@Meph — I understand your point about Obamacare creating winners and losers.
It is similar in concept of a progressive tax code. It taxes those who are already winners at a higher rate than others. You don’t like that concept. I get that.
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Except that in practical terms, Trump and Romney and the other Republican elite don’t actually fund the government and the Republican base doesn’t see that, or else believes that people who are that successful shouldn’t have to.
That’s the part I don’t understand.
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“It may make you feel good to call us all racists, homophobes, bigots or whatever your favorite epithet might be but it doesn’t help your cause and, in fact, makes those of us who are sick of your bovine residue even more stalwart in our determination to continue to erode Democratic sway over the government.”
It’s true that ALL Republicans are not racists, etc., but those who are gravitate into the GOP and are welcomed into it. And Republican rhetoric is intended to exploit those tendencies in all of us. Just look at Trump’s campaign and the Republican ‘debates’.
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You hate Obamacare (and Obama). But what do you want to do about health care?
Well, now you’re beating up people, burning their churches and mosques, shooting them for being “furrin” calling them names on planes and in coffee shops and stores, and turning a blind eye to all the white “christian” terrorists who now think it is okay to be racist, destructive idiots who make us all look to the world like “morans” Congratulations, you old reactionary geezer, the world will probably never recover if the GOPers have their way with it. Who said “for every man the world ends with his own death”? these guys think nothing about what will remain after they are gone, only about what they can get for themselves while they are around. If there really is an afterlife, they will be paying for that innate selfishness for a very long time.
I am as tired of stating it as you all must be in reading it. But simple honesty demands we recognize the fact of trump’s serious mental illness. This is not about politics. It is about a mentally ill demagogue and con man ultimately being co-opted by flattery that plays into his illness. Remember how the republicans used to admit that trump was unfit for office? Remember how there were a few of them with the stones to step up and be honest? John Kasich? John McCain? Mit Romney? Where are the honest republicans now? Hiding under their beds afraid of getting put on the trump enemies list? Or toadying up to the man they KNOW is mentally ill?
Until we have the moral courage to admit the mental illness at the center of our politics we will be unable to grasp the severity of our dilemma. Yes, moral courage. Those who refuse to admit the obvious are moral and ethical cowards. The republicans have continued their craven pursuit of power before principle by riding on the back of a mentally ill president. This will end in his removal from office once they are done with him…that is, if trump’s mentally ill compulsive behavior doesn’t create an entirely avoidable and self inflicted national and/or international crisis. Remember this is the birther guy. This is the genital-grabbing guy. This is the liar. The poseur. The thin-skinned ignoramous. Bragging. Lying. Taunting and ridiculing his political opponents as if they were enemies. The guy who the Russians help put into office. The guy who is seriously mentally ill. Be honest. Look at the evidence. Try to remove your political biases and see reality for what it is. This is serious, folks.
^ I’m sure I speak for all good Republicans when I tell you that Trump’s personal characteristics are quite acceptable to us, as long as we get to be in power.
emptc12 about 7 years ago
In my opinion: As emperors, Obama relates to Marcus Aurelius; Trump to Tiberius.
NeoconMan about 7 years ago
Who cares if we destroy our whole country as long as we get revenge on the Liberals.
Radish the wordsmith about 7 years ago
We can’t vote on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee since Trump will be out before the year is over.
braindead Premium Member about 7 years ago
@Meph — I understand your point about Obamacare creating winners and losers.
It is similar in concept of a progressive tax code. It taxes those who are already winners at a higher rate than others. You don’t like that concept. I get that.
.
Except that in practical terms, Trump and Romney and the other Republican elite don’t actually fund the government and the Republican base doesn’t see that, or else believes that people who are that successful shouldn’t have to.
That’s the part I don’t understand.
.
“It may make you feel good to call us all racists, homophobes, bigots or whatever your favorite epithet might be but it doesn’t help your cause and, in fact, makes those of us who are sick of your bovine residue even more stalwart in our determination to continue to erode Democratic sway over the government.”
It’s true that ALL Republicans are not racists, etc., but those who are gravitate into the GOP and are welcomed into it. And Republican rhetoric is intended to exploit those tendencies in all of us. Just look at Trump’s campaign and the Republican ‘debates’.
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You hate Obamacare (and Obama). But what do you want to do about health care?
Anything?
And do you hate the unfunded Medicare Part D?
Who do you think pays for that?
braindead Premium Member about 7 years ago
“I love today’s cartoon it is awsome.”
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Makes you feel totally validated, right Jack?
Zev about 7 years ago
We’ll see how Mr. Red Shirt feels when Trump and the GOP Congress take away his pension and Medicare.
ajmsdca about 7 years ago
Well, now you’re beating up people, burning their churches and mosques, shooting them for being “furrin” calling them names on planes and in coffee shops and stores, and turning a blind eye to all the white “christian” terrorists who now think it is okay to be racist, destructive idiots who make us all look to the world like “morans” Congratulations, you old reactionary geezer, the world will probably never recover if the GOPers have their way with it. Who said “for every man the world ends with his own death”? these guys think nothing about what will remain after they are gone, only about what they can get for themselves while they are around. If there really is an afterlife, they will be paying for that innate selfishness for a very long time.
twclix about 7 years ago
I am as tired of stating it as you all must be in reading it. But simple honesty demands we recognize the fact of trump’s serious mental illness. This is not about politics. It is about a mentally ill demagogue and con man ultimately being co-opted by flattery that plays into his illness. Remember how the republicans used to admit that trump was unfit for office? Remember how there were a few of them with the stones to step up and be honest? John Kasich? John McCain? Mit Romney? Where are the honest republicans now? Hiding under their beds afraid of getting put on the trump enemies list? Or toadying up to the man they KNOW is mentally ill?
Until we have the moral courage to admit the mental illness at the center of our politics we will be unable to grasp the severity of our dilemma. Yes, moral courage. Those who refuse to admit the obvious are moral and ethical cowards. The republicans have continued their craven pursuit of power before principle by riding on the back of a mentally ill president. This will end in his removal from office once they are done with him…that is, if trump’s mentally ill compulsive behavior doesn’t create an entirely avoidable and self inflicted national and/or international crisis. Remember this is the birther guy. This is the genital-grabbing guy. This is the liar. The poseur. The thin-skinned ignoramous. Bragging. Lying. Taunting and ridiculing his political opponents as if they were enemies. The guy who the Russians help put into office. The guy who is seriously mentally ill. Be honest. Look at the evidence. Try to remove your political biases and see reality for what it is. This is serious, folks.
NeoconMan about 7 years ago
^ I’m sure I speak for all good Republicans when I tell you that Trump’s personal characteristics are quite acceptable to us, as long as we get to be in power.
DrDon1 about 7 years ago
Why ( as MADAVIS4183 says ) does anyone have to “take over America?” Doesn’t the Pledge of Allegiance end with “and Liberty and Justice for ALL!”
vorpal7 about 7 years ago
Liberal tears are so SWEET!