Where's the Republican outrage?

[SHRED]

$11 million taxpayer dollars on three golfing vacations so far and he's only 4 weeks in office. That's already more than Obama's first year.
Where's the Republican outrage?

For the luxury of his son Barron attending the school he wants him to attend we taxpayers are on the hook for the tune of $500,000 per day to protect the Trump Tower in New York. (Trump didn't consider this before running for office?)
Where is the Republican outrage?

He's using an unsecured Android phone and conducting security briefings in front of unsecured guests at Mar-a-Lago and allowing them to take pictures of the nuclear football.
Where's the Republican outrage?

His staff is using a private email server.
Where's the Republican outrage?

High-level advisers close to then-presidential nominee Donald Trump were in constant communication during the campaign with Russians known to US intelligence.
Where's the Republican outrage?

I tell you what, if this were a Democratic Party President doing this there would be multiple investigations and impeachment hearings going on right now.

[JHan]

1. K & R...They don't care, Trump is a white man.

well.. orange.

[MoonRiver]

6. Close enough!

[lark]

9. Oh, it's more than that.

It's the fact that he's a RICH oligarch who will let them enable their RW agenda against the people of the US, that's why they are silent. I know they hate (some of them, anyway) how much of an embarassment he is to us, and they know he's a criminal, but they don't care much if any at all. They want to end secularist government and enable the Tealiban variety so they have 100% control over women's reproduction and can destroy education and unions, so there's no middle class to protest and it's all serfs and barons and guess which we'd be?

[SHRED]

10. Nailed it.

[JHan]

15. oh yeah I get that. ++

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. This. He's a member of the kountry kkklub. n/t

[certainot]

27. the incredible double standard is possible only because

liberals/dems ignore talk radio

they have 1200 radio stations with limbaugh as point man blasting the country with excuses for their incompetence, fascism, and corruption, while they attack everything democratic and make shit up to distort and mischaracterise everything dems do.

for republicans those 1200 radio stations are a tailwind and for dems it's a headwind. and dems stupidly ignore it.

that's the difference.

[pandr32]

37. Agreed!

[IphengeniaBlumgarten]

53. It's not that we have ignored it..

Remember Al Gore started Air America shortly after SCOTUS elected Bush. It carried several good talk shows. I remember Randi Rhodes, believe Al Franken also. But they could not get enough financing, only way I could hear it was to stream it over the Internet. A problem with distributing it over the air, believe there were few sponsors. Widely available media has a lot of money behind it. And that most often means republicans.

[certainot]

60. it's not about competition.

your sister's a whore, your brother's a thief, and your ideas are treasonous. that's what they've been saying from 1200 stations for 30 years about liberals and liberals just walked by.

it's mom and pop vs wall mart- they have a well protected monopoly and air am was also sabotaged on top of that - their management was naive and some of their 'investors' were cons. but that was way back - they've kept liberal competition to a bare minimum to keep up appearances of 'market' demand. so that means 20-1, americans prefer hate, ignorance, and lies to wit and wisdom and truth..... right.

liberals/dems must stop ignoring rw radio.

i suggest boycotting all advertisers on all rw radio stations.

and 88 universities need to be protested until they begin the process of finding apolitical radio stations to broadcast sports on.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

55. +1 nt

[zentrum]

56. Yup.

[uponit7771]

62. +1

[Bozvotros]

67. This.

The political death of the Fairness Doctrine has allowed right wing hate radio to dominate the airwaves almost everywhere in the country without any counterbalancing point of view. It is pure right wing propaganda as you say and it is one reason so many working class people slit their own throat to vote for Trump. But the loss can't be hung only on Republicans. Reagan put in the knife but Clinton allowed it to bleed out and Obama buried it and dispersed the ashes in 2011.

LIke their impotence on challenging voter suppression laws, their silence about obscenely partisan gerrymandering all over the country, the abandonment of the Fairness doctrine is a further indictment of the Democratic party as it exists now. Those who say the Republican / Democratic "choice" is a classic good cop / bad cop gambit can point to these 3 things as proof the Democratic party is collaborating with their "enemy" to keep themselves in minority status.

[certainot]

70. it's all on the republicans except for dems being stupid enough to ignore it, imo.

it was 9 years of unchallenged rw radio - freee market! it's going to lower cable costs! liberal media, etc.- that set the table for a republican congress to pass it and pushing clinton into signing the deregulation in 96.

dem party STILL ignores it even though obama mentioned it numerous times. but it was the left who really fucked up - that's who it hurt the most, allowing it to push everything in the country 20 pts to the right. all the left had to do is get atttention to it - total boycott of ALL of it's advertisers and protesting the 88 universities that endorse it by broadcasting sports on it.

then dem party will notice and it will help get more sanders, warrrens and wellstones there, without that massive unchallenged buzz pushing the party right and forcing compromise.

for instance voter suppression laws were passed because of the pretext based on 15+ years of rw radio yammering about dem voter fraud and illegal immigrants voting, etc

[Bozvotros]

72. You are exactly right!

Why the hell haven't our Democratic Reps and Senators raised holy hell about this? Where I live we have NPR and three stations that do nothing but shove right wing ideology, fear, ignarance and lies for endless hours every day. That's OK, I guess. We wouldn't want to be too pushy would we? Meanwhile Iowa Republicans are making university professor identify their party registration to make sure impressionable college students aren't infected with liberal thought.

[certainot]

73. they've been trained. anyone with standing who mentions talk radio

used to get ridiculed by internet snobs on the left, or if they mention limbaugh they're told they're just giving him credibility and ad dollars, and if they say the magic words "fairness doctrine" in public the rw machine blows up with howls of FREE SPEECH!!!! and the left joins in.

obama mentioned it and limbaugh more than a few times and even in a SOTU speech - dems/liberals ignored him

it's up to liberals to stop letting a few hundred ignorant liars call them whores, thieves, and traitors all day and start protesting it, those schools, and boycotting it completely

trump will be gone a lot sooner

[Beartracks]

50. This. It's not race at all.

Sure, some of the Obama hate was stoked by racism. But the bulk of it was that Republicans have been bred to loathe, hate, and demonize all Democrats and their "lib'rul" values -- and the corollary is that Republicans will let Republicans get away with murder.

======================

[lame54]

33. He's a republican

[Soxfan58]

36. Rich white man!!!

At least we think

[Achilleaze]

71. IOKIYAR

freaking full-on hypocrites.

[LaydeeBug]

2. k, r and posted. nt

[Progressive dog]

3. Trump would have to complain for

Republicans to be outraged. To them, it's not spending if Trump does it. He's entitled.

[spanone]

4. republicans only have outrage for democrats....rand paul said it last week

'we don't need republicans investigating republicans'

that's all folks

[SHRED]

5. That blew my mind

Rand has lost what little credibility he ever had.

[mopinko]

7. mine too. i thought for sure he would take up the mantle

of "concerned" rethuglican, and set himself up as a swing vote. why doesnt he do that? why arent any of them doing this?
paul is the perfect little troll for the job. so surprised he is passing on that.

[SHRED]

8. Like McCain except...

...McCain is all talk in the other direction.

All talk and no action.
He still votes for tRump's cabinet picks and hasn't called for an independent committee with all his Russian squawking.

[dalton99a]

19. Yep.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

25. Them and their party loyalty. If Dems had a little more unity,

Like, if we practiced some *conscious* offsetting of our usual intellectually motivated individualism, we could move progress forward a little quicker.

[Beartracks]

51. WE Americans most certainly do, Rand!! n/t

[volstork]

11. Oh, come on!

You know IOKIYAR

[SHRED]

13. That's what they think I guess

[jalan48]

12. It's all about gaining and maintaining power. Reaching across the aisle to find common ground with

these people is a huge mistake.

[SHRED]

14. Reaching across the aisle is deadly

[WinstonSmith4740]

16. We're going to need a "crickets" smiley before this is over!

n/t

[Atman]

29. Crickets, you say?

I drew this back in the Bush years. Didn't think I'd be dragging it out again.
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[volstork]

45. More like locusts,

since the repubs are going to completely denude this country...

[WinstonSmith4740]

66. Love that!!

Now how do we get it added? I mean, seriously...have you ever heard such silence on the very issues Republicans spent 8 years whining about?

[packman]

17. The Russian connection concerns me the most

What a 180 from my days. Republicans then were AMERICA FIRST - What in the hell happened? I sincerely believe it was and is global markets that opened up to these businessmen. In the old days the market was America's borders, now it is an open-range and Russia is another market ready for Levi's, Pepsi, and McDonalds. The enemy of old is now the buyer of goods.

[Ligyron]

41. Yeah, The young Russians would have literally killed for a pair of Levis back then.

Forbidden fruit.

[secondwind]

18. KICKED! The hypocrisy is glaring! n/t

[SHRED]

20. Yes it is.

[Iggo]

21. He ain't black. (n/t)

[retrowire]

23. JUST YOU WAIT

Until they catch him using fancy mustard!!!! That will be the end of it!!!

[SHRED]

34. Liberal mustard!!

[retrowire]

39. LOL nt

[SHRED]

24. Here's another...

For the luxury of his son Barron attending the school he wants him to attend we taxpayers are on the hook for the tune of $500,000 per day to protect the Trump Tower in New York. (Trump didn't consider this before running for office?)
Where is the Republican outrage?

[Iggo]

46. He absolutely considered it.

His whole thing is to get other people to pay for his shit.

[Missn-Hitch]

26. What business expenses?

We foot the bill. Then, his lawyers will probably find a way to write-off said expenses. It's brilliant.

It's like getting a double-dipped chocolate banana and not even paying for it.

[tblue37]

28. Silly rabbit, don't you know? IOKIYAR! nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. As Bill Maher said

The magic (R)

[nolabels]

68. LOL

Simple brilliant marketing and it kind of reminds me of childhood when seven or eight years old boys construct clubs and play forts to keep girls out. Kind of primitive but you got to remember they are trying to keep the tribe pure

[dawg]

31. This sounds like a snide comment, but I'm completely serious.

For the most part, their minds don't process hypocrisy the way ours do.

They are very Machiavellian, and to them, the ends always justify the means. (And the ends are almost always: tax cuts for the rich!)

[NewJeffCT]

32. The impeachment hearings would already be over

Not only for the president, but the VP as well, and Paul Ryan would have been sworn in a week ago.

[coco22]

35. They don't care..

the only thing they care about is how they can destroy certain segments of the population,ASAP!

[DFW]

38. Right where you'd expect it to be

Directed at Hillary's emails and Obama's birthplace in Kenya--and at the fact that Obama is coming to take your guns away. Any day now. Just you wait (as in for Godot).

[spixxen]

40. They aren't outraged.......

......they are prepping the way for Putin!

[perdita9]

42. Why should liberals listen to ANYTHING Republicans say?

It's clear they have no honor nor integrity.

[kimbutgar]

43. Party over country with rethugs

[Blue Owl]

44. whe(R)e indeed?

n/t

[Skittles]

47. I like Barron, but using him as an excuse for Melania to stay away from Donald is sickening

doesn't want to take him out of school? The poor baby. I was a GI brat, I moved a dozen times before going to the first of three high schools

[IntraPolitico]

63. This statistic is terrifying

'Melania and Barron would need to stay at Trump Tower for an entire year with a detail costing more than $405,000 a day.' Source here: [link:Melania and Barron would need to stay at Trump Tower for an entire year with a detail costing more than $405,000 a day.|

You're right. There is no excuse. And it costs taxpayer money too.

[Skittles]

69. they are hiding the real reason

I do believe Barron is autistic....I have a severely autistic brother, and I do believe Barron is on the spectrum, certainly at a higher functioning level. It would be excruciating for him to be under constant spotlight (and yes, change is very hard). I feel for him and wish him the best, especially considering the circumstances.

[LAS14]

48. I keep waiting.... nt

[JudyM]

49. We have let them get away with too much for too long, they have no one to answer to.

Where were we in going after Shrub/Cheney or Wall St/investment bankers when we had the power to? They are unethical monsters, but we have been complicit. We need to elect more Dems with spines.

[Cosmocat]

61. THIS

It is heartening to see some of the dams starting to break, but end of the day, it simply is not enough to expose and point to how fucking horrible these assholes are.

We can count on one hand the number of elected democrats with two working balls - Sanders, Warren, Franken ...

Meanwhile, there are 100s of Rs in congress and and key leaders in state legislators and Governors who are fire breathing, all in hard right lunatics who relentlessly and vociferously push their insane bullshit.

People are just flat fucking stupid in mass, and while we are the 1/3 that deals in reality and reason, their 1/3 deals in their fantasy land and the other 1/3 just goes with the tides, which is always right wing lunacy.

Our elected officials have to STAND for something, they have to stake our flag, be proud, and give the mushy middle something ot believe in.

Bill Clinton said it best, better to be wrong and strong than weak and right.

Simple reality of dealing with the public.

[JudyM]

65. THIS

Agree completely. The clear diagnosis doesn't help with the entrenched reality of the illness, unfortunately. Without backing away from big money donors' expectations, the only flag-staking they will do is with non-controversial issues. It's as if they're pegged in on all sides. Which makes their conflicts of interest almost as bad, just from sometimes different sides.

If only our populist uprising could push them out of that inherently conflicted sphere of operating...

[putitinD]

52. IOIYAR Its ok if you are a republican

[ProudProgressiveNow]

54. K&R nt

[CanonRay]

57. Republican outrage is reserved for Democrats only

[tavernier]

58. If...

IF YOU DANCE WITH THE DEVIL..... Quotes
If you dance with the devil, then you haven’t got a clue, for you think you’ll change the devil, but the devil changes you.
J.M. Smith, IF YOU DANCE WITH THE DEVIL.....

[jimlup]

59. Well we knew it all along actually H Y P O C R I S Y !

they are complete and total H Y P O C R I T S.

Actually hypocrisy doesn't really describe it because it is much worse than that.

[The Blue Flower]

64. Why even ask the question?

The Rs are always and only about power. They've got it now. They'll do whatever they damn well please.