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RealLiveKindness t1_jbfxfsz wrote

Follow the money. Find out who’s paying these cretins. They would not run and could not run without money from someone. There is a pattern of deceit in PA. I am convinced there is an evil backer paying extremists to run for office in PA.

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polgara_buttercup t1_jbgfats wrote

Tons of money pouring from the churches into Dougie’s pockets. Also companies like Martin’s Potato Rolls are huge backers.

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yeags86 t1_jbguuqa wrote

The fact that churches get away with that shit is absurd. It’s illegal. If they want to donate to politicians, they need to start paying taxes.

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SurgeonTaco t1_jbjde0s wrote

The secret to getting what you want in politics is to be involved in politics. Most Americans checked out decades ago. Religious folk did not. They stayed, manipulated, cajoled, paid, bribed, greased, streamlined, and just generally made things happen in politics in favor of them.

So, they get what they want. The rest of us just complained online.

There is a lot more to politics than voting, and right now the authoritarian Christians are the ones doing all the extra shit the most. Saying "it's illegal" to something is kind of meaningless when the power that is meant to make it illegal is being controlled by the group doing the illegal shit.

We can keep saying "that's illegal" until the entire US constitution is re-written and it is simply not illegal anymore because that is what they wanted.

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bobjinpa t1_jbgt9iy wrote

Fuck Martin’s

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yolorelli t1_jbh060n wrote

And fuck churches.

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qwertyuxcv t1_jbjdqln wrote

Fuck churches more than Martin's? At least their bread tastes better than the churches'.

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fallser t1_jbhr21o wrote

Stopped buying Martins, they can go fuck them selves.

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Pleasant-Affect8433 t1_jbiwip3 wrote

Martin’s Potato Rolls supporting extremism is a betrayal I never thought I’d have to endure

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polgara_buttercup t1_jbja8p5 wrote

The family that owns it are hard core evangelicals. If you’re not white and Christian you can have a hard time working there.

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TeeKrauty t1_jbjia74 wrote

Fuck man. Now we done with their potato rolls. Dammit they were good. I didnt know this. Ty for info.

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MRG_1977 t1_jbgrk8u wrote

He got smoked in the Governor’s race, in part, because Shapiro outspent him so badly. Mastriano whined and complained for weeks after the election that he lost because of the lack of financial support from the national GOP organization after he got the nomination.

Also left out that even the big money GOP donors in PA including Yass didn’t meaningfully contribute either.

Senate races are obscenely expensive in competitive states and Mastriano has zero personal wealth to utilize.

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Yelloeisok t1_jbh0c1c wrote

He also forgot to mention he was too chickenshit to actually go in front of crowds that weren’t ‘friendly’ to his Christian agenda. Every event he had was private and behind closed doors to only his supporters.

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JediLion17 t1_jbh4p2s wrote

And had the media corralled in a corner where they needed to be escorted to and from like children.

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Atrocious_1 t1_jbhbeiw wrote

I think you mean he hid in his bunker and only would interview with the dumbest rw cranks

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RealLiveKindness t1_jbhjmls wrote

Susquehanna Partners skimming money from exchanges. Funding antiAmerican, antiDemocracy radicalized stooges. They made their money, don’t want others to succeed.

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drxdrg08 t1_jbglrhf wrote

> I am convinced there is an evil backer paying extremists to run for office in PA.

It's no secret that Democrats paid for the last Mastriano run for office.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/politics/democrats-strategy-paid-off-midterms/index.html

> During the 2022 primary season, Democrats actively meddled in a number of Republican races – hoping to boost GOP candidates who they viewed as too extreme (especially on the issue of election denialism) to win general elections. All told, Democrats spent millions of dollars interfering in Republican primaries for Senate, House and governor around the country.

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demonicego93 t1_jbgpdbk wrote

It was just advertising, right? This article is terrible lol. Not a single reference. I have a hard time calling advertising or boosting "interference".

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drxdrg08 t1_jbgv9ex wrote

> This article is terrible lol

Did you just say that about CNN on Reddit?

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VerbalGravy t1_jbhd8s0 wrote

Why does the right have such trouble understanding that we don't worship politicians and news outlets?

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RealLiveKindness t1_jbhkwwr wrote

I think we’ve struck a nerve here. In my area of the state the GOP candidates seemed to be doing pretty well financially after losing their races.

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yeags86 t1_jbi6uvk wrote

It’s called strategy. It was certainly effective, and completely legal. This isn’t the “gotcha” you think it is.

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