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[–] logflume@hexbear.net 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

wait until u hear about how the pope is elected

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

could God rig an election so hard that He himself could not win it?

[–] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

You have been awarded 5 Hexbear gold

[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

![maybe-later-kiddo](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/f778a7ca-0453-4eae-85d0-75814bb712f1.png "emoji maybe-later-kiddo") it's impossible to rig an election!!!! Unless you're trump somehow. That's the one exception

[–] LeZero@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

God isn't ruzzian, he is white

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait until you hear how the Democrats feel they could pick a candidate.

The very cool partLater in the hearing, attorneys representing the DNC claim that the Democratic National Committee would be well within their rights to “go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.” By pushing the argument throughout the proceedings of this class action lawsuit, the Democratic National Committee is telling voters in a court of law that they see no enforceable obligation in having to run a fair and impartial primary election.

![yea](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c8895c43-ab88-444a-a6d2-ece247ef60ff.png "emoji yea")

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YOU ARE DESCRIBING THE CONSTITUTION AS IT WAS INTENTIONALLY SET UP AND CURRENTLY EXISTS

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

which to be fair does suck

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Well, yeah, of course. It's just kinda both exhausting and enraging that people act like it was ever good - that it's been "subverted" somehow and what's happening now is some grand deviation from the norm.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I love that they still go by that username despite the fact that Mueller turned out to be a spineless craven piece of shit. It's like an ongoing analogy for how useless liberals are.

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

His report basically completely deflated the Russiagate narrative for several years until Ukraine started heating up. Such a self own to reference the very document that disproves your entire worldview

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah isnt he buds with that one fash general?

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Milley? Miley Cyrus? Mad Dog Mattis? I lose track of the rotating rogues gallery.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Our big beautiful generals folks. Straight from central casting. ![a-little-trolling](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/add5ddaa-1d34-4345-9aa1-8bbf0e30e56f.png "emoji a-little-trolling")

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His testimony in Congress before the Iraq war basically said he thinks Iraq has WMD material.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well of course he did, he’s US military high command they’re all one team

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a private room with no camera, no press, and no devices

How did Nancy Pelosi get libs to do all the stuff what she wanted? I don't remember that being live streamed. Was it? And I don't remember being asked if I was for Nancy Pelosi or for her shitty bills. I would have voted "nay" on all that shit.

[–] RustyVenture@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

![maybe-later-kiddo](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/f778a7ca-0453-4eae-85d0-75814bb712f1.png "emoji maybe-later-kiddo") No you see, when Democrats are ![vote](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/5c4b9546-ffb5-4984-a0d1-b491a3a63629.png "emoji vote")d for, they swear to uphold the party’s progressive platform unquestioningly (and frankly, we wouldn’t ever ![vote](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/5c4b9546-ffb5-4984-a0d1-b491a3a63629.png "emoji vote") for a politician that wouldn’t). We can trust they did and do the things we ![vote](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/5c4b9546-ffb5-4984-a0d1-b491a3a63629.png "emoji vote")d for them to do, thus obviating any need to participate further until it’s time to ![vote](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/5c4b9546-ffb5-4984-a0d1-b491a3a63629.png "emoji vote") again.

That’s the difference when the good guys are in charge ![liberalism](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/301c12fe-4eda-4a2b-ac71-c39c57d39c2d.png "emoji liberalism")

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

Fucking liberals are amazing.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

Nothing like picking arguably the most democratic thing the GOP is currently doing (slim pickings, I know) to get angry about.

Yeah, that's how legislatures work. The majority votes for one of their own by whatever ridiculous internal politics they have, and then that person is Speaker/Majority Leader/Chairman/etc.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

why do people care so fucking much which elephant gets to wear the Big Boy Hat. the speaker is literally just a mouthpiece for the controlling party, anything they do is what you'd get from any member of their party (assuming party discipline, dems could elect a rogue speaker and be too weak to recall them)

what procedure could possibly be needed for such a selection except the perfunctory floor vote when their ducks are in a row?

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

No, you see, it's ok if the fascism is over there or benefits me!

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

ChatGPT what is a "Smoke filled room?"

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that's not fascist that's just just internal politics

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

To libs everything is fascist except SS members

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Conclusive evidence that the pope is fascist.

BTFO papists.

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

So close but their bubble is an iron dome

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Mueller She Wrote

lmao Chapo Trap House praised this piece of shit

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

all I remember is them ironically saying "I wish we had shamelessly grifted the PPP program", did I miss something

[–] regul@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is correct

it was mostly dunking with a side of respect the grift

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

Game recognize game

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Chapo always mocked Russiagate freaks from day one. Lots of people on their sub and lots of fans moaned about it constantly, about how they were Putler lovers

[–] Walk_On@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lol No, they don’t like that show. Chapo may have praised them in the past, but they definitely don’t like them anymore. Not only did the show make fun of them for getting a PPP loan, but they also made fun of the main host several months ago for being caught changing aspects of her life story. https://youtu.be/lkYV5RgdR7w?si=Ugqyv7BfZZe3kTbQ

[–] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Was it something other than "damn I wish we had taken advantage of ppp loans too"?

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 17 points 1 year ago

Just like in the Vatican. One step closer to the Cristo Fascist state they're working for.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This person is a grifter who got exposed stealing valor recently lmao

[–] President_Obama@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the person who posted the thread got banned, but here's an article about it

This is an archive of the thread

[–] Spike@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

This person must be 12 years old

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Thanks Obama. I hate it.

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

First: It's the Republican party. Fascism is their ideological cocaine, cut to the finest grade.

Second: This is not an example of that particular nose candy. Plenty of examples exist, to be sure, but this is just how political parties work.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I think a lot of parliamentary systems work the same. Dunno if it's particularly fascist way to elect a speaker.