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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Republicans went from Nixon to Reagan to George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, and finally to Trump, Pence, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Lauren Bobert... It's like they are deliberately trying to elect stupider people every year.

At this rate, by 2032 the Republican presidential nominee will be just be a brick with a Hitler mustache glued to it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

At least the brick would be better qualified than the Cheeto with a bad toupee.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let's not forget when they shit all over their former front runner for the presidency, McCain, and lately, Romney

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If prosecuting Trump is "communism" then sign me up for communism.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sign me up either way. I’ll gladly take democratic ownership of corporations over our current stage of managerial feudalism anyday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Communism definitely has its own set of advantages and disadvantages, but the Republican Party just label everything they don't like "communism" and "socialism." Sometimes they even throw a "radical" in there. Words have lost all meaning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And also something about "liberals".

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Sounding kinda woke there buddy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

US right wing thought process:

Anything they disagree with = Communism (outside the USA calling "commie" sounds straight from the lips of General Jack D Ripper to outsiders.)

Anything they agree with = Democracy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually right now even democracy is considered a dirty word, they even say that US isn't democracy, but a republic (ignoring what republic is).

They already started conditioning their minions, that dictatorship isn't really all that bad.

The ironic thing is that the primary reason why communism is bad is that it normally comes together with totalitarism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They sure love to see "deviated preverts" everywhere as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Whilst being deviant perverts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’m pretty sure she breathes through her asshole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you can see when she does. it’s on her face.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The evidence before the court is

Incontrovertible, there's no need for

The jury to retire

In all my years of judging

I have never heard before

Of someone more deserving

Of the full penalty of law

The way you made them suffer

Your exquisite wife and mother

Fills me with the urge to defecate!

Since, my friend, you have revealed your

Deepest fear,

I sentence you to be exposed before

your peers—

TEAR DOWN THE WALL!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She makes Sarah Palin look like an intellectual.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you've ever read the bit in William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch about the man who taught his asshole to talk, that's her biography.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She was pretty good on Mr pickles, she should go back to music.

https://youtu.be/gaiZT-rm-sg (crappy video but I couldn't find any other)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Her entire political career is based on saying loud dumb shit, no policy, no progress just REEEEE. She'd disappear tomorrow if everyone decided to stop paying attention to her

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be surprised if that's the goal. While everyone's listening to her deranged rambling, the other scumbags are probably scheming in the shadows.

Ignoring her would definitely be the best thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Magic the gathering said that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mother tiggole giddies!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Haven’t they been wanting to impeach biden since before he even took office lol. They love saying that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its reactionary bullshit. Republicans have just become the "anti-democrats"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

correction they are anti-democratic and pro facists

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I would need a lobotomy to understand that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

For MTG and conservatives in general, woke or communism just means "(the acts of) people we don't like"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Everyone here knows she's well aware it doesn't mean anything, right? To the fascists it's just a buzzword they use to rile up their base.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think people should throw this stuff back at them.

MTG is communism. Canceling student debt forgiveness is woke. Stopping aid to Ukraine is part of the trans-agenda.

Etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

She’s a waste of carbon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


But Marjorie Taylor Greene took it to the extreme, as she is wont to do, claiming that with the indictments of Donald Trump, “Americans are actually seeing what communism really looks like.”

But I hope that the amount of overwhelming evidence that has come out and continues to pour out will convince those members that are still on the fence.”

Bartiromo then went on to make a specious argument of her own, claiming that the Trump indictments are some kind of distraction from news about Biden’s alleged corruption.

Bartiromo’s allegation — that prosecutors are somehow coordinating their indictments of Trump to distract from Hunter Biden news — would require a massive conspiracy among attorneys across the country.

The timeline is also laughable, with charges against the former president coming sometimes multiple weeks after news broke about Biden’s son.

And the allegations Bartiromo cites against Hunter Biden are often uncorroborated or unverified, unlike much of the evidence in the indictments against Trump.


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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bloody right whingers....no principles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The stupidity is astounding.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wish people would stop giving Nazi barbie attention, she knows what she's saying is bullshit, even she's not as stupid as she sounds.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone quick, knock her teeth out for a cock, because that hole in her face is only good for holstering a cock.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah......no......no matter how much you hate someone, objectifying them isn't the way to go.