"That is sick!": Newt Gingrich loses it over ad informing women they can secretly vote for Harris

This the guy who cheated while his wife was dying of cancer?
- Yeah, he just came into the recovery room to make the final negatiations ... you know ... like you do
- But she turned him into a newt!
  
  He didn't get better.
- Exactly, he's the perfect one to talk about the moral decay in America and the broader erosion of social integrity: he's leading the charge in both cases!
- Dr Seuss?
  
  Monty Python and the search for the holy Grail
  Edit Quest,*

Yeah! Individual voters casting their vote based on their own judgment and conscience is sick!!!
- It's undemocratic! What is this, some sort of a republic? One founded on freedoms? spits
  The king will hear about this...
- "We're going to throw you and your entire family out of this cult if you don't obey!"
  
  Best case

Fwiw, muh boys, you can do the same: doesn't matter how big of nazis your family/coworkers are and that they'd literally want you dead for voting Harris - they don't see your ballot. So vote Harris, then go back to the break room and bitch about her and talk whatever nazi talk you need to to fit in - cuz sure, you tooootaly voted against that conniving evil bitch! ...or at least as far as they're concerned you did: you can let your vote to save the US be a nice little secret. It all gud.
- Lied to my dad told him I voted Trump just so he would stop his bullshit rants. But fuck yeah I voted Harris all the way. Fuck Trump and Fuck this guy. Thought he was fucking dead.
- thank you I'm glad i finally realized this freedom as a human toilet man
- It's interesting how different this dynamic is in Australia. Our public broadcaster is doing a mini series on the US election and they have a journalist there at present. In their recent episode they were talking about how people would see them with a mic outside some public or government building, and approach them with the intention of telling them all about their voting preferences and the underlying reasons.
  That's a stark contrast to how things roll in Australia. There are actually very, very few people who I would talk to about voting preferences. For example I talk to two of my sisters in group chat multiple times a day, see them at least weekly, talk to them about health problems, stressful situations, mental health... but I wouldn't openly ask them who they're planning to vote for and why.
  It's socially acceptable to talk about current issues in a non-partisan way. So in the lunch room you might say "this new tax thing is fucked" but you wouldn't say "<political leader's> new tax policy is fucked". If it strayed into anything remotely political I'd clam up. I wouldn't talk politics with work colleagues, I'd sit and judge them silently.
  I'm not trying to say our way is better. Maybe it would be better if people talked about things more.
  In very specific industries it might be different. I think it certainly was historically. My grandfather was quite vocal in his support for our Labor party (on the left) because of their support for unions. In his workplace people would have overtly supported Labor and it would've been very difficult to work there if you didn't. Ironically, he was a bit of an asshole. My grandma was pretty great, she told me after he passed away she didn't know who to vote for anymore because she always just voted the opposite of him just to cancel out his vote.
  
  Pretty much every workplace in the US has a policy against talking politics... and pretty much no one actually adheres to that policy.

Every accusation is an admission.
If the social integrity of Americans (not all, you know which ones) was in good condition, women would not need to hide their vote due to fear of retaliation.
Newt Ginbitch wants women scared and repressed, wants morals to decay, because if not most women would vote to keep their rights.

He accuses the Democrat party of promoting dishonesty? Jesus fucking Christ. This is a guy who pushed the Big Lie that the 2020 Election was stolen. The sheer hypocrisy. Every accusation a confession.
- Throughout his congressional campaign in 1974, Gingrich was having an affair with a young volunteer. An aide who worked with Gingrich throughout the 1970s stated that "it was common knowledge that Newt was involved with other women during his marriage to Jackie."
  ...
  In September 1980, according to friends who knew them both, Newt visited Jackie in the hospital the day after she had undergone surgery to treat her uterine cancer; once there, Newt began talking about the terms of their divorce, at which point Jackie threw him out of the room
  In 1993, while still married to Marianne, Gingrich began an affair with House of Representatives staffer Callista Bisek, more than two decades his junior.[278] Gingrich was having this affair even as he led the impeachment of Bill Clinton for perjury related to Clinton's own extramarital affair.[279][128] Gingrich filed for divorce from Marianne in 1999, a few months after she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
  Sauce: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich
  My stepmother was doing her undergrad (and a few years later her law degree) from the University of West Georgia when he was a professor of history there and had started his first congressional campaign. She said literally every woman in school was aware of his affairs with students.
  Moral decay in 2024? This is just yet another year of accusations fueled by projection from the right.
  
  Let's not omit that he got fined $300k for ethics violations in 1997 and was found to have accepted 1.7M in bribes (calling them what they are) from Freddie Mac shortly before Freddie wrecked the economy.
  
  Not to belabor the truism that Gingrich is pure scum, but he's a relevant point in the argument for an age-cap on voting rights.
  Hit 70, you're done. Go find something else to do, the needs and wants of the Nation are no longer your purview.
- He doesn't believe in facts.... He believes in what he feels is right. His own words I fuck u not

Our moral backbone, Newt Gingrich:
https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/exclusive-gingrich-lacks-moral-character-president-wife/story?id=15392899
She (Marianne Gingrich) said Newt moved for the divorce just months after she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, with her then-husband present.
"He also was advised by the doctor when I was sitting there that I was not to be under stress. He knew," she said.
Gingrich divorced his first wife, Jackie, as she was being treated for cancer. His relationship with Marianne began while he was still married to Jackie but in divorce proceedings, Marianne said.
- All of this was going on in private, while publicly, he was spearheading the vanguard of what has become the modern Christo-fascist movement. "Moral Majority," he called it. While cheating on his terminally ill wife.
  Fucking snake.
- She's surprised he did the same shit to her. I mean, what else do you expect?
  
  She's not a winner, either
- The usual line from these assholes goes like "I'm just a flawed human being like everyone else but I'm trying real hard to walk the line"

The man who cheated on his previous wife dying of cancer says other voting for control over their own healthcare are sick. Gotcha.
- Great side by side
- that's unfair... in the spirit of fairness I will add that he also cheated on another wife with multiple sclerosis.

I don’t think a serial cheater and divorcée has any business discussing the appropriate parameters for marriage.
Edit: How old is he? The pic makes him look like a bleached sarcophagus.
- He is a bleached sarcophagus.

Gingrich, who faced his own scandals, cited Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent split from the Democrats as further proof of disillusionment with what he sees as their corrupt influence.
Seriously? He thinks the brain worm guy leaving the Democratic party to side with the Republicans is proof that the Democrats are bad?
- yeah the democrats were obviously also supposed to offer him full reign over the CDC, NIS, USDA and all that to lure him in... and because they told him to fuck off, it's clearly them with the character flaw
- He doesn't think that. Newt is evil, not stupid.

Man this guy just won't die. He keeps coming back to fuck up politics over and over again.
- He also won't get better. That witch has a lot to answer for.
- I legit wouldn't be surprised at this point if Qanon was right, but it was just another case of their own ilk blaming others for what they're already doing.
  The entire party is "weird" at this point and refuse to die whilst leading incredibly unhealthy lives. Who's to say they aren't up to occult dark-ritual weirdness, mad science, and siphoning lifeforce from kidnapped youth around the world?
  (Yes I'm being satirical but also if it had any truth to it, it would TOTALLY be THESE GUYS doing it and blaming it on "the others" amirite?)

Newt Gingrich left his wife who was in the hospital with cancer for the subordinate he was cheating with.
“Moral Decay.” Lol.

Wow. Good thing the ad didn't tell them their husbands don't control what they do with their bodies.
Oh wait... their church pastors,.community leaders and republican leaders already did that.
- TAX AND AUDIT THE CHURCHES.

I mean, he's right in one way, you certainly ought to be able to talk about who you are voting for without fear. Communication, debate, and choose for yourself. So really the far right are just reaping what they have sown, I don't see how he can blame the ad.
- Women should vote this time because they might lose the right to vote next time. I guarantee that if Trump wins but its clear that many women voted against the wishes of their husband some Project 2025 shit heel is going to come up with the idea that men should be able to vote by proxy for their wives so that they don't vote wrong and cancel out their husband's vote.
- I mean, he's right in one way, you certainly ought to be able to talk about who you are voting for without fear.
  Absolutely. And if you can't, you're in the wrong marriage. If women were free to leave Republican husbands without fear of harm, red-cap affiliation would be a more telling demographic for social isolation and lonliness than it already is.

Man who cheated on his first wife while she had cancer and cheated on his second wife while impeaching Bill Clinton for having an affair, rails against the moral depravity of Democrats who encourage women to vote for whoever they want.
- Okay can we stop with the whole "Clinton was impeached for an affair." It was because it was with a staffer he has power over. It was extremely inappropriate. We shouldn't be cool with men in powerful positions abusing those positions to fuck people they have power over. Monica Lewinsky was literally half Clinton's age (22 and 49) and was horrifically abused by all of society AND CLINTON and HIS WIFE.
  Like seriously if this was the president of a bank fucking some teller, who he is in charge of paying and promoting, no one would be confused why that banker should step down for abuse of power. The dude was president of the ENTIRE COUNTRY, and you can't see how that's abuse of power?
  Like fuck Newt but also fuck Clinton who was buddies with Epstein. And him leaving his wife who had cancer is EGREGIOUS.
  Eta: Lemmy is full of rapist apologists I guess. If you can't understand how consent is VITAL and how it makes a world of difference, I hope you live a life being treated exactly how you treat others and women. There's a man out there who will treat you, as a man, the same way. Good luck.
  
  That is absolutely not what Clinton was impeached for.
  The investigation in to Clinton began before he'd ever met Lewinsky, and it was over some real estate dealings. Because Clinton had not actually committed an impeachable offense, Ken Starr had to keep going back to Congress to ask for a wider scope.
  The investigation took so long that after it began, Lewinsky was hired, Clinton won a re-election, there was sexual activity, word got out about it, and then Clinton lied about it under oath during a completely different deposition regarding a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Jones, which is what he was ultimately impeached for.
  It wasn't the affair or the harassment, it was the lie, and it was only the lie because they were absolutely desperate to impeach Clinton for anything by that point.
  
  The point of the comment you're replying to isn't to excuse Bill Clinton, it's to point out Newt Gingrich's hypocrisy.

Some women would be harmed by their husbands if discovered voting blue. I think those women feel a ringing in their souls when they watch that ad. Neut is grasping for any spin at all "ghwuaaahhh dishonesty!". If he was aware of the women who'd wear their husbands' reactions on their faces, he'd never admit it. But I guarantee the mere concept of sparking spousal abuse hasn't even occurred to him, that he's not seeing past the "dishonesty" part.
It's like waving salami in your derpy blind dog's face but he bites air 90 degrees in the wrong direction. Shit you'd think his smeller's busted too. How the fuck he manages to use the bathroom without tracking his own shit through the house is a fukkn X-file.
- Yeah it has been interesting to see their reaction to this ad, it seems to really have struck a chord. Very telling. They are terrified of the idea of an independent woman. It's so fucking sad and pathetic.

Another one! I like how all these conservatives are coming out of the woodworks showing what they really want is control over others. Fear and intimidation. Obedience. "Family values".

you heard it here folks... women having autonomy is moral decay... from the people who took away your right to govern your own body.
- Seriously, this same bunch has been bitching over women getting the vote, being able to drive, owning land, having a bank account (w/o male approval), no fault divorce, abortion, birth control for decades. Often this was done quietly, or if in a mixed setting, it was done as a "ha ha can't you take a JOKE?" kind of way.
  Now they have stolen abortion rights and in the process the corrupted qons on the "supreme" court indicated they want to do something not only about Teh Gheyz, but also about birth control. And now several of them are being much more open about their hostility to no fault divorce. And unlike in the past, it's not the geriatrics that were older than the boomers; I hear this shit coming of Gen Z and Gen Y age people....we should believe them when they say this is their intent.
  A lot of qons would constantly clutch their pearls and try to get me silenced when I spoke about the xtian taliban. They were only so mad because THEY KNOW IT IS TRUE. The xtian taliban is a thing and other than bullshit doctrinal differences no one outside their little book clubs give a flying fuck about, THEY ARE THE SAME EXACT THING as Islamist extremists. Just because they are not allowed to murder gays and women right now doesn't mean they get any special points.

Serial Philanderer Makes "Moral" Judgement . FTFY

Shut up you fat ass. Fuck newt.

Gingrich, who had an affair during his second marriage, then held Democrats responsible for America's moral degeneration.
Decent journalistic integrity to point this out, but really should be in the headline.

My god, a woman voting how they wish. What year is it!? /s

Imagine if the older politicians of both sides of politics retired on time.
- need to make sure their grandchildren get great jobs at the FAANG corporations while insider trading their way to golden retirement
- I'm much more interested in one side of that equation than the other but yes, that's a beautiful dream.
  
  I share your view so I agree with the sentiment but I think the facts say otherwise, unfortunately.
  Both sides are contributing to the gerontocracy and the problems associated with it.
  If Ruth Bader Ginsberg had retired during Obama's term, Trump would have had one less Supreme Court Justice.
  Dianne Feinstein wouldn't let go while in mental decline.
  Biden is doing the same damn thing as Feinstein but with the freaking presidency. He might've been the safe bet to take back the white house in 2020 - but couldn't the Democrats have coughed up someone who isn't OLDER than Bill Clinton? That's fucked up IMO.

I never actually saw the ad, but something about the way the dude said “Did you make the right choice?” made me lol.
https://youtu.be/FaCPck2qDhk?si=UDvt5XEP8i35NAeI
- This video is exactly why I am in favor of voting booths over mail-in ballots.
  If you are unable to vote in person, then voting should be easy to do early. But we should try hard to get people into the voting booth.

people still give this nutjob a platform? oh yeah, all the nutjobs get the most attention because they keep the fire stoked
- That platform is the nationwide assembly of nutjobs in the first place.

Gingrich cheats on wives while they die and suffer from illness, talk about sick shit...

oh how dare they, lol

Gingrich, who cheated on his second wife, then held Democrats responsible for America's moral degeneration. “I mean, what kind of a totally amoral, corrupt, sick system have the Democrats developed? If you think about it at that level, it is astonishing, the decay," he said, before claiming that the "decay" is why Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who reportedly maintained at least three romantic liaisons outside of his marriage with Cheryl Hines, left the Democratic Party and endorsed former President Donald Trump.
Also Gingrich didn’t deliver that on stage anywhere. I’m getting pissed at headline images that intentionally don’t have to do with the quote.

You can take it from Newt Gingrich, who has cheated on two dying wives, an epitome of moral compass that all americans should look towards.

Now ya do what they tell ya
\ now you're under control
\ Now ya do what they tell ya
\ now you're under control

LOL, I love that these fuckers are showing their true colors.
After all the bullshit talk about "TRUE conservatism" and how donnie is not "really" Republicanism.....lol, no, donnie is the party and donnie is the party. It's all one big pile of grievance politics and about keeping special privileges for xtian white cishet right wing males.
Meanwhile, I saw Megyn Kelly on Maher and her justification for voting for donnie involves two specters, it seems - the fear of 20 million "illegals" and "what THEY are doing to the kids in the name of trans".
Seriously, WTAF. The bullshit whipped over illegals is way out of proportion and how is something like trans a concern for the PRESIDENT to handle, anyway?

He's such a P.O.S.

Too much for Newt. That is something.

Can someone unload grapeshot on this old fascist or is that out of fashion?

I legit thought this guy died.
One of the other ones, I guess.
- Crazy I was about to say the same thing!
  Hugely influential in turning the GOP from "Side of politics we can debate and respectfully disagree with" to "Completely unhinged violent movement based on panic, hatred, and intellectual brain rot."
  He's basically described like some bygone disaster and yet he's still kickin'. Holy crap.
  There's a cozy spot in whatever hell right next to Kissinger for this vile beast. Another spot beside it waiting to be filled is likely labeled "Murdoch."