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12-06-22 18:39 #11149
Posts: 1604Actually, I didn't
Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
Personal Responsibility.
"It's not your conditions but rather your actions which are responsible for where you are. This is said despite Republicans passing legislation which gave away 270 million acres of land, for free, which jolted the USA Economy, created personal opportunity, and wealth that could be passed down, creating, well, better conditions for white people. "
Big Government.
Code for federal assistance — such as grants, SNAP benefits, unemployment, health insurance. It is also used to describe federal protections — such as regulation and civil rights. It claims government being too big and too involved in the lives of "individuals. "
Job Creators.
Means people who own businesses that employ other people. For conservatives, this really means rich people. When 10% of the population controls 76% of the wealth, the last thing the Republicans and their rich donors need is even the slightest, burdensome tax increase.
School Choice.
Means students shouldn't be bound to attending schools in their local neighborhoods, but rather should have the freedom to attend any school that fits their needs. School choice for Republicans is a code word for segregation and allowing discrimination. It is a code word for the privatization of public schools. Rather than federal dollars going to public schools for teaching improvements or community learning, Republicans believe those dollars are better spent in the form of a voucher, which can be used toward tuition at a private or charter school.
Activist Judges.
"These are judges, usually appointed by Democratic presidents, who uphold any law passed with a Democratic majority or rule against any law passed with a Republican majority. On the contrary, judges appointed by Republicans who uphold conservative laws or strike down liberal laws are referred to by conservatives as, "originalists," or, "defenders of the constitution. " It's cool if we do it. Just not you. "
States' Rights / Leave it up to the states.
"Means that states should be free to implement discriminatory, racist laws without the federal government intervening. Because it took executive orders, literal acts of Congress, and federal intervention to end racist laws, conservatives intellectualize their defense of these issues by invoking terms such as individual liberty, government overreach, or, unconstitutional. So in other words, "We don't think the government should tell you that you can't discriminate, so we'll leave it up to the states which will turn a blind eye to protect your individual liberties, such as the right to discriminate. "
Critical Race Theory.
Code to derail efforts to promote talks about racial diversity, equity and inclusion in the public schools there. Black students complained about being the victims of racism and microaggressions. By ignoring these complaints, the White parents attending school board meetings to blow the CRT dog whistle have proven to us that they believe their fears and resentments about a manufactured CRT controversy are more valid than Black students' actual grievances. - https://jehallen.com/2021/12/30/the-crt-dog-whistle/.
Illegal immigrants.
Republican code words for undocumented aliens referred mainly to Latinos and especially to Mexicans. - History Network.
Islamic terrorism.
Used to offends millions of Islamic people in America who view massacres with the same disgust as Christians, Jews, and others in the United States. 'Radical Islamic terrorist' associate decent individuals and families with people who engage in crimes against humanity. " - History Network.
America first.
Claims that America's legal immigration system should be curtailed to those that can contribute not only economically, but have demonstrated respect for this nation's culture and rule of law. It calls for infrastructure that "reflects the architectural, engineering and aesthetic value that befits the progeny of European architecture. " It states that public infrastructure "must be utilitarian as well as stunningly, classically beautiful, befitting a world power and source of freedom," specifically citing the example of the ancient Romans. - MSN.
Real Americans.
Code for white right-wing Christians. Treating "evangelical White Christians" as a synonym for "right-wing conservatives" does no justice to the millions of evangelical white voters on the Christian Left or those who are not political. " - HandWiki.
Minimum Wage.
"We aren't going to pay you a living wage "because of socialism. " We are sending half the family to jail where they will work for even less. When we say "lazy minimum-wage workers," we aren't just talking about teenagers entering the workforce. " - FactMyth.
Tax Cuts.
"Tax Cuts. " Don't worry, we are going to cut welfare, but we'll also give you liberty and freedom from the welfare state. As you know, rich white people love creating jobs for poor black people. Just think about all the black people who have worked for white people in the past and how empowering it was. " - FactMyth.
Moochers & Takers.
Moochers and Takers. A moocher is someone on welfare. If welfare isn't enough of a clue, let's add in a word that sounds suspiciously like the and-Word. To this I say, "Yes, genius, poor black people took everything, that is why they have so much. It couldn't possibly be those whose wealth increases every year, who collect interest payments and profit off debt. Let's just keep blaming black people. " - FactMyth.
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12-06-22 18:01 #11148
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...=1#post2743466
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...=1#post2744566
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...=1#post2747584.
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...=1#post2748196.
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...=1#post2748202.
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...=1#post2748598.
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...=1#post2748972.
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...=1#post2749483.
Here are a couple of weightier tomes for Tooms, written by economists. The first one from Brian Riedl is an easy read.
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publ...nomic-managers
Here's the classic paper on the subject. You have to download the. Pdf:
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20140913
Conclusions of both: The party of the President makes little or no difference in economic performance.
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12-06-22 16:44 #11147
Posts: 5452That makes no sense
Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
The only reason the shit Repub Party's candidate has gotten into the White House since 1988 is because the winger-rigged SCOTUS or winger-rigged Electoral College system awarded it to them, not because the American voters wanted them anywhere near the place, with the sole exception being the winger-rigged SCOTUS' appointee in 2000 fucked up his National Security duties so badly he managed to blunder and lie us into 2-3 quagmire wars. And then he could proudly announce he was running for re-election as a "Wartime President" so we are not replace him while he was busy exacerbating the mess he made.
And whooboy that 2nd term produce one hellishly colossal Great Repub Economic Disaster!
That is one of the things I was talking about when I said the effectiveness of the Repub Con has been fading lately and democracy is just not into the Repub Party anymore. They haven't been able to win the vote to take the WH on any rational basis for the past 34 years and through 8 presidential elections.
Their most iconic and beloved classic Repub leader ever, and who still is, lost the WH vote TWICE by Millions, lost the House, lost the Senate, lost virtually every special election in which he was "King Maker" for his Party and as such went on to blather, direct and preside over one of the worst first midterm election showings vs its opppsition of all time!
And that is despite typically pro Repub Bothsiders in Mainsteam Media and you working tirelessly to convince Dems not to bother voting and thereby help Repubs win elections over and over again.
All of that would likely be because the American electorate is not buying your Bothsider con that elections don't matter so you might as well let Repubs win. Sorry.
What you said just doesn't make sense absent the winger-rigged system, which, guess what, is rigged by wingers to prevent your mythical "better" Third Party from keeping Repubs away from the levers of control so they can't produce more disasters even more than they do Dems.
You should kneel down every day and thank whatever pro Repub Bothsider gawd you worship that there is a Democratic Party capable of defeating all the winger-rigging and your MSM's pro Repub Bothsiderism as often as possible. Your mythical Third Party fantasy sure won't do it.
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12-06-22 14:09 #11146
Posts: 1781Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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12-06-22 07:16 #11145
Posts: 5452Oh, poor babies
Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
So sad. And so evil and diabolically powerful are those Dems to force those poor Repub supporter babies to do that.
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12-06-22 04:07 #11144
Posts: 5452Yep
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
It turns out that after decades and decades of crap economic results quite contrary to their con that "our ideas are better", note they can't make the case that their "results" are better, democracy just isn't into the Repub Party all that much.
Consequently, the Repub Party has decided they aren't into democracy all that much either.
Their new approach is to simply prevent as many people too smart and well informed to fall for their con from voting, to make it more difficult to vote, to not count their vote if they do manage to do it, to violently attack the seat of democracy even if it means killing cops along the way when the votes don't fall their way, etc.
Oh and best to have Repub leadership flatter, praise and outright rank higher than superior elected officials on our side the dictators, despots, "strong men" and genocidal murderers they wish they could be in the USA if only they could suspend and ignore that pesky Constitution thingy and inconvenient democracy that is so unkind to them.
Along the way there will always be Mainstream Media to "Bothside" campaign for Repubs in order to reach at least a 50/50 chance of putting their Repub darlings in position to produce the "Economic Disaster"! Headlines MSM craves.
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12-06-22 01:22 #11143
Posts: 1956Great summary!
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
The Democrats aren't saint or miracle workers, but they work hard on fixing the economy and social justice.
The Republicans have 2 missions in life: to obstruct the Democrats and pass tax cuts for the rich.
Among the two, I'd say, the Repubs have it easier.
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12-05-22 22:08 #11142
Posts: 1781Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
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12-05-22 20:44 #11141
Posts: 690Deficits don't matter
Dick Cheney: " Reagan proved that deficits don't matter" Avowed fiscal conservative "Snoot" Gingrich has yet to pay off his 2012 presidential campaign debt of $4 million +.
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12-05-22 16:16 #11140
Posts: 1604What really happens is this
Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
Part 1: A Dem president gets elected. Repubs spend 2 years throwing up roadblocks to every bit of legislation the Dems propose. The Repubs point to the "fact" that Dems haven't gotten anything done (they conveniently forget that Repubs were the ones blocking everything). Repubs gain a majority of House and-or Senate. Repubs spend the next 2 years (or up to 6 more years) complaining about how Dems want "open borders" and-or are communist and-or are socialist and-or want to take away your guns and-or a bunch of other stuff.
Part 2: After 4 (or 8) years, a Repub gets elected president because they have convinced the voters that they know what they're doing re: the economy. Repubs have a majority in the House and-or Senate. Repubs pass another voodoo economics tax cut for the rich and spend money like drunken sailors. The economy goes into a tailspin. Repubs are thrown out (after 4 or 8 years) and a Dem is elected president and Dems have control of the House and-or Senate. Dems pass legislation that spends money to assist the economy to pull out of the tailspin. Repubs are now suddenly against spending any money at all even though Repubs just spend 4-to-8 years spending money like drunken sailors.
Go to Part 1.
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12-05-22 14:23 #11139
Posts: 1781Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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12-05-22 06:13 #11138
Posts: 5452I have no idea what those links prove
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
Here's the deal; if Repubs didn't consistently produce crap results they would run on those actual results in elections instead of on their traditional sucker social issues. They would not have to be continually drawn to nominate unqualified "celebrities" for the top job of economic steward in order to sell their crap policies and results as they did with Eisenhower, Reagan and Trump. Not that their actual experienced pols like Hoover, Nixon and the Bushes fared any better on results.
Their decades' long March to getting everything important as wrong as possible and somehow still exist would not have led them inevitably and directly to Donald J. Trump, the ultimate con man snake oil pitchman to sell their consistent crap policies and results to enough ignorant, America-hating hillbillies to squeeze out another unpopular election "win" and throw the entire country into another, another and another Great Repub disaster.
But the Repub Party has no alternative but to pull all that voter disenfranchising and vote suppresion shit, running on their classic sucker social issues and choosing "celebrity" con men to sell their snake oil crap.
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12-05-22 05:46 #11137
Posts: 5452Perhaps I should narrow the question to make it easier for anyone here to answer
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
Throwing out invalid ballots? I have no objection to any qualified official doing that. But Repubs want to appoint avowed Election Denying / Lying QAnon Repub loons to make those decisions.
Your NYT link was quickly obscured by a Subscription Required pop up so I did not read much of it. But it appeared to be about the Dems' noble efforts to abandon the decidedly undemocratic Electoral College system. Good. I hope they succeed someday.
Otherwise, I will count this as another "I can't" response, this time to my challenge to show us where Dems mount a party-wide effort to disenfranchise likely Repub voters and not count their votes.
Maybe that challenge is too broad, allowing for every itty-bitty insignificant ballot gathering or counting glitch by a Dem somewhere being given falsely equal weight to what Repubs have been doing for a long time to suppress Dem votes.
So, to add a bit more focus to it, how about this one; please name and cite a case where a recognized leader of the Democtatic Party, say, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, for example, led a violent, cop-killing insurrection to storm the Capitol Building on the day the votes AND the Electoral College awards were to be confirmed on the basis of a Big And Very Well Established And Proven Lie and that the Vice President of their Party should disenfranchise 81,000,000+ voters, throw out ALL of their ballots, dsregard ALL of their votes for POTUS and give it to the Dem candidate regardless.
Got anything for that?
And to really drive home your "BOTH Parties do that" assertion, please link the highly regarded polls showing a decisive majority of Dems being four square behind such a proven Big Lie and, by logical deduction, the unconstitutional measures taken by the Party to throw out those millions of votes.
Since "BOTH Parties" do this sort of thing it ought to be easy to provide links for that.
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12-04-22 07:32 #11136
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
But the future does not look as rosy as the past. Unfortunately, a Democrat, Donald Trump, infiltrated the Republican Party. Many Republicans followed this Pied Piper, and now the majority of Republican politicians are as bad as the Democrats -- see my post #11130 below. Perhaps another Ronald Reagan will come along and set America straight. We can hope.
We've covered this before, see below. You're wrong.
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...tics&p=2743466
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...tics&p=2744566
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...tics&p=2747584
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...tics&p=2748196
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...tics&p=2748202
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...tics&p=2748598
http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...tics&p=2749483
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12-04-22 07:22 #11135
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by RamDavidson84 [View Original Post]