• @Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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        82 years ago

        You forgot about our many insightful hearings into various conspiracy theories, along with not even bringing up the importance of Hunter Biden’s Penis in today’s society – a topic so important that the word Penis needs to be capitalized in order to emphasize just how important it is.

  • @MisterD@lemmy.ca
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    272 years ago

    If it’s so bad why doesn’t she refuse the socialist healthcare provided by her job in Congress?

    • o_o
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      82 years ago

      Exactly, she gets to have some of the best healthcare available for free provided by tax payer. She should be so upset to refuse that and also the pension provided to her, also she should also give back the paycheck she received as that is tax payer money as well. But just as with everything these people get “outraged” about it is about other people getting the benefits.

    • Flying Squid
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      252 years ago

      She has power. She’s on major committees and basically controls McCarthy’s speakership. Ignoring her won’t make her go away.

      • @SocializedHermit@lemmy.world
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        62 years ago

        She’s been expelled from the Hard right caucus, shes losing political capital with her antics. Calling Boebert a bitch wasn’t a good move for her fascist buddies.

      • @eggshappedegg@sopuli.xyz
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        02 years ago

        My question was more why she has that power, why she is in major committees. Still a politician who is not taken seriously will eventually lose their power. Listening to her only empowers her

    • @Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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      -192 years ago

      Yeah… I got yelled at a while back for saying that I think she’s irrelevant. Apparent I’m not allowed to think that because she’s a super-important politician™

      • dtc
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        A person who works in government administration (the governing body that decides the laws you have to obey) is relevant, even if unlikable.

        Edit: also ‘yelled at’? Lol I saw that thread. It was you ignoring 12 people talking sense to you.

        • @Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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          -42 years ago

          I was me being told I wasn’t allowed to have the OPINION that she is irrelevant TO ME.

          • dtc
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            52 years ago

            I don’t think that’s how it went. Enjoy your opinion.

            • @Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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              -42 years ago

              So not only are you telling me what my opinion should be, you’re telling me that how I said it wasn’t how I said it?

              Is there a gatekeeping award coming up? Because I’d love to nominate you.

  • @MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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    222 years ago

    It seems like nothing they say matters anymore. Some Republicans want to get rid of Medicare. You would think this would lose them massive votes among the elderly, their biggest constituency. But it just doesn’t seem to matter.

    • @0110010001100010@lemmy.world
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      182 years ago

      These people will consistently vote against their own best interest to “own the libs” which I’m not even sure what that means at this point.

        • justhach
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          112 years ago

          To expand on that

          “No one gets any toys… but I should still get some anyways because I am a good and deserve it”

          Whenever someone who is vehemently against any kind of “progressive” idea like abortion, socialized healthcare, etc. quickly change their tune when it comes to something directly affects them. Hell, even the pateon saint of libertarianism, Ayn Rand, took advantage of Social Security and Medicare in her old age.

          • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
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            52 years ago

            Yeah but Ayn Rand said, that is in tune with Libertarianism, because its all about being a selfish asshole or something. (She said it differently, but that is ehat it boils doen to)

      • Raltoid
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        52 years ago

        Not to mention that they’re often convinced the things they vote for will never impact themselves.

        That’s how the classic “He’s not hurting the right ones” quote came about.

      • CileTheSane
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        42 years ago

        “owning the libs” means eating shit incase a liberal has to smell your breath.

    • @Techmaster@lemmy.world
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      42 years ago

      Because they aren’t taking Medicare away from the elderly. They’ve been proposing to take it away from gen x and future generations. The boomers still get theirs under all the proposals I’ve seen.

      • @HWK_290@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        It’d be stupid, but it’s love for someone to run on the platform of immediately defunding Medicare just to see the heads spin, and expose the hypocrisy

  • @MrCrankyBastard@lemmy.world
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    Sporkfoot the Shaved Georgia Skunk Ape has never been known for brilliant rhetoric or insightful discussion. She’s done nothing but grandstand, screech hate-filled nonsense, and gin up people dumber than herself.

    Oh, and be buddy-buddy with BoBo the clown and Gaspaedo.

  • @btaf45@lemmy.world
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    62 years ago

    Medicare is the best medical insurance in America. You automatically get the best price on everything (except drugs) because the profiteering charge is automatically removed.

  • Chris
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    62 years ago

    Socialism is the boogie man to the Right, but if you ask Right leaning voters about individual policies they almost universally all want to keep them. So damn frustrating.

  • @Raphael@lemmy.world
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    42 years ago

    Public healthcare is communism. Facts. Public schools are communism too, school shootings aren’t communism though.

  • @BassTurd@lemmy.world
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    22 years ago

    So what is her solution then? Homelessness is bad, ok, do what did she propose to fix it? Funding Ukraine with old military equipment that is being replenished with modern equipment both bolstering or arsenal and increasing manufacturing jobs in America, doesn’t protect our borders, conveniently ignoring the huge negative effect it has had on one of our biggest military rivals. Also, were not just giving that shit away.

    How does anybody this fucking stupid get to that position and have the power that she does? She is so fucking dumb.

    • Billiam
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      42 years ago

      So what is her solution then

      Republicans don’t offer solutions, because their entire party is built on proving the government doesn’t work and solutions to problems dispels that lie. Also, campaigning (and fundraising) on grievances and imagined problems is easy, fixing things is hard.

      How does anybody this fucking stupid get to that position and have the power that she does?

      I have bad news about American voters…

      • @BassTurd@lemmy.world
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        -12 years ago

        I think it’s too general of a statement to group all American voters as morons (my word not yours). The electoral college and gerrymandering play a large part, but there are still too many fucked in the head people voting for these shit heads.

    • BaroqueInMind
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      Because smart people don’t overtly seek positions of power that require a popularity contest and therefore do not run for publicly electable positions because of how shitty it is.

      • @BassTurd@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        That’s fair, but had the ever been anyone this bad before? This particular article doesn’t even touch how stupid she is. Jewish space lasers and all that.

        • BaroqueInMind
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          12 years ago

          The part of Georgia where her voters are from are particularly fucking retarded due to the Republicans reducing public funding for public schools and the result is apparent now.

  • @Snapz@lemmy.world
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    22 years ago

    “Every time I’ve gotten into trouble in life, these disloyal feet of mine walked me right into that trouble - I don’t think it’s a coincidence… we should shoot my socialist feet y’all.”

    -Marge

  • keet
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    Republicans have been against Medicare since the Johnson administration. Reagan railed against it too early in his political career. This isn’t new. Arguments against it now are still just as dumb as they were in the 60s.

  • @BitSound@lemmy.world
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    12 years ago

    Idk, I guess that’s better than the idiocy involved in “Get your government hands off my Medicare!”. At least there’s an internal consistency that you can argue against. Cruel, consistent evil is easier to work with than the Trumpian spew of bullshit.