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"What is it with liberals and wanting to control every damn aspect of your life?"
Last time I checked, it was the liberals who wanted to let you smoke weed, have safe and legal abortions, physician assisted suicide, single payer healthcare, and free college tuition...
Somebody else opposed all that... 🤔 Who was it again?
That's what pisses me off about the democrats. They have the political slogans right in fucking plain view. The Republicans have basically written them for them......nothing.
Massive billboards everywhere should have this plastered: We want you to be able to smoke and grow weed, have women make their own choices, paid college tuition, single payer healthcare, medicine affordable for seniors, and WE WONT COMMIT TREASON AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION!
It's fucking bonkers.
People already know or are utterly brainwashed. Who do attack ads convince?
Independants/undecided voters and people who don't generally participate in democracy
Something like 60% of people vote in federal elections if we're lucky. Obviously they aren't all going to unanimously vote for only one party - but Republicans are notorious for showing up to vote on anything.
The number of people who are politically disengaged is staggering. What better to motivate those people than to prompt some anger over an issue and hope they care about it enough to stay angry and vote. Also important to note this stuff is never done alone, there's other outreach happening at the same time. It's a numbers game, and those few disengaged folks you got fired up with a stupid ad could make or break you.
That said, I think most attack ads are damaging to political discourse by nature of demanding a concise, pithy message. Never going to get genuine criticism out of that.
Dems have always took the high ground. Which is stupid. It gives the loud minority more reach. Look at space Laser lady.
It doesn't have to be an attack ad. Rebranding what it means to be a Democrat is actually a great idea. Kind of like those "Pass it on" billboards
You need to keep washing the brain or it develops thoughts outside the script.
I’m allowed to wear what I want and control my hormone levels in fucking Massachusetts
The same response can be posted to anything related to modern "conservatism".
Fascists have no shame. If they didn't have double standards they'd have none.
The propagandized are already in a bubble and refuse to accept reality. The fascist leadership can manufacture any alternate reality they want because the sheep will blindly follow.
Fascists make up false accusations about their intended victims not so that you will believe them and be misled, but as an insecure show of power.
By telling lies about you and getting away with it, they convince themselves that they are stronger and more deserving than you. This is basically a way to psych themselves up to commit crimes against humanity.
Last time I checked, it was the liberals who wanted to let you smoke weed, have safe and legal abortions, physician assisted suicide, single payer healthcare, and free college tuition…
No, that's what progressives want. Liberals run on a subset of those sometimes, but then always have enough no votes to block them.
The "fun" part is that the Democratic party and the Republican party are both neoliberal parties. If you really want to melt the brain of conservatives, here's one of my favorite phrases:
I'm not a Democrat, but I vote for them. They're the only good conservative party left in this country!
Who was it again?
The Judean People's Front?
Last I checked it was conservative states that had dry counties and locked-up alcohol sections in grocery stores on Sundays.
Don't let reality get in the way of a good angry mob
I live in the People's Republic of Massachusetts, let me tell you, there is nothing we love more than copious amounts of alcohol
As a fellow resident of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, let me tell you that your statement is wrong. Our love of weed, driving ludicrously above the speed limit, and refusal to use our blinkers all supersede our love of alcohol.
Y'all saying Cruz is an idiot are giving him way too much credit. He's a lying evil sack of shit, and he knows what he's doing is wrong.
Cruz' Razor: "Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice."
Yep. This is scary shit. They realized all they have to do is make their voters mad with constant lies and they'll never check it for themselves.
And he's hitting the most stupid, insecure people with things that makes them feel "manly" like meat and beer and guns. It's always those things
Fled Cruise knows damn well enough of his constituents are the exact kind of fucking moron that would accept his strawman as a real issue and ignore all evidence to the contrary. It's why he still has a seat.
He once complained on Twitter about the Paris Accords, feigning ignorance of the name while asking why we'd be a part of something all the way in Europe. The man has a Harvard (or some other noble) education. He's highly intelligent. He just knows that his constituents are under-educated and incurious about the world. He's a lying sack of shit.
Ah yes only the most important issues of our time being tackled by Republican politicians these days.
Lying to persuade people to vote for them? Yes, that is the most important thing to Republicans.
Everyone looks like a stroke away from voting for my butthole.
Put an [R] next to the campaign and your butthole has a fighting chance
They have a video ad first that doesn't transition to the headlined video clip. The clip is at the bottom, and it sucks. Here's the article.
Ted Cruz rages against non-existent Biden beer limit in viral clip The Texas senator engaged in a beer-swigging on-camera stunt this week in response to a made-up federal policy limiting alcohol consumption.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz railed against the Biden administration earlier this week for imposing a strict limit on Americans' alcohol consumption in a now-viral clip—even though no such policy exists.
The saga began when Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Biden's White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if the president planned to "limit Americans to two beers a week." Jean-Pierre, who appeared baffled by the question, laughed and declined to comment.
The question apparently came from comments made by Dr. George Koob, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, during an interview with the Daily Mail last week, in which Koob said the U.S. might change it's recommended weekly alcohol intake to two drinks per week. Current recommendations advise men to limit themselves to two drinks a day and women to stick to one.
For Cruz and the conservative mediasphere, however, these comments were enough to conjure the right's latest hand-wringing, they're-coming-for-your-freedoms moral panic.
"What is it with liberals that want to control every damn aspect of your life?" Cruz raged in his Newsmax interview. "Now these idiots have come out and said, 'drink two beers a week,' that's their guideline," Cruz continued, before reaching for a bottle of beer and taking a drink on camera. "Well, I've got to tell you, if they want us to drink two beers a week, frankly they can kiss my ass!"
Cruz cranked the top off a Shiner Bock beer and chucked the cap on the ground in theatrical defiance before taking a swig. Behind him, a huddle of men dressed in cowboy hats and plaid flannel shirts followed suit, drinking their beers.
On Wednesday night, the senator posted the clip on X, formerly known as Twitter, repeating his own lines from the interview in the caption for his 6.1 million followers. "What is it with liberals and wanting to control every damn aspect of your life? If they want us to drink two beers a week, frankly they can kiss my ass."
Cruz appears to have stepped up his misinformation game on X in the past few weeks: Wednesday's nonsense diatribe against a non-existent Biden beer limit comes a few days after the senator reposted misinformation about the southern border wall, presenting a Trump-era policy as a Biden-imposed change. About a week before that, Cruz shared a well-known fake image from 2011 of a shark swimming in California floodwaters.
Comedy Central needs to have a reporter named Peter Doofy who's basically the character from Scary Movie, imitating Fox's questions
The most snowy of the snowflakes: Republicans.
I do wonder how many wives of these people that get freaked out over things like....checks notes....recommendations tell their husbands behind closed doors to chill the hell out and stop all the whining over nonsense.
He has to, take a look at what is coming in Texas. He has to fight imaginary things because reality is indefensible.
They suddenly found that "czars" thing. Again. SMH.
Also, this is a reaction over a possible health recommendation? My word, these people....do any of them stick to recommendations on health, anyway? I wonder what they do if/when the government agencies starts wising up on their health recommendations related to plant-based diets and cutting way down - or eliminating - animal products altogether? I bet they faint.
Guys, this is an opportunity!
Biden needs to immediately push for legislation limiting everyone to no more than 30 beers a day. And that everyone must breathe air and eat food.
This problem will solve itself!
What an interesting strategy. All this time we've been worried about deep fakes and stuff unduly influencing public opinion. Kudos to them for just shamelessly making shit up, very innovative, I'll give them that.
Ted Cruz is a meat puppet. He sees and understands nothing unless he is specifically told to and then only exactly what he's told and nothing more.
How dare you. Ted Cruz is totally a human. He is definitely not some puppet made of meat operated by an alien.
You've got to be a snowflake and a half to get triggered by a recommendation
Just bugger off to Cancun, Rafael.
Turd Cruds is getting dementia