What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

One of the problems with politics today is that conservatives can whip themselves up into a righteous frenzy over something that they just made up, even if they KNOW they just made it up.

For example: man commits heinous crime. That part is real. But then conservatives immediately remark that because of our lax liberal justice system, the man will probably get off scot free on a technicality from a liberal judge. Other conservatives become angry about this and start ranting about how it means society is going to hell and liberals are to blame. All of them are completely aware that they just made up this scenario out of thin air, and yet all of them are feeling real anger about it.

This is a LOT of conservative online discourse. Again and again and again, they imagine things that will happen because of liberals, and then whip themselves into righteous anger over these things that they KNOW they just dreamed up out of thin air and which have not yet happened, and which may never happen. The same goes for "cancel culture". The number of people who have actually been "cancelled" and lost their livelihoods as a result is a tiny fraction of the number of people who TALK about getting cancelled even though it hasn't actually happened yet.

How can you tell every MAGA guy is a liar? Because none of them are ever the least bit ashamed when one of their "facts" is proven wrong, nor do they stop relying on the source that they got it from.

Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and believing that they are just naive fools who have been misled. They are actively participating in the lying, and yes, they KNOW they're lying.

Remember in 2016 when we warned that Trump's tactics were exactly like Hitler's tactics during his rise to power, and conservative Internet know-it-alls were hasty to point out that Hitler used violence and voter intimidation so it's not the same at all, and we're just crazy leftists for seeing any similarity?

It's funny how quiet those smart-aleck pricks have gotten about that talking point today.

Once more and for the record: the conservative movement is knowingly based on lies. Maybe this was not always so, but it is absolutely true today.

Arguing with Republicans about Jan 6 is like arguing with a bank robber after showing him the video of him robbing the bank. First he pretends the video is fake, then he pretends he didn't know bank robbery was illegal, and then he starts asking why you're going after him for bank robbery when Hunter Biden's laptop is still out there.

 

[Paladin]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1589647712466923522

 

[Ironbite4]

God I hate these people.

 

[Paladin]

so the apparent Republican takeaway from yesterday's subpar performance is young people shouldn't vote.

 

[Nevermore]

And then four years later, raise it to 25?

 

[wonko the sane?]

If they restrict voting ENOUGH... then they can stop the voting. The plan hasn't been changed, they just keep ******* it up.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

When cheating doesn't work, change the law so it's not cheating anymore.

 

[Ungnome]

It's the real life equivalent to 'I reject your reality and substitute my own'.

 

[Pale Rider]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1590762111936122881

 

[NovaSaber]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1590771129681342464

 

[Ungnome]

Mask is completely off now. They didn't get their big win and now are openly talking about instituting a dictatorship..... 2024 is gonna get ugly.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

I was honestly expecting the bloodshed to have started by now.

 

[wonko the sane?]

So it only took about three days, but the republicans have come up with a plan! (an actual plan! From the people who couldn't even come up with a policy platform!) to ensure they don't lose the next election. They're going to RAISE the voting age to 21.

Yup. So you just turned 18: you want to smoke? Nope. Want a drink? HA! Nope! Want to vote? Also no. But hey: you can buy a weapon of war, and get drafted for the grinder. And if you survive to 21, THEN you can vote.

 

[abates]

Unless they're intending to raise the voting age every election, I don't see that lasting long.

 

[Dekafox]

They also didn't do any math. Even if they did do that before 2024, that would only exclude people who turned 18 this year. Everyone else that voted against them would still be 21 and older in 2024.

 

[Wheelimus]

And it would give us the greatest attack ad in history - "Republicans think you're old enough to die in war at 18 but too young to vote." Sure send that jive to Bidens desk for a swift veto.

 

[NovaSaber]

And it would give us the greatest attack ad in history - "Republicans think you're old enough to die in war at 18 but too young to vote." Sure send that jive to Bidens desk for a swift veto.

That's how the constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote for everyone over 18 got passed in the first place.
And nothing besides another amendment can raise the age.

 

[Pale Rider]

 

[Pocket]

Oh yes, yes, please, Republicans, waste the next two years trying things that won't get off the ground and will just piss off everyone in the meantime. I would love nothing more, save for maybe all of Washington getting crushed by an asteroid.

 

[abates]

They also didn't do any math. Even if they did do that before 2024, that would only exclude people who turned 18 this year. Everyone else that voted against them would still be 21 and older in 2024.

And imagine how annoyed the people who turned 18 this year would be at the Republican party after Republicans prevent them from voting in 2024. They would turn an entire year's worth of voters against them for the rest of time.