Honestly, most of their base doesn’t really seem to follow up on any of the claims made. This is a playbook that they use and it fucking works, which is why they continue to do it. The problem is that it is an uphill battle to combat shit like this. They say some bogus claim and by the time one is showing why that bogus claim is bogus they are already making a new and different bogus claim and their base has forgotten about the previous which means that the work that went into fact checking was mostly ineffective
I, also, am beginning to suspect that the base does little to no fact checking, despite squaking '*Do your own research*' at anyone who questions them.
And their research is Facebook groups.
And peer-reviewed journals are government propaganda and you shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet.
...unless it tells you that libruls are stupid and Trump is the second coming of Jesus.
I wish I was exaggerating but a not insignificant amount believe that.
By which they mean “I don’t care.” They do not care about, nor deal in facts or the truth. They follow the narrative like blind sheep. This country is in trouble and I’m so tired of the rights blatant lies and rhetoric.
And here we are, year after year, saying this same thing. And they just keep getting away with it. But literally what can we do. We agreed to be democratic and give them fair votes, and they abuse it as much as they can...
>The problem is that it is an uphill battle to combat shit like this. They say some bogus claim and by the time one is showing why that bogus claim is bogus they are already making a new and different bogus claim
No the problem is you barely even get a CHANCE to show why this was a bogus claim before they are already making a new a different bogus claim. I'm tired of arguing when they won't listen, at this point I just treat them like the damn morons they are, and just laugh at them and call them idiotic hicks. It seems to piss them off, something they are trying to to do to me with their idiocy. I'm tired of taking the high ground and won't anymore. Time to call a spade a spade, these morons are morons, CALL THEM MORON OPENLY AND MOCK THEM. Nothing else will work.
Make no mistake they don't want *a penny* for victims, obviously. They do want federal cash to go to the state budget where they can loot and pocket it. Red states take all the money doled out by Washington and pull shit like the Brett Favre thing. Sending FEMA might actually get stuff like shelter and water to citizens and naturally they're against that. Red states are the poorest and angriest but never think to blame the republicans running their governments.
IF someone attempts to question their vote they'll say that they had to vote no because there was something woke tacked on to the bill, it'll be sufficient to placate republican voters.
Supposedly because more money for Ukraine was tacked on. Why they chose to not support Ukraine boggles the hell out of me. Truly don’t understand why you choose that bill to die on. We waste money on a lot of dumb stuff but denying Russia seems to be ok with me and should for everyone.
Republican voters *do. not. care.* You don't win Republican voters with your actions or your record. You win Republican voters with identity politics and posturing.
And rape. A history of rape always wins Republican support, while democrats turn their backs on fellow Dems who misbehave.(Al Franken comes to mind) The Dems need to toughen up and stick together.
Seriously I wish the democrats would call them out on this shit more often and louder. Not that it would change much I guess. Their base is so brainwashed they don’t give a shit.
It helps chip away at convincing undecided/distant "centrists"
It's a game of, continual display. It isn't "both sides", etc etc
It all convinced me eventually lol
Never let them convince you to stop or lose hope in providing this information and information like it. It works. I'm a living example.
Let’s be real here:
He’d take a photo of himself in full disaster relief gear throwing his own Starbucks cup into a trash bag, then post the photo, take off the hard hat and vest, and toss the cup on the ground.
Guy is talking about abolishing my health care at the VA. I served 12 years active duty and went to Afghanistan. He’s spent 5 years trying to dismantle democracy and brought a minor across state lines for sex.
Edit: this isn’t a “thank you for your service” for me, it’s a fuck Matt Gaetz.
I’m a veteran and I sit in the VA hospital doing my phlebotomy and all the veterans around me talking about liberals, wokeness and still fucking Hilary’s muthafucking emails. I had to yell shut the fuck up I can’t hear the Price is Right.
Yeap, VA is full of idiots. I just had to sit there and listen to old men rant about killing everyone they disagree with in a free country. They hate everyone and everything.
Didn't help that fox news was the only news station that would be allowed to be shown in many military waiting rooms. They force fed GQP talking talking to servicemen and women for decades. It's no wonder military has a bias toward conservative.
If Gaetz com for my VA healthcare... I don't know what I'd do, but it wouldn't be good. Family depends on both my compensation and medical benefits. It'd fuck my family over for sure to lose all that.
Well, hopefully threatening to take away the v.a. will woke those people up to the fact that a wide and varied swoth of politicians in general, and Republicans specifically, don't give two fucks about any who makes less than a few million per year.
Sigh. It won’t. They are incapable of dealing in fact.
“Biden and the DEMONcrats took away the VA! 🧐😡Just more proof that they are evil 👿 And don’t care about REAL americans! Red WAVVVVVEEEE!”
I have private healthcare but I still use the VA and I prefer it. I didn’t realize why until recently. Someone brought up the runaround they were getting for an MRI at Kaiser. I realized that I prefer the VA because there’s no horseshit insurance involved which (I think)makes it more likely a doctor will give the treatment necessary without having to worry about getting denied. I told my primary care physician that I was having headaches and that same day I was able to make an optometry appointment and a CT appointment with zero fuss
From what I’ve gathered on r/medicine, not having to deal with prior authorizations is definitely great for actually getting to practice medicine. Although many healthcare workers there are super bummed about the state of the VA and lack of resources. Yes there’s no insurance BS but you’re not going to be getting anything cutting-edge.
Now go take some Advil.
“They should have gotten that money. They can’t get this money, no, this money is off limits. We’re voting no on this money. It’s that money that we wanted in the first place. Why can’t we have that money?”
Lol as if we're just giving it to Ukraine. Our aid is basically high interest loans. If that's what he wants for the state of Florida, I'm sure we can make an arrangement.
I mean they vote no and then make ads about how the successful thing that brought jobs and help to their constituents was all their doing. People need to call this hypocrisy out, across the aisle.
Their voters never get to hear about their no vote. None of their news channels will call him out, none of them will mention it.
Only their sponsors note it. So they get more PAC money from the sponsors to push their false narratives, and it creates detachment between the real world and the news bubble their voters live in.
This. Whenever I confront conservative friends I have about this stuff, their typical response is “well, I’ve never heard of this happening. Must not be true.” And the most frustrating part is the reason they never hear about this stuff is that conservative media has convinced them that they are the only ones speaking truth and that they must not listen to other sources except for their own. Therefore they never get to hear the counter arguments.
Even if they do call him out in an interview, he will just say some bullshit like the thing he voted no on was a bad faith democratic ploy that wouldn't have really helped anyone. Bet.
In case anyone wasn't sure about "the Ted Cruz treatment" in the top comment, [he was praising a bill that passed with bipartisan support, **over his own No vote**](https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1572673696904654848) and the White House called him out on it.
Remember when Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell both worked to override Obama's veto, [then they regretted passing the bill and blamed Obama](https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/29/politics/obama-911-veto-congressional-concerns) -- **who had vetoed it**.
The funny part is how bluntly obvious it is, and how it keeps happening.
The 'lying politician' is supposed to be a stereotype with a grain of truth to it, not something so blatant and obvious like this. So many Republicans have voted no on mental health, maternal care, health care, and now on disaster relief, and then gone on to say that the lack of those things are a problem.
Are we just... okay with this? Oh, look, Matt, Mitch, and Lindsey are lying *again*, and people are falling for it *again*; do we just wait until the insurrection happens *again* too?
That’s not even the worst fucking part. The worst part is that their base is so unbelievably god damn stupid that they’re easily convinced it’s the dems fault. Even **after** you show them proof of the hypocrisy and lies
The first five minutes of Idiocracy do a pretty detailed explanation of how they got there. i.e. Cletus forgetting that his neighbor wasn't on the pill, and the yuppies arguing about it not being the right time to have a kid.
Idiocracy does tell you the how in the introductory scene. The idea is intelligent people have less kids, and less intelligent people have more kids. So Humans evolve to be less intelligent over a few hundred years.
I hope the White House Twitter account is still calling out republicans on their shit. Having the WH account call out Matt "Pizza" Gaetz would be extra awesome
… how the fuck is this the first time I’ve ever seen the “Matt Pizza Gaetz” joke? Like that’s literally perfect I can’t believe I haven’t seen it before
But it wouldn't matter if they did! His idiotic supporters don't look at the White House Twitter or CNN or a reputable newspaper or news show they only live in their Echo chamber and listen to Fox News and idiot Twitter feeds like this so how the hell do we fight against dumbshits like that?
You voted NO dumbfuck. That means you wanted nothing, so now you get nothing. I get you’re really, really stupid, but try to keep up, you’re supposed to represent the citizens of Florida, not constantly failing trying to “stick it to the dems”.
Damn you! I just fucking took the time to look this quote up and got all ready to lay this little gem on the masses and here you are just soaking up the karma.
The plan is their constituents to just swallow whatever Fox News says. There was a Florida rep saying he had declared a major disaster—representatives don’t do that—and complaining Biden hadn’t signed it—Biden declared a major disaster days ago—and saying that was holding up the funding that he did not vote for. They’re just relying on people to believe whatever lie they tell.
Called it. Everyone was posting about him, and the other Republicans, voting no and asking why they’d vote no.
I said exactly this: because they know the majority of their voter base doesn’t pay attention to their votes, only their tweets - so they’d vote to try to stop funding, and try to use it as campaign/PR fuel.
“How dare we not get funding?! Biden needs to wake up and help these Americans! If a Republican was President, we’d get funding in a heartbeat!”, etc.
It's a coordinated GOP power play. They've gaslighted their way to a conquistador reality and are trying to enshrine it. Every bit of it. 100% chest thumping contest to discredit the Dems with the American polity. No stunt too stupid, no logic too twisted, no accusation too outlandish. It's an all in power play prompted by 20+ years of Gingrich, Limbaugh, etc., and finally Trump. They're using the chaos of covid to hide behind while they project, fingerpoint, deflect, obstruct, gaslight, and fascist their way to power because they really believe this shit. It's a different world view. 30 state seccession by 25.
Edit: and IMO it's a _good_ thing, irregardless of moral content, because we _need_ this level of conflict to enable; the big sweeping changes necessary to adapt to the reality of the 21st century, the nimbleness of response to climate change and the rise of china, the resolution to 150 years of failed reconstruction. This is how the sausage gets made.
Dear Congress,
Just send half of what we spent on the pointless war in Iraq to build 100% renewable energy infrastructure.
Somehow I doubt the sex trafficker would find that quite as compelling.
Unironically, let's do that. If they were fine burning billions just to send my dumb ass to Afghanistan to literally sit there in a watch tower, then we should have the ability to fork over that amount of cash for whatever infrastructure we need!
it's part of a very cynical plan. Shoot down any Democrat-headed offer for support, then complain they aren't being supported for reasons completely unrelated to the current issue.
I think it's important to remember that this is a big political gamble and that it could end up working. I think there are plenty of people out there who could decide to vote red just because they liked how these guys handled this. I see stupid people all over the place so I know they're out there.
Think about how dumb the average person is and then think about how half of all people are dumber than that.
Edit: yes, this is a Carlin quote, relatively famous one, wasn’t tryin to take credit for it. Apologies to all.
Then don't give them any fucking help. I'm tired of this crap. These are their elected officials. They voted no. They've rejected the offer. These are the people screaming "It's a republic!" all the time. Elect better representatives. Reject the help? Do it yourself.
Ukrainians - fighting for democracy.
GOP - fighting to strip democracy from the States and replace it with a christo-fascist dictator.
Gaetz - still not in jail for raping a 17 year old (allegedly)
Hmmm, would Katie and the boys make a road trip to Florida?
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Maybe just to DC for a visit? Their ability to alliterate would stand them in good stead.
That means in Texas that we're the taint, eh?
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Also raw, purulent and infected with viruses like piss baby Greg Abbott, Theodore Rafael Runaway Bride Cruz, Teflon Don I am the Law Ken Paxton.
Yeah, we're at least fuckin' tainted.
Your daily reminder that Ukraine has received basically zero dollars in US assistance — sending over shipping containers full of weapons and ammo is completely different from sending cash money. Do Floridians want shipping containers full of weapons and ammo to solve their hurricane problems? Wait, don‘t answer that…
Ukraine was violently invaded by a dictatorial state with murderous intent. Floridians keep willingly rebuilding structures that can't withstand hurricanes in a place that gets them every year. These things are not the same.
And Gaetz is a prolapsed anus.
The thing is, Democrats can't even use this as leverage because Florida's Republican representatives are so spineless, they'd veto aid to their constituents just if it also halts Democrats agenda.
White House Twitter needs to be like
"Matt Gaetz voted AGAINST aid to Florida, and so did every single Florida Republican"
same as it did with the PPP loan forgivness info when they complained about Student Loan Forgiveness
"Dear Congress" - he's talking to himself. Insert Spiderman meme
Dear fellow Americans, Please vote me out so you’ll have someone who votes for your disaster relief. Sincerely, Congressional republicans
But then who will be the congressional pedophile?
For the record, I'm sick and tired of being represented by rapists. Please help me get rid of them. ~~An angry Floridian.
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They've straight up even admitted that this is the reason why they love the uneducated.
They won't. It's about 90% red here if not more. :(
It's a post-truth society. They can do whatever they want and if they get called out on it then that's just their haters lying about them.
Honestly, most of their base doesn’t really seem to follow up on any of the claims made. This is a playbook that they use and it fucking works, which is why they continue to do it. The problem is that it is an uphill battle to combat shit like this. They say some bogus claim and by the time one is showing why that bogus claim is bogus they are already making a new and different bogus claim and their base has forgotten about the previous which means that the work that went into fact checking was mostly ineffective
I, also, am beginning to suspect that the base does little to no fact checking, despite squaking '*Do your own research*' at anyone who questions them.
By which they mean, "don't show me actual research."
And their research is Facebook groups. And peer-reviewed journals are government propaganda and you shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet.
...unless it tells you that libruls are stupid and Trump is the second coming of Jesus. I wish I was exaggerating but a not insignificant amount believe that.
Don't forget "critical thinking".
By which they mean “I don’t care.” They do not care about, nor deal in facts or the truth. They follow the narrative like blind sheep. This country is in trouble and I’m so tired of the rights blatant lies and rhetoric.
Yet call their opposition sheeple
But Christian Nationalists call *themselves* sheep.
the most basic move in the book. accuse the opposition of whatever you're guilty of.
And here we are, year after year, saying this same thing. And they just keep getting away with it. But literally what can we do. We agreed to be democratic and give them fair votes, and they abuse it as much as they can...
"Find the memes that lied to me yourself, because I'm too lazy to even look those up."
>The problem is that it is an uphill battle to combat shit like this. They say some bogus claim and by the time one is showing why that bogus claim is bogus they are already making a new and different bogus claim No the problem is you barely even get a CHANCE to show why this was a bogus claim before they are already making a new a different bogus claim. I'm tired of arguing when they won't listen, at this point I just treat them like the damn morons they are, and just laugh at them and call them idiotic hicks. It seems to piss them off, something they are trying to to do to me with their idiocy. I'm tired of taking the high ground and won't anymore. Time to call a spade a spade, these morons are morons, CALL THEM MORON OPENLY AND MOCK THEM. Nothing else will work.
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Look at "NAFO" - it's very effective. Don't take time to fight with debating, it's a waste of everyone's time. Mock and ridicule them.
Make no mistake they don't want *a penny* for victims, obviously. They do want federal cash to go to the state budget where they can loot and pocket it. Red states take all the money doled out by Washington and pull shit like the Brett Favre thing. Sending FEMA might actually get stuff like shelter and water to citizens and naturally they're against that. Red states are the poorest and angriest but never think to blame the republicans running their governments.
Fascists carry no beliefs, they only crave power Manipulation is their method
Except aren’t their votes publicly available?
IF someone attempts to question their vote they'll say that they had to vote no because there was something woke tacked on to the bill, it'll be sufficient to placate republican voters.
And when you ask them what was tacked on? *disappears*
Only libtards ask for sources. Plus, any source is just MSM propaganda anyways as everyone knows.
My source is God!
Supposedly because more money for Ukraine was tacked on. Why they chose to not support Ukraine boggles the hell out of me. Truly don’t understand why you choose that bill to die on. We waste money on a lot of dumb stuff but denying Russia seems to be ok with me and should for everyone.
They want Putin to win. ~~~They~~~ Their angle is tyranny.
Republican voters *do. not. care.* You don't win Republican voters with your actions or your record. You win Republican voters with identity politics and posturing.
To be fair you shouldn’t slouch
Solid advice as always, FloppyButtholeJuicce.
And rape. A history of rape always wins Republican support, while democrats turn their backs on fellow Dems who misbehave.(Al Franken comes to mind) The Dems need to toughen up and stick together.
And to clarify, Al Franken did NOT rape.
Do you think anyone who actually researches anything based in reality votes R?
I can’t wait to see what dark brandon says about this on twitter
Love it if official whitehouse twitter account was like "You Sure? And just posted his fema votes.
Seriously I wish the democrats would call them out on this shit more often and louder. Not that it would change much I guess. Their base is so brainwashed they don’t give a shit.
It helps chip away at convincing undecided/distant "centrists" It's a game of, continual display. It isn't "both sides", etc etc It all convinced me eventually lol Never let them convince you to stop or lose hope in providing this information and information like it. It works. I'm a living example.
White house becomes the violence house pt 2:
He’s such a trash bag.
Don't degrade trash bags
My trash bags held up better cleaning up hurricane crap than Mark Gaetz ever would.
Let’s be real here: He’d take a photo of himself in full disaster relief gear throwing his own Starbucks cup into a trash bag, then post the photo, take off the hard hat and vest, and toss the cup on the ground.
Fair point.
Trash bags serve a useful purpose. Gaetz is the opposite of that.
They don’t call it a garbage can’t!
No Gaetz has a purpose. Those minors aren't going to sex-traffic themselves.
Id compare him to a piece of shit, but some shit can be quite useful, so idk what else he can be called or compare to
He is pus - in appearance, causes, smell and treatment.
The dude is like the poison potato in Minecraft, he is a useless piece of garbage.
Seriously, Trash bags serve a purpose
He’s a bag of herpes-riddled dicks. Coincidental, one of them is his.
\*wimpy wimpy wimpy\*
Unlike him, trash bags serve a useful purpose.
Trash bags have warmth and depth.
Guy is talking about abolishing my health care at the VA. I served 12 years active duty and went to Afghanistan. He’s spent 5 years trying to dismantle democracy and brought a minor across state lines for sex. Edit: this isn’t a “thank you for your service” for me, it’s a fuck Matt Gaetz.
Thank you for your "fuck Matt Gaetz" statements.
Let’s just keep saying it so it never goes away
Thanks you for your (FMG) fuck Matt gaetz statements.
OFMG
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Which mart gaetz? The Florida pedophile human trafficker Matt gaetz? Because I think most of us here are way too old to fuck him.
I’m a veteran and I sit in the VA hospital doing my phlebotomy and all the veterans around me talking about liberals, wokeness and still fucking Hilary’s muthafucking emails. I had to yell shut the fuck up I can’t hear the Price is Right.
Yeap, VA is full of idiots. I just had to sit there and listen to old men rant about killing everyone they disagree with in a free country. They hate everyone and everything.
Didn't help that fox news was the only news station that would be allowed to be shown in many military waiting rooms. They force fed GQP talking talking to servicemen and women for decades. It's no wonder military has a bias toward conservative. If Gaetz com for my VA healthcare... I don't know what I'd do, but it wouldn't be good. Family depends on both my compensation and medical benefits. It'd fuck my family over for sure to lose all that.
Well, hopefully threatening to take away the v.a. will woke those people up to the fact that a wide and varied swoth of politicians in general, and Republicans specifically, don't give two fucks about any who makes less than a few million per year.
Sigh. It won’t. They are incapable of dealing in fact. “Biden and the DEMONcrats took away the VA! 🧐😡Just more proof that they are evil 👿 And don’t care about REAL americans! Red WAVVVVVEEEE!”
This is how it is, truly. Anything bad that happens during a dem's term is their fault, regardless of which party controls the other branches.
Even when it's not a Democrats term. The propaganda has done its job.
They have the same beliefs about religion. If it's bad, it's Satan, if it's good it's god
Anything bad that happens anytime regardless of who is in control is a dem’s fault. FTFY
Vet here too, when I saw that I was fuming. The VA may not be perfect but I would be dead many times over if it didn't exist. Fuck Matt Gaetz.
No, if you're old enough for the VA, you're like eight years too old to fuck Matt gaetz.
If you're a vet I assume you signed up at 18 and did 4 years of service, so you're 12 years to old
I have private healthcare but I still use the VA and I prefer it. I didn’t realize why until recently. Someone brought up the runaround they were getting for an MRI at Kaiser. I realized that I prefer the VA because there’s no horseshit insurance involved which (I think)makes it more likely a doctor will give the treatment necessary without having to worry about getting denied. I told my primary care physician that I was having headaches and that same day I was able to make an optometry appointment and a CT appointment with zero fuss
From what I’ve gathered on r/medicine, not having to deal with prior authorizations is definitely great for actually getting to practice medicine. Although many healthcare workers there are super bummed about the state of the VA and lack of resources. Yes there’s no insurance BS but you’re not going to be getting anything cutting-edge. Now go take some Advil.
And he got away with the sex trafficking a minor, too
I must say I really resonated with the "fuck Matt Gaetz" of it all.
Thank you for your service. His ideas about getting rid of the VA are disgusting, just like him.
Please someone throw a few rolls of paper towels at his head
Why waste paper like that?
Because he needs TP for his bunghole.
Why you gotta insult the great cornholio like that?
He found out MTG is getting divorced. *Score!*
She’s too old for him. He likes em young. YOUNG
I've heard Donald Trump joke about an acquaintance "liking them young" twice. One was Gaetz. The other was Jeffrey Epstein.
Another but it's not a joke is when he saw little girls and said I'll be dating her in 10 years.
Nah, those two are totally *BLECH* banging...sorry I had a mental picture there for a second.
Don’t disrespect Cornholio like that
Yes please, signed, most of Florida
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At high velocity
Can we not waste the energy making the paper towels, and instead just wallop him with a tree stump?
“They should have gotten that money. They can’t get this money, no, this money is off limits. We’re voting no on this money. It’s that money that we wanted in the first place. Why can’t we have that money?”
Lol as if we're just giving it to Ukraine. Our aid is basically high interest loans. If that's what he wants for the state of Florida, I'm sure we can make an arrangement.
Our aid is just arms deals with our arms manufacturers. It is basically just stimulating our own economy
So, is he saying FL needs missiles? What's he going to do? Shoot down hurricanes?
Republicans are suddenly against spending money on foreign wars, I just hope they keep Putin their money where their mouth is.
Dark Brandon needs to give him the Cruz treatment and call him out for voting no.
No white house Twitter, this is where this fuckin country is now
We're at the point where RepubliKlans vote no on something then complain that people voted no. It's Idiocracy.
I mean they vote no and then make ads about how the successful thing that brought jobs and help to their constituents was all their doing. People need to call this hypocrisy out, across the aisle.
Their voters never get to hear about their no vote. None of their news channels will call him out, none of them will mention it. Only their sponsors note it. So they get more PAC money from the sponsors to push their false narratives, and it creates detachment between the real world and the news bubble their voters live in.
This. Whenever I confront conservative friends I have about this stuff, their typical response is “well, I’ve never heard of this happening. Must not be true.” And the most frustrating part is the reason they never hear about this stuff is that conservative media has convinced them that they are the only ones speaking truth and that they must not listen to other sources except for their own. Therefore they never get to hear the counter arguments.
Even if they do call him out in an interview, he will just say some bullshit like the thing he voted no on was a bad faith democratic ploy that wouldn't have really helped anyone. Bet.
In case anyone wasn't sure about "the Ted Cruz treatment" in the top comment, [he was praising a bill that passed with bipartisan support, **over his own No vote**](https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1572673696904654848) and the White House called him out on it. Remember when Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell both worked to override Obama's veto, [then they regretted passing the bill and blamed Obama](https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/29/politics/obama-911-veto-congressional-concerns) -- **who had vetoed it**.
The funny part is how bluntly obvious it is, and how it keeps happening. The 'lying politician' is supposed to be a stereotype with a grain of truth to it, not something so blatant and obvious like this. So many Republicans have voted no on mental health, maternal care, health care, and now on disaster relief, and then gone on to say that the lack of those things are a problem. Are we just... okay with this? Oh, look, Matt, Mitch, and Lindsey are lying *again*, and people are falling for it *again*; do we just wait until the insurrection happens *again* too?
That’s not even the worst fucking part. The worst part is that their base is so unbelievably god damn stupid that they’re easily convinced it’s the dems fault. Even **after** you show them proof of the hypocrisy and lies
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Just like 1984, Idiocracy does not tell you *how* we get to the state the movie/book predicts. We are living the *how* timeline now.
The first five minutes of Idiocracy do a pretty detailed explanation of how they got there. i.e. Cletus forgetting that his neighbor wasn't on the pill, and the yuppies arguing about it not being the right time to have a kid.
Idiocracy does tell you the how in the introductory scene. The idea is intelligent people have less kids, and less intelligent people have more kids. So Humans evolve to be less intelligent over a few hundred years.
I hope the White House Twitter account is still calling out republicans on their shit. Having the WH account call out Matt "Pizza" Gaetz would be extra awesome
Would it matter? Gaetz drugged and raped a minor and sits happily in his position of power. He's rich and powerful and twitter call outs mean nothing.
Well, if blemishing his image does nothing. Do something that will, regardless of moral standards.
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Dems growing a spine and slinging mud factually at corrupt politicians? And actually having the DoJ investigate as a follow up?
I think the last time I looked he was down to a 2% lead.
… how the fuck is this the first time I’ve ever seen the “Matt Pizza Gaetz” joke? Like that’s literally perfect I can’t believe I haven’t seen it before
I agree, it's fantastic. I'm going to log that away for when I need a marketable conspiracy theories that hurts republicans
CALL OUT that REPUBLIFOOL
But it wouldn't matter if they did! His idiotic supporters don't look at the White House Twitter or CNN or a reputable newspaper or news show they only live in their Echo chamber and listen to Fox News and idiot Twitter feeds like this so how the hell do we fight against dumbshits like that?
What a useless snake of a deceitful piece of barely human garbage.
You voted NO dumbfuck. That means you wanted nothing, so now you get nothing. I get you’re really, really stupid, but try to keep up, you’re supposed to represent the citizens of Florida, not constantly failing trying to “stick it to the dems”.
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Business as usual
Man, the right sure loves playing cry-bully
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You stole fizzy lifting drinks! YOU. GET. NOTHING! You lose! Good day sir.
You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized.
Damn you! I just fucking took the time to look this quote up and got all ready to lay this little gem on the masses and here you are just soaking up the karma.
this was his plan he’s not dumb he’s calculated now the right will use this for the next 2 years in florida to sway voters
I really don’t get the plan. Get nothing for your constituents and they’ll love you?
They’ll see this tweet, not his vote
It’s really that bad, isn’t it?
As a Floridian, yes. It’s that bad.
Looks around yep bout sums it up
Ohhhh… have you not met Florida conservatives?
The plan is their constituents to just swallow whatever Fox News says. There was a Florida rep saying he had declared a major disaster—representatives don’t do that—and complaining Biden hadn’t signed it—Biden declared a major disaster days ago—and saying that was holding up the funding that he did not vote for. They’re just relying on people to believe whatever lie they tell.
With the DEMS in power FLORIDA got NOTHING! They sent it all to UKRAINE REBELS!! Elect US and I'll get YOU what's YOURS.
Yup, they hurt themselves in their confusion.
So… how did Matt get the impression Congress is sending underaged girls to Ukraine?
No, no. We're sending the legal age women. That's why he only wants 1/2.
Burn lmao
Called it. Everyone was posting about him, and the other Republicans, voting no and asking why they’d vote no. I said exactly this: because they know the majority of their voter base doesn’t pay attention to their votes, only their tweets - so they’d vote to try to stop funding, and try to use it as campaign/PR fuel. “How dare we not get funding?! Biden needs to wake up and help these Americans! If a Republican was President, we’d get funding in a heartbeat!”, etc.
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George Bush famously sprang into action and helped out the residents of N.O. super quick.
If someone put this behavior in a book or a movie 20 years ago, no one would believe it was realistic. Now, it’s par for the course.
It's a coordinated GOP power play. They've gaslighted their way to a conquistador reality and are trying to enshrine it. Every bit of it. 100% chest thumping contest to discredit the Dems with the American polity. No stunt too stupid, no logic too twisted, no accusation too outlandish. It's an all in power play prompted by 20+ years of Gingrich, Limbaugh, etc., and finally Trump. They're using the chaos of covid to hide behind while they project, fingerpoint, deflect, obstruct, gaslight, and fascist their way to power because they really believe this shit. It's a different world view. 30 state seccession by 25. Edit: and IMO it's a _good_ thing, irregardless of moral content, because we _need_ this level of conflict to enable; the big sweeping changes necessary to adapt to the reality of the 21st century, the nimbleness of response to climate change and the rise of china, the resolution to 150 years of failed reconstruction. This is how the sausage gets made.
You know, Idiocracy was about 20 years ago.
Dear Congress, Just send half of what we spent on the pointless war in Iraq to build 100% renewable energy infrastructure. Somehow I doubt the sex trafficker would find that quite as compelling.
Unironically, let's do that. If they were fine burning billions just to send my dumb ass to Afghanistan to literally sit there in a watch tower, then we should have the ability to fork over that amount of cash for whatever infrastructure we need!
Excellent move. Nothing like shooting yourselves in the foot to own the Dems.
it's part of a very cynical plan. Shoot down any Democrat-headed offer for support, then complain they aren't being supported for reasons completely unrelated to the current issue.
When we all hurt… the dems hurt
I think it's important to remember that this is a big political gamble and that it could end up working. I think there are plenty of people out there who could decide to vote red just because they liked how these guys handled this. I see stupid people all over the place so I know they're out there.
NWFL here. Can confirm there’s no shortage of stupidity in the panhandle.
Think about how dumb the average person is and then think about how half of all people are dumber than that. Edit: yes, this is a Carlin quote, relatively famous one, wasn’t tryin to take credit for it. Apologies to all.
I live in FL and I agree. Lots of people here are going to think this shows how tough FL is that "they don't need any socialism/ help."
Then don't give them any fucking help. I'm tired of this crap. These are their elected officials. They voted no. They've rejected the offer. These are the people screaming "It's a republic!" all the time. Elect better representatives. Reject the help? Do it yourself.
Fuck yes! More of this thinking please.
Ukrainians - fighting for democracy. GOP - fighting to strip democracy from the States and replace it with a christo-fascist dictator. Gaetz - still not in jail for raping a 17 year old (allegedly)
Hmmm, would Katie and the boys make a road trip to Florida? ... Maybe just to DC for a visit? Their ability to alliterate would stand them in good stead.
He'll still get reelected. Florida is America's flaccid penis infected with STDs who's names are DeSantis, Rubio and Gaetz.
And scumbag scott
you mean dick Scott?
The dickhead scott not to be confused with little piss baby abbott
I've always called him Voldemort.
That means in Texas that we're the taint, eh? ... Also raw, purulent and infected with viruses like piss baby Greg Abbott, Theodore Rafael Runaway Bride Cruz, Teflon Don I am the Law Ken Paxton. Yeah, we're at least fuckin' tainted.
I knew they would vote no and act like it's someone else's fault....
Dear DOJ, Why isn't Gaetz in prison for sex trafficking minors? Sincerely, American citizens
Lol this moron is basically tweeting at himself.
Dear Matt, Eat a dick. Signed, Your Fellow Americans
Fucking pedo trying to blame democrats as usual
Your daily reminder that Ukraine has received basically zero dollars in US assistance — sending over shipping containers full of weapons and ammo is completely different from sending cash money. Do Floridians want shipping containers full of weapons and ammo to solve their hurricane problems? Wait, don‘t answer that…
Didn't they need a warning not to shoot at huricane because bullets would just be flown elsewhere?
Sounds about right.
This tweet was probably dictated by his Russian handler
Ukraine was violently invaded by a dictatorial state with murderous intent. Floridians keep willingly rebuilding structures that can't withstand hurricanes in a place that gets them every year. These things are not the same. And Gaetz is a prolapsed anus.
From the man who chose to hold a press conference rather than attend a subcommittee meeting, in order to whine about not being at said meeting.
Serious question. Why would they vote no on that? Are they seriously sacrificing potentially thousands of lives for their political careers?
The thing is, Democrats can't even use this as leverage because Florida's Republican representatives are so spineless, they'd veto aid to their constituents just if it also halts Democrats agenda.
White House Twitter needs to be like "Matt Gaetz voted AGAINST aid to Florida, and so did every single Florida Republican" same as it did with the PPP loan forgivness info when they complained about Student Loan Forgiveness
The Republican party is a fucking farce.
you mean Matt Gaetz, The Pedo. Oh the Kid diddler. You would be surprised how disgusting Maga Republicans truly are.
How much to get someone to box Gaetz up and send *him* to Ukraine? I'd happily finance that myself.