• Heresy_generator
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    8 months ago

    And now they’ve just made the anti-democracy extremist Speaker of the House.

    The GOP Speaker and presumptive nominee for President are both anti-American insurrectionists who want to tear down our democracy and institute single party rule. And the oligarch-owned media will absolutely shut up about it and pretend it’s normal.

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      8 months ago

      They’ve just made an anti-democratic Nationalist Christian extremist Speaker of the House - specificity is important.

    • @elbucho
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      288 months ago

      I feel like the word “the” in your first sentence is misleading. He most certainly is AN anti-democracy extremist, but by no means THE anti-democracy extremist. The Republican caucus is lousy with them.

    • @ChicoSuave
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      188 months ago

      Sounds like it’s time to hit the oligarchs where it hurts: them personally.

    • @[email protected]
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      268 months ago

      Republicans would veto a bill that banned abortion nationwide and provided free guns for the babies if it raised taxes on the rich by 0.1%.

      • @[email protected]
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        238 months ago

        Free guns for the babies?? Get outta here with that commie shit, those lazy babies have to pull themselves by their bootstraps and get a second job to pay for their gun loans

      • @Jerkface
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        378 months ago

        “I’m hungry, let’s go get something to eat”

        “Cool how about tacos?”

        “No, I don’t want tacos.”

        “Okay, how about Thai food?”

        “No, I don’t want Thai food.”

        “Well what do you want to eat?”

        “I don’t know, you pick something.”

        Except policy.

        • @[email protected]
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          138 months ago

          Picks something…

          “This sucks! (upends table and food) I’m in charge of picking where we eat, now…it’s your fault we’re going hungry!”

          Lather, rinse, repeat.

    • @[email protected]
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      148 months ago

      Which is pretty weird considering many of them aren’t wealthy and only stand to lose from such policies.

  • @Makeitstop
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    1128 months ago

    There’s gonna be some really great attack ads running in swing districts next year. Every vulnerable moderate just got handcuffed to this guy. Now they can be accused of supporting all the most extreme, unpopular, and unlawful things in Johnson’s record. And on top of that, this almost certainly means that the agenda moving forward will be dominated by things which would alienate moderates and independent voters.

    Apparently the lackluster mid terms weren’t enough of a wake up call. I wouldn’t be surprised if this turns out to be the moment that the Republicans lost the house. (Of course, I also wouldn’t be surprised to see the Democrats find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory)

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      548 months ago

      And the way Trump was controlling the vote by endorsing candidates? The whole party is shackled to him, whether they admit it or not, and I hope the Democrats go HARD on that in the next election.

    • @Flambo
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      If the Republican party ever becomes irrelevant, Democrats will be stuck waiting to find out what their new opposition party will be. If it winds up being an actual progressive party, I don’t really see what options Democrats would be left with. Either they try to gain support from people leaving the Republican party, or they try to be “progressive enough” without losing corporate support?

      If Democrats share that uncertainty about a post-Republican future, and if they think the way most status quo actors seem to, then I imagine they’d prefer the Republican party to hang on as long as possible.

      What I think that strategy would look like: Democrats going as fiscally conservative as they can while still remaining left of Republicans. Democrats lamenting their inability to make progressive changes, all the while not investing much more than lip service towards advancing said progressive changes.

      • quicklime
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        The Democratic Party has shown very clearly that they would much rather lose to Republicans than allow their own platform to be dragged any more than just a tiny bit to the left.

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        If the Republican party ever becomes irrelevant, Democrats will be stuck waiting to find out what their new opposition party will be.

        My guess is a split between moderate Dems and fleeing “90s Republicans” on one side, and more extremist progressive Dems uniting with extremist Republicans as allies of convenience on the other, fighting to be more isolationist and nationalist.

        Essentially I think the future debates will be over the role of America in society, as economic issues are largely a “solved meta” and most social issues tend to fall by the wayside as time marches on. No political party is seriously trying to contest gay marriage the way they did abortion, for instance.

        Middle vs non-middle seems like the battle of the future.

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          You don’t have any extremist Dems. You have a right wing party that has two centrists and you have a party full of fascists.

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            This is basically exactly what I’m describing. Great example.

  • @TheJims
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    Truth and facts are the enemy of the Republican Party.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah sure.

        Conservatives elect speaker who doesn’t believe in dinosaurs, ancient history or climate change, wants to make homosexuality illegal, voted to overturn the election and did everything in his power to thwart it, reporters aren’t allowed to question it, but it’s those opposed who are “scum”.

        Them’s Nazi words, quite literally. You really need an education.

        • @freecandy
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          Throwing around the term Nazi doesn’t add cred to your argument

          • @S_204
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            In this case it makes their point quite clear and is a relevant comparison when assessing the points put forward.

          • YeetPics
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            88 months ago

            Acting like a nazi doesn’t add to your point either, actually it reinforces the other fellas arguement.

      • @kttnpunk
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        88 months ago

        Imagine believing it’s the leftists who have the money and means to place bots on obscure internet forums 😂

      • YeetPics
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        18 months ago

        we can safely assume the above comment really got under your thin, translucent skin.

  • @[email protected]
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    978 months ago

    "Mike Johnson is Jim Jordan in a sports coat.”

    — Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman Viet Shelton, quoted by The Atlantic.

  • @YoBuckStopsHere
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    878 months ago

    100% now they will hear it more and non-stop

    • @Treczoks
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      178 months ago

      They will hear this question whenever they present yet another insurrectionist speaker candidate. At least if the press in the US still has guts.

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    American Fascist Party. Yeah, I’m going to say it over and over.

    • @Daft_ish
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      No one can fault you for saying the truth.

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        There’s a handful of things I find myself having to repeat and repeat, to the point that it’s starting to annoy me. I’m sure someone is going to give me shit about it real soon.

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          Look. Soon enough these assholes will stop beating around the bush and make their move. It will be undeniable but they will skip right past shame and whole heartily accept the fact that yes, they actually are aligned with Nazis. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. During Bush they said they weren’t racist. During Trump they said they weren’t fascist. Next they will say they won’t attempt mass genocide.

          By then it will be too late.

          • Nougat
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            68 months ago

            You’re not wrong. Fascism isn’t coming; it’s here. And every time some fascist bullshit happens without consequences, they get stronger and democracy gets weaker. Fascist leaders have seen no consequences. The American Fascist Party (I said it again) has to be called that, because not only are they refusing to eject fascists from their ranks, they are promoting them to positions of real power.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    568 months ago

    It’s the party that worships the constitution ordering the Press on what they can and cannot do

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      To be fair, they’re allowed to tell the press anything. I’m totally OK with that. I’m more upset by the fact they worship and swore to uphold the constitution and then tried to overthrow democracy, and now don’t want to talk about it. Either it was a good thing and be proud of it and own it (it wasn’t, but in their opinion…), or it was bad and a mistake and you should speak out about it and warn others not to make the same mistake.

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        It was a good thing, or rather, it will be a good thing much like 1924 Putsch. It was a rough draft, and it didn’t take off but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good thing.

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      There you go thinking Republicans care about anything again. This is the party of power, nothing more. If they ever tell you they believe in something it’s because you believing they believe in that something will get them more power.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        Oh I know they don’t, I just like leaving bread crumbs for people who haven’t figured it out. People have to come to the conclusions on their own, just telling them the answer will not get a positive result. This is why people who debunk shit for a living actually cause more people to believe in New Age nonsense.

    • @Buddahriffic
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      Don’t confuse “likes to selectively cite it in bad faith arguments” with “worships”.

  • @RojoSanIchiban
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    308 months ago

    I do not wish harm upon some members of congress, but I will take pleasure in reading their obituaries.

      • @RojoSanIchiban
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        Well, I genuinely don’t think Virginia Foxx should be guillotined for being a rancid, evil, racist, human prune.

        So far as I am aware, she has not committed treason or heinous acts of murder. She should absolutely be ejected from Congress for her conduct, violations of her oaths through her corruption (and possibly jailed for that), and barred from any government position under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. When she ultimately passes, it will most certainly be to the betterment of our species.

        But even through all that, I do not wish violence upon her.

      • @jordanlundM
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        Um, actually… Rule 6. Removed.

  • MudMan
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    Wait, her name is Virginia Foxx? Bold to keep her stripper name when she transitioned into politics. I guess she was invested in the brand.

  • @badbytes
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    178 months ago

    I’ll give him 7days as speaker. Any bets?

      • @PizzaMan
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        68 months ago

        The next budget is due in a month, so there’s a good chance he’ll be gone after that.

        So the lettuce has a nonzero chance of outlining his office.

      • @AngryCommieKender
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        This is Murica, use a hamberder. Just homemade, cause those fast food ones never grow mold.

      • @No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston
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        While this would be hilariously humoring for most people I, opposing this fundamentalist scumbag want the debt ceiling deadline to occur without damaging the credit worthiness of the US government. So fuck them reps.

    • @CharlesDarwin
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      18 months ago

      I saw some of the base already worried he’s not as racist as they had hoped. Also, there is some butthurt about him supporting Ukraine. So how long until he gets accused of being a “RINO”?

  • YeOldeDickTwist
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    148 months ago

    Who is this geriatric cunt that yelled at that reporter to shut up lmao. In what world is that a reasonable response of she’s coming from politics.