GOP Debate “Highlights” Make Me Realize Why Countries Make Fun of Us When We Elect Republicans
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I’ve been lucky enough in my lifetime to have met and made friends from all over the globe. It’s a small world, to borrow a phrase, when you can chat with someone across the Atlantic or Pacific and get an international point of view on things. It’s how I know, for instance, that socialized medicine doesn’t result in imprisonment gangs roaming the street and locking up sick and old people to go and euthanize them. Watching last night’s debate highlights — and I use that term ironically as hell — makes me see in crystal clear, stark reality why people in other countries laugh at us and try to keep us away from them every time we elect Republicans as our presidents.
Look at Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz all trying to out-asshole each other last night. Which one would be shittier to Muslims — of which there are over one and a half billion people on this planet? Which one would be more terrible to Mexicans? Whose plan to militarize the border and make it seem like we’re at war with our neighbors to the South is the better one? Who thinks helping the poor get medicine is un-American the most?...
It was stinging, it was true, but well, it could’ve been said about everyone on the stage. Yes, even Kasich. Because Kasich is that classic brand of social conservative that hides his bat shit crazy ideas of telling a woman what to do with her own body behind flowery, conciliatory prose. But he still, ultimately, feels that the federal government should have a say in what a woman does or doesn’t do with her own uterus.
Watching that clip is fun, don’t get me wrong, because you really can see why Republicans make America the laughingstock of the world. They stood there for a full minute and a half just yelling over each other. Imagine any of them in a situation that requires diplomacy. Oh wait, I forgot that to Republicans diplomacy is for pussies and the French.