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She thinks he's too young to be president.
A bit snarky, but it's over his insurrection:
I'd respect her for that except she's still a Republican voter.
It's possible to utterly disagree with somebody on policy, and still recognize that they've passed the 'not a traitor' bar. She manages that.
Yes. She manages to recognize that something that is true is true. Congratulations to her for being able to recognize reality on this specific topic but probably not any others since she's still a Republican.
I'd rather reinforce them when they do the right thing; it helps to shift the range of what's allowed on the right. Republicans are really good at love-bombing people who adopt one of their policy positions. We ought to think about the same.
No, sorry. I do not praise Nazis for acknowledging that another Nazi was lying about an election that he obviously lost.
What do you think her opinion is on LGBT+ people if she votes Republican? Or on immigrants?
Did she vote for Cory Gardner in 2014? I bet she did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Gardner#LGBTQ_policy
I bet she also voted for Wayne Allard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allard#Tenure
I don't doubt that she's terrible on a host of other issues; as I said, I likely disagree with her on almost every policy.
But praise when people start to move out of that mindset is part of how you detach people from it.
As the saying goes, "if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you've got a table with 11 Nazis."
What Republican things do you agree with?
The election was a fraud?
Corporations are people?
Climate change is a myth?
Women are lesser than men?
Slavery had benefits?
The rich deserve tax cuts?
Trans people need to be oppressed as do other LGBT+ people?
Foreigners are bad, especially the brown ones?
Private healthcare is the best form of healthcare?
The poor deserve to be?
Police are always to be respected no matter what (unless it's January 6th)?
Russia is a good ally?
The elderly don't need a break?
Hunter Biden's existence is proof that Joe Biden needs to be impeached?
We cannot allow the Democrats to give us what we want in an election year?
Seriously, what?
Sure sounds to me like you either don't agree with their platform or don't understand the points on it.
So why do you vote for them?
I didn't answer your questions because you didn't tell me which of those you agreed with. I'm still waiting to know.
Neither party is against higher defense spending. Not a reason to vote Republican.
It's already illegal. How much more conservative can you get? If this is a reason to vote Republican, you must want to arrest women who have miscarriages just in case. Generally not a reason to vote Republican anymore.
Republicans don't. They just killed their own border bill. Not a reason to vote Republican.
I notice you didn't say what policy that was. So I'm going to have to assume it's "aid Russia and Israel as much as possible" since that's their current foreign policy. Probably not a good reason to vote Republican.
You mean the thing you've already had to do my entire 20+ years of voting in the U.S.? Not a reason to vote Republican.
Republicans want zero controls. Zero. Not a reason to vote Republican.
They haven't flipped on it so far. Not a reason to vote Republican.
Please give an example and then explain what Republicans have done about it.
As far as I can tell, you have not given a single good reason to vote Republican.
So I'm still going with 'people who vote Republican support fascism' and I also notice you have no critique of their LGBT+ bigotry, which also makes me think the 'support fascism' thing applies.
Again- this issue has already been decided. It is not a reason to vote Republican.
I do not. If you don't even understand the very basic fact that Republicans have been on Russia's side for this entire conflict, you are very politically naïve.
Oh, you mean the thing you have to have when you register to vote? Like I said, same thing for my entire 20+ years of voting. Have you never actually registered to vote?
You can disagree that Republicans want zero gun regulations, but unless you can name a few, your disagreement is moot.
You still haven't given me a good reason for you to vote Republican.
I didn't say they were. I said they supported people who are. Which makes them just as bad. And makes you just as bad for supporting them too, especially since you have not given one single rational reason to support them and several highly irrational explanations.
Also, you still have said nothing about the hateful, bigoted Republican position on LGBT+ people, which makes me think you agree with it.
I see, you just vote for bigots who hate LGBT+ people and want to oppress them.
And, again, if you vote for the party that wants to oppress LGBT+ people- and they do-, I will judge you.
But let me know about the Republican you've voted for that champions the rights of LGBT+ people. Name them please.
Since I asked you to name the Republicans you have voted for who were pro-LGBT+, does this mean you voted for Ileana Ros-Lehtinen at some point between 1989 and 2019 or did you not actually bother reading what I responded to you with again?
In other words, you can't name one single Republican you've voted for that wasn't an anti-LGBT+ bigot.
I have given you three chances to provide me with a single name of any Republican you voted for that was not an anti-LGBT+ bigot.
You haven't done so.
You are not conversing in good faith and I think it's obvious why.
Thank you for proving my point.
I think we're done here.
Even now you won't give one single name of a non-bigoted Republican you have voted for. And it should be very obvious why that is. And why you vote for them anyway. Which makes you as bad as them.
Thanks for proving my point.
Goodbye.
Looking forward to you continuing to avoid every question I ask you while you're at work too.
You are really bad at answering questions.
You didn't explain why you voted for them.
Every time I ask you a question, you either ask me one back or act like I never asked you. But you don't answer mine.
I know what Republicans stand for. You can't blame "the media" for that. Well, you can, but you'd be fool to blame anyone but Republicans themselves.
And again it’s a former representative. Where are the current Republicans fighting this?