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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

These people are just such assholes. I'd love for some Democrats to start using that logic for the next Democratic President: "Well, the people elected ____; therefore, we should just get whatever it is the hell that we want, even if it's against the law and not the role of the Executive Branch"

I'm sure all the cons will just nod their heads and accept that everyone voted someone in, just like they calmly accepted Biden and Obama and Bill Clinton being in the WH. Right?

This jerkoff has zero evidence that there are any issues of election integrity that would require this administration to meddle in it.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 19 minutes ago)

That's the problem with people who act in bad faith. You can't throw it in their face because they know it's hypocritical and they revel in the fact that they have the power to do it while the other side cannot. If anything, they think acting without ethics or integrity makes them smarter and more deserving to win. That the ends justify the means, and the fact that they'll use extreme means only confirms their ends are more important.

It describes every Trump-era Republican political actor in memory. McConnell, Trump, Miller, Johnson, McCarthy, etc...