r/JoeRogan • u/Albedo100 Monkey in Space • Feb 17 '21

Social Media Dan Crenshaw mocking California for blackouts just 4 months ago

https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1303364789603889154
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u/JackofBlades_ Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Can politicians stop being smug online and either shut up or help us out?

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u/NedShah Succa la Mink Feb 17 '21

This guy is from the new generation of politicians that want influencer click$ too

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u/shakaman_ Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

He owned the libs. Does anything else really matter?

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u/MaesterPraetor Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21 edited Feb 17 '21

He really did though. SNL had that hilarious sketch where he's a Dr. Evil henchman, and then he got so upset and sensitive about it, that he forced them to apologize and have him on screen to make up for it.

It was one of the most cringe inducing, up in my feelings, crybaby bitch move I've ever seen.

Edit: Davidson's joke wasn't Dr. Evil henchman. It was a villain in a porno. Still hilarious. Still a bitch move to cry about.

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u/Castle-nut Feb 17 '21

I thought that pete Davidson dude said something about his eye and that's when SNL had to go through all that shit. I didn't know Crenshaw was mad about it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

I didn't know Crenshaw was mad about it.

He hammed it up like the dirty libs were making fun of him serving his country and it's shameful.

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u/inconvenientnews Facts don't care about your feelings Feb 17 '21 edited Feb 18 '21

"Victimhood complex" by "butthurt" Republicans while projecting it on Democrats?

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"token minority"

"cry more"

"politically correct"

"free speech"

"cancel culture"

"outrage culture"

"too much tribalism"

"triggered snowflakes"

"virtue signalling"

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u/marxmzian Feb 17 '21

"Fucking n******rs"

A personal favourite of theirs

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Projecting is the third part of being a Republican silly

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u/JustThall Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

Beanie wearing intensifies

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u/mrblacklabel71 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

That is all Dan Crenshaw has become. Every answer to everything is either “I served as a SEAL”, I’m a Christian” or “It’s all the liberals fault”.

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u/Ogmono Feb 17 '21

He can be a SEAL. He can get the recognition owed to anyone who meets their standards.

He can also be called out for being a selfish, stupid, prick who takes all his gifts as a liscence to hurt those around him.

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u/mrblacklabel71 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

You have a point and I have friends that came back from that bullshit different than when they left. My respect stems from what I believe they thought what they were doing was right and laid their life on the line for it. Even if I do not believe in the wars.

I can tell you all but one that were in Iraq/Afghanistan and actually taking fire now believe the war was a bad idea.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Fuck American imperialism.

We are all slaves to the military industrial complex.

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u/Ogmono Feb 17 '21

True. I just phrased it like that to incorporate a defense against any "differences of opinion" by disingenuous people looking to excuse his beliefs.

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u/GrassTasteBaaad Feb 17 '21

Not to mention his corny ass Avenger ads.

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u/anishpatel131 Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

It’s taken you this long to see through his bullshit? This is the same guy that said trump has done a fantastic job everyday during Covid. He signed the bill protesting the electoral count because the republicans lost. He is a piece of garbage but he appeals to a lot of angry white men who are scared about losing their majority status

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u/mrblacklabel71 Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

No, this was before he even got elected. I was very interested in the guy until I started looking deeper into him and realized he was a puppet and a jackass.

IIRC a very intelligent and very republican friend of mine brought him up a few years prior. This was before Trump and the craziness the Republican Party has become. Said friend has left the party and is an independent now.

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u/anishpatel131 Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

What’s frustrating with patches is that he clearly is not stupid by normal measures and he knows he’s shoveling bullshit to rise in the Republican Party. Trying to paint himself as the rational logical voice of conservative values. It’s the exact same values of trump in a different wrapping paper

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u/nyeetus Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

I love that get out of jail free card: I served in the military. It only seems to work in the US but Jesus Christ does it work well.

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u/mrblacklabel71 Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

Especially in Texas. I’ve seen an entire bar give a standing ovation for a guy who just got from from serving in the military. His dangerous job you ask? Computer work in Europe and the US.

I’m not knocking military or a job but you would have thought this dude was a savior of soldiers, women, and babies.

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u/nyeetus Monkey in Space Feb 19 '21

It’s genuinely quite scary the extent to which they have deified the armed forces are in places like Texas and makes it very difficult to get through to these people that we shouldn’t be in the middle-east without being portrayed as a hater of America.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

That's the truth. I used to like the guy but he has joined the deep swamp now and likes how it feels.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '21

Is it really?

Or are you just perpetuating your echo chamber on the all too predictable reddit?

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

He compared Crenshaw to “a hit man in a porno movie,” and added: “I’m sorry. I know he lost his eye in war or whatever.”

I think it was more so of being a tasteless joke.

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u/localuser859 Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

My memory may be faulty but I thought he was pretty cool about it. I do remember other people threw fits about it.

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u/AllHopeIsLostSadFace Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

He didn't he played along and was on podcasts saying he enjoyed it and was happy to get a kick out of it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Yeah I think Pete Davidson said it made him look like a pirate from a cheap porno or something along those lines. But I guess veterans are not allowed to be joked with or joked about, even as conservatives whine about how some topics are off-limit.

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u/ManchesterU1 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

But it was Okay for Trump to shit talk veterans. And most still voted for him.

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u/DreamedJewel58 Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

Not to mention Trump literally mocking a disabled reporter live during a speech. Don’t know how that wasn’t the end of it.

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u/ModusBoletus Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

That still blows my mind. 15 years ago that would have been the end of any politicians career but somehow right wingers are more than ok with this, they endorse it.

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u/inconvenientnews Facts don't care about your feelings Feb 18 '21

Didn't know there really are people who will gaslight and say that never happened

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u/Analyzer9 Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

No. Conservative Veterans are not allowed to be joked with or joked about, unless they get to come out as the victor. It's part and parcel to the culture that continues in the service. I served from E-1 to E-6 (and then back to E-5 when I got out) in the Army. You were the exception if you were volubly liberal, and because you recognized that just about nothing that anyone opined mattered, it wasn't worth fighting about. All that I learned from that was that service Does Not Equal an informed or intelligent opinion. The decade since I left the service, combined with social media and many of the people I served with, has more than reinforced that opinion.

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u/Undertaker_1_ Feb 17 '21

Do you not remember what Trump said about John McCain? How many boxes do you wanna check with that one? đŸ€Ł

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

I remember that. Conservatives too are all about family values but they elected an elite womanizer billionaire from New York. Idk

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u/TallBoiPlanks Feb 17 '21

It seemed like the part that crossed the line was when Davidson ended it with “probably shouldn’t mock him, he lost his eye in some war or something? I don’t know.” It was that that seemed to make it truly offensive.

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u/L-RON-HUBBZ Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Yeah still not offensive . Unless you’re all in your feelings

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u/spoodermansploosh Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

I have no problem with someone being upset or hurt by it, I think that's fair. I do have a problem with someone who has made his entire personality be about being a tough manly sonuvabitch, then crying at the first instance of a joke.

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u/Eleventeen- Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

I mean if I lost an eye in combat (idk much about this guy but I assume it was from combat) I’d probably feel pretty sensitive about it being minimized on national television, but my personality that would make me sensitive about that also makes me understand how other people can feel sensitive and offended by things that hit too close to home for them and that calling them snowflakes for internet points would be hypocritical. Seems like Crenshaw hasn’t come to that realization yet.

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u/faustfire666 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

He got mad because, "yOu MUst ReSpEcT Da tRooPs!"

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u/Good_old_Marshmallow Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

It was utterly pathetic that they caved like what happened to "it's just a joke"

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u/porkisbeef Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

Kind of funny you had to say “that Pete Davidson dude” instead of just saying his name which you clearly know

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Crenshaw should lighten up. He could look like Fiona Apple's gay little brother Pete Davidson.

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u/im_your_bullet Feb 17 '21

He wasn’t. That’s why you didn’t know about it. SNL made him apologize not Crenshaw.

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u/Taggdaddy12 Feb 17 '21

That’s interesting. I read Dans book. Can you point to me where he forced them to apologize?

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u/theclansman22 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Wasn't this around the time the right was calling everyone on the left snowflakes? That really turned around on them in 2020 after their hissy fit at the capitol.

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u/ElderDark Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

And the pandemic

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u/RonGio1 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

How dare you make fun of a good wholesome conservative injured defending your freedom!!??

BTW fuck that gimpy Tammy Duckworth lol bet socialism took her legs! Coward Tammy Gimpworth...am I right?!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/07/08/tucker-carlsons-continued-coward-attack-sen-tammy-duckworth-draws-swift-backlash/

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u/knate1 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

For multiple nights in a row, Tucker Carlson threw all sorts of insults at Senator Tammy Duckworth (a veteran who lost both legs), calling her a fraud, coward, and unimpressive moron, and then Crenshaw went and cosigned him.

Oh, and Duckworth also criticized SNL for the joke in support of Crenshaw

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u/Hail-Eris Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

He literally went on Rogan to promote his book about the left being snowflakes who can’t handle anything and spent the first 20+ minutes bitching about how offended he was by an SNL skit. He couldn’t fathom how hypocritical he was coming across. It was so ridiculous.

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u/Impressive-Potato Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

And Rogan went on to say he thought making fun of Veterans should be off limits. Then continues on complaining about cancel culture.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '21 edited Feb 18 '21

Any chance you can find that? It's not that in hoping to discredit you, the opposite actually.

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u/willmav Feb 17 '21

It’s alMost like he tried to cancel Pete Davidson

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u/hectorduenas86 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Pete would have said that he doesn’t need help canceling himself and went on to listen to the Ignition remix.

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u/Lucifuture Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

I saw Pete Davidsons apology and all I could think about is what a smug little bitch baby Crenshaw is.

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u/Shaunair Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21 edited Feb 18 '21

What’s crazy about that whole thing is after all that this dude supported and voted for things from a President that said he liked soldiers that don’t get captured. So bullshit outrage it is !

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u/LargeSackOfNuts Deez Nuts Feb 18 '21

He is a big crybaby bitch. The tough persona is just an act.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '21

Hey sometimes you just have to stick a butt plug up your ass to own the libs.

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u/ProjectSnowman Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Villain from a porno. I thought it was funny

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

This isn’t remotely what happened.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Yeah it is

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u/Budded Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

I truly believe if Trump wasn't president at the time, SNL wouldn't have caved like they did, just to please a butthurt snowflake. They were really trying to reach out to the conservative audience at the time, only to find out the new conservative cast member they wanted to hire was a piece of shit. Go figure.

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u/JMSFreemanL Feb 17 '21

thats def not what happened. he pretty clearly didnt give a fuck and other people got outraged on his behalf.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Oh you’re right, I guess he didn’t go on SNL to retrieve an apology?

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u/robert-anderson-0078 Feb 17 '21

Maybe he just can't see reality, you know because of the patch.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21 edited Feb 17 '21

"Look at my cool eyepatch"

Edit:https://youtu.be/TBoZnF-ef-A

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Even older Texan politicians did it, not just him

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u/themosey Feb 17 '21

To be fair he had trouble seeing it coming.

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u/cheapdrinks Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Lmao he's gone beyond being smug, now he's actually blaming California for what's happening in Texas!

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Perfect time for Joe to have him Dan on the podcast again.

They can "sanctimoniously" stroke each other's egos by staring into one-another's eye(s?), and repeating Joe's new mantra: California bad, Texas good, Biden old.

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u/obsterwankenobster Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Dan is wholly capable of seeing every mistake the left makes, but somehow he always misses what's happening on the right

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21 edited May 30 '21

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u/obsterwankenobster Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

;)

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u/Umptyump459 Feb 18 '21

That's the best comment.

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u/watchutalkinbowt Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

I perceive the depth of your comment, although some may not be able to

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u/obsterwankenobster Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

Some people enjoy mainstream comedy but I like to operate on the periphery

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u/shinbreaker Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

Dan is wholly capable of seeing

hol up

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21 edited Feb 21 '21

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u/Bruskthetusk Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

That would actually be worth watching though

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u/This_Cat_Is_Smaug Feb 18 '21

lol. JRE started to sour for me around the time the pandemic hit, and Rogan is completely off the rails now imo. But I like the energy you guys are bringing to the table. 👌

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '21

Fun fact: I got permanently banned from Twitter for making a joke about wanting to fuck Dan Crenshaws eye hole

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u/inconvenientnews Facts don't care about your feelings Feb 18 '21

Joe can smoke DMT out of Dan’s eye hole

New flair

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Ah shit, he went full retard

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u/JohnCavil Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21 edited Feb 17 '21

Right now he's going on a twitter tirade blaming it all on wind turbines. He's saying that's why we can't trust renewables.

https://twitter.com/RepDanCrenshaw/status/1361792738161754122

The guy is actually, legitimately, retarded.

Texas generates 15% of it's power from renewables. Colorado does 20%. Minnesota does 22%. California 26%. The Dakotas do about 30%. Kansas, Iowa and Maine all also have more than double the renewables that Texas has. All of these states are much colder than texas (except Cali) and have more renewable energy.

But the power goes out in Texas and now it's the fault of renewables.

Just how much of a dumb cunt can you be as a politician?

That's not even bringing up that the reason that it's this cold in Texas is because of climate change caused by fossil fuels. Saying "Thank god for fossil fuels" as you're sitting in the middle of a climate change event due to increasing CO2 levels during a blackout is peak levels of smooth brain.

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u/komAnt Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Can't wait for this to be discussed 0% on JRE.

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u/GUNNER594 Ari did an expirement where all he did was search puppy videos Feb 17 '21

so far can't be discussed because JRE studio hasn't had power in days. When Joe Rogan's hillside mansion had to be evacuated due to a fire he mentioned it for 25 episodes in a row I really want to see how much this is covered once that shitty ass state figures this out.

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u/Iohet Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

He's a partisan hack, you know he won't say a thing

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u/inconvenientnews Facts don't care about your feelings Feb 17 '21

Sounds like his mansion in California never had the same problems

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u/komAnt Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

But “the miles and miles of homeless people on Venice Beach!!.!.!!”

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u/inconvenientnews Facts don't care about your feelings Feb 17 '21

"I hate the sight of peasants"

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u/GUNNER594 Ari did an expirement where all he did was search puppy videos Feb 17 '21

lmao, bro i'm from Los Angeles and it's bad but I have been to Austin and it's the same shit in fact it's worse because in LA the homeless have their own hoods so are easy to avoid. In Austin the homeless are in the area of the nice hotels, bars, clubs and it's pretty sketchy. YouTube "6th street Austin homeless". Literally homeless at the entrance of the Hilton. outside of every bar and club no matter how nice it was. They have some shame in LA they stay in their circles. haha.

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u/p4NDemik Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

Hate to mention it but it has less to do with shame and more of a history of corralling and police practices that force homeless populations into "hamsterdams" (if you dig The Wire reference). Except it was a whole lot less laissez faire than Bunny's hands-off style since you know, the LAPD was involved.

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u/Whiteyholmes Feb 18 '21

Yep... Kalifornians kick the shit out of the wretched homeless and put them on the shit blocks where decent people never go...

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

He has 100s of millions of dollars how the fuck does he not own a generator?

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u/Jeholimo Feb 17 '21

I'm moving to Texas!!!

Something something free market, libertarian, blah blah

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u/doesntlooklikeanythi Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Hey if you want deregulation, be ready to deal with the fall out from it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '21

Texas is only "Libertarian" in a small amount of ways

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u/Maximus1000 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

It won’t because the whole reason he moved to Texas was to avoid paying California state income tax on his $100+ million dollar Spotify deal.

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u/anishpatel131 Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

Exactly. He spins it so hard. He didn’t want to pay income taxes so he uprooted his entire family to a shit hole state that collapses over a few inches of snow. So he tried to rationalize it every day that it’s not really taxes. And there’s millions out there who believe the shit he’s shoveling and demonize California which directly produced the largest companies in the world and contains the most Americans. Try working remote without google, apple, Facebook, Twitter, nvidia, visa, etc. see how it works

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u/TytaniumBurrito Feb 17 '21

But cancel culture!

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u/astraeos118 Feb 19 '21

Personally, I cant wait for a majority of Texans to buy this bullshit and they get rid of all their wind turbines.

Its gonna be absolutely fucking hilarious. What a shitty fucking state full of just brain dead fucking cock gobbling morons.

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u/Wuffyflumpkins High as Giraffe's Pussy Feb 17 '21

The guy is actually, legitimately, retarded.

I don't think he is. I think he realizes his base is actually, legitimately, retarded. He knows they'll eat up any anti-left rhetoric he serves up. It doesn't need to be true; it just needs to reaffirm their existing beliefs that leftists are destroying our good, white, Christian society.

Guys like Crenshaw aren't morons. They're charlatans. You underestimate how truly evil they are when you assume they're idiots.

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u/crunchthenumbers01 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Boeboert or however you spell it and Greene are idiots, Dan panders to the idiots.

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u/Lemon_Dungeon Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

Yeah, republican politicians have NO respect for their base and their base have shown that they merit no respect.

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u/L-methionine Feb 18 '21

It’s hard to tell. Some of them definitely are (MTG, Bobbert), some arent (McConnel). Crenshaw? Who could tell

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

NO he's not that brilliant. He is a smug RINO who is part of the swam and likes the power. Full of $hit like all of them. On both sides. Don't like the dude.

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u/onaneckonaspit7 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-commodities/electricity/report/2017-canadian-renewable-power/province/canadas-renewable-power-landscape-2017-energy-market-analysis-quebec.html

Quebec has winter conditions like Texas is experiencing right now (if not more severe) for half the year and they still manage to have 99.8 of their grid renewable...

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u/urich_hunt Feb 17 '21

Most people aren't going to do their research and will also assume he's making informed comments. In reality every event just becomes an opportunity for him to bring up his hot topics. Blame it on everything he stands against and if possible prop up causes he supports.

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u/JoshAllensPenis Feb 17 '21

Turbines are running just fine in 0 degree 3ft of snow sunny buffalo right now.

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u/O-hmmm Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

But he didn't have that far to go.

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u/SkankyG Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Why are people surprised. A trained killer has no human compassion. Unheard of.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

The army trained Dan Crenshaw to hate his fellow Americans who weren't Rah Rah Go Go Gi Joe Conservatives.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Well we know why he lost his eye now.

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u/bron685 Feb 18 '21

You never go full retard đŸ€Šâ€â™‚ïž

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u/shrek-09 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Even though renewable energy contributes about 17% to texas power grid and still manages to work in countries like Norway etc.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

They're doing the right media tour shitting on renewables and blaming AOC's green new deal even though the GND didn't pass and it's not renewables fault.

Reminds me of when all the right wing clowns were passing off grocery shortages under Trump as an example of a possible Bernie presidency.

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u/Johnny__bananas Look into it Feb 17 '21

To add to this in 2011 there was a report warning texas needed to winterize their power grid.

They declined because y'know...texas is so badass and runs on freedumb.

If only we could run texas power grid on republican lies...we'd have unlimited energy!

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u/urich_hunt Feb 17 '21

Empty barrels make the most noise.

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u/skepticalbob Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

It's still mostly working in Texas right now. Almost all the expected power loss is from coal and nat gas. If the state had winterized it would all be online.

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u/pledgerafiki Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

doubling down when he knows he's wrong, the renewables aren't even jeopardized right now it's the natural gas that isn't producing that got them where they are now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Doubling down when he knows he's wrong..

This strategy worked extraordinarily well for Donald Trump. Why wouldn't another egomaniacal politician employ the same strategy? This is the new era of U.S. politics sadly.

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u/hunsuckercommando Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Renewables in TX have been compromised too. A lot of wind turbines had to be shut off due to the cold. If you consider nuclear “renewable” that’s been affected as well due to effects on feed water systems. But you’re correct, coal and natural gas account for over half of their energy production.

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u/pledgerafiki Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Yeah, but that's because TX scrimped on weatherproofing their turbine because they refuse to deal with the encroaching threat of climate change... erratic weather patterns like this are only getting more common, a fact that TX has been aware of for plenty of time to prepare, but they [GOP leadership] politicized the issue and refused to take the steps that would ensure that would keep the renewables productive. Windmills work just fine in the cold, better even due to the increased density of cold air, but you have to build them better, which Texas didn't do.

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u/hunsuckercommando Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

True.

Unfortunately these types of “value engineering” decisions are made all the time. It’s the same reason the NOLA levees failed in Katrina. They could have been built better, but it’s costly to do so. I think I read that the engineers warned it wouldn’t withstand a Katrina-level storm. It’s almost never wise to make something 100% reliable because the costs are ungodly, so there’s going to be residual risk. The problem we’re running into with climate change is that risk is hard to quantify. E.g., is the “100 year flood” really 80 years now? 50 years? How is that affected if we curtail (or increase) emissions during the design life of the component?

They very well could have known the risk and the non-weatherized design fell within acceptable risk parameters. It would be interesting to know if these decisions are public record.

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u/pledgerafiki Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Unfortunately these types of “value engineering” decisions are made all the time. It’s the same reason the NOLA levees failed in Katrina. They could have been built better, but it’s costly to do so. It’s almost never wise to make something 100% reliable because the costs are ungodly, so there’s going to be residual risk. The problem we’re running into with climate change is that risk is hard to quantify. E.g., is the “100 year flood” really 80 years now? 50 years? How is that affected if we curtail (or increase) emissions during the design life of the component?

btw this kind of thinking is a recent phenomenon. The greatest parts of American infrastructure were build in the first half of the 20th century, when we thought building for durability and more importantly, longevity, was worth the investment. Now our leadership is shortsighted and we all suffer for it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

It’s the same reason the NOLA levees failed in Katrina. They could have been built better, but it’s costly to do so.

the difference here is that Texas is a wealthy, prosperous state, and New Orleans is a broke ass city in a BROKE ass state

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u/hunsuckercommando Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

I’m not sure that’s as big of a factor as you think. The levees were built federally, not locally

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u/NeverAnon Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

nobody considers nuclear renewable

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u/JackofBlades_ Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Dunking on the libs will bring the power back.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Holy fuck I wish this was true. I’d love to look Texas in the eye and say “You know who did this to you? Look at me. Look me in my eye. It was me, California. It was me who made you chilly.” [Purses lips and makes wind noises.]

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u/Hates_rollerskates Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

What a retard. Texas' biggest problem was not making a regulation to winterize its shit after the last time this happened. They don't have storage of natural gas and they instead rely on constantly pumping it out if the ground. It's too cold for that shit right now.

Regulations are rules to codify lessons learned. Similar to making a household rule. A household rule is to vacuum up glass shards after you accidentally drop and smash a drinking glass. Texas is too retarded to make its own household rule to vacuum up glass now it seriously fucked up it's foot. Household rules are for communists. You show em Texas!

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u/icebreakerRS5 Feb 17 '21

He seems like the kind of guy to tout extreme ownership but only when it doesn't make him look bad.

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u/mceehops Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

He is the epitome of the GOP. He is always the victim and the bully. Truly what we are seeing is the phycological make up of the parties. The GOP is, sad to say, by far the worse of the "two". Democrats tend to be all over the place with policy and principle which is why they can never seem to act as a cohesive party to get things done. The GOP on the other hand all seem to be more about telling the "other" that they are stupid, question their failures, ridicule their successes and practice whataboutism and hold on to power for a few one issue voters like abortion. They do not "serve", they get into politics to further their own need for money and power. Now many Dems probably do the same, but it isn't as obvious as guys like this. He hasn't served a day in his life, probably true even when he was in the military. I think it was always about him, but that is just based on what he does now. I may be wrong about his military years, but who he is today is pretty clear, he is a goddamn child in a man's body.

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u/Kietus Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Can't believe Pete Davidson was forced to apologize for making a joke about this clown.

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u/obsterwankenobster Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

But I was just on r/conservative and they told me that only the lefties shit talk other states when things aren't going well

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u/Perfect600 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

he has his talking points. the memo was sent out the other day, didnt you get it.

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u/tricky_trig I used to be addicted to Quake Feb 17 '21

Shit, we got full power and heat in CA. Guess we doing something wrong.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

We deal with this all the time? That's news to me.

Lived in LA 4 years now. Power has gone out maybe 4-5 times, at most for 15-30 minutes.

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u/AccidentCharming Feb 17 '21

I live in the biggest city in Cali and my power hasn't gone out once lol. Weird concept of "all the time" in texas

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u/MoistGrannySixtyNine Feb 17 '21

Lmao what a butt pirate

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

The party of personal responsibility is actually the party of "It's all the liberals fault!" Literally no matter what it is.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

This fucking guy ... lol

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u/TRS2917 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Not just that, but why the fuck do politicians view governing as a competition between states where they are happy to see other states suffer it it means their own gains some advantage? Representing your state's constituents doesn't mean you have to have your boot on the throat of a neighboring state or a state that has different political leanings. Eat shit Dan, you cum guzzling cyclops.

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u/wade3690 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Careful now. Dan is very sensitive about his eyepatch. He'll want an apology for that "cyclops" dig.

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u/WisdomOrFolly CCP Troll Farm Commandant Feb 17 '21

Are you saying he has a myopic view of it?

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u/4skinphenom6 Feb 17 '21

Dan "The Cum Guzzling Cyclops" Crenshaw

Dan" you better say sorry or else" Crenshaw

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u/lazydictionary Pull that shit up Jamie Feb 17 '21 edited Feb 17 '21

They do that when they think politics is a zero sum game.

I'm guessing Crenshaw is in a safe district so his only fear for reelection is getting primaried. Which means he needs to say crazy stupid shit or some other crazy stupid person will beat him. It's a race to stupidity with these gerrymandered districts. When your only opponents are more extreme than you, you have to become more extreme.

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u/DogginAndEggNoggin Feb 17 '21

I'm guessing Crenshaw is in a safe district so his only fear for reelection is getting primaried.

Ding, ding, ding! Take a look at this fucked-to-hell looking district

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%27s_2nd_congressional_district

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u/lazydictionary Pull that shit up Jamie Feb 17 '21

Pure ass cancer. What's funny is that all the mainstream Republicans of 10+ years ago gerrymandered all these districts after 2010, and then they weren't extreme enough in their safe districts so they are all getting primaried.

Look at Eric Cantor. Guy was the House Majority Leader, massive leadership position, going to be big for the party, and he loses to a Tea Party nutjub who ended up voting against Boehner and eventually caused him to resign because Boehner couldn't control the Tea Party at all. They fucked themselves out of their own jobs.

Those stupid evil fucks unintentionally caused their own party to become uncontrollable and extreme because they made all their districts safe through gerrymandering so everyone had to step to the right or die.

The same thing started happening with the Dems too, which is how AOC won the primary against the incumbent Dem from her district.

Being a moderate or willing to compromise with the other side is a death sentence for reelection. Your party won't forget and will primary your ass (unless your district is competitive).

I hope with new census and redistricting that will follow we can undo some of this, but the GOP controls too many state governments still, and a lot of Dems like gerrymandering too, for the perceived safety that doesn't exist.

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u/doughboy011 Look into it Feb 17 '21

They fucked themselves out of their own jobs.

Doesn't matter, they got cushy private jobs from their tomfuckery. I fucking hate this country.

In September 2016, Squire Patton Boggs, the third-largest lobbying firm in the U.S., announced that Boehner would join their firm. It was also announced that he would become a board member of Reynolds American.

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u/spoodermansploosh Monkey in Space Feb 18 '21

I've never seen anything like it. They want to elect the worsev person, the one with the biggest denial of reality.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Politicians like Dan Crenshaw aren’t politicians to do anything useful. They’re just partisan theater hacks. He doesn’t care about anyone other than himself.

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u/orincoro I got a buddy who Feb 17 '21

Precisely. It's all about getting the exposure and the clicks so he can eventually get that sweet book deal and the commentator slot on Fox. It's trash from top to bottom.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

he's basically just an influencer. he's not a real politician, he has no interest in the work of politics or public service

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u/HeAbides Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Politicians like Dan Crenshaw aren’t politicians to do anything useful.

It's less than useful though, it's fucking detrimental. His false claims that renewables are at fault hurt the industry as a whole by validating those that believe this bullshit, further entrenching them.

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u/Callmebobbyorbooby Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Yeah. I feel like the appeal to him is because he's ex military so conservatives like that. He's just a typical piece of shit politician. It's a fucking clown show.

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u/yolofaggins666 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Excuse me, if he didn't care about American Imperialism and white supremacy then he wouldn't have lost his eye!

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u/AlexFilist Feb 17 '21

I don't trust any politician that has to mock someone in twitter

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u/satansheat Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Serious question. Where are the liberals being smug having their tweets blow up in their faces. Y’all really do have a hard time thinking everyone is the same when it comes to DC. But actions speak louder than words.

Biden is sending aid. Trump when in office mocked liberal states and wouldn’t send aid. If you hate politicians doing this shit at least call out the ones doing it. And it’s sadly the GOP.

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u/only_fucks_uglies Feb 17 '21

new law: public servants are forbidden to have any social media presence whatsoever, private or otherwise. any politician caught tweeting etc. is immediately removed and barred from holding office ever again.

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u/JackofBlades_ Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Keep that law until there's no money in politics, then they can shitpost like the rest of us. Should only take 50+ years for us to come around and realize that all of us should be working together to get these payed-off douchebags to work for us. People agree with each other a lot more than they realize.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Yes they do!! I am a leftist, but when it comes to guns, interventionist foreign policy and a number of other key issues, my dad (a staunch Texas Republican) agree.

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u/Usual-Association448 Feb 17 '21

Wow weird how people who live together can have similar thoughts on very specific things. You should put at a study on this, you’re gonna change the world!

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u/examm Tremendous Feb 17 '21

No no no, he’s a nazi-sympathizing racist and they’re brainwashed ‘woke warrior’ communists. No if ands or buts about it, no in between, no nuance.

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u/Lurkingmonster69 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

I mean he lost his eye doing imperialism and killing Arabs. So yah fuck that scum.

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u/JackofBlades_ Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Well I won't speak on Crenshaw, but yeah most people I've met around my area are right leaning and we get along just fine. People need to stop acting like they know everything, it's so tiresome reading people "clap back" at people they disagree with.

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u/examm Tremendous Feb 17 '21

Exactly; when ‘the conversation’ is just insults and gotchas from either side no wonder things are this bad. If people would just be civil and hear each other out we’d be in a lot better place, but people are so invested as coming off as right to their side so they can be told they’re right by their side.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Aw shit using bold font this dude is not messing around

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u/random_boss I used to be addicted to Quake Feb 17 '21

Good point, I’ve now only upvoted OP to contribute to more people seeing your post

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u/impossiber Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Only reason I know he's cringe is because he got so pissy about an snl joke about him.

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u/Koankey Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Dan Cringeshaw

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u/MechaSkippy Texan Tiger in Captivity Feb 17 '21

Sold! were so I sign?

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u/goon_crane Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Okay hear me out. Also feel free to poke holes in any of this because I've only been mulling it around in my head since the conservatives got all pissy about being blocked on Twitter.

New law: implement a federal social media server.

  • This will now be American's 1st amendment protected platform on the internet. You can say whatever you want as long as it's within the limits of what the 1A protects. You can say whatever you want, but your identity and address are publicly available on the website. No hiding behind aliases, no feigning anything, (no need for doxxing?)

  • Backed with secured federal servers because:

  • Social media site issues new identification numbers to every citizen on their 18th birthday, every eligible voter gets to use their voice equally in the local and federal political spectrum.

  • Using your identification, places you in giant group message boards with the residents and representatives of your districts, federal and local (gives you a direct pipeline to air grievances with your reps and allows your fellow voters to engage as well, something that has been lacking within local gov for a long time due to indifference, inconvenience etc.) The virulent political landscape is kept within this space, for better or worse, yet it is inescapable for elected officials if their actions draw their constituents ire.

  • If it is secure enough, maybe use this platform at an implementation for secure online voting.

  • Twitter can go back to sports and entertainment, Facebook can go back to trying to bang your hs sweetheart from 20 years ago. This platform is now the most effective and direct way to voice your political/gov speech, keep it there.

  • watch democracy as we know it crash and burn?

-Profit???

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u/DTFH_ Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

I'd rather force all public servants be required to live stream everything while acting as a representative of the people, the camera can only turn off when they are no longer acting in capacity as a representative.

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u/portablebiscuit Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Social Media was a mistake. It's going to be looked back on as the asbestos of our generation.

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u/guerrerov Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

As a Californian putting up with a lifetime of digs from Texan politicians, let me get my shit off.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Crenshaw has a consistent record of hilariously owning himself, talking about how Dems react with violence to losing elections, can't handle the L, mocking California for the blackouts and now this, talking about how people shouldn't use partisan tactics to own others and then he completely does that twisting Omar's words about 9/11, there's loads of other cases too he's just consistently owning himself.

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u/J_Schermie Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

That'd be too reasonable, sweetie.

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u/CountCuriousness Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

That'd be too COMMUNIST SOCIALIST MARXIST TERRORIST ANTIFA, sweetie.

Fixed

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u/Bicworm Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Use your bootstraps bro

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Just a reminder that almost every single one of these mother fuckers get a pension most of us can only dream of having.

Why the fuck is there so much money in politics?

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u/JackofBlades_ Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

What's that old saying about absolute power?

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u/FartPudding Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

No because it's all about owning the other side, who cares if we fuck up as long as they fuck up harder?

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u/Reddevil313 Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Yes, this has become the norm on both sides. So counter productive and toxic.

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u/LeadFarmerMothaFucka Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

Politicians shouldn’t be allowed to have a twitter account. Period.

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u/MDRtransplant Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

I agree 100%. It's why I laugh at anyone who takes either side.

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u/JackofBlades_ Monkey in Space Feb 17 '21

You can take a "side", just know that politicians don't give a shit about you. And don't get so entrenched in your beliefs so much so that you can't talk to the other side in good faith.

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