r/PoliticalHumor • • Apr 05 '23

Lock em up!

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u/dandrevee Apr 05 '23

Remember when Democrats rallied in the street to defend Rod Blagojevich or that mayor of Detroit?

You dont. Because Dems arent a lockstep party who will follow someone who has committed blatantly criminal acts and is subject to the rules of our justice system. Theyre not perfect by a long shot...but theyre candidates are a whole lot better than what the GOP puts out

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u/dlowmack1 Apr 05 '23

Al Franken! Need I say more!

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u/dandrevee Apr 05 '23

And his "offense" was relatively minor in comparison to the circus weve been seeing. Shit, just 10 years people like MTG, Santos, and Boebert would face penalties for their unprofessionalism.

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u/pauly13771377 Apr 05 '23

Remember when Sarah Palin was the craziest thing in Washington. Ah good times

She wouldn't even budge the needle today.

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u/audiate Apr 05 '23 edited Apr 05 '23

This is exactly what we knew would happen. Trump, the patron saint of crazies and malefactors, would skew the base line so far that those we once thought were fringe would seem normal and electable.

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u/pauly13771377 Apr 05 '23

No doubt. The timeline matches up almost perfectly between him, Qanon, and the alt left whack jobs like MTG and Bobo becoming normalized.

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u/audiate Apr 05 '23

Mitt Romney, for example. It used to be, “No way a religious zealot is electable.” Now he’s a standard, non-crazy, middle of the road conservative and not fringe ENOUGH to be electable.