Mainecat Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Republican Greed Now Dominates Americans' Lives It doesn’t matter how many people die, struggle in poverty, or are poisoned, as long as the profits roll in and taxes are low Republican greed is why Americans can’t have nice things. Every developed country in the world has some variation on a free or low-cost national healthcare system, and free or even subsidized higher education. In most developed countries homelessness is not a crisis, nobody goes bankrupt because somebody in their family got sick, and jobs pay well enough and have union pensions so people can retire after 30 or 40 years in the workforce and live comfortably for the rest of their lives. But not in America. Republicans would never allow any of those things to happen. It’s not about ideology. Republicans don’t hate Social Security and Medicare, for example, because they’re afraid that thos programs are going to somehow turn America into a communist country. They hate those programs because they’re paid for with tax dollars, and greedy Republicans hate to pay their fair share of taxes. It’s not about racism, although it often appears that way. The reason Republicans work so hard to keep Black and Brown people down is because they subscribe to a weird economic theory that “requires” an underclass who do most of the hard work for very little money so rich Republicans, being part of the overclass, can reap the benefits and stuff the extra cash into their money bins. If their use of racist language and iconography brings in a few more low-IQ white voters, that’s just icing on the cake. They can use the racist yahoos to get themselves reelected so giant corporations will continue to stuff their SuperPACs with lobbyist cash they can use for their own retirement. It’s not about charity, although they love to say that the housing and healthcare needs of poor people should be taken care of through charity. What they’re really saying is that they don’t want to pay their fair share of taxes to maintain a healthy society. It’s not about Christianity, although they’re constantly invoking Jesus for everything from pushing the death penalty on women who want to get an abortion to giving bigots the legal right to discriminate against gay and trans people. Jesus never once mentioned abortion and decried bigotry, but they regularly ignore and even flaunt His teachings in the Sermon on the Mount and His warnings in Matthew 25. They protect multimillionaire evangelists’ tax-free status, and the preachers repay them by preaching politics from the pulpit. It’s not about saving Americans from the pandemic. Trump used the Defense Production Act to force mostly Brown and Black meatpackers back to work, not to keep Americans safe. As long as the factories are humming and the stock market is rising, a few hundred thousand dead Americans are just collateral damage. It’s not about conservatism. They’re not interested in slowly or “cautiously” improving society, or “conserving” anything other than the balances in their own checking accounts. They like to use the word “conservative,” but they’ve rendered it meaningless at best and code for “racist” at worst. It’s not about making the world a better place. They deny climate change, deregulate industries that poison our air and water, and do everything they can to screw working people out of unions, good wages and decent benefits. They’re totally down with pesticides that are killing our pollinators while they poison our atmosphere with their carbon emissions, all just to make a buck. It’s not about having a better-educated electorate or populace. They’ve spent decades trying to destroy our public education system that was, in the 1960s, the envy of the world. When they did away with free and low-cost college education during the Reagan years they kicked off almost $2 trillion worth of student debt which is preventing people from starting families, opening small businesses, or even buying their first house. But it sure is profitable for Republican bankers! It isn’t about “culture.” They do a good-old-boy NASCAR/Duck Dynasty routine to bring in the rubes, but there’s no way Donald Trump would ever invite the average Republican voter with a giant flag and a pickup truck to any of his golf clubs, nor would Ted Cruz want to vacation with one of them or their families in Cancun. It’s not about “gun violence.” As long as their investments in weapons manufacturers are profitable and the problem of gun violence is limited to poor- and working-class Americans, Republicans don’t give a rat’s ass about “gun safety.” Althought they’re happy to use guns as a wedge issue to bring in male voters who are insecure about their own masculinity. It’s not about immigrants taking jobs from working-class Americans. Ronald Reagan stopped enforcing the laws against wealthy white employers hiring people who are here without documentation. As a result, entire industries like construction and meatpacking that once provided good union jobs have been de-unionized, their former American-citizen union employees replaced by low-wage workers without documentation. And when the spotlight gets shined on them, Republicans are more than happy to put poor, hard-working Brown people in jail but there’s no way they’re ever going to go after wealthy white employers. They don’t give a damn about your job, particularly when they can find somebody else to do it cheaper. It’s not about America “first.” Reagan and Bush the Elder negotiated NAFTA and revived the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) so businesses could offshore entire factories. Since the Reagan administration, over 60,000 factories have left America, along with at least 5 million jobs. Donald Trump‘s rewrite of NAFTA even gives American companies a huge new tax break if they move factories from America to Mexico. At the end of the day, all Republicans care about is money. Greed is their principle animating force. It doesn’t matter how many Americans die, how many humans struggle in misery and poverty, how many children’s growth is stunted or are poisoned by industrial and mining waste being poured into our air and rivers. As long as the money keeps rolling in and their billonnaire patron’s taxes remain absurdly low, that’s all Republicans care about and are willing to fight for. Original post: HartmannReport.com 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepr2 Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Greed: To a liberal, believing that you pay too much in taxes or even opposing paying more in taxes is greedy. In actuality, wanting to loot as much money as possible that someone else has earned to use for your own purposes, which is what liberals do, is a much better example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 NY Times bestselling author and American's #1 progressive talk-show host, carried on SiriusXM, Pacifica, radio stations nationwide, Free Speech TV, etc. But Sean Hannity!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DriftBusta Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Fuck Tom Hartman. Well sounding, but delusional semi literate dumb fuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Ughhh....another day, another shit filled diaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer254 Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Fellas, what we have here is the perfect example of the left. This is a bully type hit piece designed to shame republicans and convince liberals that republicans are greedy and the cause of the downfall of the american way of life. Exactly the opposite is true. mc moved to a different state so he could pay LESS in taxes. And now he is promoting a BULLYING, SHAMING hit piece is denouncing the actions that he actually did. This hypocrite is the epitome of the current liberal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted April 23, 2021 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted April 23, 2021 38 minutes ago, Mainecat said: Republican Greed Now Dominates Americans' Lives It doesn’t matter how many people die, struggle in poverty, or are poisoned, as long as the profits roll in and taxes are low Republican greed is why Americans can’t have nice things. Every developed country in the world has some variation on a free or low-cost national healthcare system, and free or even subsidized higher education. In most developed countries homelessness is not a crisis, nobody goes bankrupt because somebody in their family got sick, and jobs pay well enough and have union pensions so people can retire after 30 or 40 years in the workforce and live comfortably for the rest of their lives. But not in America. Republicans would never allow any of those things to happen. It’s not about ideology. Republicans don’t hate Social Security and Medicare, for example, because they’re afraid that thos programs are going to somehow turn America into a communist country. They hate those programs because they’re paid for with tax dollars, and greedy Republicans hate to pay their fair share of taxes. It’s not about racism, although it often appears that way. The reason Republicans work so hard to keep Black and Brown people down is because they subscribe to a weird economic theory that “requires” an underclass who do most of the hard work for very little money so rich Republicans, being part of the overclass, can reap the benefits and stuff the extra cash into their money bins. If their use of racist language and iconography brings in a few more low-IQ white voters, that’s just icing on the cake. They can use the racist yahoos to get themselves reelected so giant corporations will continue to stuff their SuperPACs with lobbyist cash they can use for their own retirement. It’s not about charity, although they love to say that the housing and healthcare needs of poor people should be taken care of through charity. What they’re really saying is that they don’t want to pay their fair share of taxes to maintain a healthy society. It’s not about Christianity, although they’re constantly invoking Jesus for everything from pushing the death penalty on women who want to get an abortion to giving bigots the legal right to discriminate against gay and trans people. Jesus never once mentioned abortion and decried bigotry, but they regularly ignore and even flaunt His teachings in the Sermon on the Mount and His warnings in Matthew 25. They protect multimillionaire evangelists’ tax-free status, and the preachers repay them by preaching politics from the pulpit. It’s not about saving Americans from the pandemic. Trump used the Defense Production Act to force mostly Brown and Black meatpackers back to work, not to keep Americans safe. As long as the factories are humming and the stock market is rising, a few hundred thousand dead Americans are just collateral damage. It’s not about conservatism. They’re not interested in slowly or “cautiously” improving society, or “conserving” anything other than the balances in their own checking accounts. They like to use the word “conservative,” but they’ve rendered it meaningless at best and code for “racist” at worst. It’s not about making the world a better place. They deny climate change, deregulate industries that poison our air and water, and do everything they can to screw working people out of unions, good wages and decent benefits. They’re totally down with pesticides that are killing our pollinators while they poison our atmosphere with their carbon emissions, all just to make a buck. It’s not about having a better-educated electorate or populace. They’ve spent decades trying to destroy our public education system that was, in the 1960s, the envy of the world. When they did away with free and low-cost college education during the Reagan years they kicked off almost $2 trillion worth of student debt which is preventing people from starting families, opening small businesses, or even buying their first house. But it sure is profitable for Republican bankers! It isn’t about “culture.” They do a good-old-boy NASCAR/Duck Dynasty routine to bring in the rubes, but there’s no way Donald Trump would ever invite the average Republican voter with a giant flag and a pickup truck to any of his golf clubs, nor would Ted Cruz want to vacation with one of them or their families in Cancun. It’s not about “gun violence.” As long as their investments in weapons manufacturers are profitable and the problem of gun violence is limited to poor- and working-class Americans, Republicans don’t give a rat’s ass about “gun safety.” Althought they’re happy to use guns as a wedge issue to bring in male voters who are insecure about their own masculinity. It’s not about immigrants taking jobs from working-class Americans. Ronald Reagan stopped enforcing the laws against wealthy white employers hiring people who are here without documentation. As a result, entire industries like construction and meatpacking that once provided good union jobs have been de-unionized, their former American-citizen union employees replaced by low-wage workers without documentation. And when the spotlight gets shined on them, Republicans are more than happy to put poor, hard-working Brown people in jail but there’s no way they’re ever going to go after wealthy white employers. They don’t give a damn about your job, particularly when they can find somebody else to do it cheaper. It’s not about America “first.” Reagan and Bush the Elder negotiated NAFTA and revived the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) so businesses could offshore entire factories. Since the Reagan administration, over 60,000 factories have left America, along with at least 5 million jobs. Donald Trump‘s rewrite of NAFTA even gives American companies a huge new tax break if they move factories from America to Mexico. At the end of the day, all Republicans care about is money. Greed is their principle animating force. It doesn’t matter how many Americans die, how many humans struggle in misery and poverty, how many children’s growth is stunted or are poisoned by industrial and mining waste being poured into our air and rivers. As long as the money keeps rolling in and their billonnaire patron’s taxes remain absurdly low, that’s all Republicans care about and are willing to fight for. Original post: HartmannReport.com The HartmannReport? Its making more and more sense now what happened to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted April 23, 2021 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted April 23, 2021 No wonder why his brain rot is increasing so fast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticCrusher Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Enjoy boys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted April 23, 2021 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted April 23, 2021 https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fstv-freespeech-org/ Overall, we rate Free Speech TV (FStv) Left Biased based on story selection that always favors the left and Mixed for factual reporting due to a lack of sourcing and hosts who have failed fact checks. History Founded in 1995, FStv is a left wing American news and opinion network. According to the FStv about page: “Free Speech TV is a national, independent news network committed to advancing progressive social change. Reaching over 40 million US television households, they bring viewers an array of daily news programs, independent documentaries and special events coverage. Daily programs, include Democracy Now!, The Thom Hartmann Program and The Stephanie Miller Show. FStv has the slogan “The alternative to television networks owned by billionaires, governments and corporations.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold War Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Punish those who work hard and reward those who don’t. I can remember when people like the OP would be openly despised by both parties. American Greed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer254 Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 TDS has turned into a full blown lack of self awareness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 59 minutes ago, racer254 said: TDS has turned into a full blown lack of self awareness. Let's be honest, TDS hasn't really done anything but amplify what was already there in the inept and weak minds of America. I'm really hoping it works it's way around to the suicide brain waves sooner than later. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted April 23, 2021 Author Share Posted April 23, 2021 Hit a sore spot eh noys selfishness and greed is what MAGA stood for and you all suck it up and fuck everyone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 1 hour ago, Mainecat said: Hit a sore spot eh noys selfishness and greed is what MAGA stood for and you all suck it up and fuck everyone else. Every day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member Stephen Hawking Posted April 23, 2021 Gold Member Share Posted April 23, 2021 I'll be the first to admit I don't give a fuck about almost everyone. Definitely don't give a fuck about people I don’t know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepr2 Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 12 minutes ago, Mainecat said: Hit a sore spot eh noys selfishness and greed is what MAGA stood for and you all suck it up and fuck everyone else. Says the tax dodger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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