The best part?
He called to concede and she let that little ratfucker go to voicemail.
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The fact 45% of the state still voted for that Ramasmarmy is disturbing.
Everyone always underestimates the effect of disinformation and propaganda on an electorate that doesn't have the time or energy to do research. They're too busy being overworked and want to spend the little free time they have doing something they like, not more "work" figuring out politics. That's why media companies that spoon feed opinions are so effective. People don't have time to think about root causes.
My mother got a bunch of money in her divorce and doesn't work. She's busy caring for her multiple pets, but she has plenty of time. She watches fox and votes maga because she's a bad person, not because she's overworked.
Nah. People who voted for that asshole are not misinformed. They are mentally ill immersed in a dissonant ideology of fear and hatred.
What's the difference exactly?
One thinks Trump is secretly a good guy, the other revels in how evil Trump really is.
One is a sucker, the other a sadist.
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Most of these people have the time to memorize 50 different celebrities and their backgrounds yet don't even know who their senators are. We need to stop making excuses for them. Baseline political knowledge only takes about 2-3 minutes of your time per day, it isn't that big of an ask.
Also a significant portion of GOP voters are just plain horrible people.
A couple of months ago I was having a conversation with a co-worker who did not know that the Senate has 100 members with every state getting two, or that the House of Representatives was apportioned according to population.
Have you met people in Ohio?
Everyday, because I live here
My sympathies. As an escapee who is forced to return for regular family obligations I know your pain.
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Formative years spent in Kansas. Left when I saw an opportunity. Hope you get out and move to a better place.
That said, Kansas also voted better this time around. Doesn't mean I wanna go back.
There are much worse places than Ohio, and it's getting better. The constant hate and concern trolling is just so annoying at this point because it shows people have no idea what it's actually like here.
Ohio is just like every other state. The cities are blue, the rural areas are red. The main difference is that both the rural and urban areas hold roughly equal political weight. Unfortunately the rural areas have been able to turn out more voters than the cities the past few elections. This one, the cities were able to turn out more. Obviously we hope that continues and things continue to improve here, but the hyperbole of treating Ohio like it's some war-torn hellhole isn't helpful.
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It's the south of the north.
I grew up there, left 25 years ago, and I've never been back, and haven't missed it, at all. Ohio sucks.
It astounds me what the supposedly decent midwestern people will vote for. If you voted for this ghoul after that fucking ad, you are a piece of shit. He should have been lynched, that was a travesty.
That ad not only destroyed his chances at a win, it destroyed ever Republican race in Ohio, and even had an impact on races outside of Ohio.
This was a Sociopathic Oligarch trying to buy a governorship, and he thought the voters were as depraved as he is. Instead, people all over America saw that ad, and it became the face of MAGA as a whole.
I just keep remembering him sitting there like a wanker while Ann Coulter tells him to his face that she would never vote for him because he is "a Indian."
Smug fucker keeps being hated by his party while rushing to support the same fascism. I hope he keeps losing in life.
A repugnant still swept district 4 in Ohio...more than double that of the Dem
What ad was this? I missed it!
Edit - never mind, I found it. Wow, what a wanker.
To elaborate for anyone else, he had a bunch of sexual predators in his ads, but the one in question was his opponent's mother who admonished her for everything in life.
Oh, btw, his opponent was sexually assaulted by a parent and the mother in question enabled it. He doubled down over and over that it was just politics and ended up spending millions on that particular campaign, even after the rest of the world was like "wait, rape is bad, right?".
Sexual assault can be a bit vague of a term. To be clear, she was raped by her stepfather. He went to jail and her mother took his side. And Dr. Acton was eventually removed from her mother's care for good reason.
Edit: I got it slightly wrong. /u/booly said this:. I appreciate their correction
[H]e [the step father] was facing criminal charges for raping her from the ages of 9 to 12, so her mother actively helped him flee the state and hide from justice until he died 25 years later. The mother chose to stand by her child's rapist, moving states with him and leaving her children behind, so the state where they were left behind had to take the abandoned children into custody.
He went to jail and her mother took his side.
No, he was facing criminal charges for raping her from the ages of 9 to 12, so her mother actively helped him flee the state and hide from justice until he died 25 years later. The mother chose to stand by her child's rapist, moving states with him and leaving her children behind, so the state where they were left behind had to take the abandoned children into custody.
Ramaswamy tracked down the mother and said "yeah, let's get her on camera to call Acton a liar."
Oh. Thanks for clarifying. I remember hearing somewhere that he'd gone to jail. I must've misremembered.
Yeah, the whole story needs to be told because it's just so, so much worse than even what you were saying.
Yeah. Thanks, I appreciate that.
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Lol get fucked Ramaswamy
Trump is crying on Truth Social right now, saying things would've gone great if he was on the ballot.
He literally told them to vote like he was on the ballot.
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Vivek hissed and spat while receding into a shapeless void under a nearby rock, never to be seen again.
Get fucked Ramaswamy.
Cool, now we can shit on her for being a transphobe and no one will complain.
Yeah! Fuck that bigot!
Vivek Kamikaze
Good, Vivek was my least favorite Republican candidate I can't stand that smarmy ghoul
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He can now continue to pursue his interest as a hip-hop artist.
THE GOD TRIBUNAL CAN SUCK IT.
Vivek said he has "serious concerns" about the nation's future 🤣
Now what if the GOP had run a straight, white, christian man instead? I imagine a lot of GOP voters stayed home rather than vote for someone who wasn't white, had a funny name, and is a pagan.
Whomp whomp.
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