OT: American Politics

[MindzEye]

 

[thehabhater]

He should debate the Giraffe.

 

[Wayward DP]

like how the fuck did this buffoon become a Governor? of Florida no less?

 

[zeke]

like how the fuck did this buffoon become a Governor? of Florida no less?

trump made him.

 

[hockeylover]

 

[Wayward DP]

trump made him.

and now will also destroy him. how fitting.

 

[zeke]

they've believed this all along, btw:

 

[UWHabs]

like how the fuck did this buffoon become a Governor? of Florida no less?

I believe the second question answers the first.

 

[LeafGm]

they've believed this all along, btw:

I’m not sure it’s true they’ve “believed it all along”. They were fine with democracy as long as the ballot box returns, with some fudging as necessary through voter suppression and gerrymandering, reliably preserved patriarchal white Christian supremacy.

Once that was no longer the case though (which is what the “we are no longer worthy of freedom” is about)—yep, the Christofascists 100% want to toss democracy and the rule of law into the bin in favour of autocracy.

 

[zeke]

They were fine with democracy as long as the ballot box returns, with some fudging as necessary through voter suppression and gerrymandering, reliably preserved patriarchal white Christian supremacy.

That's the opposite of being "fine with democracy", though.

 

[lecoqsportif]

Performative democracy.

But now that baked in demographic decline is manifesting at the ballot box, the show is over.

 

[Volcanologist]

Georgia GOP Chair Goes Full Flat-Earth, Says Globes Are Part of a Conspiracy

Failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Kandiss Taylor claimed the prevalence of globes is part of an effort to bury evidence the Earth is flat.

www.rollingstone.com

In an interview with David Weiss (AKA “Flat Earth Dave”) and Matt Long on her “Jesus, Guns, and Babies” podcast, Taylor and her guests discussed biblical “evidence” that the Earth is actually flat as a pancake. “The people that defend the globe don’t know anything about the globe,” said Weiss. “If they knew a tenth of what Matt and I know about the globe they would be Flat Earthers.”

“All the globes, everywhere” Taylor said later in the discussion. “I turn on the TV, there’s globes in the background … Everywhere there’s globes. You see them all the time, it’s constant. My children will be like ‘Mama, globe, globe, globe, globe’ — they’re everywhere.” “That’s what they do, to brainwash,” she added. “For me if it’s not a conspiracy. If it is real, why are you pushing so hard everywhere I go? Every store, you buy a globe, there’s globes everywhere. Every movie, every TV show, news media — why? More and more I’m like, it doesn’t make sense.”

 

[thehabhater]

It makes perfect sense if you aren't stupid

 

[thehabhater]

 

[LeafGm]

Georgia GOP Chair Goes Full Flat-Earth, Says Globes Are Part of a Conspiracy

Failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Kandiss Taylor claimed the prevalence of globes is part of an effort to bury evidence the Earth is flat.

www.rollingstone.com

I remember back in the good old days when I firmly believed that no one in this day and age could possibly be stupid enough to believe that the earth was flat. And that anyone who made that claim was a straight-up troll.

What a time that was to be alive.

 

[lecoqsportif]

And yet planes land where they are expected.

Unless they’re in on the conspiracy.

Big Plane.

 

[Volcanologist]

yeah, I mean there's a million different things you could bring up, but my favourite is "draw me an accurate scale map of your flat earth"

not possible, obviously.

thanks for coming out Dave and Kandiss, "debate" over

 

[lecoqsportif]

This is just oppositional defiance disorder.

 

[lecoqsportif]

Don’t ever tell ‘em not to shit in the drinking water.

Also…

Magellan expedition - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[lecoqsportif]

I wonder if her car has GPS?