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Last edited Tue Jan 8, 2019, 10:22 AM - Edit history (1)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/florida-government-shutdown-marianna.html
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)This is what fifty years of constant propaganda that is spewed 24/7 by the Republican Hate Machine has created. The Republicans sold their soul at any cost to win elections and now they have enslaved themselves to evil vicious propaganda machine they help create. This is especially true of the evangelical and fundamentalists whose religious leaders who have endorsed a basic dogma that Democrats, i.e. liberals, are evil immoral and unpatriotic libertines who are corrupting American society.
They view themselves as true Americans who are on a Christian Crusade dedicated to the destruction of anyone who opposes their self righteous views. Nothing is as dangerous than zealots because they believe that their cause is God ordained and that are justified to employ any means to crush the enemy. They are no different in their mentality than those who have joined extreme Muslim organizations who believe they are justified in the slaughter and abuse of anyone who stands in their way to glorious God inspired victory. They have absolutely no regard for the democratic and enlighten principle of the rights of the minority. This is the very concept upon which the nation was founded. The the alienable right of each and every citizen to pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness are to subjected solely to their approval. Basically they want to establish a theocracy in which they are solely the authority determine the rules of conduct.
tanyev
(42,620 posts)Grand Old Party of Sociopaths.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Evil damn bastards!
I hope their tin god Trump destroys them all!
hatrack
(59,592 posts)Wish I could recommend this a thousand times.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Wow.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)Contemptible person.
Lucky Luciano
(11,260 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)Obviously, not her ... but she would be fine if it was you or me
... what a nut junker ...
jcgoldie
(11,647 posts)Maybe he just hasn't gotten around to those people yet... where have they been the south Pacific?
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)"their" entitlements in the same way....as the same level for non-whites and democrats...They believe their skin color protects them from govt policies that should only affect non-whites and democrats.
Redstates FEED at the GOVT trough and Bluestates fill taht trough. So when the govt money stops/reduced, restates get hit the hardest.
Karma does work
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)...has led us to this situation. Two decades of hearing how Democrats, Liberals and Progressives are taking things away from them, while masking the true thieves - Repugs, big banks, Wall Street.
The Right Wing Media in general has caused more divisiveness than any other entity present today.
Ohioboy
(3,244 posts)And they don't have to give equal time to any opposing view.
RAB910
(3,511 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)they figured he was going to screw them over like every other politician, but liked him because they knew Donny was going to screw over "those other guys" even more than them. Of course, "those other guys" are not white, Christian or male.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)This woman voted for Trump because he would go after the people she doesn't like. She was willing to be downgraded as a person, voting for Trump out of contempt for those different from her. Hate and fear of the other is what motivates these people. Economic anxiety my foot.
BumRushDaShow
(129,526 posts)RAB910
(3,511 posts)Simply put they are plain evil and out of reach
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,438 posts)dogman
(6,073 posts)Zero empathy.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)from rich to poor. He always stiffs people that have worked for him or even voted for him. What an evil man!
catbyte
(34,455 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,468 posts)maxrandb
(15,359 posts)This needs to be fucking plastered all over Social Media.
and I'm sorry, but this person needs to be fucking DOXd.
Let her employer begin fielding calls of "who are the right people to hurt"
I'll just fucking bet that she's a God Damned "Christian" as well.
Deplorable was too fucking nice a word for these ass-pickles
irisblue
(33,034 posts)Her name is in the freakin' NYT. The fact that she has 2 twin children is in the NYT. The fact that her parents are disabled and she leaves close enough to help them is in the NYT. The fact that she is a secretary for the prison system is in the freakin' NYT.
You want her social security # out there? You want her mastercard/visa account # out there? Fair bet Dark Web might have it already.
Seriously why do you think she needs to be doxxed?
irisblue
(33,034 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Last edited Tue Jan 8, 2019, 11:09 AM - Edit history (1)
karin_sj
(812 posts)People who think this way are truly deplorable. Makes me sad and a bit sick to think that there are so many of them in this country.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)I know some MAGAts who actually thought he really was going after rich people and corporate fat cats.
It's like the idiots who think the Republicans for fighting for protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republicans piss all over the golden rule of Christianity: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
That's why republicans are so shameful and without honor.
kairos12
(12,873 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)(from the article) she is a secretary in a federal prison
Whom, exactly, does she want to see hurt? Seems as if she expects it actually
And should it not be plain that she has it backwards?
He is not helping anyone
Grins
(7,231 posts)So what failed her? Her "Christian" upbringing? "Abstinence" sex-ed?
What...?
MagickMuffin
(15,955 posts)and that it's a good thing for people to be hurting, but only your selective preferences.
What a keen outlook on life you got got going for you!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They just want to see their perceived enemies get punished and that is all they care about. They don't want to make the country a better place. They are filled with anger and hatred and they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are.
Oneironaut
(5,525 posts)violetpastille
(1,483 posts)Fuzzpope
(602 posts)No matter how many times I see it, core human ugliness of this depth just shocks and mortifies me, even as a lifelong cynic with a deep experience and comprehension of our social failings and potentials for awful behavior.
This is someone's wife of thirty years.
Someone's mother, who raised their children with the exact same love and devotion that you and I do.
This is someone's grandmother, whom the kids look forward to seeing every other weekend, cheering and yelling loudly as they run towards her open arms.
This woman, essentially conditioned now, and irrevocably, into a focused sadism that has no obvious cure.
There is no fixing her, or the millions of others just like her, who's minds have been utterly rent by hostile far-right aversive conditioning for decades.
Scalded Nun
(1,240 posts)DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Not in the top 1 percent then he is hurting you - exactly what he said he was going to do. Her solution, find a way into the top 1 percent. Good luck with that.
iluvtennis
(19,875 posts)reading your post here, I now understand they want non-white, no Christian folks hurt. Evil m/f's
dalton99a
(81,598 posts)Nitram
(22,890 posts)punishing liberals and socialists instead.
I don't care who she is, what her story is, or what kind of work she does/used to do. She is a sociopath who has no business dealing with human beings if she feels that way.
Aristus
(66,467 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a sick fuck! People like that should be forbidden from holding office. They are complete psychopaths.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,442 posts)GOPers in a nutshell:
Always hurt 'those people'.
Never help, except to maintain GOPer power.
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)That is a good thing.
mercuryblues
(14,541 posts)He's hurting the exact people he said he would. It's not our fault that Ms Minton didn't think she was in that one of those groups. We tried to tell her.
D23MIURG23
(2,850 posts)But as usual they are all too stupid to get it and read the writing on the wall.
The leaders are all graduates from that "America's Dumbest Criminals" program that used to run back in the '90s. They are the still sticking to their latest plan to rob the capital with bananas they painted black and eezy cheeze masks that are melting off their faces. They have a former FBI director on their asses, but they still seem to think they can get away with it.
Their followers, having shot themselves in the foot for the 11th time, are now storming around confused and angry. They are demanding to know why they are bleeding in an accusatory tone, from anyone who doesn't hide their face and walk in the opposite direction.
These people are being hurt, alright, and I'm not sorry they are.
It's just too bad we are all in the same boat together. I'm ashamed to be from the same planet as these people.