Prospective hires say agreeing with Trump’s false election claim appears to be a new litmus test for being hired by the party

  • Minotaur@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    It’s so strange to be of the position of feeling bad for like… Mitt Romney / Mike Pence republicans with all this shit. Because they have some pretty awful takes between them, but for gods sake it felt like ideological differences regarding where life starts and how economic policy should work and whatever else.

    The GOP being almost entirely co-opted by genuine morons who are only there because of the cult of personality around a fat old guy is incredible.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      Ehh, even Romney and Pence aren’t that level headed.

      It was John McCain, man. Yeah he still bought in to Reaganomics which is a huge L. but I actually miss him, he was at least reasonable and honorable compared to the shit we have now. Those are the

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      9 months ago

      I disagree. Those clowns are a major part of the reason we are in this mess in the first place. They had plenty of time and opportunities to stop this nonsense and they decided to be spineless wimps. What we needed at minimum were the congress members that got on the phone with Nixon and told his ass to resign. At the very least they had respect for their positions and some respect for the rule of law.

      The current batch are trash, the party owns them. And their constituents and oath of office fall somewhere 6 feet below Cancun.