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Beachnutt

(7,311 posts)
Sat Oct 17, 2020, 04:57 PM Oct 2020

This is a must read, my daughter just text this to me.

pass it on
A day in the Life of Sue Republican

Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.
With her first swallow of coffee, she takes her daily medication. Her medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised.
All but $10 of her medications are paid for by her employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Sue gets it too.
She prepares her morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Sue's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
In the shower, Sue reaches for her shampoo. Her bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for her right to know what she was putting on her body and how much it contained.
Sue dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air she breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.
She walks to the subway station for her government-subsidized ride to work. It saves her considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Sue begins her work day. She has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Sue's employer pays these standards because Sue's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.
If Sue is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, she'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think she should lose her home because of her temporary misfortune.
Its noon and Sue needs to make a bank deposit so she can pay some bills. Sue's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Sue's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.
Sue has to pay her Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and her below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Sue and the government would be better off if she was educated and earned more money over her lifetime.
Sue is home from work. She plans to visit her father this evening at his farm home in the country. She gets in her car for the drive. Her car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards.
She arrives at her childhood home. Her generation was the third to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.
She is happy to see her father, who is now retired. Her father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Sue wouldn't have to.
Sue gets back in her car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Sue enjoys throughout her day. Sue agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm self-made and believe everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."
~ Kathy Joe North

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This is a must read, my daughter just text this to me. (Original Post) Beachnutt Oct 2020 OP
K&R! SheltieLover Oct 2020 #1
Tsk, tsk. Kathy Joe North plagiarized the old Joe Conservative essay. CrispyQ Oct 2020 #2
Ha malaise Oct 2020 #6
First thing I thought of when I started reading it. Pacifist Patriot Oct 2020 #13
yup proud patriot Oct 2020 #15
Pretty much Ferrets are Cool Oct 2020 #16
Well some fancy pants liberal saw to it that transgender Joe could become Sue! Lucky Luciano Oct 2020 #17
That's as good as it gets. K&R 11 Bravo Oct 2020 #3
Excellent PatSeg Oct 2020 #4
Excellent MLAA Oct 2020 #5
FSLIC was taken over by FDIC in 1989 UpInArms Oct 2020 #7
An old one and it used to be Bob I believe Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #8
Joe Pacifist Patriot Oct 2020 #14
Thank you. I saw this on Reverend Wm. Barber's facebook. I'm sharing it. lamp_shade Oct 2020 #9
Always good to see this.. mountain grammy Oct 2020 #10
Joe's wife... Historic NY Oct 2020 #11
Thank you for sharing that Dreampuff Oct 2020 #12
Freedumb and self-made go together so well. NoMoreRepugs Oct 2020 #18

CrispyQ

(36,457 posts)
2. Tsk, tsk. Kathy Joe North plagiarized the old Joe Conservative essay.
Sat Oct 17, 2020, 05:02 PM
Oct 2020

I don't know who the original author of Joe Conservative is, but this woman shouldn't be putting her name to this when all she changed was the name Joe to Sue. I also take exception that she made the conservative a women when a white male is much more appropriate to symbolize this kind of "I made it on my own" thinking.

on edit: I found a reference as old as 2007.
https://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/04/13/a-day-in-the-life-of-joe-repub

PatSeg

(47,399 posts)
4. Excellent
Sat Oct 17, 2020, 05:05 PM
Oct 2020

Brings to mind the woman a few years back who angrily yelled about government run healthcare, "Don't touch my Medicare", evidently oblivious to the fact that it WAS government run healthcare. So many people take for granted all the rights and privileges brought to them by those big-government, commie liberals.

Dreampuff

(778 posts)
12. Thank you for sharing that
Sat Oct 17, 2020, 07:18 PM
Oct 2020

Guess I'm one of the few people who has never seen this before and it is definitely a good read.

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