Why do Republicans like seeing Americans suffer and die?...

[myohmy2]

...Georgia's Republican governor is suing Atlanta's Democratic Mayor over Atlanta's mandatory mask ordinance...


https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/politics/georgia-kemp-mask-mandate/index.html


...I'm thinking it must be something in their genetic makeup...

...what do you think?

...Republicans...

[soothsayer]

1. Ignorance and wrong priorities

I think

[justhanginon]

3. Willful ignorance.

[soothsayer]

6. Yeah almost added that

I think you’re right, but Kemp seems like he’s just dumb

[Thomas Hurt]

2. People who they see as their lessers are livestock.

I have to admit this is in part human nature, but cons have baked it into their ideology and religions.

[RicROC]

4. part of our country's fixation with war.

Fruits of the spirit, so to speak. Fruit of war is disregard and callousness for life, even for our own citizens.

[lagomorph777]

5. They are either born or raised to be sadists. I suspect a genetic component.

Normal human beings are repulsed by Republican behavioral traits; the human species would have died out millennia ago if these traits were dominant in the population. However, apparently some percentage of people with these defects are either necessary for survival (e.g. to destroy competing hominid species in the early days), or tolerable (decent people are able to keep the monsters under control).

[Sherman A1]

7. No,

however, nor do they care.

[The Magistrate]

8. You Cannot Be In, Sir, Unless Someone Is Out

TERTULLIAN
What a spectacle when the world and its many products, shall be consumed in one great flame! How vast a spectacle then bursts upon the eye! What there excites my admiration? What my derision? Which sight gives me joy??As I see illustrious monarchs groaning in the lowest darkness, Philosophers as fire consumes them! Poets trembling before the judgment-seat of Christ! I shall hear the tragedians, louder-voiced in their own calamity; view play-actors in the dissolving flame; behold wrestlers, not in their gymnasia, but tossing in the fiery billows. What inquisitor or priest in his munificence will bestow on you the favor of seeing and exulting in such things as these? Yet even now we in a measure have them by faith in the picturings of imagination. [De Spectaculis, Chapter XXX]

THOMAS AQUINAS
In order that the happiness of the saints may be more delightful to them and that they may render more copious thanks to God for it, they are allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the damned. So that they may be urged the more to praise God. The saints in heaven know distinctly all that happens to the damned. [Summa Theologica, Third Part, Supplement, Question XCIV, "Of the Relations of the Saints Towards the Damned," First Article, "Whether the Blessed in Heaven Will See the Sufferings of the Damned?"]

JONATHAN EDWARDS
The sight of hell torments will exalt the happiness of the saints forever. Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? I tell you, yea! Such will be his sense of justice that it will increase rather than diminish his bliss. ["The Eternity of Hell Torments" (Sermon), April 1739 & Discourses on Various Important Subjects, 1738]

They shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment shall ascend up forever and ever. Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
- Revelation 14 -11; 18:20, 19:3

[Galileo126]

9. They married their religion with their politics...

and have become a DEATH CULT!

that is all...

[JustBidenOurTime]

10. Considering the shenanigans that left Stacey Abrams on the sidelines, I'd suggest

perhaps Kemp may be as compromised as the rest of the repubs who took mob money and is merely following orders at this point. After all, dead Democrats can't vote, despite right wingnuts' propaganda that they do.

[Mike 03]

11. I hate to be so cynical, but some of these governors, I suspect, appreciate

when citizens die because they think of citizens in terms of what they cost the state. They see social security checks, medicaid payments, food stamps and pensions, jail cell space, reduced crowding in prisons, the homeless problem. Especially when members of marginalized communities perish.

[mitch96]

12. I believe it's b/c they know most of the people dying are black, brown and poor people...

And in their mind these people mostly vote Dem.... So it's just another method of voter suppression. How fast would there be additional quarantine and face masks if it only hit Republican voters..
YMMV...... just my thoughts
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[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. Psychopaths have no empathy and are concerned only with personal gain.

Psychiatrists tell us somewhere around five to ten percent of all populations are psychopaths to some degree and the GOP and other global right-wing political groups seem to gather up all of them.

They're also typically charismatic and con men/women, so their ability to brainwash the public comes naturally.


KY......

[dlk]

14. Trump isn't the only sadist...

[pwb]

15. Whites dying at a lower rate?

So there is that.

[Hugin]

16. They've been trained and conditioned to hate other Americans more than anyone else...

in the World.

Sad fact.

[ooky]

17. Georgia's governor is a criminal, like Trump. He has no regard for anyone

except himself. He is playing to the Trump base which is also his base.

[crickets]

18. Keep in mind:

Link to tweet

Hours before it was set to expire @GovKemp extends #Georgia's #COVID19 protections and requirements. But on page 32 he also added in a provision prohibiting local governments from requiring #masks.

Link to tweet

The move comes a week and half after @GovKemp went on a tour of #Georgia with @Surgeon_General promoting #WearAMask

Trump shows up in GA on July 15th and suddenly Kemp does an about face on masks.

[Talitha]

19. Republicans have residual Neanderthal DNA.

[Jamastiene]

20. They get off on the most violent stuff imaginable anyhow.

They haven't met a war they didn't love. They haven't met a plague or hate crime or mass shooting they didn't love. They love all the most violent stuff. It is a pattern with them. I don't know if it is genetic or not, but I have noticed they haven't seen any violence that they don't like. I cannot help but notice that.

[Windy City Charlie]

21. They've always been that way

Republicans have always been against helping others. They've always had the attitude of, "I got mine. Screw everyone else."

[area51]

22. It's been going on a long time,

witness how we have no right to healthcare in this country, and republinazis have been getting off massively to the deaths.

[hurl]

23. Because it outrages us

They thrive on liberal outrage.

[brush]

24. Repugs are the d_ckheads, a-holes, bullies and their lickspittle sycophants from high school.

They're grown-ups now.

[Aristus]

25. They see it as revenge for their imagined grievances.

They are their own worst enemies, but they are too stupid to comprehend that, and too lazy and ineffectual to do anything substantive to change it.

[moondust]

26. Raised on some combination of

hate, racism, greed, selfishness, contempt for the "common good," toxic masculinity, self-righteousness, neo-Confederate resentment, etc. And as Mary Trump points out, admitting you made a mistake was a show of weakness that got you the equivalent of the death penalty.

Sociopaths and psychopaths.

[hvn_nbr_2]

27. It's how they pay obeisance to Putin. nt