Reported behaviors of Republican legislators who were elected or reelected in the last mid-term elections:
Posted erotic drawings of bigfoot
Voted to make it legal to kill hibernating wolves and bears
Bragged about shooting a bear while the animal was asleep
Suggested using wolves to reduce the homeless population
Suggested that if women can have abortions then men should be able to rape women
Said Jewish people could have prevented the Holocaust if they owned guns
Claimed assault weapons needn’t be banned because they are too big to be used to commit crimes
Called the ban on executive bonuses in the AIG bailout a “tar baby”
Advocated for canceling Martin Luther King Jr. Day and weekends
Opposed retirement
Claimed that AIDS is spread by way of toilet seats
Claimed to have received forgiveness from God for sleeping with a patient
Brought a snowball to the House floor as proof that climate change isn’t real
Joked from the floor of a state legislature about killing puppies with a baseball bat
Shot a neighbor’s dog with a handgun
Source: Harper's Magazine, January 2019.
America has always been populated with ignorant, malicious, sociopathic people such as these- the only difference is that they have now put themselves into leadership positions.
ReplyDeleteA shame that on harpers website they don't link to the proof. Not that I don't believe it, lord knows your politicians are wacko, but nice to link to the evidence.
ReplyDeleteWith respect, don't you suppose that the opponents of ANY group could easily come up with plenty of similar dirt on their opponents? Think what would happen if a "white" magazine wanted to smear blacks who were elected to Congress, or vice versa. Or consider how a misogynistic magazine might present women elected to Congress.
ReplyDeleteNow, if we had ALL the smears from all sides, we could then compare them and perhaps come up with just which group is the most foolish, dangerous, crazy, etc. But when only one side of the matter is published, it tends to make one side look like the devil...and the other side as pure as the driven snow. But that's just NEVER the case.
I agree that it's hard to gauge the relative insanity of the world by looking at one arbitrary group and judging them by their most extreme elements. But can we please agree that, ignoring the "republican" angle, these behaviors and beliefs in our elected officials are extremely troubling?
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