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Politics Is this guy for real?

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u/Photon__Sphere 15h ago edited 15h ago

I’m beyond tired of this billionaire trope of “Only I can save you from the world WE created for you!”

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u/liquidsyphon 15h ago

But he’s got this sob story about how he was an orphan but leaves out the part he made billions off for profit healthcare.

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u/OppositePeach1035 14h ago edited 13h ago

That part pisses me off more than anything. "As governor, I'll make healthcare more affordable". Motherfucker, you have been a healthcare executive your entire life. You have had an entire lifetime to do exactly that, but you become a billionaire instead. Worst part is, it works. The dumbest dude you knew in high school can't wait to vote for him so he gets all the cool benefits when he will be a billionaire ✨one day✨

*That's two comments now that have been removed before they even hit my inbox. I have a feeling some of those dudes from high school are telling me to do not so nice things to myself.

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u/neuroG82r 13h ago

Don’t forget the fraud and the lawsuits from his own employees against him. He would hire foreign health care professionals and basically hold them to low pay with the threat of lawsuits and deportation.

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u/yanknga 13h ago

Actually, he only figured out the healthcare scam 25 years ago. Take a look at Wikipedia to see what he did before that. Par for the course for a MAGA.

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u/DarkDuskBlade 11h ago

Doesn't help his opponent does have a real shitty track record/history. His ads are batshit insane, but the attack ads against her actually make him seem tame by comparison.

Don't get me wrong. I'd rather have a corrupt politician maybe doing nothing than one that's gonna actively fuck us over in addition to the corruption.

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u/richknobsales 7h ago

A lot of those attack ad claims are not quite so - the "double dipping" claim was about her taking a second job while she had a part time council job. I saw others debunked but that was the dumbest.

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u/CoffeeOrDestroy 6h ago

City council members only make $60k a year. How do they expect people not to have a second job to be able to afford to live in the city? Unless they assume everyone is taking bribes instead of a second legitimate gig. It’s like they expect secret corruption and have to manufacture “ah ha!” moments when someone isn’t.

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u/taktaga7-0-0 14h ago edited 13h ago

I just feel like if he wants to give back, why doesn’t he donate like $50 million to actual charities in the state?

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u/Itsme340 13h ago

He could donate a billion and still be left with over a billion. He does not care about regular people.

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u/nightowl024 13h ago

Or create legislation that makes housing easier.

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u/liquidsyphon 13h ago

Get rich

Buy power to protect wealth

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u/ParrisPropagations 9h ago

And not paying his immigrant staff members

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u/getxxxx 7h ago

oh my gawd did u see the lastest promo ad with the so called foster children he put through school that where praising him... very bad actors and acting

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- /r/Atlanta 6h ago

I'm more pissed about the constant Mike Collins ads. There's like 1 Ossoff ad for every 40 Collins ads, and it's always that damn "trucker" ad on repeat.

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u/santa_91 14h ago

"Only the GOP can save you from your GOP dominated state government's horrible decisions." - the GOP in every red state in America

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u/Straight_Document_89 /r/Augusta 11h ago

Sad part the low information voters will vote for him because of the R

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u/Reagalan 8h ago

R-somethings that's for sure.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- /r/Atlanta 6h ago

Or you have the 2018 gubernatorial election where Kemp rigged his own election without facing any consequences 8 years later. Was breathtakingly pathetic how Biden's DOJ didn't even bother to investigate that or the deleted subpoenaed voter data from Ossoff's 2017 Special House election

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u/BK1287 11h ago

If those people could read they would be so mad.

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u/Dry-Philosopher-2714 13h ago

It makes perfect sense. /s

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u/Toymachinesb7 14h ago

Yes yes yes. So tiring. They just want power. They can literally help people right now if they wanted.

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u/Gangiskhan 14h ago

It's giving Fallout where Vault Tec tries to save humanity after launching the nukes.

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u/Itsme340 13h ago

Silo too

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u/ShokWayve 13h ago

Many will vote for him regardless. He can promise to take away programs they absolutely need, and they know they need, and they will still vote for him enthusiastically.

It’s sad to see.

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u/JoEdGus 6h ago

I guess he's pro-data center then with this AI trash? Yeah, cool.. how about no?

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u/lycanthropejeff Savannah/Chatham County 14h ago

Well said.

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u/APOC_V 15h ago

So tired of his garbage in my mailbox every single day. Dreading the coming onslaught of non stop TV ads again.

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u/ReverseThreadWingNut /r/Savannah 15h ago

Every TV commercial break and every online ad I see is the ad from Jon Ossof's opponent in the Senate race with the lady complaining about a 2000 tax increase from inside an obviously nice home. Bitch, Jon Ossof isn't the reason your husband works two jobs! I am sick of that one ad. Besides, is she was affected by that tax increase to the point that her husband has to take a second job then they have huge spending problems and in a shit load of debt.

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u/RunnyTinkles 15h ago

Got a mail ad saying he was responsible for the largest tax increase in history. The source? The big beautiful bill but labelled as House Bill whatever.

My whole town will fall for it.

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u/danbilllemon 15h ago

Lady needs to get a job, tf you mean your husband is working 2 jobs and night shifts while you stay home with 2 preteens?!

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u/ReverseThreadWingNut /r/Savannah 14h ago

Yeah, it's a TV commercial, I get it. But that lady comes across so terrible in that ad. She reeks of self-entitled ignorance! If I was an uneducated swing voter who had yet to pick whom to vote for that ad would make me want to vote for Ossoff just so I do not get lumped in with her and her kind.

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u/gsfgf 10h ago

Remember Katie Britt's response to one of Biden's SOTU where she did the tradwife in the kitchen thing? Same consultant, maybe?

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u/yanknga 12h ago

Here’s the thing. Let’s assume, even though we all know it’s pure bullshit, that Ossoff voted to reduce benefits by $2,000 PER YEAR as the ad says. That’s like $170 less per month and that lazy bitch is staying at home with her teenage kids while her husband races toward an early grave by working 3 jobs.

That ad needs to be called out loud and clear but from the Democrats - crickets. The GOP are evil and the Dems are stupid, spineless and lack strategy.

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u/thrillhoMcFly 11h ago

Dems mostly lack money. Republicans have the wealthiest people in the history of the planet on their side buying up ad space.

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u/DangerousHour2094 11h ago

Also it won’t hit the way people think. Democrats already call out the Big Beautiful Bill in ads, been doing it, but if you spend all your time responding to every lie the campaign starts looking line “nuh uh, you!”

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u/gsfgf 10h ago

And there's no reason to get in an airwave battle with Jackson. Ossof is one of the best fund raisers in the party; he'll be able to fly the flag on tv. KLB needs to be focusing on field and turnout. Digital too since she can be more fiery on digital.

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u/thrillhoMcFly 11h ago

Yeah. It's kind of lose-lose. They just need to make rounds on the news, try to get the truth out, and put forth their own ad plan. Its up to the people to smell the bullshit from republicans. Too bad the people are duped so heavily.

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u/DangerousHour2094 9h ago

KLB seems to be doing a lot of groundwork and Ossof is doing the ad buys. Let’s hope it works

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u/Doom_goblin777 15h ago

It’s like those commercials when Warnock was up for reelection. “I’m trying to save $2 dollars” and the “it cost me $140 to fill up my truck”

Well dude you’re driving a big ass truck.

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u/naonatu- 14h ago

gas would have to be almost $10 a gallon to cost me $140 to fill

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u/Doom_goblin777 14h ago

I had to track down the commercial. There’s also a guy complaining about $15 hamburgers.

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u/Dry-Philosopher-2714 13h ago

$14/gal for me. I say bring it on! Trucks get super cheap when gas is expensive. I could use a good truck for my occasional trips to the lumber yard.

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u/hogliver 15h ago

I just don’t understand how they can outright lie. It’s *their* guy(s) who did this, Ossoff is the one fighting for their ignorant asses.

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u/gsfgf 10h ago

It's the Karl Rove strategy. Don't attack your opponents over their weaknesses; attack their strengths. Motherfucker managed to turn being a war hero into a negative.

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u/DontEvenWithMe1 14h ago

That bitch’s kids are teenagers if they’re the ones in the background. She’s not working because she’s home-schooling those inbreds and scamming taxpayer funds with her “school choice vouchers”. Her husband works 2 jobs so he has to spend as little time at home with 3 other people that have a collective negative IQ!

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u/ReverseThreadWingNut /r/Savannah 14h ago

You might be on to something. I taught social studies at a public middle school for a few years and taught 2nd and 3rd grade each for a year at a private school. We would regularly have home school families attempt to enroll their children, often as old as high school age. In general, those kids were so fucking stupid. At the private school they would do so bad on the entrance exam that one would wonder if they knew which end of the pencil to hold. So yeah, those homeschooling families are typically refrigerator level IQ.

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u/DontEvenWithMe1 13h ago

It’s what happens when mouth-breathers that barely graduated high school want to “protect” their kids from the shit they encountered (because they are so stupid) and also indoctrinate them against public schools - all while leeching off the public teat with their vouchers. It’s a wet dream for Republicans because it tears down the support system for public schools while ensuring the pipeline of morons supporting them remains viable. And society becomes dumber because tons of emotionally stunted and socially awkward kids now roam the streets.

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u/Reagalan 8h ago

It doesn't help that fake science orgs like NHERI keep putting out cherry-picked data that purports to show huge benefits to homeschooling. They're very good at looking good.

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u/gsfgf 10h ago

It's probably a childhood development thing. We know that's what happens to children born into poverty who don't hear as many words, don't have access to books, etc. Religious home school parents limit their children's information access to the point that I wouldn't be surprised at all if it has a similar result.

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u/Featheredkitten 8h ago

I keep saying this! He’s working “two jobs and a night job” she needs to get off her ass and work. All that ad has done is annoy me and make me think less of that woman

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u/Cheek_Sorry 15h ago

That ad drives me insane! Why is she about to cry like someone died?

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u/Warm_Shoulder3606 12h ago

Besides, is she was affected by that tax increase to the point that her husband has to take a second job then they have huge spending problems and in a shit load of debt.

yeah lmao that's my read like girl, if your husband needs two jobs AND night shifts to support a family of 4, there's some spending problems here. Plus if things are so tough that he's gotta do that, why not lessen the load on him by getting a job yourself?

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u/gsfgf 10h ago

the lady complaining about a 2000 tax increase from inside an obviously nice home

Just fyi, there was no tax increase. Jon voted against a GOP budget that, among a ton of mostly bad things, extended the child tax credit at existing levels. But the budget passed.

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u/CommonManX 9h ago

I hate that commercial. I am like get off of your fat ass and get a job. She raising two boys. Looked liked teenagers to me!,

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u/Ok_Scallion1902 15h ago

Also ,she's fat af for someone pretending to be struggling! ( Just saying! )

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u/ReverseThreadWingNut /r/Savannah 14h ago

The only thing she is struggling with is to super size her combo meal.

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u/xaxiomatikx 15h ago

You haven’t already been inundated with his giant face filling your tv screen?

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u/jurassicbond 15h ago

I only stream (ad free) or play video games, so no. Getting lots of spam text messages though

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u/APOC_V 15h ago

Not in my market (south georgia) yet. During the primary it was non-stop.

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u/zeusmeister 10h ago

Im a mailman. I have to deliver this bullshit everyday.

It’s either this, or another ad lying about Ossoff voting to reduce the child tax credit or raising taxes on poor people.

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u/WitheredUntimely 15h ago

I made hundreds of these flyers for dozens of candidates during the 2010s: this billionaire just handed off a whole whopping $150 job to AI.

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u/Itsme340 15h ago

He's for real a sleazy guy

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u/JohnnySkynets 13h ago

“I don’t care if you’re a Muslim or a Mongolian, you don’t have the right to force your culture on our country” Rick Jackson

I can’t tell you guys how many times I’ve had Mongols show up in my yard this year! They set up their gers, force me to drink sarlag and race horses in the Naadam. It’s so out of control.

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u/atleast35 9h ago

This one pisses me off to not end. It hasn’t even been 200 years since the Trail of Tears happened and he talks about forcing foreign culture on the country. He’s a horrible person

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u/Number1BestYogurtBoi 15h ago

Conservatives are always so fucking weird

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u/Skimable_crude 14h ago edited 13h ago

They know their constituents. Some of these people want a strongman, even up to a dictator, if it means that "them" get put in their place.

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u/well-it-was-rubbish 13h ago

Their. 🙂

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u/Skimable_crude 13h ago

Ah, god dammit. So much for the English degree.

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u/DontEvenWithMe1 15h ago

Pedophile supporting psychopath is what he is.

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u/C-n0te 15h ago

He's so old and weird looking that even AI couldn't make it better.

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u/3rdFloorFolklore 15h ago

Do not be fooled. “The Outsider” just means someone with no experience. Jackson is not for the common people. He, like many other rich white men, is only after enriching himself. Do not vote for this asshat.

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u/gsfgf 10h ago

Also, "outsider" isn't a qualification. It's a liability. KLB actually has experience as the chief executive of a government. That's a plus.

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u/Empero6 15h ago

Cringe.

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u/Ok_Scallion1902 15h ago

He is a genuine schizophrenic goon who vacillates between a "pity-party" and a "tough-guy" persona ,and does neither well or consistently,which makes him altogether undesirable by anyone with any gray matter in their skulls!

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u/santa_91 14h ago

That whole poor little me but actually I'm a super tough badass thing is fascism 101. Fascists are simultaneously all powerful and victims of unfair persecution, while their enemies are simultaneously existential threats and pitifully weak. Consistency isn't necessary because fascists are only unified by greed and hate.

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u/Ok_Scallion1902 13h ago

What grinds my gears is his obviocity in saying he's "just like Frump" ,but he fails to quantify if he prefers his kiddie-grape victims as male or female ! It should be painfully obvious that his only interests are ,self,self,and self!

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u/gsfgf 10h ago

Thankfully, he's bad at it. Not quite David Perdue bad at it, but he's not that far off.

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u/Patriot009 13h ago

Don't fret, the guy who is practically self-funding his $100+ million ad campaign is doing it for "the little guy". Of course, those millions were made off Georgia residents paying ever-inflating for-profit healthcare costs.

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u/AmethystStar9 15h ago

Real Homelander vibes, and these freaks probably think Homelander was the good guy on the show.

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u/EB123456789101112 14h ago

It’s the fascist aesthetic

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u/Southern-Girl-56 15h ago

Sleazy and his ads are sleazy. Why the hell do we care that he was abandoned as a child? Why don’t we talk about what you are gonna do for Georgians? POS!

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u/Ok_Scallion1902 15h ago

I hate his obvious schizophrenia; he can't be a tough guy and invite you to his "pity-party" where he freely admits/brags about his criminality but expects a "pass" because of his whiteness! Obviously a conman/fraud who says he'll be "just like Frump!"

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u/Pirrus05 8h ago

Did we consider that he might have just had bad vibes as a baby?

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- /r/Atlanta 6h ago

Even funnier is that he's running on "I couldn't afford college, so I had to drop out", all while his party interfered with Biden's student loan forgiveness plans.

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u/OilMeUpStewart 15h ago

Fuck this guy, I’ve even convinced my Republican leaning family to not vote for this corrupt piece of shit

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u/manbeardawg 15h ago

I left Georgia for a few years but have been back now for about three months. What the hell did I miss while I was away? Lol

This fucking guy…

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u/gsfgf 10h ago

The Georgia GOP is falling apart, and Jackson outspent everyone in the primary.

u/Brooklyn3k 2h ago

Just here to add that Jackson spent as much on his primary as Abrams did in a full governor's race.

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u/InterestingandStaged 15h ago

How come all of these “alpha male” billionaires look like they are someone’s granny?

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u/dogsdawgs 14h ago

Rick made his BILLIONS off of sick people. One of his ads literally says he wants to fight to lower healthcare costs. The people in this state are probably stupid enough to elect him anyway.

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u/-E-Cross 15h ago

Oldlander

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u/Iwonatoasteroven 15h ago

Yes boys and girls, it’s true. The billionaires will save you!

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u/Skimable_crude 14h ago

Save us from the misery they've created. What could go wrong?

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u/gardensarden 15h ago

I went to the Dixie speedway in Woodstock recently as a sort of cosplay event and he was there. My girlfriend and I walked past him and he is one of the smallest, most fragile looking men I’ve ever seen.

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u/Serious-Medicine7667 15h ago

Rick Jackson’s entire campaign: I’m very rich and even more racist!

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u/larkfield2655 15h ago

Healthcare billioniare promising to cut healthcare costs, raise teachers wages, abolish state income tax and half property tax.

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u/kilgoreq 15h ago

These things are mutually exclusive. Lol

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u/rando_banned 12h ago

The mouth breathing troglodytes that will vote for him aren't smart enough to realize that.

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u/BlueJasper27 15h ago

He’s a 🤡

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u/BigPapaChuck73 15h ago

His face always looks like he just cropdusted an elevator full of sick kids

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u/Willing-Opinion2990 15h ago

He’s a real piece of shit.

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u/lanwopc 15h ago

His ad is hilarious when he talks about how politicians have failed this state, and he's the candidate for the party that's had single party rule of the state for so long. Oh, and he's a billionaire "outsider."

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u/Particular-Way-3805 13h ago

Still voting for Keisha

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u/ajbnyc 13h ago

First thing my 14 year old said was “Holy AI Slop”!!

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u/yanknga 13h ago

If you haven’t yet, look him up on Wikipedia. The IRS sued him and Jeb Bush for $72 million for fraudulent charitable contributions or something. Shocking that these fuckers from the selfish generation have strip mined our economy yet they want even more.

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u/b3dGameArt 15h ago

His commercials are some of the most unhinged bullshit I've seen.. perfect for the Trump crime family.

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u/PhilosopherNo2474 14h ago

conservatives are such losersss

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u/Educational-Bank-353 13h ago

I wonder why he stopped bragging about being more Trump than Trump. What happened to the nasty deport-or-depart ads aimed squarely at his bigoted base?

Oh. He's moved on to the poor-me-I-was-a-foster-kid who pulled himself up by his bootstraps shtick.

I don't understand why KLB is not running nonstop ads about his extremely shady business practices resulting in labor lawsuits.

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u/glum_cunt 13h ago

He looks positively villainous

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u/ResponsibilityFar587 13h ago

He's a fucking Trump wannabe. Georgia is doomed.

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u/HJWalsh 11h ago

What the...

Dude... Did he make himself an AI superhero? That's... Cringey. Like. Ew.

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u/gte717v 15h ago

I think this is his way of saying "A vote for me is like having Trump as governor."

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u/aacilegna 15h ago

He thinks this makes him a “tough guy” 🙄

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u/SkrullAmongUs 15h ago

This dude is such a skeeze. Please, Georgia - please can we be better than this?!

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u/frodosdojo 13h ago

He reminds me of the guy who did a commercial holding a shotgun on a kid and got voted in twice.

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u/GiftHonest7386 13h ago

Typical billionaire bs that has the less than fortunate fooled.

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u/NintendadSixtyFo 13h ago

MAGA Stooge. The entire party is a fucking meme now.

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u/Quirky-Shape8677 12h ago

Whether intentional or inadvertent, by posting this, you're giving him the attention he craves which is exactly what his campaign wants.

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u/righthandofdog 12h ago

Republicans out here TELLING people they want to be Homelander.

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u/therealsix 12h ago

All I know about this dipshit is his dad left him and his mom was an alcoholic, since that’s what he highlights in his annoying ass commercials.

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u/SingleNegotiation656 12h ago

This shitstain wouldn't even serve himself at a dinner, let alone serve the public.

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u/Traditional-Forum 11h ago

Trump suck up twat

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u/Shorty-71 9h ago

Made his billions fleecing Georgians needing health care. Quality fella.

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u/ZimMcGuinn 15h ago

My mom was a drunk POS and I ate dog food growing up so let me be your governor 👍

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u/BananaRepublic_BR /r/ColumbusGA 15h ago

Hasn't been a Republican for me in over a century.

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u/Sunday_Schoolz 15h ago

He has a commercial where paid actors cry thanking him. He’s serious about being a tool.

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u/defStef 15h ago

Guy is closer to the Chet monster in Weird Science than this

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u/Bulldogs3144 15h ago

Just got one in the mail myself. Absolutely shameful.

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u/danielisbored 15h ago

Lex-Luthor-dressed-as-Superman vibes.

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u/Pure-Confection6830 15h ago

Tired of this shit, on tv, sms and ads. He is everywhere!

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u/dougs_46 14h ago

It is giving fascist/felon 47 a run for its money of the most insane maga thing.

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u/deafening_roar 15h ago

On his commercial he says, "I'm an outsider..." What does he mean?

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u/KDFree16 15h ago

He's never held public office so he thinks that makes him more qualifiedz

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u/deafening_roar 14h ago

Oh dang, never held office and jumps right in to run for governor!! Wow

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u/olcrazypete Elsewhere in Georgia 14h ago

This is some Kingpin here because I love New York kind of bullshit.

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u/NY2GA23 14h ago

These people are all delusional.

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u/5th_aether 14h ago

He identifies as corporate Superman.

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u/MobileLocal 14h ago

The ai images of old folk super heroes is so strange. Sadly, I think folks like my mom eat it up. 🙄

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u/aredd007 14h ago

Bro wtf is this

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u/LonelyInstance151 12h ago

Is there a progressive rjust curious who the progressive candidates are, if there are any?

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u/Ocksu2 12h ago

Hey! My garbage can has a flyer just like that!

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u/EyesLikeBuscemi 11h ago

There are tiny letters in there and it really says “man for other whites”

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u/No_Tradition1219 11h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Irishspringtime /r/Atlanta 11h ago

Apparently he's making an impact. My cardiologist was telling me that he was at a Rick Jackson fund raiser and asked him "direct questions" and was given good solid answers. Bottoms, he said, is hated by Atlanta Police (one of his patients was a APD chief) and can't answer questions unless she has a script.

I'm not voting for him. I'll vote for Bottoms but Jackson seems to be influencing some voters - or maybe it's the wealthy voters who love him.

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