Joe Nation
Joe Nation's JournalThe real cost of electing Republicans - Your children
The dynamic of the gun manufacturing lobby pushing more and more lenient gun access laws across the country as well as a core group of Right wing Second Amendment fanatics threatening any Republican with loss of their legislative position if they promote any commonsense gun legislation, boils down to Republicans trading our children's lives for their coveted government jobs.
So, what exactly is the ratio of Republican legislators to dead children over time? How many children does it cost to keep each Republican comfy cozy in their lucrative taxpayer job?
The only thing these Republicans worry about is the loss of their jobs. They aren't even pretending to care about kids gunned down in classrooms anymore. They simply go silent until the next shooting and quietly pass more and more lenient gun laws in between mass shootings. Rinse and repeat.
The cost of electing any Republican is just too high. No child deserves to die so some fraternity boy can live up to daddy's expectations. If they are willing to use our children to further their own political careers, why do we even need them? The Republican Party has to wither and die if our children are to live in a world free of school mass shootings.
ELECT DEMOCRATS - SAVE CHILDREN.
Defund Federal Law Enforcement
Says Trump.
Now wait a minute. A couple of protesters wanted to defund the police because the police were openly killing citizens and the Right wingers went nuts. I mean, you never saw any major democrats support this idea but it was definitely said by some of the protesters in the wake of multiple police abuses. I get the passion but not the solution.
Now we have Trump calling for defending Federal Law Enforcement because he has been charged personally. Is the Right going to go nuts again?
The two motives are pretty stark. One is concern for the safety of citizens on the streets that may be pulled over for a broken tail light and end up dead while the other is simply Trump concerned for himself.
This is why I find the Right such a collection of hypocrites. It's pretty straight forward.
Has the media learned nothing since 2016????
I have held a grudge against the majority of the media outlets for both spending way too much time covering Trump during the 2016 election and allowing him to ridicule the media in general all the while letting Fox kiss his ass. The rest of the media hasn't given up on this dynamic and we might just see it all again in 2024. I'm sick of it.
The crazier Trump gets, the more free coverage he gets. The more free coverage he gets, the more people tune into his message. The more people tune into his message, the more people end up voting for him.
Trump is like a drug to these media outlets. They all want to be the first to report that he made a racial, misogynist, hateful, statement about whoever and the media eats it up. All the while, Trump is openly condemning them as the enemy of the people. This game only works if you participate.
Here's an idea... STOP FUCKING COVERING THIS ASSHOLE THAT IS BOTH USING YOUR NEWS OUTLET AS FREE ADVERTISING AND CONDEMNING YOU AS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!
It's that simple. Stop hiding behind the silly idea that all news is worth reporting.
"Woke" is when a conservative realizes that everything they have been taught is BS
That's why you never see woke conservatives and why they see the term as an insult to label others with.
Not all police are bad, but all police need oversight and accountability
We have a policing problem in this country. We have a policing system that investigates itself, is accountable to itself, and disciplines itself. When hasn't that been a recipe for corruption in any organization?
Only since the proliferation of cell phones and body cameras has the problem with these public servants been so front and center. Any young black person will tell you that this is nothing new. It just has more visibility now that we have cameras everywhere.
If there are legions of good cops serving today and only a few bad apples, why aren't the vast majority of these good cops turning their fellow cops in for corruption? If you turn your head in the face of corruption, aren't you also corrupt?
Don't even get me started about qualified immunity for police. Ultimately, if a cop is found to have committed some kind of corrupt act, and they are held responsible in civil court, the taxpayers end up footing the bill and that has to end.
Show me the downside for a corrupt cop here. How are they ever held accountable?
Have you ever had an occasion where you called the cops and they showed up and caught the thief, or found a stolen item, or solved a crime? Did they even try or was it a waste of time?
Are the 20 or so GOP radical extremist holdouts really working on a Constitutional crisis?
No matter how many concessions McCarthy makes to these radicals, they keep voting against him. I think their goal is to shut down the government. I also think the vast majority of the Reich wing is supportive of this tactic and are willing to watch the House burn. What do you think?
Are we looking at next Constitutional crisis that would force the McCarthy faction to negotiate with the Democrats? This could get interesting.
IL-45 House race undecided and voting process being challenged by GOP Candidate
So, what else is new eh? This hits a little close to home because her challenger is my sister-in-law. The incumbent, Deanne Mazzochi, is losing by over 200 votes in a close race. This GOP worm is sending people door-to-door, particularly Democrats homes, asking people to sign something invalidating their votes due to fraud, errors, or any excuse to get them to sign.
These are types of politicians we must run out of office.
Now that the midterms are over, mostly, time to bring the hammer down on Trump
Come on Democrats and the DOJ! This is the time to lean into prosecuting the hell out of the Mar-a-Lago Mafia Don. How much more evidence do we need? Bring the damn pain into his pathetic life and put his orange ass in jail. The longer he is free to spew hatred, lies, and division, the more difficult it is to bring this country back from the edge of fascism.
We have two years to pound his crimes into the heads of the electorate. I believe that seeing him in a court of law will go a long way to tarnishing his shine with the MAGA crowd. Mainstream Republicans seem willing to stand on the sidelines after their midterm defeat and let the Democrats do their work for them. And after all, we certainly know how well the Republicans stand on the sidelines.
Did you notice that while everyone is dumping Kanye West for his antisemitism, The MAGAs are silent.
That tells you everything you need to know about the MAGGOTS. Silence tells you exactly what they are all about. It wasn't like his statement was ambiguous or vague, he pretty much when there and then doubled down. I know this man has mental health issues, but it is astounding that he fits in so well with the other MAGGOTS. Astounding or simply telling?
Let's talk about student loan forgiveness
The reality is that the money the government lent to students has already been spent. We're not spending new money here. The bulk of the money that was lent to students has been and will be paid back with interest. We're not talking about canceling a huge portion of people's student loan debt here, we're talking about 10,000 dollars when many students have loans of 40,000 dollars and up. If you consider that the money was already spent, the majority of the loan amounts will be paid back to the government with interest, this isn't nearly the kind of revenue drainage Republicans have handed out to the wealthiest corporations every single time they gain power.
The adding to inflation argument is also a red herring. If I owe 50,000 dollars or more and suddenly, I don't have to pay back 10,000 dollars of that debt, I don't go out and blow 10,000 dollars because in the short term, my bills are basically the same. In the long run, I will be debt free sooner but that doesn't change my day-to-day expenses now.
I think Republicans have made a lot of bogus arguments that simply don't hold water and I don't see anyone on the other side making these very sound arguments in response.
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