What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

The Mighty Mollusk

The Mighty Mollusk

Scream all you like, 'cause we're all mad here
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The point has always been control. If the poor are too busy struggling to keep their kids fed, they're too desperate to rise up. Cruelty is just a tool to enforce that control.
 
NovaSaber

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Lauren Boebert snarls “we’re not a democracy so quit with that!” in response to calls for gun laws

She called the idea that the U.S. government should follow the will of the people "woke nonsense...
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The right has been infatuated with the argument that the U.S. is not a democracy since Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election without winning a majority of the popular vote. It has become a perennial response to complaints that the government doesn’t follow the will of the people or about the parts of the U.S. government that thwart the “one person, one vote” principle; instead of arguing that something like, say, the Electoral College doesn’t represent the will of the majority of the U.S. population, they just argue that the U.S. isn’t a democracy and therefore the majority shouldn’t rule.

Usually, when they say that the U.S. isn’t a democracy, they mean that it’s a representative democracy or a republic (which still can be puzzling since voting for representatives is part of the definition of a republic). But that doesn’t really make sense with how Boebert used the argument since Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand also have representative forms of government.
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Missouri Reps Just Voted to Completely Defund the State’s Public Libraries

The new budget sets funds for libraries to $0. Library groups say the move is retaliation for suing the state over its recent book ban law.
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Late Tuesday night, the Missouri House of Representatives voted for a state operating budget with a $0 line for public libraries. While the budget still needs to work its way through the Senate and the governor’s office, state funding for public libraries is very much on the chopping block in Missouri.
This comes after Republican House Budget Chairman Cody Smith proposed a $4.5 million cut to public libraries’ state aid last week in the initial House Budget Committee hearing, where Smith cited a lawsuit filed against Missouri by the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri (ACLU-MO) as the reason for the cut.
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The right has been infatuated with the argument that the U.S. is not a democracy since Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election without winning a majority of the popular vote.
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They've been making the "we're a republic, not a democracy" argument for a hell of a lot longer than that. At least going back to the first W Bush administration. It's how they justify governing as if they have a mandate even when they win by the slimmest of majorities.
 
KidTDragon

KidTDragon

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The kids can't learn to cooperate to bring down the corrupt system if they're too busy competing with each other.
 
Ungnome

Ungnome

Grand Empress of the Empire of One Square Foot.
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Considering how many republican lawmakers that have been arrested for such things, maybe she should be careful about throwing stones.
 
Rhinox

Rhinox

too old for this
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I will not allow my children to participate in any sporting or extra event while such an authorization is allowed.
Unacceptable.
 
KidTDragon

KidTDragon

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