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[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 92 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Is anyone else as tired as I am of hearing how GOP anyone is upset about something obviously awful IN PRIVATE?

Like who tf cares if it’s in private? Do they want brownie points for that or something? Is this some form of sanewashing because we can’t utter the dark one’s name out loud?

Politicians don’t get to have private opinions, they either say it publicly or it doesn’t matter or count for shit.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nowhere near as infuriating as when they finally speak up ... after they've left office :(

[–] hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

While marketing for their new tell-all book, specifically...

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They'll say it in private but vote completely different when the time comes. Can't trust anything that comes out of the mouth of a person with (R) next to their name.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Yep, they just confirmed him, and were joined by a couple Dem turncoats too.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

they want to be not-hung during Nuremberg 2.0 Electric Chair.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Step one. Don't do fascism. Step two. ???

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago

I'm so tired if them privately admiting things instead of doing their fucking job. I'd bet at least half of them are 100% aware they are ruining the country and their children's future but they'd rather keep their privilege and money.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 25 points 2 weeks ago

Rand Paul was RIGHT which is why we're going to OVERWHELMINGLY Vote in FAVOR of Markwayne!

-EVERY GOP Senator!

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago

“It's just a process,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) told Raw Story. “I mean, just going through the process.”

I think the P-word he was thinking is PERFORMANCE

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They are child raping cowards. Every fucking one of them. If there was justice in the world, every one of them would be loaded on a plane and dropped over the Atlantic ocean.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

What the fuck am I even reading here? What'sthe neighbor have to do with this? Who fucking cares about this drama?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

If your party and the president that picks these fucking shits for Cabinet positions embarasses you, then vote against it, you fucking cowards. But you won't, because you're fucking cowards and traitors. Otherwise the brown people won't suffer, right?

[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It won't move their vote one millimeter.