I’m an old (very) white guy that grew up in Nebraska.
If anyone has the right to be a bigoted MAGA idiot I think I just might.
But I’m not.
I grew and evolved.
“If California is so great, why is everyone moving to XXYZZ?”
“Everyone” isn’t moving, you just live in a tiny town. A rounding errors worth of Californians have moved to your area. I walk by more people on my way to brunch
— Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor) October 29, 2022
Whenever I’m back in Nebraska visiting old friends and family people looooove to drop this stuff into conversation.
Not that I blame them. They live in Nebraska so they need to believe that California is a failed state to cope.
People are what they do and what they will allow.
If someone is evil and they support evil things, they aren’t nice because they are nice to you. They just hope you’re evil too.
And yes, republicans in 2022 are evil. Every one of them. Even your relatives.
Republicans just introduced a federal Don’t Say Gay bill, and it’s much worse than the Florida version.
It’d defund any school, hospital, or institution that exposes minors to any LGBTQ+ materials — or even LGTBQ+ staff.
This is on the ballot.
— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer_) October 19, 2022
If you vote for these monsters especially on the off chance that it might maybe possibly make gas cheaper, you’re a defective misfire of a person.
“Within hours of the brutal attack last month on Paul Pelosi, the husband of the speaker of the House, activists and media outlets on the right began circulating groundless claims – nearly all of them sinister, and many homophobic – casting doubt on what had happened …
The misinformation came from all levels of Republican politics. A U.S. senator circulated the view that ‘none of us will ever know’ what really happened at the Pelosis’ San Francisco home. A senior Republican congressman referred to the attacker as a ‘nudist hippie male prostitute,’ baselessly asserting that the suspect had a personal relationship with Mr. Pelosi. Former President Donald J. Trump questioned whether the attack might have been staged.
The world’s richest man helped amplify the stories. But none of it was true.”
—NYT, 5 November 2022
This nightmare is the world we live in when you allow friends and family to be MAGA without pushback.
Your gymnastics in service of “civility” have robbed the country of its own civility.
Yeah, I get that you’re tired of hearing how every election is “the most important election ever” but republicans keep making that true through their bad faith, fascist thirst, and backwards “Christian” atavism.
They will never be satisfied and need to be shut down. Here and now. Today.
Vote their horde back into the shadows where it belongs. Everything depends on it.
Was gonna do mail-in but I wanted to *feel* this vote. And get a sticker.
—jason malmberg
Flommist Jason Malmberg is a simple man who believes in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art sometimes. Copyright © 2022 Jason Malmberg.
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