Post by @velma@sh.itjust.works

@velma@sh.itjust.works

2026-10-07 17:53 UTC

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs It was just after 2 a.m. on a pitch-black Friday morning when Bernadette Greene-Placentia’s life changed. The Democratic candidate for Congressional District 8 strolled across a parking lot to repair a damaged campaign sign. It was a routine she’d followed all summer. This time, she only made it a few yards. An attacker smashed her over the head. She blacked out. She woke up to find a strange man on top of her. Greene-Placentia struggled to open her eyes. She felt a sharp pain below her waist. The attacker was pulling his penis out of her. She heard him mumble something like, “-ic bitch, not a very good fuck,” which her mind filled in as “Democratic bitch,” she recalled. She wasn’t sure that was exactly what he said. One leg was out of her jean capris. She wore brand-new tennis shoes and a campaign t-shirt. Another man came over. Greene-Placentia felt his weight nudging her left leg further apart. She began swinging her foot at him. “Not even worth it,” she heard the man say as he moved away. He wore black boots and had small feet, she recalled. The two men left Greene-Placentia face down in the parking lot. The hatch of her silver Jeep Grand Cherokee was still open. The car was still running. She heard music. She doesn’t remember pulling up her pants or picking herself off the asphalt parking lot. She doesn’t remember closing her Jeep’s hatch and putting her foot on the gas. She doesn’t remember pulling her car into the driveway and collapsing into her bed. “It’s just these little tiny flashes of things that I do remember,” Greene-Placentia said in an interview with Phoenix New Times. “As much as I don’t want to remember, I’ve tried very, very hard to remember more stuff. But that’s where I’m at.”

Replies (11)

@Zier@fedia.io 2026-10-07 20:13

This is a horrific story. We need stronger laws surrounding rape. I guarantee you, that if republican men were being raped, we would have death penalty laws against rape.

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@EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 2026-10-07 18:27

I’m sorry, but the language “democratic bitch” is just so unbelievable. And there’s no medical records? I feel this story was planted by her to take advantage of the current media coverage of Cornell and the resurgence of the me too movement. I do not trust politicians.

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@velma@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-07 18:15

I’m sick and tired of men telling me that rape culture doesn’t exist, that rape victims should have done something different, they should have worn something different, they should have not gone out alone, I’m fucking sick of all of it. We have a problem with misogyny and rape in this country. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum on its own. Trump is merely a symptom of the rot.

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@UpperBroccoli@feddit.org 2026-10-08 06:28

Fellow men: Believe women. Do not allow mysogyny in your circles. Don’t even laugh at the jokes. Speak out. When you hear people talk about having harmed a woman or planning to, report it. Don’t just go on the internet and say you’re a feminist or support women - actually do it, every day.

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@Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 2026-10-08 07:25

What the fuck. This is one of the rare instances where the reality I portray in my character is less fucked than the actual world. The world is more fucked than anything you’ve ever known because time goes forwards. God is a cruel mistress and so am I, so that bitch better have that floofy outfit I got for Her to wear at the start of eternal erections while we congregate unto each other. Like, I get to say these things because I was a homeless transgender woman and experienced just the flicker of the flame of the fucked up’d-ness of men stepping up on me when I was sleeping, they looking for a hole to put their dick in. This shit’s fucked. Men need to get their collective shit together, and that’s a fact. This is a true story, too. Just spitting them blues. Jams. Bam. Thank you ma’am, but actually no this is not the time or place Greg…Greg…ah shit, he on the ride again. Doing his thang. I just let him do. We work together, in harmony. Shiii…

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@Thor_Whale@lemmus.org 2026-10-07 23:59

The thing I’m trying to understand about this is why the hell is she out at 2:00 in the morning fixing signs. Regardless if it’s a billion degrees in Arizona or not. I don’t do shit at 2:00 in the morning because the world is fucked up. I wish more women would go after rapists. The DNA swap might prevent him from doing it to other women.

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@SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2026-10-07 22:43

I hope she succeeds in life, and that those two men are killed. Rapists, just like unjustifiable killers, have no place among humanity.

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@Avicenna@programming.dev 2026-10-08 08:17

wow, I don’t think people like this can be repaired. They should be locked away for life (with minimal comfors, basically a monk like life) and that energy should be spent on their kids and younger generation. Except ofcourse we are talking about the Trump administration, Trump probably thinks she got what she deserved. So yeah, quite hopeless.

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@mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2026-10-09 03:36

castration should be put into laws. Or whatever the injection stuff is, medical neutering? i dont know. Leave them alives but at a fate worse than death

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@tacoplease@lemmy.world 2026-10-09 07:42

I believe this is a case where rape was weaponized specifically against the victim, to teach the Democratic bitch a lesson for running for office; the second attacker just gave up cause the point was already made. I believe many women experienced the same due to their support of the suffrage movement 100 years ago. Heinous and despicable act by fascist Republicans.

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@KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 2026-10-08 22:29

Wait. That’s impossible. Abbott swore to his god that if the he could pass the draconian anti-abortion laws to the point there was a bounty on women who even considered it - he swore to his bible happy god that THERE WOULD BE NO MORE RAPES IN TEXAS. What? Excuse me? Oh… shit. I’m sorry, I thought it said she got raped in Texas, where it’s not possible for women to get raped according to law, but this happened in Arizona. Sorry to hear it ma’am. I hope they find the shitbird. I don’t know how it is where you are but maybe, just maybe, you might not want to be out in the dead of night at 2:00 in the morning when the bars close and the drunks are loose. Just saying. Showing good sense is a nifty campaign tool itself.

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