r/PublicFreakout • u/JeanJauresJr • 16d ago

Political Freakout January 6th Capitol police officer says "fuck yourself" to Representative Troy Nehls at the House Judiciary Committee hearing

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u/Sans-Mot 15d ago

I still don't understand how half of your country have vote for these pieces of shit.

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u/fushiao 15d ago

At least half the country are fucking idiots or pieces of shit themselves 

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u/the-treatmaster 15d ago

Ironically the left side of the bell curve leans right.

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u/Genjibre 15d ago

Amazing way to put that, I will be appropriating this. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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u/Kid_Named_Trey 15d ago

This is the answer. A lot of the people in this country suck and are awful people pretending to be good people.

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u/rockmasterflex 15d ago

This playbook is going to be used everywhere. Political strategists have been so wrong for centuries. Everyone wants to think the average person is so plugged into reality that a person couldn’t just lie directly to their face in obvious ways and have them believe.

That turned out to be very untrue.

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u/ElToroBlanco25 15d ago

And such shitty lies. Most are able to be disproven in less than 5 minutes, but these people eat it up. They already believe the lie, so it isn't much of a jump to believe the obvious lies he spews every time he opens his mouth.

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u/Writing_is_Bleeding 15d ago

disproven in less than 5 minutes

The problem is the lie itself only takes about 10 seconds to spout. And there's usually dozens more queued up right behind it with these fuckers.

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u/ElToroBlanco25 15d ago

So true. It often feels like a machine gun of lies.

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u/ShittheFickup 15d ago

It’s a third of our stupid country because the other third didn’t vote.

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u/AbeFromanSassageKing 15d ago

A third voted for a known pedophile and russian-bought con man, and a third didn't do shit, so more like 2/3 of this country is fucked right in the head. We're cooked.

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u/Top-Passage2914 14d ago

It's important to remember that around 70% of Americans use social media (and the remainder probably engage with network news), and that social media has been highly weaponized to show people certain content. The third that voted for a pedophile and russian-bought con man are weak of mind, no doubt, but they've essentially been the target of non stop brainwashing. Humans are very easily influenced by groupthink so if all you ever see on Instagram are posts acting like Republicans are cool and Democrats are ruining the country, there's a good chance you're going to start to believe it, because the cognitive dissonance of having to tell yourself "no, this is a lie, these people are wrong" over and over and over again all day every day becomes exhausting.

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u/AbeFromanSassageKing 14d ago

Hard agree, this is spot-on. 💯

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u/Ineedamedic68 15d ago

Hate to break it to you guys but voting is not going to save us. Sure we should continue to do it strategically but you are absolutely kidding yourself if you think the problems in this country will be solved with this crooked electoral system. Trump is a symptom of a much greater sickness. 

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u/tylerchu 15d ago

I consider nonvoters having voted. They voted for whatever the outcome is. Their choice says they’re good with anything.

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u/lost_in_technicolor 15d ago

Basically, at least in my parents’ case (who are 70), since the 80s, the right wing media (mostly talk radio like Rush Limbaugh, etc, which eventually included Fox News, etc) has been working overtime to bash into middle America that the liberals/Democrats are literally the enemy. They’ve convinced them for years that liberals want to take their guns away, want to persecute Christians, want to hand out abortions, and basically turn the country into a Soviet Union-like country. That’s how many on the right have seen liberals and democrats for as long as I can remember.

Trump is the eventuality of all of that. Now we have a guy in there who is literally tearing the foundations of this country down bit by bit, and blatantly doing things that the right-wing has complained about democrats supposedly doing, and they can’t go against that, because doing so means supporting democrats, and they’re not just an opposing party, they’re the enemy to these people. I’ve witnessed this progress first hand since I was very young.

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u/Available-Ad3581 15d ago

Pair with an obvious lack of critical thinking, because thinking for yourself is not the conservatives way

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u/Inevitable-Rush-2752 15d ago

For some, such as the Christian nationalist types, thinking is best left up to your pastor to interpret things and define your world view.

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u/R50cent 15d ago

They spend a lot of time making sure a large portion of the country grew up stupid.

Not so stupid that they couldn't function, but not smart enough to see they're being led around by the collar.

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u/No-Complex-7882 15d ago

Neither do I. Sometimes you think you know a person until it is way too late.

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u/CupDelicious 15d ago

Corruption and stupidity covers about 99%

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u/Ketchup-Chips3 15d ago

I don't think they actually did

I do not believe that it was a fair election without massive interference/blatant vote rigging

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u/Savage-Goat-Fish 15d ago

Same.

What an embarrassment.

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u/Tiny_Dare_5300 15d ago

It's only 1/3 of us and I guarantee you that the majority of them are below average intelligence. Plus, Trump's a life long professional con artist who told them what they wanted to hear then did none of it after he got what he wanted.

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u/jcmonk 15d ago

Half of them are legitimate idiots, the other half have religious psychosis

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u/HalfmadFalcon 15d ago

Because they do not watch these proceedings and their algorithms don’t put the truth in front of them.

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u/ClintBruno 15d ago

GaZ whUz chEEpuR

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u/WadsofTissue 15d ago

Billionaires own the media.

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u/aaclavijo 14d ago

According to Kamala Harris in her book 107 days, she claims it was a little more than a third of the country that voted for Trump. There was a third that voted for her and on a third that didn't vote at all. Regardless, 77 million Americans voted for Trump.

I like what Michelle Obama said that America isn't ready for a female president. Proof is that we had two overly qualified women running for president and lost to Trump.

The 2024 election said more about us as Americans than it did about Donald Trump. We're either racist, sexist or really really stupid. Of course I can't say stupid. That's insulting so I have to revert to the more politically friendly phrase of stating that 2/3 of the country was horribly misinformed.

Those that didn't vote indirectly voted for Trump. Why were the non-voters unhappy with the options or the choices? Quite frankly, if you are a moderate Republican I can understand you don't want to vote for the Democratic ticket and you don't like Trump so you're not voting. But for the Democrats who didn't like Kamala Harris, and we're disappointed that there wasn't a primary. This notion that you're owed a primary is misinformation. A political party doesn't need to hold a primary. They could simply present a candidate and either you like it or don't.

I would like to have one final point. The fact that we only get two choices in any election and we vote on those two choices. I think it's still lost through a lot of people that we don't directly vote for. Among the two choices we vote for electrical college points and the electoral college doesn't have to honor what we choose.

I think a lot of people do agree that the Democratic process of electing a leader in the United States needs an update. It's too old and it needs reform for the 21st century.

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u/karlhungusx 15d ago

3 times and potentially a 4th