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.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2025
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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.
Lived in Tulsa the first half of my life. Great city! An absolute jewel in that outhouse of a state.
After leaving, "So, why y'all taxing gas, groceries, medicine and income? I thought we were against all that?" The contrast between their voting record and actual governance is stunning.
Also, Tulsa and OKC and major metro areas that are still red. Weird.
Long live Cooperation Tulsa
Whoa there's multiple okies here? Nice
I live in Dublin
These senators are all freaking out about a mayor.
A mayor in a city they hate, an East Coast Liberal Elite Crime Ridden City. You’d think they’d be happy about a NYC collapse, but now they’re suddenly concerned?
The hate for coastal cities is often sour grapes. In a lot of the country "getting out" is a far bigger success than stuff like having a family or starting a small business. And it's not like everyone wants to leave but enough do amd not many people want to come unless they're headed towards a boom bust town. And so these people feel judged by coastal elites who they feel are more successful or privileged than them, because maybe they could've been somebody too if things had gone differently and if their home was somewhere people wanted to live or visit. And like they know the TV and plays in new york and the movies in LA about getting out are written or inspired by those of us who did. And they don't understand the reality that a lot of people left because of the people. The insecurities play a huge role in all of it.
Liberal states going blue? Already blue states going blue? Sure man. Thought that one through.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Interestingly he talks just like Trump. It's like he asked ChatGPT to make a tweet in the style of Trump.
i have friends in oklahoma.
they are desperate to leave.
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
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.