lemonlime

Have you seen the last few years?

You forgot his primary policy accomplishment. Cruelty. He's given everyone who's not a white, Christian, straight man fear for their safety or the safety of their families.

They aren't single issue voters. They're cult members. And they rationalize their behavior by pretending to be single issue voters over either taxes or abortion. Neither of which is true as evidenced by voting for Herschel Walker or the trump "tax cuts" that raised taxes on a lot of the middle class and really only cut taxes for the very wealthy.

He's bankrupted multiple casinos. He's a moron who pretends to be and spends like a billionaire.

Meanwhile, Incredulity has managed to shift the discussion from his party's racism to the efficacy of masks

WTF no. It's been years since trump said there were good people on both sides when one side were Nazis chanting "The Jews will not replace us." Never mind all the other antisemitic crap that comes out of his mouth, or the antisemitic conspiracy theory Q garbage. He still has his cult. Edit to add not crazy about the argument that Jews are somehow a more "powerful bloc" than others. What the fuck does that even mean? About 2% of the US population is Jewish. And they don't vote as one bloc. He's also gone after basically everyone who's not a white, Christian, straight, male and they support him. The implications of some Jewish cabal where this is a stone too far for dotard is ridiculous.

That's actually the least not believable part of that fascistic fairytale.

He's not cooperating. His team leaked that nonsense in anticipation of this:

Exactly this. And these gripes from the right are anti-American. Just fucking stop.

Ted Cruz doesn't warrant any benefit of the doubt over anything. He deserves exactly as much understanding as he's given others. I'm only sorry his pain, to the extent he's capable of feeling human emotions, and he probably isn't, is at the expense of others who don't deserve this.

I feel badly for the daughter, who should not be the subject of public discussion. But, really disgusted by the right who you know would be blaring this from roof tops if this happened to a Dem senator's child. Hell, they argued that Jamie Raskin wasn't fit to serve in Congress after his son committed suicide.

I don't get it, or why the left lets them get away with it. Not looking for genuine answers but how is being awake, a warrior for social justice, anti-fascist, or signaling virtue ever a bad thing? These all sound pretty to awesome to me. And telling that the right thinks these are somehow derogative terms.

Even if I was completely self interested, not sure how making the poor pay more, when they can't afford what they pay already, helps me. It's a small amount of money at best, because you can't get blood from a stone. And what's the end result? More homeless? More people in prison? More people using the emergency room for primary care so that we're all paying their hospital bills? Maybe one of them can rear end my car, but not have been able to afford insurance. Or worked at the grocery store while sick, giving it to me. I can't believe we're even debating that the country is a better place to live if we don't shit on the poor.

What assets? They're up to their eyeballs in debt and grift.

Bullshit. Good to know I'm paying estate, customs, and capital gains taxes. Oh, wait, those are largely paid by rich people, at a lower rate than off W-2 income.

I don't despise anyone because they're a white, male, conservative Christian. And based on your post, I'm assuming he's straight as well, but feel free to correct me on that one. But as someone who is none of those things, other than white, I'm having a hard time believing someone who is taking part in a movement that is threatening my and my loved ones' existence, while being in the exact, narrow demographic where he is seemingly at little risk is a "good person" regardless of how much money he gave to charity. Just like you could have someone virulently opposed to trump and the domestic terrorist, who cheats on his wife and his taxes and never gave a dime to charity, and is a "bad person," but is still on the right side of history and isn't endangering my life. I'm also more than a little uncomfortable with the idea that there are "good people" and "bad people." I'm not sure what combination of malice, ignorance, and brain washing is leading to otherwise "good" people supporting terrorism. What I do know is that end of the day, when the history books are written, they will be remembered as Nazis Trumpers, regardless of how much money they gave to charity. And I'm tired hearing about excuses for people who are complicit in the willful destruction of our country. Of course, the history books if books still exist are written by the victors, an even scarier thought here.

Nothing. I'm getting really tired of the leopards asking, even when they aren't members of the Leopard Eating Faces Party asking of everyone who's not a leopard "Why aren't the people whose faces my friends want to eat not understanding of my friends?" LO fucking L, at the guy who kidnapped migrants as being the palatable version of the GOP.

The "Nazi monsters," except for maybe a few people at the top, didn't start out as "Nazi monsters." If you had told them or their neighbors, in say 1932, they would contribute to the genocide of millions, they would have called you a liar and been horrified. They were probably for the most part good neighbors who loved their families.. But they were also Nazi monsters and that's rightfully what they're remembered for today, after their deaths--the atrocities they participated in. Just as a thought experiment, what if you told them 10 years ago that the Republican loser of the last election called for the Constitution to be suspended and that he be installed in to office, and no Republicans spoke out against it. Would your friends have believed that to have really happened? Would they have believed that they would have supported a candidate who called for the Constitution to be suspended? Would they have been okay with religious bans? Separating babies from their mothers? Letting people die after a hurricane because they were from a territory? Spreading anti-vax nonsense during a global pandemic? The president saying there were "good Nazis"?

Yeah, so does my 5 year old Honda. And, yeah, instead of envying people who can afford Aston Martins, and sure, I'd rather have a sexier car than a Honda, I can appreciate that I'm fortunate enough to own a reliable car, and be able to afford maintenance so it stays reliable, and repairs if something goes wrong. If it is in the shop, I can get a loaner or an uber, and it's not a huge chunk of my paycheck. Hell, I live in a part of the country with access to public transportation options. If I get a parking ticket I can afford to pay the $40, instead of getting late fees tacked on to it. All things most of the poor in this country do without. And I also recognize I'm a medical emergency, where I can't work and deplete my savings, away from having any of this. I'm not sure what interplay of sociopathy or Fox News bubble Flatty lives in. But, fuck, I hope he's not really a UT alum.

Oh, he's obvious. But no one believes they're the bad guy. They craft their stories to justify their evil. Including dehumanizing others. It doesn't matter if poor people's children starve or if a McDonald's worker can't afford cancer treatment. Because they're lazy, undeserving, and less than human. He's justifying being a horrible person by feigning outrage over those lazy, stupid, greedy poors.

It's how flatty rationalizes taking a giant dump on others so that he can get his boat.

Which makes no sense since he apparently also believes that if the federal government taxes that same, chintzy tip, it's theft.