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May 19, 2019 09:26 AM UTC

Oh No, Pikachu! Rep. Tipton Deletes Tweet Mocking Women

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  • by: Colorado Pols

If you weren’t around late last night on the Twitters, you missed it:

That’s Rep. Scott Tipton’s official congressional Twitter account, with a meme we have no doubt they thought was terribly clever for a moment–mocking women who appear to be holding #TimesUp movement protest signs, which is the contemporary movement to stamp out sexual harassment and assault, by re-captioning them as health care protesters. Then the meme slams the door on those women with the near-total ban on abortion signed into law last week in the state of Alabama. Cue surprised Pikachu!

Of course, even if you’re a fervently anti-abortion 60+ Republican white dude like Scott Tipton, this really isn’t a good look–especially in a state that overwhelmingly backs abortion rights like Colorado every time it’s put to a vote. Even fellow anti-abortion Republicans might find this insulting meme to be a cheap shot over an emotional issue, better left to internet trolls than sitting members of Congress. And they would be right.

On the bright side, if you’re in Colorado and upset about Alabama’s new abortion ban, now there’s somebody local you can call to complain! And when Rep. Tipton’s aide asks good-naturedly what Alabama’s abortion ban has to do with Rep. Tipton, which they will for at least the first few calls, you can ask them what they think of their boss’s sense of humor.

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12 thoughts on “Oh No, Pikachu! Rep. Tipton Deletes Tweet Mocking Women

      1. I am once again grateful for the Affordable Care Act. It turns out that I qualify for open enrollment in a subsidized plan, as I'm changing locations and job coverages,  and am still too young for Medicare.  I'll get a silver Kaiser plan for about $130 a month. Thanks Obama!

  1. What's not to get?

    Women in general should make up their minds, or shut up and stay out of it. They get all hysterical over nothing.

    Right ?

  2. you'd think that someone elected to Congress and serving his 4th term, and having a term in the Colorado legislature before that, would have SOME notion about existing precedent on a "state government bans abortions." Or that he would have read what happens when a government tries to ban something people need or want.

    Or that he might have read

    they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

    So, what sort of consent of the governed are we talking about? Vox reported

    According to the 2018 statewide poll, conducted by Anzalone Liszt Grove Research on behalf of Planned Parenthood, only 31 percent of Alabamians were in favor of an abortion ban that lacks a rape/incest exception.

     

     

      1. The man is impervious to thoughtful representation or rational argument.  Insult and belittle are Con constructs for winning an argument.

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