GOP Doesn’t Want to Make Life Better for Americans – Here’s Why
Biden’s speech last night was like a breath of fresh air after we all endured the verbal manure that flowed so freely from Trump’s mouth and Twitterfingers for 4 years. Biden spoke of a rising America and introduced his trillion dollar American Families Plan that, after decades of decline and neglect, will attempt to make our lives better.
Predictably, the Republicans hate it, all of it, and it’s all predictable. This morning on CBS News, Rick Scott was given a remarkable 5 minutes of national airtime to spew nonsense and childish attacks against Biden and the GOP’s other favorite targets. His lies came fast and furious, blaming Biden for all the ills HIS side caused.
Why are Republicans so opposed to anything that makes Americans’ lives better? Because if people are happy, they won’t keep them in power. The GOP has raised hatemongering to an art form because they know that if they can keep millions of Americans miserable and pissed off, they can then blame Dems for that misery and drive angry people to the polls. And it works like a charm. The GOP base is driven by adrenaline fueled anger, fomented by hate radio, Newsmax, OAN, Fox Noise, and the NY Post where the blame is regularly placed on “socialists, gays, Satanists, Pelosi, AOC, and Bernie.” Instead of focusing on real issues like education, income inequality, job security, and healthcare, they focus on bathroom bills, gay wedding cakes, and now the new target “boys pretending to be girls leering at your daughters in the locker room” accusing trans kids of trying to take advantage by posing as the opposite sex.
If the GOP had to actually face voters over their piss poor performance they would lose every time. THAT’s why they are willing to inflict generational misery to the populace so they can keep everyone pissed off and insecure so their base will blame the rest of us. That’s also why they are trying to push through voter suppression bills to make it harder to vote. They know the truth and are really worried now because Biden rammed through the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill that helped to relieve some of that misery. If we follow that with making airports, roads, and other public infrastructure once again usable, the GOP is terrified that their supporters will like their lives made better and the veil finally lifted on their scam.
And that’s why they have zero interest in doing their jobs and making Americans’ lives better.
You have spoken the truth here! This morning I am reading FB comments about how Biden & Crew are ruining the country … of course … they are all from Republicans because they are so blind and deaf they can neither see nor hear! SMH
1I am going to copy and drop your comment into my FB page!
Know how Biden can afford to do what he is suggesting??? Easy step 1…stop giving welfare queens i.e.EXXON 3billion in free money. 2…cut the military budget to 1/2!!! 3…Not only increase taxes on the rich MAKE THEM PAY IT!!! 4…legalize ALL drugs and stop the drug war..saves millions & gets help for users. 5…eliminate the federal retirement benefits for 4yr terms…they don’t deserve it!!!
2No matter how hard he tries, Tim Scott will always be the second-worst serving Senator from South Carolina.
3I think this is a two part problem. Biden hasn’t given GOPers anything they can publicly disagree with and still remotely claim to be a human being. Second, main stream news will interview a Biden spokesman or administration official on a really important topic for maybe five minutes, then for fairness(?) they will have a GOPer on for the same amount of time. That’s when we get to the current version of “look over there!”
4Same goes for abortion. It’s been their cash/activist cow for decades. Can’t afford to kill the Golden Goose, eh?
5L.Long @ 2,
4. Eliminate their “Gold-Plated free health care for life” bennies that we as tax payers fund. We paid for Cheney’s heart transplant! Let them use Medicare like the rest of us. Since most of them are multi-millionaires, they can buy insurance for their own healthcare.
6Much of the media is stuck in a failed “both-sides” mindset. Why did CBS allow Rick Scott such unchallenged airtime?
Instead CBS: report the truth, then let Scott talk, then report the truth again.
Related: Erik Wemple from the Washington Post attempted to get *any* answer from ABC News about why they interviewed Sen. Rick Scott but did not ask him even one question about Scott’s role in the Big Lie. ABC refused to answer. (Note: Scott voted to overturn the results in Pennsylvania.)
7https://t.co/ggKOvvgd9c
Rick effin’ Scott. Good effin’ Grief.
8Imagine if there was a Democrat in party leadership who had presided over “the largest case of Medicare fraud in the Nation’s History” and taken the 5th some 75 times in just one deposition. The screeching would be at 140 db’s.
Papa & L.Long
the amount spent on pensions and other benefits for former Presidents is relatively small. National Taxpayer Union listed 2017 expenses (in thousands) for all living former Presidents.
Total President
$ 444 Carter
$ 868 Bush 41
$1045 Clinton
$1138 Bush 43
$ 370 Obama
Vice Presidents get much, much less.
Health care in retirement is even more limited. NTU says “Health Benefits: Provided that they had been enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program for at least five years, former Presidents are eligible for health annuities, similar to all federal employees. (Jimmy Carter is ineligible because he only served a single term and did not hold another federal position.)”
They won’t miss meals and probably won’t go bankrupt. But it is chicken feed in the scope of federal spending.
9Yep. Every word you wrote is true, El Jefe. Republicans want power, but they have nothing to offer once they get it. Biden and the Democrats are the only ones who want to make life better for Americans, and Republicans are fighting them, directing anger at them, and lying about them, every inch of the way.
10Thank you! I’ve been screaming about this for years! Fox ‘hate’ News, etc. has been systematically poisoning our society 24/7, for 40+ years , and we are now seeing the results. We are witnessing a whole Generation being brought up on right wing Hate propaganda, and it ain’t pretty. Feel the fear … Benghazi! Obama’s birth certificate! Hillary’s emails! The Liberals will steal your guns and your Bible!
11TRUTH. Every bit of what you posted is truth. And what’s up with Tim Scott? There’s no racism in America? And yet you claim to have been followed in stores and stopped while driving? What do you think that is, Tim? Oh, perhaps this was happening because you’re such a celebrity? I believe that every morning he has to get up extra early and prepare and drink his Kool-Aid before he can look at himself in the mirror. And then he has to do the same at night so he can sleep without dreams about what a sell-out he is to the GOP against his own race.
12Vaya con Dios Señor de Monedas
You are so fired ~ También Comer Mierda Amazon y UPS ~
Headline: Senate committee approves 3 Biden nominees for USPS board — setting the stage for a Democratic majority (:–{p>
The vote comes as lawmakers train their focus on restoring public confidence and trust in the U.S. Postal Service. U.S.P.S. has undergone a number of drastic changes ~
Edit: The vote comes as lawmakers train their focus on restoring public confidence and trust in the U.S. Postal Service. Since last year, the postal service has undergone a number of drastic changes under the leadership of a bald stock investor and known supporter of a rotting pumpkin.
https://www.alternet.org/2021/04/senate-committee-approves-bidens-nominees-for-the-us-postal-service-board/
13You spoke truth from the heart, El Jefe. For repugnanticans, it’s much easier to attack anything Democrats propose than to come up with alternatives. Besides, all the stuff the likes of Rick Scott spew about Biden’s plans is red meat to the base which is short for repugnantican Trumpf cult. It’s pretty doubtful that any of them watch cbs news. They only listen to their like minded types on propaganda news outlets and their social media.
14In the back of my mind, much of what Biden is proposing will never get through the senate as long as manchin and sinema are voting. Sad but true.
#9…so if you work for 4yrs doing nothing more than making bad choices and sitting on your butt, you will get good benefits for life??? As said they don’t deserve anything more than anyone else.
15Every word is true Jefe. It’s all they’ve got left. Which is why they’ve been demonizing liberals and journalists for decades. They know that when people actually listen to truth, science, and objective analysis rationally, they’re screwed. So just like any other authoritarian movement, they’ve got to make mortal enemies of anyone threatening their made-up reality. “Everybody knows enemies lie and try to harm our babies amiright?
16If you listen to liberals, you’ll start eating your children after doing who knows whatever liberals do to children in pizza joint basements. Trust us!”
Once they’ve accomplished that, the arguments about actual issues write themselves.
And the mob on Facebook takes it from there.
“Everybody knows that!
Well that’s what I saw on Facebook!”
I’m guessing that if they get their way, the symbols on the armbands they’ll make us wear will be snowflakes.
17Then they can see us coming from a long way off and cross the street.
Unless they feel like spitting.
Yes, I do believe they’d take it that far.
And sleep fine, because they start believing their own crap.
El Jefe please do an article on how Conservatives are systematically trying to gain complete control of Government by dismantling every rule and law that keeps our Democracy safe and working. They got their marching orders with the Powell Memo Doctrine on how to, step by step, destroy Liberalism by controlling the Courts, Education and the Media. And it’s working like a charm.
“What Conservatives Really Want”
‘Conservatives really want to change the basis of American life, to make America run according to the conservative moral worldview in all areas of life.
Republican conservatives have constructed a vast and effective communication system, with think tanks, framing experts, training institutes, a system of trained speakers, vast holdings of media, and booking agents. Eighty percent of the talking heads on tv are conservatives. Talk matters because language heard over and over changes brains. ‘
https://georgelakoff.com/2011/02/19/what-conservatives-really-want/
“Thom Hartmann: Time to Overthrow Our Rulers”
‘In the nearly-6000-word memo, Powell called on corporate leaders to launch an economic and ideological assault on college and high school campuses, the media, the courts, and Capitol Hill.
The objective was simple: The revival of a Royalist-controlled so-called “free market” system.’
https://www.alternet.org/2018/01/time-overthrow-kings/
‘The Powell Memo’
18https://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/
I like the part where the Black community is referring to Tim Scott as #UncleTim
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