• Lucky_777@lemmy.world
    58·
    3 months ago

    The only reason he is where he is? His dad started a plumbing company in OKC. He has inherited everything he has and while he probably knows a bunch about plumbing. He knows shit about leadership and just about everything else. In Oklahoma. If you run with an R next to your name, you automatically win. All you really have to do is find a county or area with little R competition. You won’t lose to a Democrat and most of the time, you’ll be running unopposed because dumping cash into a campaign as a Democrat is a huge waste.

    I’ve lived in the state basically my whole life. This place is a Republican shit hole, and a religious hellscape. People here only care about religion and are sold on the Republicans being the only party representing them.

    It’s no wonder this state is last in just about everything. Decades of Republican super majority have driven this place into the ground. Yet people still run to the polls for these fucks.

    If anything is a preview of Republican federal rule. Look here, Oklahoma. Never vote Republican. Ever.

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    23·
    3 months ago

    the dude is a clearly a product of that 48th out of 50 public education system… and the only sitting u.s. senator without at least a bachelor’s degree.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      5·
      3 months ago

      Most MAGAs have enough money to buy themselves some sort of college education, even a virtuosic ignoramus like Trump. The fact that this guy had the money, and didn’t bother, says a lot.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      Interestingly he talks just like Trump. It’s like he asked ChatGPT to make a tweet in the style of Trump.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    23·
    3 months ago

    OP is not wrong.

    But the one thing that our Senate really fucking needs to do is never going to happen: Restoring Pre-1980 tax rates on the rich. Until that happens, this march towards the end of the US’ imperial power will continue unabated.

    • Batmorous@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      NO encourage them to do. Send them to Run For Something. A lot of big wins for Dems couple days ago were from them. They are real progressives not the bullshit we keep dealing it every year.

      Or at least ask them to help out Oklahoma from another state

      • Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Alas, they are at high risk of being abducted or lynched. For their safety the only thing I can ethically or morally encourage them to do is keep a low profile until an evac route and exfil plan are ready.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]English
      5·
      2 months ago

      American liberalism is Ph +0, not even far enough from purple to be called indigo.

      Still not sure why communism or socialism are bad words in the US. It’s not like privatized services don’t almost instantly enshittify.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        Communism and socialism are bad words because of a long, long running effort by the right wing and US in general to paint them as bad. It doesn’t help much that dictators use them to describe their country while pillaging it.

        • Uriel238 [all pronouns]English
          3·
          2 months ago

          It makes me think of the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and the People’s Democratic Republic of The Congo both of which are absolute dictatorships.

          • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 months ago

            Good point. We just need some despot to name their country “The Capitalist Democracy of Whatever” and it’s a dictatorship shithole.

            Oh wait, guess that’s gonna be us?

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months ago

    The exaggerated narratives forming around Mamdani on both sides, mixed with the ease this “troublemaker outsider” entered the political structure makes me think, once again, this is nothing but smoke and nothing will fundamentally change in NYC nor America as a whole. If anything, it just further encourages people to entrench themselves in bipartisanship when we all know both sides are corrupt criminals who only give lip service to their respective demographics. 🤷