• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 hour ago

    Republicans get to throw the most vile, puerile insults at anyone. Meanwhile, that girl will have to resign, relocate, and probably change her name.

  • huppakee@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    15 hours ago

    These days i sometimes get sad from the things happening in the world. Those moments i try and remind myself that despite all those things happening, at least my country isn’t run by US politicians.

    • Prior_Industry@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      15 hours ago

      I’m a brit and we have around 3 years to point and laugh at the US until we get our own Poundland version.

      Germany and France also appear a bit shakey on this front 🤦

      • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        7 hours ago

        When this started about ten years ago or whatever, you guys were about 5 years behind.

        Taking your 3-year at face value it makes sense because this shit accelerated very damn quickly.

        • Prior_Industry@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          6 hours ago

          Fair chance we would vote them in now if there was an election, although Elmo Musk is currently funding a even more far right party which might split the vote 🤣.

          The three years is just the timeframe before an election has to be held.

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    21
    ·
    21 hours ago

    Bigotry is pretty much the only strategy the GOP has left. One state over, they are hammering the airwaves with ads claiming Hallie Shoffner, the Democrat running against Tom Cotton, is a major supporter of the “tRaNs AgEnDa”. It’s pathetic. It reeks of desparation. I think, for the first time in years, the Democrats might actually have a viable candidate. I think Tom Cotton thinks so too. I hope Hallie Shoffner stomps that little fucking weasel into the dirt.

  • Slowy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    10
    ·
    23 hours ago

    Ok maybe I’m missing something but scumbag Stephen Miller didn’t really say anything contentious or bad? I’m sure he meant it disparagingly but wouldn’t a more effective response be something like “thanks for acknowledging this positive step towards inclusivity!” ? Idk

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      21
      ·
      23 hours ago

      James Talarico is a cis man. Not trans. Stephen Miller was intending to A) suggest that he looks like a biological woman dressing as a man, meant to be an macho insult, and B) probably mislead Trump’s idiot base into actually believing that to be true so they automatically hate him. Stephen Miller is a literal nazi in all but (maybe) name, and he hates anyone that is not white, not straight, not cis, not biologically male, or not pro fascism. If you are any of those things, he believes suggesting that you are other of those things to be inherently an insult. Whether or not you consider being trans bad, he does, and so him saying it is still an insult, particularly where it’s not remotely true.