Childless GOP Candidate Borrows Friend's Wife and Kids for Photo Ops | The GOP's antipathy towards childless Americans is prompting some weird behavior

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Childless GOP Candidate Borrows Friend's Wife and Kids for Photo Ops
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Ok, so we are now at the performative 'I have a family' stage of our conservative politicians realizing they don't actually have any meaningful, truthfully held values.

Republicans sure talk about hating post modernism, but they've done so, so much to prove that empty signifiers are the entirety of their politics.

Well, that and hurting people they don't like.

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Maybe when they say 'think of the children' they really do just mean it as an entirely solipsistic thought exercise.

Maggie needs to tell him to fuck off and find someone who will let her be in campaign photos where they are together.

Hella fucking weird.

Weirdos from top to bottom.

Also that syled slicked back hair with 2-day stubble is so off putting.

signaling that mascweirdulinity like a lighhouse.

Can I just borrow the wife? Mine is totally okay with that.

I think the issue here is, in typical conservative style, they just take and never offer anything in return.

quite telling that no woman will have this weird freak.