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I was sent this tweet which claims that the majority of Republicans voted against an offer to spend billions in border protection. This goes against my understanding of the GOP. Am I missing some context that would explain this?
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He has cancer.
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Mmm, I don’t think you should feel like an ass. Hes trying to elicit the feeling you’re having now. He’s an asshole, not you.
Trying to make @urquan feel like an ass by... having cancer?
What do you want him to do, if he didn't wear the bandana people would be all "who does he think he is, Lex Luthor" and then feel like an ass about that.
This is trivially disproved by there being millions of bald people, and hundreds of bald politicians, who nobody calls "Lex Luthor". Cory Booker looks like a cueball, and people call him a lot of names, but I haven't heard "Lex Luthor". Look here at the collection of shiny noggins and tell me who called them "lex Luthor" ever? https://www.gq.com/gallery/bald-100
Not many politicians wear bandanas though. It is not a very common garment for a politician, so when a politician wears one, it looks weird and its legitimate to ask questions. If you noticed above, Hulk Hogan wears one. He's not a member of Congress (not yet at least). Just as if somebody would wear a bathrobe and slippers or a wedding dress into Congress. There might be a legit reason or just a person fashion choice, but it has little to do with baldness as such or the reason for it.
People who are bald because of chemo wear bandanas, it's a thing. I don't know why it's a thing, but it is.
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Wear a hat? Shave his head?
Jamie Raskin is a lifelong grifting rage baiting asshole who continues spreading the insane propaganda lies about Russian spies in the White House.
He also used this opportunity to spread more rage baiting lies, claiming republicans had insisted that he take his bandana off.
This was, of course, a lie: https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-jamie-raskin-cap-chemotherapy-republicans-house-representatives-1778293
So he wears a bandana, nobody cares except to tell him that they hope he pulls through with his cancer, and he uses this as an opportunity to claim that his political opponents are cartoonish villains, and that his bandana is a form of resistance.
Yes, him wanting you to feel like an asshole, and using his bandana to do so, is very literally what he is doing
It's a really common style for cancer patients who've lost their hair from the chemo (I don't know why but it is); are all of the other cancer patients assholes, or are you just using this as an excuse to vent about somebody who's politics you clearly don't like very much?
I'm not disputing that cancer patients wear bandanas. I'm saying that in this specific case he made his wearing of a bandana a political tool, and lied about people to do so.
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I've seen lots of bald politicians. I've never seen one cosplaying Prison Mike.
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TBH, about 90% of people there without the bandanas don't either. Unfortunately, most of the clowns there don't dress the part - that at least would be mildly entertaining.
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