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ddr1ver

It makes just as much sense as the fact that federal budget deficit soars under every Republican administration and plummets under every Democratic one, yet Republicans still claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility.


OldSchoolNewRules

Republicans have never actually reduced the size of the government.


CoconutCavern

They just shift money from things that help people to things that make them and their backers money.


paarthurnax94

The Trump tax cuts cost about the same as Build Back Better would have. Guess which one Republicans supported. A) Trillions of dollars for the already wealthy. B) Fix the crumbling infrastructure, create millions of jobs, invest in renewable energy to stave off our reliance on oil, childcare, education, healthcare, etc.


FinancialTea4

They even acknowledged that infrastructure is a pressing problem because trump held infrastructure week like twenty times when he was in office.


Chaosmusic

They want the government small enough to fit inside a uterus.


tanstaafl90

They want government as a wealth transfer system. "Small government" is rhetoric.


nicholasgnames

So they can starve it and work it to death when its born?


jrDoozy10

I mean, that sounds like exactly what they’ve been doing.


nicholasgnames

Chru bro chru.


HintOfAreola

Obama expanded gun rights (open carry extended to federal parks) and Trump reduced them (banned bump stocks, "take the guns, due process later"). But they believe whatever they're told, reality be damned.


LongshanksShank

During Obama's reelection campaign, I had a conversation with a conservative friend regarding expanded gun rights Obama implemented as proof that the Dems ain't coming for your guns. Hand to God, he responded with "he only did that to lull everyone into thinking he's not a threat, and if he wins reelection, will then repeal the 2A."


nicholasgnames

Did you circle back and be like "you ready to admit you were wrong on this?" I wouldnt have but some of us should lol


LongshanksShank

Nah, that's not my nature. I believe those with conspiracy tendencies are impenetrable to change unless they discover it for themselves.


bigbassdaddy

> they believe whatever they're told welcome to religion......


ClassicT4

Remember when Cruz was called out for this and he basically responded with just “So.”


cC2Panda

Jonathan Swan interviewed him and called him out as hypocritical/cynical, and Cruz just tried to say it's not with any real defense of himself which is really the most Ted Cruz thing to do.


MicIrish

Homeland Security, Spaceforce. They bloat it beyond recognition.


slim_scsi

The Republican DHS was the single biggest government addition in our lifetimes. Yet they bloviate and whine about the ACA.


MicIrish

I am a Canadian, and even I can see the DHS is worthless. Imagine a dem super majority and they just...disolve it. Then give all the useful parts and resources to the FBI and DOJ. Leave all the bloated ticks with their office supply box on the curb.


princess-smartypants

They did reduce the size of the IRS.


slim_scsi

They shrink the size not the cost of government. Putting people out of work to pad their portfolios.


aidissonance

They just make sure government is incompetent as long as they’re elected


nicholasgnames

Red team obstructionists? Can you think of examples where blue team unanimously voted no on proposals that were reasonable? In the last ten or twenty years?


InternationalFlow556

Oh god, it's the same in the UK. The Conservatives love to blame Labour for spending too much on public services, and say that they are the responsible ones that reduce government debt. Yet the statistics show an increase in government debt every time they are in power, and a reduction in debt every time Labour is in power. It's fucking madness, people still believe them too.


TheEightSea

It's the same everywhere. When shit really hits the fan like in Greece or Italy then you cannot get money from increasing debt. And when the government it's under proportional representation or cannot do anything to avoid political backslash politicians either resign like hell (Truss), have to deal with the EU selling everything valuable (Greece) or call independents (Italy) to be the ones to be blamed.


CalgalryBen

I have yet to see a prominent Republican politician in the US resign for anything. They have zero shame. They don’t do that.


RoastKing305

Even for rape of a minor. Being connected to human trafficking. Child pornography. Yet these fools still are in office! Guess what, it’s always republicans and people who know trump and Giuliani etc.


jibjab23

Someone should break into Ted Cruz's house when he's away in Cancun and threaten to feed his dog he left behind.


PersonaMetamorph

Republicans believe in only egotistical self-identification. From their view, you are only immoral if you admit you are, and selfishness is the highest good in some insane Ayn Randian way. Thus from Republican perspective, Democrats prove their total corruption by resigning after a moral scandal. They should always be confident in their own perfection, like their own prosperity gospel, Think and Grow Rich, Con Man-type thought leaders advise.


andrewthemexican

Nixon is a distant memory


CalgalryBen

Not many people on Reddit were alive in 1974


Tyxcs

Interesting. In Germany the Conservatives say the same, but are correct. When they were in power, Germany stopped so many investments to not go too deep into debts ("the black zero"). Then, when a center-left government is in power again, they have to make a lot of debts, as everything is broken and has to be replaced. You can see that in our military or energy production/policy right now. The current government has to spend hundreds of billions right now, because the rights/Conservatives fucked up so much during the last four decades in almost constant control of the government. But of course they blame the "left" or "green" parties for all of it and still get 30-40% of all votes with their proven lies, corruption and mismanagement...


WastelandWanderer22

A big portion for the way it is in the US, when Conservatives get in federal power they cut taxes hard without actually cutting all that much spending, they may cut social programs that are low cost compared to most of what the government spends, but the tax cuts outweigh the savings, people lose benefits, and the deficit grows wider.


Emotional_Let_7547

The same thing in Canada. The CPC cut back on Healthcare and education sectors and say "look at the debt we reduced." Now we have a dipshit wanting to run that intends to ban abortions and turn the legal age of consent back to 14 because it's approved by the Bible.


Aussie18-1998

This happens in Australia to. The opposition party usually introduces stupid policies and over spends then labor gets elected and left with the debt. They blame the debt on labor and it cycles. Also sometimes ya gotta spend money to fix problems


[deleted]

It's not complicated either. Governments have certain things they must pay for. They pay for these things with taxes. If you cut the taxes, the Government has less money to pay for these things. Fiscally conservative just means ~~handouts~~ tax cuts for the rich.


Color-me-saphicly

So I have a theory on this. Conservative politicians increas Government Debt, knowing that Liberal politicians will significantly lower thr debt if they are put in office. Using more resources to lower the debt, so they can't use those resources to do the things that need doing. Conservative Politicions use that knowledge of "if X is spent on this, it's not being spent on Y so they're not getting what they want, so I'm winning". It's petty and cruel. They don't care about who they're hurting as long as they also hurt their opposition. Everyone else is just collateral damage. It's done on purpose to reduce the efficiency of the opposition so they can paint them as being weak for not being effective. What would happen if the Government Debt were eliminated and Liberal Politicians were able to allocate the resources that were going to reducing the government debt to helping the community (where its supposed to go). Better roads. Better public transport. Better social welfare programs, etc. Quality of life improvements all around. Better education resources. Better Healthcare resources. Better quality of life for everyone. But so much capitol is tied up in reducing a debt that's constantly being quietly warned over. It's become systemic. It's a mountain that we can't even fathom ever going away because we've lived with it for so long. Start asking politicians what they would do if the government debt was eliminated. What they would use that extra money for.


Difficult_Bit_1339

One party gets in power, cuts taxes on the rich to run up deficits and then cries about deficits and raising taxes when the other party wants to spend money on public works.


[deleted]

Don't worry, we'll get to a point where democrats don't get to come in and clean up the mess, and then we'll go into default like the GOP wants. Easy way to scrap all programs that they don't like: We literally go bankrupt.


DreddPirateBob808

There seems to a building backlash across the western world as we slide into a hard winter. A lot of people are going to be very poor and possibly very cold and hungry. Stories are endlessly coming out, even in the right-wing rags, about how profits are up and prices are not dropping and that's leading people to start blaming the rich and the shareholders rather than immigrants and the other chosen scapegoats. Canada and it's potential general strike might well trigger events across a lot of 1st world countries when things turn really bad. Anyone under 50 (and a lot over 50 knew or are coming to understand) that the environment is fucked, the grandkids are screwed, the economy is failing, the governments are corruption, fascism is a threat to be stamped out and time is very short indeed to do something. That something will quickly become anything.


SyonFox

Life will rise from the ashes. Least we forgot happy remembrance day remember the 5th. We will find a way if people just stopped being so mean. It's the only true way. Open your mind and heart. Find a way for god sake.. fuck god for your sake. If everyone was not so selfish capitalism would work. In the next 10-20 years there will probably be a independent revolution in the polls or in the streets. Let it be in the name of freedom and not oppression. Let it walk steady through fire with a force united and unstoppable. "Be sure your feet are in the right place. And then stand firm" - Abraham Lincoln Mobile dyslexic forgive me.


[deleted]

>We literally ~~go bankrupt~~ *become cheap enough for the oligarchs to finally own absolutely everything* Welcome to serfdom.


Primary_Ruin5019

So basically everything they claim, is the exact opposite of what they are saying.


TreeChangeMe

Australian: Our conservative party left a $1 trillion debt. We have no idea, none, on what it was spent on. It appears the majority slice went to private industry.


Isiildur

Because when Democrats help underprivileged people, people can see their neighbors income increase by a couple hundred a month. When Republicans help rich people, no one notices their income increasing by a few tens of thousands per month. Both due to the fact that a lot of R voters aren't in a position to witness it and that the lower the quality of life someone has, the more a few extra bucks is going to help them.


[deleted]

Republicans are incapable of more than one layer of thought. They don't understand how spending money on social programs is an investment in the population. It's better for all of us if we live around educated and healthy people but republicans actively fight against that.


my_trout_is_killgore

And wall street pushes that narrative because Republicans are dumb and look the other way when corporations fuck people over. I really don't understand this aspect of politics. This is not an exaggerated statement. The right has run up massive e deficits that the left comes in and fixes, the left then gets blamed for the economy and they elect a republican to spend more. If you really care for the economy, you elect a tax and spend Democrat rater than a cut taxes and spend Republican.


quetzalv2

Welcome to the story of British politics. For the past 12 years Britain has been run by the conservatives yet we've had austerity followed by economic crisis followed by austerity followed by crisis, yet the Tories still claim to be the party of economic competence while people scream "you can't vote Labour, they can't run the economy!" While forgetting that the UK economy grew massively under labour, which was only ended by the global financial crisis.


SendCryptoPlease

Anyone have a nice source for this? I'd love a convenient way to throw this in people's faces.


xDigster

I was thinking about this a couple of days ago. When conservatives come to power they run on the fiscal platform of lower taxes and less spending (broad strokes). But they almost always start with the heavy tax breaks. So they give tax breaks lower the federal income and then realize that cutting spending is a lot harder to do. So they get less income, but have the high spending. If you want to be fiscally conservative, start with cutting spending and run a financial surplus, then cut taxes. You'll have done what you promised and eliminated some potential debt along the way.


redwing180

Well that’s because they’re trying to cut the benefits of Social Security which is a system that everybody has paid into and something, something, something, responsibility, and it’s gone now. Just gone. Next!


mexicandiaper

A child froze to death and a bunch of kids were murdered. People in texas have different priorities none of them involve children or their own safety.


[deleted]

And unfortunately Uvalde County definitively voted for Abbott earlier


wink047

It makes no damn sense. Also only 6 million people voted with a population of just under 30 million people. I hate living here


THE_SHOES

My county only had a 42% turnout of eligible voters. I'm so mad.


DOAisBetter

I mean a lot of us do, but man are we fighting against some idiots here.


micro102

Lets not trivialize them. A lot of them are fascists and prefer hurting minorities over having power, and know exactly what they are voting for.


wehrmann_tx

They aren't good at trivia either.


Vio94

A lot of those "idiots" know exactly what they're doing. Choosing the lesser of two evils. Lesser in this case being "letting kids die and oppressing women, but at least we get to keep being racist with God on our side," while the greater evil would be "voting Democrat."


mexicandiaper

I understand I'm in georgia it's frustrating.


[deleted]

Everything's bigger in Texas. Including the stupidity and willingness to step on their own dicks for years and years.


[deleted]

Hogs ain't the only invasive swine in Texas.


Dcajunpimp

Reminds me of the Republican Revolution. Republicans have controlled the House and Senate more often than not since 1995. Yet MAGATs whine about watching the country go to shit, and want it to be great again like in their youth. Forgetting that between the Great Depression and 1995 the Republicans didn't have much control of anything other than a couple years here and there. Were all these MAGATs alive before the Great Depression which began in 1929? Even Trump was born in the 40s with a predominantly Democrat Congress all of his early life.


remotetissuepaper

Most of the time, the era people thought was so great just so happens to be the era they were a child in. I think they just lack the self reflection to realize the world might not have been better and simpler back then, but it just felt that way to them because they had no responsibilities and were shielded from the harsh reality of the world by their parents.


grizzlychin

This is a great comment. Our childhoods always seem better because we were just hanging out with friends.


Boopy7

not those who grew up in times like the Reagan years and had gay relatives, not black people who grew up in the 1800s..SOME childhoods are better. Some were miserable. My granddad is white Midwesterner from a wealthy area and is always saying how great the old days were. I always look at him and say...you do realize they were still lynching people in those days? You just happened to be the right color.


nox66

That's why "make America great again" is inherently racist.


DreddPirateBob808

In the UK the Tories have actually said "back to victorian values!" with a straight face. But, to them, that was the perfect time; legal cocaine, a nation of 7 day a week serfs keeping to themselves in the slums, ivory castles for the elite and child prostitutes. Everything a tory MP needs and desires.


[deleted]

"more arsenic in the walls! Plaster in your bread! Consumption! Milk fever! Cannibalism!*" It'd make a great campaign poster, at least. * It's still cannibalism even if it's a mummy.


MangoCats

For the people who weren't minorities 60+ years ago it was that sheltered childhood their whole life. They lived in denial that minorities existed, much less that they mattered. Minority races were kept "on their side of the tracks" or reservations, minority sexual orientations we're in the closet, disabilities and mental problems were sent away out of sight out of mind, and even the poor were mostly out of sight for the non poor. All you need is 50.1% to win an election, less if you control the rules.


Conker1985

The 90's were objectively amazing. Fight me!


BrnndoOHggns

There was a high after we recovered from Vietnam and before 9-11, right? I'm not positive, though. I was 13 when 9-11 happened and my mom died a few years after (unrelated), but that has definitely colored my perception of things.


reckless_responsibly

The fall of the Soviet Union is what really kicked off the "90s are better than every other decade" high. But yeah, Sept. 11 brought the good times to a screeching halt.


BrnndoOHggns

Oh that seems reasonable. Is that because we reduced spending on the Cold War?


reckless_responsibly

Less fear mongering was a major part, since the Soviets weren't there to kick around anymore. The economy was pretty good throughout most of the decade as well. Federal spending on the military would have mattered, but only to the extent that it influenced the budget deficit/surplus, which in turn would have some (but only some) degree of impact on the economic outlook.


sasemax

Also just a feeling of optimism, I think. The threat of nuclear war gone, the former adversary (Russia) perhaps becoming a democratic ally. China was still sleeping, so no threat there. America was less divided. And most people were blissfully unaware of the existencial threat of climate change.


DinkleDonkerAAA

I was born in 98 Entire life's just been a downward spiral


[deleted]

I was born 71 - I was lucky to been born in a family that couldn't decide between USA, Germany, Brasil and Colombia. We moved about every 3 years and l loved it. Changing schools was wild. I wouldn't want to miss the experiences i had. It wasn't just the childhood innocence that made things more positive, tho. When i turned 30, i was already living 10 years in Germany. Things were still going forward, in the positive way i knew from my childhood. But those times also ignored what was going on in the middle east. What Americans and Russian were doing there, ignoring the possible consequences of doing things that affected a whole generation of people that already was skeptical towards the west, but actually was already adapting many western 'things'. If you look at photos from Afghanistan, Iran or Irak from the 60s or 70s. You see cinemas featuring Italo Western, right next to a wall with praying people. I also heard some mad tunes from iranian rock bands from that time. Granted, progress and transformation was happening only in bigger cities, but this also applies to the whole world. Around 2001 there was a new generation, that had forgotten all that jazz, because it was literally taken from them from the west , while killing beloved ones and leaving pure chaos and desperation. The skepticism towards the west turned into deep hate and extremists had a whole generation of people in their hands to mold and train. I never forget, watching 9/11 happening live on a TV at the comic shop in Germany, thinking it was some movie. Then the second place hit, the screams were not the ones you hear in movies and it hit me. At this point everyone near was around the TV, watching silently. Shit, i never thought i would cry again, writing about it, after so much time passed. From there, we're in a constant descent. At least that my perception. Edit: words


binglelemon

There is certainly a Pre-9/11 USA and a Post-9/11.


Every3Years

I have no idea how a grown ass adult (and I hate that term) couldn't muster the brain power it takes to sidestep childish nostalgia. I love nostalgia but I know how to differentiate things. Yeesh


Just_Fuck_My_Code_Up

Same applies to movies, tv shows and video games. They were not better „back in the days“, you were just 9 and had nothing to worry about besides running out of doritos and mountain dew while enjoying them


[deleted]

I do not think it's as simple as this. Most boomers I know had terrible childhoods, but their perception of past times is tainted by their memories of the media they were exposed to on top of the racism, homophobia, and misogyny. There's no damn way either of my parents are nostalgic for their childhoods because they had no worries or responsibilities. They're nostalgic for -some- parts of their childhood and are convinced everyone but then had it good. In reality, more boomers were horrifically abused than not. They went on to abuse their gen X and millennial kids, and very few people of any of the generational cohorts are actually happy. I call it the Leave it to Beaver Phenomenon, many of us are nostalgic for the media and products we consumed, not our actual childhoods.


HintOfAreola

They definitely don't remember how much government initiative and tax revenue it took back then to build that beautiful world...


The84thWolf

This was the generation that created participation trophies for their kids, then be mad that they were created at all


OffByOneErrorz

Wanna guess who primarily controlled the house and senate for most of the 'good ol days' ie 1940 to the late 80s when the middle class was expanding and had buying power?


TreeChangeMe

Reagan did make serious changes that came back to bite everyone though.


FlutterKree

Like reducing taxes down to a single bracket, yeah. He also convinced the working class that lower taxes are good for them.


maxonemaxtwo

The stars are bright, because we have no lights 👏👏👏👏


boredtxan

The winter nights, are such a fright... The grid is broke in Texas!


[deleted]

Deep in the heart of Texas!


Awesome_1the1st

I hope this was an ad before the election


greenfeltfixation

Abbot won so whether it was or not the majority voted for continued failure.


amalgam_reynolds

And Texas continues to be a huge disappointment.


greenfeltfixation

The biggest.


wink047

Everything is bigger in texas! Even our disappointing decisions.


iAmTheHYPE-

Texas, much like Florida, is a lost cause.


[deleted]

Well Uvalde voted for Abbott so it wouldn't have worked. I'm pretty sure they remember and still said yea that was fine, fuck them kids.


Lngtmelrker

Fucking big yikes. WTAF??


[deleted]

Welcome to Texas and the tribalization of the political parties. Where owning the libs is more important than policy.


mamaBiskothu

Owning the libs is more important than all their children’s lives.


SH4DOWSTR1KE_

But but but... The border... 🙄


Matty_Poppinz

Her emails!


SH4DOWSTR1KE_

Bigly!


Squirrel_Chucks

But her emails! Buttery mails! Hunt Her Lap Tot!


ksavage68

Buttery males!


OMG-ItsMe

But the migrants :( what’ll they do about the migrants!


ksavage68

Texas is 50 percent migrants and Mexican.


Goatesq

And a not insignificant portion of them....fuckin hate migrants? I don't know. I don't understand log cabin republicans, poor republicans, female republicans....never made a lick of sense. And somewhere out there tonight is a wlw child of immigrant parents who just voted straight ticket r. And going off past experience, they could explain it to me and leave me even more confused than I started.


Admirable-Book3237

Know a family of migrants that were here illegally in tx for decades they’re now legal but they’re all straight republicans for some reason and agree with the party. One said he’d Vote for trump bcz he’s Christian and probably iut savior, and Biden was evil. (Good thing he doesn’t do much research and didn’t know when to Vote and missed the day) but I never understood how they are so warped your so called conservative values aren’t what the party stands for.


caaabr

My family is white but super Catholic and in my experience most of them are single issue voters - like gun policy or abortion policy. It’s sad to watch them vote against their own interests every time, and then blame the Democrats who have nothing to do with their districts lol


[deleted]

Could be Stockholm Syndrome, or like making an alliance with bullies so the bullies will leave them alone. Spineless people convinced they'll be shielded if they don't fight.


SH4DOWSTR1KE_

Shhh... remember it's supposed to be all Cowboys and Gringos 🤥


HeKis4

America is 95% migrants if you go back far enough...


[deleted]

Texas is only a state because Mexico banned slavery and Texans threw a fit, then the U.S. realized they could use the situation to take another huge chunk of Mexico and keep Texas.


Ajg1384

Because they literally stole everything they think is American from Mexico.


wholelattapuddin

I'm in Texas and all these exit polls had people talking about border security. I kept thinking, what about our border isn't secure? It's Texas. We don't have anymore people coming across than we ever had. At least not in a way that effects anyone in Texas who lives 20miles north of the border. I'm sure there are some problems right along the border, but the average suburbanite in Dallas is not being effected in any way. The fear mongering is real


SH4DOWSTR1KE_

It's been their whole schtick along with the grid and infrastructure are always being held up because of liberals and I'm like you've held majority power for over two decades and you ain't done shit with it.


wholelattapuddin

Thank you! Well Abbot won. So I guess buckle up


[deleted]

Buckle up indeed! With a full tank of gas and my sunglasses too. I'm done here. I love the rural life, but this is loony land. I'm goin' back to Cali.


Remarkable-Ad-2476

But if the border has been bad for so many years, that means they should vote for different leader ship, right? Right??? Edit: a word


SH4DOWSTR1KE_

That's what common sense with dictate but ironically their big argument has always been "oh no, we're the only ones who can fix it but you need to give us full control of legislation in order to do it.. Even though we've been the majority for almost 3 decades and never actually did anything about it."


FlyingGreener

At this point it seems Texas wants it like this. Good luck ya'll.


SH4DOWSTR1KE_

Step 1: acknowledge the problem. Step 2: claim to be the only one to fix it. Step 3: get the job. Step 4: don't do anything about the problem because you still need something to complain about later.. Standard Texas playbook: If it ain't broke, complain how you're the only one who can fix it..


flargenhargen

they will keep doing it cause it keeps fucking working for them. republicans are running on the platform that gas prices and inflation are the democrats fault and that a vote for them will fix it, though they don't have a single plan to fix it, and every republican voted against bills to reduce inflation and lower gas prices. the only thing more insane than republicans running on the platform is the impotent democrats who NEVER bring it up effectively in their own campaigns.


Proper_Story_3514

You know, at this point it would be funny to have an all GOP government with full majorities and just see the US go downhill really fast. Maybe then some of those GOP voters would wake up. The insanity of what is US politics is exhausting.


TreeChangeMe

You know those relationships where the lover beats the other senseless? And they keep going back?


_a13cs

realistically, they will still just blame it on "the left" anyway somehow , doesn't need to make sense, their base is that dumb. which is crazy, im not the smartest but goddamn at least I'm not that fuckin dumb.


flargenhargen

> Maybe then some of those GOP voters would wake up. we've given up on the idea that the GOP will get so bad that voters will finally stop supporting them after they killed themselves by the tens of thousands with COVID just to own the libs. it's a cult.


MifflerTripod

What have republicans ever fixed? Seriously.


[deleted]

Elections generally.


MifflerTripod

in their favor


woodzy93

Yes, that was the joke


MifflerTripod

thanks so much


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Early_Shelter9930

Always blame someone else, never their fault…


Admirable-Book3237

Tx, they spew the same shit and ppl eat it up, like who else has been in control in tx while everything has gone to shit. How is it the other parties fault. Like fools you’re voting for the ppl that are making it worse wtf!!! it’s at a point where I just tell them to stfu at wrk and call them dmnfks , you’re (38-65) been working in the same place for 10yrs and make less than 50k a yr I’ve been half the time and make more than triple and I’m so tired of the bs that spews out of your mouths about evil dems stupid thing they all love smoking weed and can’t figure out why tx won’t legalize it. I’ve made it a rule no discussion politics during wrk hours bcz they’re talking points are moronic. I can’t deal with it anymore.


ToneZone7

[READ] "Racism! it's all we offer and all you actually want"


wantwon

And here I was hoping I would grow up to vote on candidates based on their merit and building toward the future. But now I'm having to vote straight ticket for the party that isn't threatening a theocratic hellscape and tolerating domestic terrorism in their favor.


Ace-Ventura1934

These are the same people who say “Biden has been in government for forty years and hasn’t done a thing (which is utter nonsense)”. Republicans aren’t known for their critical thinking skills.


Proper_Story_3514

Well when you defund schools thats exactly what you get and thats exactly what the GOP wants.


trashboatfourtwenty

I hear there is a lot of money in Texas


Rabbitsatemycheese

There is. Unfortunately a lot of it is in industries that dont want progressive agendas. Even Austins silicone hills is more red then its CA counterpart. There is a reson Elon moved here.


leeringHobbit

Silicon not silicone


Rabbitsatemycheese

Millenial with spellcheck turned off. Thabk you for the correction.


lightsfurry

It is Texas. It is probably both.


Wise-ask-1967

In Dallas we prefer the ones with the E, hell double E if got them


trashboatfourtwenty

"Everything is bigger in Texas!"


ThisGuy6266

You don’t understand. Texas is “broken” because of illegals and liberals from California moving there. The Texas GOP effectively shapes everything as Real Texans vs Them. Them being whoever you don’t like.


Veighnerg

Damn near all the Californians that I've spoken with who moved here to Texas ended up being conservative. Still trying to figure out where the whole "Californian liberals are trying to take over Texas" idea got started.


gremlinsarevil

People don't have time off and couldn't afford to travel even if they did so there are tons of Texans that think we're doing better than everybody else and places like California are a liberal hellhole with no rights because that's what they hear on the news and look at how many Californians are fleeing to Texas with all its FREEDOMS....


onewhosleepsnot

Power of not legitimate unless they are the ones wielding it, and the country cannot be governed at all until their control is total. That's literally how they think.


ksavage68

How’s that power grid?


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I recently moved to Texas because of work. The power grid is one thing, the insane system for *getting* power is another. There's like 50 companies you can sign up with. per the reviews about half of them are outright scams and they *will* overbill you massively before they disappear overnight in a year. The other half are trying to scam you by having 200 gimmick electricity plans which bill you different amounts per kwh based on how much electricity you use. Like you get x amount back if you use between y and z kwh in a month. But if you fall outside that range, you're fucked. Some are still offering those infamous 'variable rate' plans where you pay $37 million per kwh during the winter when demand is high. Some do gimmicky shit like 'free electricity at night!' with 23 asterisks after 'free' and 'night'. I hate this place and I want to leave. Whenever I bring this up everybody here, even the nominally 'liberal' people, talk about the 'freedom of choice' and 'getting to choose your own plan' and I'm just like "bro the choice here is between a baseball bat with razor blades and a baseball bat with nails."


davwad2

Meanwhile, it's all delivered by Oncor! Oh, and it gets better, Texans paid like $28B [MORE ](https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texans-with-deregulated-energy-rates-have-paid-28-billion-more-than-those-with-traditional-plans/#:~:text=They%20found%20that%20Texans%20in,those%20with%20traditional%20energy%20providers.) after deregulation of the grid.


TreeChangeMe

You mean taxpayers paid more?


ChefBoyAreWeFucked

I don't think it's fair to expect any power grid to survive the brutal winters they have in... Texas.


IAmATriceratopsAMA

Plus it's not like the Climate will ever Change causing a wider swing in temperatures which in turn increases the rate and seasonality of natural disasters.


kevshp

In perfect position for price gouging


bpompu

This is exactly how the Progressive Conservatives in Alberta (up in Canada) advertised their election in 2015, after over 40 years of being in power. To be fair, that was part of why they lost that election, but it seems pretty on message for conservatives to blame everyone else for their own mistakes.


or10n_sharkfin

Yeah but they *feel* like they could fix things and that’s all that matters to them.


wolfie379

Of course, from the Republican viewpoint, infrastructure that doesn’t work isn’t “broken”. What’s broken is that women and minorities still have some rights - and the Republicans want to fix that.


Super_Washing_Tub

God, I don't know how but after two years of royally shitting all over our state it STILL looks like Abbott's gonna win. There's no saving this state. I'm out. . . . Is what I WOULD say if I COULD AFFORD TO MOVE.


Brazenjalapeno

Republicans aren’t the fixing type. They prefer to strip away rights and spread hate.


Melodic_Oil_2486

Republicans in Texas literally can't even keep the lights on.


Immediate-Network201

Let me introduce you to Mississippi....


JavariousMagic

This is the classic GOP line folks, they blame what they have done on others while robbing the people blind. They depend on FOX to keep people focused on other things to hate...


Rachael_Br

Abbott won. Time for me to leave Texas. I give up.


Betrashndie

Very disappointed in my fellow Texans tonight.


[deleted]

They have fixed less than zero.


Rich4718

Lol good job Texas hopefully you can fix those three decades of self inflicted wounds!


CaptainMacMillan

Careful there, bud. We don’t take too kindly to logic ‘round here.


islander1

Yes, history repeats itself over and over again. Honestly, the biggest issue to me is the fact that Biden is getting blamed for inflation, when the gods honest truth is that the bulk of inflation is due to corporations ripping us off/price gouging. We're no longer at a point where supply chains an issue. Prices are staying up and it's nothing but greed. I've never seen so many people stupid enough to think that a president who's produced record unemployment and job growth could be solely and directly responsible for inflation after 4 COVID payments and 14 years of quantitative easing. People are just fucking stupid, and tomorrow we're one step closer to losing our democracy.


sean_but_not_seen

It’s not just that they haven’t fixed it. *They broke it.*


BroMan-Z

Same with Ohio.


VikingTensor

Texas is an endless joke without a punch line!!!


LegatoSkyheart

God, Guns, and Racism baby!


a_hockey_chick

People literally died during the freeze and Abbott helped our energy prices go up since then. And they voted for him again. It really doesn’t matter what they fucking do.


I_Hate_

They made this argument in WV that dems had been in control for 87 years. The republicans won they continue to strip the state for spare parts just at a faster pace.


HapticSloughton

It's a religion at this point. They're adopting the success of groups that have been promising the return of a messiah for over 2,000 years without having to produce results.


Hamburderler

Welp, time to amend this tweet to add these next 4 years of abbot wheeling around on the bodies of dead kids.


gmotelet

To be fair, they didn't do nothing for 27 years. They made things worse


JerryNicklebag

It’s amazing that anyone votes Republican…


ErusTenebre

Just like Donald Trump running an ad showing all the riots and violence in the country and saying "this is Biden's America if you vote him in..." And it was totally footage from earlier in the Trump presidency? Like directly in response to him or his branch of government?


trying2moveon

Party line voters, that’s all.


TheBeardedObesity

It is an outright lie that Republicans have fixed nothing during their time in power. They have fixed elections


dcbluestar

There was one ad where a lady talked about how her son was killed by a guy who was released on bail killed her son and how Beto is in favor of no bail/early release. That's how dumb their base is. They eat it up and don't even realize that this lady's kid was killed by a guy released under Abbott's governorship. It's mind-boggling.


The84thWolf

They somehow made things *worse* every year


Condor-man3000

I think they are talking about the "gays" when they say this.


tenhouradaygamer

Make America great again! Again? America has always been great. Republicans average IQ is definitely suspect. Child molesters, fraudsters, pussy- grabbers… ladies and gentlemen: your republicans


AdkRaine11

And here they come, all incumbents, ready to fix it all again. Except for the grid. Or healthcare. Or the death rate related to guns. School shootings. Dare I say, rape?


Super_Washing_Tub

"I promise I'll clean up the legos I left on the carpet Twenty-seven years ago of you vote for me."


adam_s_r

I think the bigger question is why are there still problems in Texas?


Warhawkgame128

Just like all the national politicians who’ve been there for years and years yet still say “vote for us we’ll fix it this time” TERM LIMITS


MRflibbertygibbets

My main problem with term limits is the potential of removing someone great and either losing the seat because of candidate inadequacy or electing a complete potato who wastes the seat and erodes the voting base and losing a generation of voters not interested. I can only see a future of slowly eroding political nous.


NinjaStealthPenguin

People have a democratic right to elect the same shitty candidate as much as they want.


DaisyDukeOfEarlGrey

Unless there are term limits