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“I’m sick of Republicans losing,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said.

Limber up there, Rhonda!

  • @fubo@lemmy.world
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    Thing is, Republicans lose wherever they don’t get to cheat. This is for two reasons:

    1. Their policy positions are extremely unpopular with Americans
    2. Their character qualities range from “bad boss” to “fratboy rapist” to “daddy issues”.

    And then the news media continue to present Republican policy positions and candidates as if they were normal American behavior by normal Americans.

    They’re really not. They only win when they cheat.

    • Joe-Blow240
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      What policy positions? Donald J. Trump was president of this country. What part of that tells you that policy positions can break a candidate? Democrat apathy is what decides elections.

  • @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
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    1078 months ago

    Liked it when Nikki Haley called Vivek Ramaswamy scum. It’s an apt description.

    BUT a year ago, this week, she called for the deportation of U.S.-born Sen. Warnock at a rally to elect MAGA domestic abuser Herschel Walker.

    She’s a bigoted extremist like the rest of them.

    • @Nobody@lemmy.world
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      198 months ago

      Haley looked and sounded good though. She’s the one I’m worried about. I think Biden could easily handle the others. Haley is a legitimate threat.

          • Spaghetti_Hitchens
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            Palin wasn’t the main party on the ticket. Obviously a different timeline, but I can’t imagine she would have had as much support as the POTUS candidate.

        • @frezik@midwest.social
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          Nah, they’re happy to put women in positions of power, as long as those women hate gay people and cheer police when they bludgeon another black person on the way to buy some chips and dip.

    • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
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      No, she’s not like the rest of them. She’s worse. Nimrata won’t even use her real first name. Because she knows the bigots she’s pandering to would attack her. She thinks she can control them to her benefit. And not be a victim to them. She holds a hypocrisy above and beyond your average Republican. Her Piyush Jindal and Vivek Ramaswami all.

  • @Uniquitous
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    The takeaways should be that nobody gives a shit because these are the also-rans. The Republican nominee will be Trump, and then they’re gonna be fucked because he’ll be campaigning from jail.

  • @TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    Any of these fuckers realize the party is toast yet?

    endless loop of attack ads of 10 year old girls forced to carry to term their rapists baby with Donald Trump saying “I’m the guy who killed Roe vs. Wade” with the entire GOP laughing and clapping him on the back as it fades to black with the words THIS IS WHO THEY ARE across the screen

    • @Patches@sh.itjust.works
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      Could you imagine if the Democratic party had the cajones to do that?

      That would hurt their chances to ‘reach across the aisle’.

      • @Fades@lemmy.world
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        They already have done that bud.

        https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/us/politics/abortion-ads-democrats-election.html

        Non-paywalled version

        In the days before Tuesday’s election, voters across Ohio heard a stark warning in an ad that blanketed the airwaves. “She could be your neighbor, or niece, your sister or daughter,” the ad said, “But if she is raped and gets pregnant, a law in Ohio would force her to have the child.”

        In Kentucky, a young woman named Hadley spoke directly to voters in an ad from Gov. Andy Beshear’s campaign. “I was raped by my stepfather after years of sexual abuse,” she said. “I was 12. Anyone who believes there should be no exceptions for rape and incest could never understand what it’s like to stand in my shoes.”

        Deeply personal and explicit, the ads signaled a new tone in Democrats’ messaging on abortion rights, one that confronts head-on the consequences of strict anti-abortion laws.

        Maybe you need the cajones to open your eyes lol. Jokes aside and to your point, this shit is LATE AS FUCK. Better than never tho

        • @trebuchet@lemmy.ml
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          That doesn’t sound nearly as hard hitting to me personally. Doesn’t include the attack on the Republicans for making this happen.

          • @TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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            I just listened to the one featuring Hailey, and it is hard-hitting. It is her telling her story. It left the Kentucky Uncle Tom speechless, and he never recovered from it. They absolutely will do this in every state. It worked, and they have endless clips to use and, unfortunately, endless children being raped by Republicans.

  • FuglyDuck
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    388 months ago

    If you don’t like losing?

    Maybe don’t pick fights with a megacorp with a large proportion of the best litigators in the world in the world on retainer… over deeply unpopular culture war bullshit…. When thst megacorp is one of your state’s top employers and revenue-generators…,

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      158 months ago

      “Megacorps” shouldn’t be a thing, and corporations should be subordinate to governments. Just not DeSantis.

      • @GraniteM@lemmy.world
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        It’s the rare example where amoral capitalistic greed can actually lead to a more morally defensible position than the actively horrible ideology against which it is compared. Disney doesn’t give a fuck about any human being’s particular right to be any version of themselves one way or the other, but they do care about how much money they can make off of the largest swathe of people, and they’ve done the math and figured they make more money being more accepting than the Republican party.

        It is, in fact, a case in which “We believe nothing Lebowski!” is actually preferable to “At least it’s an ethos!”

        • @xJREB@lemmy.world
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          That’s a great analogy via movie quotes if I’ve ever seen one! Need to rewatch that movie… :)

        • @Dagrothus@reddthat.com
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          You’re about to be mugged, when suddenly, the mugger is swept up by a tornado! “What a relief!”, you think, as you float 100 feet up into the air.

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    “We’ve become a party of losers,” he [Ramaswamy] lamented

    “lol” said anyone with an ounce of sanity left in this country, “lmao”

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      The last time they won as an aggregate was 2016. They’ve been severely underperforming ever since, and the SCOTUS takeover was a direct result of the 2016 win.

      The problem is, they don’t have to win to exert their influence due to the extremely broken US electoral system.

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    Gotta admit. I didn’t have build a wall on the northern border on my bingo card. Canadian drug traffickers everywhere all the sudden. Vivek is something else.

    Edit: It’s borderline criminal that no one on his communication staff thought to add “… and make Trudeau pay for it.” He needs to hire more trump staffers.

  • @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
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    218 months ago

    Lawrence O’Donnell said nobody is really trying to hit trump because “This is the debate in case trump chokes on a cheeseburger” and I’m still laughing

  • Flying Squid
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    138 months ago

    My takeaway is I had a better night not hearing that little ratfucker Ramaswamy talk as quickly as possible.

  • xerazal
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    118 months ago

    I don’t even need to watch it to know it was a shit show.

  • wagesj45
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    58 months ago

    Maybe it is because I moved from Reddit to /kbin, but I didn’t even know they had a third debate. Or maybe it is because this whole Republican primary is such a waste of time. When is the Democratic debate, come to think of it… lol.

  • @WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
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    Nikki Haley is legit. Vivek called her Cheney in heels lol. Desantis made one good point about not raising retirement age while life expectancy is declining.

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      Life expectancy is declining because republicans keep preventing Americans from getting health insurance. In all other advanced countries it’s rising.

      Not to mention you are saving millions without taxing the people more.

      Then just to add the cherry on top no it’s not. It’s most likely from COVID.