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Murdered by Words

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[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 84 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Merciful god, people will elect any moron if they have an R next to their name.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You need to know we’re 35+ years into this. The age of trump has proven what we’ve known ever since Reagan (arguably Nixon): Republican ideals are a sham, covering only racist, sexist, Christofascist power grabs. Anyone who votes R knowingly or unknowingly supports those things. And as a certified cult, they are both forbidden from voting differently and from questioning that fact.

All hail trump, only he alone can save them. Covfefe.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

We've known conservative ideals have been garbage for a lot longer than that (all the way back to the founding of the country, in fact). Republican ideals being garbage more recently is simply a reflection of Republican party becoming more purely conservative since Nixon.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

For Rs, being a moron is a selling point -- it makes The Base think they're "just like us."

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What about any of this makes you think there's a merciful god?

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Perhaps hell is real and this is it?

[–] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not even knowing how to spell “principles” certainly tracks.

[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, the joke almost literally writes itself

[–] triclops6@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Which is a good thing since Santos clearly shouldn't write it

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You name reads pretty close to Grammar-ton, so this works on a few levels.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Jesus, that's a hell of a smackdown coming from a ~~senator~~ house rep

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Raskin is a rep and would actually have a tough time getting one of the MD Senator seats. We've got a lot of conservative areas and blue dogs and it would be much harder for him to win statewide vs just Montgomery county.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Ope, you're right. Got my legislative branches mixed up

[–] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 27 points 2 years ago

(P.S. Dear mods, in case you think this violates the rule against replies based on spelling and grammar, I'd argue this has more to do with professionality than that)

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)