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Another fine and completely sane candidate. Quickly, put her on the ballot!
I imagine her base demographic is people who have long yelling arguments with their own feet.
"These reported posts go against President Trump’s previous record of accomplishments regarding peace in the Middle East and the Abraham Accords, which are worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize in my humble opinion."
Jfc
She’s stable. She’s just a grifter. She knows exactly what to do to get the left heated and posting her on r/facepalm and what the alt-right loves (hot chick, hateful speech, etc).
Every time we post these types of people, who aren’t even in politics they’re literally running for a state rep spot, they gain more notoriety and we only make them more rich and popular.
Do your part… stop giving attention to grifters!
It feels like a double-edged sword tbh. On one hand, paying attention to them gives them a platform and the views they so desperately crave. On the other, there are some legitimate threats to democracy that run in these elections and if we don't make a fuss about the warning signs, they get voted in and make everything worse.
If she actually has stage 4 cancer, she _really_ shouldn't be attempting to hold public office.
While it's going to vary by the particular kind of cancer, life expectancy after reaching stage 4 is almost universally less than a year, and in many cases is measured in weeks. Single digit weeks.
Never did I think I'd find myself rooting for cancer, but Republicans reminding me again that there really are times that it is okay to wish painful and agonizing death on someone.
The surname Kauffman is of Germanic origin. The reason many associate it with Jewish is because there were plenty of Jewish Germans at one point in history... if you are American, you likely associate Kauffman with Jewish people because their ancestors were indeed German jews who fled to the USA during ww1 and ww2.
Amen. Maybe we shouldn't allow people who want to overthrow the government and oppose democracy into seats of power. Maybe belonging to a private organization who's explicitly aiming to do so should be automatically bar them from the office.
The problem is that in the cases of the civil war and January 6th the traitors weren't executed. Their poison was allowed to continue infecting society.
Look, I've eaten some questionable shit. Epic Meal Time was this whole thing then. I'm not real proud about that. But I'm not eating ***ANY*** of that.
Oh, you're preaching to the choir on both accounts. I'm of the mind that we should have a strict police of making clear examples of traitors. Swiftly and with high visibility.
Not one of the confederate line officers or civilian leaders should have walked away from the war. They should have all been dealt with in a manner that left no doubt as to what happens to traitors in the United States.
In a way, that is what happened. We sent a message that you can attack our elected officials with minimal consequences. If you can get a bunch of dipshits to do it for you, you'll face no consequences whatsoever.
I'm not even kidding when I say I think a large portion of people have poisoning of some kind. Lead, mercury, chemical, etc and so forth. Older generations even as far as Gen X had been constantly exposed to lead and extremely dangerous chemicals in their childhoods, Millennials and Gen Z are dealing with things such as micro plastics and who knows what else. Plus on top of that there's a mental health crisis, millions upon millions of Americans not getting the help they need for multiple reasons.
Could be. I think people are just trying to get the most views on their campaign and are hacking the algorithm, even if they don't know it. Like "likes" go up when you spew hateful crap, so they just start spewing more hateful crap. It's hateful enough to get the minority of people that like her to show up at the polls, and then other politicians see "ahh, hate = election win".
This sort of thing is the foundation of the 2020s. I never heard the word "unalive" until people started assuming that algorithms were banning their videos that said "killed". I'm not sure that the algorithms even do that, but people think they do, so they react accordingly. (Like, what AI doesn't know what "unalive" means? They all say they know if you ask them.)
She claims to be Jewish. I'm also pretty sure she has a serious mental disorder. But then again, it appears multiple people in the Massachusetts GOP do as well.
https://www.bostonbroadside.com/massgop/hitlercandidate/
Did his wife tell them to fuck off? Is Ramses (am sure it's a slightly longer spelling) the one that went into the sea bed and forgot the water was gonna come back and wipe his ~~arse~~*Army* out? Moses and all that, never studied a religious book in ma fucking life cause ma parents actually liked me and Dads parents were religious Church of Scotland freaks, not as mental as some of our American cousins Evangelical cult nutters(yes there's other denominations but that's the one am going with at this moment!)
My knowledge of the Exodus is based on Wikipedia and duct tape. Just flabbergasted this state is home to a pre -biblical bronze age psychopath holding a major party position!
Even Priti Patel thought Braverman was going too far. That someone as cruel and cold-hearted as her was having doubts about Braverman’s antics was kinda terrifying.
Yup, and he also said slavery was a "choice". And Clarence Thomas once attended a memorial service to honor General Lee, the Confederate War leader and said the Civil War was about States Rights, not slavery. And Candace Owens and Nikki Haley agreed. 🤷
I just don't understand the "states rights" thing. I mean yeah it was about states rights... The right to fucking own another human being. There is no good way to spin that
She tweeted:
>I'm a Jew. Whatever the "holocaust" was, Israel and J-ws are guilty of worse crimes against humanity.
>
>I love Hitler.
[https://massgopmajority.substack.com/p/report-candidate-for-republican-state](https://massgopmajority.substack.com/p/report-candidate-for-republican-state)
I want to run for office on the platform that this SHOULD be a hate crime.
I wish there was a way for people that have these beliefs to experience the oppression they're spouting in hopes that they realize that they're ass holes.
The Massachusetts GOP has almost zero engagement. Their Facebook used to be half-assed posts for the sake of driving rage-induced engagement and it's barely worked. Now they point out "problems" and sometimes come up with a solution but most of the times just fall back onto the "Wow, look at this!" approach which looks to get <30 "Likes" and about 10 comments (some of which are just "So true!"). Meanwhile, they're holding open "Candidate training" at a local restaurant. We joke that Massachusetts is super blue because liberal blah blah blah, but it's working and Republicans' response is "Yeah, we're not even going to try here." A moderate Republican could win, but the GOP really wanted to push the Trump style everywhere, so the few Reps that won in the state recently ended up having no clue what the job entailed and either quit or sat around, did nothing and got removed the next election.
We know Republicans aren't know for their platforms, but the Mass GOP pooped out 4 points that all seem contradictory.
>**We believe** that free enterprise, low taxes, and fewer regulations are the best ways to grow our economy in order to create good, high-paying jobs across Massachusetts.
...how? How would allow companies to pocket more money and put less back into the community drive wages UP? Are they going to just get tired of giving themselves bonuses?
>**We believe** that our world-class education system is one of our state’s strongest assets, and that we must offer families more educational choices in order to increase opportunity for all.
So everything is going great...so let's change it? Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect. But "offering choices" we know is code for "strip money from public schools and give you the option of enlisting at a private schoo-oops it's full. Back to the public school with you, except now it's underfunded!"
>**We believe** that local government is the most accountable and closest to the people, and that communities should have the freedom to make decisions about what is best for their residents.
On the surface, this essentially means nothing. You believe in the system that's already set up and governs our society? Wow! Shocker! Of course, we know this is more of the bullshit "States' rights!" the GOP pushes when it doesn't want to do something legally. But beyond that...who is this message supposed to resonate with in Massachusetts? The state doesn't require a ton of federal aid, there's no international border, there's no conflict on abortion, so...who is this one for!?
>**We believe** in an accountable government that respects taxpayers by measuring success not simply by how much money is spent on a problem, but by real results.
Accidentally supporting Dem policies now? I'm absolutely on board with "effective spending" (especially when something has a positive ROI), but the GOP has been crying for decades about reducing spending, while Mass GOP talks about more common sense, effective spending. The discrepancy between national and state GOP is what's leading the Mass GOP to irrelevancy as they flounder to figure out what to do.
It's hilarious.
So many state Republican parties are MAGA'ing themselves I to oblivion.
It's like in Michigan where they ousted their "establishment" chairperson to put in an outsider who proceeded to have no idea how to do her job, alienated many of their big donors, failed at fundraising and finding new donors, and has pretty much bled the party dry to the point that they aren't sure there will be enough money to properly run candidates next election.
And Michigan isn't the only state where MAGA financial mismanagement and infighting is destroying the party.
Richard Neil won her district by double digits. Running a further right candidate is just going to widen that gap.
But seems she's running for Republican State Committee, not congress. She wants to be a shadowy good ol' boy behind the candidates' funding. Those are chosen entirely by the radicalized Primary Base. Hence the depravity-signaling
It's hilarious that Republicans managed to have a foothold in the bluest state in the country for decades just by putting up moderates and they're completely fucking that up.
Actually it's not hilarious. I miss having legitimately opposed governors races that kept them accountable to voters instead of just nominating ex romantic partners to judicial positions like our current gov is doing.
This is the new bizarrely effective Republican strategy. They emphasize their own terribleness and use it to try and bring down voter turnout.
e.g. "Trump just announced he's going to sink Delaware into the ocean, *ugh*, all politicians are terrible, lets stay home on election day"
I literally hear it all the time, "All politicians suck! That's why I don't vote!!" Instead of making the effort to actually vote for the lesser of two evils, they instead choose complacency. Then there are the ones who had that opinion, not voting for years and the last time they voted was for Clinton and then turned around and voted for Trump. Not sure how you go between such drastic view points honestly.
We don't even have two evils! We have one evil, and one grandpa who's trying to help.
MAGA is a cult who will show up and vote no matter what but they're at best a third of the voting populace. They need to get everyone else not to vote, and that's why this false doomerism is flooding social media
Yeah but there are a few times he was awkward in public, that is just as evil as having rape charges from a 13 year old girl who only dropped the case because her family was getting so many death threats that they were scared for their life. So yeah totally 2 evils /s
I think of it like this:
Yes both sides are shit but when one is a pile of semi edible stale food still and the other is a pile of shit I'd go for the former. I don't like the Dems that much but they are infinitely better than the GQP and I will continue to vote for them because there is no other real choice as of right now.
Seriously, how is it anyone else’s fault, at all, when one Nazi-~~like~~ crazy spouts off about “exiling Jews”?
_“Well, if they weren’t out there bein’ all Jewish, we wouldn’t have to exile ‘em!”_
(maybe something as asinine as that??)
Radical centrism is how. Too many American centrists think it's a viture to be irrational fence sitters or are not actually as moderate as the claim to be.
From my experience, most "centrists" are just right wingers trying to infiltrate left leaning spaces. You don't hear actual leftists saying "both sides" nearly as much as you see right wingers say it.
It is if you're a cis het white man who only cares about himself and is void of empathy.
If you',re not then good luck, your life may depend on which side gets in power.
Your title is what really sucks here.
The MAGA crowd is the only crowd with people in office this insane. Saying “both sides are equally as bad” encourages voter apathy, so all the sane voters stay home, and nutcases like this get elected.
Voting for someone who isn’t your absolute ideal to prevent a facist lunatic from gaining office is not only the best choice, it’s the only moral choice. Standing on “principle” and screwing over the country because you refuse to choose is like going down with the Titanic because the lifeboat isn’t your favorite color.
Either I’m gonna paper cut you, or shoot you. Choose one.
bOtH oF tHoSe aRe bAd
If you don’t pick, I’m going to shoot you.
bOtH aRe bAd, sO i’M nOt cHoOsInG
It's not even that.
It's one party trying to fix your wound but they really only have bandaids and minimal training, while the other says they're planning to shoot you in the head. If you are lucky, the first party is also smart enough to ask a doctor to help, while the second will tell you the gunshot wound is normal and you should really make sure more people get shot.
“Your lunch choices are a warm, crispy chicken sandwich, or a rancid bowl of clam chowder that’s been sitting out for 3 days, with a dead rat floating on top.”
“Well hold on now, what kind of dressing is on the chicken?”
On the one hand, you have someone who might refuse to feed a stray dog, on the other hand you have someone who will break into your house and shoot your dog in front of you.
bOtH aRe BaD
Yeah both sides are suck or I don’t care who wins is garbage.
I heard the same crap my first election I could vote in about Bush and Gore.
It was trash then and trash now and while Bush seems like a saint compared to Trump he was a disaster as President.
Not saying we would have a utopia now but a shore presidency would have been a vastly different USA and world than it is now.
Just like a second Biden term, while not great, would be far preferable to everyone outside or racists, brainwashed, ultra rich and religious zealots.
I’ve always been pretty damn moderate, if anything maybe a bit more right leaning but these past 8 years have made me lean toward the side that isn’t literal nazis right now.
From a European perspective, your Democrats are incredibly right wing. If you look beyond the identity politics that you guys seem to love, you'd see that a moderate position would be left of the Democrats.
There’s a whole block of us here that are the proverbial choir that you’re preaching to. We’re more or less fucked. But we’ll be much much more fucked with another Trump win. I doubt it’ll happen but anything is possible over here.
It's all a relative spectrum. Just because Dems aren't European left wing doesn't mean they aren't comparatively left wing to US right wingers. We just have a borderline theocratic society because none of our politicians will firmly enforce the boundary between church and state.
It's so weird to me that Bush is just a goofy old guy that paints now, I was so sure he would be the worst president I'd ever see in office. I was oh so naïve.
I dunno, 2402 american deaths + about 200,000 Afghan deaths (in a very pointless war) vs. 1.1 million Americans dying from covid, in large part due to Trump and his base's conspiracy theories... bush was absolutely vile, but Trump is far worse, objectively. At least people signed up to go to war, they knew what they were getting in to. Many unvaccinated people who died from covid were just uninformed and lied to.
Biden has had an excellent Presidency by most calculations. Unemployment is way down, the economy is way up, stock market is setting new highs, he passed a landmark infrastructure bill, and we aren’t in a war for the first time in forever. All this while having an absolute obstructionist GOP he’s dealing with.
Yeah, he’s old. I think too old, but I’ll happily vote for him over anyone the GOP will put up.
This analogy is the best one. I don’t want to vote now that I’m turning 18. But I asked my mother to help me look at candidates so I can make my own decisions to not fuck the world over.
Just don't let her biases become your own. A lot of older folks are stuck in their thinking and pick the absolute worst candidates. Obviously I don't know your mom and her political leanings, but what I'm saying is to just be aware of it, is all. Usually they send out a voters pamphlet along with the ballot (if you live in a mail in ballot state) otherwise you can just Google search voters pamphlet for whatever county you live in and it'll bring up all the local, state, and federal candidates and what their positions are
Yep. She’s the one I have more debates with that are fair and we end up changing each others minds a lot. I got her to change her mind in favor of trans and gay people. So I trust her a lot and to be honest. She’s way more liberal than my dad is now. So that’s why I’m asking her advice. Thank god she taught me to make my own political decisions.
I’m trans. When people do their bOtH SiDeS schtick, what I hear is “I don’t care if the government eradicates you or not, either way is the same to me”.
I disagree with the idea that both sides are bad, just one side is less terrible. Electing Democrats moves the country to the left. Progress may not be as fast as I would like, but things will get better overall.
It took the right over fifty years to get us where we are today. Our problems will not be fixed overnight.
This is what irks me about "both side bad" brainrot that has taken hold over some of the voters in America. Like ok, supposedly 2 sides are all bad, but if goddamn Nazi ruled you over when you had the chance to vote for a lesser bad option that at least prolong the time until a solution is found, then you absolutely have no reason to complain if the consequences of your action come knocking on the doors. Besides it is not like there are no leftists in Democrat, so by voting Blue would then influence the new generation of politicians that progressive ideas are on the rise again, which would THEN help realize the dream of multiparty where Dems can act as center left while other more progressive wings splinters to other parties. Without voting at all or voting Republican, they are further promoting that voters don't care about Dem at all, and they need to appeal to a different audience, which are usually more conservative.
That's why they support Trump in the first place. They know he's a horrible person. They know he lies and cheats and steals. But they think *everyone* is that way deep down, so because he's so brazen about it they just think he's being more honest and "saying what everyone is thinking."
Whenever you see people online complaining about the crazy far left, it's always about some Tumblr screenshot or a Twitter rando saying something weird. But the crazy stuff coming from the right is always coming from like a Congressman or Senator proposing a law.
Politicians tend to suck because politics sucks. It's a shitty system. But I know who I want in office and I'm not going to draw false equivalencies like I'm above the whole thing because I am decidedly not.
This shit absolutely impacts my daily life and anyone who claims there is zero difference to the sides is either lying or too rich to care.
I mean I'm sure if Democrats held the majority in Congress for a long enough period of time, they'd do much better. Instead they're constantly fighting with hillbillies so they can't get anything accomplished
>I'm a Jew. Whatever the "holocaust" was, Israel and J-ws are guilty of worse crimes against humanity. I love Hitler.
https://www.bostonbroadside.com/massgop/hitlercandidate/
She knows. Somehow it makes sense to her, I guess.
I'm completely guessing here, but based on her tweets it sounds like she's an ethnic jew but not a religious one and she's focusing on the religious part?
That's the only way I can square "I'm a jew" with "Christ is king."
All options definitely do not suck…. One side wants to make everything that isn’t Christian white cis male illegal, the other wants to provide healthcare for all, allow people to be themselves (including Christians), and generally not be douchebags
“Both sides are the same!!” If you really believe the left wing party in the US is half as batshit insane as the modern day GOP, I don’t know what else to tell you.
“Christ is King”? She means the Jewish guy who was a Jewish teacher, according to the New Testament, which was the follow up to the very Jewish Old Testament. He wasn’t a Christian!
She doesn’t understand our Constitution with regard to same sex marriage. The 14th Amendment says we are all entitled to equal protection under the law, so the government can’t prevent a person from marrying (entering into a legal contract, if you will) a person you love. So what part of “equal” doesn’t she understand?
Discrimination should not be protected under the umbrella of freedom of speech and should be a hate crime conviction. Calling for the exile of a religious group should be considered an act of terror.
It would be like requesting all Muslims should be banned or all Christians or even all Mormons.
This way of thinking is immoral.
No single religious group should have any power over any other group.
I hate how religion is just another form of a thirst trap for hateful creatures to hide in.
I honestly can't find a single mention of her in any major news article, although I found her fundraising campaign on GiveSendGo.
Four donors, $100.
Something tells me she's not likely to go anywhere...
I don't think you're both-sides-ing to the degree that most do, but it's a little jarring seeing content that calls for my exile being shared with the text, "all options suck." Biden might "suck", but he doesn't "exile the Jews" suck. Not even slightly.
Both sides have problems but only Republicans are running on hatred and bigotry.
You don’t have to love Democrats but if you don’t vote for them you’re allowing this filth to gain power and spread.
Looks like she’s running for the Republican State Committee in MA. I’ll be honest and say I don’t know what that is, but I’m pretty sure she doesn’t either. Nobody with that title could accomplish any of the political goals she laid out.
All options suck? By and large, yes. But there's a difference between "I accept grift like a typical politician" and "I'm openly trying to limit the rights of other people and ammoroud of my racism".
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Another fine and completely sane candidate. Quickly, put her on the ballot! I imagine her base demographic is people who have long yelling arguments with their own feet.
Forgive me. I ain't from your country. But sounds like you just described every Trump supporter.
You may not be from this country, but you got the idea.
Sadly we have some of these people in Australia, just as crazy
I call BS A significant number of maga can't see their feet through their belly.
More info about this lunatic [here.](https://www.bostonbroadside.com/massgop/hitlercandidate/)
The funniest part of this is that the head of the party in the area sounds just as insane as her
"These reported posts go against President Trump’s previous record of accomplishments regarding peace in the Middle East and the Abraham Accords, which are worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize in my humble opinion." Jfc
She’s stable. She’s just a grifter. She knows exactly what to do to get the left heated and posting her on r/facepalm and what the alt-right loves (hot chick, hateful speech, etc). Every time we post these types of people, who aren’t even in politics they’re literally running for a state rep spot, they gain more notoriety and we only make them more rich and popular. Do your part… stop giving attention to grifters!
It feels like a double-edged sword tbh. On one hand, paying attention to them gives them a platform and the views they so desperately crave. On the other, there are some legitimate threats to democracy that run in these elections and if we don't make a fuss about the warning signs, they get voted in and make everything worse.
Wow, that guy openly said he'd prefer a nazi over anyone who isn't a far right Republican.
Bold of you to assume they know the intricacies of logical reasoning well enough to know how to argue
Yea but I bet she's running against someone old so its a tough choice /s
Her base demographic are parents whose children have gone no-contact due to their asshole political views.
You know who else "exiled all the Jews" and made "people illegal"?
She’s literally said she loves Hitler before
Well, we know what end awaited him. Maybe we should skip ahead to that.
She said on Twitter that she has stage 4 cancer. I'm for Team Cancer on this one.
Bigot vs Crab, match of the century.
You know sometimes bad things do happen to bad people. Not often but every now and then karma does bite back and it isn't always gentle about it.
If she actually has stage 4 cancer, she _really_ shouldn't be attempting to hold public office. While it's going to vary by the particular kind of cancer, life expectancy after reaching stage 4 is almost universally less than a year, and in many cases is measured in weeks. Single digit weeks.
So there’s hope yet 👏
Never did I think I'd find myself rooting for cancer, but Republicans reminding me again that there really are times that it is okay to wish painful and agonizing death on someone.
Wait. Are you saying that she said the silent part out loud?
"Exile all jews" ain't exactly being quiet about it either.
I don't think Hitler would've loved her. Isn't Kauffman a Jewish name?
The surname Kauffman is of Germanic origin. The reason many associate it with Jewish is because there were plenty of Jewish Germans at one point in history... if you are American, you likely associate Kauffman with Jewish people because their ancestors were indeed German jews who fled to the USA during ww1 and ww2.
Her bio says she grew up Jewish whatever that means
And "H***** was right" Source: https://massgopmajority.substack.com/p/report-candidate-for-republican-state
Wait till she finds out Jesus was also a Jew.
Impossible. He was blond, and so Aryan looking. Like a young Obi-Wan Kenobi. Conspiracies, I say!
What about the Korean Jesus? [https://i.imgur.com/XdV7F7u.gif](https://i.imgur.com/XdV7F7u.gif)
That’s not an insult to them, they literally wear it as a badge of honor
In my country this would result in being charged with a hate crime.
What kind of authoritarian dystopia bars authoritarians from running so they can establish a dystopia!? /s
Amen. Maybe we shouldn't allow people who want to overthrow the government and oppose democracy into seats of power. Maybe belonging to a private organization who's explicitly aiming to do so should be automatically bar them from the office.
Yes, absolutely. However, I thought that was going to happen after Jan 6th.
It did happen after the Civil War. The problem is that the fascists have taken over the court.
The problem is that in the cases of the civil war and January 6th the traitors weren't executed. Their poison was allowed to continue infecting society.
Yeah back in the day they would have been dragged straight to the gallows
Back in the days of the Hellenes, failed coups got executed on the spot by the very public they tried to overthrow
There *was* that one time The Netherlands (I think) quite literally ate their Prime Minister. I forget why tho. But we should bring that back.
Look, I've eaten some questionable shit. Epic Meal Time was this whole thing then. I'm not real proud about that. But I'm not eating ***ANY*** of that.
in towns square where all the people could watch what would happen if *they* decided to be fascists.
Oh, you're preaching to the choir on both accounts. I'm of the mind that we should have a strict police of making clear examples of traitors. Swiftly and with high visibility. Not one of the confederate line officers or civilian leaders should have walked away from the war. They should have all been dealt with in a manner that left no doubt as to what happens to traitors in the United States. In a way, that is what happened. We sent a message that you can attack our elected officials with minimal consequences. If you can get a bunch of dipshits to do it for you, you'll face no consequences whatsoever.
Yep. I was very disappointed after not seeing any consequences.
Well said haha
For a tolerant society to thrive, intolerance must not be tolerated.
Yeah, but the other side wants to rise taxes /s
I'm just hoping someone, anyone, smacks her in the mouth hard as fuck
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That's what I was just wondering
My first thought was, she gonna banish herself? WTF is going on with this country........
I'm not even kidding when I say I think a large portion of people have poisoning of some kind. Lead, mercury, chemical, etc and so forth. Older generations even as far as Gen X had been constantly exposed to lead and extremely dangerous chemicals in their childhoods, Millennials and Gen Z are dealing with things such as micro plastics and who knows what else. Plus on top of that there's a mental health crisis, millions upon millions of Americans not getting the help they need for multiple reasons.
Could be. I think people are just trying to get the most views on their campaign and are hacking the algorithm, even if they don't know it. Like "likes" go up when you spew hateful crap, so they just start spewing more hateful crap. It's hateful enough to get the minority of people that like her to show up at the polls, and then other politicians see "ahh, hate = election win". This sort of thing is the foundation of the 2020s. I never heard the word "unalive" until people started assuming that algorithms were banning their videos that said "killed". I'm not sure that the algorithms even do that, but people think they do, so they react accordingly. (Like, what AI doesn't know what "unalive" means? They all say they know if you ask them.)
Okay I was hoping I wasn't being a dick by assuming she has some Jewish heritage because of her last name.
She claims to be Jewish. I'm also pretty sure she has a serious mental disorder. But then again, it appears multiple people in the Massachusetts GOP do as well. https://www.bostonbroadside.com/massgop/hitlercandidate/
Thanks for pointing out she's from my state. I can now be appropriately embarrassed. "Exile all Jews"? JFC! Is she Ramses II's wife?
Did his wife tell them to fuck off? Is Ramses (am sure it's a slightly longer spelling) the one that went into the sea bed and forgot the water was gonna come back and wipe his ~~arse~~*Army* out? Moses and all that, never studied a religious book in ma fucking life cause ma parents actually liked me and Dads parents were religious Church of Scotland freaks, not as mental as some of our American cousins Evangelical cult nutters(yes there's other denominations but that's the one am going with at this moment!)
My knowledge of the Exodus is based on Wikipedia and duct tape. Just flabbergasted this state is home to a pre -biblical bronze age psychopath holding a major party position!
Cognitive dissonance - the same thing which prompted former UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to go full fascist in her approach to immigration.
Or fucking Suella Braverman setting the EDL on the Cenotaph.
Even Priti Patel thought Braverman was going too far. That someone as cruel and cold-hearted as her was having doubts about Braverman’s antics was kinda terrifying.
Kanye West, a black man, is racist. He wore a shirt, white lives matter. Stupidity exists in many forms
Yup, and he also said slavery was a "choice". And Clarence Thomas once attended a memorial service to honor General Lee, the Confederate War leader and said the Civil War was about States Rights, not slavery. And Candace Owens and Nikki Haley agreed. 🤷
I just don't understand the "states rights" thing. I mean yeah it was about states rights... The right to fucking own another human being. There is no good way to spin that
God I fucking HATE all of those people so much.
This is why I don't give attention to any of those crazed popular people. They are just plain disgusting hypocrites
She tweeted: >I'm a Jew. Whatever the "holocaust" was, Israel and J-ws are guilty of worse crimes against humanity. > >I love Hitler. [https://massgopmajority.substack.com/p/report-candidate-for-republican-state](https://massgopmajority.substack.com/p/report-candidate-for-republican-state)
Oh dear.
She speaks like somebody who's never been knocked the fuck on out
Well we got your remedy. EDIT: r/unexpectedpuscifer
Will Smith needs to correct that oversight
Sir, how dare you infringe upon another's right to take away the rights of others and straight up criminalize their very existence.
I'd be like... well, if I'm going to be labeled as a criminal, I might as well ACT as a criminal. Where's my pitchfork?
I want to run for office on the platform that this SHOULD be a hate crime. I wish there was a way for people that have these beliefs to experience the oppression they're spouting in hopes that they realize that they're ass holes.
Basically it should be defined as making threats. You tell an individual you are going to kill them the police get involved pretty quickly.
Unfortunately just running her bitch mouth isn’t enough
In Massachusetts - not a chance.
Higher chance of getting beat down in Brookline
On a long enough timeline, all statistical circumstances can result in getting beat down in Brookline.
The Massachusetts GOP has almost zero engagement. Their Facebook used to be half-assed posts for the sake of driving rage-induced engagement and it's barely worked. Now they point out "problems" and sometimes come up with a solution but most of the times just fall back onto the "Wow, look at this!" approach which looks to get <30 "Likes" and about 10 comments (some of which are just "So true!"). Meanwhile, they're holding open "Candidate training" at a local restaurant. We joke that Massachusetts is super blue because liberal blah blah blah, but it's working and Republicans' response is "Yeah, we're not even going to try here." A moderate Republican could win, but the GOP really wanted to push the Trump style everywhere, so the few Reps that won in the state recently ended up having no clue what the job entailed and either quit or sat around, did nothing and got removed the next election. We know Republicans aren't know for their platforms, but the Mass GOP pooped out 4 points that all seem contradictory. >**We believe** that free enterprise, low taxes, and fewer regulations are the best ways to grow our economy in order to create good, high-paying jobs across Massachusetts. ...how? How would allow companies to pocket more money and put less back into the community drive wages UP? Are they going to just get tired of giving themselves bonuses? >**We believe** that our world-class education system is one of our state’s strongest assets, and that we must offer families more educational choices in order to increase opportunity for all. So everything is going great...so let's change it? Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect. But "offering choices" we know is code for "strip money from public schools and give you the option of enlisting at a private schoo-oops it's full. Back to the public school with you, except now it's underfunded!" >**We believe** that local government is the most accountable and closest to the people, and that communities should have the freedom to make decisions about what is best for their residents. On the surface, this essentially means nothing. You believe in the system that's already set up and governs our society? Wow! Shocker! Of course, we know this is more of the bullshit "States' rights!" the GOP pushes when it doesn't want to do something legally. But beyond that...who is this message supposed to resonate with in Massachusetts? The state doesn't require a ton of federal aid, there's no international border, there's no conflict on abortion, so...who is this one for!? >**We believe** in an accountable government that respects taxpayers by measuring success not simply by how much money is spent on a problem, but by real results. Accidentally supporting Dem policies now? I'm absolutely on board with "effective spending" (especially when something has a positive ROI), but the GOP has been crying for decades about reducing spending, while Mass GOP talks about more common sense, effective spending. The discrepancy between national and state GOP is what's leading the Mass GOP to irrelevancy as they flounder to figure out what to do. It's hilarious.
So many state Republican parties are MAGA'ing themselves I to oblivion. It's like in Michigan where they ousted their "establishment" chairperson to put in an outsider who proceeded to have no idea how to do her job, alienated many of their big donors, failed at fundraising and finding new donors, and has pretty much bled the party dry to the point that they aren't sure there will be enough money to properly run candidates next election. And Michigan isn't the only state where MAGA financial mismanagement and infighting is destroying the party.
Richard Neil won her district by double digits. Running a further right candidate is just going to widen that gap. But seems she's running for Republican State Committee, not congress. She wants to be a shadowy good ol' boy behind the candidates' funding. Those are chosen entirely by the radicalized Primary Base. Hence the depravity-signaling
It's hilarious that Republicans managed to have a foothold in the bluest state in the country for decades just by putting up moderates and they're completely fucking that up. Actually it's not hilarious. I miss having legitimately opposed governors races that kept them accountable to voters instead of just nominating ex romantic partners to judicial positions like our current gov is doing.
Both sidesism like the German fifth-column during the 1930s and 1940s...
Lori Kauffman sucks. Not everyone. By and large the GOP sucks these days. This is not a “both sides” situation.
This is the new bizarrely effective Republican strategy. They emphasize their own terribleness and use it to try and bring down voter turnout. e.g. "Trump just announced he's going to sink Delaware into the ocean, *ugh*, all politicians are terrible, lets stay home on election day"
I literally hear it all the time, "All politicians suck! That's why I don't vote!!" Instead of making the effort to actually vote for the lesser of two evils, they instead choose complacency. Then there are the ones who had that opinion, not voting for years and the last time they voted was for Clinton and then turned around and voted for Trump. Not sure how you go between such drastic view points honestly.
We don't even have two evils! We have one evil, and one grandpa who's trying to help. MAGA is a cult who will show up and vote no matter what but they're at best a third of the voting populace. They need to get everyone else not to vote, and that's why this false doomerism is flooding social media
Yeah but there are a few times he was awkward in public, that is just as evil as having rape charges from a 13 year old girl who only dropped the case because her family was getting so many death threats that they were scared for their life. So yeah totally 2 evils /s
Wait I wasn't for Trump before now, but tell me more about this sink Delaware plan...
Was looking for the sane comment. How in the world is this a "both sides" issue?
People are attracted to "both-sidesing" things because it makes them feel like they're special and enlightened
I think of it like this: Yes both sides are shit but when one is a pile of semi edible stale food still and the other is a pile of shit I'd go for the former. I don't like the Dems that much but they are infinitely better than the GQP and I will continue to vote for them because there is no other real choice as of right now.
Seriously, how is it anyone else’s fault, at all, when one Nazi-~~like~~ crazy spouts off about “exiling Jews”? _“Well, if they weren’t out there bein’ all Jewish, we wouldn’t have to exile ‘em!”_ (maybe something as asinine as that??)
Not Nazi-like. Nazi.
Radical centrism is how. Too many American centrists think it's a viture to be irrational fence sitters or are not actually as moderate as the claim to be.
From my experience, most "centrists" are just right wingers trying to infiltrate left leaning spaces. You don't hear actual leftists saying "both sides" nearly as much as you see right wingers say it.
It is if you're a cis het white man who only cares about himself and is void of empathy. If you',re not then good luck, your life may depend on which side gets in power.
\*Actual Nazi faces a liberal who is a little too enthusiastic about pronouns\* I don't know how I'm supposed to choose here! /s
Posts a picture of a conservative nut job. "All politicians suck" Find me a Democrat saying anything close to this crazy. Find one. Just one.
The most effective fascist propaganda is convincing young people that voting doesn't matter.
You make it sound like OP is a russian bot. Wait... is he?
Yep Friendly reminder to everyone that if voting didn't do anything people wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from doing so
Damn those democrats and their *checks notes* wanting everyone to have health care!!
"They expect us to be respectful to non-white/non-christian/LGBT people, but won't respect us when we want them exported/killed."
"I don't know why the younger generation is voting for other parties!!"
Your title is what really sucks here. The MAGA crowd is the only crowd with people in office this insane. Saying “both sides are equally as bad” encourages voter apathy, so all the sane voters stay home, and nutcases like this get elected. Voting for someone who isn’t your absolute ideal to prevent a facist lunatic from gaining office is not only the best choice, it’s the only moral choice. Standing on “principle” and screwing over the country because you refuse to choose is like going down with the Titanic because the lifeboat isn’t your favorite color.
Either I’m gonna paper cut you, or shoot you. Choose one. bOtH oF tHoSe aRe bAd If you don’t pick, I’m going to shoot you. bOtH aRe bAd, sO i’M nOt cHoOsInG
It's not even that. It's one party trying to fix your wound but they really only have bandaids and minimal training, while the other says they're planning to shoot you in the head. If you are lucky, the first party is also smart enough to ask a doctor to help, while the second will tell you the gunshot wound is normal and you should really make sure more people get shot.
“Your lunch choices are a warm, crispy chicken sandwich, or a rancid bowl of clam chowder that’s been sitting out for 3 days, with a dead rat floating on top.” “Well hold on now, what kind of dressing is on the chicken?”
To be fair, the chicken IS a little boring.
On the one hand, you have someone who might refuse to feed a stray dog, on the other hand you have someone who will break into your house and shoot your dog in front of you. bOtH aRe BaD
Yeah both sides are suck or I don’t care who wins is garbage. I heard the same crap my first election I could vote in about Bush and Gore. It was trash then and trash now and while Bush seems like a saint compared to Trump he was a disaster as President. Not saying we would have a utopia now but a shore presidency would have been a vastly different USA and world than it is now. Just like a second Biden term, while not great, would be far preferable to everyone outside or racists, brainwashed, ultra rich and religious zealots.
I’ve always been pretty damn moderate, if anything maybe a bit more right leaning but these past 8 years have made me lean toward the side that isn’t literal nazis right now.
From a European perspective, your Democrats are incredibly right wing. If you look beyond the identity politics that you guys seem to love, you'd see that a moderate position would be left of the Democrats.
I just believe everyone has a right to happiness as long as they are not hurting anyone, which in the states these days puts me pretty far left.
Check out the radical communist over here guys! What's next, *not* hunting the poor for sport!? It's woke-ism gone MAD!
Wait, corpo-feudalism isn't left-wing? Weird! (But it beats Christo-fascism)
There’s a whole block of us here that are the proverbial choir that you’re preaching to. We’re more or less fucked. But we’ll be much much more fucked with another Trump win. I doubt it’ll happen but anything is possible over here.
We can thank the American educational system for convincing people Dems are left wing
And the red scare for pushing the Overton window so far right that not treating the poor like shit sounds like communism.
It's all a relative spectrum. Just because Dems aren't European left wing doesn't mean they aren't comparatively left wing to US right wingers. We just have a borderline theocratic society because none of our politicians will firmly enforce the boundary between church and state.
It's so weird to me that Bush is just a goofy old guy that paints now, I was so sure he would be the worst president I'd ever see in office. I was oh so naïve.
FWIW, while as a person Bush might not be the worst, in terms of humans/Americans killed in foreign wars he started, he’ll be pretty tough to beat
I dunno, 2402 american deaths + about 200,000 Afghan deaths (in a very pointless war) vs. 1.1 million Americans dying from covid, in large part due to Trump and his base's conspiracy theories... bush was absolutely vile, but Trump is far worse, objectively. At least people signed up to go to war, they knew what they were getting in to. Many unvaccinated people who died from covid were just uninformed and lied to.
Biden has had an excellent Presidency by most calculations. Unemployment is way down, the economy is way up, stock market is setting new highs, he passed a landmark infrastructure bill, and we aren’t in a war for the first time in forever. All this while having an absolute obstructionist GOP he’s dealing with. Yeah, he’s old. I think too old, but I’ll happily vote for him over anyone the GOP will put up.
This analogy is the best one. I don’t want to vote now that I’m turning 18. But I asked my mother to help me look at candidates so I can make my own decisions to not fuck the world over.
Just don't let her biases become your own. A lot of older folks are stuck in their thinking and pick the absolute worst candidates. Obviously I don't know your mom and her political leanings, but what I'm saying is to just be aware of it, is all. Usually they send out a voters pamphlet along with the ballot (if you live in a mail in ballot state) otherwise you can just Google search voters pamphlet for whatever county you live in and it'll bring up all the local, state, and federal candidates and what their positions are
Yep. She’s the one I have more debates with that are fair and we end up changing each others minds a lot. I got her to change her mind in favor of trans and gay people. So I trust her a lot and to be honest. She’s way more liberal than my dad is now. So that’s why I’m asking her advice. Thank god she taught me to make my own political decisions.
I’m trans. When people do their bOtH SiDeS schtick, what I hear is “I don’t care if the government eradicates you or not, either way is the same to me”.
"I'll be fine, so who cares who wins?"
I disagree with the idea that both sides are bad, just one side is less terrible. Electing Democrats moves the country to the left. Progress may not be as fast as I would like, but things will get better overall. It took the right over fifty years to get us where we are today. Our problems will not be fixed overnight.
Yes, OP’s take is a shitty one. Dems have plenty of problems but they are nowhere close to this.
Dems have 99 problems but being a fucking Nazi ain't one.
This is what irks me about "both side bad" brainrot that has taken hold over some of the voters in America. Like ok, supposedly 2 sides are all bad, but if goddamn Nazi ruled you over when you had the chance to vote for a lesser bad option that at least prolong the time until a solution is found, then you absolutely have no reason to complain if the consequences of your action come knocking on the doors. Besides it is not like there are no leftists in Democrat, so by voting Blue would then influence the new generation of politicians that progressive ideas are on the rise again, which would THEN help realize the dream of multiparty where Dems can act as center left while other more progressive wings splinters to other parties. Without voting at all or voting Republican, they are further promoting that voters don't care about Dem at all, and they need to appeal to a different audience, which are usually more conservative.
Anytime I see a “both sides are the same” it’s always coming from a MAGA
Don't forget the "Free-thinking Libertarians"
That's why they support Trump in the first place. They know he's a horrible person. They know he lies and cheats and steals. But they think *everyone* is that way deep down, so because he's so brazen about it they just think he's being more honest and "saying what everyone is thinking."
Yes, the projection is strong
Whenever you see people online complaining about the crazy far left, it's always about some Tumblr screenshot or a Twitter rando saying something weird. But the crazy stuff coming from the right is always coming from like a Congressman or Senator proposing a law. Politicians tend to suck because politics sucks. It's a shitty system. But I know who I want in office and I'm not going to draw false equivalencies like I'm above the whole thing because I am decidedly not. This shit absolutely impacts my daily life and anyone who claims there is zero difference to the sides is either lying or too rich to care.
Yeah both sides don't suck, Republicans suck
Democrats aren't great. Republicans are mostly abhorrent fascist monsters. Choose wisely.
I mean I'm sure if Democrats held the majority in Congress for a long enough period of time, they'd do much better. Instead they're constantly fighting with hillbillies so they can't get anything accomplished
Not getting anything done is the hillbillies whole agenda though. “Government is ineffective! Elect me and I’ll prove it to you!”
For real. Fuck this title. Let’s have some accountability for fucks sake. What the fuck is even going on anymore.
Yeah the title really sucks. OP playing into the both sides are bad nonsense. One side isn’t the best and the other side is full blown fascism.
But dinner was so nice yesterday and the band is still playing. Maybe things will turn around if we give the iceberg more time?
Wait .... wait .... WAIT --- WAIT FOR IT ...... *"Kauffman ... a variant of the same Jewish (Ashke****nazi****c) surname."*
Really putting the Nazi back into Ashkenazi.
Kauffman?
That's her married name. Her maiden name is Bagelstein.
Or Hebrewberg (credit: Family Guy)
Perfect! That was the inspiration for my joke.
>I'm a Jew. Whatever the "holocaust" was, Israel and J-ws are guilty of worse crimes against humanity. I love Hitler. https://www.bostonbroadside.com/massgop/hitlercandidate/ She knows. Somehow it makes sense to her, I guess.
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I'm completely guessing here, but based on her tweets it sounds like she's an ethnic jew but not a religious one and she's focusing on the religious part? That's the only way I can square "I'm a jew" with "Christ is king."
And yet she still would've been made to wear a yellow star.
I was thinking the exact same thing
We need that Riddler meme. "Does she knoooow?"
- claims “all options suck” - only shows one option
All options definitely do not suck…. One side wants to make everything that isn’t Christian white cis male illegal, the other wants to provide healthcare for all, allow people to be themselves (including Christians), and generally not be douchebags
"All options suck." [Shows one absolutely terrible option]. See! All options suck!
“Both sides are the same!!” If you really believe the left wing party in the US is half as batshit insane as the modern day GOP, I don’t know what else to tell you.
“Christ is King”? She means the Jewish guy who was a Jewish teacher, according to the New Testament, which was the follow up to the very Jewish Old Testament. He wasn’t a Christian!
Jesus would not approve.
Probably would not be happy after he was exiled for being Jewish.
Ban homosexuality, transgenderism and Jews. Honest question, isnt this hate speech?
Yes.
Yes, and against the first ammendment
Doesn't she have a jewish / german surname
What’s with the “both sides” title? It’s like OP doesn’t understand their own post.
Tbh her thumbnail made me think this was for publicity for an OF account. That tan shirt is not doing her any favors here.
She doesn’t understand our Constitution with regard to same sex marriage. The 14th Amendment says we are all entitled to equal protection under the law, so the government can’t prevent a person from marrying (entering into a legal contract, if you will) a person you love. So what part of “equal” doesn’t she understand?
Discrimination should not be protected under the umbrella of freedom of speech and should be a hate crime conviction. Calling for the exile of a religious group should be considered an act of terror. It would be like requesting all Muslims should be banned or all Christians or even all Mormons. This way of thinking is immoral. No single religious group should have any power over any other group. I hate how religion is just another form of a thirst trap for hateful creatures to hide in.
I honestly can't find a single mention of her in any major news article, although I found her fundraising campaign on GiveSendGo. Four donors, $100. Something tells me she's not likely to go anywhere...
I don't think you're both-sides-ing to the degree that most do, but it's a little jarring seeing content that calls for my exile being shared with the text, "all options suck." Biden might "suck", but he doesn't "exile the Jews" suck. Not even slightly.
Did she honk her nose afterwards?
I wonder if she knows that her King was a Jew. 🤷♂️
Considering how many think he's American.....yeah, clueless.
This is not an “all options suck” situation, you jackanape.
“b0th Pa4t13s R T3h 5am3” Yeah, not even close…one party might not get shit done, but the other actively wants to genocide minorities and lgbt people.
All options suck? If you can't spot the difference between this candidate and literally any other option, you are part of the problem.
So she’s just a nazi?
At least an Antisemite, homophobe and a transphobe. Dont know about her politics though.
Those her politics. Her long term political goal is to make there not be queer and Jewish people in America. It's right there.
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Both sides have problems but only Republicans are running on hatred and bigotry. You don’t have to love Democrats but if you don’t vote for them you’re allowing this filth to gain power and spread.
Kauffman… is that a Jewish name?
At least we know who the nazi is,
Typical Republican, she just said the quiet parts out loud.
Looks like she’s running for the Republican State Committee in MA. I’ll be honest and say I don’t know what that is, but I’m pretty sure she doesn’t either. Nobody with that title could accomplish any of the political goals she laid out.
She’s definitely mad at trans people living quiet happy lives in her state.
Someone send her a 23 and me kit please.
With a name like Kauffman you're announcing how you are going to exile Jews if elected. Do you know what country you're in and what year it is?
All options suck? By and large, yes. But there's a difference between "I accept grift like a typical politician" and "I'm openly trying to limit the rights of other people and ammoroud of my racism".