C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
'If you watched last week’s vice presidential debate between the GOP’s Sen. JD Vance and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and tuned out the candidates’ attempts at “Midwestern Nice” and the side trips to Hong Kong and all the other distractions, you could actually hear and begin to understand what today’s conservative movement is all about.
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And yet over the course of 90-plus minutes, the Ohio senator also revealed that so much of the information that Republicans demand the right to freely share — that legal Haitian Americans in Springfield, Ohio, are “illegal,” that Donald Trump was the savior of Obamacare, that burning more fossil fuels will fight climate change, and finally that there’s no answer to whether Trump lost the 2020 election — is complete and utter baloney.
This is the essence of the 2024 Republican Party. After spending the last few years waging fierce culture wars against so many fundamental freedoms that matter to Americans — from the rights of women to control their bodies to book banning to crackdowns on free speech and voting rights — the far-right is advocating for the only freedom that seems to matter to them.'
The right to lie.
And no one denies Republicans’ right to lie – to be dishonest, corrupt, and enemies of facts and the truth, just like their corrupt, dishonest presidential nominee.
[…]
And yet over the course of 90-plus minutes, the Ohio senator also revealed that so much of the information that Republicans demand the right to freely share — that legal Haitian Americans in Springfield, Ohio, are “illegal,” that Donald Trump was the savior of Obamacare, that burning more fossil fuels will fight climate change, and finally that there’s no answer to whether Trump lost the 2020 election — is complete and utter baloney.
This is the essence of the 2024 Republican Party. After spending the last few years waging fierce culture wars against so many fundamental freedoms that matter to Americans — from the rights of women to control their bodies to book banning to crackdowns on free speech and voting rights — the far-right is advocating for the only freedom that seems to matter to them.'
The right to lie.
And no one denies Republicans’ right to lie – to be dishonest, corrupt, and enemies of facts and the truth, just like their corrupt, dishonest presidential nominee.