#Republicans are Shady

[sideaccount512]

Republican non-Profits “challenging” Democratic Voters

Fr, Republicans are insane with absolutely zero self-awareness..

[tocitynews]

Florida Sued For Using Taxpayer Money On Website Promoting Republican Spin On Abortion Initiative –West Palm Beach Florida

Critics say state-backed messaging push is latest 'dirty trick' by Republican officials to thwart citizen-led initiative to protect abortion

A political committee behind the campaign to pass a constitutional right to abortion in Florida has filed a lawsuit against a state health care agency that it alleges is carrying out a taxpayer-funded "misinformation" campaign against the November ballot measure.

Nearly a million Floridians signed petitions to get the measure known as Amendment 4 on the ballot, surpassing the more than 891,500 signatures required by the state.

The lawsuit targets a website, television and radio ads created by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration to give Floridians "the truth" about the proposed constitutional amendment. If approved by at least 60% of Florida voters, Amendment 4 would make abortions legal until the fetus is viable, as determined by the patient's health care provider.

The website launched this month states that "Amendment 4 threatens women's safety" and defends Florida’s current law, which bans most abortions after six weeks, under a banner that reads "Florida is Protecting Life" and "Don't let the fearmongers lie to you."

In the legal filing, attorneys for the abortion rights campaign called on the court to immediately halt the messaging push and what they argue is the unlawful use of taxpayer funds by state officials in service of a political campaign, actions which they claim are infringing on the rights of Florida voters.

[libraryspectre]

RACHEL

[tedcruzhasastupidface]

JD Vance had realized Trump is so bad that he had switched sides and is camping for Harris!

[leolynn]

“i need queer people to be weirder” you guys can’t even be normal about bisexual lesbians

[papirouge]

sorry for being extremely niche, but I can't help but think Tales from the Pizzaplex "B-7" *IS* "anti trans" and that Scott is trolling you all. again 👀

[spooky-something]

Hey, guys. Just so we know, every single person within the main political parties are pieces of shit including, YES, Democrats!!! Trump is a disgusting bigot, but Biden and Harris are genuinely no better whatsoever. The only difference is that they attempt to hide this via propaganda, and it works extremely efficiently. Fun fact: Trump is NOT associated with Project 2025. In fact, after doing research, because yes, I too, am not immune to propaganda, I learned he's actively DISTANCING himself AWAY from it. Does this mean I support Trump? Absolutely fucking not. I hate him beyond fathomable; but I hate Biden and Harris just the same! Remember, they're not good people. Just because fucking posts on here say something and it sure seems they're better, does NOT mean what you see is true. You are NOT immune to propaganda. Let's not vote Trump OR Harris. Third parties exist.

rb for bigger sample size. i'm actually really curious about this.

[lenbryant]

Calling it. Mike Johnson has some shady schemes going on.

[heart2heartroses2u]

Sad isn’t it… corrupt much..

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Thune and Cornyn were McConnell’s right and left hand. They’re old school shady corporate shills who will answer to the oligarchs.

That being said they’re light years better than Prick Scott who is possibly the most corrupt member of the Senate ever. He’s also a convert to MAGA and is beyond deranged in his devotion to Trump’s madness. He is an evil, petty, and tyrannical little man. He’s the richest person in Congress and an oligarch in his own right. With MAGA Republicans you get shady or diabolically evil.

🤢

[vintageseawitch]

this is what i think of when third party voters go around acting morally superior because they don't want to get their hands dirty like the rest of us. they're toddlers having temper tantrums because instead of using the system in a way that could benefit them in the long term like the extremist Republicans have been doing for decades, third party voters refuse to participate in local civics & then claim the entire country is already fascist. they're so cute in their naivety if they think the US can't get any worse.

what the fuck do you think will happen if you try to protest against a government with a military as massive, lethal, & expensive as ours. who do you think will be sacrificed first? oh what's that? crickets? thought so. i'm a white woman but i will absolutely use my voice to point out leftists can be racist as fuck & the anti-blackness in your spaces can be absolutely fucking wild. not everyone leftist is white, but many that are can be pretty problematic.

if you think i'm selfish then fine. if you state that you would gladly exchange my life for a Palestinian like one of you said in a comment to me a few weeks ago then fine. i'm out here fighting to make sure the people who live here in this country don't experience our own Holocaust.

if you have a problem with people wanting to fight this while claiming you're anti-genocide, you're a fucking liar & a hypocrite. you won't know what the fuck to do in a true fascist country. i don't doubt there are pockets of fascism already existing here but you thinking it's already the worst it can be is as infuriating as people who think the government is creating their massive hurricanes using weather machines. you sound just as childish & delusional. you already sound like children because you will never take responsibility for your choices if it ends up helping him win.

jill stein's campaign is a sham. she is deliberately running as a spoiler. she's a wealthy white woman who lives in a mostly white affluent neighborhood. she's going around lecturing black people about white supremacy. she is getting funds from Republicans as well as help from trump's lawyers. Lockheed Martin has given her money. she's involved in shady as fuck index funds for companies that harm the environment. she only started talking about Gaza during this election cycle to hit you in the feelings so she can bank on it. she made a whole stink about needing a recount, raised a bunch of money for that, & then that money disappeared who knows where. do you all hear this? do you care? no, you're just like maga with their orange Jesus. you don't give a FUCK about stein's red flags because she's "different."

if Harris loses & you blame anyone but yourselves, you're cowardly traitors who threw us regular Americans to the wolves because of your precious fucking principles. history has shown time & time again that protest voting typically allows something worse to take control. it's hardly ever beneficial to the people. you're vile. you don't want to make this world a better place by allowing so many near you to suffer & die. if both sides are the same then please tell me you're okay with another trump presidency. or just shut the fuck up.

i look forward to more potentially heartwarming messages saying that my life doesn't mean shit from people who allegedly are against the death penalty & are pro-human rights 🥰

please vote, don't stop talking about Project 2025, etc. i hope enough of us vote in a way that these pathetic third party voters don't gain any kind of traction. at this point i'm just angry at their hypocrisy when they don't even listen to other protestors who live here & are begging them to not vote third party. i refuse to listen to y'all not take responsibility for your part. Project 2025 will hurt us all but apparently you're okay with that or you think it's already here. smooth brain takes all around. anyways good luck & stay safe to anyone who votes blue 💙

[donloco]

Much like The Crystal Casket Corporation, remains to be seen.

Music to my ears.

At no time will Trump ever admit he did anything wrong. At no time will Trump ever ask for forgiveness. At no time will Trump say he is sorry to his family for putting them through all this. At no time will Trump accept his role in crimes he helped create and implement. At no time will Trump admit he tried to influence the cases, ignore gag orders, and target judges and jurors with threats.

That is a sociopath.

Republicans would rather venerate a sociopath than admit to friends/family/co-workers they were deceived or foolishly didn't think all the MAGA rhetoric all the way through.

[ravenkings]

Debate rages over the extent to which the protests on the political left constitute coded or even direct attacks on Jews. But far less attention has been paid to a trend on the right: For all of their rhetoric of the moment, increasingly through the Trump era many Republicans have helped inject into the mainstream thinly veiled anti-Jewish messages with deep historical roots. The conspiracy theory taking on fresh currency is one that dates back hundreds of years and has perennially bubbled into view: that a shady cabal of wealthy Jews secretly controls events and institutions contrary to the national interest of whatever country it is operating in. The current formulation of the trope taps into the populist loathing of an elite “ruling class.” “Globalists” or “globalist elites” are blamed for everything from Black Lives Matter to the influx of migrants across the southern border, often described as a plot to replace native-born Americans with foreigners who will vote for Democrats. The favored personification of the globalist enemy is George Soros, the 93-year-old Hungarian American Jewish financier and Holocaust survivor who has spent billions in support of liberal causes and democratic institutions. This language is hardly new — Mr. Soros became a boogeyman of the American far right long before the ascendancy of Mr. Trump. And the elected officials now invoking him or the globalists rarely, if ever, directly mention Jews or blame them outright. Some of them may not immediately understand the antisemitic resonance of the meme, and in some cases its use may simply be reflexive political rhetoric. But its rising ubiquity reflects the breaking down of old guardrails on all types of degrading speech, and the cross-pollination with the raw, sometimes hate-filled speech of the extreme right, in a party under the sway of the norm-defying former, and perhaps future, president.

– Karen Yourish, Danielle Ivory, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, and Alex Lemonides, "How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel," The New York Times, May 9, 2024

[breawycker]

The reaction towards Chappel Roan refusing to endorse Kamala really shows the main flaw in the "vote blue no matter who" movement. While it is understandable to want to keep Republicans from taking control because of how shitty their political views are, if you refuse to critique and demand better from Democrats and get angry when someone dares to question or criticize a Democratic candidate, you're really no better than those MAGA Republicans who get mad whenever someone criticizes Trump. You know the people liberals often criticize for being "brainwashed" and "deplorable"? Like I'm voting for Kamala because I don't want Trump to be president and people in Gaza have called Americans to vote for Harris because she at least pretends like she cares about Gaza, but I'm still gonna criticize her. I'm still gonna hold her accountable for what she does and doesn't do. The blind worship of democratic candidates and refusal to criticize or fight for more led to Obama's milquetoast administration where he did not nearly do enough or a lot of what he said he'd do (he didn't close Guantanamo Bay and was very trigger happy with drone strikes). It's fine to want a democrat in office but you should turn your brain off or just act like politics is solved forever. Democrats can be just as shady as Republicans just with a #BLM and rainbow flag coat of paint. Kamala is complicit in genocide. There's no other way of putting it. US Presidents are war criminals. If you don't demand more from your leaders, then why bother having a democracy?

[contemplatingoutlander]

This is an important article about the hypocrisy of Republicans who are claiming to be fighting antisemitism while at the same time using antisemitic tropes in their messaging. This is a gift🎁link so you can read the entire article even if you do not subscribe to The New York Times. Below are some excerpts.

Debate rages over the extent to which the protests on the political left constitute coded or even direct attacks on Jews. But far less attention has been paid to a trend on the right: For all of their rhetoric of the moment, increasingly through the Trump era many Republicans have helped inject into the mainstream thinly veiled anti-Jewish messages with deep historical roots. The conspiracy theory taking on fresh currency is one that dates back hundreds of years and has perennially bubbled into view: that a shady cabal of wealthy Jews secretly controls events and institutions contrary to the national interest of whatever country it is operating in. The current formulation of the trope taps into the populist loathing of an elite “ruling class.” “Globalists” or “globalist elites” are blamed for everything from Black Lives Matter to the influx of migrants across the southern border, often described as a plot to replace native-born Americans with foreigners who will vote for Democrats. The favored personification of the globalist enemy is George Soros, the 93-year-old Hungarian American Jewish financier and Holocaust survivor who has spent billions in support of liberal causes and democratic institutions. [...] In a July 2023 email to supporters, the Trump campaign employed an image that bears striking resemblance to a Nazi-era cartoon of a hook-nosed puppet master manipulating world figures: Mr. Soros as puppet master, pulling the strings controlling President Biden.

[...] The review found that last year at least 790 emails from Mr. Trump to his supporters invoked Mr. Soros or globalists conspiratorially, a meteoric rise from prior years. The Times also found that House and Senate Republicans increasingly used “Soros” and “globalist” in ways that evoked the historical tropes, from just a handful of messages in 2013 to more than 300 messages from 79 members in 2023.

I encourage you to read the entire article. The level of hypocrisy here is horrific.

[bigsisteriswatchingyou]

"My publicist warned me that Biden would have killed me if I read Palestinian poetry at a white house event" You are either lying, should fire your publicist immediately, or should seek psychiatric care for delusional paranoia.

Also nothing is stopping you from reading that stuff at your own events? afaik she's never done that at any event ever. A celebrity blatantly attention seeking off of the backs of what she considers a genocide is a relatively craven thing to do imo. "I'm voting for Harris but I don't endorse her" that's what a fucking endorsement is, you could have just ended it at "I'm voting for Harris" and just avoided this whole episode of drama and criticism you've gotten yourself into.

"There's transphobia on both sides" shut your stupid fucking idiot mouth, the Democratic party is quite literally the largest and most pro trans party on the planet and the Republican party will criminalize our very existence. I don't wanna hear this "both sides" bullshit from some cis woman with a conservative christian upbringing who has "family that are very Republican, and they love me and I love them." INCLUDING A REPUBLICAN STATE LEGISLATOR WHO'S VOTED ON ANTI ABORTION AND TRANSPHOBIC LAWS

Oh no, Chappell Roan is a moron. Real shame, I was just starting to get into her.

I guess it isn't really a dealbreaker, I listen to other musicians who are insane and have contemptibly stupid political beliefs, I just gotta mentally place her in the same category as like Grimes and just ignore any noise that exits her mouth that isn't music.