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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
Thu May 4, 2017, 02:59 PM May 2017

Really, what is the appeal of Republican assholism?

Other than money and bragging rights about how big of a dick the entire Republican Party is, what do these motherfuckers get out of this bullshit?

They must KNOW that they're being dicks and that they're going to cause irreparable harm to the people that they supposedly answer to. So, why do they do shit like this?

Yes, they're incompetent and ill-tempered and pretty fucking stupid, but something like voting to kick 24 million people off of their healthcare is tantamount to pure fucking evil. Yes, they're absolutely being evil now.

And it's not just this vote. The entire party from local government on up have lost all of their god-damned minds. The ridiculous laws and ordinances that GOPr controlled city councils and state legislatures are mind-boggling stupid, racist sexist and harm-inducing.

This country is heading to the worst shape that it could be in in over a century. We're regressing at a rocket's pace.

Yes, there's resistance, but it's still happening. Until it's stopped, America is going to be in a world of hurt for the next generation... Thank's to the evil machinations of the god-damned Republican Party.

Fuck ALL of those assholes and, of course, FDT.

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Really, what is the appeal of Republican assholism? (Original Post) MrScorpio May 2017 OP
Other than the tax cut for the very rich Freddie May 2017 #1
you can be proud that your untreated heart condition is paying for a trust fund baby's 7th bentley. unblock May 2017 #4
foxnews. mindless propaganda. they've reduced it all to us vs. them. unblock May 2017 #2
Probably Alice11111 May 2017 #3
That's it in a nutshell. PA Democrat May 2017 #13
Shit attracts maggots amuse bouche May 2017 #5
I'm sure you've seen this Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2017 #6
Yes, I have. MrScorpio May 2017 #8
+1000 smirkymonkey May 2017 #7
Hatred of 'the OTHER' du jour! angstlessk May 2017 #9
Screwing the "Libtards" get the red out May 2017 #10
"I got a gun and I don't gotta respect nobody who isn't just like ME" n/t CousinIT May 2017 #11
mind-boggling stupid, racist sexist and harm-inducing you got it right there Thats how they like it lunasun May 2017 #12
How are they going to go home and justify their vote? Freddie May 2017 #14
Part of it is the Need to Prove that their way is the RIGHT way by professing all others to be WRONG MedusaX May 2017 #15
It's like they're in a cult. Initech May 2017 #16
Bullying rock May 2017 #17
Sticking it to minorities, legally. Starry Messenger May 2017 #18

Freddie

(9,265 posts)
1. Other than the tax cut for the very rich
Thu May 4, 2017, 03:05 PM
May 2017

For the rest of us (repugs included) what GOOD will this bill do?

unblock

(52,233 posts)
4. you can be proud that your untreated heart condition is paying for a trust fund baby's 7th bentley.
Thu May 4, 2017, 03:07 PM
May 2017

unblock

(52,233 posts)
2. foxnews. mindless propaganda. they've reduced it all to us vs. them.
Thu May 4, 2017, 03:05 PM
May 2017

it's only completely idiotic if you care about silly things like "facts".

if their constituents have it rougher because they can't get health care, well, they'll figure out a way to blame that on hillary's email server.

and after 24 hours of harping on it on foxnews, their constituents will believe it, get even angrier, and vote for them all the more.

PA Democrat

(13,225 posts)
13. That's it in a nutshell.
Thu May 4, 2017, 03:19 PM
May 2017

Fox plants the seeds of outrage that someone else is getting more than what they deserve out of the government. I have seen this phenomenon change people who were pretty much nonpolitical into conservative jerks always complaining about the latest contrived "injustice" that Fox has spoonfed them.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
7. +1000
Thu May 4, 2017, 03:09 PM
May 2017


I'm so fucking angry right now I could spit nails. How can these evil bastards live with themselves?

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
9. Hatred of 'the OTHER' du jour!
Thu May 4, 2017, 03:14 PM
May 2017

Went from blacks to irish, to italians, now middle easterners...with a bit of misogyny thrown about!

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
12. mind-boggling stupid, racist sexist and harm-inducing you got it right there Thats how they like it
Thu May 4, 2017, 03:18 PM
May 2017

Tribal territorial greedy bitter types not looking to get along , or work for the good of all . It is a whole different mentality.

Freddie

(9,265 posts)
14. How are they going to go home and justify their vote?
Thu May 4, 2017, 03:19 PM
May 2017

There's NOTHING in the bill for the average person. Tax cuts for the rich and a big F U to us libtards. I really can't wait to hear their reasons why.

MedusaX

(1,129 posts)
15. Part of it is the Need to Prove that their way is the RIGHT way by professing all others to be WRONG
Thu May 4, 2017, 03:51 PM
May 2017

It is the

Win - Lose
Us - Them
Black - White
All - None

Mindset that prohibits their ability to fathom that there is more than one RIGHT way/answer ....

Because then how can they really be sure their way is right unless everyone elses's way/answer is definitively Wrong....

That's why they feel compelled to FORCE others to abide by their ways & beliefs ....
because theirs is the only right way and
the more people they can convince or force to join them reinforces their confidence that they truly are RIGHT to feel/believe/behave the way they do.

So they target those who lack the self confidence to resist peer scrutiny...
and offer them the opportunity to become part of the RIGHT group and receive the acceptance and approval of those who share the RIGHT values & beliefs

And demonize those who do have the confidence to stand firm in their beliefs despite peer scrutiny.

Initech

(100,076 posts)
16. It's like they're in a cult.
Thu May 4, 2017, 03:56 PM
May 2017

They've been brainwashed by AM hate radio and Fox News, and the clergy into hating anything to remotely do with being a liberal. They don't know why they hate liberals, even though they agree with our policies, they just hate liberals.

I say they're like the Joker from the Dark Knight. They just do things because they know it pushes our buttons. I'm not a psychiatrist by any means, but I would love to examine the brain of a deplorable to find out what makes them so hateful. Remember - the way to defeat the enemy is to know the enemy.

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