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Every Republican looks like they pay for sex because no one would touch them otherwise

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James Franco in a top hat: “Boo hoo, are the people still deciding?”

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Let’s see if the Americans actually have teeth to bare. My guess is no.

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5 points

Satisfied keyboard warriors everywhere agree.

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attendees voted Republican? a little cognitive dissonant if so

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Fuck around… find out 🤷

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The district as a whole voted republican, but the attendees are just whoever showed up to the town hall to air grievances, which sounds like it was not republicans.

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At least not only Republicans. Republicans may have very well been annoyed at their party, but “tax the rich” is a very Democrat chant.

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It’s a very working class ideology.

Last August, I was at a bar, and got into a convo about general politics. I avoided using leftist words, but just started talking about their paychecks, and how their boss always tries to screw them, which led to their boss having undue influence and money in politics…

Withing an hour and a half or so, everyone one in the bar was talking about the same thing: the ruling class screwing the workers.

Only two people were quite unhappy… one I know was a Reich Winger, because I helped compile a dossier on him for local activists.

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This chant brought to you by the people who voted explicitly to tax the poor in order to give money to the rich. Just two brain cells in the entire goddamn party.

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How do people not realize that they are the poor people that rich people hate

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Don’t you know? If it wasn’t for all those damn liberals giving away all the money to those illegal-ish immigrants I would be a millionaire too! I have worked hard so obviously it is their fault I am not wealthy yet! /s

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They see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

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At this stage, we could the rich/poor on the $1M/yr income line and it would still be good.

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How do you know it was republicans chanting?

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Fair point, but I suppose that’s the majority of the population in Columbus Nebraska

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Nebraska is actually more blue than you might think. Also, it’s pretty assured that Democrats are showing up to town halls and making their voices heard. They’re EVERYONE’S rep no matter their party affiliation.

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I do tend to be suspicious about that these days …… I live in a very blue area but over the last get years we’ve had town halls disrupted by chants to stop protecting our kids from diseases. From people out of our town, including out of state

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