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In reply to the discussion: What Movie Quote Best Sums Up The GOP/Tea Party/House of Representatives? [View all]napkinz
(17,199 posts)72. so true!
"What you represent to them is freedom. ... Oh, yeah, that's right. That's what's it's all about, all right. But talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em."
"No it makes 'em dangerous."
The rethugs talk about freedom, but they sure don't believe in it (hence all the restrictions on freedom they keep pushing). They talk freedom ... but that's reserved for white males. Forget it if you're a woman, black or brown, gay or lesbian, poor, an immigrant, an atheist, Muslim, and on and on.
"No it makes 'em dangerous."
The rethugs talk about freedom, but they sure don't believe in it (hence all the restrictions on freedom they keep pushing). They talk freedom ... but that's reserved for white males. Forget it if you're a woman, black or brown, gay or lesbian, poor, an immigrant, an atheist, Muslim, and on and on.
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What Movie Quote Best Sums Up The GOP/Tea Party/House of Representatives? [View all]
napkinz
Sep 2013
OP
to the poor, to the middle class, to immigrants, to women, to the sick, to the hungry ...
napkinz
Sep 2013
#5
"Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine." n/t
UTUSN
Sep 2013
#15
Where'd you learn to talk like that...some Panamanian "Sailor want a hump-hump bar"
maxrandb
Sep 2013
#27
No, no. Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for *money*. It's a *job*. That didn't come out right
lumberjack_jeff
Sep 2013
#43