They aren’t stupid. They are hypocritical liars who say whatever they need at the moment to justify their actions.
In 4 years, if we are allowed to have an election where a Democrat can win, they will immediately flip again.
Is it hypocritical though?
Dishonest, absolutely. But in a certain sense what they’re doing is more true to their values. They believe they are in a war over the future course of their nation. They’re not interested in being nice, and they’re not willing to sacrifice the things they care about for some pretence of honesty and decency.
There’s a consistency to their ideals there that liberals often lack. McConnell blocked Obama’s supreme court picks because he could, and because it would help advance his agenda. Obama meanwhile had many options for simply steamrollering over the senate, but refused to explore any of them because it was more important to respect the process than it was to achieve results. Biden got huge swathes of his agenda blocked by Trump’s supreme court picks, but never contemplated packing the court to solve this problem, because it was more important to respect the process. You can argue that they were protecting these institutions, but when the institutions have already been so utterly perverted what value is there in protecting them? The senate and the supreme court are now less trusted than ever, all thanks to Obama and Biden “protecting” them while Republicans corrupted them.
This is devious, underhanded, scummy, and selfish. But it’s true to their ideals. They believe in the world they want, and they’ll do whatever it takes to get it. The left could learn from that.
They are definitely stupid, how could you think they aren’t?
Elon Musk and his cronies aren’t geniuses but they aren’t stupid.
Musk is definitely an idiot when it comes to a lot of technical knowledge about the fields he pretends to be knowledgable in (see that twitter interview where he suggested to “rewrite the code”). But he is not stupid when it comes to throwing around money to manipulate people, just plain evil.
I mean, that’s what I call stupid.
So basically they’re saying that Biden fixed all the horrible terrible fraud that happened on Trump’s watch
And the changes to extend voting hours in multiple states and accept more mail in ballots aren’t a problem either.
Pretty presumptuous to think a Republican capable of any sort of abstract thought or extrapolation
Oh I don’t think that about many of them
If they had integrity, they wouldn’t be Republicans.
Time for the other side to start playing dirty. It’s the only way to win when your opponent is dirty.
Americans are stupid. Democrats should start running a fear campaign now. It’s worked for Republicans for decades. Doesn’t matter if the fear is real or fabricated. Americans will believe it and vote.
They don’t need to fabricate one. Republicans voted to kill the majority of humanity. And while we watch for a couple of generations to await that death, they voted to raise prices on the lower and middle class, deny healthcare, reduce regulations protecting wildlife/water sources, personal freedoms/civil liberties, and further destabilize relations with our trading partners who we rely on for things like food.
If you like food, breathing, fresh water, or the future of humanity - you shouldn’t like the Republican platform.
That doesn’t say the Democrats platform doesn’t have overlap.
A local ‘the end is high’ sign man had changed his tune as soon the election result hit. He had handwritten signs spelling out the doom America is headed towards and how the healthcare system (Obama care) has fucked him over covering every panel of his '90s chevy. After Nov. it’s all good, no doom here we are headed in to a new golden era or whatever. About a week later someone took all of his new signs. Haven’t seen him since but his tape stained truck is still sitting there. I hope he took the opportunity to move on but after talking to him briefly in the summer that probably will never be the case.
They lie by redefining “fair” as “I win”, so the pollster, while being completely normal and reasonable, missed the point entirely.
