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kpete

(72,901 posts)
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 08:24 PM Aug 2022

So Republicans are really about to go into the midterms with this messaging:

- Defund the FBI
- Toxin-exposed veterans don’t deserve healthcare
- End Social Security and Medicare
- 10-year-olds must be forced to give birth to their rapists’ baby
- Keep Insulin prices high


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So Republicans are really about to go into the midterms with this messaging: (Original Post) kpete Aug 2022 OP
Sounds like a winning agenda to me... Wounded Bear Aug 2022 #1
It just might be, because their voters only care about the R after the name. maxsolomon Aug 2022 #39
Annnd... tfg should be above the law Ohio Joe Aug 2022 #2
Kick. Upthevibe Aug 2022 #3
and hate because thier gawd said so.... Lovie777 Aug 2022 #4
The Trumphumpers will like it SergeStorms Aug 2022 #5
They don't care Lotusflower70 Aug 2022 #6
They won't control much with that agenda Generic Brad Aug 2022 #13
Don't forget sunsetting Social Security dlk Aug 2022 #7
Finally, they have a governing policy! WestMichRad Aug 2022 #8
Go team go! WVreaper Aug 2022 #9
But white, straight, Christian people stay in charge Pinback Aug 2022 #10
A couple more could be added. Lonestarblue Aug 2022 #11
And shoot to kill Traildogbob Aug 2022 #12
They even want to arrest the FBI AncientOfDays Aug 2022 #14
LOL DENVERPOPS Aug 2022 #38
They want to burn it all down Buckeyeblue Aug 2022 #15
Sure, & they must own what their dear leader said on 8/3/16, 9/7/16, 10/15/16, 10/20/16, ancianita Aug 2022 #16
double down morons..... bahboo Aug 2022 #17
Yup. The usual chuluma Aug 2022 #18
They are so Effing Weird they belong on a different planet SouthernDem4ever Aug 2022 #19
Rec'd. for 100 Alex. ✔️ live love laugh Aug 2022 #20
They think 2022 is such a layup D_Master81 Aug 2022 #21
If gas and grocery prices go lower, they will have nothing to run against IronLionZion Aug 2022 #22
They won't which is why dems need to point it out ad nauseam. G2theD Aug 2022 #23
Texas Slammer Aug 2022 #24
Yikes Mad_Machine76 Aug 2022 #40
ads Slammer Aug 2022 #46
Let's help 'em put that message out! calimary Aug 2022 #25
Yeah not fooled Aug 2022 #31
perhaps entitled "The Never-Ending Holiday for Crimers!"? sure fills the marquee... bringthePaine Aug 2022 #26
Commit you and your progeny to horrible deaths from preventable climate disasters n/t royable Aug 2022 #27
Perfect. Sogo Aug 2022 #28
GOTV and take more of the House and Senate from radicalized Republicans Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2022 #29
and add samsingh Aug 2022 #30
Helpful only if kacekwl Aug 2022 #32
They're banking on cheating being enough to get them the win. Marius25 Aug 2022 #33
TFG message for 2024: Vote for me because I was raided by the FBI. Norbert Aug 2022 #34
Yes. And we need to help them spread the Republican message far and near! librechik Aug 2022 #35
We've been here before. notinkansas Aug 2022 #36
Proceed. Blue Owl Aug 2022 #37
i guess this is what happens when you start to believe your own lies. Martin68 Aug 2022 #41
Great ad newdayneeded Aug 2022 #42
Hot-Handed cards gotta be played. czarjak Aug 2022 #43
kick -- The ginned-up outrage over the warrant is a deflection from their messaging. Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2022 #44
And, of course, their Zombie Robot Cha Aug 2022 #45

maxsolomon

(38,711 posts)
39. It just might be, because their voters only care about the R after the name.
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 01:48 PM
Aug 2022

As long as it's not a Godless Comnist Tax & Spend Baby-Killer Librul Anteefuh Far Left Demoncrat, they'll vote for them.

Gerrymandering takes care of the rest.

Ohio Joe

(21,898 posts)
2. Annnd... tfg should be above the law
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 08:26 PM
Aug 2022

I'll be nice and call it... An interesting strategy.

SergeStorms

(20,584 posts)
5. The Trumphumpers will like it
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 08:28 PM
Aug 2022

They don't care what comes out of their messiah's mouth. It's all music, to their ears.

Lotusflower70

(3,110 posts)
6. They don't care
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 08:34 PM
Aug 2022

And their voters don't either. Their voters are all about hate and control. We have to show up and show out.

Generic Brad

(14,374 posts)
13. They won't control much with that agenda
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 09:37 PM
Aug 2022

All I can think they will control is the level of derisive laughter. They are unwittingly pantsing themselves.

Lonestarblue

(13,474 posts)
11. A couple more could be added.
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 09:33 PM
Aug 2022

Pass a nationwide ban on abortion with no exceptions.

Outlaw all forms of birth control.

AncientOfDays

(263 posts)
14. They even want to arrest the FBI
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 09:40 PM
Aug 2022

Responding to the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago, Florida GOP state Rep. Anthony Sabatini has called for his state's legislature to break away from federal agencies.

“It’s time for us in the Florida Legislature to call an emergency legislative session & amend our laws regarding federal agencies,” Sabatini wrote on Twitter this Tuesday.

"Sever all ties with DOJ immediately," he added. "Any FBI agent conducting law enforcement functions outside the purview of our State should be arrested upon sight."

As The Daily Beast points out, Sabatini was a supporter of Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fbi-search/

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
38. LOL
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 01:09 PM
Aug 2022

I would really love it if they broke away from "Federal agencies", as in "succeeded" from the USA and were responsible for all the shit the Feds supply them with........

Let Florida elect DeSantis as their President and then just stand back and let the new Florida Country implode.......
Same thing goes for Texas, etc etc etc

ancianita

(43,307 posts)
16. Sure, & they must own what their dear leader said on 8/3/16, 9/7/16, 10/15/16, 10/20/16,
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 10:05 PM
Aug 2022

10/21/16, 10/25/16, and 10/30/16:

"Anyone being investigated by the FBI is not qualified to be the President of the United States."
Donald J Trump

D_Master81

(2,584 posts)
21. They think 2022 is such a layup
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 10:39 PM
Aug 2022

They think conditions in the country are bad enough right now that it doesn’t matter what they say. I mean do you hear them? They don’t offer any plans, it’s just “Biden sucks, vote for us”.

IronLionZion

(51,265 posts)
22. If gas and grocery prices go lower, they will have nothing to run against
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 10:52 PM
Aug 2022

and idiots will still vote GOP to own the libs or get tax cuts or whatever they think will happen.

Slammer

(714 posts)
24. Texas
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 11:06 PM
Aug 2022

There's a lot to campaign on in specific states as well.

For example in Texas, the Republicans in the legislature passed a bill which the Republican governor signed into law allowing bounty hunters to go after female children who have been the victims of rape.

Not allowing licensed bounty hunters to go after the rapist.

But allowing self-appointed bounty hunters to pursue little girls who've been rape victims.

(Not that it's politically relevant yet but I wonder how the police are supposed to sort out the creeps who are following little girls looking for chances to rape them from the self-appointed bounty hunters who are following little girls around thinking the little girl might have been a rape victim and hoping the girls will do something "suspicious" so the bounty hunter can take her to court and cash in on it.)

Slammer

(714 posts)
46. ads
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 08:43 PM
Aug 2022

That's exactly the angle I think Beto ought to use in any TV political ads:

"They're sending bounty hunters after little girls who've been the victims of rape. Not after the rapists but the victims."

calimary

(90,002 posts)
25. Let's help 'em put that message out!
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 11:09 PM
Aug 2022

Remind, remind, remind!

And it's a nice concise list. Unfortunately, nobody has time to wait while a Biden supporter tries to list ALL the dozens and dozens and more dozens of beneficial moves or acts that President Biden ran on, endorsed, promoted, and helped negotiate. And look at what we got? The outstanding results speak for themselves.

Now, we gotta PROMOTE it!!!

not fooled

(6,678 posts)
31. Yeah
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 10:39 AM
Aug 2022

Unfortunately, I doubt that most voters know the facts, let alone would readily believe the GQPee has gone as far off the rails as it has.

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,631 posts)
29. GOTV and take more of the House and Senate from radicalized Republicans
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 01:37 AM
Aug 2022

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

notinkansas

(1,318 posts)
36. We've been here before.
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 11:20 AM
Aug 2022

Dubya was going to spend all the political capital he felt he had earned by touring the country trying to promote the privatization of Social Security. He ended up abandoning that 'tour'.

Eisenhower didn't mince words. He said "President Dwight Eisenhower, Republican, uttered these words on November 8, 1954:

“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.”

Yet here we are again. Their willful ignorance is astounding.

 

newdayneeded

(2,493 posts)
42. Great ad
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 03:23 PM
Aug 2022

Title on a black screen "this is what Republican's support"

Then list these item sequentially.

Simple, powerful, true.

It should run nation wide 2 months before election.

Cha

(319,057 posts)
45. And, of course, their Zombie Robot
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 06:39 PM
Aug 2022

fans will eat it up.. but the Indies should NOT!

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