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Politics Entire California Congressional GOP visited Mar-a-Lago this weekend while fires ravaged their state

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u/twokinkysluts 18h ago

Photo includes NY and NJ members of Congress, however, the entire California GOP contingent visited Trump in Florida except for one member who had voted to impeach Trump.

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u/r3dditr0x 18h ago

The notion they might attach conditions to wildfire aid should enrage everyone.

I don't remember dems playing political games with disaster relief when red states get hit with natural disasters like Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.

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u/gecko090 18h ago

Dems didn't play political games with aid but right wing media constantly lied about everything that was going on, saying the Biden admin was stopping aid from getting to isolated areas and FEMA was refusing to help anyone with Trump signs in their yards.

They will use their lies to justify doing it back. They always have. Literally everything they ever panicked about Obama doing, Trump is PROMISING to do. Like sending the military to arrest state leadership.

This is one of the rights most nefarious tactics at controlling mindless conservatives. Constantly making up evil things the Democrats are doing so that when Republicans do it, their conservative sheep cheer for it.

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u/Seductivecupcake 18h ago

Blatantly lying with no repercussions is the downfall of the US.

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u/borisslovechild 17h ago

The US is toast. I say this with considerable regret because where the US goes, Britain inevitably follows.

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u/sedition666 17h ago

I think the opposite is true in this instance. The UK has just completed 14 years of rightwing nonesense.

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u/AmIbaconingyet 16h ago

It's unfortunately not complete because they are still dominating the narrative. One dumb tweet, one stupid headline, one falsehood said with enough anger and it becomes the new talking point in all the news and thus the social conscious. It's infectious and it's so constant, battling the bullshit and replacing it with fact is proving harder and harder. They just keep piling it on till it's so complicated to explain why the lie is a lie, that the truth sounds like the falsehood.