jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agoIdaho state senator tells Native American candidate to “go back where you came from”www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up1698arrow-down17
arrow-up1691arrow-down1external-linkIdaho state senator tells Native American candidate to “go back where you came from”www.motherjones.comjeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square96fedilink
minus-squaredrunkpostdisaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up49·edit-22 months agoHow does someone like this become senator?
minus-squareRagingRobot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up51arrow-down1·2 months agoPeople in power usually aren’t smart. They just have money from their parents or grandparents. This isn’t a meritocracy. Idiots rule the world
minus-squaredubious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 months agoand there’s only one way to get rid of them
minus-squareChaotic Entropy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 months agoTrick them in to thinking that the senate building is haunted.
minus-squareochi_chernye@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoI’m sure that’ll work, provided there aren’t any meddlesome kids about!
minus-squareChaotic Entropy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoReally makes you question the youth vote.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoPretty sure the mystery gang would help out with such an operation. Remember they mostly dealt with rich people.
minus-squarecrank0271@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoGreat, now they’re diverting all the tax revenue to churches to pay for exorcisms.
minus-squareChaotic Entropy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoDon’t read in to the fact that the priest receiving all the tax payer money looks like the senator but with a goatee, and you never see them in the same room.
minus-squarehumorlessrepost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoGreat idea! I’ll go make some spooky ghost costumes!
minus-squareChaotic Entropy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoLank hair, sunken faces, soulless eyes… you’re going to have to try real hard to separate them from the living senators.
minus-squarehumorlessrepost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoAll we need is some white sheets!
minus-squareStarshotJohn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 months agoAdditionally, the dumb relate to the dumb (and are easily manipulated), hence why they get votes.
minus-squaredrunkpostdisaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoI get that. But you would think that a senator would at one point be in the same room as a history book
minus-squarenaught101@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoSure, but that’s a long way from reading it
minus-squareKalysta@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoRacists are allowed to vote and do so en masse
How does someone like this become senator?
People in power usually aren’t smart. They just have money from their parents or grandparents. This isn’t a meritocracy. Idiots rule the world
and there’s only one way to get rid of them
Trick them in to thinking that the senate building is haunted.
I’m sure that’ll work, provided there aren’t any meddlesome kids about!
Really makes you question the youth vote.
Pretty sure the mystery gang would help out with such an operation. Remember they mostly dealt with rich people.
Great, now they’re diverting all the tax revenue to churches to pay for exorcisms.
Don’t read in to the fact that the priest receiving all the tax payer money looks like the senator but with a goatee, and you never see them in the same room.
Great idea! I’ll go make some spooky ghost costumes!
Lank hair, sunken faces, soulless eyes… you’re going to have to try real hard to separate them from the living senators.
All we need is some white sheets!
Additionally, the dumb relate to the dumb (and are easily manipulated), hence why they get votes.
I get that. But you would think that a senator would at one point be in the same room as a history book
Sure, but that’s a long way from reading it
Protest votes.
State senator, not real senator.
Racists are allowed to vote and do so en masse