Pence: "[Democrats] want to make rich people poorer, and poor people more comfortable."

[Nevilledog]

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[SoonerPride]

1. Can't have that now can we? The GOP wants the rich to be richer and the poor to die in the street.

Preferably downwind so the stench of rotting corpses doesn't offend those in the "good neighborhoods."

Fuck that fucking fuckwad

[CanonRay]

2. Well, actually, yeah.

Nice succinct analysis there Mikey.

[dweller]

3. Guilty

and I can live with that

✌🏻

[Lunabell]

4. Wow, he gets me.

Lol, yeah. Bezos and Musk need golden toilets too.

[KewlKat]

5. God forbid we make the poor more comfortable. Who

Writes this shit for these people!

I for one want the poor to feel more comfortable and for the wealthy to stand up and pass on some of what they have.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

32. "[W]ealthy to ... pass on some of what they have" -- which they got using systems we paid for.

Mustn't forget those socialized costs. The filthy rich want to pretend that they got that way all by their own effort. They don't want to acknowledge the infrastructure and economic system that WE built, nor do they want to acknowledge the exploitation of those systems and us.

[AmyStrange]

36. I wonder how many [b]BAT-SHIT CRAZY[/b] republicans inherited their billions, and

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didn't do a FUCKING THING to earn any of that money?

It's time to tax the shit out of them, because after all, if this country falls because of these BAT-SHIT CRAZY people, how much will their billions be worth then?
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[Sanity Claws]

6. Is that an ad for the Democrats?

It sounds helpful to us.

[bluestarone]

15. Was thinking the very same thing

Lets use it in GEORGIA!!!!

[gratuitous]

7. And the problem with that is . . . ?

Oh yeah, socialism. Everything's socialism that expects the rich to pay their way in the society that made them rich.

[stopbush]

8. Mikey's subtext is that Ds don't want poor people to become rich people.

Same Horatio Alger bullshit Americans have been fed for decades.

Note to Americans: the chances you have of moving up to an economic class above that into which you were born are close to nothing. The self-made man mantra is dogshit.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. He doesn't even want poor people to be comfortable.

Bah, humbug. Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

[Yeehah]

39. That and the welfare Cadillac trope

All of us po' folks just sittin' around waitin' on the welfare check so we can go buy sirloin steaks and shrimp.

[Moral Compass]

9. Que horror!

[uponit7771]

10. A bent and demented mentality thinks that's a negative thing. Stupid people think they're rich ...

... when they're not and Red Don has a bunch of stupid followers.

[Ohiogal]

11. Somehow, I doubt

rich people will ever have to worry about becoming poor in this country.

[Irish_Dem]

19. If rich people are down to their last couple of million they think they are poor.

Exactly, they are never going to be really poor.

[moose65]

25. Amen!

Even if taxes were raised back to Eisenhower levels, the super-rich would still be rich beyond their wildest dreams. Their lives wouldn't be affected AT ALL. That's what they never seem to get: when they want to eliminate programs for the poor and cut services to most of us, it actually hurts people.

If we got our way, they might have to get by on just three vacation houses and two yachts. O the Humanity!!

[Aristus]

12. Paying their employees a living wage doesn't make rich people poorer.

It makes rich people better employers.

And well-paid workers, with some disposable income, will make rich people richer. I realize that a flow-chart diagramming that concept would be complex enough to make right-wing heads spin. And that's why they don't like thinking socioeconomic problems through properly.

[stopdiggin]

14. Okay. Now that's funny! (nt)

[gulliver]

16. Zero sum, us vs. them.

Republicans are lazy do-nothings who want to keep the passengers on a sinking ship living in a comfortable, thought-free dream world instead of keeping the ship from sinking. The name of the game is positive sum. Everyone wins. Dems know that. We're not shackled to Republican defeatism and division always telling us otherwise.

[diane in sf]

17. Lol, sounds like a plan.

[meadowlander]

18. How do these assholes keep getting away with calling themselves Christians?

Honestly, I'm fed up to the teeth with these sanctimonious shitheads and their Supply Side Jesus bullshit.

[sop]

20. "If you want to live like a Republican, vote for a Democrat." - President Harry S. Truman

[NRaleighLiberal]

21. a rare moment of lucidity? or a misspeak?

[GoneOffShore]

22. Mikey's like a stopped clock.

Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.

[Buns_of_Fire]

23. I fail to see the problem here. nt

[Takket]

24. Correct..........

[Initech]

26. And that's a problem because?

Fuck off, TPUSA.

[mcar]

27. He says that like it's a bad thing

[Caliman73]

28. Yes and NO.

We don't want to make rich people "poorer". You can only make a rich person less rich, unless you take EVERYTHING away from them and make them poor. Democrats do not want to take everything away from rich people. Never have. We want to make our society more equitable. We want the people who help make the rich rich, to have enough to eat, to have a decent home, and to have some opportunities for enjoyment in life. Yes. That is exactly what we want to do.

Conservatives always have to find a way to lie.

[Iggo]

29. Yes. That's exactly correct.

Thank you Mr Pence.

[Bettie]

30. Right, the rich being slightly less rich

will harm them SO much...

And making the poor able to buy food AND pay rent...how awful!

How does anyone vote for these assholes?

[David__77]

31. His comments on that start at 1:29, for reference.

His delivery seems very "off" to me - like he's not being himself.

[Maeve]

33. So did Jesus

[Duppers]

48. EXACTLY!!! Pence, like so many R's, is such a....

Fake Christian! 😠

They're only about power. Didn't somebody once say, "money is power."

[lindysalsagal]

34. Mikey comes out as

A socialist!

Slippery slope! Anything else you want to reveal, Mikey?

[maxsolomon]

35. "Comfortable" is a dog whistle for Shiftless and Lazy

Fuck Pence.

[FakeNoose]

37. Mike Pence, please go away!

You've done enough damage already.

[AmyStrange]

38. [b]BAT-SHIT CRAZY[/b] is as [b]BAT-SHIT CRAZY[/b] does

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As someone else said here, "Heaven forbid we make poor people comfortable."

Personally, I WANT rich people to pay more in taxes, because after all, if this country falls because of these BAT-SHIT CRAZY people, how much will their billions be worth then?
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[First Speaker]

40. Tell me, Mike...what was it that caused Jesus to commit violence...?

...was it abortion? Homosexuality? I don't think so...if I recall rightly, it was the moneychangers in the temple. Do you even know what Christianity is?

[SammyWinstonJack]

41. Okay.

[Codeine]

42. God, that just sounds so horrible!!

Equitable distribution of wealth? Labor compensated fairly for their contribution to the economy? The well-off paying into the system that allowed them to become wealthy in the first place?

What a nightmare that would be.

[ismnotwasm]

43. Well, yes. Yes we do

[dalton99a]

44. Because rich people will STARVE and DIE if they are 0.00000000001% poorer

[davekriss]

45. Um, well, yeah

Unbelievable that he sees it as an issue.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

46. Well........yeah

And that's bad because................??????

[marlakay]

47. Sounds good to me rich people don't need

So much money.

[smirkymonkey]

49. He is such a twisted, sick f**k he can't even see what is wrong with that statement.

I so hate that pathetic, wadded up cotton-ball of a flaccid excuse of manhood. He is worthless and weak.

What a sad little obsequious, bootlicking POS. Have you ever seen anyone more feeble and feckless in your life? He makes me absolutely sick.

[krispos42]

50. Yeah, and?

[Withywindle]

51. No shit, Sherlock

How much of a sociopath do you have to be to think this is a BAD thing?