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This is of their own doing. They've been fine about misinformed being spread. Now it's bitting them in the arse. Reap what you sow.
And even the ones who are calling out the misinformation are still throwing their support behind the people generating that misinformation.
It's less "leopards eating faces" and more "leopards eating their own faces."
ouroboros leopards
The Human Centi-Leopard.
"I attached my own ass to my face, and my ass is a leopard, and the ass-leopard is eating my face, and our/my shared ass-leopard/human stomach is digesting my face, and I love it."
Such a long walk. You were so close with attaching the ass to the face but the context of leopards just jars with he vibe. I think you could punch this up to be tighter.
Sorta like how they quietly tolerated Qanon when it served their purposes, then got MTG as a result.
Exactly
This is my answer to everything that has recently befallen Republicans, will hopefully befall them in November, and which they deserve to have continuing to befall them for the next couple decades.
You invited the worst people into the party, and you voted for them, and you defended them. And I don't just mean Trump. For as long as it seemed like you might be able to exert your will unilaterally on the populace, there was no bridge too far for you.
So go fuck yourselves, and I mean that from Donald J. Trump, down through every single elected Republican official, down to every single Republican pulling the lever at voting time.
Unless you rejected this bullshit from day one instead of only when it became clear the ship was sinking (so I guess maybe a dozen R nationwide get a pass), you can go fuck yourself, and there's not a single thing you can do that will ever pull a vote for a republican out of these two hands, because I see who you are, and I see what you support, and I've had a taste of what you think it means for America to be "great again."
They invited them in and became the Nazi bar of the anecdote. Don't let them in, even if they're playing nice at the start. You can't use the right wing extremest for your own ends. They're going to take over because they don't have limits or the good of anyone in mind. Once they're in your tent they will eat you. It's happened time and again throughout history and you didn't learn so now you burn.
Succinct
“untrustworthy sources trying to spark chaos.”
He doesn't actually say the names, because he he trying to thread the needle.
He can't call out his own party, because that would be disloyal.
At least he didn't blame "inner city rap fans" or "urbane cosmopolitans."
It's all just words until you kick them out of the party.
Condemning them without acting on the condemnation is the equivalent of:
Optimistic of you to think the conspiracy misinformation scumbags would be the ones getting the boot!
at least three congressional Republicans
How does that compare with the number of congressional Republicans actively spreading this disinformation?
It’s at least three being drowned out by many more loud and repeatedly amplified voices. Maybe just three. But at least three is newsworthy!
You guys literally trained each other to do this about everything. It's your own damn fault.
Some poor FEMA worker is going to get murdered over this.
Barely. They need to call out the lunatics like MTG. Reps and Senators. By name.
The Harris campaign forgot (again) how every single Republican is a scumbag and actually went out of their way to highlight Tillis' statement calling out misinformation, which predictably blew up in their faces
Do you think quoting Hosea 8:7 is a little too on the nose?
In the Bible's Book of Hosea, God says, “They sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind”.
For those few who don't know the Bible by heart
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