🇺🇸 Discussion: The REPUBLICAN Party - - - - - Part 20

[KRYPTON INC.]

Do... I mean...

Seriously? Again... Not her biggest fan but I have to ask if we get a lot of analysis of the sartorial price tag of all those GOP members of congress that cast themselves as humble servants from the Heartland? Besides, we all know if she showed up in cheap or casual clothing she'd be called out for looking "unprofessional" or not "looking as someone of her office should ".

 

[Teelie]

Exactly. No matter how she dressed they would find a fault with it.

 

[Sithborg]

Oh, and they are apparently criticizing her because she said she couldn't afford an apartment in DC, but Fox somehow found out she has $15000 in savings. Clearly don't know anything about DC living costs.

 

[samsnee]

And he deleted the tweet. Coward.

 

[Teelie]

Oh, and they are apparently criticizing her because she said she couldn't afford an apartment in DC, but Fox somehow found out she has $15000 in savings. Clearly don't know anything about DC living costs.

$15k would be what, about a month's rent in someone's closet?

 

[samsnee]

Doesn't matter. Savings are for savings, not for basic living expenses. If they are going with that logic, why do corporations get tax incentives. Why can't they just use their savings?

 

[Schlosser85]

That's the same kinds of people who "call out" a poor person for walking around with a new iPhone (because, ya know, just maybe they need it for job interviews, etc., maybe they're on someone else's plan, maybe a friend or family member gave them theirs, maybe mind your own business and don't worry about it) or a family on food stamps for buying steak (because god forbid they subsist on anything other than rahmen noodles or whatever is stereotypically poor enough for you).

 

[Teelie]

I got my first iPhone as a used hand-me-down and kept it for several years. I got that series 1 around the time iPhone 3's were coming out. I still have an iPhone 6 despite them being up to iPhone 9 (the X series) second release now.

So no, just because she has a little money to spend to look professional does not mean she has disposable income to buy expensive clothing or live in an expensive city.

This is exactly the problem with conservatives. Anyone who is poor but saves up or is gifted an expensive thing does not deserve it for being poor. They are not supposed to have anything above their station.

 

[Schlosser85]

And that's exactly what it is. They believe anyone who's poor is poor by their own fault alone (but then they support welfare and handouts for corporations). They want to keep poor people, minorities, and women in "their place". And just dress it up in euphemisms like "traditional values".

They see us all as the unwashed masses who exist to serve them. And they want to dumb down the education system to keep us uneducated and easier to control/manipulate, and because they don't think we need/deserve education anyway.

I wish the GOP's poor working white base would ever wake up to how much complete and utter scorn the people they elect have for them. They literally hold you in so much contempt that you can die in the gutter from not being able to afford your insulin for all they care.

ffs, they literally don't think you deserve to live.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

NBC News: President George H. W. Bush is dead at age 94.

R.I.P. The last somewhat decent president that was a Republican.

 

[Manasrepublic]

He was a real gentleman. Really sad to see him pass.

 

[AResistor]

Plus, an SNL clip that seems the most appropriate to play given the holidays:





George Bush Sr calls Trump a 'blowhard'

"I don't like him [Trump]. I don't know much about him, but I know he's a blowhard. And I'm not too excited about him being a leader," said George Bush Sr, who was president between 1989 and 1993.

George would later go on to vote for HRC.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

GOP Lawmaker Matt Shea Releases Christian Manifesto Calling For Biblical Law

More fig leaves fall off every day.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

And yet they'll still decry that Muslims want to bring Sharia law to the U.S.

 

[Sithborg]

WI is also attempting to hilariously gut the governor's and attorney general's office's power.

Similar things are happening in MI as well.

All they care about is power.

 

[Teelie]

They did it in NC too.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Journal Sentinel - GOP seeks to limit Wisconsin early voting, strip powers from [Governor-elect] Tony Evers and Josh Kaul in lame-duck session

Detroit Free Press- Republican bills seek to challenge incoming Democrats in Michigan

Newsweek - North Carolina GOP works to limit incoming governor Roy Cooper's power (December 2016)

 

[Aximili86]

Yeah, Bush Sr was basically the last real president. Not unexpected, but sad all the same. Last of that generation of those actually with a little perspective & wisdom.

 

[Schlosser85]

Clinton and Obama were decent to good Presidents.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Clinton and Obama were decent to good Presidents.

I wonder what the criteria for bring a "real" POTUS is that Clinton and Obama don't measure up?

 

[Teelie]

Clinton and Obama were decent to good Presidents.

By comparison to Trump they are great.

 

[moviedoors]

George HW Bush. Let's go down the list.

-His campaign was typical right-wing horse****: racist (Will Horton ad), faux Patriotism (flag burning amendment, mandatory Pledge of Allegiance), and two-faced accusations of liberal elitism (when he was born rich and his opponent was the son of middle class immigrants).

-The Gulf War: just like his son's war, built on a foundation of propaganda and lies and is littered with the blackened bodies of Iraqi civilian and children, burned alive by American weapons (After 25 Years of U.S. Role in Iraq, Scars Are Too Stubborn to Fade). American forces destroyed Iraqi infrastructure as means of creating a bargaining chip. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...4a9-bfe7-084da4e38e41/?utm_term=.9393f430a406 “Some targets, especially late in the war, were bombed primarily to create postwar leverage over Iraq, not to influence the course of the conflict itself. Planners now say their intent was to destroy or damage valuable facilities that Baghdad could not repair without foreign assistance. … Because of these goals, damage to civilian structures and interests, invariably described by breifers during the war as ‘collateral’ and unintended, was sometimes neither.” The loss of infrastructure resulted in catastrophic loss of civilian life.

-His involvement and knowledge of the Iran-Contra Affair and his issuing of pardons to those involved.

-His escalation of the horrific War on Drugs.

I don't celebrate this man's life, nor do I honor him in death.

 

[Aximili86]

Okay, just plain factually, he was the last guy with a lifetime career of actually pointing him in a presidential direction. Hell, I tend to think both Clinton & Dubya were qualified enough due to the governerships, that's up & above what the Obamas & Trumps of the world bring to the table, but neither of those former guys hold a candle to the China Ambassador, Head Of The CIA, military-vet, successful businessman accumulation. Bush Sr's basically the last "real deal" guy to get the gig.

And if you want to get into the contra stuff, lay that on Reagan. Yeah, Bush was in on it, totally, but the buck stops with Reagan on all of that.

War on drugs, ehh, that's a good thing.

Way to leave out all the "let's not gloat at the USSR collapsing under its own bull**** misguide weight, let's be low-key & humble and just let it play out" stuff too. Yeah, you seem like a fair individual. Hardcore "raaaaah! USA! USA! USA!" guy Bush Sr wasn't.

You're on the "I don't celebrate this guy's life" train, that's extreme as any **** Trump's putting out there, plain and simple. Pure cliched Rage Against The Machine burn-it-all-down-and-start-again juvenile platitudes.

 

[Donner]

Ehhhh, the War on Drugs is a complete and utter failure.

Absolutely ridiculous.

 

[moviedoors]

Okay, just plain factually, he was the last guy with a lifetime career of actually pointing him in a presidential direction. Hell, I tend to think both Clinton & Dubya were qualified enough due to the governerships, that's up & above what the Obamas & Trumps of the world bring to the table, but neither of those former guys hold a candle to the China Ambassador, Head Of The CIA, military-vet, successful businessman accumulation. Bush Sr's basically the last "real deal" guy to get the gig.

And if you want to get into the contra stuff, lay that on Reagan. Yeah, Bush was in on it, totally, but the buck stops with Reagan on all of that.

War on drugs, ehh, that's a good thing.

Way to leave out all the "let's not gloat at the USSR collapsing under its own bull**** misguide weight, let's be low-key & humble and just let it play out" stuff too. Yeah, you seem like a fair individual. Hardcore "raaaaah! USA! USA! USA!" guy Bush Sr wasn't.

You're on the "I don't celebrate this guy's life" train, that's extreme as any **** Trump's putting out there, plain and simple. Pure cliched Rage Against The Machine burn-it-all-down-and-start-again juvenile platitudes.

I like the way you skipped the most pertinent of my points. You know, the one involving mass civilian casualties in a bull**** war.