I can't believe what has become of our country.

...if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.”

― Barry Goldwater

Said in November 1994, as quoted in John Dean, Conservatives Without Conscience (2006).

This has been coming for a long time. We just didn't worry about it.

Slip off the brain. I think it was Jefferson who was writing to friends about filling the teaching jobs at the new university. One friend had this advice: whatever you do, don't hire Christians from a European university. They are the most quarrelsome people alive and will only cause trouble.

When have religious extremists not spelled trouble?

Way to go.

...and Jesus Wept.

...at least the Clinton Administration.

...by making changes. Old school conservatives want to stay in one spot and change nothing. Reagan Republicans want to make changes that benefit the wealthy and increase their wealth. Donald Trump wants to dismantle the good things that we as a society have done because it has cost the shareholders a few bucks.

their businesses.

...out of their pocket, they're against it. It doesn't matter what good it may do, they are against it.

in a lifetime. Screw the elderly, screw the young, screw servicemen/women, screw the sick, screw the poor, screw minorities - we just cannot afford them, they ain't "us".

Republicans want to tell you how to live your life. If you won’t obey, they have
no problem with letting you die.

since 2012 I've been fighting cancer, the two courses of BCG and the interim treatment have cost VA over $150,000 - just for the BCG, the five bladder surgeries and the partial removal of my colon - who knows how much. The next surgery in June will finally remove my bladder, my prostate, and some of my abdominal/groin area lymph nodes. After spending close to a half million to get me cancer free, alive and peeing normal, they're going to spend around another $100,000 to take all of what they were trying save out and I'll be peeing directly from my kidneys into a bag.

There's no doubt in my mind a privately run VA would find a way to keep an over 65 year old unproductive geezer like me from any of that treatment. I would be eating into the profits. Its always about the money - how to get and keep it away from anybody else.

We'll see how Christian any of these simpletons are when the 5% lets them go into the gutter in event of a nation crisis.

I bet we could make a ridiculous religious case for almost every disease to be tied to sin of that person or their ancestors. They may not like having their hypertension caused by hate thrown back at them, for example.

I mean, really. Used to be Doctors were required by their oath to treat people regardless of extraneous issues.

Those were racist times and those were racist organizations, too.

We're trying to move beyond that, they're trying to get back to it.

Isn't a part of this?

lawsuit that will be struck down by the courts. Does the Jackass in Chief think the court system has nothing better to do than turn down his ignorant bullshit suits every day? The best part of Donnie ended up as a brown stain on Mary Ann's sheets.

on things that don't relate to him going to jail.