A Trump-backed Republican candidate in Michigan – who won his primary and is now the official GOP House candidate for that district – once ran a “think tank” where he advocated for women to be stripped of their right to vote so that the government could be run by men while women raised babies. This was many years ago, and his campaign now says that he only made those claims to make fun of feminists, but there’s nothing funny about what he said in his younger days. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Link – https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-gibbs-women-sexism-republican_n_632be3e1e4b0013f244da138
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
A Trump backed candidate for the us house of representatives up in Michigan, by the name of John Gibbs. Uh, recently it was revealed called for women to be stripped of their right to vote. Now it was recently revealed. He didn’t say these things recently. No, no, no good heavens no, he’s not that dumb. He said these things in the early two thousands when he was a student in college and he founded a think tank called society for the critique of feminism. And as part of Mr. Gibbs’ society for the critique of feminism, uh, they put out multiple different papers, had lots of stuff all over their idiotic little website where they argued that not only should women not vote, but they shouldn’t be allowed in government at all. They, they should be at home having babies and then raising the babies. And then I guess once you hit menopause at that point, you’re just worthless to a guy like Gibbs.
So here is a, a portion of what that website had to say. Some argue that in a democratic society, it is hypocritical or unjust for women who are 50% of the population not to have the vote. This is obviously not true since the founding fathers who understood Liberty and democracy better than anyone did not believe. So. In addition, all people under age 18 cannot vote. Although they too compromise, uh, uh, comprise a significant portion of the population. So we cannot say that women should be able to vote simply because they are a large part of the population. They then went on on a later portion, according to HuffPost to say the Bible clearly articulates the idea that women should not teach or maintain positions of power. So you don’t want women to have any jobs, right? Like they can’t be teachers. They can’t be in government. They can’t vote again, barefoot pregnant in the kitchen, making your dinner, right. That’s what you want women to be. That that’s clearly what this website from 20 years ago is telling us.
So has his have his views changed? Right? Like I said, it was 20 years ago. I mean, I don’t believe a lot of the I believe 20 years ago. Well, here’s what his campaign said. Once this information came out, uh, this is from Anne Marie Schreiber, uh, Scher, who is a spokesperson for Gibb’s campaign, told C in that Gibbs didn’t actually believe women shouldn’t be allowed to vote or work. And in advanced online arguments to quote, provoke the left on campus and draw attention to the hypocrisy of some modern day feminist. Oh, so he doesn’t believe all of that. According to this little idiot that works for him, that he clearly thinks is beneath him. Um, because that’s a woman, right? The spokesperson is a woman. So he doesn’t even think you should have that job. And she’s out there caping for this man. Who’s like, yeah, I don’t think women should work. She’s like, no, no, no. He was just exposing the hypocrisy of feminists.
How, how
Could you elaborate on that? Like feminists out there saying, Hey, we deserve equal rights. We deserve to make decisions about our own bodies. We deserve to make the same as a man in the same position. And he’s like, well, I’m gonna expose your hypocrisy by saying you shouldn’t even be allowed to work or vote. That makes no sense. So either his spokesperson here is straight up lying. Or if that is what he was trying to do, show hypocrisy, then he may need to go live in a padded cell because he’s not intelligent enough to walk around by himself.
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He gave no valid argument in favor of women not voting.
He’s saying kids should be able to vote if women can too
I think at least some of it is the fear that most women, especially those of childbearing age will now vote Democratic after Row vs Wade was overturned.
Sometimes I hate been a MAN!!
What a jacka**. Dont vote for him . A walking disaster.
Hm, in the book of Judges in the Bible many women were judges… has this guy read the Bible?
Gibbs is a typical Republican with Charles Koch money.
Don't trust the smile…self hate a bish.
I remember an old man telling me that in his opinion women are only good for having babies . When a woman reaches menopause he said they should crawl off someplace and die. He was Republican too.
Just look at him, I can just tell that he has been rejected by women. Just look at him .🥶🥶🥶
Republicans are morons plain and simple…….they have sadistic morals and ethics and don't deserve any respect and should be mocked criticized ridiculed and driven from office
John Gibbs should be aware that all mothers are working mothers!!!
I guess that Mr.Gibbs doesn't realize that in his adoration of our Founding Father's that they owned some of his ancestors!!
My sister was a successful business woman who after selling her business became a medical technician.
She also raised a wonderful daughter who has a great job as a supervisor of sales reps at a medical supply company.
She's also married to a great guy and they have two sons.
I guess Mr.Gibbs doesn't realize that his mother was a hard worker!!
And as much as he wishes that all moms were Barbara Billingsley;Florence Henderson and Donna Reed,he also should realize that (1)They were actresses playing a TV character.
(2)Sure,we all love the 50's.Well,we actually love the fantasy of the Era.
But if you dig below the surface it wasn't all sock hops and soda jerks!jerseys!!
There was also segregation!!!
And not only down south!!
There also was segregation in the northeast;Midwest and west coast as well!!
That's so mentally sick Adolf Hitler thinking
Women deserve to have any career they want even be a judge
Afghanistan Taliban rule ring a bell?
Taliban much…..?
Brother Gibb-"You can tell by the way I use my block, screw women man, no time to talk! FemiNazis turn me off, I'm a ditto head, let Limbaugh talk!"
So, if there is a woman that nobody wants to marry, and it is against the law for her to have a job, how does she pay the bills? Does she just get everything free? Has this guy worked out how that would work? I mean, does the government pay all her bills? Women get paid less than a man, but, in my own personal experience, no vendors have ever given me a "woman's discount". And women did in fact, work, during the founding fathers' time. This idea that women don't or shouldn't work was only a fleeting idea pushed during one single decade, the 1950's when they wanted to get the GIs back to work after the war. This guy is not a deep thinker. I guess if they pass his agenda, I will send him my bills to pay. I could use the help.
Wow, that guy has a fixation.
I just want to know if he was birth by a woman and at least had a mother or even sisters or was he the egg of the Brown Headed Cowbird who sneaks their eggs into other birds nests and let those females do all their work. No bonding with their own chicks that way. Because he acts like he had zero bonding with a mother/female at all.🤦🏼♀️. He hates women no doubt about it.
So basically he had no dates. Then he became angry because his loneliness and inability to get an woman created this. If women shouldn’t be able to work or vote then he shouldn’t be running for office because he has a lot to do I according to the Bible. His card is revoked.
I knew this was coming.
look at that acorn-nibbling grin this cheeky f!@# squirrel has
The Handmaid's Tale: Based on a True Story! 😂😂😂 Hello? Has this Gibbs guy heard of something called the 19 Amendment? If not, let me answer the question to this magat moron. The 19 Amendment gives women the right to vote. So shut up about keeping us barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, Gibbs. There's more to women than tits, asses, and uteruses. We could run this country better than men can.
Also, to answer your question, Farron, yes, Gibbs is a painfully stupid liar.
He might just be painfully stupid and also a liar. Trump is.
Good reason why I don't believe in the bible.
Fuck your Bible and your God myth
Great argument coming from a black guy. What about the founding father's wisdom on slavery?
I knew it! I knew that would be tested.
Is he OK with having his vote count as 3/5ths?
This is The American Taliban revealed!!! Did this idiot look in the mirror when he cited that the founding fathers didn’t believe women should have the right to vote???!!! He’s black! Guess which other group of people our founding fathers didn’t believe should have the right to vote!……black men!!!! The alt-right is a dangerous EXTREMIST movement driven by CRAZY people!!! Most of their policies involve taking rights and freedoms away from others and concentrating power in themselves! They are fanatical fascist religious terrorists. Look toward Afghanistan if you want to see what a country under religious rule looks like!!!!