• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    To any narcissistic politicians reading this: Your town hall will be different. You’re smarter and a better speaker than the others. It’ll be fine!

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    21 days ago

    Ukrainian born, voted against Ukrainian aid… This bitch should be hung from a lamppost.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    The avalanche of incidents seemingly started after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.

    Are you fucking serious, Newsweek? “Seemingly”??! You’re not even going to stretch your neck out to identify the most obvious fucking element in the entire story.

    Christ these corporate news sewers are pathetic.

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      21 days ago

      And yet

      The little tilt-o-meter for Right-Left bias at the bottom of each article, which I assume is an accurate representation of how people have vote-clicked, is always pegged at commie-leftist

      Every single article they publish.

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    21 days ago

    How can anyone say the word “DOGE” and not feel like a complete tool? I swear, Elon was that guy that was still saying “NOT!” well into the 90’s.

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    Legit question: in the face of all those disastrous town halls, why do they keep making them ?

    Signed, confused canadian.

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      Republicans have been told by their leadership that they shouldn’t do town halls, but then their opponents talk about how cowardly they are for not standing up for the extremely unpopular policies they support, so some are trying them anyway, always with disastrous results. What else are they supposed to do? They are running for reelection, and their Democratic opponents aren’t afraid to face the angry crowds and agree with them, and whip theminto a bigger frenzy.

      Now established Democratic congress reps are even doing townhalls in Republican districts, just to face the voters, and show Democratic courage and integrity, and ask questions like “Where is your elected Republican rep? Why cant he face you? Why cant he defend his actions and the actions of his party? Why would you support such a coward? Why is a Democrat willing to face a Republican crowd, when a Republican wont?”

      The situation is set for a classic mid-term majority flip, like 2010, which is why the MAGA Nazis wont allow an election to take place. They cant allow the Dems to take either chamber, or they will control the investigative committees. By next summer, violent protests, instigated by RedHats and law enforcement, will give HitlerPig the excuse to declare Martial Law, and suspend elections.

    • Maven (famous)@lemmy.zip
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      Town halls are a good thing for both parties.

      It lets the people talk directly to the person they elected and discuss their feelings and so on. It’s also good for the elected officials because it gets them directly in front of their voting base and allows them to campaign in person at all times directly to the people most likely to vote for free.

      The reason these are all disastrous is because Republicans don’t actually care about listening to what the people want and are just skipping to the campaigning part…

      Also worth noting that not holding town halls is a strategy already suggested by the republican parties higher ups and so far it’s just led to town halls hosted by democrats instead that are more than willing to tell the most vocal voters why their Republican government has failed them.

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    My rep won’t do a town hall. He’ll schedule 15 min with you, he comes to our county courthouse once a month. I’m getting my time next week.

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        I’d like to hear if he has any intent whatsoever at reigning in this administration, and Musk as well. I believe he’ll try to defend them, but I’m prepared. This will sound egotistical which is not my intent, but I’m a fairly intelligent, well-spoken person, and I’ll call bullshit where I see it. I don’t mind speaking truth to power. I also intend to record the conversation with permission or without. I’m not concerned about admissibility or anything, if he says something worth hearing I just want it on record.

        The coward won’t hold a town hall. This is as close as I can get at the moment. I’ll let you know how it goes.

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    If I never came to this dark corner of the leftist space and checked everyday for updates, I’d never know this stuff occurred. Sucks that it just kind of floats here for a minute before disappearing in the ether

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      20 days ago

      The Media is worried about getting slapped with an “Anti-DEI” executive order if they mention anything Non-Trump