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Democrats have been repeatedly been labelled as elitists by the GOP which usually means we are well-read, well-informed, and can speak in complete, grammatically correct sentences. But I digress.
The fact is that what you Republican voters are willing to believe nay, swallow whole is proof beyond any doubt that you are stupid, stupid, stupid.
You walk around in MAGA hats that were manufactured in China by a pResident who campaigned on putting America first. That pResident continues to have ALL of his branded merchandise including every item in his hotels and golf courses made in low-wage countries. And you still believe that hes sincere when he says hes bringing jobs back to the US and thats because youre stupid.
You voted for Trump because he said that if elected, he would drain the swamp and surround himself with the best people. Many of those best people have now been indicted, have been fired, have been forced to resign, or are currently under investigation. Thirty to forty of those best people who are still working in the WH cant get security clearances, and still have access to highly classified information. Many of those best people only have WH appointments because theyre family members, and have absolutely no experience in government whatsoever. But you think thats just fine and thats because youre stupid.
Your pResident claims he is innocent of colluding with the Russians. And yet he has consistently tried to shut down the investigations into his conduct, and that of his family members and friends. An innocent man says, Investigate anything you want, because I have nothing to hide. Only a guilty man tries to thwart investigations that, if he truly IS innocent, would serve to vindicate him. But you still believe he has nothing to hide and thats because youre stupid.
Your pResident held a closed meeting in the Oval Office with the very Russians he was accused of colluding with, at which time he disclosed highly classified information to them. You dont think that is in the least bit suspicious and thats because youre stupid.
Your pResidents best people have lied, repeatedly, about their contacts with Russian operatives and quickly changed their stories only after being confronted with indisputable proof that they had lied. But you think theres nothing dishonest about people who only admit the truth when they are caught lying and thats because youre stupid.
Your I have nothing to hide pResident says he wont answer Muellers questions because his lawyers have advised him not to. If he is innocent of any wrongdoing, why is he hiding behind his lawyers as an excuse to NOT vindicate himself? Why is your fearless leader afraid of those who are trying to determine the truth if, as he says, the truth is on his side? You dont think theres anything untoward about an allegedly innocent man refusing to tell his side of the story and thats because youre stupid.
Your pResident with ample help from his party has passed tax reform legislation that sinks the country into unfathomable debt in order to provide tax-cuts to the wealthiest individuals and corporations, while giving YOU tax-breaks that amount to a few dollars per week in your paychecks. Paul Ryan actually bragged about meeting a woman who was grateful that her paycheck went up by $1.50 a week thanks to Trumps tax reform, and you still think youre getting a fair deal and thats because youre stupid.
Your pResident has been proven to have lied over 2,000 times in his first year in office. You still believe hes an honest truth-teller and thats because youre stupid.
Your pResident has repeatedly praised Putin, and has now refused to implement the sanctions against Russia that were overwhelmingly voted for by congress. He insisted that he had no ties to Russia, despite all of the information that has now surfaced about the FACT that those dealings took place. Yet you still believe he has no ties to Russia and thats because youre stupid.
All of our intelligence agencies agree that Russia interfered in our election process, and are continuing to do so. Your pResident insists that ALL of these agencies are lying, but you believe him instead of the thousands of people who work for these agencies and thats because youre stupid.
Your pResident calls anything reported about him fake news except the news that praises him, which he calls honest and truthful. And you take his word for it, despite his many, many proven lies and thats because youre stupid.
While youre busy calling Democrats elitists because we are looking at the facts instead of turning a blind eye to the obvious, while you wait for the promised jobs that will never materialize, while you sit in front of FOX-News in your MAGA hat cheering a pResident who is outsourcing your jobs, while you worship a man who brags about grabbing pussies because hes a good Christian, while you continue to swallow whole every ludicrous, contradictory statement your Dear Leader utters, we Democrats will continue to laugh at your stupidity.
Whats unfortunate is that millions of people from deported Dreamers to those stripped of affordable healthcare have to live with the consequences of your stupidity. But the even more inconvenient truth is that youre living with those consequences, too. Youre just too stupid to realize it yet.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,908 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)We really need to gather all your posts on one website. TheFerret and The Rude Pundit do it - why not you?
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)Last edited Sat Feb 10, 2018, 02:54 PM - Edit history (1)
The first few minutes of Idiocracy gives a very poignant example of how stupid wins. Stupid will continue to win unless the apathy of the electorate is not overcome before it is too late.
roscoeroscoe
(1,370 posts)I want that toilet
orangecrush
(19,636 posts)It's amazing how quickly this administration is going down the drain.
MyOwnPeace
(16,940 posts)Several times in the past I've come on to post that the latest "NanceGreggs" post was the absolute best ever.
I now must admit that I was wrong - they were good, no, DAMNED good!
But,
truly, THIS is the BEST EVER (so far........).
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,017 posts)Those Trump supporting idiots thought Trump was trolling Democrats with that parade shit? They apparently think hes a super genius and didnt realize that Trump has just made another giant fool out of himself.
Yeah theyre dumb
cp
(6,668 posts)gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,468 posts)Wish the ones who need it most could see it.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)someone who "unfriended" me after Christmas since she didn't appreciate my hand drawn Christmas card of the fucking moron as the Grinch and told me that I was "delusional for not supporting our dear president and believing the fake news". Of course she would read the first paragraph and stop reading it... she is too busy getting her tiki torches ready for her next rally.
PatrickforO
(14,593 posts)It should get a wider hearing.
CaptainTruth
(6,606 posts)I ask because they (he? she?) published a book of their essays, pieces like yours. It was great & I bought it. Your writing is great too, perhaps even better & I'd buy it in a heartbeat if you published a collection.
So many times you find the words I haven't found myself.
solara
(3,836 posts)and absolutely captures what most people are feeling. I agree with so many that you should have a site where folks can go to read more than one brilliant essay at a time.
Thank you once again for telling it, for speaking the truth and for helping to keep the madness at bay
Once again.. Happy Birthday and thank you
argyl
(3,064 posts)She posted a lot and they were all gems.
betsuni
(25,682 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Well said!
world wide wally
(21,756 posts)much better.
Thank you, Nance
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,468 posts)This essay remains true even if you substitute "ignorant" or "willfully ignorant" for "stupid". That is maddening when you think about how many more GOPers it would thus include.
Iggo
(47,574 posts)Squinch
(51,025 posts)The Wizard
(12,551 posts)they voted for Trump because he said he'd keep the coloreds in their place. Very shallow thinkers. Trump is Snidely Whiplash with an inherited trust fund.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,025 posts)RoBear
(1,188 posts)I live in a community of mainly older citizens, and though I'd like to make copies and distribute to all, they all seem to be coming to an acute awareness of what a fool the man is. I never hear a good word about the Idiot in the White House, although I'm certain many of them voted for them. Faux News is never on the TV in the community room, and when it is tuned to CNN (which is fairly often) I change it to MSNBC.
But the real worry for me is that people aren't waking up fast enough--there's still that core of astoundingly stupid people who are his supporters, but mostly they keep their stupidity to themselves these days.
Thank you for the post. I plan to share it with friends.
HAB911
(8,919 posts)so they ride the Titanic to the bottom (further underscoring their stupidity)
mcar
(42,390 posts)Good one, Nance.
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)brewens
(13,626 posts)Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)articles and writings leave out is that MANY, MANY of us who are inhabitants of blue, urban areas CAME FROM those small town rural places and we GOT THE HELL OUT because we couldnt stand the narrow-minded, bigots that are so plentiful there, not to mention the lack of jobs and opportunities.
How is it my fault that yall cant get your lazy butts off the bar stool and go live somewhere else if its so awful.
(note: this does not apply to the significant no. of rural folks to whom this does not apply - I know a lot of folks out there who have good lives and are good people who dont have the need to scapegoat people of color and blame everyone but yourselves for their personal failings.)
calimary
(81,523 posts)I was told, early in this national nightmare, that "you really need to understand the people who voted for trump!"
My response then is the same as it is now: "the HELL I do! I don't have to 'understand' squat! Or let's put it another way. I 'understand' them perfectly. They're a pathetic, gullible, and willfully ignorant embarrassment to all the rest of us. They're okay with this shit? They're STILL okay with this shit? Then all I have for them is complete and utter disdain."
lindysalsagal
(20,742 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)sadly how republicans, right-wingers think and sadly why this nation is so F'ed up now. Hopefully it will get better.
BigMin28
(1,181 posts)I know a few people who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton because of the speeches she gave to Goldman Sachs. They think she was on the side of wall street, and trump is on their side. Yet when I explain and show them all the Golman Sachs people in this administration, they refuse to believe it. Flat out refuse. I am obviously biased, and must be lying. They are willfully stupid, and proud of it.
and its the pride of being stupid that gets me. I hate to say this, really I do, but my Mother and one of my Sisters are in that camp. My Mother is old and dying, but still get's around some. When we talk we have to really watch what we say, both of us to keep our visits friendly. This is a woman who will spend hours and DAYS calling places and online to complain about something, yet when I tell her about how certain policies will adversely affect her, its how do you know? I say its all right there online , plain as day, and its "Oh, I don't want to look that up". Willful ignorance and blind total consumption of anything fox puts out will destroy our great country.
LiberalBrooke
(527 posts)I am fed up with republicons who are offended when we say they are stupid for voting for cons. They are stupid.
kimbutgar
(21,215 posts)Or how about him saving and subsiding with tax payer money those puny coal jobs while destroying the wind and Solar industry which is the future and would have been a source of new jobs and helped the environment.
Toorich
(391 posts)Now that right there is a slap down!
BlueDog22
(366 posts)I can't help that we decided to educate ourselves, and they didn't...
RecoveringJournalist
(148 posts)I wholeheartedly agree. It makes me want to cry at times.
But I strongly believe there's another element at play. That is the number of people who simply don't care about the truth as long as their side wins and/or Democrats lose. I've seen so so so many blissful rightwing rants about Democratic tears, Democratic losers, etc. One simply has to wonder how many of those posts come from people who are more interesting in sticking it to Democrats than pretty much anything else even if doing so knowingly sends the country over the cliff.
pandr32
(11,625 posts)Every word is true. Thank you for writing and posting it.
paleotn
(17,989 posts)I have nothing to add. You've got them dead to rights.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)either. Ignoring these examples is the height of stupidity...but then, I think many of his "deplorables" admire those traits and living vicariously through the Orange One.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)have very limited power as the minority party. The repubs as the majority party control it all. I see way too many folks that do not comprehend this. They waste their time complaining and whining about the Dems instead of focusing on beating the crap out of the repubs next November. We have to win elections. Then our ideas can be written into bills to become law. Focus!
Volaris
(10,274 posts)And fox news will answer:
Democrats, for not winning control to impeach him (cause they're cucks).
And they will have an orgasm, and vote for Ted Cruz.
Welcome to the United States, where the brainwashed 20% (with Russian and Koch money help) get to dictate to the other 80 how we all live.
'Rome IS the mob.'
Welcome to inverse democracy.
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)Different Drummer
(7,651 posts)because you write so well and because your observations are so on target. I've added this one to my bookmarks. Brava!
Permanut
(5,654 posts)She's the Babe Ruth of DU.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)If so, have you called them stupid to their face?
NanceGreggs
(27,820 posts)... and yes.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I would respectfully suggest that it is not a good starting point for helping Republicans to see the error of their ways.
NanceGreggs
(27,820 posts)... extremely effective in not having my time wasted conversing with stupid people.
It's not my job to "help Republicans see the error of their ways". The facts are out there - they'd just rather continue being stupid.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I guess I sometimes try to see if I can be persuasive with those on the other side. Limited, but occasional success.
azureblue
(2,153 posts)Talking to them is like talking to a wall, except the wall insults you. The person you are responding to with your post seems to think that Repubs are reasonable - they are not - all they are is hating, emotional, blindered and yes, stupid. And proud of it.... Again, you can't fix stupid and they don't want to wake up. A waste of time to try to convince them - they only way they ever learn is when the results of their stupidity hits them. Them of course, they will blame someone else..
Squinch
(51,025 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)But I have talked to people who I felt were stupid (and I have talked to Republicans).
Squinch
(51,025 posts)What else CAN you say?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Sometimes there is nothing you can say.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)To believe [such and such ridiculous Republican bullshit],"
when actually I know they are, in fact, pretty stupid. I'm just being kind.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Squinch
(51,025 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I only engage when I absolutely cannot tolerate listening to their crap anymore, and circumstances won't allow me to leave.
No way I'm going to undo 40 years of brainwashing, but at least I feel better getting it off my chest.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Not often - but sometimes.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Squinch
(51,025 posts)it on our bumpers, we should liberally (heh, I made a funny) sprinkle it in our conversations about and to republicans, and we should use it as our response EVERY SINGLE TIME the republican president tweets or opens his mouth.
Imagine if every time he tweeted, he got 10,000 responses that said, "... and that's because you're stupid."
I am sick to death of pandering to the conservative's branding of any kind of intelligence as "elitist." This is the perfect way to throw that back on them, and make it OK to think again.
rzemanfl
(29,571 posts)louis c
(8,652 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,353 posts)like Trump
dchill
(38,556 posts)HOORAY!
LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)This should be posted on some freeper site, or Fox News comments. Even if one gets banned quickly, if one of them reads it, it would be worth it.
bdamomma
(63,930 posts)nt
ellie
(6,929 posts)Nevilledog
(51,212 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)Not that this gem needs it.
Skittles
(153,212 posts)sellitman
(11,607 posts)They are so stupid they cannot read this great rant.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,468 posts)Those who are merely ignorant -- everyone fits this -- can be enlightened. Those who choose to cling to their views in the face of overwhelming facts to the contrary, that is, to ignore the facts, are either brainwashed or stupid.
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Adj. 1. brainwashed - subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones; "brainwashed prisoners of war"; "captive audiences for TV commercials can become brainwashed consumers"
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/brainwashed
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Definition of stupid
1 a : slow of mind : obtuse
b : given to unintelligent decisions or acts : acting in an unintelligent or careless manner
c : lacking intelligence or reason : brutish
2 : dulled in feeling or sensation : torpid
still stupid from the sedative
3 : marked by or resulting from unreasoned thinking or acting : senseless
a stupid decision
4 a : lacking interest or point
a stupid event
b : vexatious, exasperating
the stupid car won't start
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stupid
coeur_de_lion
(3,684 posts)and saving it as rebuttal for my republican family members. Who are stupid.
dchill
(38,556 posts)I sea what you did their.
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)agincourt
(1,996 posts)the exact same people who barked about Obama the muzleem, the appeaser of Isis , now have an administration that just sold down the river, the very people, the Kurds who fought Isis. I'm sure all the patriot conservatives will be mad that Trump sucked up to Erdogen, the Turkish Isis supporter. Gee they must be really mad now, for sure. I'm know they're just furious now, right.....right.