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If youre a minimum wage earner who likes living in poverty, vote Republican the party that will make sure youll never get a raise!
If youre a hard-working American who believes the rich need tax-cuts while your tax deductions are eliminated, vote Republican the party that wants you to pay more while the obscenely wealthy pay less!
If youre a woman who thinks youre not equal to men and should have less rights than men have, vote Republican the party that is determined to keep you in your place as a second-class citizen!
If youre a farmer, an auto worker, or anyone else about to lose your livelihood due to Trumps tariffs, vote Republican the party that doesnt give a fuck about your ability to support your family!
If youre a Christian who doesnt believe in Jesus admonition to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, and care for the sick, vote Republican the party that doesnt believe in any of that Christian bullshit either!
If youre a citizen who thinks a pResident should spend his time watching TV, playing golf, and tweeting inane covfeve, vote Republican the party that thinks such behaviour is not only appropriate, but worthy of praise!
If youre not the least bit interested in having potable water to drink or clean air to breathe, vote Republican the party that is overturning the regulations that protect your water and your air!
If youre not concerned about the fact that your pResident has invariably sided with our nations adversaries rather than our own intelligence agencies, vote Republican the party that put Putins lackey in the White House!
If you dont mind losing your healthcare coverage, vote Republican the party that thinks you should just die in silence if you cant afford medical treatment!
If you have absolutely no morals, vote Republican the party that kidnaps kids and puts them in cages!
If youre a racist, vote Republican the party that hates those people as much as you do!
If you dont mind being lied to and cheated by representatives that dont give a shit about you, vote Republican the party where self-serving greed is one of their most endearing features!
If youre not the least bit concerned about ethics in politics, vote Republican the party that prides itself on blatant corruption!
If youre fine with social security and Medicare payouts being gutted in order to fund tax breaks for the wealthy, vote Republican because the richest people in the country shouldnt have to pay their fair share!
Thats right, folks. If you are an ignorant, ill-informed dumb-ass who enjoys being kicked in the ass and spat upon on a daily basis, the Republican party is tailor-made for you.
So get out there in November and vote for the people who will lie to you, steal from you, and then tell you to fuck off when you complain and have the track record to prove it!
Vote Republican because this country isnt going to flush itself down the toilet without your help!
Turin_C3PO
(13,975 posts)K&R
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)niyad
(113,279 posts)Deuce
(959 posts)pandr32
(11,581 posts)That last line sounds like a good campaign slogan!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,332 posts)I'd swap in a question mark for one of the exclamation points in the title. And then I'd wish I could create as succinct and pointed description of the Greedy Old Perverts party as you.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)world wide wally
(21,742 posts)Sad
snowybirdie
(5,225 posts)fight with a relative who is born again. I can't fathom why this nice Christian lady can be so pro trump! Perhaps someday, she'll find the errors of her ways
Gothmog
(145,168 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)I suppose we should thank him for that!
Gothmog
(145,168 posts)We have six Democrats in Texas who have each raised more than $1 million due to trump. Texas will turn blue eventually but trump may accelerate the process
Perseus
(4,341 posts)And it won't be too soon when it happens...
There have been times in USA history when so much corruption has lived in one political party, the gilded age which was also presided by Republicans, only one democrat, but what we have today pales in comparison, this is greed combined with treason, racism, and whatever other bad traits you can think of a person can have.
The GOP needs major cleansing.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Glamrock
(11,796 posts)Cause they seem to be missing key issues in messaging.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)nancy1942
(635 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)calimary
(81,222 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)hostalover
(447 posts)calimary
(81,222 posts)Nance Greggs's "two cents" are worth her weight in gold-pressed latinum.
I like to think that maybe her posts here, many of which read like lists, are GREAT raw material to read, study, and make notes about. Excellent "ammo" for when you find yourself having to argue with a knuckle-dragger or other trump supporter. SUPERB talking points!
gademocrat7
(10,656 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,974 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)...until we're blue in the face - in fact, we've been doing that for decades - but it makes no difference. They vote *for* their perceived cultural/social interests, which is paramount.
It really is all about racism and sexism. People need to accept that reality, which is confirmed by study after study after study.
osmium
(94 posts)I vote for the earth first and foremost.
Where is, "If don't you care about the planet without which, any and every, one of the points made below would be impossible, vote Republican?"
We have been pissing in our own pool since before the Industrial Revolution(see anthropocene epoch..and I would extend that to the quaternary with the extinction of megafauna, etc). Now there's a new revolution happening. The earth is giving the finger to humankind. It may not be too late save a tiny fraction of the natural world, but it's far too late to save the vast majority of it.
The fact that CO2(and other gases) warm the planet was demonstrated by Tyndall in the 1850s. He further quantified the relative absorptive effects of various gases in the atmosphere. I am not going to go back to Fourier, as he had the correct insight, but he missed the crucial mechanism.
I could go on..
Humans have truly missed the forest to make a few quick bucks off the trees. Sorry to mangle the idiom. At most points in human history, that was true for everything but the forest, but now even the literal forests are weeping.
calimary
(81,222 posts)That's one of my CHIEF interests. I'd like to know where the polluters and their pals and all the suckers who keep those pals in office plan to go when our earth has heated up so drastically that it's not habitable anymore.
..But I have thought about it. I find it absurd that there is any sort of plan to send colonists to Mars.
Of course the Greenhouse Effect is only leg of the centipede. I like to play with a thought exercise. How would I like it if the earth remained habitable for the 7.7 billion of us, and counting, yet was devoid of even the biodiversity that still remains. I cannot see myself thriving on such a world.
Somewhat sadly, I may yet live to see much of the impact the middle stages of climate change has on our planet. The IPCC meetings and report released just a days ago(10.05.218 -10.10.2018) is almost certainly too optimistic as lots of the change is already 'baked in.'
By 2030 the earth's atmosphere will have risen by no less than 1.5C since the start of the Industrial Revolution. That's a huge variance vs the mean.
I may yet live to 2030 and witness far more changer than I have yet seen. I am certainly not without fault as I have only recently given up my automobile(2014) and other 'necessities.' I live in a fairly rural area, but I have no issues with finding my own way into town via bicycle or foot.
I'm not going to delude myself. As late as 1990, the GOP may not have embraced the findings of science, but one could see the writing on the wall. Since at least as far back as 1980 educational standards in the US have been in decline. The seed planted does not yield fruit for years; it took time for the dumbing down to affect a large enough pct. of the US populace so that truly genocidal policies would be accepted without mass uprising.
OK, now that I have managed to make myself feel even less sanguine, I should close this before I embark on some ill-conceived eco-terrorism spree.
Shorter response: Given their love of hot air, perhaps Venus will have them. On second thought, I feel certain the Venusian "lithofauna" is too bright to have them.
BTW, love your nick. I often fancy myself a bit of sauteed cephalopod My nick is as dense a metal as I am a human Thanks for the welcome.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)If you think the "right" to own an assault weapon is more important than a child's right to be safe at school or a concert goer's right to emerge live from a show, by all means, vote R.
If you think an unstable would-be rapist belongs on the Supreme Court, then you are definitely a Republican and should vote accordingly.
BaronChocula
(1,550 posts)who holds female candidates to a higher standard of having to be warm and accommodating than male candidates, vote Republican!
chillfactor
(7,575 posts)wish I had the mind and the perseverance that you have. I am impressed! Thank you foe the post ..well done!
hot2na
(357 posts)There are still so many things to add:
How about, vote Republican if you want to prop up con artists who claim to love America and then shit all over our closest allies and abrogate our position of leadership in the world by sucking up to fascists.
calimary
(81,222 posts)Yep, there ARE still so many thing to add. But our Nance certainly provides us all a good start!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)This Nance Gregg's jewel should be sent to every Democratic candidate.
bluestarone
(16,926 posts)Fully agree!!!!!!!
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)coeur_de_lion
(3,676 posts)I want to paraphrase for a facebook post.
dchill
(38,477 posts)R.
area51
(11,908 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)If you think sexual assault is something you should just lay back and enjoy - vote republican.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)The Wizard
(12,542 posts)They're worse.