Republican scumbags

[Counter-puncher]

Kind of redundant since every thread in this particular forum always turns into a Republican's or conservatives are scumbags thread.

yeah, there's a reason behind that, it's because political figures on the right are massive filthy scumbags only out to protect, preserve, or (preferably in their minds) expand the wealth of the rich.

As a guy who identified as a Republican his entire life. The problem with the GOP is they have no platform besides hate and anti-woke agenda.
They have given nothing to society recently.
They gave into the crazy conspiracy nuts and have abandoned all self respect. They beg for more power and then what power they have is not enough. Democracy is now a foreign concept to the maga cult

both the MAGA crowd and the modern Conservative party differ significantly from their forebears only 20 or 30 years ago

[tiny_acres]

yeah, there's a reason behind that, it's because political figures on the right are massive filthy scumbags only out to protect, preserve, or (preferably in their minds) expand the wealth of the rich.

As a guy who identified as a Republican his entire life. The problem with the GOP is they have no platform besides hate and anti-woke agenda.
They have given nothing to society recently.
They gave into the crazy conspiracy nuts and have abandoned all self respect. They beg for more power and then what power they have is not enough. Democracy is now a foreign concept to the maga cult

both the MAGA crowd and the modern Conservative party differ significantly from their forebears only 20 or 30 years ago

No doubt. I did not leave the Republican party they left me.
Upsets me that Kinzinger and Sass left politics.

[Counter-puncher]

As a guy who identified as a Republican his entire life. The problem with the GOP is they have no platform besides hate and anti-woke agenda.
They have given nothing to society recently.
They gave into the crazy conspiracy nuts and have abandoned all self respect. They beg for more power and then what power they have is not enough. Democracy is now a foreign concept to the maga cult

both the MAGA crowd and the modern Conservative party differ significantly from their forebears only 20 or 30 years ago

No doubt. I did not leave the Republican party they left me.
Upsets me that Kinzinger and Sass left politics.

what you mean those RINO leftists?

[tiny_acres]

both the MAGA crowd and the modern Conservative party differ significantly from their forebears only 20 or 30 years ago

No doubt. I did not leave the Republican party they left me.
Upsets me that Kinzinger and Sass left politics.

what you mean those RINO leftists?

Yes the real Republicans

[Tony1244]

Kind of redundant since every thread in this particular forum always turns into a Republican's or conservatives are scumbags thread.

yeah, there's a reason behind that, it's because political figures on the right are massive filthy scumbags only out to protect, preserve, or (preferably in their minds) expand the wealth of the rich.

As a guy who identified as a Republican his entire life. The problem with the GOP is they have no platform besides hate and anti-woke agenda.
They have given nothing to society recently.
They gave into the crazy conspiracy nuts and have abandoned all self respect. They beg for more power and then what power they have is not enough. Democracy is now a foreign concept to the maga cult

I'm not going to address in this post my personal views on the GOP platform around 1980, just the fact that they had some views.

*Peace through strength - boost the defense budget
*War on drugs
*Pro life
*Cut taxes
*Death penalty - tough on crime

The only one of those 5 that didn't have a majority of the American people was probably the abortion issue.

Fast forward to present day. The average American sees drugs as more of a health issue than a criminal issue, so they lost that issue. The GOP actually now wants to cut defense to make way for tax cuts for the very wealthy. Cutting taxes across the board is ridiculous now considering the deficit.

So they really don't have much but anti-woke to run on.

[Counter-puncher]

Kind of redundant since every thread in this particular forum always turns into a Republican's or conservatives are scumbags thread.

yeah, there's a reason behind that, it's because political figures on the right are massive filthy scumbags only out to protect, preserve, or (preferably in their minds) expand the wealth of the rich.

for example:

Tens of millions of Americans suffer from diabetes, with some paying up to $1,000 a month for insulin, a necessary, lifesaving drug. Americans pay about five to eight times more for insulin than Canadians do—so much more that Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign once took a bus full of Americans to Canada to buy the drug cheaper just to prove this very point. So a proposal to ensure no one with insurance has to shell out more than $35 a month for the life-or-death drug would probably be a no-brainer to support, right? Apparently, for Republicans, not so much!

While the House of Representatives passed a bill capping the cost of insulin on Thursday night with unanimous Democratic support, a mere 12 Republicans voted for the legislation, with 193 voting against it (five didn‘t vote at all). In other words, the House GOP was offered an opportunity to support making insulin more affordable for millions of Americans, and the response from most was: “Eh, we’d rather they continue paying through the nose.


yeah, and people wonder why these filthy corporate scumbags who'd rather look after the profits of Big Pharma than the wallets of Joe and Jed Blow get called 'scumbags'?

'cheaper medicine for sick people, this is DISGUSTING'

VERMIN

[tiny_acres]

Kind of redundant since every thread in this particular forum always turns into a Republican's or conservatives are scumbags thread.

yeah, there's a reason behind that, it's because political figures on the right are massive filthy scumbags only out to protect, preserve, or (preferably in their minds) expand the wealth of the rich.

for example:

Tens of millions of Americans suffer from diabetes, with some paying up to $1,000 a month for insulin, a necessary, lifesaving drug. Americans pay about five to eight times more for insulin than Canadians do—so much more that Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign once took a bus full of Americans to Canada to buy the drug cheaper just to prove this very point. So a proposal to ensure no one with insurance has to shell out more than $35 a month for the life-or-death drug would probably be a no-brainer to support, right? Apparently, for Republicans, not so much!

While the House of Representatives passed a bill capping the cost of insulin on Thursday night with unanimous Democratic support, a mere 12 Republicans voted for the legislation, with 193 voting against it (five didn‘t vote at all). In other words, the House GOP was offered an opportunity to support making insulin more affordable for millions of Americans, and the response from most was: “Eh, we’d rather they continue paying through the nose.


yeah, and people wonder why these filthy corporate scumbags who'd rather look after the profits of Big Pharma than the wallets of Joe and Jed Blow get called 'scumbags'?

'cheaper medicine for sick people, this is DISGUSTING'

VERMIN

How dare anyone care about the lives of common people. How disgusting.
Do they not understand that Mr. Billionaire needs tax cuts for his new yacht and private jet??
What about the rich? Paying for poor peoples medicine hurts the rich
Those bastards

[Counter-puncher]

What about the rich? Paying for poor peoples medicine hurts the rich
Those bastards

exactly, and we can't have that.

[Las Vegas boxing guy]

I'm not a big fan of the continual use of the acronym "MAGA". I prefer using the the actual words "Make America Great Again". I also do not like the constant attachment of Donald Trump to MAGA. Now of course Trump was the original presenter of the term (and deserves full credit), however it's evolved to not just supporting Donald Trump, it's much more bigger than that.

"Make America Great Again" has become a movement of supporting the concept of America first and taking care of our own citizens before assisting others. Previous presidents (from both Democratic and Republican Partys) have funded FAR too many outside interests first (ex; NATO). Any real conservative Republican candidate not named Donald Trump is still a proud supporter of the "Make America Great Again" movement and that doesn't necessarily mean that they ardently support Trump or wear the red hat.

[Counter-puncher]

[Las Vegas boxing guy]

What about the rich? Paying for poor peoples medicine hurts the rich
Those bastards

exactly, and we can't have that.

Why is it the responsibility of the rich to pay for poor peoples medicine? We are a capitalist nation, not socialist.

You guys must know that the rich already pay the high majority of taxes in the United States. If Democrats want to use those funds towards providing medicine for the poor then do it. Unfortunately the Democrats prefer that our tax payer money go towards wasteful spending projects (see below).

DEMOCRATS' WASTEFUL "COVID" SPENDING

In their $2 trillion “COVID relief” law, Democrats used the pandemic as a pretext to fund a litany of progressive pet projects. Democrats gave cities hundreds of billions of dollars they did not need, and now taxpayers are funding projects from coast to coast that have nothing to do with pandemic recovery.

https://www.rpc.senate.gov/policy-paper ... d-spending

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[Baby Face Finster]

The platform of the conservatives is actually Make American Non Woke Again!

[Tony1244]

Bill Maher tends to hit the nail on the head. He was talking about there are basically 4 groups:

1) Mainstream conservatives.
2) Mainstream progressives.
3) Wokism
4) MAGA

MAGA is a cult. These are the types that would join Jim Jones or ISIS if circumstances were different.

Wokism wants to get rid of the whole boy/girl thing. They also tend to hate capitalism that gave them their smart phones to play on, but they haven't figured that out yet.

Mainstream progressives- Think Biden, Clintons, Obama etc.

Mainstream conservatives- Think Bush family, Romney, Pence etc.

[tiny_acres]

Bill Maher tends to hit the nail on the head. He was talking about there are basically 4 groups:

1) Mainstream conservatives.
2) Mainstream progressives.
3) Wokism
4) MAGA

MAGA is a cult. These are the types that would join Jim Jones or ISIS if circumstances were different.

Wokism wants to get rid of the whole boy/girl thing. They also tend to hate capitalism that gave them their smart phones to play on, but they haven't figured that out yet.

Mainstream progressives- Think Biden, Clintons, Obama etc.

Mainstream conservatives- Think Bush family, Romney, Pence etc.

I would say that is pretty accurate. I would also say the top 2 mainstream conservatives and progressives make up at over half of the country.

[Tony1244]

Bill Maher tends to hit the nail on the head. He was talking about there are basically 4 groups:

1) Mainstream conservatives.
2) Mainstream progressives.
3) Wokism
4) MAGA

MAGA is a cult. These are the types that would join Jim Jones or ISIS if circumstances were different.

Wokism wants to get rid of the whole boy/girl thing. They also tend to hate capitalism that gave them their smart phones to play on, but they haven't figured that out yet.

Mainstream progressives- Think Biden, Clintons, Obama etc.

Mainstream conservatives- Think Bush family, Romney, Pence etc.

I would say that is pretty accurate. I would also say the top 2 mainstream conservatives and progressives make up at over half of the country.

Of course some of this overlaps but I'll take a guess at the %. Yes, I am pulling these #s totally out of my ass.

1) Mainstream conservatives. 20%
2) Mainstream progressives. 30%
3) Wokism 20%
4) MAGA 30%

[tiny_acres]

Bill Maher tends to hit the nail on the head. He was talking about there are basically 4 groups:

1) Mainstream conservatives.
2) Mainstream progressives.
3) Wokism
4) MAGA

MAGA is a cult. These are the types that would join Jim Jones or ISIS if circumstances were different.

Wokism wants to get rid of the whole boy/girl thing. They also tend to hate capitalism that gave them their smart phones to play on, but they haven't figured that out yet.

Mainstream progressives- Think Biden, Clintons, Obama etc.

Mainstream conservatives- Think Bush family, Romney, Pence etc.

I would say that is pretty accurate. I would also say the top 2 mainstream conservatives and progressives make up at over half of the country.

Of course some of this overlaps but I'll take a guess at the %. Yes, I am pulling these #s totally out of my ass.

1) Mainstream conservatives. 20%
2) Mainstream progressives. 30%
3) Wokism 20%
4) MAGA 30%

I would probably say 25% each on MAGA and mainstream conservatives
35% Mainstream progressive and 15% Wokism.
And of course this would be my estimation on the national level. But state by state would be a weird difference.
Such as Texas would be 75% Maga 5% m-s conservative 15% m-s progressive and 5% wokism.
Again just pulling numers out my butt but I would say it looks accurate

[Tony1244]

I would say that is pretty accurate. I would also say the top 2 mainstream conservatives and progressives make up at over half of the country.

Of course some of this overlaps but I'll take a guess at the %. Yes, I am pulling these #s totally out of my ass.

1) Mainstream conservatives. 20%
2) Mainstream progressives. 30%
3) Wokism 20%
4) MAGA 30%

I would probably say 25% each on MAGA and mainstream conservatives
35% Mainstream progressive and 15% Wokism.
And of course this would be my estimation on the national level. But state by state would be a weird difference.
Such as Texas would be 75% Maga 5% m-s conservative 15% m-s progressive and 5% wokism.
Again just pulling numers out my butt but I would say it looks accurate

Biden got 46% in Texas so I can't agree on the 75% MAGA. There are some hip areas in Texas cities, so I'd say wokism there is at least 10%.

But I agree with you that 15% woke is likely closer than my 20%. I think I overestimated their numbers. Yeah, state to state is a huge difference.

[jujigatame]

The problem is that the loons who think the election was rigged are now the majority of the Republican party, have significant representation in congress, and pick the Republican presidential nominee. The ultra-woke language police crowd doesn't have much actual governmental power, except maybe at local levels in extremely liberal areas. I live in NYC and know 90% liberal-minded people and don't know anyone like that. It's mostly an academia thing.

I mean the Fox News election coverage debacle tells the tale. They're the biggest cable news network in the nation and they were literally afraid they would lose viewership if they didn't knowingly tell their audience the exact lies they wanted to hear.

[Las Vegas boxing guy]

These are all good and interesting posts (above).

I gotta ask. What category would I fall into? Listen, I'm definitely a "MAGA" supporter. However, I don't live in a world where Donald Trump is the end all be all. I can definitely criticize Donald Trump. For examples; I do not like his constant nicknames (I was furious when he called DeSantis "De-sanctimonius". I also don't like a lot of his selections in his past cabinet and advisors (ex; Jeff Sessions and Omorosa). So I'm not a cult follower like LOL as Tony1244 said a "Jim Jones or ISIS follower". I'm also not a Mitt Romney fan who put his dog on the top of his car when driving during vacations. I don't like Neocons like the Bush's and McCains that support funding stupid wars outside of the USA. I don't even watch Fox News, my information sources vary through all political genres, I want to hear different viewpoints even if I may disagree with them.

I just feel that it's difficult to categorize people into just 4 groups. I don't think the other posters on this forum support "wokrness" and I also don't think the other posters here are enamored by Joe Biden.

[Seamus]

Based on membership in the Progressive Caucus for the House, the Democratic Party is 46 pct woke.

[Tony1244]

Based on membership in the Progressive Caucus for the House, the Democratic Party is 46 pct woke.

Based on Rubbert Murdoch's sworn testimony, you are quite stupid for believing in "the steal." Am I wrong?

[Las Vegas boxing guy]

Based on membership in the Progressive Caucus for the House, the Democratic Party is 46 pct woke.

Based on Rubbert Murdoch's sworn testimony, you are quite stupid for believing in "the steal." Am I wrong?

Tony, don't you feel that it's "Odd" that Barack Obama (a very popular individual) received 65,915,795 popular votes, while Joe Biden (a highly unpopular person) received 81,283,501 popular votes. What part of mail in voting played a part in our election and was it fair and honest? And what about the timing of results? In our most recent mid term elections some winners were not announced until a month after the elections. It used to be called "Election Day" now it's become "Election Month".

[Counter-puncher]

[Tony1244]

The POS thinks I'm going to read what she says.