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Traitorous sexual predator.
They knew it would pass so they all got to pretend at being “fiscally responsible”. I guarantee they’ll go home to their districts and take credit for every penny doled out.
Can someone please make me understand how people like Gaetz, MTG and all these very obviously either stupid as fuck, or evil as fuck people keep getting voted in? My brain can’t ever wrap around this. Am I crazy or is there more to elections in politics. Like how in the fuck does a man like Ted Cruz keep getting reelected over and over by people?
One can only guess that there is a large and chronically uninformed body of people that only get their information from the bad guys’ personal propaganda machine.
Because the people voting are dumber than these fucktards.
They are so fucking dumb it would be hilarious if it wasn’t so fucking dumb
In their districts, they have the right letter next to their names on the ballot. Also, the “own the libtards.”
As Olbermann asked about MTG’s district,“Does the entire district resemble the movie Deliverance?”
Belief is largely social. This is true for all of us, to some extent. It doesn’t matter much when the social belief is “our baseball team is the best”. Unfortunately, the republican worldview is afactual and hateful. That’s really the bulk of it, I think. People identify with republicans, or with their neighbors that are republicans, and that’s the most important thing. More important than facts or truth.
Also there’s a lot of authoritarians. They want a strong in-group and an out-group to hurt.
So when someone says like “So-and-so Republican is a rapist, felon, and liar” that smashes right into the “my in-group is important, and if i reject my in-group I will die alone” part of the brain. So the facts bounce off and they write you off as an asshole.
Fixing that seems difficult. Appealing to a shared group identity can work (eg: we’re all americans here and we want to make the best of our great country, together). You see this sometimes where someone hates some out-group, and then actually meets a member and spends time with them. Now that person might be part of the in-group, and things have to shift around.
The other thing that changes minds is trauma. Horrible trauma. If your house gets blown apart by a hurricane, that might be enough for you to reevaluate your world view.
Anyway, the oatmeal did a comic about belief: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe Here’s a free book about authoritarians: https://theauthoritarians.org/
Love this, thanks for sharing!
My Uber reductionist explanation.
I get you scared. You vote for the cure to what I’m scaring you on.
Most people, except the very scared, don’t vote.
Republicans say “hell is coming unless you vote for me”, which gets people scared and thus voting
Democrats, “well try our hardest to build helpful systems that make the middle class grow again” … People stop listening and don’t vote…
That’s how
Fuck. 2020 got more people voting than any other presidential election in recent history and it STILL didn’t break 50% of legal voters.
Maybe dems should say stuff in their ads like “we don’t want a fascist regime. This is America. Vote blue to fire these morherfuckers”
The uneducated can vote.
Racists vote. Old people vote. Sometimes they’re the same person.
Florida wants bombs I guess.
all you need is a fat sharpie…
or maybe some idiot just forgot to turn on the faucet while it was still over the ocean…
*half bombs
I wonder which half
We’re talking about Matt Gaetz, so probably the useless half. Maybe the packaging.
with enough bombs they can blow up the next hurricane before it becomes a problem for the people living in florida
There are actually theories about dissapaiting hurricanes with nukes. A second Trump admin might just try it.
What else was in the bill?
*edit: 8 or 9 upvotes, downvotes, and no replies. Didn’t realize I asked such a polarizing question. Some bills are totally crap. They’ll be earmarked to hell. A bill could have “all animal shelters must be non kill” earmarked with “give isreal US nuclear arsenal and the OK to launch them” then when a party votes no on it, the other party screams out “those guys want to kill kittens and puppies!”
So I just wanted to know what else was in the bill.
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Because Republicans keep saying shit that isn’t accurate or even real.
Wha…? Why would they…? Was there something else in the bill that they didn’t like?
It would make the Biden administration look good
yeah, when you look close enough it’s amazing how often that that answer is the only one, and how blatantly they do it.
they say democracy dies in the dark, but if like 10% more people actually watched cspan when major votes take place i don’t think we’d keep many Republican politicians. it’s an amazingly one sided effort to obstruct every single Democratic policy no matter what it is. they threw the toy over the fence, sat down, and started screaming and shitting like 10 years ago and nothing positive has gotten done since. they are literally the party of intentionally breaking the government.
there’s no way that many Americans actually want that…
Ever since 2008, bipartisianship is dead. The Right cannot pass any bills while the Left is in charge, because then people would start supporting the Left.
And the Right cannot pass any bills while the Right is in charge, because the Right is incompetent and worries about pronouns more than people not having places to live.
Also, projection. They would withhold funding for disasters in blue states, so obviously Democrats would do the same to red states.
Georgia too right? Biden offered federal assistance and the governor said no, then immediately turned around and said Biden isn’t helping
florida needs like 50 billion USD?
That seems like a lot of money…
I’m tired of paying for those welfare queens
Don’t give it to them. They will just spend it on blackjack and hookers.
Wait Florida or Ukraine?
Because they constantly tell lies.
Because some of us still think we can shame the Right into behaving
if the need didnt exist…
Idk If I was a pedophile I would have my head in the sand and never show my face again. Matt Gaetz is a thing that happened though I guess. 🤔
Because they lie a lot.
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It’s an older
codetweet, but it checks out.
