• nucleative@lemmy.world
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    The repub constituents approve of this behavior? Do they even know what’s going on?

    Why aren’t these 5 or so holdouts getting absolutely reamed on the national stage for blocking the entire country from getting anything done? The national media should be shaming the constituent districts too for sending these clowns to congress.

    Going to work for government never meant getting things exactly your way. It means finding compromises that work for all the people.

    Can’t do that job then get the F out.

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      2 years ago

      Republican constituents will have all this in the back of their mind when they say things like, “Washington is just so dysfunctional, politicians aren’t doing their jobs anymore,” while at the same time blaming Democrats for all of it. They’re completely oblivious to the fact that they’re the ones creating the dysfunction by their voting choices, completely unwilling to accept responsibility.

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          Which the broadcast news media will never do, not in any way but the most soft handed gentle for babys skin way possible that is ultimately empty and meaningless, because they care more about keeping their access than doing their job, cause they know if they do their job properly Republicans will cut them off.

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      Republican voters are fractured as fuck.

      The ones that know either

      • don’t care and are glad this is happening
      • don’t care because it’s not THEIR rep doing it
      • care, but can only tsk it away because it’s not their rep doing it
      • use this as ammo that government doesn’t work

      The rest don’t even know it’s happening. They’re election day warriors who vote red and then never think about politics again between election cycles.

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      I think Fox news cut the stream when it was clear no one was going to be elected again. So maybe they don’t know.

      Some of the Rs are just anti government. So the longer they can keep this up, the more they get their wish. Especially with the debit ceiling thing coming due soon. Some of our citizens have so many brain worms that they prefer it this way. Their representatives are doing what they want.

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      2 years ago

      Better numbers for the media if this continues, this is easy clicks why give it up now?