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kentuck

(114,121 posts)
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 08:20 AM Friday

Can you name one Republican that does not lie or try to deceive when answering a question?

I cannot think of even one.

It seems to me that every Republican that is asked a question attempts to deceive or either outright lies. It is not possible for them to give an honest response.

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed?

It doesn't matter what the question might be, you cannot get an honest answer. They try to deceive the questioner.

Every single time.

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Towlie

(5,530 posts)
13. Not exactly...
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 01:02 PM
Friday

There's no requirement to join either party, it's a matter of what sort of people each party attracts. The Republican Party attracts the evil, hateful, dishonest, and greedy, along with the naive, ignorant and credulous. In fact, its members consist mainly of people exhibiting various combinations of those characteristics.

Omnipresent

(6,954 posts)
3. Most people don't like either party and consider them all politicians.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 08:25 AM
Friday

Probably synonymous with used car salesman, carnival barkers, and snake oil vendors.

Johonny

(23,983 posts)
6. Their positions are not based on truths
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 08:38 AM
Friday

So they essentially have to lie. The anti-abortion movement is based on nothing but lies, same with the anti-trans, gay marriage, trickle down economics . . . There is nothing in GOP politics. It is an empty pit of lies.

Tom Rinaldo

(23,117 posts)
7. Lisa Murkowski perhaps earns an honerable mention
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 08:53 AM
Friday

She's no Dem, but more honest than your typical Republican.

kentuck

(114,121 posts)
8. She and Collins are token votes of opposition.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 08:58 AM
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They do not vote against their Party if they are seen as the deciding vote. Only when it is meaningless.

unblock

(55,281 posts)
10. Collins loves to talk about that one time ...
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 09:29 AM
Friday

She "saved" Obamacare by killing a Republican bill that would have ended the individual mandate.

Of course, she doesn't much talk about the 20 or so times she voted to defund or repeal the aca, or that 6 months later she helped kill the individual mandate anyway....

unblock

(55,281 posts)
9. Lying is the whole point of answering a question.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 09:22 AM
Friday

Why answer a question with the truth? What's the point in that?

Anyone can google the truth, or usually a close approximation to it.

For republicans, the whole point of answering a question, or making a speech, or just talking in general, is to lie.

Every justification and all p.r. and every policy position and every scandal allegation and every insult is based on lies.

And the media loves loves loves amplifying those lies and kills for "access" to those lies.

kentuck

(114,121 posts)
12. Their lies and deceptions are so obvious and intentional...
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 12:30 PM
Friday

I wonder how anyone could not notice?

Emile

(35,362 posts)
14. Haven't you heard the question how do you know when a Republican
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 01:05 PM
Friday

is lying?

When their lips are moving.

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