If I could afford to, I'd buy an electric car. Tester shouldn't have to justify this to anyone one, particularly other members of the legislature, who are bullying him. Electric cars are a big part of stopping climate change. If climate change isn't stopped, we're all gonna go extinct in a few more generations. Animals can only survive in a narrow temperature band that doesn't evaporate all the water from the land surfaces. The fossil fuel lobbyists are literally advocating slow genocide, and are undoubtedly behind the bullying. And they'd just call it bread and circuses.
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Yeah, but how many goats did he shoot in the face?
First rule of getting bullied is never get mad and explain why the bullies are wrong
Just spend a little bit to hire a private investigator to follow one selected member of the NRSC around and video them eating at fancy restaurants, telling racist jokes with lobbyists, buying hookers, IDK what the hell Republicans in Washington do but I'm absolutely sure that if you followed them around you'd find something. Total up what their dinner bills are for the month and illustrate the total. Ask them who that blonde woman is. You know, just kind of follow the data. Then put all of that into a campaign ad.
The final segment of the ad can be you, sitting up on top of some of your farm equipment, panning around and showing your farm, and saying "When I'm not in Washington, this is what I'm doing. In Washington I drive a car. You caught me. The big problem here is me and my bleeping Prius. Hey assbleep: Get back to work. Quit having fancy dinners."
Then at the end is you getting in the Prius and driving away, with a voiceover "My name's Jon Tester, and I approve this message."
You could rotate around among different members of the NRSC every month or two, if you wanted, and try to make a little viral sensation that would build your name recognition.
IDK, I think you should call bullshit on bullshit.
Oh, absolutely you should. I'm just saying that the way that you do it matters.
If you just say "hey you hurt me, that's not fair, you shouldn't do that anymore" and leave it at that, then there's a certain type of person that will start to look down on you because of it. I don't agree with it either but it is sadly how quite a lot of people seem to operate.
"I’ve got an ’86 Chevy. I got a 2018 GMC. I got a 2018 Honda Ridgeline. I’ve got a Celica. I’ve got a Peterbilt. I’ve got a ’67 International truck. I’ve got a ’96 International truck. I’ve got a ’78 GMC. Want me to keep going?”
And we're not talking tractors yet. But, since big John is a farmer, each of these will be in various states of repair...
He sounds really insecure about something.
Sounds to me that he knows bullshit when he smells it.
Attacking him for driving a Prius is certainly bullshit, I just think there are better ways of responding to it than angrily rattling off a list of 30 year old gas guzzlers.
Have you seen the electric Dodge Charger commercials?
Anti-EV language wrapped up in an EV Commercial. Its hilarious. You need to speak anti-EV language to reach this audience.
Electric pickups don't have the hauling capcity farmers need, and there's no such thing as an electric tractor
Which has nothing to do with my point. He can own whatever he wants. His response just sounds like a middle schooler trying to prove he's cooler than the other guy.
Considering the source of BS, he iscooler.