Mace said she was speaking out because her home state’s top prosecutor didn’t take action even after she alerted investigators. That same prosecutor is likely to be Mace’s opponent if she runs for governor of South Carolina in 2026, which she is considering.
Saying she was going “scorched earth,” Mace detailed how, in November 2023, she says she “accidentally uncovered some of the most heinous crimes against women imaginable. We’re talking about rape, non-consensual photos, non-consensual videos of women and underage girls, and the premeditated, calculated exploitation of women and girls in my district.”
Mace mentioned four men as being involved, including Charleston-area businessman Patrick Bryant, who was her fiancé until 2023 and went door-to-door stumping for her during her 2022 reelection campaign.
She is a MAGA Republican and not that she or anyone else deserves this to happen to them, but she would absolutely suggest that other women deserved it.
She’s a shit person but nobody deserves to be assaulted or raped, and allegedly there were other women and girls harmed. So a full investigation is warranted. If it’s found to be true, does the pain she’s experienced excuse the bitterness and hate she’s expressed towards trans people? Not in the slightest. Is airing it on the House floor an appropriate use of her privilege? It’s better than anything else she’s done there, (a low bar) and helps delay the progress of House Republicans rubber-stamping Trump’s blitzkrieg, so there’s that.
After going through that the fact that she supports erasing trans people is a pretty classic example of conservatives lacking empathy.
I am genuinely sorry she experienced that and I hope she can get the psych support any person in her situation would need.
And I genuinely hope she fucks off from politics because unless she does an ideological 180 she’s still a trash person with hate in her heart.
If abusing women and girls, revenge porn, and date-rape are issues in South Carolina politics, this is an unqualified good thing. Sexual control of women in the household has been a core issue for reactionaries as long as there have been reactionaries. Before 1980, it was legal in all 50 to rape your wife. Diversity is strength. Even in MAGA.
The issue is this filth is saying one thing for herself while working to get rid of the protections for everyone else. Republicans have consistently neglected and acted against women for 30+ years. Forget 1980 her party is working towards 1918 and she’s helping, “speaking out” is not helpful when her actions contradict it.
This comment section is a dumpster fire.
I don’t see it that way at all.
This woman has no credibility at all due to her prior words and actions, and even if it were not true, giving a speech in front of the House of Representatives is not the right venue.
So what is she doing? Wasting all our time.
Which part?
She is only saying this in the House because of debate immunity.
Challenge her to repeat those statements outside the chamber, and she will clam up because then she won’t be protected against slander claims.
