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(12,608 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Dump is raising taxes and adding to the deficit!
To paraphrase the cinema classic, Animal House, He cant do that with our taxes! Only WE can do that with our taxes!
maxsolomon
(33,432 posts)By performing Abortions.
THAT is what Conservatives blame Dems for. I read it on FB just yesterday.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Must be true, Carly Fiorina said she saw it.
ClarendonDem
(720 posts)Sexual assault is clearly ok, or Trump wouldn't be president. And now it appears that assaulting teenagers is also ok. So, maybe Trump was right when he said he could shoot someone and the deplorables would still vote for him.
NanceGreggs
(27,820 posts)... is wearing a tan suit at a press conference.
Given the outrage of the GOP when Obama did so, that seems to be the only sin that even they can't forgive.
ClarendonDem
(720 posts)But not necessarily traditional conservatives, draw the line at homosexuals. For some reason, Trump supporters are obsessed with what consenting adults (as opposed to the women Trump and Moore assaulted) do in their own bedroom and with whom.
herding cats
(19,568 posts)They draw the line at anyone not male and heterosexual enjoying a heathy sex life. That's the basis for their opposition to abortion and birth control, as well as same sex couples and transgender people.
I can't explain their obsessions, but it's real even if it makes zero logical sense. It's all based in some ancient biblical beliefs they subscribe to that anyone not like them is evil and going to hell, I think?
qwlauren35
(6,150 posts)Somewhere I read that Trump won the primaries because he had the biggest penis and the prettiest wife.
Once you're able to say what people want to hear, what you do doesn't matter. In fact, when you're rich and white, it has never mattered. (OK, Weinstein, but the exception - not the rule.)
There are a lot of Americans who hate Democrats. Not sure how or why, I guess we'd have to ask them. But it's very real. You can call these people racists, sexists, homophobes, xenophobes, whatever you want. But if they are THE MAJORITY, then that's what really matters.
There are white people who feel that they are under attack. Who feel they have to parade around with signs saying that "White Lives Matter". I would not be surprised if 80-90% of them hate Democrats. We are the diversity party. And it's not popular.
So, what disqualifies a candidate in the eyes of a lot of folks in Alabama is being a Democrat. Doug Jones is not only a Democrat, he's shown himself to be a champion of justice for African-Americans. I'm convinced that unless the African-American community in Alabama is pulled out of the woodwork to the voting booth, Roy Moore with be the next Alabama Senator.
Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)But then we already knew that.
What's a little sexual predation of your daughter when you could get a tax decrease for being something you'll never be - wealthy.
It's not just their daughters for sale.
Irish_Dem
(47,518 posts)Clean food, air, water.
Education, healthcare.
Honest government.
Guess we are doing the devil's work.
Igel
(35,374 posts)"The worst of us is better than the best of them"?
Take it seriously as a premise--and many do, just not a huge percentage--and that's precisely where the logic leads you.
Reject it as a premise, and you're left with "Some, perhaps many, of them are better than the worst of us." That's betrayal to the group.
herding cats
(19,568 posts)They follow their leaders mantra no matter how morally wrong and offensive it might be. It's all about the movement and supporting that at any cost.
pstokely
(10,531 posts)if he loses, it will be only by a few digits, isn't fundie christianity really just a cult anyway?
herding cats
(19,568 posts)I'm just thinking this is an extra confirmation of my previous assumptions.