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nycbos

(6,037 posts)
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 08:59 PM Jan 2017

Mike Pence Disappointed In The 200,000 Husbands And Fathers Who Permitted Women To Attend March

WASHINGTON—Admonishing those responsible for failing to uphold their moral duties, Vice President Mike Pence expressed disappointment Saturday in the 200,000 husbands and fathers who had allowed the women and girls in their charge to attend the Women’s March on Washington. “I can’t tell you how let down I feel by the heads of these households who did not simply give their wives and daughters a firm, decisive ‘no’ when they asked to participate in today’s demonstration,” said Pence, noting with frustration that many of the protesters had been granted permission to travel across the country alone and stay for several days in a faraway city with no male chaperone whatsoever to guide and look after them. “There are a few men marching as well, so they must be the ones supervising this whole thing, and thank God for that. But I can’t help but feel that these ladies’ custodians—the ones who were supposed to be providing a masculine voice of reason on these sorts of matters—have really come up short today.” Pence stressed that he, for example, had told his 23-year-old eldest daughter that it was simply out of the question when she mentioned she was thinking of attending the march.


http://www.theonion.com/article/mike-pence-disappointed-200000-husbands-and-father-55116

Sorry I forgot to put The Onion link. But I guess many already knew.

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LAS14

(13,783 posts)
2. Whaat???? You've GOT to be KIDDING!!!! This is 2017!!!!!!! nt
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 09:01 PM
Jan 2017

Is this real? Link????? Is this fake news?

LAS14

(13,783 posts)
6. Oh. Glad I asked before I shared it with everyone. The thing is...
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 09:03 PM
Jan 2017

... in this day and age you just can't count on satire being recognized as such. Too much real stuff sounds like pure satire!!!!

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
4. This has got to be fiction. Surely pence wouldn't be dumb enough to publicly take such an
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 09:01 PM
Jan 2017

absurd political position. Actually, he probably did.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
13. We live in a world where politicians say things like
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 10:20 PM
Jan 2017

Grab them by the pussy, legitimate rape, the guy from Idaho who asked if there was a way a woman could swallow a camera to have a look at how her fetus was developing, the pyramids were for storing grain, blood coming out of her wherever, a lot of people go into prison straight and come out gay, Lindsey Graham suggesting that to avoid having to change our immigration system, we all need to be like Strom Thurmond and have kids after age 67, the guy from Oklahoma who said in response to the ACA being declared constitutional, that just because the Supreme Court rules something constitutional that doesn't make it so, etc, etc.

There are many Republicans not just dumb enough, but actually eager to stake out political positions that are this stupid.

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
14. You are probably correct about Republican politicians.
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 10:07 AM
Jan 2017

But, I still don't understand why the display such behavior and why their constituency continues to support them.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
9. It's annoying when people post things and don't identify that they are satirical
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 09:05 PM
Jan 2017

The OP title still makes it appear to be real.

Ilsa

(61,697 posts)
11. It's the onion, but there is some truth in it. He's a Dominionist, so
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 09:10 PM
Jan 2017

Controlling the wimmenfolk is the first step to making America into the Jesusland he has always wanted.

3catwoman3

(24,032 posts)
12. It may be the Onion, but it would not...
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 09:46 PM
Jan 2017

...have been much of a stretch to believe this had really happened.

lillypaddle

(9,581 posts)
15. I believed every word of it.
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 10:14 AM
Jan 2017

BTW, I hate the Onion. Waste of damn time, there is plenty real that is happening without making up shit - fake news at its worst.

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