• pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    This. People who think that the Republican party has been honorable in recent memory haven’t been paying attention. There have been honorable Republicans in my lifetime like John McCain, but the party as a whole has been little more than a cabal of grifters appealing to the worst parts of us with the sole purpose of enriching themselves and punishing the “other” in sociopathic glee. Trump didn’t start this. He just pulled off the mask and made it OK to speak and act openly.

      • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        You should check out the Behind the Bastards episode on him. He was not a swell dude, he just played one on TV.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      honorable Republicans in my lifetime like John McCain

      L. O. L.

      I don’t know if your definition of ‘honorable’ has a low ad bar, or if you’re just calling him ‘honorable’ in comparison to a flock of shit birds, but that statement is fucking laughable.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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      2 months ago

      Ha - I thought the exact same thing; I just edited my thing specifically to talk about McCain. Yeah, he was the last of the old guard; already out of step (telling that woman at his rally not to attack Obama as an enemy of America). But at least in his day you could be decent and run for president as a Republican. Now they’ll throw you out of congress for trying to be a normal human person as a Republican. Maybe next year it’ll be prison.