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The White Rose Resistance (WRR), where Zacharia sat on the board until February, is best known for its anti-abortion disinformation, harassment campaigns against providers, and for collecting the country’s worst extremists. The group’s national outreach director AJ Hurley, for example, was charged with felony stalking of an abortion provider in San Francisco in 2022. Per his own bio, Hurley is also connected to the woman who was found with multiple fetuses in her home

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[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago

‘Pro life’ has always just been pro killing women.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 128 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Literal actual extremists fill the government and yet when someone says "maybe our tax money should go to pay for healthcare and education" they're branded an extremist by practically everyone (Republicans, media, centrist Dems) and they rarely make it into government... Actual violent extremists who want to take rights away and literally put people to death get elected and/or placed into government, but people who actually want to help us are deemed "too far left/extreme."

....

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

American Mass Media is completely and utterly sold and corrupt.

These fuckers sanewash all of Trump's diarrhea, but anytime there is even a wiff of policies for the people, they'll scrutinize it to death.

Few million to feed the poor?? OMG 2 WEEK INVESTIGATIVE SEGMENTS, HOW CAN WE PAY FOR THIS??? I

Military loses BILLIONS... nothing to see here. Move along.

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So pro-life they'll kill you for disagreeing.

[–] NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

The death penalty isn't even commonly applied to one-off first degree murder convictions. It normally takes some other factor such as torture or multiple killings to escalate it to death penalty.

Even if you think abortion is murder this is detached from reality.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

It's their own fan fiction. You WONT BELIEVE the crazy plot twist on page 2027

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

They're MAGAts; they're unconcerned about reality, unless it's gas prices, but they're oddly quiet right now. I figured they'd be up in pitchforks.

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[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

100 bucks says she's had an abortion or two.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 79 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I'm sure Ivanka, err, Katie would change her tune if she found herself with a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy. "Rules for thee but not for me".

[–] StabbingSky@lemmy.zip 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

She'd probably change her tune if she got pregnant at all.

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 3 days ago

Their delusional answer to that is ‘that’s not an abortion’. Despite there being no medical difference in the procedures done, and in fact the record in your medical history is going to say ‘abortion’, because that’s what it fucking is. But abortions are done by evil people who murder babies, so their righteous medical procedure wasn’t an abortion.

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[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

So yeah, y'all hear that? If you get pregnant and something goes wrong and the fetus does at any stage, you die too.

Go fuck yourself bitch. Your whole administration needs to be in jail.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 71 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Killing MOMS is being PRO LIFE!

-Christians with Family Values!

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 days ago

As long as women suffer, they sleep well at night

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[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Can’t wait til her abortion records drop after some breach in the near future.

[–] Denfa@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

She’ll turn it into a whole new grift. She was led into it through liberal ideology, they practically strapped her to the table against her will, now she is reformed and more christian than ever, she’s here to stop other women from making the same mistake…blah blah blah so on and so forth

[–] fake@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

If the standard republican hypocrisy is anything to go by it must be extensive.

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago

I started to consider how its possible to end up with someone this bad as press secretary.

Is it:

  • No one with competence wants to work for this administration
  • Someone close to her bought Trump's crypto
  • they purposely put someone who is incompetent there as a "fuck you" to the press

All of the above?

[–] RidgeDweller@sh.itjust.works 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So pro-life they'll kill ya

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Government so small it can fit in a uterus.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 9 points 3 days ago

They'll have women report for fetus checks every two weeks. This timeline is crazy.

[–] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So their response to somebody committing (in their mind) a sin (because that's the only reason they would be pissed off in the first place) according to their hoohaw religion is to... commit more sin?

Fucking hell on earth man. Fucking hell

[–] DoctorWhoDMC@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They do not respond to this logic. The hypocrisy is the point and they consider this hypocrisy good. If you kill, you're a murderer, have rejected the Lord, and deserve death. Do not waste your breath trying to explain the ethics of the death penalty to someone who supports it because of sheer bloodlust.

If you ask, "What if an innocent person is inadvertently found guilty, executed, and then later exonerated?", that will not register to them as a valid concern. They think it's worth it and you are wasting your breath by asking. They believe in a God who ordained a commandment against killing, while also commanding genocide. They think the Creator of the Universe and therefore reality is just like that. It can't be wrong. By definition.

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[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Vote to get this shit out. No fucking talkback. Do whatever it takes to fix this shit, you apathetic non-voters.

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[–] mefisdo_dot_info@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

How about death penalty to Putin-supporting traitors to the West?

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lol knowing this admin the witch has had at least two in her past.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 days ago

Up until this year, new White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.

The White Rose Resistance (WRR), where Zacharia sat on the board until February, is best known for its anti-abortion disinformation, harassment campaigns against providers, and for collecting the country’s worst extremists. The group’s national outreach director AJ Hurley, for example, was charged with felony stalking of an abortion provider in San Francisco in 2022. Per his own bio, Hurley is also connected to the woman who was found with multiple fetuses in her home. Good times.

But to really understand WRR, you need to know its founder and leader Seth Gruber. Gruber—who likes to say that pro-lifers should “make the death penalty great again”—doesn’t believe it’s enough for abortion patients to face murder charges. For ‘equal protection’1 to be a true deterrent, Gruber says women need to be executed “in the public square.” He also argues that pro-choice Americans should not be allowed to hold public office, and that abortion involves “demonic pagan rituals.”

Well that all seems very normal and reasonable and not insane. At least they're not calling for everyone to have access to healthcare and education.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 31 points 3 days ago (4 children)

She has that baring of teeth instead of a smile thing going on.

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

She has MAGA face, and hasn't been able to feel 2/3 of her face in years. Whether that's the botox or some botched surgery, nobody knows 🤷‍♂️

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 days ago

I thought I recognized that "smile".

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Remember how much gaslighting the anti-choice types did up to and including 2022.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

The punchline of the anti-abortion movement has always been them complaining publicly about abortion as a form of eugenics, while obsessing privately about "white erasure" and divine/infernal eugenics privately. So much of the movement is tangled up in militant evangelism to a degree that hitting a pregnant woman with shrapnel during a clinic bombing is seen as divine retribution rather than collateral murder. That's long before you get into the footsie anti-abortion fanatics and modern zionists play with one another, even as Israel has become a world leader in forced sterilization, population control, and ethnic cleansing through child murder.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So what are the chances she has an abortion in her past?

Everything any Republican talks about ends up being projection, why would this be an exception? They only ever talk about things they have direct experience with. The most vocal anti-gay ones are the most closeted. The anti-drag ones are the ones cross-dressing at home.

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[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Be aware that they have no problem stealing names from real ANITFA groups.

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Where do they keep pulling these hellish ghouls from?

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

The Newsmax desk, apparently

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yah that'll fix the birth rate....

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[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The fake smile of a psychopath

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[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

My god, the world has come crazy. Abandon this world!

[–] Fowlplay@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

My god that thumbnail is scary.

[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Where did they find this bimbo? She’s dumbas a rock.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Apparently no one knew who she was until she was 23. And she has been entrangled with GOP and Christian conservatives since then.

So the answer is "way down south"

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 14 points 3 days ago

the woman who was found with multiple fetuses in her home

How is it these days I can be both shocked at something while also thinking, "that tracks"?

Want to crack down on crime? Go after the ones who are trying to pin crime on others. It sure seems they project 99% of the time.

[–] bobjones1665@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (7 children)

The bar is so low, I miss his previous lying sack of shit....

What's her name? The one who is fucking the crypt keeper?

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 12 points 3 days ago

She seems nice.

[–] myyass@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Double Kill

Multi Kill

Mega Kill

Ultra Kill

Monster Kill

Ludicrous Kill

HOLY SHIT!

I'm very upset they stole the White Rose name.

Because they were fucking legends

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