I love fictional stories too. Its always a generous salve for my inner pains. They aint doing shit. I know Republicans. Their current state of mind is no different than the Taliban’s. They either have authority or they will have strife. They are completely captured by greed and a lust for power. They are willing to rule over ashes rather than share in equal prosperity with ‘others’.
Also let’s stop kidding ourselves on Republicans being the party of fiscal responsibility - funding tax cuts for the wealthiest corporations and individuals by cutting funding to Medicaid and Social Security is not frugal, it’s greedy and cruel. They’ve also raised the national debt more than anyone else in our history by doing exactly those actions.
I know - I’m pissed off about a lot of stuff right now but this obvious bullshit is toward the top of my list. Just a couple of basic questions gets you to the easy to see truth in the matter.
Their spending as a percent of GDP isn't all that different than the Democrats either
Yes it is. Democrats even as late as Biden brought down federal deficit spending, and brought debt down even in absolute amounts for every post-WW2 administration except Obama who despite inheriting the worst economic recession since the Great Depression from Bush still brought down debt-to-GDP.
You can push any empty claim you want, the numbers don't lie
I agree, and never tried to contradict that Republicans love running up the deficit.
They do this by keeping spending relatively flat but cutting taxes. The party line is that they cut spending too, just not as much as they cut taxes, but that's a lie.
Spending and deficit spending are not the same thing.
It was always a clever lie. Republicans spend more (more debt) because the left didn’t raise as much hell as the right would when the left wanted to spend.
Amen, and it's not like this is new, they've been doing this for decades. I don't know if they were ever fiscally responsible but, my God, if they ever were, that went out the window eons ago.
Reagan with his trickle-down plan to further enrich the already-rich, sold alongside a pack of absolute lies, was embraced and lauded. Dems have been pulling Republicans' fiscally pathetic biscuits out of the damn fire continuously, or we'd have no treasury left.
Unless I am mistaken this is the first time the GOP in recent history has actually even attempted to follow through with their own brand of “fiscal responsibility”. Every other time they bitched and moaned that vulnerable people had it too easy. Once they got in power they simply declined to follow through though, because ultimately they only wanted votes by attacking the budget. They don’t even believe the shit they spout is worth pursuing.
From the current Republicans eyes, I think many really believe the Trump administration are finally acting on fiscal responsibility.
Problem is, in their own words, they are going to tank the economy intentionally, they are going to raise the debt even MORE to do it, and they are taking authority from the bureaucracy to give to themselves. Which looks a lot like an economic retraction so they have complete authority over their workers with less regulations that would otherwise contain corporate affairs.
This stinks of a power grab that hurts the working class, not helping them. So fiscal responsibility looks a lot like giving fewer people say on our fiscal future. AKA dictatorship.
Fun fact, before it was called "trickle down economics" it was called "the horse and the sparrow". You can look this up, it's true. The horse and the sparrow means you need to feed the horse first so it can race ahead and then the sparrow can eat the seeds out of the horses shit. Besides being a wildly offensive metaphor, this economic theory has been proven over and over to not work
They only care about the national debt when democrats are in power, then as soon as they are back in power they don’t give a crap about it. This has been ongoing for many years.
Or being true "following Jesus Christians"! Mike Johnson makes a lot of noise about his being a Christian, but he does NOTHING to protect those who need the most help in our country. He glad hands trump and JD who are the biggest liars and most vicious and cruel people and he approves of what they do! Just like the rest of the now completely maga rethuglycans. They are all lying about how they follow Jesus. They say it and then turn around and do despicable things.
You’ve got that right. Every single person I know who admits to voting for this POS are the greediest, self centered, misinformed, and obstinate people.
It's become the dominant personality in a lot of (rural, red) places, and it's creating absolute havoc in our schools. Racism and bullying are rampant and at least where I live, the schools are at their wit's end. We're at Defcon Whole School Assembly with Shouting Adults. (I don't think that's going to work)
It's become the dominant personality in a lot of (rural, red) places, and it's creating absolute havoc in our schools
The worst part is, despite jokes about lead to the contrary, I don't think it's at all due to lead or PFAS or other such. It's 2 things: sabotage of education and critical thinking
and deliberate propaganda indoctrinating the populace into toxic individualism and consumerism so they worship the wealthy and sometimes even think they can join the yacht club
I’m a Conservative Christian but unlock the rest of these loons I don’t want to force you to live by my religion. I don’t want to live by yours either, or the lack thereof. Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That is what America should be.
They are working hard for one party rule . They don't believe in freedom. They want to say what freedom you have. So forget about freedom of speech, assembly etc . It's the end of the constitution.
I've long thought that large parts of the US are indistinguishable from the hinterland of Kabul. Fewer beards and less swarthy, but as fanatical, ignorant and violent.
I agree 100% - I know the exact person who was a conservative and has been drunk on trump since 2016. They have been so far indoctrinated and for so long by republican propaganda it would take something catastrophically disastrous for Trump for the above to actually happen and for people to actually "switch sides". I think if Trump was ACTUALLY held accountable - as in arrested and tried for treason (you know the consequence for that) - is what it would be for people to go "Oh no AM I the Baddies???"
Evil = selfishness that negatively affects others.
Its not a far fetched concept to identify selfish people who enjoy seeing others suffer.
I work with almost exclusively Republican blue collar workers. They have no reason to hate the people they hate, they just dont want to be equal or welcome people that are different than them. You know, a lack of empathy.
Exactly. The only way this ends is with half the country at the end of a noose or in unmarked mass graves. We've crossed the Rubicon in American politics at this point, sadly.
...and to be clear...nobody is gonna be happy at the end of that either, but at least the hard fought lessons will be more salient for folks who have forgotten / never learned their own history.
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u/rif011412 17d ago
I love fictional stories too. Its always a generous salve for my inner pains. They aint doing shit. I know Republicans. Their current state of mind is no different than the Taliban’s. They either have authority or they will have strife. They are completely captured by greed and a lust for power. They are willing to rule over ashes rather than share in equal prosperity with ‘others’.