Belz...
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I could instead assume that he's seeing it for the first time. Practice means effort, and he's extremely lazy. And stupid.
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I could instead assume that he's seeing it for the first time. Practice means effort, and he's extremely lazy. And stupid.
Belz...
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Why would I do that, since I have tons of evidence that the man is instead an idiot?
Belz...
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Exactly. And as such they deserve no compromise of quarter in return. In fact, driving them to extinction as a party sounds like a great idea. After all, they have no policies anymore.
Belz...
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Yeah, nobody gives a **** about infrastructure until someone gets killed.
Belz...
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Silly question. That is not the purpose of the GOP. The purpose of the GOP is now to radicalise and scam uneducated voters for the benefit of the rich.
Belz...
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American Libertarians are the real-world version of solipsists.
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But I think the difference between the ultra-right and libertarians is that the right wingers only want government to leave their values alone. They are more than happy to have lots of police to round up the bad guys, and government mandated flag protection and school prayer, and laws against abortion and homosexuality and whatever else they don't like anyway. The conservative call for less government is an out and out lie. They just want it cheaper and less tolerant.
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smartcooky
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Yeah, good luck with that.
smartcooky
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Yup..
They only support democracy if their guy gets voted in.
They only support the Rule of Law when its applied to the "others"
They only support the working class so long as it makes the rich, richer.
They will support ANY policy as long as it keeps their donors cash rolling in to their party.
They support spending $1.9TN for tax cuts to benefit the richest few percent of the people in the country, but they won't support spending the very same amount, $1.9TN, to benefit ordinary Americans and save hundreds of thousands of their lives
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THey stand against democrats, and for radical judges and tax cuts for the ultra-rich.
THis is reflected in their 2017-2019 stint controlling the legislative and executive ranches, and the senate/executive ranches in 2019-2021. We saw a massive tax cut for the ultra-wealthy, payed for with immediate increases for many people in blue states via exemption reform, and eventual boost to taxes for most lower to upper-class working Americans. And judges.
"Infrastructure week" was a long-running joke, the "better" alternative to Obama care was the old system of higher cots, rescission, and lifetime caps, foreign policy was even less coherent than normal, and the basic view on rights for anyone aside from straight cis white men was "Government is powerless to help you, not to harm you", to quote Simpsons character Clancey Wiggum. Education was scams and slapdash jingoism in place of History, environmental policy was "It's yours, rape it!" to quote whatsherface the blond woman polemicist. Immigration reform was worthy of trial at the ICC.In short, "small government" for a small group of wealthy straight white men and the larger group that lack wealth but stay in line, and state violence for everyone else.
It's worth noting that this is mostly due to the freakout over a black guy becoming president, and Dolt 45 is only a part of that. McConnell was essentially at the point of procedural stunts and filibustering his own bills because Obama voiced support long before then, Boehner had long since peaced out of the House and left it to Paul Ryan to mismanage ("Let's vote to repeal Obama care for the three dozenth time guys! How about we freak out the stock market with asinine debt and credit crises!"). But Dolt 45 was willing to say a lot of transparently racist crap and denounce cultural figures and movements for random reasons, so he's their leader now.
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What laws govern the money that blue states send to red states to fund their broken economies? Maybe the Democrats should change that, and remind the Repugnicans exactly how dysfunctional their own methods of governing really are. Let them stew in it for a while, before they beg to be brought back into the fold.
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First, that's sort of like country-level sanctions, in that a lot of people will suffer, and the ones who will likely suffer the most are the ones that already despise the GOP enough that they need to suppress their votes, carve them up with wild gerrymandering, and the like. Second, we tried the whole "two parties become increasingly hostile based on region" thing before, and it ended badly. And third, to be blunt, the reaction among the GOP base is expected to be very different to proposals from an old white dude in 2020, than it was for the middle-age black guy in 2008, even if we exclude the younger folks that were basically still kids back in 2009-2010.
In other words, "working together for the common good" is more or less owned by the dems for now, and they should act like they mean it. The GOP guys yelping that they're the "party of the working class" are so obnoxious that they're apparently grifters, sex traffickers, and Ted Cruz who even John Boehner randomly cusses out in his audiobook.
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Stacyhs
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In order to educate yourself. There are reasons his niece, Mary Trump, believes he has learning disabilities and several education specialists, as previously cited, speculate he has undiagnosed learning disabilities.
If he does, indeed, have LDs, it does not make him any less a POS or any less worthy of our disdain; it only gives us a clearer understanding of some of his past and present behavior.
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FTFY
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Belz...
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The problem is that, regardless, he's still an idiot, which makes all of this pointless. I know he can read, and his many idiocies have little to do with reading.
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Infrastructure Bill might not go through.
In a radio interview with @HoppyKercheval, Sen. Manchin signals there are circumstances under which he won't vote to get onto the infrastructure bill.
"As the bill exists today, it needs to be changed,"
Manchin says more revenue needs to be collected from high income earners, but he says the corporate tax rate should be at 25%.
He says he would not support raising the corp tax to 28%.
"If I don't vote to get on it, it's not going anywhere," Manchin tells
“It’s more than just me, Hoppy," Manchin said. "There’s six or seven other Democrats who feel very strongly about this. We have to be competitive, and we’re not going to throw caution to the wind.”
In a radio interview with @HoppyKercheval, Sen. Manchin signals there are circumstances under which he won't vote to get onto the infrastructure bill.
"As the bill exists today, it needs to be changed,"
Manchin says more revenue needs to be collected from high income earners, but he says the corporate tax rate should be at 25%.
He says he would not support raising the corp tax to 28%.
"If I don't vote to get on it, it's not going anywhere," Manchin tells
“It’s more than just me, Hoppy," Manchin said. "There’s six or seven other Democrats who feel very strongly about this. We have to be competitive, and we’re not going to throw caution to the wind.”
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