The part that gets me is the radio ads I hear, despite being played in western Washington, are aimed squarely at eastern Washingtonians describing distorted, exaggerated, and imaginary problems in Seattle. And she’s going to solve them by… running for US Senate?
I’d love to see someone at a press conference (not that her ilk ever talk to the media) ask her “Shouldn’t you be running for mayor of Seattle?”
Even worse, she attacks Patty Murray for destroying Seattle. (One coffee shop closed down, clearly there is a Mad Max-style anarchy.) As if Murray was personally responsible for anything happening there, as a US Senator.
It’s batshit insane. It reads like parody. “The milk in my fridge is expired, thanks a lot BIDEN.”
I’m not sure she knows what the US Senate even is, or that’s the impression she gives in her ads.
Why would she do that!? If she won, she’d have pressure to fulfill campaign promises. Or worse: she would solve the problems and she and the rest of the state GOP wouldn’t have the big-city boogeyman to scare the rural racists.
Much more money to be looted in the Senate.
I know you meant conscience but I really like what you typed better. It really does, IMHO, describe anyone who supports Tan the Conman today.
Or, as Christine “i-am-not-a-witch” O’Donnell showed in 2010, in just running for a Senate seat.
Even if it were true, how would it matter to them?
We in California don’t have to worry about the loons in most cases (the Republican candidate for Governor isn’t even running ads), though there is the one Republican who claims his opponent was hand picked by Nancy Pelosi (as if there wasn’t a primary prior to this election) to raise gasoline taxes (which is a state thing) and raise food prices. The weirdest case is the one where Gavin Newsom is campaigning against one proposition, while the official Democratic Party is campaigning for it. There are also two propositions about online gambling, where the Native American tribes are fighting hard against one, but for the other one, and I can’t keep track of which is which. But then one of them is trying to make us outraged that the money would be going to non-California based gambling organization and therefore, for some reason, the New Yorkers and Bostonians on the street seem to think the money is going into their pockets.
And it’s literally the election version of an old con some guy used to promote on TV. It was “Make money by posting tiny classified ads in local papers!”
The idea was, he’d post a whole bunch of stupid little ads to try to make a few bucks in one or two newspapers. When he found one ad that produced an above-average response, he’d then spam that ad to every paper he could find, on the theory that every town would have approximately the same number of idiots who would fall for the ad.
So that’s what these candidates are doing. They spam hundreds of different stupid ideas out to the voters, and when one such idea seems to resonate, they all start spamming that one idea in every local race.
I remember a line from an obscure animated short I saw in an animation festival back in my university days.
“Look at these freaks and weirdos dancing with our women! This Calls For Physical Violence!”
In the cartoon, it was clearly meant in a satirical sense, but it also sums up the mindset quite well.
And a lot of them will make middle-class lives easier. I had an issue with my taxes that got cleared up as soon as my CPA got a live person on the phone. But it took nearly 3 months to get a live person on the phone, in the meantime, I’m getting all kinds of nastygrams from the IRS because of automated flags.
This idiotic hoax again. At least he retracted his claim and apologized. Scott Jensen seems to be doubling down.
Two Republican lawmakers in MN repeated this hoax back in April. I thought it died down, but it keeps popping up.
This furry thing? Uhh, that tops my demon possession chick. Do these people have any idea what a “furry” really is? Or is it me? Has the definition of furry changed … a lot?
It depends on how you groom yourself, possibly.
You may have a point there.
It has something to with with George Miller, right? Mad Max – Furry Road ?
Dammit there’s a parody sketch I want to see now…
…
And they don’t need to know what it is, just that it’s a perverted threat to their children and they need to stop it ‘cause the Libs aren’t
It’s an RW meme that takes a licking and keeps on ticking.