They didn't know. What, are they supposed to read the shit they vote for?
Quote:House Republicans Shocked to Learn Bill They Didn’t Read Has Stuff in It They Don’t Like
Like small children suddenly learning their actions have consequences—or cynical grown-ups scrambling to cover their asses—a number of House Republicans are now claiming they did not realize what was in the GOP spending bill they voted for last month, and had someone told them, they would not have voted “yes.”
One day after Elon Musk dubbed Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” a “disgusting abomination,” Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene took to X to tell her followers that there is no way she would have voted in favor of the legislation had she known it contained a measure she doesn’t like. “Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years,” the Georgia congressperson wrote. “I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there.”
Several hours later, Representative Scott Perry took to X to declare Musk was “right to call out House Leadership” for voting for the bill, saying “I wish I had a nickel for every time the @freedomcaucus sounded the alarm and nobody listened, only to find out the hard way we were right all along.” What Perry didn’t note is that all but one member of the House Freedom Caucus voted yes for the bill, including Perry.* Surely an honest oversight!
Greene and Perry’s mea culpas follow that of Representative Mike Flood, who said in a town hall last week that he he was unaware the bill would limit judges’ abilities to hold people in contempt, and that he would not have voted for it if he was aware of the measure.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/ho...-dont-like
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
