r/politics • u/Lehmanite Texas • 5h ago
No Paywall Barbara Bush donated to super PAC supporting James Talarico for U.S. Senate
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u/Defiant_Storage_7435 5h ago
Words cannot describe the absolute stupidity of TX GOP primary voters for kicking out Cornyn in favor of Paxton.
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u/AngriestManinWestTX 5h ago
Hey, I'll have you know that Cornyn broke from Trump ~3% of the time! That is categorically unacceptable! Anything less than complete 100% devotion to Trump cannot be tolerated!!!!
major, major /s if that isn't apparent.
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u/BKlounge93 5h ago
Which is exactly why it was so dumb lmao. You’d get the same result without all the baggage.
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u/killersky99 4h ago
you let one republican have one independent thought and pretty soon rest of them will start using their brain to think
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u/kaflarlalar 4h ago
No they won't.
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u/TheBoNix 3h ago
Look what happened to MTG
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u/maddieterrier Tennessee 3h ago
I think she's a Qanon true believer. The Epstein files broke her from the fold.
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u/TheBoNix 3h ago
I believe that too. Still a dingle berry, but a dingle berry that has a line drawn.
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u/soulsoda 1h ago
Nah she broke with Qanon too, still a genuine idiot and shitheel opportunist though.
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u/Shark7996 1h ago
She's very gullible but she also spends a lot of time behind the curtain. I think she has a mixture of conspiracies she believes and conspiracies she sells, but that's a distinction without a difference to me. Stupid and evil is a dangerous combination.
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u/AndroidAtWork 3h ago edited 2h ago
You think she decided to start thinking for herself? Fuck no.
She was a true believer in Trump. She parroted all of the crazy shit he said, and went a few steps further on her own. She was a standard bearer for all of it. As a true believer, she thought she'd be rewarded when the time came. Maybe she'd get some nice top committee spots or some sort of cabinet level position. But none of that materialized. Other members of the freedom caucus got nice title bumps but she did not. She got nothing for selling herself out completely.
It had nothing to do with Epstein. Epstein was her opportunity to clap back, and she took it. And then when Donnie went against her, she was iced out by the rest of the freedom caucus. None of them supported her when she was getting heat from Trump and all of his media goons. She didn't suddenly develop a conscience. It had everything to do with being scorned.
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u/PoopyButt28000 1h ago
The biggest thing that started it was Trump supporting Israel. She's incredibly fucking antisemitic she's literally the "Jewish space lasers" woman who compared mask mandates to the holocaust. She broke because he was too friendly with Israel, which she was against because they are Jews not because she objects to muslims dying, and then he Trump responded by personally attacking her which made her completely go against him.
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u/TheBoNix 2h ago
Dude, I'm not disagreeing with you. Don't worry, you don't need to convince me of anything.
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u/PoopyButt28000 1h ago
MTG said that California forest fires were intentionally started by Jews. She chased down and screamed at school shooting survivors. She compared mask mandates to Jews being thrown into gas chambers during the holocaust. She was a QAnon supporter who liked posts on Facebook calling for Obama, Clinton, and Pelosi to be shot in the head.
The main thing that made the insanely antisemitic MTG break from Trump was his support of Israel. Then he responded by personally attacking her, so she turned on the Republicans. This attempt to sane wash MTG or even act like her breaking from the Republicans was from a sane well reasoned place is so obnoxious.
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u/AngriestManinWestTX 3h ago
Yup.
If Cornyn was running then he'd have a five point lead over Talarico. It'd still be a closer race than Republicans are used to in Texas but the end result would be a 70%+ chance of a Republican victory instead of a 50-50 at best.
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u/FrankCDean 2h ago
It was a Russian/Elon bot campaign to get Paxton nominated. Cornyn supported Ukraine and that made him a target for the Russian/Muskrat bot farms. Had Ukraine took out that data center during the primary, we'd have been looking at a very different election in Texas.
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u/Turbulent_Gazelle530 1h ago
because Trump's power is largely an illusion, there is zero room for anyone to "break" from him. they simply can't allow it lest the illusion is shattered and the whole thing falls apart.
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u/NeverSober1900 5h ago
Such a self-own. If Abbott holds the Governorship they're going to really regret that decision.
If Abbott loses then well the Blue Wave was probably too big for Conryn anyway.
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u/HuMcK 4h ago
If Abbott loses, it will at least in part be Paxton's fault for dragging the whole ticket down, and Talarico for getting people to the polls with his coattails.
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u/williamfbuckwheat 3h ago
I don't seem to recall Abbott ever being exactly popular like at all. He just would win easily by default because he lacked a serious opponent and people would just vote for any R candidate. I also think the push to ban THC products out of nowhere in an election year really made him vulnerable and just showed how arrogant and tone deaf the Texas GOP had become towards anyone who wasnt a diehard conservative or right wing evangelical type. Usually, the GOP tries to avoid effectively outlawing industries bringing in billions of dollars as the supposed "pro business" party regardless of the moral arguments but they just threw that out the window in this case.
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u/canman7373 1h ago
Nag, no win means state flipped. Just means folks won't come out for a clown like Paxton, I mean his own party impeached him and his staffers reported him to the FBI. He is a horrible man, they may not vote dem, but may just stay home.
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u/Kolby_Jack33 1h ago
I didn't directly ask my Texan republican parents who they were voting for (or if they were voting at all) but when my dad mentioned an old politician whose political career was torpedoed by his infidelity, I said "wow, remember when infidelity torpedoed political careers" more as a sly diss of Trump, but he immediately brought up Paxton's sham marriage of his own accord and did not sound like he was happy with the guy.
Which of course could just mean they'll hold their noses while they vote for him anyway but I dunno. It's more than he's ever said about Trump's character.
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u/wanttoseemycat 4h ago
Don't know if I agree. Gina could get in just on people that only showed up for the Senate race voting the whole ballot blue.
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u/Bice_ 5h ago
If a man can’t stand on principle I’m not voting for him
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u/Balorpagorp 5h ago
Abbott's not standing on anything much less principle
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u/IsmaelRetzinsky 4h ago edited 4h ago
Frankly I’m not sure what that oak tree broke, because it couldn’t have been a spine.
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u/matticans7pointO California 3h ago
Is there a chance Abbott loses his election? Would love to see that happen but I doubt the odds are high if I haven't heard much about it.
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u/NeverSober1900 2h ago
Punchers chance I'd say. Nate Silver's model has Abbot up by about 2 points. Stronger than expected turnout from the Dems or Paxton stink could flip it. But in general Abbott is probably like 85% to keep the seat.
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u/Shopworn_Soul Texas 4h ago
To be entirely fair, they've been counting on the absoluter stupidity of TX GOP voters, which is very much up in the air at this point.
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u/HystericalSail 4h ago
Just imagine how terrible it will be if Texas declares any amount of corruption and self-serving is a-ok so long as there's an (R) on the name.
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u/NetflixIsGr8 4h ago
I know some left leaning folks in Texas who did the wise thing and just voted for Paxton to help the democrat chances.
Stuff like this should be commonplace. I voted for Nikki Haley for example versus Donald Trump. I REALLY wish more would have done the same.
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u/betterplanwithchan 4h ago
But that becomes a double edge sword if it inadvertently gets someone more batshit insane closer to the seat
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u/JimboAfterHours 3h ago
“more batshit insane” - I guess it’s possible, but i’ve seen some crazy shit in my 60+ years, and I’ve not seen ANYthing near as batshit crazy as DJT getting elected for PUSA.
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u/YourFleshlightSaysHi 56m ago
I'm not yet fifty, but am a retired soldier and have spent many years traveling the world. Both of my grandfathers and one of my grandmothers were American soldiers in WW2, and the questions that haunted me since childhood are those of the motives and causal factors that gave rise to the greatest war the world had ever seen. You can probably imagine what my bookshelf looks like, yet I stand here, no less shocked than you.
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u/PureButton4670 3h ago
Every Republican is the same, they all vote for everything DJT wants anyway so there literally is no difference.
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u/JaxGamecock 2h ago
They shift the Overton window and affect public discourse outside of them voting the same as the “respectable” Republican option. That matters in the grand scheme of the political environment
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u/TheBoNix 3h ago
Frankly, just gotta do the same playbook some of these people are trying. Run as a Republican. Then vote for what you want to do.
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u/Dazzling_Honeydew_25 2h ago
That’s exactly what John Fetterman did. He’s a Democratic senator from Pennsylvania, but he’s basically become a turncoat and loves his AIPAC donations.
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u/___NowYouKnow___ 2h ago
They would have had to be registered Republican to do this
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u/arkaine_23 1h ago edited 10m ago
I usually.do that kind of thing, but I couldn't stomach voting for Paxton, even just in a primary, because I thought, "if he goes on to win the sear I'm going to hate myself."
Talarico vs Crockett brought me back to my party's primary for the 1st time ever. I'd always used primaries to vote against the most repulsive republicans.
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u/randomnighmare I voted 3h ago
I 100% believed it was because Trump got involved. Like, if he didn't backed/endorsed Paxton, Cornyn would've surely won the primary, but here we are in this timeline. Although the race is still close (according to the polling) and everything is "within the margin of error," it's still a toss-up, but a lot in the media (and in politics) are noting what is happening in Texas.
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u/Creative-Buffalo-595 1h ago
Please don’t forget the many TX democrats who give up their chance to vote in the democratic primary in order to cast their vote for the least-electable candidate in the republican primary instead
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u/Automaton_General 4h ago
If only those seats weren't rigged.
Paxton wins with 55% - never mind those reports about ballots buried in the desert.
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u/SpaceElevatorMusic Minnesota 4h ago
Are any of the reports you are referencing credible? If so, would you link them for us?
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u/NeonAquaform 5h ago
Her grandfather George HW Bush voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 before he passed away.
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u/RadicalOrganizer California 4h ago
He wasnt the most evil republican I've known.
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u/nadderby 4h ago
I give him credit for supporting environmental initiatives like helping to end acid rain.
I also want to give him credit for correctly calling trickle-down economics ridiculous and mocking it, but then he bent the knee to Reagan and fell in line.
Some of the cia stuff, well, it's not pretty.
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u/themaincop 51m ago
Never ask a woman her age
Never ask a man his salary
Never ask George HW Bush what he was doing in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963
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u/Captain_Q_Bazaar 43m ago
I give him credit for supporting environmental initiatives like helping to end acid rain.
I also want to give him credit for correctly calling trickle-down economics ridiculous and mocking it, but then he bent the knee to Reagan and fell in line.
Some of the cia stuff, well, it's not pretty.
For a while I thought he was an ok GOP president, the best they had since Eisenhower. Then I am reminded that he covered up Iran Contra by pardoning key figures in pending trials on the behest of Bill fucking Barr. Then lied that the justification was they were targeted over politics over the truth that they committed crimes. He is corrupt and evil as the rest of the Republicans.
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u/f-150Coyotev8 28m ago
This is what pisses me off about the current administration. They make us miss presidents like bush jr/sr. Both were war criminals and seriously set our country back.
This current administration, however, has completely destroyed the norms we had.
The small positive (hopefully) is that now it’s clear how corrupt politics in America are. Both parties, including the media, are making money off of the absurdity of our current president. They are an instrument of the rich and only the rich.
I just hope that the younger generations that are starting to run for office start to change things.
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u/UngodlyPain 3h ago
Eh by current day Republican standards the dudes a saint.
He regularly called out Reagan on his shit with trickle down voodoo ass economics.
And when the country was in a recession under his watch he did the smart thing and raised taxes on those who could afford it. Despite getting his political arm twisted into the "no new taxes" promise.
He also did the ADA. And empowered the EPA a bit.
Allegedly he also tried to talk W down from his most stupid choices in offices but Cheney outplayed him.
Not a great man, but by Republican standards of this century he was.
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u/asminaut California 3h ago
He also appointed Clarence Thomas and pardoned the Iran Contra perpetrators.
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u/horsewitnoname 2h ago
Shoot, by current day Republican standards the dudes a Democrat lol
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u/SunTzu- 2h ago
Mostly because there isn't a party for his brand of fiscal conservative any longer. No, not even the Democrats, they're just closer in terms of the non-economic values. H.W. was among the last Republicans who'd still have been at home in Lincoln's Republican party.
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u/Embarassed_Tackle 1h ago
Cheney was suggested by Bush Sr. to Bush Jr though
He told Bush Jr that Cheney was a trustworthy guy with no further aspirations
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u/lettersvsnumbers 4h ago
He wasn’t the most evil republican.
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u/und88 4h ago
He wasn't the most evil Republican president, but have you read about his time as CIA director?
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u/abraksis747 3h ago
He did it for less than a year
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u/Embarassed_Tackle 1h ago
But Iran-Contra continued through Reagan into Bush Sr.'s presidency, and by not releasing certain things he effectively killed the investigation
of the scandal. On Christmas Eve in 1992, shortly after losing his reelection bid, President George H.W. Bush pardoned six major administration officials (including former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger) just as their trials were set to begin, effectively halting the remaining legal investigations.
Pretty tame in comparison to current politics but still
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u/CarlosChardonnay 4h ago
And yet... still pretty evil.
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u/RadicalOrganizer California 4h ago
Its a sliding scale for grading at this point.
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u/CrumbBCrumb 4h ago
Also, based on Reddit's craziness there has never been a President that can be classified as good. In fact, I doubt any national leader would qualified as good according to reddit.
And, I'm not a republican trying to defend Bush. I'm saying Reddit is crazy
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u/ThemeNo2172 2h ago edited 2h ago
Noam Chomsky said in 1990 that
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged
for war crimes / crimes against humanity. It's not just Reddit. What kind of moral scrutiny are you applying to the presidency, is the question.
And why is it wrong to scrutinize a leader of a country? Surely we should carefully inspect every action of a nation's leader, shouldn't we?
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u/super_sayanything 2h ago
America has been an aggressive murder and war machine. So, there haven't been any. Being less bad, isn't good. But anyone with any intelligence would take Obama over most.
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u/carpe228 4h ago
Director of the CIA turned president who started a war in the Middle East we are still cleaning up, don’t whitewash his record just because todays republicans are cartoonishly evil and open about it
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u/TopHatTony11 Michigan 4h ago
He didn’t “start a war in the Middle East”, he led a coalition of countries to expel Iraq from Kuwait and when that was accomplished, he left.
His kid was the one that fucked it all up, not old man Bush.
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u/Aggravating_Bat3618 4h ago
This unchecked aggression against Kuwait will not stand
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u/EmptyCourage2274 3h ago
Like they said, not the MOST evil. Just normal amount of pre 9/11 GOP evil
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u/TheRealCheebahawk 4h ago
Wait until you find out about convicted felon tRump and his former BFF, Epstein.
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u/deesta 3h ago
Yeah, and apparently her namesake grandmother didn't consider herself a Republican anymore after 2016
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u/DrDustyE 4h ago
And here we are 10 years later with things much worse because 1/3 of America are evil or easily duped, 1/3 of America is lazy as fuck, and the other 1/3 couldn't figure out how to deal with the other 2/3.
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u/TheBoNix 3h ago
You ever tried to heard cats? Let alone cats on catnip with another portion of cats rabid?
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u/pargofan 2h ago
He did the right thing: he raised taxes.
Tax raises the Democrats supported.
And promptly destroyed him for during election time.
It sucks doing the right thing.
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u/Jbryant24 5h ago
She's an Independent who campaigned for Harris in 2024. She's a supporter of Planned Parenthood and even her mom supported abortion rights. I think sister Jenna is also an Independent but that may or may not be influenced by her media career.
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u/taylorbagel14 3h ago
She also strongly supports LGBTQ+ rights to the point where they had to ban it as a dinner conversation because she and her dad would get into really heated arguments (I read the book she and her sister co-wrote…I really enjoyed it and came away thinking both seemed like good people)
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u/dragunityag 1h ago
Thats honestly interesting that W is actually genuinely anti LGBT rights.
Like I know its a typical Republican platform, but I always figured most of their "elites" really didnt care and just used it as a wedge issue.
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u/enigma_ok11 5h ago
Barbara Bush Jr.
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u/SamtheCossack 5h ago
A rather significant difference, lol.
I was really wondering how well Talarico was polling with Republican Ghosts.
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u/Lehmanite Texas 5h ago
Yeah George Bush’s daughter. Sorry couldn’t edit the headline
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u/jxx37 5h ago
New attack line. Talarico uses black magic to summon the dead!
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u/TaterForming 5h ago
Well of course b/c all they watch is Fox Ghouls all day. If it's not that it's OANN (Other Astral News Network).
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u/ThisDerpForSale 5h ago
Considering that her grandmother refused to vote for Trump (she wrote in Jeb, W left the ballot blank, and HW famously voted for Hilary ClintoN), she might have opposed Trump’s hand picked stooge in this race too.
But yes, it would be pretty significant if Barbara Bush were donating from beyond the grave.
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u/shupadupah 4h ago
For sure. Also, I think it's been pretty well known for years that the younger Barbara was the liberal of the family, so her supporting Talarico really isn't a shocker.
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u/PainterOriginal3716 2h ago
The dead have risen and they're voting Republican!
Is there anything the Simpsons havent done?
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u/make_me_breakfast 4h ago
I was so confused for a second, remembered she was dead, then thought, “isn’t her name Laura?” Then remembered the girls.
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u/Bicoidprime 2h ago
Yeah, her grandmother that she was named for was a cu..jerk.
On the first Gulf War:
But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? (reference)
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u/everything_is_bad 2h ago
Real conservatives are now democrats. Republicans are fascists pretending to be conservatives whether they recognize it or not
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u/ManimalBestShowEva 2h ago
Exactly this. I used to be "independent" but went more Republican than Democrat -- at least at the state and local levels. That started changing about 2010 and by 2016, I was pretty much voting only Democrats, with a few exceptions. Since 2020, I haven't voted for a single Republican.
My beliefs and views haven't changed. The party that I thought was closer to my beliefs just went that much farther right.
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u/GreatDoink 1h ago
Amen. And when the party decided to just bow to Trump that's when I knew there isn't any way for me to come back from that.
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u/CurryAddict5Ever 38m ago
I also considered myself an "independent" since I voted for Democrat and Republicans as long as they shared my beliefs. I've been voting "blue no matter who" since Trump took office. Corporate dems sucks, but it's still slightly better than Republicans that doesn't have a spine.
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u/movezig123 1h ago
I heard Talarico was a radical socialist muslim who wants to pay for trans surgeries?
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u/bendbrewer 1h ago
You need more buzzwords to catch the right’s attention these days.
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u/movezig123 1h ago
Their playbook is so tired. Yet whenever you hear a MAGA voter talk, that's the horse shit they bring up.
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u/Maxamillion-X72 Canada 1h ago
The playbook works because MAGA loves to hate. It's their favorite hobby. They've been conditioned to salivate like Pavlov's dogs when they hear the trigger words.
Trump could get on stage and just shout random words and the crowd would go wild. "Trans!" "Radical leftist!" "illegal immigrants!"
He called them idiots that cheer for anything he says and they fucking cheered. JD Vance, the least charismatic speaker ever, gets applause just by trotting out the same old hate triggers.
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u/sleepingpepe1 1h ago
They don’t exist in the real world. At least in the numbers that they used to. I work w people who used to be hardcore maga. They’re exhausted of the broken promises and so overwhelmed with rising energy, medical, property, grocery, etc costs that I think they don’t care about the social issues as much as they did prior to 2024.
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u/Jasonguyen81 1h ago
Damn DemoRats, I sent my John to school in the morning and now he’s Jane
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u/PeopleNose 1h ago
Conservatives used to mean being liberal
all founding fathers wrote in their personal letters how liberal they are...
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u/Gain-Western 1h ago
Barbara Bush is liberal and used to frequent the social circle back in New York. She campaigned for Kamala in 2024.
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u/droppedketchuppacket 35m ago
Interestingly, George HW Bush, when asked during a debate whether he would allow illegal immigrant children in the US to go to school, he basically said they should get to do everything a legal kid can because they're human and that he welcomed immigration. And that wasn't a radical stance at all. How far we've come since then...
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u/Average_Sage 1h ago
I have a ton of old school conservatives in my huge family. Did some of them vote for Trump? Yes. Did some vote a second time? Yes.
But they aren't the full red hat maga, make fun of liberals type. I'm seeing a massive exodus, and it seems like suddenly they don't like any Republicans. Not out governor, not our states senators, not most the reps, not local politicians, and not anyone associated with Donald Trump. Straight up voting mostly. Hope it's not an outlier.
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u/VELOCIRAPTOR_ANUS I voted 1h ago
It's personally true. Dad was a republican, now is a dem because the GOP went crazy.
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u/GotMoFans 5h ago
Barbara is the one I’d suspect was secretly a Democrat… like her mama.
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u/SouthIsland48 4h ago
Barbara is 100% a democrat. A few decades ago that was called centrist independent, now that is democrat
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u/AnimalShithouse 1h ago
We need more parties and some kind of mixed proportional representation system. It's so ridiculous to try to reduce people into being either a democrat or a republican.
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u/postwhateverness 4h ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Jenna was as well. She has a book club and publishing imprint that promotes culturally diverse authors.
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u/UFOsBeforeBros New Jersey 4h ago
I loved all the “Read With Jenna” books I’ve read (Remarkably Bright Creatures was one of them).
Laura was a librarian, so it’s cool that Jenna is continuing her legacy on a bigger platform.
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u/justherefor23andme 3h ago
They both lean dem. Their dad famously spoke about how they both enthusiastically voted for Obama.
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u/restore_democracy 4h ago
I was going to say TIL Barbara Bush is still alive before I remembered there was a younger one.
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u/Boring_Owl6552 4h ago
Good for her. She chose her country and her state over party - at least, what's left of the GOP, that is.
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u/Dndrmflnscrtn 3h ago
had to check which barbara bush this was. still weird seeing that name on a talarico pac
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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 3h ago
She’s always been liberal. They had to keep it quiet while daddy was president.
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u/happy_bluebird America 2h ago
yeah I was confused. This is less "news" than if it was the other Barbara Bush...
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u/buffysmanycoats Connecticut 1h ago
The elder Barbara Bush died in 2018. It would indeed be interesting news if she did literally anything these days.
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u/OfferaLink 4h ago
I made a one time donation today. He is going to win. Such a needed voice in the Senate
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u/randomnighmare I voted 3h ago
Barbara Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, donated to a political action committee that supports state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate for Texas, according to campaign finance records.
For a moment, I was thinking that former First Lady Barbara Bush was donating from beyond the grave, but it was W's daughter.
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u/thebhguy9900 4h ago
Let's all remember that fElon is in the State still has his dirty bag of tricks, and they work better in corrupt red states with not a single statewide Democrat. The R TX Sec of State is not going to make a big stink if something is off on the counting.
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u/brandnewbanana Maryland 2h ago
Im very tired and I first thought Barbara Bush Senior had risen from the grave to donate. She probably would
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u/MaximumEffort433 Maryland 5h ago
Mama Bush always was a cool one.
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u/pinkfartlek Michigan 4h ago
It's George's daughter. The matriarch Barbara Bush died in 2018
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u/Heavenwasfull 3h ago
I didn't even know she was sick.
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u/randomnighmare I voted 3h ago
She was 92 at the time of her death.
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u/MarcusSurvives 3h ago
Do they suspect foul play?
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u/Worthyness 2h ago
Grim Reaper don't play. Unless you're full of vitriol and hate. For some reason that keeps you alive much longer
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u/Aggravating_Bat3618 4h ago
I went as Mrs. Bush for Halloween one year.
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u/LadyChatterteeth California 4h ago
When her husband was president, my mom once pointed out to me in the grocery store that Barbara looks (looked) exactly like the Quaker Oats man on the oatmeal containers. I’ve never been able to unsee that.
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u/chicknfly 4h ago
Kind of related, but I absolutely adore George Bush’s friendship with Michelle Obama
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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 3h ago
I don't. He's a war criminal directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths. Humanizing him is disrespectful to the people he got killed.
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