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2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record, but we still have Republicans claiming the climate crisis is a "hoax." What planet are they living on?
Aug 24, 2023 2:02 PM
SisterMidnight
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2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record, but we still have Republicans claiming the climate crisis is a "hoax." What planet are they living on?
areis30
They actually put the word "Democracy" behind the people that want to get rid of it.
Jacana
Guys. Not delusional, not in denial. It's disinformative. They knowingly lie.
CaptCrobar
What a joke he has no chance of winning.
carlsagansghost
It’s so cute seeing the GOP pretend that they’re are even considering anyone but trump.
Imalwaysready
Voting for republicans is voting for death and destruction at a mass scale. They are slimy, greedy opportunists and their voters are delusional fools.
FakeBanditHat
QueefMalone
DiracsDelta
These people are standing in a closed garage with the car running, and claiming the beeping from carbon monoxide alarm is giving them a headache.
magitek
The candidates aren't stupid, they're amoral grifters. Vivek graduated summa cum laude from Harvard with a Biology degree for chrissakes. You honestly think he doesn't recognize the mountains of evidence? No, he's simply lying. He's selling a line of shit to the GOP voters. It's the conservative base that's filled with delusional deniers, not the leaders. But what makes these candidates truly evil is that when they're in power and the stakes actually matter, they will NOT do the right thing.
Skrumblecakes
Reminder; This guy said he wants to run the country the same way Musk is running Twitter/X. That's what we can expect if these loonies get in charge again.
dank69
I'm just going to say this once for all the debate posts: if any of these people weren't already disqualified in your mind before this debate there is literally nothing more they could do or say that will disqualify them. Republican equals disqualified.
flexstar
bourbontheshieldanvil
Sebastopol140
Denial.
Lassannn
They're booing him because of his skin color.
Snooj
They're booing him because of his mouth dumbness.
FellaWithUmbrella
Does he really think that MAGA cultists, who believe in ”The Great Replacement Theory”, will vote for him?
astronomypictures
Trying the Trump strategy, can't blame him. He saw how well it worked for Trump in 2016 so at least one of these guys is going to try this strategy from now on.
bammbamm
douchebag
PoliticalWanderer
"Why is the Sahara getting larger?" Why is everything so dry and flammable that massive wildfires spring up all over the world? Why are there big clouds of neurotoxin producing algae floating around coastal beaches? Why are so many places always either in a drought or a flood? Why was there a hurricane in California? Why are so many places setting heat records?" "I dunno, but it can't be Climate Change. That's a hoax."
CommanderKitten
There are no new heat records. And if there is, it's not that bad. And if it is, it's just corrupt librul elite democrat scientists making it sound worse than it really is. And if it is really quite bad, it's just a natural cycle the planet goes through. And if it's not, it's sun spots causing the sun to be hotter than normal. And if it's not the sun, I don't know what it is. But whatever it is it's definitely not man-made climate change because God gave us oil and I ain't no queer.
PostalHeathen
Obviously God's punishing humanity because of drag queens, or some shit like that.
WarlockSniper
Hawai'i is on FUCKING fire...
fax7951
They will say that was a conspiracy too
WarlockSniper
They already are, yeah. "X persons house (on a completely dfifferent island) was untouched! How come the fire didn't engulf that!". They forget that Hawai'i is a GROUP of islands. Fucking idiots.
oozabooza
All republicans are bad people. Yes. All of them.
LizzyTheEdgy
They may not all be racist, they may not all be sexist, they may not all be pedofiles, but they sure are fine wearing the badge of the club where those people hang out.
DeadeicPrints
That's actually the most perfect way to put it, thank you.
TheGhostofElizabethShue
because he's the *only* one that isn't bought and paid for, he says with oil and gas bucks overflowing from his pockets. What a fucking penis.
Feralkyn
Plot #2: stop capitalizing Random fucking words
RadicalRecluse
pay no attention to my stake in chevron behind the curtain
Fasrill
He's not a penis, penises are useful. He's the smegma leaking out of a penis.
SwankyPotato
I loved that Trump was referred to as “the elephant not in the room” during this debate
RadicalRecluse
fat orange man was a little too on the nose
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
So because of Trump, we have to endure the next 30 years of R candidates all doing the same stupid fucking hand motions and vocal cadence huh?
Grurim
Yes. Haven't you seen his son, Jr? If you see early vids of him from when trump first started, he talks one way, but now, most times, he talks in almost a caricature of his father, because all those grifters want to try and be like the top grifter, and imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Snooj
Not if we can go a couple election cycles with people doing that losing soundly.
SanshinDojo
Doesn’t he know he’s only there to “prove” the GOP isn’t racist?
Adanis
He's polling third, which is wild to me. He was obnoxious during the debate, but I think there's a non-zero chance he becomes the GOP nominee.
DaMummy
You might be able to make that case with Tim Scott, but Vivek surged a lot with his debate performance.
Georgetheimp
I feel like this statement is pretty racist.
crossingdynasty
Yes, why else do you think they allowed him on the stage?
Tumescentpie
To get there the Tolkien has to go very far into the cult talking points.
LizzyTheEdgy
The Boondocks was on Simpsons level prediction shit with the Ruckus political campaign
MakeImgrFunnyAgain222
A lot of successful second generation Indians/Asians/Cubans believe they are "white" and start spewing a lot of the same racist Uncle Ruckus garbage. Kind of like rich black celebrities (Ice Cube). They forget their parents busted their ass to get them the opportunity and that's different from people with generational trauma and disadvantages. It's only when their "obedience" is tested/questioned they are astonished the leopards will eat their face as well.
echoawoo
And those loyalty tests only come when your teams up for pruning. Fascism doesn't discriminate on who it hates.
Georgetheimp
I mean it’s racist to think that white equals greed and power and not simply money.
LooseyGooseyBrett
Climate change is not a hoax, but he is right in many more people die from pollution. Heck, just living next to railroad tracks lowers your iq due to lead emissions.
abion47
Seeing as pollution is a major source of climate change, I'm not sure the distinction really matters.
NarratesTheDarkerStory
aw fuck, I used to live right next to train tracks. only for 2 years. so I'm probly good, huh? my brain thoughts are still making happen, uh, ideas and stuff... shit, I've gone dumb
LooseyGooseyBrett
Lead really only affects you if you're a kid. The way our bodies work, kids absorb like 90% of lead they're exposed to, adults only 10%
NarratesTheDarkerStory
phew. thanks
Shewy92
He said "I'm the only one on stage that isn't bought and paid for" and the fact that he's a Republican means that statement is false. He was bought and paid for for the GOP to look diverse.
TooRexyForMyShirt
Wait, are these all of the Republican presidential candidates? There's a noticeable lack of orange...
schmonday
They're all candidates to be Presidential candidates.
thetonestarr
All of the ones trying to snatch up the slot that he leaves open when he gets barred per the 14th amendment
SockUnderARock
This is the race for 2nd place, in case the orange one is ehh inconvenienced by being in prison.
JayAdan
These are all the people running for Vice President.
colsanders2002
Trump has basically said he doesn't need to participate in primary debates because he's already won the nomination. The real reason is he probably doesn't want to face any tough questions. Polls show he's not wrong, he's leading primary polls, but his counter-programming interview with Tucker shows a certain level of fear that he needs to distract potential primary voters, suggesting he doesn't have it as "in the bag" as he would like it.
MechKelly
He didn't bother to show up. And ran a prerecorded interview with Cuck Tarlson instead.
Onetonmanwithaspoon
He wimped out to go cry the Tuck the Cuck.
kwyjiboner
He has a big appointment in Georgia today.
sadurdaynight
The biggest. Very bigly. Huge even.
xj4low
Probably the only smart thing he has done - following his attorney advise because he couldn't keep his mouth shut on the indictments. Whole thing was pre-recorded and edited.
Marsmallowmancer
Right. At this point, opening his mouth is legit only ever going to get him into trouble. That's all he can gain from it. He has his supporters and nothing he said will sway them, and he would have to actually start being coherent to even have a single iota of a chance of swaying anyone new, and that's definitely not going to happen. His best option right now is to just sit back and shut up. We'll see if he's even capable of that (he's not)
jared743
Not to nitpick, but you mean advice. Advice is the noun, advise is the verb
xj4low
You are correct. Please forgive me. I am a product of the Texas education system.
jared743
Haha, I lived there for 4yrs so I get what you mean, though that can happen anywhere. I miss TexMex food and HEB...
xj4low
Agree on the Mexican. I'm not a fan of Baja mix with their black beans.
JHRD1880
He didn't have to show up and it was still all about him. These are just performances because it's already decided who will be the nominee.
SisterMidnight
He was somewhere with Tucker Carlson. A podcast? Something like that.
SteveMND
Close enough. A "Twitter streaming exclusive" kinda deal thing, IIRC.
SisterMidnight
Wow! Just wow!
raindirve
Ah, two of the biggest Republican men streaming a very special collaboration exclusively on X-videos.
RichardPotato
Prerecorded. Wouldn't want to violate his terms of release by accident
vegivamp
Prerecorded, because they knew else the terms of his release would be before it even happened...
Fasrill
Which he did anyway, because he just cannot help himself.
RandyRandalman
Shit nug said it will not be doing any debates.
NebulousToucan
Last debate he was in, didn't he get told to shut up by the guy who took his job, house, and twitter account?
PostalHeathen
He says it's because he's so far ahead that he doesn't need to. I think he's afraid of Chris Christie. I'm fairly sure Christie's running for no other reason than to fuck up Trump's day. Though I'm sure he wouldn't say no to the nomination if he manages to win it.
Arbitrarynamehere
Trump is right that strategically speaking he has no reason to do the debates. It's supposed to be customary, but he famously does not give a shit about norms.
LizzyTheEdgy
Oh Christies probably the closest slug in human form we have to Trump thats not Trump, hes just upset it got to be the New York loud mouth that got to be the big racist piss baby of the GOP and not him. None of these people realize the reason they arent even going to have a chance against trump is because (i hate to admit it) Trump has a ton of charisma, and these people combined have less than hillary clinton.
Puvaradivi
I think the real reason must be his lawyers finally starting to get through to him that opening his mouth may lead to jail time. I think he's honestly too stupid and conceited to be afraid of a political opponent. He puts himself on a pedestal with other dictators, as a friend in some cases, and I doubt his ego will let him see himself as less able than any other republican candidate. If there's any fear in him, I'd bet it's facing real prison time.
Arbitrarynamehere
While it is true that while he's under the gun for almost 100 different felony charges, his decision not to do debates is actually sound political strategy. He *is* really far ahead in the polls and does not need to risk losing favorability from gaffes (not that those have ever hurt him). Bottom line is it's work that he doesn't want to do and there really is a negligible upside to him doing them in the primaries at least.
PostalHeathen
I think he's more afraid of a blow to his ego, which can happen in a debahe, than the idea of facing real consequences for his actions. Until now, he's been shielded from any consequences, and I'm not sure if he's capable of considering that his privilege might, finally, not protect him.
FourScoreAndSevenBeersAgo
It's hilarious that he thinks he has a chance. Republicans want to kill people that look like him.
dontblamemeivotedforkotos
He’s the smartest one up there and the crowd literally yelled at him while he tried to speak, just racist garbage. He’s is the party’s best hope and they will destroy him
FaithAlone
He knows he won’t win, it’s about getting a book deal and becoming a contributor on Fox News all while getting his handful of the MAGA money form the apparently endlessly stupid Trump base. It’s just the same old grift.
demoncatmara
And it's not even like he's old enough for climate change to not affect him. Damn it must be nice to be that oblivious
INeverWaitForIt
They'd pick him, as long as his running mate was an obviously corrupt white dude that would be 'really' in charge to their fucked up brains. I mean, they'll support women in office as long as they think said women will do whatever a big strong white male tells her to do.
colderfish
Yes, but they LOVE the minorities that support the same ideology. Look at how they brag about any black person supporting trump. I remember the 2016 good convention. Camera panned the crowds, zooming in on the same black dude like 5 times, as if he was 5 different people. Then it became clear the guy just worked there....
BurlRavenscroft
the UK has one and the GQP aren't above puppets to pretend actual problems are solved. But, yeah.
AsAHistorian
He's running for VP. He's probably not the real concern; that's all the young neo-christo-fascist Republicans who've been raised on Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Nick Fuentes, and Stephen Crowder seeing him and taking notes on his tactics. We're gonna see a lot more of those in congressional and state legislature races in the coming elections.
ALLCAPSROCK
but he is special
DamnedIfYouDo
They don't even believe people with his kind of name are natural born citizens!
gtollie
Christie should have given him the bear hug when requested .. maybe he would have stopped denying climate change.
Forobviousreasons
I feel like he’s a plant to see how far right the GOP needs to lean. If he doesn’t make it past the primaries they know extremism doesn’t have much of a chance.
ClumsyLeftistWhoDropsThings
That's why he has a chance. He's the token. He won't, because trump is so far into the lead that none of the people on stage stand a chance* (*except desantis)
APassingPlasticBag
The leopards won’t eat my face. *Morgan freeman’s voice* But the leopards did eat his face, once they were done using his different face for their own purposes.
PapaJoeNH
They are inevitably need a candidate after Loser McFuckstick is exposed at trial
Margrave9000
Race traitors aren't the smartest ones...
CrazyCatLad
Was the crowd cheering or booing? It seems like they're actually booing him so that's at least promising.... unless they're booing in support of the hoax.
SisterMidnight
I’m assuming that crowd was heavily vetted to be filled with “loyal” Republicans. Therefore, I’m assuming they deny that there is a climate crisis.
MrCement
Sadly, in the 2A Facebook group I'm in, they kind of liked him. It's definitely a Trump mentality. The other candidates dogged on him for his crazy talk and people love that.
ThaWhiteRanger
He knows he won't win. He's just up there campaigning to be Trump's VP at this point.
KleptoKea
Looking in from the outside at the American People who gave enough votes to a fascist rapist to elect him in 2016 and almost re-elect him in 2020, I wouldn't be shocked if enough Americans thought other fascist science-denying shitstains are also "Leadership material". What a shameful era USA has entered into.
somerandomusernamething
If trump is anything to go off, the MAGA group likes people that are attacked for spewing incorrect statements as facts. I'd guess this guy is going to push up in the polls. We are not ok over here.
IsolatedAsshole
He's just there to siphon votes from Desantis to ensure Trump stays ahead. He's a puppet.
M4UsedRollout
More power to him. The only vote Desantis should win is “Most likely to build death camps”
IsolatedAsshole
For real. I despise all of them but DeSantis is the only one I think I hate more than Trump.
Ilickedthecinnabar
I can't understand how anyone who isn't white, cis, straight, Christian, and male (bonus points for being rich) can support Republicans
32193000
I can. It has a little bit to do with spinning lies to make them seem like facts, and appealing to the minorities by making promises they have no intention of keeping (eg: "equality") Awful stuff. Manipulation at its finest.
bippityboppitybuttsex
He is also a Hindu, the Christofascists would never allow him to be prez
Gayforbae
They seem to love themselves some Modi cock tho... because he's being awful to Pakistan.
PennsylvaniaPalindrome
Didn't even want a Mormon in the White House, and they believe in Jeebus.
ThaWhiteRanger
Instead of a Mormon who believes in Jesus, we got a Moron who thinks he is Jesus
PennsylvaniaPalindrome
Love me a good word play (eg diff betw little ppl mensa member and women's basketball team: one is cunning runts etc). Take yr updoot.
bippityboppitybuttsex
He thinks Jesus was a simp... hell, Christians are now saying Jesus was weak.
xj4low
Doesn't this simp also believe that 9/11 was fake?
clamdriver
He's a GRADE $ asshole. Rich man at 24 so why did he accept a full scholar ship to Yale from a Soros foundation?
moonrunes
Lmao, imagine the chaos when the people he wants to represent find out about that. Well deserved karma
oboemilyf
Yeah, he basically said as much to an Atlantic reporter
whyaminotstudying
Is there a requirement for the GOP to only put forward the absolute worst people?
xj4low
Looks at current roster of GOP elected officials, Gaetz, MTG, Mitch, Gym Jordan, Boebert, Santos, Cruz, Desantes, the Y’All Qaeda, The Insurrectionists, The Traitor Tots, Karen and the Gang, The Deplorables...yep, that checks out for worst people.
FishieStardust
Chris Christie also commented that his name reminded him of Barack Obama's, which felt like such an obvious racist dog whistle
smarterest07
That is not true.
FaithAlone
No one on that stage was a good person. Just garbage from one end to the next.
KillerWalnut
He plagiarized “skinny guy with a funny name” from a 2004 Obama speech which Christie called out
AsianLeprechaun
It's yet another reason why no matter what Christie says that's anti Trump, I still say he can go fuck himself.
DaddyChillWhatTheHellIsEvenThat
No. He said that because vivek said the same things Obama said in his speech. I was surprised Christie remembered obama’s speech
KuldFyt
chunguswangus
Christie literally said that Obama said the same thing. He even got the quote more or less correct.
KuldFyt
It's true, we never give conservatives any credit for the unracist things they say in between dogwhistles. Tremendously unsporting.
AllMyPain
What a muppet the other guy is.. Make me become smarter thann him by telling me what the quote is.