Senator Banks, Republican-Indiana, called a fired HHS worker “a clown”, indicating that he probably “deserved it”. Senator Banks and colleagues, feel free to continue to expressing your callous and cruel true selves. You’ll see more Wisconsins.
Just another Republican Rubber-stamper telling how all of them feel about working families. Never in Trump's lifetime has a GOP (Give Others Poverty) president put workers first.
I really don't think it's even about increasing any "bottom line." Sure, they might make money off of all this somehow. But a politician can make tons of money without ever telling an unemployed worker to their face, "You DESERVED it!" This is more like a fetish. The cruelty gets them off.
Maybe. But I don't credit them with that much strategy and coordination. 100 million Americans don't buy porn 'cos they're trying to make it socially acceptable. It just gets them off. That's all they want.
Yes for sure, but underestimating them could also be dangerous. No one ever thought he would win 2016, no one thought he'd be an actual dictator, but here we are.Trump is a tool but he has some scary fucks behind him
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2. Senators don’t have immunity from civil suit (this doesn’t fall within the Speech or Debate Clause), so if it were defamation, he wouldn’t be immune.
3. It’s not defamation because, for legal purposes, “You probably deserved it” is a statement of opinion.
That’s not how the law uses “fact” & “opinion.” “Statement of fact” doesn’t mean “true statement,” as it might in normal speech. It means a statement that can be proven true or false. It defines that narrowly: “you’re a racist” is an opinion, even though it sounds like something you could disprove.
“You deserved it” is an opinion. “You probably deserved it” is not only an opinion but underscores another reason it’s not defamatory: we listeners understand that the senator has no information about this person’s work performance, & he’s just mouthing off.
Defamation is a fancy way of saying “he lied about me and hurt my reputation.” If the statement is a fact or opinion, it’s not defamation. So, “you probably deserved it” isn’t defamation while “I heard you deserved it” could be.
He ran for office on the basis of being the Trumpiest Trumper to ever have Trumped, so I’m sure that a lot of them love it. Another factor is that we are last in voter turnout in Indiana, so this is what we get.
True story. Indiana loves him bc most of my fellow residents are just like him. All the state reps are the same as well. It’s exhausting watching them say/post shit like this all the time to “own the libs.” So childish.
Banks waited until his bodyguards were in front of him before telling a fired worker that they deserved it for being a clown. He actually used those words. Banks needs to be voted out.
At what point do we get to refuse to pay taxes? Because we sure as hell are not getting representation, and these asshats are collecting a salary on our dime.
Imagine...a Repuglican senator saying his constituent looks like a clown just because he asked about his firing, calmly & respectfully? You guys need to start punching these asswipes out, even if it means a couple of nights in the slammer & and assault charge. Make THEM afraid for once!!
That little bitch walks around with so much security (as do other GOPers), he’s already afraid. That’s also why they feel so brave to talk shit. If he didn’t have security he would’ve 💩 himself when that guy started talking to him. Look at Elon walking around with armor on. All of them are scared.
They know we're conjuring up images of France in 1789. It's been so long since the GOP had anything of substance to offer to its constituents, they've resorted to feeding them lies. The rest of us see through them. They should be scared.
Fox News, the church, the maga males, the Stepford women. You could tell them the ship is sinking & they still wouldn’t believe you!
IN is so messed up!
We need a "SAFE WORD" at our protests on Saturday.
Trump will take advantage of minor incidents or PLANTS who engage in violence to impose the Insurrection Act & use the military to put a halt to Americans from exercising their First Amendment rights.
Exactly. But unfortunately the red hats were probably overjoyed to see a Republican treat a constituent like shit. They get off on that attitude of hate.
I called him and left a message. Something like his day is coming and the only clown there was him. I meant an election but I probably made it onto a list.
Is it possible to be done with these reprehensible
power hungry traitors?
It’s classic attempt to stress the population to beg for a strong man to put everything to rights- it wasn’t enough last time so this second chance they are going balls to the wall sadly
Just allowing him to run was a clear dereliction of duty, but being on the ballot in 2016 got him out of a security clearance investigation, which is yet another catastrophic dereliction of duty since he had billions in foreign debt...
"Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief." - Chris Murphy (read his summary below)
Just to be clear, The Regime wants their actions to deliver the most intensive suffering to the state of extreme or profound pain, distress, starvation or hardship, encompassing both physical and mental anguish.
These pompous assholes deserve it, the rest of us (even the morons that vote for these smug pos) do not. We trusted our system and then the antichrist who has no morals or decency hijacked our system and those we trusted most and turned us into the laughing stalk of the world. Fuck off
It's just monumental fuck up after another for the party of arse clowns. Just when you thought you have seen it all.... hold my beer I can fit both feet in my mouth.
Well yeah, they want us to suffer !
Everything they've done has been brutal and done in the cruelest & harshest way !
I've also come to believe, they're real OK with a bunch of dying, a lot sooner than later !
One might even think, hell, these people are trying to kill us !
At least I do !
This guy needs to get primaried. At this point he’s so offensive to his constituents that I’d even be somewhat ok with a kinder gentler more respectful R in that seat.
Only concern MAGA has in "Owning The Libs"
The US can become an Athoritarain's theocracy oligarchy. They don't care.
The economy can go into a recession, they don't care.
Everything that affects The Libs affects them too. They don't care or are too stupid to realize it will The ladder is more likely
Yeah. But it's only effective when HE does it because he was a tv star, a known entity, for decades, first. Voters don't know these vicious *ssholes from 💩. They have no fans. And this one, I've read women in Indiana all get The ICK from him. He's done himself no favor.
That's part of it. But really... I think it just makes them hard. We are watching a national conservative jack-off right now. Conservative politicians, business leaders, celebrities, even voters. They stroke themselves to stories like this. That's what it's about.
Funfact; The word "Probably" is a bigly used word in the Trump hemisphere.
In this specific case, it's used as a qualifier for this mans "Guess." He probably, on some level, knows he's just lashing out because "Rabble dare address me," and he was angry about that and nothing else.
So GOP congressmen and senators that are deferring their jobs to Trump, what's the point of them? They are getting paid to not do their jobs. Maybe they should be let go..
I saw that. That was outrageous. A Canadian politician wouldn’t get away with that. I hope a Canadian politician wouldn’t even think that. You Americans deserve better.
Same in the UK. It's not perfect over here by any means but the way some of the politicians in the US talk to people is abhorrent. This guy and also the way MTG spoke to a Brit journalist. Appalling.
this administration is our first openly fascist authoritarian administration and is flouting the constitution and judges rulings. I really hoped that there would be a quasi militaristic intervention and a temporary junta govt to give back to a real POTUS, like Kamala. I was wrong. Democrats wont.
Maybe back before Trump took power. They did try to warn us but look at who owns majority of Mainstream Media. The owners are pro-Trumpers, so their messaging was muted or outright ignored.
Now? Look at Sanders and AOC, Crockett and Brooker.
But they aren't advocating for death and violence.
More Booker, AOC, Crockett, Bernie types and fewer Schumer and Pelosi and Biden types -- people who put their constituents ahead of optics, in other words.
The thing I can't get over with all these layoffs is how hard these people had to work — how many hoops they had to jump through, all the hours of dedication & prep they had to put in — just to get the job in the 1st place.
Nothing is ever handed to people, no matter what these GOP assholes think.
I guess at least now they are finally being honest about who they really work for!
The left lead by Bernie Sanders have been screaming this from the rooftops forever!
Just look at this "No Good" Sycophant BANKS!.. He is one FUGLY UGLY excuse for a human being!.. Indiana, you deserve BETTER -- Much Better!... Terminate BANKS!... Is he really the type of person you want representing you???
Senator Jim Banks is OUR employee. His only qualifications for his job are: he has to be alive, be born in the USand live in the state where he campaigns. AND then let the ReThuglican part buy his election. So I want to know why on earth he thinks he can speak to one of his employers like that?
This is the type of ass hat that gets voted into office by the people of Indiana. Will this be enough for them to see his true character? That character, BTW, is MAGA asshole.
Called the fukker three times, and emailed twice after I saw the vid! Made my blood boil!
They always seem to have balls when surrounded by others of like minds. But then when confronted by many who plainly thought he should have kept his shitty mouth shut, he freaks out!
He will suffer nothing!😡🖕
Yeah, that video was funny AF bc THE KID WAS OBVIOUSLY FILMING and the douchebag was like “I can say what I want”. Bud, you straight up signed your own political suicide letter.
You really think that? I 100% guarantee not only does he get reelected, but that his margin of victory goes up. For Republicans cruelty is a feature, not a bug
I agree, the cruelty is the point, that's not my original thought Probably this jackass gets re-elected, he's from a safe red state about to be wiped out in the trade war, but those staffers were probably not all muscle, the one in front looked like Leon's one whose balls makes his dick look small
Ever been to Indiana? The gop supermajority has been in effect for decades. Im a dem precinct chair and we cant even find a dem to run for local offices. And state contests are 30+ points red.
Indiana and KY are ripe for change. I believe the circumstances are falling into place for that change to happen. It seems that many in this nation are motivated only when the situation gives them no other options. Just sad it has to happen that way.
Worse. I was raised in S. KY, 20 min(s) east of the home of the KKK, near the land my ancestors were forced to work. People don't even bother to read the ballot and vote by name recognition.
BUT things change when you can't afford to eat and have no place to live! Or, as mom says, money gets funny!
You speak the truth. They act this way because they know that they are 100% in control of the govt in Indiana. It's going to take a lot of pain for people to start voting them out.
That really pissed me off and made me want to physically fight that guy. I'm sure that I would be playing right into their hands so I refrain. We need to keep working to expose his crimes, whom they hurt and explain to his severely uneducated voters why it conflicts with traditional American values.
We need to get rid of all these GOPers who say things like this. They sit with a big fat paychecks and great health insurance and don’t give a damn about the average American.
Yep.
My husband thinks they're doing this on purpose, so folks will riot. Then he can declare martial law, cancel mid-terms and suspend Congress and the Supreme Court. Terrifying thought. But look at Putin and Orbán, it's not far off from what they did.
I think psychologically it's the only way to handle actively working against poor/middle class/working families. You have to learn to hate them to take everything from them.
Problem is that to them, we are not real people. We’re the plebs, peasants, and serfs toiling at whatever task they set but aren’t actually people so our suffering doesn’t matter.
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Just not them.
Yup
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2. Senators don’t have immunity from civil suit (this doesn’t fall within the Speech or Debate Clause), so if it were defamation, he wouldn’t be immune.
3. It’s not defamation because, for legal purposes, “You probably deserved it” is a statement of opinion.
If it were fact, it would be protected
More desperation, more crime, more profits.
It’s for not paying federal taxes
Claim exempt on W4
ask HR for chg form
OFF!
IN is so messed up!
Trump will take advantage of minor incidents or PLANTS who engage in violence to impose the Insurrection Act & use the military to put a halt to Americans from exercising their First Amendment rights.
If you see troublemakers, call out "PENGUINS."
And they admire Trump for his brutality and childishness.
Is it possible to be done with these reprehensible
power hungry traitors?
Just allowing him to run was a clear dereliction of duty, but being on the ballot in 2016 got him out of a security clearance investigation, which is yet another catastrophic dereliction of duty since he had billions in foreign debt...
Vote that turd out!! He is not representing his constituents or respecting them.
He's just practice.
The lack of self-awareness is deafening.
It’ll improve his perspective on unemployment.
And he’ll deserve it.
He’s an arsehole clown.
So much for having a Hoosier Heart.
Everything they've done has been brutal and done in the cruelest & harshest way !
I've also come to believe, they're real OK with a bunch of dying, a lot sooner than later !
One might even think, hell, these people are trying to kill us !
At least I do !
He's a much bigger asshole.
The US can become an Athoritarain's theocracy oligarchy. They don't care.
The economy can go into a recession, they don't care.
Everything that affects The Libs affects them too. They don't care or are too stupid to realize it will The ladder is more likely
In this specific case, it's used as a qualifier for this mans "Guess." He probably, on some level, knows he's just lashing out because "Rabble dare address me," and he was angry about that and nothing else.
PROBABLY
Now? Look at Sanders and AOC, Crockett and Brooker.
But they aren't advocating for death and violence.
The geriatric idiots haven't evolved with the times, and haven't learned a thing from their own experiences, so... We need to upgrade them.
Nothing is ever handed to people, no matter what these GOP assholes think.
The left lead by Bernie Sanders have been screaming this from the rooftops forever!
World doesn't see 20 million of you standing in DC at least yelling to get your country back.
You're all cowards. You want someone else to save you you can't even be bothered to save yourselves.
The poor who are losing pensions will save you
IT IS THE POOREST THAT SUFFER, THE SENIORS,DISABKED,SINGLE PARENTS, ETC.
HOLLYWOOD IS NOT SUFFERING.
Unless you squandered the millions you earned, which I don't you did, you aren't suffering.
They always seem to have balls when surrounded by others of like minds. But then when confronted by many who plainly thought he should have kept his shitty mouth shut, he freaks out!
He will suffer nothing!😡🖕
BUT things change when you can't afford to eat and have no place to live! Or, as mom says, money gets funny!
https://generalstrikeus.com/
My husband thinks they're doing this on purpose, so folks will riot. Then he can declare martial law, cancel mid-terms and suspend Congress and the Supreme Court. Terrifying thought. But look at Putin and Orbán, it's not far off from what they did.
And most likely traitors to their own country. 🤬🤬
They wear crosses.
#ElbowsUp
It's a circus!
https://balleralert.com/profiles/blogs/rfk-jr-says-some-hhs-programs-will-be-reinstated/
Look at the pattern so far, hire a lot, rehire a few, hire a lot, rehire a few, hire a lot, rehire a few.
At the end RFKjr says, "That was always the plan."
Your oppression is their profession.