator" AZLD4Candidate Sep 2021 #22
According to statistics, most women are sexually assaulted in their home during the day by men AZLD4Candidate Sep 2021 #21
How the hell is he gonna do that? Dookiestix Sep 2021 #23
That is the most sarcastic comment I have heard...How does he intend to do that? Escurumbele Sep 2021 #24
2 bdamomma Sep 2021 #25
So, in turn, Abbott will rid Texas of bank robbers by arresting..... KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2021 #26
More fodder from that IDIOT to make lemmings forget about last Feb Energy Company DISASTER Bengus81 Sep 2021 #28

ffr

(22,669 posts)
2. Zzzzzzing!
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 10:41 AM
Sep 2021

His answer too was a straw man fallacy. He didn't address the question about rape and incest, only saying that rapists will be eliminated. He failed to follow up on what happens to the pregnant female, which without comment means, she has to carry it to term. That's the way I interpreted his slippery answer.

SergeStorms

(19,199 posts)
12. And they seldom carry...
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 12:12 PM
Sep 2021

ID tags in plain sight that would identify them as rapists or potential rapists.

Perhaps Abbott should have the State of Texas run a battery of tests on all males over the age of 10, for their proclivity toward becoming a rapist. That would identify them at an early age so that their civil liberties would be violated before they could violate any female of the species.

It's only fair, after all.

Mister Ed

(5,929 posts)
4. And if he really has the means to rid his state of rapists...
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 11:04 AM
Sep 2021

...then why hasn't that been done already?

KS Toronado

(17,208 posts)
6. Exactly....
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 11:24 AM
Sep 2021

How does he propose to get potential rapists off the street? Impossible I believe.
He really meant "I'm going after Democratic rapists, since TFG wasn't a target.

calimary

(81,220 posts)
17. But it's not about the pregnant victim. With guys like him,
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 01:38 PM
Sep 2021

it never is.

I’m no psychologist, but I can’t help thinking this: he’s confined to a wheelchair. That automatically renders him needy of help, and unable to take full and independent care of himself. He may not even be able to get up and go to the bathroom without help. Sexually, I don’t know how much of that particular function is impaired. But I bet he fights the feeling of helplessness, lifelong dependence, and infirmity, internally, all the time.

And I’ll bet he FUCKING HATES that! In his wheelchair, he can’t even look somebody straight in the face - if the other person isn’t seated (ie: lower down, at his level). There’s the power and power-of-masculinity thing and he’s got a very visible impairment. And he probably,deep-down, hates anybody and anything that reminds him of his impairment. So I suspect there’s a fair amount of self-hatred in there. It’s just a suspicion on my part.

The only relief, for someone like him who lusts for (and has electorally attained) power, is to assert domination of others around him. Bring all those around him down, effectively UNDER him. So HE is the Alpha ANYWAY, despite the wheelchair. He can defy his frustration over his own sense of helplessness that way.

And who is easiest to dominate? Societally, it’s the poor, needy, disadvantaged, who can’t afford the help and care they need. A majority of that group are women, many of them single. Single heads-of-households, forced to get by without help (because jerks like him don’t want to spend the money helping people like them). And personally, the women in his own individual sphere. Dominate THEM, TOO. But that’s easier because it doesn’t involve public policy and all the noise and attention that comes with it, and it’s conveniently behind your own closed doors.

He’s the absolute lowest of the low. When his circumstances would otherwise enable him to be more compassionate. After all, he above all should be able to sympathize AND EMPATHIZE with the misfortune and disability and sense of extreme difficulty and encumbrance of others. And he clearly does not.

Skittles

(153,150 posts)
27. excellent assessment, calimary
Thu Sep 9, 2021, 03:37 AM
Sep 2021

the guy has extreme issues, and has no problem making other people suffer because of it

Jon King

(1,910 posts)
9. I think he is mistaking real life for the movie Minority Report.
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 11:57 AM
Sep 2021

You know, the one where crimes can be predicted before they happen.

Traildogbob

(8,720 posts)
11. I heard a stat this AM
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 12:05 PM
Sep 2021

That Texas has a backlog of over 6,000 rape kits not yet processed under his watch and he was AG before Gov. But, rape and incest, no problem, he can eliminate both, more guns.
Wondering, if you shoot the fetus with your God Given Gun, would that be legal and acceptable.

SergeStorms

(19,199 posts)
14. No.
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 12:18 PM
Sep 2021

He'd have to appoint more bounty hunters to hunt down the gunmen who shot these unprotected fetuses.

Abbott just opened a huge can of worms 🪱 in Texas. Pretty soon everyone will be ratting out everyone else for one type of bounty or another.

ToxMarz

(2,166 posts)
15. Well first they have to rape someone
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 12:51 PM
Sep 2021

BEFORE you aggressively go after them and arrest them and prosecute them and get them off the streets. It's not a preventative, just a punishment.

Submariner

(12,503 posts)
18. Women must be snapping up UHAUL trucks across the country
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 02:07 PM
Sep 2021

in a mass move to the safety of rape free Texas.

Texas State Troopers must be trained to detect and arrest the rapists, before they even get a chance to commit the rape!

I think Governor Abbott must be channeling Tom Cruise from the Minority Report movie, or he's on the crack pipe.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
20. So...rapists or would be rapists in Texas must have a big R tatooed on their forehead I guess??
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 03:29 PM
Sep 2021

Makes it easy to smoke em' out eh Greg?

AZLD4Candidate

(5,684 posts)
22. I guess they'll also have flashing neon signs over their heads "Sexual Predator"
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 04:11 PM
Sep 2021

John Wayne Gacy wasn't discovered until his neighbors started complaining about the smell coming from his home.

AZLD4Candidate

(5,684 posts)
21. According to statistics, most women are sexually assaulted in their home during the day by men
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 04:10 PM
Sep 2021

they know.

Most girls are sexually molested by male family members.

Explain how you will stop that Governor.

Escurumbele

(3,389 posts)
24. That is the most sarcastic comment I have heard...How does he intend to do that?
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 05:26 PM
Sep 2021

What a f^&*^* moron Abbot is...

So, to find rapists a guy must commit rape, and then they catch him...Does Abbot think rapists smell different, walk different, talk different or do things in the spotlight that would make them easily recognizable? What a F^*&^ moron...did I say that already?

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,490 posts)
26. So, in turn, Abbott will rid Texas of bank robbers by arresting.....
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 10:45 PM
Sep 2021

everyone in Texas who loves money.........

That boy get the world-wide idiot of the day award for that pledge.


KY.......

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