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http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2017/07/republicans-really-want-you-to-die.htmlThe Rude Pundit
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7/13/2017
Republicans Really Want You to Die Faster
In case you were wondering just how cruel and crazy Republicans can be, here's a little example:
Rep. Steve King, who looks like the kind of ghoul who eats the spleens of children and then makes a coat of their skins, was asked on CNN about funding for the bullshit wall with Mexico (that's now supposedly going to be covered in solar panels and transparent, which is a contradiction, but, fuck, that's our president). The Iowa Republican had a savage answer: "Id throw another $5 billion on the pile, and I would find a half of a billion dollars of that right out of Planned Parenthoods budget, and the rest of it could come out of food stamps and the entitlements that are being spread out for people that havent worked in three generations."
That's right. King wants to take money away from health care for women and food out of the mouths of families to fulfill a complete fucking lie. All those people losing food stamps will be fine because "we will create the kind the security that would bring about 10 million new jobs in America just by enforcing immigration law." That's as much of a fantasy as unicorns and trickle-down economics.
And if you're thinking, "Wow, this is fucked up. That dude is fucked up. But I need some genuine awful stupidity to complete the rage I need to put my fist through my computer screen." Oh, dear, dear reader, of course there is some stupid here.
See, Steve King, who looks like he keeps donkey fucking photos on his phone to show his colleagues and laugh at their reactions, says that because food stamps "solved" the hunger crisis in this country, it has led to greater rates of obesity. Not the high fructose corn syrup from, you know, Iowa, or the fact that shitty food is cheaper than healthy food. No, the government has been too generous and made people fat. "We built a program to solve the problem of malnutrition in America," King blathered, "and now we have a problem of obesity."
And if you're thinking, "Yeah, that's so fucking dumb it's a wonder that Steve King can breathe and walk at the same time. But I need this to somehow be tied to the Obamas for it to tip me into a murder spree that I shouldn't be held accountable for." Oh, dear, psychopathic reader, you don't know Steve King, whose voice has the flat tone you hear above you when you wake up in a basement pit.
For, indeed, he did tie the issue to the former First Lady in saying that his cuts to food stamps won't be so bad: "I wouldnt impose anything more strict on anybody in America than what Michelle Obama did with her school lunch program."
And there it is, the pinnacle of Republicanism, an example that serves to demonstrate everything wrong with the bugfuck insane and tragically, willfully, proudly ignorant conservatives. Michelle Obama wanted to help with growing rates of childhood obesity by getting kids to eat healthier and exercise and for schools to offer better choices than Pepsi and lard. So, obviously, its real goal was to starve Americans while food stamps made them fatter. Or something. Logic doesn't matter. Facts don't matter. Humane behavior doesn't matter. Nothing matters except that government is evil and the Obamas are the evillest.
Why spend so much time on someone who ought to be busy convincing people to buy time shares while yelling at his grandkids about the "coloreds"? Because King's brand of dumb cruelty is the same as the driving force behind the revised Republican health care bill in the Senate, which manages to be crueler and dumber than the House version. The putrid Ted Cruz's putrid amendment would stick a meat hook into the Affordable Care Act's insurance guarantees and rip them open until their guts are steaming on the ground while Cruz yowls as he jacks off into the gore. The Medicaid cuts are essentially Mitch McConnell saying, "Fuck you" to the so-called moderate senators, daring them to defy him, the party, and Trump, in that order, daring them to stare into his dead amphibian eyes and have their souls sucked away.
Republicans are saying, in word and action, that they hold their constituents in contempt. The voters are disposable. In fact, they are saying, let's help them along, whether by starving them or taking away their health care. And then let's make them thank us because, we can say, we kept our promises.
Goddamnit, they will, too.
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The Rude Pundit: Republicans Really Want You to Die Faster (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jul 2017
OP
They are going to kill as many of us as they can. This much was a certainty
Eliot Rosewater
Jul 2017
#2
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)1. K&R
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)2. They are going to kill as many of us as they can. This much was a certainty
the day the election was stolen.
They have dreamed about it for decades.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Heard the stories from my Grand Parents
whom survived the Drought and Depreciation years. Stories their brothers and sisters loosing children because of lack of Medical Care. Still remember Gramms telling me about my Gramps dying from Diabetic shock because they could not afford the Meds or the Clinic charge. And that was 1941 when that happened.
Progressive dog
(6,900 posts)4. Steve King is a true Ayn Rand disciple
He is Ebenezer Scrooge on steroids.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)5. I wonder if the new bill will offer free helium
babylonsister
(171,059 posts)6. Holy crap! I
remember people here thinking he died of some age-related illness, which made sense to me, too.