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The list of personalities like this just keep growing in their ranks. They just say what their voters "feel".

interesting.... former professional wrestler so not surprised by the song and pony dance... guy is from NJ, lost two elections in Neveda and just moved to Texas prior to announcing his run.... unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if these antics actually worked for him in parts of Texas....

You nailed it.

What the Republicans Has Turned Into???

Great grammar there buddy. At least proofread your damn titles.

It is so clear that he had a stunt double riding that bull. They go out of their way to avoid showing the bull-riders face. Yet they try to imply that it was him.

I find this to be a completely apt epitaph for Trump and his term in office AND it demonstrates what the GOP is all about now. Complete and total empty rhetoric that the "MAG" crowd ate up and loved and thumped their chests about, never mind the reality.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/22/tech/foxconn-wisconsin-factory-scaled-down/index.html

When first announced in 2017, Foxconn's plan to build a massive electronics factory in Wisconsin was hailed by then-President Donald Trump as a sign of the rebirth of American manufacturing.

But nearly four years later, the complex that promised to create a Silicon Valley in the industrial Midwest is essentially a white elephant, a collection of mostly empty buildings without any high-tech products to build.

How come republicans voters whine about Hollywood so much, then turn around and vote for TV personalities?

Are they aware that reality TV isn’t real life?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/caitlyn-jenner-launches-bid-california-governor-n1265064

Caitlynn Jenner about to announce her run for Gov of California...

Just wondering what the Republicans will do about their comments about Rachel Levine now? How do they explain this one.

Wanna hear the worse part of this whole story... Many years before that, Foxconn said they were going to build the same kinda factory in PA.. That never came to pass either.

Believe in the word CONN in Foxconn!

Well she is a Republican. Maybe as long as she doesn't try to use their bathroom things will be okay.

Yeah, I don't see Katlin Jenner as governor. Even in California.

Arnold was pretty coherent. I voted for him. Twice. I thought he managed the State pretty well.

Arnold is what republicans used to be.

Likewise, JFK is what democrats were once upon a time, and only once in my lifetime.

“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.” J.F.K.

And yet, all the same problems as then, are here now. And that's not a dig on/at liberals. Or dem's.

It's a dig at politicians. They don't serve US, they serve them.

Neither is true.

There is also a Republican version of that graphic.

You'll have to ask J.F.K. Oh never mind, he was assassinated.

I guess you missed the point. The point was that fish tried to act as if J.F.K. wasn't conducting many of the same fights that liberals are today. That is incorrect. He pointed out the things he was fighting both for and against and proudly proclaimed himself a liberal.

Maybe you should take a look at the things Biden is supporting and trying to pass and who is fighting against him to get a glimpse of who has been actively stopping those things from happening.

I'm certainly not trying to say that most politicians aren't thinking of their own special interests. But their number one interest is reelection. To get that they must try and deliver the things the platform they ran on promoted.

My statement stands. The same problems this country had last year, 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 50 years ago, etc, STILL exist.

Only difference is whose side you take. The problems are still there. Politicians get rich, problems aren't solved.

Period.

It's worse than that. The dems have turned far far left and turn everything in to a race war.

They want that.

Ummm ....yes it is. It’s been proven out for decades. The party of no no no. The party of “if we don’t win we’ll take the ball and go home”. Pfft The GQP. The Party of the imbecile DJT.

Where have you been bro. Right wing Anglo saxons have been waging a race war for hundreds of years, GMAFB

Sorry man, I disagree as it applies to today.

And yet they keep winning more and more and more votes. The majority of the country - by a record margin - voted for the Democrats.

Now maybe someone that really doesn't have much of a clue will claim that they get all these votes because the Dems want to give "everything to everyone for free" ... and imply that the country votes Democrat because they are all people looking for free hand outs. . . . . Maybe Faux news will come up with some crazy canned answer that sounds good as long as you don't look at the facts?

Bottom line is the 'Right' has a problem with acknowledging or accepting the mainstream direction of a huge slice of the country. Just like the Left has a huge problem with not grasping how/why/fact that Trump still got a lot of votes even after being incompetent and the worst POTUS in the Nation's history.

More and more votes?? Lol. Four years before their poster child was defeated by a reality show host! Maybe they got a record number of votes (in this election) because even life-long conservatives couldn't bring themselves to cast another vote for Trump.

Fair enough - But what have you done for me recently honey? The last election still counts. The support of Warren / Bernie / AOC is real and substantial and growing.

And Trump is the face of the GOP and continues to be - and spineless Republicans and sycophant's continue to kowtow to him, continue to enable his lies.

I have seen you say that before, by a record margin.

What are you talking about?

Warren / Bernie / AOC are token socialists that the democrats pat on the head... and then stick a pacifier in their mouths and sweep them off the stage when they've done their job. There is no way any one of them (or anybody that far to the left) can ever win the presidency. The people that pay the bills in this country won't have it, and "the powers that be" learned their lessons with Trump -- no more outsiders. That's both sides bro... can't play tug o'war against the middle.

Yet the "powers that be" turned around and endorsed Trump again in 2020. So they've suddenly learned their lesson in the last six months?

Have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

Hopefully that simplifies it for you.

I don't know, what has they turned into?

They ....Has turned into mockingbirds.

It is a catchy title. I do like your mockingbird comment. Very clever my man.

No worries Pit. We all flub it up now and then. It's just that this one does hit a funny bone.

The right has followed the left down the extreme hyperbolic trash bin.



Pure Cringe.



Meanwhile Biden is banning menthol cigs and has been too busy to legalize weed.

I'm not quite sure who it is that followed who but your point is well taken.

Some of the things people label as "liberal ideas", when one actually stops to think about it are not liberal at all.

It'll be interesting to see where things go because the hyperbolic rhetoric keeps amping up and appears to have no end.

At some point I expect Conservatives to start alleging that the Liberals are trying to force people into gay, socialist orgies and for the Liberals to start alleging that the Conservatives are trying to force people in the lowest three tax brackets to prepare for Hunger Games.

Hunger Games may be a bit of a stretch but not as much as one might think.

Here is something that has always puzzled me. Why is it that when ideas come up that help those at the bottom of our society, including low wage workers, to help them at least earn a living or have healthcare for all Americans that it's suddenly labeled as liberal?

Let's take a look at college for example. Free college for all is off the charts an idea that I view as being extreme. At least in the eyes of most of our population. I think that's certainly going too far based on what most Americans want.

No change in the cost of college and the debt incurred is not a legitimate alternative either. There is certainly a middle ground between the two that would make a lot of sense for everyone.

Fully funded community college is such an idea. As of now the federal government takes on all of the bad debt and unpaid loans from college loans but allows private companies to write these loans at well above the prime interest rate. So if tax payers are already taking on the bad debt, why shouldn't they at least reap some of the rewards of writing the loans themselves and getting the benefit of the interest being paid? That way all college loans could be given at the prime rate allowing students a lot less debt over time and our government getting the interest being paid? As of now it's a lose/lose proposition for tax payers. That really doesn't make any sense.

As of now it seems everyone on the right sees even these measures as liberal ideas. But let's look at the results that would be gained.

I can tell you for a fact that here in one of the most red states in our nation, Tennessee, they offer high school graduates two years of community college paid by the state. No cost to the student. Why? Because every state in the union is fighting for good paying jobs. As such having a well educated population gives you an advantage in attracting those jobs to your state. Here in Tennessee that's paying off well.

That same strategy would play out on a global scale. To compete with other nations we must have the ready work force to fill such jobs. To compete in the global job market we must also be competitive in education.

The thing that probably baffles me the most is that here in Tennessee a Republican governor and a Republican senate saw the wisdom in having a better educated work force. To them it was an investment in the future of the state economy. As such it was a Republican plan that wasn't viewed as some "liberal idea". It made sense to them and is paying great dividends.

So the question at that point becomes is it the idea of free community college that's a liberal idea? Or do people call it a liberal idea because it's a proposal coming from the democrats? Because here in Tennessee, when proposed and passed by Republicans, people weren't screaming about it being liberal.

I guess my overriding point in all of this is it's easy for those who oppose an idea to place a label on it based strictly on who is proposing an idea and not so much the idea itself. And it seems that anything that might help those at the bottom is considered liberal because making it sound like a bad idea to help lift up every working American is a bad thing by placing what they see as a negative label to it.

Why is it a liberal idea for every American that works 40 hours should live above the poverty line? Why is it a liberal idea to want every American to have healthcare? Since when did common humanitarian ideas and common decency towards your fellow American become labeled as liberal?

There are a lot of republicans that would like those gay orgies if the could wear a mask and stay in the closet. Just saying.

I don't really disagree with anything you said. I was just trying to make the hyperbolic analogy with a little comic relief mixed in.

I just posed this to you because I felt I could get an honest, non bias response. Just curious as to your thoughts on it. It wasn't actually a direct comment based on your above post.