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Pic Of The Moment: Another Great Week For Republican Values (Original Post) EarlG Mar 2016 OP
I think there aren't as many who either notice or care 2naSalit Mar 2016 #1
People don't seem to care about how utterly insane the Loki Mar 2016 #2
It was a three-for-Tuesday underpants Mar 2016 #3
The Seventh Day... KansDem Mar 2016 #4
Meanwhile ... salinsky Mar 2016 #5
That's great! wordpix Mar 2016 #21
And here we are Saviolo Mar 2016 #6
Well....that is indeed about the most sane thing I've heard in a long time. SoapBox Mar 2016 #9
I'm always reminded of this old Tom The Dancing Bug comic: Saviolo Mar 2016 #11
That is great. nt awoke_in_2003 Mar 2016 #18
I thought about watching elljay Mar 2016 #13
Yeah, there's no way Saviolo Mar 2016 #14
I'll try TYT next time elljay Mar 2016 #15
NH had a rather strong showing for such a small state! MADem Mar 2016 #7
Crazy enough that people actually might vote for them liberal N proud Mar 2016 #8
K&R! stonecutter357 Mar 2016 #10
considering Hillary PatrynXX Mar 2016 #12
Don't know that I agree with that mdbl Mar 2016 #40
This goes back a long time Chelsea2032 Mar 2016 #16
"Creationist who thinks Obama was a gay prostitute poised to join Texas Board of Education " jtuck004 Mar 2016 #17
One thing the GOP gets better than the DNC awoke_in_2003 Mar 2016 #19
We used to, and I'm starting to see it again here and there, but not nearly enough. jtuck004 Mar 2016 #29
In all fairness to Trump, pretty boy Marco was interested in his penis keithbvadu2 Mar 2016 #20
A gay joke? Saviolo Mar 2016 #25
If it makes you happy to think so, go ahead. keithbvadu2 Mar 2016 #33
datalounge has been making these jokes for months now redruddyred Mar 2016 #38
Hypocrisy thy name is GOP. 47of74 Mar 2016 #22
Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark? That's so stupid. whopis01 Mar 2016 #23
Nope, not getting on the ark had nothing to do with it. longship Mar 2016 #37
I never thought I'd see the day... Hong Kong Cavalier Mar 2016 #24
But.... but.... family values and such. Fuck it, I tried. Initech Mar 2016 #26
K&R DesertRat Mar 2016 #27
Hopefully houston16revival Mar 2016 #28
Vote Republican! ... Jopin Klobe Mar 2016 #30
Circling the drain... Fritz Walter Mar 2016 #31
Everytime you say the "T" word GoldenMean Mar 2016 #32
... ailsagirl Mar 2016 #34
Poor Little Donald Was Misunderstood Again. Wolf Frankula Mar 2016 #35
And the GOP base LOVES THEM. PatrickforO Mar 2016 #36
Make America Stupid VoteOrDie Mar 2016 #39
Health Care for everyone ; The need is too big to fail... polynomial Mar 2016 #41
I'm for some reason thinking of a George Carlin skit with regards to the first racist in the picture rockfordfile Mar 2016 #42

Loki

(3,825 posts)
2. People don't seem to care about how utterly insane the
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 11:50 AM
Mar 2016

Republican Party has become. It's more dangerous to be on this board while we tear each other apart.

Saviolo

(3,282 posts)
6. And here we are
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 12:47 PM
Mar 2016

While we're arguing between "BernieBros" and "Camp Weathervane," the GOP is descending into open madness, and people are -still out voting for them-.

I followed TYT's coverage of the GOP debate last night, and between gritting my teeth every time Rubio spoke, the massive headache every time Trump spoke, and my skin crawling every time Cruz spoke, I felt like I was sick with the flu.

Don't let a candidate's -supporters- deter you. There is far too much at stake this election. The field on the right is absolutely insane. There's not a level head among them.

Build your candidate up without tearing the other down. If we all decided -right now- that we wanted to change the discourse, it would change.

#VoteBlueNoMatterWho

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
9. Well....that is indeed about the most sane thing I've heard in a long time.
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 12:54 PM
Mar 2016

Good job!

So last night...I'm on a wide body aircraft during the "Scrum" of a debate...I walked around multiple times and could hardly believe that half to three quarters of the people, we're watching that steaming pile of crap.

THAT is scary because I didn't feel that it was being watched for amusement but that people are going to vote for one of those loons.

Terrifying.

elljay

(1,178 posts)
13. I thought about watching
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 01:16 PM
Mar 2016

But decided that it was not worth risking an aneurysm (probably the first time one of those clowns opened his mouth). I just can't handle listening to this crap anymore and realizing that so many actually support these fools. Decided to watch the Gold State- OKC game instead and keep what's left of my sanity.

Saviolo

(3,282 posts)
14. Yeah, there's no way
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 01:21 PM
Mar 2016

I could watch it uncurated. Cenk, Ana, and John are great, I love watching them tear the debate down while it's happening. I sort of wish they'd have Ben on instead of Jimmy, but it's a good panel.

They voice all of the same frustrations I have at the same time as I'm thinking them.

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
12. considering Hillary
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 12:58 PM
Mar 2016

if she was running for Republicans everyone would be making light of Bill's for sure ties to White Supremacy, back when nobody bothered the Confederate fans . there is a piece out there a Jewish relative shared that connects several things about that. heck if social media was around in 1992 I don't think Clinton would have got from underdog to overdog

mdbl

(4,973 posts)
40. Don't know that I agree with that
Sun Mar 6, 2016, 06:20 AM
Mar 2016

Look what's running congress and how they have treated the President.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
17. "Creationist who thinks Obama was a gay prostitute poised to join Texas Board of Education "
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 02:05 PM
Mar 2016

She has a lot of company throughout Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, a great position from which to poison tens of thousands of children's minds with the beginnings of state-taught hatred.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
19. One thing the GOP gets better than the DNC
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 02:20 PM
Mar 2016

They know you have to work from the bottom up. Start at the school board and work up the ladder. They've got these cretins at every level of government now.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
29. We used to, and I'm starting to see it again here and there, but not nearly enough.
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 05:02 PM
Mar 2016

The opponents started doing this again in earnest over a decade ago, going after power from the bottom up. They trained people, had them run - many times unopposed - and began to groom more.

There was an awful lot of training and consciousness-raising in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s, then as the gov started removing opportunity, and the war ended, and we were attacked by, I mean elected Reagan, and it seems to have fallen out of favor today.

Is too bad, 'cause a little training sure goes a long way in taking back power. Without it you can spend a lot of effort, even get people hurt, yet net nothin' for all that.

On the other hand, if you have power, the last thing you want is for people to figure out how to share it with you.

whopis01

(3,511 posts)
23. Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark? That's so stupid.
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 03:01 PM
Mar 2016

Everyone knows that dinosaurs went extinct because they didn't make it onto the ark in time.

houston16revival

(953 posts)
28. Hopefully
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 04:56 PM
Mar 2016

These clown car charlatan tactics will absorb political energy and dissipate it

I don't see how grown adults, en masse, can enter the election booth with
these criteria in mind

Democrats have to be on the page and on message

There are real issues that affect voters

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
31. Circling the drain...
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 05:59 PM
Mar 2016

...so fast that -- if we could attach the entire GOP to hydroelectric turbines -- we could eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels.

Wolf Frankula

(3,600 posts)
35. Poor Little Donald Was Misunderstood Again.
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 03:37 AM
Mar 2016

He didn't say he had the biggest prick in the debate. He said he WAS the biggest prick in the debate. I don't think anybody will argue with that.

Wolf

polynomial

(750 posts)
41. Health Care for everyone ; The need is too big to fail...
Sun Mar 6, 2016, 01:34 PM
Mar 2016

Seeing the short news clips and EarlG’s insights and graphics to illustrate the current Republican dissonance has a new historical twist.

Given that perspective “Too big to fail” now is more than a reasonable argument.

For big banks that screw up using the Gaussian derivative that the average person on the street does not know, is what is, is.

Considering a decade long and more effort by Hillary and Bernie to promote Health Care; while Trump conducts the flux of bankruptcy is the argument the neocon media left out.

The Gaussian is the core factor in any MBA college curriculum, that if abused can develop the genre of corporate fascism besides the oops’ in derivative high frequency trading, Bloomberg knows so well.

So the MBA can screw up then get the hell out and bailout, yet “John Doe” average citizen who always paid taxes is holding the bag convinced by the new neocon-media financial terror system, told to pay more.

Yes, the media is the key player… the ransom is more commercial revenue money, with the upswing in big secret lock boxes to hide the cash.

Yet matching that slogan if used for the Health Care goal “Too Big To Fail” for the Democratic platform changed to “The need is too big to fail ” in their own words showing Universal HealthCare for everyone is more important than saving a bank CEO is a difficult argument for the Republicans, or anyone.

Considering twenty plus years of Republican obstruction without leadership to deliver an ultimate change to Universal Health Care for everyone is from my view not only a lost battle by a noisy media, but the ultimate occlusion in the Republican so called Conservative policies.

These Republicans being Conservative is a lie, a Trump lie; Health Care means a wholesome, Healthy America that lives on.

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