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Specialist-Put6367 t1_j80xzkn wrote

Reply to comment by Aazadan in FBI conducting search of former Vice President Mike Pence's home by Picture-unrelated

I’ll say third. He also admonished the Republican Party if they banned abortion it was also their responsibility to open their homes to all the unwanted babies that’d suddenly be in the foster system. At least he’s consistently pro-life, not just anti-abortion

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tcmart14 t1_j80zj57 wrote

Yea. Him wanting to ban abortion sucks. But at least he follows it up with, "it is our responsibility to take alternatives to abortion seriously for unwanted kids."

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One-Guilty-Finger t1_j8146li wrote

He needs to put his money where his mouth is, then, but we all know that’s hard for a Cosplay Christian to do. When they come to a fork in the road, they prefer to go to the cruel side.

PS I can’t understand why more than half of our national budget goes to the military. Just way too much.

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Specialist-Put6367 t1_j86hv81 wrote

Majority of our budget (~73%) is locked up in "mandatory spending", which is majority Social Security and Medicare. Almost half of our discretionary spending is defense. Overall it's ~14% of our overall budget. That said, it's still obscene, and still ~6x what the feds pay for education.

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Aazadan t1_j80zuq8 wrote

I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t see that as even being a pro life position, it’s just telling women that a babys life is more valuable than their life. Additionally, even thought he told Republicans that, he didn’t favor expansion and funding to government programs to make the care for those people possible.

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WisdomInTheShadows t1_j811x87 wrote

Right, because the expansion of government spending is not consistent with his views on smaller, leaner government and that private citizens and civil organizations should have that responsibility. His statement was specifically that those people that wanted to ban abortion should open their homes and their money and their time to provide these alternatives because they were the ones that outlawed abortion. He's saying put your money where your mouth is.

You may never agree with him on much, and I don't agree with him on a lot of things, but in this age of inconsistency and MTG insanity, Pence has been very consistent in his views and that includes his views on this topic.

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Painting_Agency t1_j81wi86 wrote

> Pence has been very consistent in his views

A lot of Republicans, as far as I can tell, believe in nothing except power. But Mike Pence, I think he really is a true believer. I think he's the real deal. It's just that what he truly believes in is Christian hegemony.

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Panchorc t1_j82hq2r wrote

>but in this age of inconsistency and MTG insanity

The hell did Magic The Gathering do now?

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WisdomInTheShadows t1_j82mlfe wrote

Card quality hald that of my HP printer, going down to 7 card packs for $7 per pack, magic 30th being $1000 for 4 booster packs of low quality proxies, the assasination of the local gaming store, should I go on?

But..... In this case, I meant Marjorie Taylor Greene, someone who condenses more crazy into a human body than I ever thought possible.

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