People Who Need to STFU Today

A clearinghouse of the latest in offensive quotations from people who really should've just kept their nonsense to themselves.

Posted 1 year ago
Q: I’m just wondering where you would suggest that the millions of women who receive their health services, such as mammograms, and HPV vaccines go?

ROMNEY: Well, they could go wherever they’d like to go — this is a free society. But here is what I say, which is the federal government should not tax these people to pay for Planned Parenthood. There are a lot of things that we have in our society that we may like, that we might not like, but that government should not be paying for.

In his first (but surely not last) appearance, here’s Mitt Romney mansplaining with a glib non-answer and a waved hand about his plan for reproductive healthcare access. What’s interesting is that for him, it’s all about “freedom.” But what he’s not saying is this: he’s pledged to both defund Planned Parenthood and repeal the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) which will leave people without insurance and without much money with very little if any choice whatsoever for getting healthcare. They could go “wherever they’d like” for their care, but they wouldn’t be able to pay for it. But that’s something that a lifelong millionaire like Romney just can’t seem to understand.

So let me explain it to you, Mitt. You cannot take away the means of access to healthcare and affordable insurance from people then expect that they’re now more free, more able and better cared for. It just doesn’t work.

So Mitt, here’s a hint from me to you: Shut Your Glib, Lying, Facile, Mansplaining Mouth. STFU Mitt. STFU and maybe, maybe, try thinking about the end results of the policies you’re promoting, you assmonkey.
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