Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters...
That's literally Louisiana.
Source: I lived in Louisiana during my teens and college years.
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2024
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What a complete wankstain
The only thing Trump has done for Republicans is give them the confidence to be openly racist in public.
That's really all they ever wanted, seeing how ravenously they support him
Oh, they fucking love not having to pretend to be decent human beings any more. As long as he enables that, he has their undying loyalty.
"It probably sounded better in the original German." -- Molly Ivins.
For those too young to remember: https://www.keranews.org/arts-culture/2022-03-25/remembering-the-biting-wit-and-sharp-political-takes-of-legendary-texas-journalist-molly-ivins
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Nice of them to keep going mask off in the last month.
Yeah because it doesn't matter. Republicans are a coin flip to win the house, win the presidency, and are already likely to win the senate. Why would they stop being awful?
Moral consternation on the left doesn't change the fact that half the country appreciates and endorses this kind of rhetoric. And the party that makes these comments is quite possibly going to run all three branches of government in a few months and already run the Supreme Court.
We're losing. In many respects, we've already lost. We're just going to lose more.
Defeatism is the first step towards losing. Personally, even if you assume that will happen, I'd suggest looking up guns that use NATO standard ammunition and getting some practice in while you still can.
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The fact that their polls aren't tanking is a very bad sign for our democracy.
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Surprised he didn't call them uppity. Racist pos.
He did, in different words. Saying they "feel all sophisticated now" means the same thing.
I thought legal immigration was what they wanted.
Ah, I see the source of your confusion and I’m happy to help clear it up! The mistake you made was believing a single word that comes out of the mouth of a Republican.
Hope this helps.
“Alternative facts”.
The moment Kelly Conwa said that 8? years ago I knew we were in the upside down.
"Legal immigration" is the foot-in-the-door excuse they use to ban all immigration.
Just like how "returning abortion to the states" is trying to "ban abortion nationally."
Absolutely! As long as immigration for non-white people is illegal.
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With how hard Republicans project, I assume dog was served at the RNC.
Not just dog—abducted pet dogs.
Well, maybe at the after party. RFK was hosting,
They're all butthurt about people getting up in arms at the South Dakota governor/VP hopeful.
our President and VP
Election isn’t until November, dumbass.
Epic POS. Louisiana, do better.
Gerrymandering prevents that
Citizen initiated ballot measure for a bipartisan drawn district map has helped fix that in other states. Definitely not easy but fixable.
Does Louisiana have a ballot initiative process?
Edit: They don't. I sense a trend in states with a long history of authoritarianism.
These white, Republican congressmen are wild. Cocaine fueled bingers, sex trafficking, Christofascism. Rape and disease. Nastiest leaders in the free world. Cults, wannabe gangsters. But damn if they don't feel emboldened now, attacking anyone they can.
"I can put up another controversial post tomorrow if you want me to. I mean, we do have freedom of speech. I’ll say what I want… It’s not a big deal to me. It’s like something stuck to the bottom of my boot. Just scrape it off and move on with my life.”
— Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), quoted by CNN, digging in after deleting a post calling Haitian migrants “thugs” and “slapstick gangsters.”
The Venn Diagram of Racist and repubs would be a circle with a slightly smaller circle inside it.
Not all repubs are racist, but damn if all racists are repubs. And yes, libertarians are included as repubs
That's because "libertarians" these days are just Republicans with a small sense of shame, or they wanna smoke weed.
I'm sure there are a bunch of apolitical racists. Racists tend to be pretty dumb, and dumb people often think politics doesn't affect them.
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Weird racist motherfuckers. The entire lot.
It's voodoo, not vudu, you ignorant fuck
Actually he's referring to Vudu, the movie streaming app.
Those damn Haitians renting all the movies...
Actually, the Haitian version would be vodou. Voodoo is a related but distinct tradition that developed in the US.
Ok I'm the ignorant fuck.
You're both right and Higgins is the ignorant fuck. He was definitely referring to the US-developed tradition of voodoo, which is derived from vodou but not the same thing.
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Vudu lol.
Who knew they also liked renting movies digitally?
Surprised this is not the onion for once.....
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