Love Me Some Communism
Well, you just gotta know that anytime Majorie Taylor Greene is around, my eyes roll so much that I look like a slot machine. She really humped Stanley the IQ Dog on this one.
Okay, so she is saying that infrastructure equals Big C Communism, when everybody knows, by gawd, that frying your hair crispy blonde is the birthplace of Giant C Communism.
So when Eisenhower built the interstate highway system, that was Communism? You wanna know what other infrastructure is pure Communism?
Bridges
Airports
Power Grid
Water systems
Light rail
And if you wanna talk about pure communism, you got libraries, the National Weather Service, the military, Dr. Fauci, Sesame Street, the people who inspect your meat, parks, sidewalks, and congress.
I saw a guy pitch a fit on the internet machine because Joe Biden wants to “give away broadband.” I didn’t know about that but it sounds like a helluva an idea. We’ve got people in my county who sit in the library parking lot in the evening to use their internet connection because they don’t have one at home.
So I ask this guy, “hey, bud, wouldn’t you like free broadband connection?” I mean, if they say everybody, I suspect they mean him, too. He used all caps to yell NO. His reasoning was that if everybody got it free then people who didn’t work would also get it for free. I replied, “Well, I don’t work but you let me use the roads anyway.” Poor guy, I think he spent all weekend conjuring up a way to make me pay a toll to use the road to the grocery store.
For them, it is not cool to have something unless you can deny someone else of it. And that, Buster, is why they want to stop voting rights. I just know it.
People oriented=communism/socialism
Corporation oriented=capitalism/FREEDOM
Makes me wonder what these yahoos been smokin’.
1I was fairly blown away when I saw Don Young’s name on that list. I didn’t know he ever did anything good.
2That’s it, of course: the cry of “I EARNED mine! How dare you give it to someone else who didn’t!” is sounded by authoritarians throughout the land. Heaven forbid that someone (except them) should get something for free, no matter how beneficial it might be for everyone, if everyone had it!
3When and how did so many ordinary people get so miserably mean? Haven’t they noticed that money has been shoveled up to the richest, while basic wages and services have been cut for everybody else?
BTW: there’s nothing more “Communist” than free public schools and the requirement that you attend them (or pay big $$$ for private ones).
4I’m sure that 90% of ‘mericans have NO idea what communism even is. They think(?) that the totalitarian rule of Russia & China is communism which it AINT!!
5They also think(?) that socialism is the same as communism, which is AINT!!
I counted 12 magats, not 13.
6Arguably “socialism” is in part code for racism.
The U.S. origins of dread of so-called socialism (later communism) are deep, going back to Reconstruction after the Civil War when fears proliferated that if Black men were allowed to vote they would “redistribute” wealth from whites with taxable property for infrastructure used by all (like roads). The same type fear of wealth redistribution formed in the Northern cities when immigrants arrived in big numbers. Schools and roads funded by white taxpayers but used by immigrants?! Gasp. So a “solution” was voter suppression, like Jim Crow laws, to keep the wealth in the pockets of those who had it and not share the bounty via useful-to all things like bridges, airports, power grid, water systems, light rail, etc.
7Marj is on a communism rampage today. She’s also claiming vaccine mandates are being implemented as a communist plot to control the opposition (of course she equates the Democratic Party as communists). The opposition to us “commies” are the patriots like her- you know, the Qfreaks, white supremacists, neo nazis, NRAers, etc.
8Poor Empty Greene really struggles with anagrams. How she scrambled communism out of common sense …
Maybe we should send her a crossword puzzle book. If she ever finished it, it would make a nice travelogue through the mind of a Qcumber.
9I love my communistic Social Security and Medicare! I also love my city library, the city park across the street. And my kids love those things too because otherwise I might be sleeping on their couch!
10What do we call StarLink, Tesla, Neuralink, SpaceX and all those grid-supporting Big Batteries? Must be COMMUNIST!
11That Communist plan supported by 13 Republican House members (8 of whom were among the Problem Solvers caucus that negotiated the final deal) and the 19 Republican Senators who also voted for it before it got sent to the House.
And I’m hoping there will be Democrats with signs at every “first shovel” ceremony making it clear who supports the projects (and who didn’t). And more at all the dedication/completion ceremonies. And in between, I think every project ought to get a sign announcing it as part of the Infrastructure program from the Biden Administration — with pictures of Biden and Harris smiling at all those getting the benefits.
12I have an old Bible from when I was a kid. In the first four books of the New Testament when Jesus spoke about rich men, camels, eye of the needle, or give to those who beg – – many of his admonitions sound quite communist. All of the words attributed to him as quotes are printed in red, and now I guess I know why.
13eMpTy Greene *trying* to stay in the spotlight . Sadz .
14Yesterday was the one year anniversary of ‘Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day’…
Here’s a gif of Donnei’s buddy for your ‘enjoyment’:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1457347905988304904
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1457140541527937027?
15e platypus6 – nice catch! My guess is the bleach was left on too long and fried brain cells, but Miss Juanita Jean would have to confirm that…it’s outside my skill set.
16… and this is ultimately the big difference between Ds and Rs. The Democrats are talking about tax fairness, rebuilding infrastructure that makes the whole country more prosperous, supporting an educational system for all. The Rs scream communism, and attack Big Bird from Sesame Street. They have no policy, no concern about governance, just emotional hot spots that they can scream about to rouse the rubes.
17And what can you do if shrieking against communism and vaccinations is not getting the idiots in enough of a rage? Combine them!
https://twitter.com/WendyRogersAZ/status/1457436254711259138
You don’t have to click on that; it’s a US Senator posting a simple sentence: “Big Bird is a communist”. I’m sure Rafael Cruz is kicking himself for not having posted it himself.
18This sounds like when my MIL started complaining about Obama phones. Of course, the whole “why don’t they just get a damn job” came up in the conversation. Finally, after complaining about this incessantly we asked her how someone is supposed to get a job without a phone? How do businesses or employers contact them exactly? If they have no phone and no computer how in the hell do they get a job? Do employers just grab a bullhorn and announce it hoping you will hear?
I think most of all it is an issue of scale. I can walk around my school and see a kid with an Iphone that’s also on free and reduced lunch. I can allow myself to be pissed off about that or I can rationally ask how that makes my life any worse. What I can’t see are all the billions in tax write offs and out and out aid that corporations get. Even though I can’t see that I know it exists. I also know if you add that all up then it equals a lot more than those free phones do. So, if one of those is hurting me which one is exactly?
19No idea why Rs would oppose good broadband for rural areas (whose residents vote for them), except to keep their constituents deprived and ignorant of who’s responsible.
20I wonder what might happen if a good “old fashioned” civics class were required, again. One that explains why roads aren’t things that grew out of magic at no expense, and that you get what you pay for with taxes. If the 50s were so great, with it’s building boom (and high taxes to pay for it), then shouldn’t that be general knowledge?
Let’s start with the History of the things we take for granted. And then ask how the GOPs expect to replace/renew things for nothing…
21The John Birch Society called Eisenhower a communist way back when I was a nipper. Musta been the highways.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/15/john-birch-society-qanon-reagan-republicans-goldwater/
22Earth to Marjorie, baby, honey! When you screw around like this it simply tells folks that you are really not cut out for the job!
Seriously!
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