This sums up the 'Trump GOP' perfectly.

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.stonekettle.com/2018/08/zero-sum.html?m=1

"You've heard me say this many times before: It’s not heaven if everybody gets to go.  The best part about Conservative Heaven isn’t being up there with Jesus, no, it’s gloating at the poor saps burning forever down below. Ha ha HAH. We’re Saved, fuck you, losers! And that horrible selfish religion shapes everything else. We got ours, our healthcare, our food, our clean water, our homes, our jobs, our retirement, our stock options, our savings, our opportunity, our salvation, so fuck you. The best part of America is that everybody doesn’t get to go. There’s no point in privilege if everybody is privileged. You can’t think of yourself as exceptional if everybody is exceptional. There’s no point in being rich if everybody else is rich too. They see liberty and justice and freedom as a zero sum game. If others get more, they are somehow diminished, lessened, cheated of their exalted status and made average.

This is the very core of modern Republicanism where everything is for profit, prisons, healthcare, education, religion, civil rights, equality, justice, liberty, all of it for money. And so long as you get yours, well, then to hell with everybody else because there’s not enough to go around and heaven isn’t heaven if everybody gets to go.

These people are almost literally the rich sons of bitches who rowed away from the Titanic in half empty lifeboats as 1500 people drowned in freezing water behind them. Fuck you, losers! I got mine."

[magicarpet]

1. What fun is life if you can't lash out indiscriminately when the mood strikes....

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.... And inflict some pain and suffering to others along the way.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. "can"?

Proofreading? Or did you really mean "can" in a non-sarcastic way?

[magicarpet]

31. Oops,... I missed that on proofread,.. now edit can to can't.

Thanks for the heads up.

[kentuck]

2. "heaven isn't heaven if everybody gets to go"..

That's a keeper!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Yup. White fellow travelers of supremacism imagine a white heaven. Not just the robes. . . . nt

[forgotmylogin]

29. I guess they believe in "heaven" as one location where everyone (who qualifies) goes.

And there's "stuff" and "people" they get to enjoy. And they can't avoid applying mortal concepts such as "mine" and "limited supply".

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. I know a couple of "rich" repugs and the paragraphs

above EXACTLY describe them. "I got mine all by my self with no ones help, so fuck everyone else". However, THEY are the FIRST in line when the gov'ment is giving anything away.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Yes, and the rich forget how much they depend on infrastructure (schools, roads, police)

If not for government subsidized infrastructure, they wouldn't be able to exploit workers the way they do. The nation wouldn't be as urbanized as it is, with concentrations of markets and work forces.

The poor is kept poor and middle class made poorer by a thousand little cuts everywhere and by a thousand little boosts from the rich buddy networks.

[c-rational]

25. Excellent point.

[Ferrets are Cool]

33. Exactly. They remember ONLY what suits them. nt

[Texin]

27. Yup! Tell these assholes Social Security & Medicare are to be cut and they'll go berserk.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Keeping tRump & Republicon brands welded together. Very good. . . . nt

[mopinko]

5. i love stonekettle. highly recommend him on twitter.

[ancianita]

7. Righties and GOP don't see any contradiction in zero sum, since resources, to them, are zero sum.

First to market wins -- beyond markets this applies to anything else.
Those who discover land first get to claim mineral/water rights in perpetuity;
those who plan for the future control the 'now',
those who control now control history.
Those who live to tell the story make the rules.
Those who control the money get to pick who make the rules.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. One thing deliberately forgotten by people saying gubmnt should be run like a business

They deliberately do not say that one of the main principles of business it that you make money by spending money.

A well run government spends taxpayer money to support taxpayers so they can be productive and earn greater prosperity and enjoy life more. Good government spends on:

* Education so people have skills and wisdom (understanding) to be really productive.
* Health care so that illness is prevented, alleviated quickly, and people can spend more time gaining prosperity.
* Environment so that people are not debilitated by pollution.
* Consumer protection so that people don't have their life savings taken by crooks.
* Productive infrastructure such as public transportation for efficient movement of goods and services and people.

When you invest in the well-being of the People of the USA, the country remains competitive and a great place to live.

Also:
Raise taxes and lower spending when the economy is good.
Lower taxes and raise spending when the economy is bad and needs stimulus.

Democrats know this, but Republicons are aways on about lowering taxes no matter what, so they therefore spend up huge deficits.

[ancianita]

14. True dat. My Morgan Stanley son-in-law agrees. There are 63 new billionaires under 40 today. I

wonder where their politics lie.

These broad statements about the GOP and richies also leave out a very rich demographic who might be willing to use their wealth clout to save their only home, Earth.

I'll noodle around and check out their politics.

[c-rational]

26. Great points. I do not know why we do not hear this more often. Thank you.

[DallasNE]

11. Except

Money corrupts and that violates the teachings of Christ so that wrong turn in the road lands them burning in He'll.

[thbobby]

12. Succinct and completely accurate description of gop

Sums up almost all my feelings about the traitors.

[Kurt V.]

13. this has been the GOP for a long time.

[mountain grammy]

16. Perfect.

Just like this post.. TRUTH!

[smirkymonkey]

19. +1000

Truer than it has ever been.

[malthaussen]

24. Galbraith is so out of fashion today...

... he never really was in sync with the Right.

-- Mal

[TlalocW]

15. To lighten the mood

So St. Peter wasn't feeling up to his old self, having manned the Pearly Gates for so long so he contracted out to some other angels to help him out, and instead of a single file line, everybody outside of Heaven waiting to get in were divided into groups based on what church they attended, and various angels would come and get them at 30 minute intervals to give them a tour of Heaven. St. Peter saw this and thought it was a pretty good system. Then something changed. Everyone was still divided up into groups, but instead of by church, every day a smaller group would go first and would pass by the larger group with smug faces then a couple hours later, someone would come for everyone else. It still worked, but St. Peter was confused so he asked the head angel he had assigned to help what was going on and who were the groups. "Oh, well, we decided we were wasting time with multiple groups, and we figured out we could just divide everyone into Southern Baptists and everybody else." "I still don't understand. Why those two groups specifically?" "We just find it makes our jobs easier if we can make the Southern Baptists believe they're the only ones getting in."

TlalocW

[sinkingfeeling]

17. I see the truth in that.

[mountain grammy]

18. With a family full of Southern Baptists, I say

Thanks for the laugh..

[Perseus]

20. Very good description...but this is not "trump GOP", this is, and has been the GOP for years

trump has just revealed what many knew for a long time, he has brought it out in plain light, he got them out of the closet.

[safeinOhio]

21. There will be pie in the sky when you die

[heaven05]

22. this and

we white skinned KKKristians ARE superior to you brownskins, but you give us someone to point to and say, "see even our negroes love our white Jesus", or they better.. or you will end up in hell n****r.

At least that along with other performance rules applied only because of my colour: "no we don't condone your relationship but you two can come to our church IF you sit separately" Actual quote when wanting to join their church as members.

[malthaussen]

23. I agree with Jim Wright in this...

... I have said often that schadenfreude is more of a driving force than we are aware.

-- Mal

[WhiteTara]

28. There it is. Unvarnished and raw.

[pazzyanne]

30. "heaven isn't heaven if everybody gets to go"..

The rest of that quote is "and the meek shall inherit the earth." Take that to heart and Resist. Persist. GOTV!

[AllaN01Bear]

32. ding

the rs feel they own everyting , including the white house , the house and senate. along with state and local gouberments . heaven forbid if a democrat wins the white house and all hell breaks loose . its nice to pop their bubble now and then esp with a popular prez like obama.(Sir, we miss you.whaah )