NYT: Biden Asked Republicans to Give Him a Chance. They're Not Interested.

[In It to Win It]

MASON, Texas — The change at the Sunday prayer service was so subtle it went unnoticed by several congregants. Tucked in between calls for divine health and wisdom, the Rev. Fred Krebs of St. Paul Lutheran Church, who rarely brings up politics, fleetingly mentioned this month’s presidential election.

“We pray for a peaceful transition,” he told his congregation of 50 people. The carefully chosen words underscored the political reality in Mason, Texas — a rural, conservative town of roughly 2,000 people — after Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump.

Not everyone thought the election was over, and not everyone said they would respect the results.

“My Democratic friends think Biden is going to heal everything and unify everyone,” said Jeanie Smith, who attends the more conservative Spring Street Gospel Church in Mason, which is about 100 miles west of Austin. “They are deceived.

“Now you want healing,” she added. “Now you want to come together. You have not earned it.”

https://news.yahoo.com/biden-asked-republicans-him-chance-162845294.html

[Iliyah]

1. Maybe not them, but a lot of republicans want unity . ..

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. Actually, they want their cake and eat it too.

[mitch96]

14. Obama tried this hands across the isle tactic.. it failed. They don't want to play.

So keep up with the hands across the isle rhetoric and do what has to be done to make this democracy work... YMMV
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[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. Where are these elusive republicans? All I've seen, heard, or read want perpetual GOP rule.

[Laelth]

2. Jeanie Smith is right.

To the best of their ability, the Republicans for whom she votes aren’t going to let us do ANYTHING to solve America’s most desperate and serious problems. Once again, they will prove that government doesn’t work by INSURING that government doesn’t work for the people.

Sadly, I doubt that she understands this dynamic.

-Laelth

[BeyondGeography]

3. Let's go to a church in a Texas town that's 100 miles away from anywhere

and see what the people there think about a Democratic President who preaches unity.

I’ll take stories that write themselves for $100, Alex.

[ms liberty]

10. This. n/t

[catrose]

4. Wait, why do WE have to earn it?

What would we have to do to earn it (supposing we were interested)?
Agree with their worldview completely (including that we've injured them)?

[CousinIT]

5. "You have not earned it"? WHO?

It's the goddamned Republicans who have not earned it. Quite the contrary. They've done EVERYTHING to prevent and sabotage it!

[LisaL]

6. They can go pound sand.

NT

[GoCubsGo]

8. How very Christian of her.

We have to "earn" healing with this asshole? Fuck that shit. Let her stew in her own hatred until she rots. Who the hell does she think she is?

[PatSeg]

15. As usual, republicans break everything

and expect Democrats to fix it. Newt Gingrich trained them well back in the nineties.

[BusyBeingBest]

9. Go fuck your sorry-ass selves. So glad your orange god lost.

[Cha]

11. FO to the Brainwashed ASSHOLES..

Of course they're not interested but PE has to ask.. and then MOVE ON!

[andym]

12. America's in DEEP trouble

THe Right-wing propagandists and Trump, in particular, have created a huge problem.

[hatrack]

13. Oh, look! A Cletus Safari, but in a church instead of a diner!

Gripping!!!

[In It to Win It]

17. "Cletus Safari" killed me