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BigRig

(74 posts)
Fri May 5, 2017, 03:54 PM May 2017

To all of the Rethugs that read DU

Surely you realize by now that you have been conned by your dear leader. Con men in practice search for the weakest and most vulnerable people to prey on. If he thought democrats were the weakest and most vulnerable, he would have claimed to be a democrat and pushed for a single payer program to get elected (think about that). You see, this con man does not care about you or me. He could not care less if we lived or died. He doesn't care about our kids education. He doesn't really care or have any interest in anything except money and power for him and his family. Hell, he doesn't even care about your 2nd amendment rights (how does that make you feel?). I wish I could just sit back and laugh while you suffer from your Yuge blunder (and yes you are the very people that will suffer most from this con), but unfortunately your ignorance will cause all of us to suffer in some way. Democrats and the rest of the world tried to warn you. You should have listened to us.

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To all of the Rethugs that read DU (Original Post) BigRig May 2017 OP
But, but Hayduke Bomgarte May 2017 #1
They can't read tazkcmo May 2017 #2
To be fair Bettie May 2017 #17
KnR !!!! n/t tazkcmo May 2017 #24
Lol MFM008 May 2017 #28
limbaugh reads to them, and hannity and levin and savage certainot May 2017 #31
They don't care as long as other people are hurt too. RedWedge May 2017 #3
+1000. dchill May 2017 #19
You're Just Making Them Giggle Leith May 2017 #4
Well Hopefully, BigRig May 2017 #10
Thanks for reminding me about Discussionist red dog 1 May 2017 #22
Post removed Post removed May 2017 #5
the smoking gun Mosby May 2017 #6
The Democrats used to be overwhelmingly for far trade, this shouldn't even have been an Jno_Gilmor_ May 2017 #27
but but but BamaRefugee May 2017 #7
12 just last week... LakeArenal May 2017 #8
you DO know what Benghazi translates to in English, right? BamaRefugee May 2017 #13
What's this about Hillary's emails? Nwgirl503 May 2017 #9
But, but ,but ....Benghazi, emails, pizza slave babies in the basement and arblegarble erp derp. Augiedog May 2017 #11
Short run in with a republican earlier today Brogrizzly May 2017 #12
Trump: A weak person's idea of a strongman. A stupid person's idea of a smart person. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2017 #14
Trumps skill is not deal-making with powerful counterparts. It is duping gullible victims. -- Frum. Bernardo de La Paz May 2017 #15
They can't do the Math turbinetree May 2017 #16
And everything above 3 is 1.5 million. dchill May 2017 #20
Yepper, spot on turbinetree May 2017 #30
I was just remembering KT2000 May 2017 #18
Remember now malaise May 2017 #21
K&R red dog 1 May 2017 #23
Maybe back in the day, that term was really a strong but true thing to say about someone. But Doitnow May 2017 #25
...you do realize of course that this means nothing to them...right? Shandris May 2017 #26
Isn't the other name for the "trolls"? BigmanPigman May 2017 #29
They just don't think like we do DFW May 2017 #32

tazkcmo

(7,300 posts)
2. They can't read
Fri May 5, 2017, 04:08 PM
May 2017

They come for SalmonEnchantedEvening's Sunday LOL Cats and come up out of the basement only to have Grandma read the captions to them.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
31. limbaugh reads to them, and hannity and levin and savage
Sat May 6, 2017, 08:31 AM
May 2017

they get plenty of wit and wisdom and science there!

Leith

(7,809 posts)
4. You're Just Making Them Giggle
Fri May 5, 2017, 04:16 PM
May 2017

There's something about them that makes it difficult for them to understand that those moving objects around them are human beings, just like themselves. They just want to kick at us because it's fun.

You don't believe me? Click on this link:

https://www.discussionist.com/

That site is owned by the same people that own DU. It was taken over by trolls, assholes, and jerks more than a year ago and they trashed the fuck out of the place. There are still a few good liberals there, trying to bring intelligence to the unwilling, but most of us have left.

BigRig

(74 posts)
10. Well Hopefully,
Fri May 5, 2017, 04:51 PM
May 2017

after seeing their own families suffer and or die from Rethug policies, they will come around a bit..
Nah...who am I kidding.
They will just blame it all on Obama because he was such a successful prez while being black...just doesn't make no sense...must be the devil's work...had to be deleted from history...fight the good fight...white power...blah blah blah

red dog 1

(27,802 posts)
22. Thanks for reminding me about Discussionist
Fri May 5, 2017, 07:12 PM
May 2017

I posted some OPs over there + about 200 comments; but I thought it "went under"

They do have a forum that's supposed to be for "progressives"...(it's infested with GOP trolls too)

But the fun part over there is putting the trolls on "Ignore"........I love doing that!

Response to BigRig (Original post)

Mosby

(16,310 posts)
6. the smoking gun
Fri May 5, 2017, 04:32 PM
May 2017

That proves your point is trump on trade.

He pandered to blue collar republicans with his statements on trade agreements and tariffs.

There is not a single republican leader in the US that supports tariffs and a pull back from free trade agreements, trump took these positions just to get votes from stupid republicans who stupidly believed a billionaire when he said that free trade was bad.

Jno_Gilmor_

(127 posts)
27. The Democrats used to be overwhelmingly for far trade, this shouldn't even have been an
Fri May 5, 2017, 08:43 PM
May 2017

issue he could have capitalized on. You're right though, no Republicans support this, a few Democrats still do.

Brogrizzly

(145 posts)
12. Short run in with a republican earlier today
Fri May 5, 2017, 05:01 PM
May 2017

He said Trump wanted to hold people accountable, to which internally I face-palmed, and said so, he should release his taxes then. Afterwhich the immediate reply was ,"he's under audit!" So, I just stood their and slowly spoke, that doesn't mean anything, the IRS said he can release his returns. Immediately without a second to pause he started talking about Hillary's uranium selling, again internal face-palm. Theirs no arguing with these people, you can only walk away. Maybe you can start somewhere where both sides agree? I don't know, I'm astounded at the depth these people believe in Trump.

KT2000

(20,577 posts)
18. I was just remembering
Fri May 5, 2017, 06:32 PM
May 2017

when tRump bought the hotel from Merv Griffin many years ago. Mr Griffin was getting up in years and not in the best of health. After the deal was struck, Rump bragged about how he screwed over Mr. Griffin. He would not stop talking about it on any talk show. If he can inflict pain he will do it for his pleasure.
Citizens who condone such behavior as evident in the healthcare bill, share his sickness. I consider them predators and sadists just like Rump - they are the same.

red dog 1

(27,802 posts)
23. K&R
Fri May 5, 2017, 07:15 PM
May 2017

tRump is, indeed, a "con man"...Don the Con.
Back in the 1800s, they would have called him a "snake oil salesman".

Doitnow

(1,103 posts)
25. Maybe back in the day, that term was really a strong but true thing to say about someone. But
Fri May 5, 2017, 08:11 PM
May 2017

I think it has somehow lost the intensity it deserved at one time. I, and perhaps others, think of snake oil salesmen as people who sell something that is worthless, but still doesn't do much harm. Drump and friends would find pleasure walking all over anyone in their path for the sheer fun of it even if there wasn't any financial gain involved. They get their kicks seeing other people being hurt.

 

Shandris

(3,447 posts)
26. ...you do realize of course that this means nothing to them...right?
Fri May 5, 2017, 08:17 PM
May 2017

Because they had a choice -- either it was 100% guaranteed they wouldn't get what they desired from us, or some small percentage chance he would keep his promise. Just because he turned out to be just as bad as us (in their eyes) doesn't mean they would have voted for us, because again, everything we stand for is what they hate.

So ultimately all this comes across as to them is something to laugh at, because they haven't lost anything (in general) that they weren't losing anyway, but they've still ruined your happiness just as you're celebrating (or indicate that you wish to) how you think theirs is ruined.

When both sides spite each other, this happens. That makes both sides eminently predictable and, as a result, the nation eminently lootable.

POLARIZATION IS YOUR ENEMY AND SO IS ANY PERSON WHO PUSHES IT.

DFW

(54,378 posts)
32. They just don't think like we do
Sat May 6, 2017, 02:25 PM
May 2017

Yes, they'll suffer
Yes, they'll be less well-off
Yes, the country will be less secure
Yes, they will be less likely to be able to obtain health care that could save their own lives

Blame Fox, blame National Hate Radio, blame their lack of education, blame some kind of mass psychosis, but be aware that THEY DO NOT CARE.

If "libbruls" think something is bad, then, to them, by definition, it must be good. Even if we think that low-income white people in West Virginia need access to health care if coal mining has poisoned their drinking water--the very fact that WE believe that will be reason enough for them to think that they need no such thing.

If we feel that deporting people who have established lives here, American families, American tax-paying businesses, and contribute to America--if we feel this is bad, THEY FEEL IT IS GOOD. Well, there will always be the exceptions--i.e. the Trump voters who are directly affected. The undocumented woman in Texas who voted for the Republican Attorney General maybe regretted her vote when he signed her deportation order. The woman in Indiana, who voted for Trump, thinking he would deport only "bad people" was more than a little surprised to find out that "bad people" to her beloved Trump administration included her husband, who she saw sent to a detention center awaiting his deportation.

Listen to Adam Schiff when he tells of the constituent that says flat out that anyone who cannot afford necessary health care on their own deserves to get none. THIS IS HOW THEY THINK. We must at some point accept that, for whatever reason, they, including the Republicans reading this, are not ashamed of any of this. They find nothing wrong with any of this. They APPROVE of all of this. They did before, they did now, and they will continue to do so. We can discuss the why and the how, and the illogic of it all, but this is how they feel, and in most cases, their lives crashing down about them will NOT change their minds. If tragedy befalls them, it will somehow be our fault, Obama's fault, Hillary's fault, but NEVER their fault, never Trump's fault, and for sure never the fault of their beloved Republican Party.

Two plus two may make four in our minds, but if Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh say that two plus makes five, I promise you they will think that our computers and calculators have been manipulated by "libbruls" for some nefarious purpose, and have been wrong all this time.

The Republicans reading this will not think that last paragraph was mocking them. They will read it and think, "damn straight!" THAT is what we're up against and the sooner we realize it, the better.

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