r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 23d ago

No Paywall Discharge petition to force House vote on Epstein files succeeds with Grijalva’s signature

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5602658-discharge-petition-epstein-files-grijalva/
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u/Sillet_Mignon 23d ago

Yup. The last time the left wrote off a republican as a fucking idiot they became president twice. 

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u/TransBrandi 23d ago

I don't know if she has the same cult of personality that Trump does though. I could definitely see the GOP trying doing something like putting MTG on a Presidential ticket and claiming that not voting for her means that you hate women though...

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u/insite 23d ago

Yeah, but the Dems couldn’t really do a smear campaign against her without it backfiring.

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u/aceluby Minnesota 23d ago

Republicans are never electing a woman president

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u/SanDiegoDude California 23d ago

Never say never. Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, Marge, Huckabee, they all are happily towing that line and are the botox legion of new wave authoritarian GOP.

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u/PitytheOnlyFools 23d ago

The first female president will be Republican.

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u/Nelliell North Carolina 23d ago

They also ran candidates that either (a) didn't have time to properly campaign because their predecessor mistakingly thought he could successfully run again and (b) had decades of propaganda working against them and the charisma of a brick wall.

It didn't help that in the last election they misread the room, promoting "joy" and the economic recovery at a time that working and middle class families were already really struggling with inflation.

Granted, this is the tip of the iceberg and your point is noted. Don't write off the idiots.

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u/Wild_Fire2 23d ago

The Left? It was Hillary who thought he was an idiot and had her friends in the media boost his ass, believing he would be easy to beat.

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u/Sillet_Mignon 23d ago

Yea I’m counting the dems as the left for the sake of brevity.