• celeste@kbin.earth
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    2 days ago

    “I have been trying tell all you ‘men’ that our kitchen pantry is empty with spider webs, our house has been ransacked, the windows and doors are broken and busted, and the greedy rich bastards have twisted your minds into a sick state that you all continue in the two party toxic political system that acts like college football playoffs yet is burying you and your children and their children and their children in a pine box in a shallow grave,” Greene continued.

    Hmm. There’s a degree to which it feels like she’s shoving canned goods from the pantry out of sight into her purse while she’s saying this, but I do agree with her basic point here. Especially the way parties are treated like football teams.

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 hours ago

      Probably would have worked better if she hadn’t abandoned the metaphor and swapped to another one.

      She went with whatever she felt would be most impactful for the message portion, rather than the whole thing.

      It seems disingenuous because it is. It’s not a coherent thought. At best it’s a bunch of unrelated thoughts crammed together. Probably based on what she thinks will hit. As sound bites.

      So don’t feel bad not trusting it; it’s not even internally consistent. Even if you agree with part of it, a stopped clock is right at least once.

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      “Two party toxic political system”

      Maybe she really is going to run with Musk’s party

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        Well someone convinced Trump to divide the Republicans into groups apparently, so they’ll probably split into Repugnant, Repulsive, and the Democrats will find a way to split into Corporate centrists and progressives, why… Because they can’t possibly take advantage of a divide and try to win back both houses

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      I seriously wish a whole lot more conservatives and “moderates” and “independents” would pay more attention to sportsball instead of voting for Republicans for culture war reasons. They definitely treat culture war/wedge issues like sportsball…

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        You just gave me an idea.

        Implement voting in sports, but only for big things. Who should be LocalTeam’s coach? Who should be HomeTeam during BigGame? How much should your team splurge on the latest star player?

        They would be too busy with all of that to worry about politics.

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        They’re pissed about sportsball because sportsballers started protesting while still respecting the flag by kneeling and now they refuse to watch sportsball.

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      I mostly remember her screaming at a man who survived a school shooting that he was a crisis actor.

      And screaming “you lie” at Joe Biden at his SOTU for no obvious reason.

      Maybe people would listen to her if she didn’t act like an unhinged lunatic grifter.