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TexasTowelie

(112,329 posts)
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 09:23 PM Nov 2017

Sarah Palin says she isn't sexually harassed because people know she's packing heat

As sexual harassment scandals continue to surface seemingly by the minute, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she has never been harassed, and for good reason: She packs heat.

As the allegations against Democratic U.S. Sen. Al Franken broke on Thursday, an MSNBC reporter asked Palin, “Have you ever experienced sexual harassment in the workplace as a ambitious woman in public life?”

Palin replied: “You know, I think a whole lot people know that I’m probably ‘packing’ – so, I don’t think there’s a whole lot of people who would necessarily mess with me.”

She added that she unequivocally condemns sexual harassment.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article185509878.html

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Sarah Palin says she isn't sexually harassed because people know she's packing heat (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2017 OP
So that's what 14 year old girls need to do to stop people like roy moore? JI7 Nov 2017 #1
Of course! The nra wants everyone to have a loaded weapon. Ilsa Nov 2017 #5
So she would threaten to kill someone Ilsa Nov 2017 #2
She's so cute tazkcmo Nov 2017 #3
They're called hot flashes, Sarah. nt Xipe Totec Nov 2017 #4
You just broke the internet. SummerSnow Nov 2017 #24
An appropriate response... JHB Nov 2017 #6
Packin heat... in her sweater Bucky Nov 2017 #7
Or.... Glamrock Nov 2017 #8
Blah Blah Blah... LakeArenal Nov 2017 #9
Bullshit Eliot Rosewater Nov 2017 #10
Highly Doubt She Was Never Sexually Harassed erpowers Nov 2017 #11
I admittedly wonder where she was keeping the heat packed TexasTowelie Nov 2017 #18
This the same Sarah Palin who wore push-up bras to city council meetings to get what she wanted? tanyev Nov 2017 #12
I could say something distasteful here, like Denzil_DC Nov 2017 #13
That voice alone would scare them off blueinredohio Nov 2017 #14
That was my first thought.. Marie Marie Nov 2017 #33
People on drugs should not carry guns. Hoyt Nov 2017 #15
My thought exactly clearly this woman should not be around children. gordianot Nov 2017 #16
See post #18 for speculation about her firearms. TexasTowelie Nov 2017 #19
People that enormously stupid should not carry guns. smirkymonkey Nov 2017 #39
Truthfully, I'm against public toting in just about all cases because that junk happens, even to Hoyt Nov 2017 #40
No worries -- I'm not glad to see ya, Sarah... Blue Owl Nov 2017 #17
Shes trash. JDC Nov 2017 #20
never mind that someone literally made a porno in her image.............. Takket Nov 2017 #21
Dumb. moondust Nov 2017 #22
When Palin tried to shoot a caribou on camera, it damn near died of old age before she got it. Denzil_DC Nov 2017 #23
she is a gun humping piece of shit Skittles Nov 2017 #25
saw this interview D_Master81 Nov 2017 #26
Maybe because she is fucking repulsive nt njhoneybadger Nov 2017 #27
She condemns sexual harassment yet voted for Trump SHRED Nov 2017 #28
Yeah because more guns are exactly what we need! Initech Nov 2017 #29
Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch maxrandb Nov 2017 #30
Taking the fifth TexasTowelie Nov 2017 #31
I don't think "heat" has anything to do with it jmowreader Nov 2017 #32
Well, that, too, of course, I guess DFW Nov 2017 #34
Yes, we should all live our lives in fear that everyone else is armed, insane and wants to kill you. VOX Nov 2017 #35
I'm not sure she knows what sexual harassment is or how she defines it IronLionZion Nov 2017 #36
Fitting she's "packing heat" . . . HughBeaumont Nov 2017 #37
Well, it is cold up there I hear. But I didn't know you had to take your heat with you. L. Coyote Nov 2017 #38

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
5. Of course! The nra wants everyone to have a loaded weapon.
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 09:28 PM
Nov 2017

Even adolescents, because puberty is such a dull, unemotional time in their lives.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
2. So she would threaten to kill someone
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 09:27 PM
Nov 2017

who said something inappropriate? Or would she just shoot them? Would she expect her sons to be shot for making a pass at a girl who was offended?

She doesn't own a logical thought.

Bucky

(54,039 posts)
7. Packin heat... in her sweater
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 09:32 PM
Nov 2017

Wow, that was pretty sexist. I'm embarrassed, but too lazy to take it back

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
11. Highly Doubt She Was Never Sexually Harassed
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 09:46 PM
Nov 2017

This is a woman whose national political career was largely built on the fact that men on the right wanted to bang her. I highly doubt she never walked into a room and had a man say something to her that was sexually suggestive. I doubt you live and work in a field that is dominated by men, some of whom have little respect for women outside of the bedroom, and not be sexually harassed. We are finding out that Congress has been forced to pay out millions of dollars in settlements over sexual harassment lawsuits. So, you think those same men decided not to sexually harass Sarah Palin, a women known to the general public more for her sex appeal than her brain power, just because she may have been packing heat? It is likely those men thought it was a challenge to sexually harass a women who carried a gun.

TexasTowelie

(112,329 posts)
18. I admittedly wonder where she was keeping the heat packed
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 10:15 PM
Nov 2017

during the swimsuit competition of the Miss Alaska pageant. I guess that her flute served dual purpose in the talent competition as a musical instrument and as a rifle barrel?

tanyev

(42,592 posts)
12. This the same Sarah Palin who wore push-up bras to city council meetings to get what she wanted?
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 09:48 PM
Nov 2017
The friend elaborated on this last point: “Once, while Sarah was preparing for a city-council meeting, she said, ‘I’m gonna put on one of my push-up bras so I can get what I want tonight.’ That’s how she rolls.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010



Oh, and I guess she forgot about her traumatic experience in a step-aerobic class.

Later on, Palin's rivals in her first mayoral race claim she spread rumors of them acting luridly in a step-aerobics class, telling the instructor that she felt uncomfortable because they were "ogling her butt."

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2011/09/rogue_author.html

Denzil_DC

(7,250 posts)
13. I could say something distasteful here, like
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 09:52 PM
Nov 2017

"Ms. Palin, you'd be safe in Portsmouth on pay night."

Perhaps better not.

gordianot

(15,242 posts)
16. My thought exactly clearly this woman should not be around children.
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 10:14 PM
Nov 2017

It would be interesting to know where she carries her firearms. I suspect she is as ignorant with firearms as all other major life activities.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
40. Truthfully, I'm against public toting in just about all cases because that junk happens, even to
Mon Nov 20, 2017, 10:56 AM
Nov 2017

those who think they are the upper 1% of the "responsible" gun owners. But Palin is on drugs . . . . . . and she's stupid too.

moondust

(20,002 posts)
22. Dumb.
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 10:50 PM
Nov 2017

She could probably walk through a Walmart in most any city and few shoppers would even notice, much less recognize her unless she had a big entourage for some reason.

Denzil_DC

(7,250 posts)
23. When Palin tried to shoot a caribou on camera, it damn near died of old age before she got it.
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 10:51 PM
Nov 2017


If she's packing heat, everyone around her, including herself, needs to be issued with body armor.

D_Master81

(1,822 posts)
26. saw this interview
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 11:16 PM
Nov 2017

I saw a clip of her being interviewed on this when she said this and then goes on to say, while nearly laughing at her own statement, "i dont mean to joke about this..." Then why Mrs Palin would you make an obvious joke? Sometimes I wonder if she's capable of being serious. Can you imagine the sh*tshow this country would be if she was VP instead of Pence?

maxrandb

(15,345 posts)
30. Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 11:44 PM
Nov 2017

This irrelevant piece of amphibian shit weighing in on this is like the 7th seal being broken. The world is ending. I'm pretty sure it can't take much more of this horseshit.

I'm just going to take my 5th of Jamison's and crawl off to a fucking hole somewhere I can watch the show.

jmowreader

(50,561 posts)
32. I don't think "heat" has anything to do with it
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 11:59 PM
Nov 2017

According to the Wiki page, &quot s)exual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors." It further goes on to say that sexual harassment can include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature."

In short, if she doesn't feel like she's being sexually harassed, she's not being sexually harassed...and for all I know, she may actually like the attention she draws.

DFW

(54,425 posts)
34. Well, that, too, of course, I guess
Mon Nov 20, 2017, 04:56 AM
Nov 2017

But the fact that she's disgusting is probably also a factor..........

VOX

(22,976 posts)
35. Yes, we should all live our lives in fear that everyone else is armed, insane and wants to kill you.
Mon Nov 20, 2017, 05:22 AM
Nov 2017

That's where the NRA has taken us, by “rating” and “selecting.” Slush-brains like Palin just love the gun manufacturers and their subsidiaries, who rake in something like $15 billion/year by pushing firearms. The full extent to which NRA lobbyists squeeze profit out of this death-porn industry must be staggering.

IronLionZion

(45,491 posts)
36. I'm not sure she knows what sexual harassment is or how she defines it
Mon Nov 20, 2017, 10:14 AM
Nov 2017

because people in both parties, both genders, the media, and elsewhere said very demeaning sexual things about her during the 2008 campaign.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
38. Well, it is cold up there I hear. But I didn't know you had to take your heat with you.
Mon Nov 20, 2017, 10:24 AM
Nov 2017

I know she knows all about taking the heat metaphorically.

Seriously, she should go back to watching Mother Russia from her front porch. Meanwhile, the rest of us long for the days when Mother Russia was off on the horizon instead of controlling the White House.

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