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Republican Rep. caught admitting SAVE Act is bad for married women

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ClerkSea2776 Mar 25, 2026 +372
The absolute hypocrisy is wild dude. they spent the last six months screaming that disenfranchising women with mismatched birth certificates was a "fake leftist narrative." and now this guy gets caught on tape admitting his own married aide had to jump through massive hoops just to vote lmao. you can't make this up.
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charlies-ghost Mar 25, 2026 +237
> [Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda. Lol](https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1854164649433858119), Matt Walsh (2024-11-06). Conservatives are well-aware that they are everything liberals say they are. They make jokes and memes about it. It's funny to them.
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Skiinz19 Mar 25, 2026 +35
No one likes to be found out. That's why calling a s**** a s**** is so important.
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cursedfan Mar 25, 2026 +10
They know. They always know.
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mikeholczer Mar 26, 2026 +1
Disingenuous bad faith claims are the Republican brand.
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SomeDude416 Mar 25, 2026 +198
And yet MAGA women will support this c*** with a smile on their face.
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barryvm Mar 25, 2026 +91
There's not much difference between that and working or middle class men supporting Trump, IMHO. They all feel they're special and they all think they'll end up above the people they look down on. Note that the plan is to disenfranchise everyone, since the end goal is an oligarchic dictatorship.
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XanmanK Mar 25, 2026 +37
Because trad wives do what their husbands tell them to do
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Hungry_Culture Mar 25, 2026 +44
It blows my mind that the lifestyle of having your husband control pretty much your entire life while you basically live as a handmaid is so popular.
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Rhysati Mar 25, 2026 +38
They believe the lies they were indoctrinated with. The Christian believers have been told that God created them to be subservient to their husbands in order to honor their creator. The conservative ones have been told that the way to have a happy marriage and a healthy family is for the man to be in charge of everything and as long as the woman obeys they get to live happily and safely without having to worry about pesky things like autonomy.
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WakingWaldo Mar 25, 2026 +21
Not only that but one of the, admittedly more simple, reasons I think right-wing thought is so pervasive is because some people don't want think about what they should believe and do. Some folks just prefer having daddy tell them what they should think, how they should act, and what beliefs they should hold. Doing these things on your own takes effort and life can be complicated -- if you are unwilling or incapable of putting in that effort then listening to what you're "supposed" to do and just doing it without question is much simpler.
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XanmanK Mar 25, 2026 +10
That’s exactly what the GOP wants- decrease education, increase birth rates, create a population of obedient workers who aren’t going to question why they are being exploited by the top 1%
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FourthLife Mar 25, 2026 +17
I don’t think it’s actually popular. I think that the videos influencers post online are viewed mostly as a kind of wish fulfillment fantasy of a simple life that most viewers don’t actually want in reality. It’s like a branch of cottage core.
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Excellent_Month_2025 Mar 25, 2026 +8
That's true, it's more of a tik Tok trend that men are hoping to make reality. But the "trad wives" online are actually making more money as an influencer than their husbands do, so it's the opposite of "trad"
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Nastasyarose Mar 25, 2026 +13
They’re taught to look down on women who speak, think, and act freely. This is anecdotal, but I was raised by Catholic magats and the jealousy and hatred my mom felt towards other women was sickening. She thought her value only came from making my father happy and that she had to earn his love. She constantly repeated that a woman’s job is to serve her husband. When he spoke (usually something cruel, terrible, racist or sexist) , she would look up at him with the most braindead, subservient expression of adoration. It is grossssss what those women become.
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specialkk77 Mar 25, 2026 +7
Propaganda is powerful. Even in the Handmaids tale there are women that are happy in that position because they fully embrace the lies they were told
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mom2mermaidboo Mar 25, 2026 +5
I would say most of these Trad wives are also working full-time because their husbands cannot bring home the bacon like in years past. Think of it, they’re working full-time their husband is working full-time. Yet they’re still expected to let their husbands have full say in Everything. No rational woman thinks this is fair or a good idea.
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TheAngryGoat Mar 25, 2026 +14
It's surprising the number of conservative women who believe that women shouldn't be in politics, and would never vote for one themselves, and even believe they shouldn't be allowed to even vote. Insane. The lie that the enemy of women in politics is men needs to die, and the reality be seen that the enemy of women is politics is conservatives, both female and male.
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Excellent_Month_2025 Mar 25, 2026 +27
the same way they were happy to take away their own bodily autonomy. even though the only women I know who have had abortions are "pro life" republicans
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rikaateabug Mar 25, 2026 +13
["The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion"](https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/)
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Excellent_Month_2025 Mar 25, 2026 +6
It really is so true. They went back to voting to take away other women's autonomy after, but convince themselves that their abortions were correct because they eventually got the families they wanted. Never thinking that is all most women want as well
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EFCFrost Mar 25, 2026 +7
That’s because MAGA women are brainless.
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BeenDragonn Mar 25, 2026 +5
Cause they think it will only affect black and brown people.
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TheAskewOne Mar 25, 2026 +3
The 2024 election made it clear that white women will gladly sacrifice their own rights to their racism.
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Gambit717 Mar 25, 2026 +3
And a bruise on their eye from their Maga husband if they step out of the Trad Wife role
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Vackberg Mar 25, 2026 -47
It's easy to get the id. This issue is bring pumped by fringe groups.
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wutareyousomekinda Mar 25, 2026 +10
Why would we change 250 years of voting norms on the whims of a serial child rapist?
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McNastySwirl Mar 25, 2026 +18
What happens when getting the passport is controlled by the single party who has defunded social services across the board and you have more requests in a short period of time than ever before? They pick and choose whose to process. There are many many ways to control the game when you’ve written these rules. FWIW I’m not saying this for you, I’m saying it for the uninformed American who reads your brain dead, trolling post.
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Comfortable_Ebb1634 Mar 25, 2026 +10
President also told libraries to stop processing passports. Wonder why?
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mwilke Mar 25, 2026 +3
Pretty sure that guy is a bot
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Vackberg Mar 25, 2026 -16
People have already started the process. There's only people like you who don't want people to start the process and that's kinda weird.
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mwilke Mar 25, 2026 +7
Who? What people? Why would they have started a time-consuming and expensive process to comply with a law that has not yet passed?
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Vackberg Mar 25, 2026 -13
Sure wait until the last minute to get id. Do you know how expensive it is to get a driver's license and to own a car? A passport is child's play.
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mwilke Mar 25, 2026 +8
Owning a car is not a requirement for political enfranchisement in the United States. It sure does sound like you’re agreeing this is a poll tax that could be levied so close to an election that many people will be unable to comply with it though. That’s kinda weird. Why do you believe that we need this new requirement now, after 250 years of not having it? And if it’s so important, why wouldn’t it be rolled out with the same amount of time to comply as, say, Real ID?
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Vackberg Mar 25, 2026 +1
Oh, so it's not about money now.
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mwilke Mar 25, 2026 +7
A poll tax is absolutely about money, yes. The money part is what makes it illegal. Interesting that you skipped over all the other questions. Is it because you have no answer for them, or because you know your answer would reveal your bad faith? Please describe why this new requirement is necessary when Americans have been voting just fine without it - and then please describe why it must be enforced in time for _this_ election in particular, instead of allowing the 10 years given for people to get Real IDs?
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Vackberg Mar 25, 2026 -2
TIL, Getting proper ID is bad faith. You're really trying hard to make proper documentation a bad thing.
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Oakashandthorne Mar 25, 2026 +5
Do you know how expensive a passport is?
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Babymilst Mar 25, 2026 +67
They are finally admitting the quiet part out loud about how this bill is just a targeted attempt at voter suppression. It is hilarious that they will scream about family values while simultaneously drafting laws that penalize women for the "crime" of taking their husband's last name.
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Merkuri22 Mar 25, 2026 +24
No, no, don't you see? The "family values" they're talking about include that the man is the head of the household, and he's the only one who deserves a vote.
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TheAngryGoat Mar 25, 2026 +11
"Here's a list of a whole lot of complex administrative barriers that my own wife had to go through just to be able to vote, but in summary, there are zero barriers for women being able to vote and it's a conspiracy theory that there are." I can't even say that I'm twisting his words there, that's essentially what he said.
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slayer828 Mar 25, 2026 +11
It's a poll tax. Which is illegal. That should be the one and only argument. Unless they want to change the laws to make these documents free, it's illegal.
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Birdonthewind3 Mar 25, 2026 +4
Ya but have you considered the supreme court might say it cool and legit because it fucks over Democrats
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femme_mystique Mar 25, 2026 +1
It’s not meant to be viewed as a crime to take the husband’s last name; it’s that the goal is to have one vote per family unit, and that vote being the man. 
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curiousthoughts20 Mar 25, 2026 +40
Republicans don't give a shit about women. Look at their track record with how they've put women's health behind their abortion crusade.
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yorlikyorlik Mar 25, 2026 +16
There is a not-insignificant percentage of Republicans who believe women should not have a vote. The man should vote for the *family*. You see, women are too emotional and apt to tantrums, name-calling and other vindictive behavior. Not to mention, they don’t understand complex worldview problems.
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XanmanK Mar 25, 2026 +11
Hmm this behavior sounds familiar… 
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Excellent_Month_2025 Mar 25, 2026 +3
The number of men who come into the polling place with their wives' ballots in hand is alarming
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wutareyousomekinda Mar 25, 2026
Now if only we had a party which understood this but was grass roots and not oligarchical. Unfortunately, some coalition of workers would need women now that suffrage is a thing to seize power, but it will never materialize since oligarchs know they can buy women out to ensure male exploitation continues under the gynocratic make work program they established in the past few decades.
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allworkandnoYahtzee Mar 25, 2026 +5
More women have died of pregnancy related complications, more women have been arrested for having miscarriages, more women have been outright denied healthcare since the passage of Dobbs. More women are hurt or dead solely because of Republican misogyny—exactly the way they want it.
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Glum_Accident7899 Mar 25, 2026 +24
it’s not a bug, it’s literally a feature tbh. they know exactly what they’re doing. making it an absolute nightmare for specific demographics to stay on the voter rolls is the only way they can maintain power at this point ngl.
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OldSchoolBubba Mar 25, 2026 +8
Saw several news reports where gop senators are saying it doesn't have the floor votes. They're alluding to it being very unpopular which means a loss of constituents votes if they pass it. Not a good thing in an election year.
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yorlikyorlik Mar 25, 2026 +19
Susan Collins says it’s a terrible, awful bill that will disenfranchise women who changed their last names and she’s going to hate voting for it.
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orangehehe Mar 25, 2026 +14
Affecting women is the whole purpose of the SAVE act.
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Educational_Ratio129 Mar 25, 2026 +14
Republicans accidentally suppressing their own conservative suburban wives' votes because they were too busy chasing imaginary non-citizen voters is just peak comedy tbh. leopard, meet face lmao.
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IMGcertified Mar 25, 2026 +14
When my wife and I got married, I left the name decision entirely up to her. She chose to keep her last name and honestly, it made complete sense. For decades, that name was her identity: her career, her reputation, her story. Why would I ask her to erase that? When I mentioned this to a younger guy, he seemed genuinely confused. His wife, apparently, couldn't wait to change her name almost like the name change itself was the finishing touch that made the marriage feel "official." when did a last name become the seal of approval on a marriage? Two people choosing each other is the commitment. A name on a document doesn't change that. My wife is my partner in every way that matters her last name has nothing to do with it. I guess respect looks different for every couple.
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femme_mystique Mar 25, 2026 +3
A lot of women have no self-identity. They are raised believing their purpose is to serve a man and procreate. Their identity is “Mr X’s wife” or “Kid Y’s mother”. It’s the whole trad wife thing like back a hundred years ago.  Some women simply do not want otherwise. 
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Drekkful Mar 25, 2026 +1
My wife hyphenated our names and regrets it because of the number of people who just don't understand what a hyphen is or means. Constant paperwork blunders confusing last and middle names get annoying for her at work.
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RobertJ93 Mar 25, 2026 +8
> my chief of staff had to go get a new ID in Virginia. Virginia’s adopted the REAL ID system, so she had to go through a bunch of hoops. She’s gonna have to go back to the DMV twice because they want the paperwork for it > That’s just part of the issue with how we try to set up the ability to identify people > But there’s no barriers at all to married women being able to vote Yeah wow. Nice one. If there’s no barriers then why are you talking about the hoops your chief of staff had to jump through? Hoop is just another form barrier you tool.
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civil_politician Mar 25, 2026 +7
Pretty wild how “Republican accidentally tells truth” is a whole headline on its own
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Excellent_Month_2025 Mar 25, 2026 +16
PSA: Women, stop changing your names. It's outdated - women have to jump through too many hoops already
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misselphaba Mar 25, 2026 +3
My partner wanted me to change my name so I told him he could do all the paperwork and pay for it and I would. I still have my same last name.
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allworkandnoYahtzee Mar 25, 2026 +5
>”But there’s no barriers at all to married women being able to vote,” he nonsensically concluded, failing to hear his own ignorance. >Though he had just highlighted a potential hurdle that married women may face when they register to vote, Roy claimed that “there’s no barriers at all to married women being able to vote” with the SAVE America Act. We need to start treating Republican corruption like the crime it is. Arrests need to be made and prison time sentenced to even begin to stop the damage done to this country by Republicans. Our country has never been failed by a group of criminal losers like this before.
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jeannyboy69 Mar 25, 2026 +4
“So the fake news is saying married women will have barriers to vote. Side note but my female staffer had to jump through the exact hoops we are saying don’t exist at all and boy was it messy for her. Anyways ultimately there are no barriers for married women”
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kmm198700 Mar 25, 2026 +26
Or they just can just keep their maiden name when they get married
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Seraphim99 Mar 25, 2026 +19
When I went to get my Real ID, I had my birth certificate, social security card, a few pieces of mail. I immediately offered up my BC and SSC when I got to the counter. Employee said she needed my BC and marriage license. I asked why, even though I knew why. She said she needed something with my husband’s name on it. I told her I didn’t change my last name. She said “Oh ok. I’ll take your BC and a piece of mail.”
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sutree1 Mar 25, 2026 +6
"While only 39 percent of women voted for Trump in 2016, that number grew to 42 percent in 2020, then 45 percent in 2024."
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old_righty Mar 25, 2026 +8
Holy shit that’s the dumbest take. You know not all men are maga, maga adjacent, or caught in that web at all?
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Nimmaswimma Mar 25, 2026 +7
Some men only show their true colours after marriage, some men fall into the pipeline at a later stage in life, and some men get brain damage and turn conservative. The main point is that there is currently no guarantee that a man cannot turn MAGA currently. And with the Republicans f****** around with the SAVE act, and with no-fault divorce in the crosshairs as well [1] this is the best course of action currently. Better to be safe than sorry at the moment in the U.S. And I am saying this as a man. 1: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/25/republicans-no-fault-divorce
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VeeDubBug Mar 25, 2026 +11
I thought my ex husband was pretty progressive until he fell into the redpill narrative. Started watching all the manosphere shit on Youtube, all of a sudden it was the "M-SHE-U" and how women destroyed his beloved comic book movies and Star Wars. Every time we watched a movie with a woman protag (like Prey), he started bitching about how unrealistic it was. MY GUY. THIS IS A MOVIE ABOUT ALIENS HUNTING PEOPLE, AND A FEMALE MAIN CHARACTER IS WHAT'S UNREALISTIC? We had been married for close to a decade and he was no longer the person I once knew. The more I pushed back, the further he fell into typical MAGA territory, except he refuses to vote. "If it happens, it happens." Sorry, got off base there. But I did find it fascinating when my divorce lawyer asked if he had a family history of mental illness, because it pops up a lot when men hit their mid-30s. Like, yup... sure does.
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Gatonom Mar 25, 2026 +2
30% are. Considering how many of MAGA panic and scream over 1/30 of that just existing
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aslfingerspell Mar 25, 2026
Please don't throw all men under the bus on this. What about all the millions of conservative women who got Trump elected?
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aslfingerspell Mar 25, 2026
Why is misandry acceptable to you when you wouldn't defend any other generalization against any other protected class?  Criticizing an entire group of people for what a subgroup of people who is wrong. Men don't act as a whole. You can criticize millions of men who do a bad thing while respecting the millions of men who don't or even actively try to stop it.
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FromDeletion Mar 25, 2026 +3
I never thought I'd see the day when democratically elected officials want to demolish democracy.
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Mother_Airline_6276 Mar 25, 2026 +3
A popular saying in Texas is: “Never trust a man with two first names.” Prime example, right here.
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FoxyInTheSnow Mar 25, 2026 +2
Most of the women I know **did not** change their names when they got married, including my wife. We just always thought it was weird, and now (if you're american, which we're not) it might help to re-elect a fascist government. Beware of unintended consequences.
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Fit_Abbreviations174 Mar 25, 2026 +2
It doesn't matter. You can get these guys to say it out loud it doesn't stop them  It doesn't stop their base from spewing that it's lies, it doesn't stop this from going through
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terriblethx Mar 25, 2026 +2
And if women refuse to give up their surnames going forward, the manosphere will collapse in bitterness.
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dregan Mar 25, 2026 +1
[Interesting](https://freeimage.host/i/qPtba6B)
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CivilWay1444 Mar 25, 2026 +1
What a surprise. 
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DavidC_M Mar 25, 2026 +1
Joke is that married republican women are used to being doormats for their patriotic husbands. So this won’t affect them.
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TheRoadkillRapunzel Mar 25, 2026 +1
If they want more women to get married, someone should tell them they’re doing it wrong.
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Feral80s_kid Mar 26, 2026 +1
Republicans LOVE fetuses, but hate women and children. 🤷🏻
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Possible_Gur4789 Mar 25, 2026 -1
Criticize, Criticize, Criticize.
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Zaxly Mar 25, 2026 -11
No shot genius
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Zaxly Mar 25, 2026 -11
That shot was a shite
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Zaxly Mar 25, 2026 -11
That shot was a shite
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