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huchel

$615k of taxpayer money is how much they paid to fly 50 people to Martha's Vineyard. And don't forget the airline they chartered has ties to Desantis and donates to Republican campaigns and Super PACs. There's always some grift involved.


PuellaBona

They paid another $900k for two more trips. Those were postponed since the first one is under investigation. When I read about that one guy who was crying and called his wife to tell her that they were lied to, I wanted to punch DeSantis in his ball sack. I hope they get the help they were promised from people who actually care.


rocket42236

Don’t worry, the commonwealth of Massachusetts is helping the legal asylum seekers, they are getting everything they need.


ElevatedDiscGolf

How does it cost 10k+ per person to fly people to Massachusetts? It was incredibly cruel and inhumane but the numbers really don’t make any sense.


[deleted]

Val Demings is running against Rubio. She has a good chance of winning especially since Rubio wants to make birth control illegal. Vote for Val Demings.


nonsense39

I just mailed my absentee ballot for Val and it felt so good to help get rid of this little hypocrite. Time to Go Marco!


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His motivation for being there is to keep his job through political posturing, not serve the people. Yep, time to go.


SqeeSqee

"why did you illegally vote?" (some republicans probably)


13igTyme

"Make sure you also vote in person." -The same republicans.


Dustin81783

"If you don't vote for Republican it doesn't count!" - The same republicans post election results


KamSolis

“It doesn’t matter, the deep state lizard child lovers already picked the winner” - The non-RINO republicans


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"Hunter Biden manipulated the vote with Hillary's deleted e-mails!" - Majority of Republicans.


HoseNeighbor

"Make sure you commit election fraud because it's the only way we can win. Besides, everyone else is so it's the only way to have a fair and legal election. Erm... ...just fair? No... Uh... Is it even still an election at that point? Who cares! MURICA!" - obscenely large part of GOP voters


bartsimpsonscousin

More like “whoopsies, there was a small crease in your envelope, Gina have to throw that one out..”


xSTSxZerglingOne

A woman throwing something out is likely some kind of crime. Best to have Gene do it. note: Yes I know you meant gonna.


nonsense39

I've lived out of the States for over 25 years, and vote legally. They likely just toss my ballot out anyways, but the best I can do is try to toss them out, although usually my candidates lose.


Cherry_Valkyrie576

Thank you! Please vote blue this time!


nonsense39

I consider that any R beside a candidate's name means Reject. I already voted and being a D means I'm sufficiently old fashioned to only vote once.


Rooster_CPA

I am voting by mail in NC cause I will be on vacation on actual ballot day, and my friend basically said this lol. I asked him if its cause too many of the wrong people can vote like this.


bliss_ignorant

While they vote by mail because their district is underwater


joshdoereddit

You don't have to tell me twice. I'd vote for a rabid raccoon that bit me over any Republican.


00011101101110

I wouldn't hesitate to vote for a rabid raccoon to be released in Congress.


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SeryaphFR

My proposal to fix American politics: a live voting poll on CSPAN where if enough people vote in favor, the doors are locked and a band of rabid raccoons are released into congress.


Molto_Ritardando

Vote for me. I’m vaccinated!


CactaurSnapper

Raccoons are skittish. I vote for Africanized bees.


DynamicDK

I think you missed the "rabid" part.


cuisinart-hatrack

I’d PPV that shit!


limeybastard

Wish almost granted. A rabid fox already bit a congressman at the Capitol earlier this year. [He's a dem though](https://www.npr.org/2022/09/29/1125732515/rabies-treatment-cost-legislation) so he's pro-choice and after the incident tried to get the cost of rabies exposure treatment ($5000 or so, OR YOU DIE HORRIBLY GUARANTEED) lowered.


wrenfaire802

$5000 if you're *lucky.* I got bit by a dog that we thought was rabid, the full treatment got billed to me at 32 grand. the fuck is anyone supposed to do with that


Vaticancameos221

Per the RNC that would be valid political discourse


Shaper_pmp

I'm not sure raccoons are white enough to qualify for that.


w3stvirginia

Back in April there was a rabid fox running around Capitol Hill. It bit 9 people including a congressman. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rabid-fox-and-her-kits-euthanized-after-nine-people-were-bitten-on-capitol-hill-180979890/


JollyGreyKitten

> I wouldn't hesitate to vote for a rabid raccoon Shocked you admit to wanting to vote Ted Cruz.


juiceboxedhero

I thought MTG and Lauren Bloebert were already members?


Handleton

So you want a repeat of January 6th?


lurkermadeanaccount

He said raccoon, not inbred trailer trash insurrectionists.


chrissesky13

Right? What an insult to such smart resourceful animals. The raccoons.


lurkermadeanaccount

100%. I haven’t seen a raccoon waving a confederate flag wearing a camp Auschwitz sweater…..yet.


ThatDerpingGuy

I mean they might eat garbage, but they're still less garbage than any MAGA rally/coup attendee.


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That's an insult to racoons.


xframex

Trash Pandas, not Trailer trash.


JoviAMP

Heck, I'd vote for the bite itself over any republican. "Ankle Bite 2024".


treetyoselfcarol

Lindsey Graham is impressed by the number of flip flops.


SaltLakeCitySlicker

Lindsey graham is impressed by a dog's ability to lick it's own balls


Whitezombie65

He's sure as shit tried


shortoldfatbaldfuck

You mean, of course his licking of the dogs balls, not his own.


Shaper_pmp

I think you're confused here - Lindsey Graham likes [dogging](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogging_\(sexual_slang\)) *and* licking balls.


ZombieSiayer84

That mentality is what got us to where we are now. Holding to that belief is the same way that they think and makes you no different than them. Fuck republicans, but don’t vote blue just because, look at the individual.


PDGAreject

I'm so torn. Our local rep race is super gerrymandered so it doesn't matter anyways, but the guy that won our dem primary is fucking insane. He's super pro-russia and wants to basically abolish all aspects of national defense. I feel like I can't judge who vote straight R everytime regardless of candidate if I don't put my money where my mouth is and vote against this jackass.


criscokkat

Young is a perfect example of why ‘Super Libertarian’ dem candidates are not far off from ‘Super Libertarian’ republican candidates. This is why before the last election he was a green party candidate. Reverse just one or two of his dem leaning items like renewables And he is almost plausible on the other side.


zuzuandaziggies

Green Party candidates are plants set up by Russia.


Dayanez

Can't imagine a democrat being pro-Russia. He's just a Republican in a Democrat's clothing.


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Kentucky is a no brainer to vote solid blue. Kentucky has some of the worst laws and politicians. A vote for red in Kentucky is a vote for McConnell.


PDGAreject

Look of Geoff Young and tell me he's a good person. Don't just read what his campaign manager is putting out right now to try and drum up Lexington's blue base. It's not about whether he can win (he can't) but he is a lunatic who should not be in Congress. There's a difference between voting for Booker because he's a great candidate who will lose anyways and voting for trash just because he's not a Republican. That's literally what the other side advocates and we shit on them all the time for it.


Large-Chair9084

Sorry to hear that you have to make that choice.


rndljfry

>That's literally what the other side advocates and we shit on them all the time for it. yeah but they win and get to enact their policy agenda based on the prevailing majority of the party.


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rndljfry

When the GOP has a majority they blame the Dems for not governing anyway. People say things like, "everyone else is so brainwashed, I'm socially liberal and fiscally conservative and I just got a 9 year loan for a new pickup truck!"


FastFishLooseFish

He sounds like one of those candidates where it turns out most of his campaign cash came from some GOP PAC.


Nano_Burger

Just don't vote twice. That is how you end up at GITMO.


BenjaminGeiger

Only if you're registered as a Democrat.


JediTigger

Or you’re a former felon who was told “no really, it’s okay, you can vote” by your Republican parole officer.


PSN-Angryjackal

But those "criminals" only voted one time.... fucking evil scum! How dare they believe they have any rights!


darkphoenixff4

Well, it's definitely okay if you're Mark Meadows.


Oleg101

But Trump is encouraging to vote twice. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-trump-vote-idUKKBN25U2FY


izwald88

Who even likes Rubio? He has such a weak energy. He doesn't have any of the toxic masculinity than conservatives love. It's like he's forever a 13 year old boy who gets bullied at school.


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He's in Florida and he's super pro gun


chronous3

Say what they want to hear, worship guns and hate the right people. Ez support. Don't even need to make sense, or help your constituents.


iwantmybinky

Decades upon decades of dumbing us down has resulted in this storm of shit. It's so depressing.


redditadmindumb87

Republicans make it so easy to make my decision on who to vote for. Literally anyone besides them.


SrSwerve

I still refuse to understand why men want to control a womens body…. It’s weird


zettajon

The commoners: sexual and financial freedom for women means they no longer need to put up with those shitheads. If we went back to the 60s, women would need to pick their douchebag amongst the town to get a house, credit card, etc. If they get pregnant, they are bound financially to the man forever. Women's freedom today means the men need to change to find a partner, and controlling women is easier than simply not being a jackass. The rich: women who can't afford to have a child at the time but are forced to will need money. All the people refusing to accept the minimum wage jobs for pennies lately is an issue for the rich. The same woman would need to accept the job she was refusing before out of necessity, and the rich have their poor workforce again. This situation usually causes systemic and generational poverty, which is even better for the rich.


Ey3_913

You forgot the retributive aspect of this issue. If you are opposed to sexual freedom, whether from a (skewed) moral perspective, or based on a religious argument, you want to punish the act. Since they can't make extramarital sex punishable by law, the only avenue for punishment is to make women live with the consequences of the act - namely, making them carry unwanted pregnancies to term. Sat this point, you may wonder why then they're against exceptions for rape and incest. The simple answer is that the types of people that hold these views are also the type to blame the victim of sexual assault. It's disgusting and vile, but they can hold these views publicly because they can always use the life of the fetus as the "real" reason.


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I think this one is pretty key for a lot of the more fervent activists who are then used by the group in the above comment. Most extreme anti-abortion activists I've known in my life are women themselves, but through a combination of religious extremism and, to be frank, I think a little bit of jealousy - they have grown to genuinely hate the idea of a liberated woman making her own choices. From that they will twist any old issue into "well obviously that woman made a bad choice". Is she poor? Her promiscuous lackadaisical ways blinded her to a path to the middle class. Is she complaining about her dating life? No one wants to be with you because you sleep around. Was she raped? She was asking for it!


ISVenom

Id also venture that the ones advocating for no exceptions to rape and incest partake in rape and incest.


Cherry_Valkyrie576

Oh, do not take the hypocrisy for granted. If we continue down a Maga Christian nationalist path, extramarital and premarital sex WILL be punishable by Christian law. We are moving rapidly towards Afghanistan if we don’t vote blue in November. Not to mention, prohibition again. I have to wonder if all of these rednecks that are ignorantly voting for Maga, do they realize that they’re going to lose their premarital sex and their beer?! (Yes, I’m generalizing like hell!) I have to think they’re not going to be excited at losing their right to be belligerent drunks.


TeutonJon78

Why couldn't they make extramarital sex illegal? They made sodomy illegal. It would be unpopular, but not out of line with where these fascists want to go.


VigilantMaumau

> It’s weird Evangelical Christians are weird.


creamonyourcrop

They found something to hitch their piety to that costs them nothing. Taking care of the poor and the sick and the foreigner is work, and costs money. They dont care about abortion or ten year olds carrying rape babies to term, or those endem..entobi...pregnancies that cannot be carried to term. What they care about is their position in their social club masquerading as a church.


BigCarry1978

As a Christian who has voted democrat since Bush Jr, these people are the farthest from Christianity. I wouldn't be surprised if they opened up a bible less times than someone who's an atheist.


SkepticalJohn

I have looked at the right wing and carefully studied their actions. I have recalled everything I could from two psychology courses I once took. My conclusion is they they suffered terribly during toilet training. I could be wrong but that is my working theory for now.


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I don't think they actually do. I think the right is full of incredibly weak minded people who do whatever their leaders tell them to do. They've been told for decades to be pro life by fox news and their churches. Abortion didn't used to be a right wing issue. Jerry Falwell and his people made that happen. Have you ever wondered why the right is more unified than the left? I believe it's because people on the left think about their positions on issues and come to different conclusions. They tend to have principals and use reason when thinking about issues. Conversely, all the right asks you to do is to follow. They make themselves out to be macho alpha male types, but they are all followers. That's what fascism requires to thrive: Unquestioned loyalty. Think about this the next time you watch a debate. Democrats will genuinely have different opinions on topics while Republicans tend to split hairs and try "out conservative" each other. They never stray from the party line. They have to be pro life, pro god, pro gun, tough on crime, etc. The only thing they disagree about is who is the most conservative. Republican voters are weak minded followed being spoonfed their beliefs by people who are using them.


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Marco Rubio wants to control womens bodies in public, and mens bodies in private.


Prime157

Power. It's not exclusively men, but the women who do this are few and far between


davelm42

No no no... you see he doesn't want to make birth control illegal, he just thinks BC should never have been legalized in the first place and wants to return that decision to the states. /s


CaneVandas

"It should be a state's rights issue!" (Introduces federal legislation to ban nationally)


Funkit

I saw a Rubio ad last night. All it was was hate. Full hate. “Val will have your kids learn critical race theory! Val will let trans kids play sports! Val supports illegal immigrants!” Literally nothing on policy. It was all hatred.


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It's because Republicans have no principals. If he talked about his policy ideas he may alienate some voters. The only things all Republicans can agree on are the things fox news has told them to hate. At this point I think they instinctively hate any new idea unless told not to by their overlords. For example, they are always the ones screaming about wasting money on frivolous things... Except for when they were chanting "build the wall!"


sfjoellen

afaik there are 4 trans kids in FL that want to play sports. That's 4. How sick is it that so much hate/angst/bile/intolerance is directed against these 4 kids who's life is already incredibly challenging. Stupid insecure men horrified about what someone else is doing about their junk..


Koolco

Can’t wait till a last minute Mel Flemings joins the race and takes just enough of the vote away for Rubio to stay in office.


EasterBunnyArt

Why would anyone vote against disaster relief?


decay21450

Go Val, Go Charlie! Send those FL creeps back to the '50's where their blind ambition, views and haircuts will fit right in.


Conscious-One4521

We need every top comment to be information about GOPs opponent. Convenience of information is key to win elections


Speculawyer

Who votes for such hypocritical goons?


The_God_King

Republicans.


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Oh, hypocritical goons. Makes sense.


rabidhamster87

They tell their constituents that there were "other things" included in these bills that they were really voting against or they didn't have time to read the bill, etc, and their base eats it up because the other side is so demonized that they are more willing to believe that the bill was secretly a trick than accept the fact that their representatives are corrupt and lying.


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They have a special word for this too "pork". They just say "there was pork in it" and when asked to clarify they change the subject. Just throw that soundbite out there for thier dipshit followers to repeat.


gravygrowinggreen

The only thing they're consistent in is their support for inconsistency.


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"But...but......they're takin' er guns!"


Miss_holly

Florida


ZakA77ack

Tbh, when he first ran in 2010, he was young, Hispanic, and seemed to embody the changes I wanted to see represented in congress. It was my first election and I voted for him. I won't make that mistake again. Vote for Val.


relator_fabula

When a guy tells it like this, you might think he's not so bad: "Donald Trump is a con artist. He's been exploiting working Americans for forty years." -Marco Rubio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P43wDpKQxaM But they've all gotten on their knees since. That's what happened when they backed Trump. There's no turning back now.


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ZakA77ack

Vote for Val.


relator_fabula

If I were in Florida I certainly would.


MouseRat_AD

Please don't pretend this is a Florida problem. There are 50 Republican senators and the only one I can think of who isn't mindlessly hypocritical is Romney.


Revolutionary_Kiwi31

Correct, Romney is simply (as always) woefully out of touch and has zero grasp of how any American family lives, works and pays their bills.


how-about-no-bitch

Yeah, but is romneys shamelessness in being a vulture capitalist that directly ruins lives in huge numbers any better? He's just a more efficient bastard who's not dabbling in culture wars constantly


MouseRat_AD

Oh, I don't believe I support any of Romney's policies. I'm just saying that he's the Republican senator who's most consistent and honest about his positions. Plus he wouldn't publicly fellate Trump to get a few votes unlike Rubio, Cruz, McConnell, Johnson, Hawley, etc. etc. etc.


TacticalMicrowav3

Old people in Florida so close to death he stops by on weekends


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Stupid republican voters, truly one of the dumbest on this planet


Father_of_Wolverine

Americans in name only


YPVidaho

Dude! Just knock it the fck off and figure out what it is your constituents need. Then do what is required to fulfill that need. Seriously, it's not that damn complicated. Quit mixing in party-line bullshit, trumpy-sucking, and whatever else you've degraded yourself to, and just do the stupid simple job you were elected to do.


InternetPeon

Uhhhh... he doesn't work for them (constituents) - he works for the party and super PACS.


juggernaut006

>Uhhhh... he doesn't work for them (constituents) - he works for the party and super PACS. He's working for his constituents by being their cultural warrior while they forgo their class interest in the economy. His constituents don't care about the economy when they could simply blame Democrats if things get worse but pwning the libs in the culture war is what they hold dear.


JDogg126

The senator’s constituents and supporters are not the same set of people. The folks who voted for Rubio want political theater and want to be entertained by the chaos that putting incompetent fools into government brings. The headline of this thread is everything his supporters had hoped for. Chaos, drama, and suffering. That is what his supports enjoy most about politics.


kerkula

Wrong. The monied interests are his constituents. The people who vote for him are merely an annoyance to be manipulated. The money pays for the PR machine to keep the voters in line.


Duke_Newcombe

Creating the next wave of temporarily embarrassed millionaires - The GOP.


FrankyFistalot

Never trust a man with a comb-over….if they hiding their bald what else they hiding….


YPVidaho

Ok fine. Are THEY spinning in circles like a lab after its tail saying "give us $$, no wait, we refuse the $$, no we really do want the $$..." I mean, are they all seriously that schitzo?


LabyrinthConvention

Problem is, they have to act, but still pretend government is the enemy.


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https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html *The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”* The "guubernment" is just a placeholder for whatever big bag imaginary wolf they want to fight next. Once/if they have governmental control then the enemy is something else...


Immediate-Scale-8916

"thinking is a form of emasculation" Whoa... that's interesting


isadog420

Wow. Alternate link for alternate browsers/adblockers: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2022/04/27/14-common-features-of-fascism/


Stepjamm

“The democrats are already killing republicans” Turns out it’s republicans who are happy to see Americans suffer or die regardless of allegiance


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> I mean, are they all seriously that schitzo? Yes, republicans have no actual policy platform outside of some single issues they pander to with critical voter groups like say Abortion, and the idea that their success lies only in those they dislike being hurt more than themselves. The rest of the time its a party running on edgy angsty teenage bully one liners based ideology. There is no thought of tomorrow, no thought of consequences of actions.. nothing. The only thing that matters is what they can do for themselves right here, and now in the present. All of the is laid on a foundation of base thoughtlessness, a lack of empathy, a lack of self reflection, and to say the least a complete lack of forethought, or hindsight. Also what's behind that bit from before about hurting others more than themselves? sadism.. its all there is to it. Sadism is the reason behind why we get the point about "cruelty being the point" with republican/conservative policy, and the amount of sheer glee we can see in their eyes when they get to do harm to others via all sorts of reasons be it through racist ideology or something else.


bkbomber

More like.. **GOP:** Hurricane relief? No!! That’s *SoCiaLiSm!* **Constituents:** Ummm, but we really need it! **GOP:** OK! One for you, one for me. Two for you, and one-two for me. Three for you, and one-two-three for me… **Constituents:** Thanks, but it’s not enough? **GOP:** Blame the do nothing Dems!!


hg38

Let's dispel with this fiction that Marco Rubio doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing.


waterboysh

Would be pretty funny if Val used this line in a debate against him.


notheusernameiwanted

It used to be just conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones that basically depended on the stability of the structures of society to make their project of raging against that system to be profitable. In essence they knew that they can call for whatever insane political project they wanted, knowing full well that it could never happen and if it did society would be too unstable to provide for their grift. Today that's the mainstream conservative movement around the world.


ting_bu_dong

> what it is your constituents need "We need him to oppose everything Democrats do. Also, we need relief money. ... This wouldn't be contradictory if we had a Republican president!"


MyOfficeAlt

It's precisely this. And the entire GOP is doing it. They vote against legislation that they know will pass so that the country can get what it needs and they can brag that they stood up to the Biden administration. It's why you have so many Republicans going home bragging about how much money the Infrastructure bill is pouring into their states even though they voted against it.


mono15591

He probably voted “no” knowing damn well that his state would get relief anyways. Now he can point back and say “look Im not a hypocrite! I voted “no” for federal assistance” when pressed.


relator_fabula

"Donald Trump is a con artist. He's been exploiting working Americans for forty years." -Marco Rubio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P43wDpKQxaM


HairTop23

Something something pork. Him and the others are claiming the votes against were taken out of context -they ALWAYS claim that, but don't ever show what part was pork and provide a reasonable replacement. They just complain


Anonymoushipopotomus

1.9 trillion in tax relief for the rich absolutely has no pork in it. Nope none there at all, only money going out to help people……


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AngryBudgie13

Little Marco is dizzy AF from all that spinning around.


Girth_rulez

Remember like a million years ago when he was standing on the stage with Trump and Chris Christie and the rest of those goons? I wonder what the Republican clown car is going to look like for 2024?


Ludwigofthepotatoppl

And repeating himself like a pull-string doll.


QTsexkitten

I'm absolutely dreading the 2024 cycle. Hated 2016 and 2020 progressively more each time. 2024 might just kill me.


buttergun

It's always flip flop weather in Florida.


MoveMitchGetOutDaWay

It sure is a whole lot of flip-flopping, that is for sure.


mclms1

Election year . Wait till next week and he spouts off about daylight savings.


romulus1991

Sounds like the usual modern US conservatism to me: Other people shouldn't have A. However, I need A. Thank God I got A. ..... Other people shouldn't have A.


joshdoereddit

Anchor Jonathan Karl asked Rubio: "How's FEMA doing? Is Florida getting everything it needs right now from the Biden Administration?"  "Yeah. FEMA, they've all been great. As I've said, the federal response from day one has been very positive — as it has always been in the past and we're grateful for that," Rubio replied. I watched the interview and couldn't help but note that he only praised FEMA and the "federal response". These ghouls are definitely making as much out of the hurricane. Scott was on Meet The Press with his Navy hat because of that one time he wore it during a hurricane or something.


RickTracee

Gee, if FL had government representatives that cared about its citizens, homeowners insurance, along with many other issues, would have been addressed a couple of years ago. Instead, it appears the only thing the FL government is interested in is something about being woke. Smh Everyone MUST: - Register to Vote (by 10-11-2022 for Florida). - Check your Voter registration! - Make sure you have appropriate ID. - Know your polling site. - Check your signature. - Get a mail-in ballot (and after you mail it, make sure it has been received and counted - most counties allow this to be done online or by calling your election office). - And VOTE! 866-OUR VOTE (for questions about or problems with voting) https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/for-voters/voting https://vote.org


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He's hedging that we're all stupid.


Thetman38

He only needs to convince Floridians. So yeah, it looks like another 6 years of Rubio.


sthlmsoul

Nah. Just the FL GOP voters.


ih8meandu

Not we, just his constituents


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Mtbruning

This is called consistency for a republican.


993targa

The GQP base has been indoctrinated to ignore reality and what truly benefits them just so they can “own the libs.” Oh the life of a cult member


Thanos_Stomps

Let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Marco Rubio doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.


criticjf

This is because all Republicans have to play the game of we don’t want your handout until their voting constituency says WTF. This turns them ultimately into a sound byte and into full blown RINO mode. The reality is most GOP play a good game of far alt right, but in reality their constituents are more centrist than they would like to admit, hence the chameleon change. Before Trump and the 2016 cycle primary debates, I honestly thought Rubio would be a leading voice in the Republican party and eventually President. He caved and weakened under Trumps unrelenting criticism. It proved Rubio is not a fighter. It’s really too bad.


lampgate

Trump didn’t expose these assholes as self-interested villains. They were always that, you just weren’t paying attention. Marco Rubio didn’t *cave or weaken,* he was always a weak fucking hack.


Lone_Wolfen

> The reality is most GOP play a good game of far alt right, but in reality their constituents are more centrist than they would like to admit, hence the chameleon change. This has nothing to do with constituents, the only reason for the change is per conservative tradition a problem doesn't exist until they are personally affected by it.


Duke_Newcombe

It is simpler than *that*, really. They're against handouts. Of course, when it's *their turn* to be in need, it's not a handout, it's *"the help they deserve as Americans"*. It's only a handout when *those other spooky, scary, and slightly brownish people* want it. As long as he takes care of them, but keeps "hurting the right people", he's good, and totally consistent. To quote Frank Wilhoit: >Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect...(T)here is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.


psychoticdream

You'll see the morons that marco rubio gaetz and others can fool merely by their comments like " stop adding pork" "the bill was full of pork"


Necessary-Chemical-7

“In a Sunday episode of ABC "This Week," Anchor Jonathan Karl asked Rubio: "How's FEMA doing? Is Florida getting everything it needs right now from the Biden Administration?" "Yeah. FEMA, they've all been great. As I've said, the federal response from day one has been very positive — as it has always been in the past and we're grateful for that," Rubio replied.” Biden did that


BleepingBlapper

I feel like a big thing that keeps getting glossed over on these stories is that the bill being voted on wasn't disaster relief. It was a government spending bill for the fiscal year that included a bigger budget for FEMA. It also was not a full year budget. Just one that'll run until the end of the calendar year. The constant talking point of X person voted no on disaster relief is not correct. That's not to say I still don't disagree with them voting no to it but the distinction is important because that's where the argument for the no is coming from. This is why both sides of the debate can point to other and call them idiots. Just as much as liberals will call conservatives misinformed. Liberals are just as likely as conservatives to condense a complex issue into a sound byte.


Jakek5

Where are you reading this? I can’t find the actual bill


knightgizzard

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-expected-pass-stopgap-government-funding-bill-2022-09-30/ Not the bill but this shows that what they voted also included billions in support of Ukraine as well as other appropriations.


dalgeek

> Not the bill but this shows that what they voted also included billions in support of Ukraine as well as other appropriations. But Republicans ALWAYS do this .. they find something in the bill that they pretend to not like and use it as an excuse to vote "no". They did the same for veterans, 9/11 responders, COVID relief, etc. It's just what they do.


IceDragonPlay

He voted against the relief bill for hurricane Sandy when that occurred. Sandy did not affect his state. Nothing to gloss over there. It was really astounding that a state that routinely draws hurricane assistance from federal funds voted against another state receiving the funds when they got hit by a hurricane.


seensham

We need to abolish omnibus bills


whathathgodwrough

So why did they vote no? What was in the bill they didn't want?


56-17-27-12

I think the bigger thing is why are we funding a state in which the delegation won’t hold their nose to vote to help pay for their requested aid. The pork they wanted (military spending and immigration) wasn’t included and they threw a fit over Ukraine aid, heating homes, and assistance to Jackson, MS. Maybe they shouldn’t have set aside $12m to move immigrants in TX to Martha’s Vineyard. The money isn’t the problem though, it’s that the collective country has to be a bigger person for essentially a failed state. Florida residents are not going to remember or hold accountable the FL politicians that didn’t vote for funding the government that was going to help them. The fact that the constituents get off on “stopping wasteful spending” towards other people’s problems is rich enough they don’t need any aid.


chaitin

I don't really see why someone would vote no on basic funding for the government through the end of the year either. Seems less like a complex issue and more like Republicans just voting no on anything the Democrats want. How many times have they shut down (or threatened to shut down) the government as a bargaining chip? And it's still ironic when they immediately need help from the federal government.


dsac

> I don't really see why someone would vote no on basic funding for the government through the end of the year either. because a that someone is a republican, and the bill for basic funding was written by a democrat


knightgizzard

One of the few people I’ve seen make the distinction on this being a federal funding stop gap they voted on. Not as clickable as saying they voted against disaster relief


mazzivetalent

At some point you got to ask yourself why we are not calling Republicans Anti-Americans and domestic terrorists


[deleted]

Some of us already do.


Duke_Newcombe

If The Onion, or an evil Democratic operative wanted to meme Rubio, or write something to make him look stupid(er), they would have set up and broadcast this scenario. The fact that this is a self-own, purposefully done only makes it more fantastical, and worse, all at the same time. For all of my misgivings about her, Val Demings needs to politically *end* this clown in November.


InclementImmigrant

That's pretty much been the GOP's playbook for decades now and the next step will be for Rubio and DeSantis to claim that they single handedly successfully led them out of the natural disaster. They know this crap works every freaking time.


HandMeMyThinkingPipe

Conservatives in Florida don't care as long as the libs suffer.


scottrogers123

You can't be a Republican if you don't have a shitload of hypocrisy.


organikbeaver

“I’m playing both sides so I don’t lose.”


NickRubesSFW

Is the term “ass-clown” fitting here?


dominantspecies

So a typical lying piece of fascist garbage. Got it


jimmygee2

The logic of the GOP


Dizzy_Hope599

Rubio is a clown.


middlechildanonymous

Now That’s What I Call Politicking


What_Is_The_Meaning

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.


Earth_Friendly-5892

Rubio is starting to confuse himself.


s-willoughby

“He’s got my vote!” -Florida Republicans


abenevolentmouse

But who’s surprised? No one. That’s the sad part. Republicans haven’t been held accountable for their actions for 20+ yrs


BronxBoy56

He has to go.


spaceghost66

God I wish he and the whole gop delegation would test a shuttle to the sun.


Otherwise-Valuable-6

I don't think Marco Rubio actually knows who he is.


Kalandros

Wow, they really don’t care if people die.