“It’s called precedent,” the Senate Judiciary Committee chair said of violating the same rule that Republicans ignored to move forward with judicial nominees.

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    When Blackburn said again she wanted to talk, Cotton interjected, “Now I guess Sen. Durbin is not going to allow women to speak either. I thought that was sacrosanct in your party!”

    Man, they thoroughly do not understand equality.

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      The GOP leadership consists of extremely manipulative sociopaths; they will say literally anything to benefit themselves or hurt others. They will weaponize anything with no shame and no hesitation. Everything they do is in bad faith.

      Equality? They understand it but don’t want it. Equality and fairness is the opposite of what they aspire to. They view themselves as better and therefore rules should benefit them and hurt others, to paraphrase the well known quote.

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        “The GOP leadership consists of extremely manipulative sociopaths”

        A-fucking-men.

        Understand this and you understand everything the GOP leadership says. It’s never good faith, ever.

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        They are not fools. They are evil. We will be fools if we do not internalize that reality.

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      They understand. They just know if they say the shitty thing, it will give their bubba voters a misogyny hardon, which translates directly to votes.

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        I don’t get it: are they saying that their party doesn’t let women speak and now Democrats are acting like them? It seems extremely backwards.

        The question is mostly rhetorical, I understand exactly what’s happening, I just can’t help but jackie_chan_face.jpg

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          They are saying, “women dumb, lololol!” They’re literally just petty children in adult bodies. There is no deeper point.

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            This. It’s all a giant, “Nuh-uh, you!”

            They create a specious argument, present it as a straw man of “what democrats want,” and then ridicule it as if they didn’t make the whole thing up themselves.

            It’s dumb as shit, but it’s all on purpose. These people are ivy League lawyers who took speech and debate. They know what a fallacy is, they just choose to use it for its effectiveness in mass psychology rather than actually governing or leading.

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              Yep. The leaders use it as petty distraction, and their petty followers eat it up while they have their pockets picked clean.

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          Right, if conservative women weren’t fucking stupid (which they have to be to be conservatives), they’d know he was admitting Republicans don’t care about them.

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          It’s not about that. It’s about stuff like Clearance Thomas does. He used to be a black panther fighting for black rights(was still a misogynist creep). Then he eventually switched sides, prob for money and power, but claimed the Dems were just as racists as Republicans, but Republicans said it to your face and Dems hid behind a facade.

          The right continously parrots this narrative (which definitely has a kernel of truth especially with NIMBYs) in an effort to either discourage voter participation or to get lucky and get Pick Mes like Thomas and Candence Owen’s.

          Same reason idiots claim Trump says it like it is; they think everyone really is as racist and sexist as themselves, but that Dems are just virtue signaling while their side is “honest.” They don’t want to change, learn, or hide, they just want their shitty beliefs to be mainstream again.