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Nevilledog

(55,075 posts)
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 11:46 PM Aug 2021

Laura Ingraham: "What if we just cut off the unemployment? Hunger is a pretty powerful thing."



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Laura Ingraham: "What if we just cut off the unemployment? Hunger is a pretty powerful thing."

Bar Rescue guy: "They only feed a military dog at night, because a hungry dog is an obedient dog. Well, if we are not causing people to be hungry to work..."


8:05 PM · Aug 12, 2021




These people are monsters.
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Laura Ingraham: "What if we just cut off the unemployment? Hunger is a pretty powerful thing." (Original Post) Nevilledog Aug 2021 OP
Then the hungry should start by eating right wing... Enter stage left Aug 2021 #1
Great argument! Let's tax billionaires at 99% so they get hungry and work harder! unblock Aug 2021 #2
To be fair, she says not literal hunger. I think she means ambition. Wingus Dingus Aug 2021 #3
To be fair? Silent3 Aug 2021 #5
She's awful, but that's what's in the video. Wingus Dingus Aug 2021 #7
Agreed. Our arguments aren't made more credible by inaccuracies. Dial H For Hero Aug 2021 #11
Not about ambition. GoodRaisin Aug 2021 #22
I think she means literal hunger. yardwork Aug 2021 #26
You train dogs by giving them food not depriving them of it Walleye Aug 2021 #4
Spot on canetoad Aug 2021 #15
AWWWW SO CUTE!!! bedazzled Aug 2021 #33
I want back qazplm135 Aug 2021 #6
They're just asking for it. keep_left Aug 2021 #8
If only. smirkymonkey Aug 2021 #17
Amen! n/t Delphinus Aug 2021 #28
Two of the more dispicaple "people" on the planet. marble falls Aug 2021 #9
How about we shut down Fox Screws and starve that beast along with their flying monkeys.nt chowder66 Aug 2021 #10
How? Dial H For Hero Aug 2021 #12
It's angry rhetoric in response to the insanity they spew. nt chowder66 Aug 2021 #13
Fair enough. Dial H For Hero Aug 2021 #14
She should go first kimbutgar Aug 2021 #16
When the nazis began to clear canetoad Aug 2021 #18
What a disgusting psychopath! smirkymonkey Aug 2021 #19
Now it's only 45 minutes until I eat my mayonnaise sandwich.... raging moderate Aug 2021 #20
Shakespeare gave a warning they should heed... flotsam2 Aug 2021 #21
oh no.. bar rescue guy is a maga nut. Demovictory9 Aug 2021 #23
Me too. I'm really disappointed. But I should have known: he's rich. Solomon Aug 2021 #29
He did a pro vax psa recently so i thought he was progressives Demovictory9 Aug 2021 #31
update... Taffer is apologizing Demovictory9 Aug 2021 #32
Yes, let's make millions of people hungry. Oneironaut Aug 2021 #24
Laura should google the French Revolution. yardwork Aug 2021 #25
It's their viewers that benefit the most from these benefits Thrill Aug 2021 #27
Has this woman ever studied history? Reader Rabbit Aug 2021 #30

Enter stage left

(4,552 posts)
1. Then the hungry should start by eating right wing...
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 11:50 PM
Aug 2021

radio hosts, and then move to eating the rich.

unblock

(56,193 posts)
2. Great argument! Let's tax billionaires at 99% so they get hungry and work harder!
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 11:54 PM
Aug 2021

These people are not stupid, they're lying.

Rich people must be compensated more and more to give them incentives to work hard, poor people must be made to suffer to work hard.


 

Silent3

(15,909 posts)
5. To be fair?
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 11:58 PM
Aug 2021

Fairness is wasted on Laura Ingraham and her ilk. I didn't hear her say this "not literal hunger" disclaimer, but I doubt she didn't want the double meaning and a dog whistle to the monsters she courts who really do want people to go hungry.

GoodRaisin

(10,899 posts)
22. Not about ambition.
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 12:38 AM
Aug 2021

She doesn't mean ambition. She literally means she doesn't want to pay people unemployment benefits and she wants her audience to be mad about paying them. Mad, at Democrats. That's the entire objective of this segment. It's more of the same kind of Republican spew that falls from her mouth every night for one straight hour and falls from this network 24/7.

qazplm135

(7,654 posts)
6. I want back
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 12:00 AM
Aug 2021

the two minutes spent listening to that nonsense. Not mad at you, just at the idiocy I just watched.

keep_left

(3,209 posts)
8. They're just asking for it.
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 12:02 AM
Aug 2021

They keep this up, and they're going to find themselves on the bad end of another Bastille Day.

chowder66

(12,228 posts)
10. How about we shut down Fox Screws and starve that beast along with their flying monkeys.nt
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 12:07 AM
Aug 2021

kimbutgar

(27,238 posts)
16. She should go first
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 12:15 AM
Aug 2021

Try walking in the shoes for a week of an unemployed hungry American then make that statement with a straight face.

She is a POS!!!

canetoad

(20,758 posts)
18. When the nazis began to clear
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 12:23 AM
Aug 2021

The Lublin Ghetto, they offered loaves of bread to entice residents to be 'relocated'. Hungry people saw the trains as a life saving escape; the nazis made it such an attractive proposition that people were willing to pay their train fares .....

raging moderate

(4,624 posts)
20. Now it's only 45 minutes until I eat my mayonnaise sandwich....
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 12:31 AM
Aug 2021

Now it's only 40 minutes until I eat my mayonnaise sandwich.... Now it's only 35 minutes until I eat my mayonnaise sandwich..... Now it's only 30 minutes until l eat my mayonnaise sandwich.... Now it's only 25 minutes until I eat my mayonnaise sandwich....
Now it's only 20 minutes until I eat my mayonnaise sandwich.... Now it's only 15 minutes until I eat my mayonnaise sandwich....
Now it's only 10 minutes until I eat my mayonnaise sandwich.... Now it's only 5 minutes until l eat my mayonnaise sandwich....

(Me, in Third grade math class)

Teachers, always find out which students are hungry!
Employers, understand that hunger is not a good state for your employees!

Thrill

(19,342 posts)
27. It's their viewers that benefit the most from these benefits
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 09:03 AM
Aug 2021

And they’re too stupid to realize, the people like Laura they love so much, don’t want them to have it

Reader Rabbit

(2,758 posts)
30. Has this woman ever studied history?
Fri Aug 13, 2021, 10:06 AM
Aug 2021

Who did she think was manning the guillotines during the French Revolutions? She's right that hunger is a motivator, though—just not in the way she thinks.

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