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BY DANIEL VILLARREAL ON 3/7/22 AT 6:23 PM EST
Critics are blasting Robert Regan, a Republican nominee for the Michigan House of Representatives, for publicly comparing the 2020 presidential election to a rape.
"I tell my daughters, 'Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it,'" Regan joked on a Facebook livestream.
"That was a shameful comment," said Amber Harris, a Republican strategist, of Regan's rape remarks. The livestream's host, Adam de Angeli, told WXMI that Regan "misspoke," adding, "Maybe not the best analogy, but he was speaking extemporaneously."
Advocates say rape victims are often asked why they didn't "fight back" and are often blamed for their own rape because they "secretly enjoyed it."
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/lie-back-enjoy-it-if-raped-state-rep-jokes-hed-tell-daughters-1685698?piano_t=1
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Daughter of hardline politician says: For the love of God dont vote for my dad
Jimmy McCloskey
Friday 26 Jun 2020 4:17 pm
A hardline conservative politician had been slated by his own daughter in a tweet saying: pls for the love of god do not vote for my dad
tell everyone. Robert Regans daughter Stephanie has spoken out against her dads ambition to become a Michigan state representative on Twitter after opposing his right-wing views.
Stephanies tweet was widely shared online, with the college student explaining her stance in a follow-up. She wrote: Do a quick fb (Facebook) or google search to find out about his campaign.
I dont feel safe rn sharing further information about his beliefs, but please look him up and just read for yourself. Stephanies sister Natalie has also spoken out against her Republican dad, and urged people to vote for someone else in Michigans August primaries.
Regans campaign website boasts that he was one of the first people to come out in support of Donald Trump while the now-president was running for election. He is also pushing for English to become the official language of Michigan, says he is strongly anti-abortion, and branded the Black Lives Matter movement destructive.
More:
https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/26/daughter-hardline-politician-says-love-god-dont-vote-dad-12908239/
bahboo
(16,234 posts)reprehensible then, even more so now. Listen to the daughter....
dchill
(38,320 posts)From his daughter, no less!
Deserved, of course.
Abolishinist
(1,257 posts)Stephanies sister Natalie has also spoken out against her Republican dad, and urged people to vote for someone else in Michigans August primaries.
What a rancid, disgusting, worthless piece of human garbage. And it makes not a bit of difference whether he's a D or R or I or whatever.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I feel so sorry for his poor daughters. They are probably not telling us everything that should be told.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)It's sad, but this is an empowered and responsible way for them to deal with the problem of his extremism.
Everyone knows what's meant by that last, of course, and I agree. But fwiw...he wouldn't BE a Democrat.
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)Robert Regan, the Republican nominee for a safely conservative state House seat in Michigan, has frequently re-posted antisemitic content and shared his own extreme views on Jews.
Regan is in a good position to win a May 3 special election for a vacant seat representing Kent County, Michigans 74th state district, after winning a crowded Republican primary last week by a narrow margin of 81 votes (according to unofficial tallies). Michigans Republican Party congratulated Regan on Wednesday for winning the primary.
In May 2021, Regans personal Facebook page shared two posts, still visible on his page as of Monday, in which he expressed antisemitic opinions. In one, he shared an image of a quote branded by the logo of Smoloko News, a now-defunct antisemitic website. The quote described feminism as a Jewish program to degrade and subjugate white men.
In January of last year, Regan shared a link to an antisemitic family history of the Rothschilds, the Jewish banking family often at the center of conspiracy theories about Jews and world banking domination. Two months later, he shared a meme made by a QAnon influencer that called (((Them))) the real virus in a post calling public health measures to combat COVID-19 nonsense. The triple parentheses, or echo symbol, is used online by antisemites to identify Jews.
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Judi Lynn
(160,211 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,023 posts)Bettie
(15,997 posts)he's just an overall POS, in every possible way.
Kittycatkat
(1,356 posts)3catwoman3
(23,812 posts)
joke about rape is beyond comprehension.
What a disgusting creep.
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)Demovictory9
(32,320 posts)He also manages his own business called Big Boyz Shorts, which bills itself as a subscription service to provide meaningful and inspiring stories about manhood and to encourage chaotic boys to become young orderly men and creative patriarchs.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/483559/michigan-state-house-republican-candidate-robert-regan-antisemitic-posts/
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)I feel sorry for his daughters.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I honestly pity his daughters. The poor girls must have felt so discarded their entire lives. And I am wondering if all he did was make them feel "less than". It was possibly worse.
How could anybody vote a creep like this into office?
Demovictory9
(32,320 posts)Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,921 posts)The daughters' negative endorsement tells me all I need to know about Regan.
betsuni
(25,122 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)And using what looks like a photo that is at least 20 years old in campaign literature.
eShirl
(18,466 posts)struggle4progress
(118,034 posts)Hugin
(32,778 posts)Actually, this hypocrisy is typical of the do as we say, not as we do crowd.
raccoon
(31,089 posts)Good God, so much for family values! I wouldnt be surprised if this SOB Hasnt sexually abused both of his daughters.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)disgusting
Paladin
(28,202 posts)Dumb-fuck Williams used that same offensive line, and all his oil money couldn't prevent his losing to Democrat Ann Richards. In Texas. Hope the same happens to you, you piece of shit.
Liberal In Texas
(13,453 posts)Ann Richards made mincemeat out of "Clatey."
Republicans dont even have original ideas. They just repurpose the same ugly lines.
keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)No worries now.
Abbot is eliminating rape in Texas.
He said so.
Caliman73
(11,692 posts)The 1990's was still a time when character meant something. Your political career could be ruined by saying something like that. Today, I am not so sure that this will sink the fool. I am hoping that I am wrong.
Hugin
(32,778 posts)Yet, I have never said anything even remotely as heinous.
no_hypocrisy
(45,771 posts)TV weatherman.
In 1976, Tex Antoine, the weather man, joked that a five year old girl should have just lay back and enjoyed getting raped. He was fired. That line had been comic gold since forever. In 1976, it just wasnt funny anymore. Blame womens lib. Blame the cancel culture. Weathermen, even popular weathermen, couldnt joke about raping kindergarten kids anymore on the nightly news. It didnt help that the story just before the weather forecast was about a five year old girl being raped.
https://medium.com/@kaleberg7/in-1976-tex-antoine-the-weather-man-joked-that-a-five-year-old-girl-should-have-just-lay-back-85c96d41add6
Vinca
(50,168 posts)I was going to say fucking pig, but I don't want to insult them.
70sEraVet
(3,430 posts)https://www.woodtv.com/news/kent-county/state-house-candidate-questioned-over-putin-comments-rape-analogy/
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Ugh!
flying_wahini
(6,525 posts)I know he said it because she jumped his ass bad ..
Paladin
(28,202 posts)And Clayton Williams was never governor, by the grace of God.
niyad
(112,432 posts)The Unmitigated Gall
(3,717 posts)In a Harlan Ellison short story, I think somewhere in Deathbird Stories, though I cant remember which one. He was a pretty dark writer who didnt pull punches. Ellison used the phrase in sketching out rancid morals of one of his characters, who said Confucius say when rape inevitable . Leave it to shithole pukes to transform that purposefully horrid statement into a policy statement towards women. We have to defeat these fucking taliban.
sarisataka
(18,213 posts)"Misspoke" my ass
Marcuse
(7,392 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,298 posts)Caliman73
(11,692 posts)The question then is, "Why would you go to THAT analogy off the top of your head" There are plenty of analogies an idiot like him can use regarding their 2020 election lies.
That he went to RAPE at the top of his head, just shows what his mentality is. Whenever there is a violation of some norm, rule, or law; my first instinct is never to go to rape. Rape is an especially heinous crime that should never be trivialized.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Exactly. It reveals his true, despicable character. I deeply pity his daughters. I would feel so enraged and betrayed if my father behaved this way.
Grins
(7,132 posts)A lot of that going around on the Reich. Like a contagious mental disease.
AdamGG
(1,275 posts)There was the guy in Missouri that Claire McCaskill beat, another one who said something about the woman needing to hold an aspirin between her knees and countless others. It's not just one extreme guy who's a douche, minimizing rape and blaming women is a regular theme on the far right.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)Aussie105
(5,211 posts)It's the old 'Boys will be boys, and girls shouldn't complain' argument.
But really? His own daughters?
Dad is anti-abortion too.
I guess he wants grand children whose birth certificate say 'father unknown'?
Run girls, run! dad has gone mental!
I guess mom isn't on the scene anymore, she may have something to say.