• AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It seems like politics draws in a lot of flawed people generally, but Republicans have been electing an amazing number of absolutely horrible human beings. Gaetz, Green, Bobert, Cruz, Jordan, Santos… oh, and of course Trump. Lots more. Just really, really bad people.

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      Politicians often reflect the wishes of the people who vote them in. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that “only the threat of hell keeps people from doing bad things” Christians tend to vote republican.

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        It doesn’t prevent many of them from doing bad things. They think they will be forgiven as long as they are believers.

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          I think at this point that ship has sailed - they don’t even believe themselves anymore, e.g. many don’t go to church. Certainly the Karens do not bother to “love one another”, or to feed the poor, give comfort to those in prison, take care of widows & orphans, care that the worker deserves their wages, etc. It is cultural at this point, less than religious.

          But not entirely, bc in the last Presidential election “evangelical Christians” did have the single highest majority of people in it voting for Trump. So there’s that, though I am saying that it just seems a more complex mixture than only that.

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      When Republicans send its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

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      Don’t forget Tuber. I feel like that mother fucker gets a pass even though Tuber is just as bad as the rest of them shit heads.

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        Why is he a piece of shit? Seems he’s a middlingly-successful lawyer who had an addiction problem, just like tens of millions of other people. Being an addict doesn’t make you a bad person, just like having the flu doesn’t.

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        I don’t even know a damned thing about him, other than drug abuse. That doesn’t paint him as a piece of shit to me, just sad. A man who made many poor decisions. (There very well may be shitty things I don’t know, but they’re loudest about the drugs)

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          I don’t even know a damned thing about him, other than drug abuse.

          We don’t even know the drug abuse isn’t slander.

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            Uh, it isn’t? I’m not defending the fucking repubs, but Hunter did admit to drug abuse. Its in the fucking article.

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        If he’s a piece of shit, he’s a private individual piece of shit, so that’s his business. He is not representing the public.

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        Gaetz is almost certainly a person who knowingly paid an underage girl for sex. The person who facilitated it basically already plead guilty and may be cooperating with investigators, though the proceedings of this seem to be going quite slowly.

        This is even more insane given that Gaetz is one of the most Q-Anony of the lunatic Republicans in Congress. Kind of their whole thing is largely based around saving children from being sex trafficked.

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            Its insane when you compare the things they hold dear and are most concerned about to themselves personally and the people they support.

            They will tell you they are highly worried about secret sex trafficking and millions of missing children, but extremely often they and the people they support are sexually abusing children, or have a history of it.

            Its the cognitive dissonance thats the insane part, the extreme hypocrisy.

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        Why is he a piece of shit, and why do we care about that in the context of politics, if his matters are unconnected to his father?

        I wouldn’t care about Ivanka a single bit if it wasn’t because she was his rapist daddy’s political advisor.