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Let's Just All Acknowledge That Cruelty & Death Is the GOP Brand
Let's Just All Acknowledge That Cruelty & Death Is the GOP BrandRepublicans simply dont believe that protecting the people of America is a legitimate function of government & theyre strengthened in that belief by far-right billionaires money showered on them
Thom Hartmann
20 min ago
Editorials in Americas major newspapers are shocked shocked, I tell you! that DeSantis and Abbott would exploit asylum-seekers to rack up votes from their racist base.
Whatever happened to government being the power that helped people, they want to know?
But it was entirely predictable. Even, recently, by actual medical scientists.
The Lancet is arguably the most respected medical journal in the world. Founded in London in 1823, its reputation is impeccable and it only publishes science thats peer-reviewed and scientifically sound.
Which is why their indictment of the four years of Republican rule under Trump, McConnell, and McCarthy and the ongoing racism Republicans are today stoking is particularly worthy of our attention. .............(more)
https://hartmannreport.com/p/lets-just-all-acknowledge-that-cruelty
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Let's Just All Acknowledge That Cruelty & Death Is the GOP Brand (Original Post)
marmar
Sep 2022
OP
Conservatism is about the care and maintenance of individual power, so yeah.
Thomas Hurt
Sep 2022
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)1. Conservatism is about the care and maintenance of individual power, so yeah.
Timeflyer
(1,993 posts)2. Good, true post--too discouraged, living in DeathSatan's FL, to comment.
yankee87
(2,168 posts)3. Only Christi-fascists
According to the Qpublican party, only white,Christi-fascist, white land owning men should be in charge and be able to vote. Everyone else is here to serve them.