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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19046110
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he isn’t buying all that Democratic “joy” on display at this past week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago during a Sunday appearance with Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union.
During their conversation, Tapper brought up the “disciplined” and “well-produced” DNC this week that, as the journalist put it, “conveyed patriotism and unity.” Graham didn’t see it that way.
“Well, I didn’t see what you saw,” Graham told Tapper with a laugh. “If you’re a Republican, you saw a hate fest. You saw a hate fest full of insults.”
“Americans are not joyful when they go to the gas station and fill up their car,” he continued. “They’re not joyful when they make their mortgage payment. They’re not joyful when they go to the grocery store. People are hurting, and this whole joy love fest doesn’t exist in the real world.”
To bolster his claim, Graham pointed to the gas prices, the state of the border, and inflation during Donald Trump’s presidency when “the world was not on fire.”
He’s either lying or what he said gives us a look into his shitty perspective of the world. Either way such a miserable and pathetic existence.
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The inevitable result of republican policies.
What’s this from?
Joe vs. The Volcano
Very interesting trailer. Of course Meg Ryan. Is it any good as a film?
So this question kind of made me go down a bit of a rabbit hole, but this really captures my feelings. https://www.rogerebert.com/features/how-we-choose-our-favorite-film-and-why-mine-is-joe-vs-the-volcano
Tom Hanks in an 80s comedy (came out in 90 close enough) is usually worth it, I only watched it once a number of years ago. It wasn’t overly memorable but I recall enjoying it well enough. There was probably jokes I wasn’t paying attention enough to notice. However when you add Meg Ryan with Hanks you can’t really go wrong.
Doesn’t it have like 3 Meg Ryans in it? Doesn’t she play like three different characters?
One of my favorites, but ymmv.
yes. there are a few references in it that people should get. all the scenes before joe leaves for the volcano are meme-worthy. me and a buddy still laugh about this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMARnSUCoYY
“dingy!”
I saw it in theaters as a kid. It was good, but I don’t really remember the plot since I haven’t seen it since then
I hope he just gets booed everywhere he goes.
It’s almost like many conservatives are psychopaths who are literally incapable of emotions (well, other than hatred anyhow.)
Oh wait, they are:
sources
We found eleven significant correlations between conservative [Moral Intuition Survey] judgments and the Dark Triad – [narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy,] all at significance level of p<.00001 – and no significant correlations between liberal [Moral Intuition Survey] judgments and the Dark Triad. We believe that these results raise provocative moral questions about the personality bases of moral judgments. In particular, we propose that because the Short-D3 measures three “dark and antisocial” personality traits, our results raise some prima facie worries about the moral justification of some conservative moral judgments
I ran a follow-up study testing the Dark Triad against conservative and liberal judgments on 15 additional moral issues. The new issues examined include illegal immigration, abortion, the teaching of “intelligent design” in public schools, the use of waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques” in the war on terrorism, laws defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and environmentalism. 1154 participants […] Twenty-two significant correlations were observed between “conservative” judgments and the Dark Triad (all of which were significant past a Bonferonni-corrected significance threshold of p = .0008), compared to seven significant correlations between Dark Triad and “liberal” judgments (only one of which was significant past p = .0008).
In the present research (N = 675), we focus on the relationship between the dark side of human personality and political orientation and extremism, respectively, in the course of a presidential election where the two candidates represent either left-wing or right-wing political policies. Narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and everyday sadism were associated with right-wing political orientation, whereas narcissism and psychopathy were associated with political extremism. Moreover, the relationships between personality and right-wing political orientation and extremism, respectively, were relatively independent from each other.
Man who has never experienced joy claims joy does not exist; more at 11
I hope he finds joy by admitting to himself and others who he really is.
Lindsey Graham is a he? I’d heard the name, and always assumed it was some blonde haired bimbo who wears glasses to give the apperance of an intellectual without anything of value to actually say.
i hope you find your mind
Yeah. I dunno about LG, but I often reflect on the fabulous drag queen show that would kick off an age of prosperity if a bunch of closeted conservatives could relax and stop bullshitting themselves.
This feels relevant:
First time I have ever agreed with this bastard.
Who knew that a person from a party of lies and doublespeak, a party set on a warpath of subjugating those they don’t like, a party creating hypocrite rules that they themselves don’t follow unless convenient would not want to admit to the existence of happy emotions. They’re so caught up in a web of bullshit that they have no concept of which way is up, right, or good, let alone happy.
And how can you change that as a lawmaker?
He’s not a lawmaker, he’s a radical Christian nationalist in lawmaker clothes.
He actually believes this
Well step one would be to plant a bomb at Mar’a-lago at an opportune time.
Relax, I’m joking! Although… 😛
…oh man. What a comment to read before the mods eventually purge it.
8 hours and it’s still up 😁
Uh-oh, the War on Christmas has claimed Lindsay Graham as its latest victim!
Errrrrrr…………………
^somebody get this man out of the building^
I mean, he’s not wrong. (And I say that as someone who despises him.)
Most people don’t find skyrocketing rent, gas, electricity, and grocery costs to be particularly joyful. Democrats know this, which is why they’re making the election more about memes than the record of Joe Biden as president.
Call me when Kamala finds the fortitude to put an actual platform on her website.
I’m looking for your link to Trump’s plan for those issues. What’s his solution? Banning immigrants? A costly wall? Tax breaks for the rich again? Let another million die from a pandemic? Argue about crowd sizes? Maybe blowing up a hurricane?
I’m not a Trump supporter, but unlike Harris, he actually has a platform on his website.
I suppose that’s where you should start.
Ah, the new home of project2025!
Seriously, though, I assume this is what you’re referring to where he’s going to solve those problems:
President Donald J. Trump passed record-setting tax relief for the middle class, doubled the child tax credit, and slashed more job-killing regulations than any administration had ever done before. Real wages quickly increased as a result, and median household income reached the highest level in the history of our country, while poverty reached a record low. President Trump created nearly 9,000 Opportunity Zones to revitalize neglected communities. President Trump produced a booming economic recovery, and record low unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and women. Joe Biden is the destroyer of America’s jobs and continues to fuel runaway inflation with reckless big government spending. President Trump’s vision for America’s economic revival is lower taxes, bigger paychecks, and more jobs for American workers.
I see no plan, aside from some very vague promises and an attack on a guy who isn’t even running.
I’m not sure why you’re arguing with me about it. I don’t like Trump either, but feel free to argue if it makes you feel better about supporting another conservative.
Quick reminder of this conversation: You suggested I check his website for his platform, so I did, and found that there’s only “I did this” and some vague promises that do not specify any sort of actual plan. You seem to think that’s arguing, but I’m trying to explain that there’s actually no useful information there.
Basically, it’s no better than Kamala’s and arguably even worse because he’s making promises we all know he’s not going to keep (Kamala makes no promises that I saw). And he still thinks he’s running against Biden.
You seem to be intentionally misunderstanding which side actually has a plan or policy meant to help anyone other than the rich. Trump doesn’t know or care what the policy plans behind 2025 are, but as long as he gets his but in the seat that can keep himself out of jail and make people keep paying attention he’ll sign whatever the actual handlers come up with
Fuck off with your centrist bullshit
My comment is a critique of centrism.
Kamala is a centrist. Biden is a centrist. But, that moniker’s only a thing because Democratic voters don’t want to have to call themselves conservatives.
I want roe v Wade and then some. It’s for topics like that that I vote democrat, as it’s the currently available, most progressive option (centrist as it is). Gimme an option like Bernie, AoC or full power walz and I’d vote for that. More progressive the better, but it’s got to be viable. Right now that means wearing the democratic hat.
If things like roe are centrist, call me whatever you want.
If Roe’s your issue, I’d be even less inclined to vote Democrat.
All they did was promise to do something about it, raise money, and then did absolutely nothing. (And if you’re curious, the cost of your bodily autonomy was $80,000,000.) Meanwhile Idaho has gotten away with criminalizing it and every other conservative state will follow.
And considering they had Congress and the presidency, their inaction is indefensible.
I’m not single issue because I’m not a silly goose, that was just an example.
All I know is Republicans would pour concrete on the currently shallow grave of roe.
Democrats aren’t getting an A+ from me but as I said their the closest in the direction the country needs to go.
If you review WHY conservative states have been able to do that you’d understand what happened.
It’s because judges were put in place during republican majorities, and they obviously rule in favor of those republican policies.
More republicans mean more republican judges means more concrete on republican ideals.
Democrats have failed on a lot, but that failure represents effort. Imperfect, flawed effort, but the alternative is whole hearted enjoyment in destroying the things I’m interested in. Like roe for example.
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Reminder there are only 2 viable options.
One tries to bring forward bluer, lefter policy (relatively, not absolutely) and one seeks to being forward a Christian fascist ethnostate.
And you’re telling me NOT to vote for the imperfect team blue?
Democrats have failed on a lot, but that failure represents effort
I disagree. It denotes broken promises and zero effort, which is why I feel compelled to remind everyone of how crummy a president Joe Biden was, and particularly for women. Kamala doesn’t even have a platform on her website. All she wants to do is repeat memes (“Joy” and “Weird”), which doesn’t help anyone.
They’ve made hundreds of billions we don’t actually have appear out of thin air overnight for other countries’ wars, but if you want a living wage or bodily autonomy it means absolutely nothing to them beyond their ability to fundraise off of promising to act.
Silly Goose
I appreciate that I’m not the only one who uses this term, though. :)
I acknowledge what broken promises look like. I contend most of them are just failures… In battle. There’s no indication the promises were made in bad faith, but heads up, politics is an uncontrolled system. In many cases good intentions lead to loss. All the more reason to clear the path.
I don’t excuse it, I understand it.
Separately replying to unmarked edit: they did not have a supermajority, do not control state politics, and the judges bringing these things about are on lifetime appointments, seated during trump
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the ACA were both passed without a supermajority.
You don’t need a supermajority to pass legislation.
Further, we should expect federal legislators to do things that are difficult. I’ve had it with broken promises and false excuses.
You practically do to remove federal judges, which, to the discussed topic, is necessary. Even more so to remove supreme court justices
Try again you retarded sunny beetle
The fuck are both of you on about
It’s like two kids with whiffleball bats swinging for the pinata and just hitting each other
STFU, when you’re bring asked a question or talked to you would know, but obviously you’re special needs.
Reported for hate speech.
Also, this is an open forum, you have no claim of allowable membership on a public thread.
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I also wouldn’t consider telling someone when they are allowed to speak a very progressive behavior, especially if you think I’m from a marginalized group
Oh no you’re going to cry & tell Mommy. Sad fuck that you are
U big mad
Edit hah you also called the mods mom.
Nah. THAT would be fun to watch. This isn’t.
What a sad statement from someone it is all too easy to believe actually thinks such a thing.
Lindsey Graham may be the most miserable person in congress.
Putin and Trump have something really, really bad on him. Or least, in the eyes of his constituents. The way he turned on a dime in Trump support after one round of golf tells you everything you need to know.
“Is that you eating a chocolate bar, Lindsey?”
He’s a “lifelong bachelor” 🙄, not allowing himself to experience true happiness with another person of his choosing according to his orientation out of the knowledge that he would be ostracized by his colleagues, voted out of office, and would lose his livelihood. He chose capitalism and power at the expense of his own joy, so he can go ahead and be as miserable as he wants to be for all I care.
He just hasn’t found a woman who has what he wants, which is a penis.
true, if you’re Lindsey Graham
Hopefully! 🤞
Also true if he is talking about Joy the character from Pixar’s Inside Out
The problem with this corrosive, inflexible conservative narrative, is that these joyless assholes try and impose themselves politically and on everybody.
