Wisconsin Senate Candidate Says Old People Shouldn't Get To Vote Because They're Almost Dead. (Hovde-R)

[Imallin4Joe]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wisconsin-senate-candidate-says-old-people-shouldn-t-get-to-vote-because-they-re-almost-dead/ar-BB1mNAtJ?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=7263498555864169b618f03955dd6f32&ei=13

I rec reading the article in the above link but I'll post a few snips from it.

Rethug senate candidate Eric Hovde, a carpetbagging bank owner from California has been parachuted into Wisconsin to run against incumbent Sen Tammy Baldwin-D.

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snip from article

One of the only reasons we have been partially saved from uniform Republican government over the past two decades is the fact that serious whackadoos have been winning GOP Senate primaries. They've felt compelled to assure us that they are not witches, and talked about paying your medical bills with chickens. Last time around, they came up with the comically terrible Dr. Oz and the terribly comic Herschel Walker. In New Hampshire, Democratic incumbent Maggie Hassan was thought to be vulnerable, but the Republican primary coughed up Don Bolduc, a retired general who believed that there were litter boxes in public school classrooms. Hassan won from here to there. In the aftermath, the Republicans announced that they would be vetting their candidates with more care in 2024, when the Senate map seemed tilted in their favor.

Good luck with that. There were soup kitchens in the Depression that did a better job vetting their clientele.

This time, it seems, the GOP has settled on candidates who are not quite as outwardly bananas as Christine O'Donnell or poor old Herschel. But scratch off a little bit of the veneer, however, and the inner wingnut and/or incompetent shines right through. Take, for example, Eric Hovde, the California gozillionnaire whom the Wisconsin Republicans parachuted in to take on incumbent Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin. On the surface, Hovde looked ideal—young, handsome, and rich, and the whole carpetbagger thing doesn't seem to bite anywhere as hard as it once did. Unless, of course, the candidate turns out to be such a klutz that carpetbagging becomes just another example of the candidate's inability to tell his arse from his elbow. So meet Eric Hovde. He really likes you, Meemaw. He just doesn't think you should vote. From Wisconsin Public Radio:

“Well, if you’re in a nursing home, you only have five, six months life expectancy. Almost nobody in a nursing home is at a point to vote, and you had … adult children showing up and saying, ‘Who voted for my 85- or 90-year-old father or mother?’” Hovde said.

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He also goes on saying he would support a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act and supports slashing SS benefits and increasing the retirement age to 72 in order to receive benefits.

Fellow Democrats, we really need to make this an issue during campaign season, starting now!

Hovde is this election cycle's version of Herschel Walker, Dr Oz, and Christine O'donnell all wrapped into one carpetbagging psychopath.

Let's keep on reminding elderly voters about him until election day.

Go Sen Tammy Baldwin!!!!

[Arne]

1. Some one has to get a can of worms, open it,

and start passing them out.
You get a worm and you get a worm...

[jls4561]

26. Funny you should say that...

This guy claimed worms cured his MS.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218969072

[Arne]

28. I just assume that magats take Ivermectin.

[riversedge]

2. Money talks and Hovde has LOTS of it. We all need to work hard to keep Baldwin as our Senator.

[Imallin4Joe]

21. Yes, to the tenth degree!! Go Baldwin!!

We need to keep this wing-nut Hovde out of office!

[LiberalFighter]

3. I hope Tammy whips his ass.

[Imallin4Joe]

22. I'm so with you! I hope Tammy whips him too!

[bullimiami]

4. That would be another nail in the right wing coffin.

Shut down your most reliable voters.

[sakabatou]

5. So Hovde supports social darwinism.

[Probatim]

8. He supports Eugenics - if you're old, infirm, unable to procreate, be productive - over the cliff with you.

Social Darwinism is too soft for what he's peddling.

[whathehell]

11. A fascist idea..

I believe the nazis were quite on board with it.

[Probatim]

16. And probably why it resonates with his likely voters.

[Traurigkeit]

24. Very Spartan of him

[Attilatheblond]

6. My WI born and raised neighbor thinks WI GOP people shouldn't get to vote because they're STUPID n/t

[machoneman]

7. Amen to that!

[Imallin4Joe]

23. True! An IQ test would disqualify 90% of GOP/MAGA voters!

Fuck them and everything they stand for.

[Warpy]

9. Young Republican males shouldn't vote because they're stupid

and since there is no cure for stupid....

[Imallin4Joe]

30. Especially the big 4x4 crowd with the Trump flags attached to their pickup truck bed..

those assholes are the height of stupidity!

[Mblaze]

10. Hovde. Consider their vote part of the inheritance.

You absolute twit.

[Renew Deal]

12. Fine, but then we should allow 5 year olds to vote

Obviously

[peppertree]

19. And if you gave a Repug some truth serum, they'd answer "As long as they're towheads and have 'American' sounding names"

"Can't have the "wrong" 5 year-olds voting, can we? (Paquito? Aiysha? Whut are you doing here!? You too, Irving!)"

[Ping Tung]

13. He seems to following Trump's brilliant method of making enemies through insults.

Republicans usually count on a solid vote by the elderly. Calling them feeble minded and useless won't play well with them or their relatives or friends.

What a blessing is a gift of Repug candidates who antagonize voters they count on.

Cranky old voters like me (I'm 80) tend to take offense when insulted.

[progressoid]

14. the comically terrible Dr. Oz and the terribly comic Herschel Walker

That's a great line.

[FelineOverlord]

15. Rachel Maddow had a great A block segment on him

Someone had turned his Pledge of Allegiance into a Veep parody.

She also talks about the REAL reason he hates seniors so much (it involves a lawsuit about elder abuse) around 7:00 mark in the video.

[Imallin4Joe]

34. Thank you for posting..

Maddow's excellent takedown of Fascist fuckface Hovde!!

[pansypoo53219]

17. commercials for him full of lies + bs.

[TeamProg]

18. I never thought The Leopard Ate My Face Party would actually Eat my face!

Doh!

[Rocknation]

20. Is he aware of how old

the presidential candidates are?


Rocknation

[Traurigkeit]

25. His idol, TSF , "isn't old" ....

[Srkdqltr]

27. He has the IQ of a crayon. The one with the eaten end.

[Imallin4Joe]

33. I have to add to your perfect comment..

Hovde was the guy that ate too much Elmer's Glue in elementary class!

[Srkdqltr]

37. Excellent.

[Rebl2]

29. How old is

he? He needs to remember that he too will be old one day, if he lives long enough.

[Imallin4Joe]

32. Yes! He's approaching that age now.

[Rebl2]

35. And that

age is what? 60, 70? If he’s in his seventies he should shut the hell up.

[pecosbob]

31. Never trust anyone over thirty...

[Celerity]

36. the 70s called and wants its pornstache back