jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 1 month agoIdaho state senator tells Native American candidate to “go back where you came from”www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up1701arrow-down18
arrow-up1693arrow-down1external-linkIdaho state senator tells Native American candidate to “go back where you came from”www.motherjones.comjeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square96fedilink
minus-squaredrunkpostdisaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up49·edit-21 month agoHow does someone like this become senator?
minus-squareRagingRobot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up52arrow-down1·1 month 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-up10·1 month agoand there’s only one way to get rid of them
minus-squareChaotic Entropy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 month agoTrick them in to thinking that the senate building is haunted.
minus-squareochi_chernye@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoI’m sure that’ll work, provided there aren’t any meddlesome kids about!
minus-squareChaotic Entropy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoReally makes you question the youth vote.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoPretty sure the mystery gang would help out with such an operation. Remember they mostly dealt with rich people.
minus-squarecrank0271@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoGreat, now they’re diverting all the tax revenue to churches to pay for exorcisms.
minus-squareChaotic Entropy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month 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-up2·1 month agoGreat idea! I’ll go make some spooky ghost costumes!
minus-squareChaotic Entropy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·29 days 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-up1·28 days agoAll we need is some white sheets!
minus-squareStarshotJohn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoAdditionally, the dumb relate to the dumb (and are easily manipulated), hence why they get votes.
minus-squaredrunkpostdisaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month 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-up1·1 month agoSure, but that’s a long way from reading it
minus-squareKalysta@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month 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.
Racists are allowed to vote and do so en masse
State senator, not real senator.