Angry constituents confronted Republican Rep. Mark Alford of Missouri during a town hall on Monday evening, accusing the lawmaker of being more loyal to President Donald Trump than the people he represents in Congress.
“I am pissed and I am pissed at you,” Fred Higginbotham, a resident of Bolivar, said to Alford. “Get Trump out of office. The man is a dictator. He knows nothing about what he talks about.”
“You need to take your head out of Trump’s a** and start doing your representation of us,” Higginbotham said to a round of applause from the crowd.
At times, the town hall was contentious, with some people yelling at Alford to express their disappointment.
“Your job as Congress is to check and balance our president,” one man told Alford. “There’s been no checks and balances at all.”
He still has 71% of the votes. So of course he has no desire to do his job.
I think you underestimate how strong the interpersonal ties of the rural Midwest are. He got 71% sure, but this is significant. In deep red Missouri people are getting fed up and speaking ill of Trump. That’s notable. On an individual scale maybe not, but this is the sort of thing that can pick up a lot of steam very fast.
It should have been long ago that they turned on their republican representation, but I’ll never discourage positive behavior.
I like your optimism in thinking the people will change.
I’m not optimistic that the people will change necessarily. They’ll still jump over each other to be the first to berate someone for being LGBT+ and have them thrown in a jail cell for subjecting their youth to sinful lifestyles.
I have slightly more than zero optimism that they’ll change their vote though. If the rep and Trump continue to piss them off over the next couple of elections, I could see a good majority of them voting independent or for a republican challenger and splitting the vote. These people care about 2 things more than any political issue and if you start fucking with them, you’re out. They are God and money. Hopefully some have started to realize Trump is incompatible with Christianity, but I know some have seen his grift and how it costs them money.
This is also a guy that bullied a coworker so badly that they committed suicide. And then decided to brag about it on air during the memorial service.
He is a sack of rancid dogshit.
And Americans will vote for him.
Yeah that was my takeaway. They are angry at him but at the end of the day this guy could just throw piss bottles at his constituents and they would still vote for him because of the “R” on the ballot.
I’m constantly astounded that these guys shitting all over their electorate doesn’t get them voted out. Not for a dem of course, the gerrymandering and brainwashing is too strong for that. But is there literally no other repub in (eg) Texas that didn’t flee the state while his voters were freezing to death such that Ted “zodiac killer” Cruz still got reelected?
Pretty much this. The idea of voting for a Dem to these people is akin to working with the Christian devil.
A personal failing.
I mean this is showing that maybe not.
We can hope that the midterms show this.
You still think they’re gonna let us have midterms?
Hence “hope”
The guy asked “do you think we’re stupid?” and the congressman could have answered, “yeah, we designed it that way” and he’d still get well over 50% of the vote as long as he followed it up with “being smart is woke”.
That red/white/black color scheme reminds me of something.
I just can’t quite heil my führer on it.
Imagine being a Nazi and having to put up with town halls. It must be exhausting.
Did he also slam him?
Asking for another journalist who needs a clickbaity headline.
They even blasted him.
Angry town hall attendee rips Republican congressmans throat out
When?
The constant complaints about the word “slam” have become more annoying than the word itself.
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being a Republican politician must be a bit confusing now, sucking up to trump, not sucking up to Trump, get backlash from your people either way
The answer, it turns out, is not to be a piece of shit at all.
Mission: GOP; Don’t Be A Piece Of Shit Difficulty: IMPOSSIBLE
It’s pretty easy, actually: “Fuck the people, they’re stupid and will re-elect me anyway.”
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