• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    Not only the base. Or does he just differentiate between “swayed by propaganda” for the plebs and “blackmailed or bribed” for the party officials?

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    “I think Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base,” House Foreign Affairs Committee chair and Texas Republican, Michael McCaul, told Puck News.

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      This goes in the (no shit sherlock) pile. Those of us who have been paying attention and saw the instant flip from red scare to licking putins asshole have known this for a good couple of decades now.

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        That’s the frustrating thing, it’s so blatantly obvious and out in the open. You’d never know it watching literally any conservative news source.

        I’m all for free speech, but wish we had ways to label things as BS because a lot of ignorant people don’t know any better or care to know any better. So disappointing.

  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    I too wait until my house is completely engulfed in flames before realizing that there is a problem.

    You’ve been in office since 2005, you saw this shit firsthand and said nothing. Go fuck yourself.

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    So is the white Christian bigotry just considered home grown terrorism?

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      I sure remember Moscow Mitch the Bitch getting upset about being called Moscow Mitch after that but being proud of being called ‘Reaper’ for denying any bills brought forward to get anything done around that timeframe, yeah.

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        He got called Moscow Mitch before that - it was when he threatened to throw the government into lockdown if Obama revealed the extent of russian hacking and interference in the 2016 election.

        He traded his duty to the Constitution in for a drunk rapist and an evangelical nut to sit on the Supreme Court.

        Moscow Mitch.

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      If someone wrote a story with Republicans doing that prior to 2016 no editor would ever publish it because it’s so ham-fisted. Like a political plot laid out in a comic for actual elementary school children.

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    Can we just turn the Red Scare against them again? Just go all out and yell at them that they’re Commies and un-American.

    It worked in the 1950s.

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      Or… I’m just throwing out ideas here… what if we ship them and their lifted trucks to russia so they can totally be in such a conservative utopia?

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      It doesn’t work that way because the congressmen that celebrated the 4th of July in Moscow are protected by a party which is in turn led by a man who they themselves claim is paid by Vladimir Putin; a party whose voters fly the confederate flag, threaten fellow citizens with “2nd amendment solutions”, say they want to drown the federal government, and constantly argue for states like Texas to secede…

      You know REAL AMERICANS.

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        Traitors should’ve been purged after the civil war and the land given to newly freed peoples; Reconstruction was a mistake.

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        REDUX: let Texas secede; watch conservatives move there, start a war, conquer it, reclaim it as a US territory with no voting rights or citizenship. Build the wall.

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    As if we needed more proof that Republicans are a blight upon the world.

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    They know what they are doing, they just hate their own countrymen more than the Russians.

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      I don’t think they even hate the Russians. They imagine it is some kind of white ethnostate creating special privileges for cishet xtian white males.

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      Everyone needs to take a side.

      Russia or Ukraine

      Palestine or Israel

      Liberty or Tyranny

      Coke or Pepsi

      Not, like, to do anything about it. Just to cheer while other people do the dying.

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    It is a misnomer calling a rotting corpse “infected”, it’s just rotting. If foreign powers like Russia join in on scavenging on the rotting flesh of the Republican Party they aren’t “infecting it”.

    These foreign agents are only distinguishable from the internal forces of rot by virtue of having originated from outside the body, but in behavior and function they behave identically to the organisms waiting within that had been begun feeding the moment the surrounding entity died.