Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style

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The Moochers of Middle America
The Democrats aren’t radical, but Republicans are.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/o...ats-taxes.html

Nobody who endorsed the 2017 tax cut has any right to criticize Democratic proposals to spend more on things like child care. That tax cut, after all, appears likely to add around $2 trillion to federal debt — with around a third of that going to foreigners. Meanwhile, the promised surge in business investment is nowhere to be seen.

At the same time, there’s a very good case for arguing that Democratic proposals would have economic as well as humanitarian benefits.

Support for child care, for example, would free more women to enter the paid work force — where they would pay taxes that would offset some of the cost. And the children benefiting from that support would eventually become healthier, more productive adults.
In other words, while progressive Democrats are mainly arguing for greater social justice, they can also make a much better case than conservatives ever could that their proposals would help the economy and at least partly pay for themselves.

Last but not least, if your view is that the progressive agenda is morally wrong, that people shouldn’t receive more in government benefits than they pay in taxes, you should be aware how many Americans are already “takers,” “moochers,” whatever. In fact, we’re talking about a vast swath of the heartland that includes just about every state that voted for Donald Trump.

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Take the case of Kentucky. In 2017, the state received $40 billion more from the federal government than it paid in taxes. That’s about one-fifth of the state’s G.D.P.; if Kentucky were a country, we’d say that it was receiving foreign aid on an almost inconceivable scale.

This aid, in turn, supports a lot of jobs. It’s fair to say that far more Kentuckians work in hospitals kept afloat by Medicare and Medicaid, in retail establishments kept going by Social Security and food stamps, than in all traditional occupations like mining and even agriculture combined.

So if you really believe that Americans with higher incomes shouldn’t pay for benefits provided to those with lower incomes, you should be calling on “donor” states like New Jersey and New York to cut off places like Kentucky and let their economies collapse. And if that’s what you mean, you should let Mitch McConnell’s constituents know about it.

The point is that while you can criticize particular Democratic proposals, you can only portray progressives as radical or irresponsible, especially as compared with the modern G.O.P., by ignoring or suppressing a lot of facts. I guess facts really do have a liberal bias.

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GOP congressman urges Trump to reject Supreme Court ruling on citizenship question
“Print the census with the questions — and issue a statement explaining why — 'because we should'"

https://thinkprogress.org/texas-repu...-44821673d26f/

Because we’re above the law...

[finnbow]

JACKSON, Miss. — A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor says he would not let a woman journalist follow him while campaigning unless she was accompanied by a male colleague.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...-male-n1028451

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New disclosures about lewd Trump video reveal his mastery of the GOP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...s-mastery-gop/

Politico Magazine has published an excerpt from a forthcoming book about Trump and the GOP by journalist Tim Alberta. In it, Alberta reports the following:

After the tape became public, scores of top Republican lawmakers, donors and activists — far more than did so publicly — privately urged then-Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to push Trump out and replace him with Vice President Pence at the top of the ticket. This included then-House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Pence hunkered down and prayed with his wife, Karen, who furiously warned him that she would no longer appear in public if Pence remained Trump’s running mate. Pence hinted to advisers that he might have to stop campaigning with Trump.

But the key revelation is what happened next. At the next debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump ferociously attacked back, blasting Bill Clinton’s history with women and even threatening to unleash law enforcement on Hillary Clinton, saying that with him as president, Clinton would “be in jail.”

Alberta recounts what then transpired:

Within 48 hours the bleeding had stopped: Republicans ceased their calls for his withdrawal, Pence dutifully returned to the stump and his campaign went on as though nothing had happened.


With this, Trump displayed a remarkable, if perhaps instinctual, grasp of how to survive in today’s GOP. While he did issue a video apology, what really rescued Trump was going ferociously on the attack, which crucially included threatening to put the real enemy in prison.

Fucking GOP is deathly afraid of Donny. Bunch of cowards, without backbones or principles.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by finnbow

JACKSON, Miss. — A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor says he would not let a woman journalist follow him while campaigning unless she was accompanied by a male colleague.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...-male-n1028451

A chivalrous and honorable southern gentleman no doubt.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by finnbow

JACKSON, Miss. — A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor says he would not let a woman journalist follow him while campaigning unless she was accompanied by a male colleague.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...-male-n1028451

American Taliban!

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Why Bill Barr Is So Dangerous
He is using the office he holds to advance his extraordinary lifetime project of assigning unchecked power to the president.

Donald Ayer
Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General under George H. W. Bush

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...-power/592951/

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'RACIST AND DISGUSTING': EX GOP CONGRESSMAN JUSTIN AMASH BLASTS TRUMP AFTER HE SAYS CONGRESSWOMEN SHOULD 'GO BACK' TO THEIR COUNTRIES

https://www.newsweek.com/racist-disg...-trump-1449164

The only good Repube is a former Repube.

Donny proves yet again that he’s a repulsive racist and xenophobe. Cowardly Repubes say nothing. Sickening.

[donquixote99]

Don't like the word xenophobe. Too fancy, lacks punch. 'Bigoted hater' seems a better descriptive to me....

[bobabode]

I prefer 'POS racist peckerwood', personally.