th<\/sup> 2025<\/i><\/p>\nEvery one in a while some right winger gets up on its hind legs and tries to pretend it can think.<\/p>\n
Almost always it\u2019s a cut-and-paste job from some flak at the Heritage Foundation or similar propaganda pit, as this one is. This one has all the elements one might expect: punching down while howling \u2018victimhood,\u2019 combined with ludicrous rationales, scapegoating, and flat-out lies. Propaganda 101. Let\u2019s look at this week\u2019s crop, shall we?<\/p>\n
1. Accept the fact that this is the leadership that we working, middle class Americans wanted. We are pulling the economic weight in this country and we are tired of pulling the weight of those that do not contribute.<\/i><\/p>\n
Chances that the author of this piece is anywhere near middle-class are pretty slim. But like all libertarians, he conflates society with a business. Businesses can be efficiently heartless and throw their unproductive elderly and infirm off on an ice floe to die. But societies don\u2019t work that way. Societies take care of the elderly, children, the chronically ill and the otherwise disabled. We aren\u2019t Nazis. The Nazis were very efficient. But you wouldn\u2019t want to live and die under them.<\/p>\n
2. If you haven’t already, get a job. Every business in the country is hiring. And you get paid for the work you do. And the harder you work and the more you learn, the faster you will advance and the more you will earn. It’s an amazing concept.<\/i><\/p>\n
Unemployment is at 4%. That means nearly everyone who can work is, and there aren\u2019t many jobs to be had. I know they are talking about work requirements for Medicaid recipients, but the fact is that 65% of them ARE working, and the rest can\u2019t. The \u201camazing concept\u201d is just cruelty and unconcern.<\/p>\n
3. Understand that if you are a citizen or a legal alien that you are not going to get deported! I don’t care what CNN says.<\/i><\/p>\n
Flat out lie. Right now there is a four year old American girl whose guardians are frantically fighting her deportation because she has an illness that will kill her in days without treatment available only in America. There are dozens of instances of people, both American born and with green cards being sent to Donald\u2019s for-profit gulag in El Salvador. Are we supposed to believe those dozens of court cases concerning illegal deportation the government is losing aren\u2019t real?<\/p>\n
4. Tariffs are a bargaining chip. When you are in business you make deals, and sometimes you have to play hardball. That’s how you get the deals you desire.<\/i><\/p>\n
TACO Donald is playing hardball with a Nerf ball, it seems. His tariffs are wild, capricious, illogical and have cost the country hundreds of billions. Now a court has slapped him flat, ruling that he has no authority to levy tariffs in the first place. But immense damage has been done. In the eyes of the world, America has become a bad joke.<\/p>\n
5. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects you from discrimination by age, sex, race, etc. DEI openly violates this. Democrats want you to believe the opposite is true because they value your vote more than your quality of life.<\/i><\/p>\n
All DEI ever did was ensure that jobs didn\u2019t go to unqualified white males. Republicans hate the Civil Rights Act and want to get rid of it. You can\u2019t justify \u201cDEI\u201d to erase the roles of women and other minorities in history and science. They even tried to erase Jackie Robinson\u2019s military history and mention of the Tuskegee Airmen. It\u2019s a reinstatement of Jim Crow bigotry, nothing more and nothing less.<\/p>\n
6. It’s not the government’s money, it’s your money. You absolutely should give a damn about how it is spent.<\/i><\/p>\n
Let\u2019s see here. Four point three trillion in tax cuts, 101% of which goes to the wealthy. A tax INCREASE for those making $17,000 a year. Meanwhile, $700 billion in cuts to Medicaid, and a drive to make Social Security more \u201cefficient\u201d by making it harder to claim benefits. They claimed widespread fraud and audited 110,000 \u201csuspect\u201d cases. They found two\u2014yes, single digit two\u2014cases of suspected fraud. I\u2019ll replace item six this way: \u201cIt\u2019s your money, and the government is taking it from you and giving it to the rich.\u201d<\/p>\n
7. We are not the World Bank. If other countries need help they should raise their own finances. I don’t recall receiving any hurricane relief money from India or China.<\/i><\/p>\n
And now we aren\u2019t getting any hurricane relief from the United States, either. Trump cut off aid for last year\u2019s storms in North Carolina. Oh, and he wants to close FEMA. But foreign aid, which made up less than one percent of the budget, was an invaluable tool for maintaining American influence and support throughout the world. Yes, China is more than happy to step in and replace us.<\/p>\n
8. Drill baby, drill. Want to know why? Because we have it. Are electric cars the future? Not in their current form. There is way more oil in the ground than lithium, and guess where most of that is? China. Want food prices to come down? Then energy costs have to come down. And that means oil, gas, coal, and nuclear. Unicorn farts won’t power a factory.<\/i><\/p>\n
Aside from the fact that oil production was at an all time high under Biden and prices still went up, there\u2019s the fact that the multinational corporations do it for profit, and not for gas at $1.98, as Donald is claiming it is. Filthy fuels are still on their way out, and even though Tesla fell apart under the misrule of Elon Musk, other companies have surpassed Tesla in economy, range, price and reliability. And we\u2019ve found large reserves of lithium in the US.<\/p>\n
9. The economy and the security of the country are far more important than your feelings, get over it.<\/i><\/p>\n
If everyone is broke and nobody trusts or respects the government any more, then you\u2019re going to find yourself on the outside looking in. The one thing libertarians never understand: the economy exists to support the society. The society doesn\u2019t exist to support the economy. Get over it.<\/p>\n
10. There are men and there are women. Simple as that.<\/i><\/p>\n
I\u2019ll pass on the biology debate for now. Biology isn\u2019t my strong suit, but I can still mop the floor with the ignorant bigot who wrote that. Human gender is far more fluid than most people realize, and human sexuality is another entire universe. Visit any large porn site to learn just how quaint and parochial your interests really are. Remember; the social rules of East Podunk are not the natural laws of the universe. I suspect the only thing the author knows about women is that he can\u2019t get one.<\/p>\n
11. Education is to establish a learning core that prepares a child for the real, working world. Anything else is wrong.<\/i><\/p>\n
So we should only educate people to be mindless drones in service to the economy? If you think education is failing you now, wait until you are dealing with people who know even less, but aren\u2019t happy with your rule!<\/p>\n
12. Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States and he won in a mathematical landslide. Get over it<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Trump won by 1.6% of the vote, and less than a third of eligible voters voted for him. In an election not owned by billionaires, gerrymandered to death in the House, and with Jim Crow-like restrictions on so-called \u201cvoter fraud\u201d Trump would have been laughed off as a bad joke back in 2015.<\/p>\n
Copied from another post.<\/p>\n
Of course. People who can\u2019t read or think are the TARGET, not the source of this malarky!<\/p>\n
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