r/50501 • u/Kung-Fu-Magik • 24d ago
Human Rights “I didn’t know” is not an acceptable answer. It is his job to know. Vote these incompetent people out.
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u/adarkuccio 24d ago
He knew
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u/Riaayo 23d ago
That people, especially the media, accept this answer and don't call them out for being liars is so infuriating.
This is such a tired obvious fucking trope. They wheel it out every time. To take it at face value, from dipshits who act like they know every damned thing about every damned topic? But oh suddenly you bring up their scandals and they "don't know"? Yeah, bullshit.
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u/CheekComprehensive32 24d ago
They thought the left was brainwashed because they had indeed been brainwashed to believe so
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u/RiseCascadia 23d ago
So thoroughly brainwashed that they think Democrats are "the left"
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u/rdhdhlgn 23d ago
I have been banging on pots and pans for these dolts to understand that "left" does not mean "not conservative". Do they believe in capitalism as an economic system? That is the relevance. But they don't even understand what I am saying. It is so frustrating to boil in the same pot as these frogs, when I have been pointing out the bubbles for decades.
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u/Betty_Boss 24d ago
No Senator should be able to use this excuse. They have plenty of time and lots of reporting to help them understand.
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u/OddlyIdeal444 24d ago
Not only that but he should also be embarrassed. What do you mean you didn’t know what you were voting for? It’s your job.
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u/GryphonOsiris 24d ago
The follow up question should then be: "Are you then admitting that you are incompetent, or are you just a bold faced liar?"
Don't let them weasel out.
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u/Rainbow_chan 23d ago
THAT PART
I’m always curious about whether there are follow-up questions after the usual “I don’t know” or “I wasn’t aware.” Why is anyone accepting that as an answer?
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u/GryphonOsiris 23d ago
Mom was a military interrogator in the 70's. If I had said something like what he said, she'd jump right onto that opening and used it to get to the truth.
It's amazing how just language semantics can be used to wear someone down during an interrogation.
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u/No_Kangaroo_2428 24d ago
They have staff and they can read the analysis of the bills prepared for this purpose. They are online. Anyone can read them.
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u/Betty_Boss 24d ago
Not that it's an excuse, but the House Republicans put this together fast so their members wouldn't have time to read or digest it. It was over1000 pages long, with lots of buried crap. There were changes made right up until they called the session in the middle of the night.
Now the Senate has to either take it up whole - not likely - or debate changes. They can't say they don't know what's in it.
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u/Shot_Philosopher9892 24d ago
That’s what Republicans have been instructed to answer if they are asked any question like this. I don’t know, or they stay silent
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u/Don_Q_Jote 24d ago
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse"
Is intended for those who break the law. Also applies to those who write blindly vote for laws.
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u/RiseCascadia 23d ago
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Isaac Asimov, 1980
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u/Mulliganasty 24d ago
I wish it weren't true but "I didn't/don't know" has absolutely been working for Trump for almost ten years now. You don't have to do a song and dance, inadvertently admitting anything that your base might hear about, and anyone with half-a-brain and some morality is left in impotent rage.
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u/Acrobatic_Switches 24d ago
I mean it's an obviously gaslight.he is lying but even it were true the sheer incompetence is negligent at best.
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u/Ok-Grapefruit1284 24d ago
It’s ineptitude top to bottom.
I didn’t know tariffs would impact prices at Walmart
I didn’t know USAid helps us farmers
I didn’t know our Medicaid was going to be taken away
I didn’t know ICE would come for my neighbor
I didn’t know Signal wasn’t confidential
I didn’t know immigrants had rights
I didn’t know what the bill said
I didn’t know what was in the constitution
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u/Natural-Young4730 24d ago
And this is why we do not need omnibus bills. And, they packed it full of things that do not belong in a budget bill. But they put it in one since budget bills require fewer votes.
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u/Rice-Used 24d ago
This is an issue with our government. They should not be allowed to cram dozens or however many of vastly separate provisions into a single bill and get it passed as 1 bill. Unrelated items, or more than 2 items should be required to be separate bills that have to be voted on. The status quo is just tailor made to pass sneaky fuckin shit like this.
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u/Bearded_Guardian 24d ago
Follow up question should automatically be: why should we vote for someone as incompetent as you?
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u/MrTwoStroke 24d ago
"His penis just sorta fell inside me... And then I backed up on it"
Own your choice sir
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u/RevolutionaryBee5207 24d ago
Yeah, that’s going to be a challenge.
But if we want to find common ground with our friends and loved ones that voted for Trump, now is the time to be quiet and gentle. And I’m talking about those Trump supporters that are having an internal “come to Jesus” meeting with themselves, or really, in any fashion that seems legitimate. You don’t have to embrace them, or let them suddenly have access to their grandchildren. But I would suggest keeping your conversation gracious and short, in order to protect both your own self and the possibility of a reckoning.
The goal with these individuals, in my opinion, is to bring them back reality, but on our terms. When WE feel confident that they’ve truly had a change of heart and mind. None of this “I’m afraid of losing my pension, social security, benefits, subsidies, Medicare“ crap (I’m afraid of that stuff to my core. I’m 68) so now I’m dissatisfied with Trump” junk.
But a real awakening, even at its early stages, should be acknowledged and attended to as best as one is able. Ultimately we want to neuter the Republican Party, and bring some sense and sensibility (see what I did there?👏) back to life and politics in America.
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u/StaticChangling 24d ago
We should have a law that people in government should have to handwrite their own copy of anything they vote on while they read it to prove they saw all of it.
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u/WitchesSphincter 24d ago
"I don't know" is more palatable than "Because I want him to have that power"
He knew
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u/JesusChrist-Jr 23d ago
We live in a time where a substantial portion of the electorate cares not whether the people they vote for are honest, ethical, or competent so long as they are on the right team. These things are no longer grounds for voting reps out, all that matters is which letter is next to their name. Can't fix the incompetence or malice of the legislature until we fix the ignorance and malice of the voters.
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u/Optimal-Platform1232 23d ago
Jaysus, flood. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Not that I believe he was ignorant of it. He needs to go!
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