Happy Fourth, Republicans!

[NanceGreggs]

While you’re enjoying a day with your kids, other people’s kids are locked in cages hundreds of miles away from their parents. If you voted Republican, you put them there.

While you’re celebrating your freedoms, representatives of your party are in Russia, kowtowing to the very people who attacked our free elections. If you voted Republican, you elected the ass-kissers who are now sucking-up to our enemies.

While you’re fixing a plate of food for your elderly parents, your elected representatives are finalizing their plans to gut funding for Medicare, Medicaid, and social security – the things your older relatives rely on to survive. If you voted Republican, you endangered the health and welfare of your own family members.

While you’re watching the fireworks displays, many of your fellow citizens in Puerto Rico are still without power. If you voted Republican, you’re keeping them in the dark.

While you’re parading around in your made-in-China MAGA hat in support of your America-First “pResident”, your job may be the next one that gets sent overseas – where Trump has all of his branded merchandise made. If you voted Republican, you just might have voted for your own unemployment.

While you’re stuffing yourselves with fresh food from our farmlands, food is rotting in the fields due to lack of migrant workers, and farmers are in jeopardy of losing their farms due to your “pResident’s” tariffs. If you voted Republican, you voted for higher food prices – along with some foods disappearing from grocery stores altogether.

While you’re sippin’ that homemade iced-tea and lemonade, your “pResident's” best people are dismantling the regulations that protect our potable water. If you voted Republican, your iced-tea and lemonade might not be too tasty – or safe to drink – by this time next year.

At this point, the obvious question is: Does a Republican voter, squealing like a stuck pig when he finds out he screwed himself, make a sound that anyone will listen to?

Well, we’re about to find out, aren’t we? And it’s going to be a lot sooner than you think.

[RKP5637]

1. Well said!!! K&R!!! n/t

[icymist]

2. K & R

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[Different Drummer]

4. Another thread you've started and I've bookmarked.

Well done as always, Nance!

[Leith]

5. I Won't Miss an Opportunity to Remind Them

Just a little shrug and "Well, it's what you voted for."

Let'em choke on it.

[kimbutgar]

6. Nance, another great essay!

Thank you!

[SWBTATTReg]

7. I love the way your mind and pen work, NanceGreggs!

Thanks for a well written article.

[bdamomma]

8. I love your fire

And truth

[Jack-o-Lantern]

9. Very well said Nance!

[Grassy Knoll]

10. Great, As Usual....

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[NoMoreRepugs]

11. They will blame Dems/Obama/Hillary.... never Frump.

[oasis]

12. Telling it like it is.

Thanks

[smirkymonkey]

13. K&R

[sandensea]

14. THAT's true patriotism, for any of our Republican friends interested in reading some today.

Thank you for sharing that, Nance.

Happy Fourth of July to you and yours.

[lambchopp59]

15. Does a Republican voter, squealing like a stuck pig when he finds out he screwed himself,

make a sound that anyone will listen to?
I'll field this one:
Unlikely anyone who hears such a squeal will be unable to differentiate such an utterance from the cacophony of whining about most anything else, primarily, when their urge for instant gratification goes unfulfilled.
I will illustrate: Today I observed a few of their specimens, even briefly at the 4th of July downtown merchant's fair. I had time to kill, on call for the hospital, carrying my cell should need arise for my services.
Two different likely Trumper families were emanating most unpleasant noise pollution. The paternal unit of one troup wearing his "You won't take my guns until it's from my cold, dead hands" T-shirt, largely silent with intermittent eruptions of punitive shouting intervened in deemed miscreant offspring behavior. The maternal unit was pacifying the trio of offspring's whining about the heat, the cell phone's inability to maintain chat room connections, some internal conflicts between siblings, whining how long till the fireworks (hours and hours...) how there isn't an ice cream vendor, all among some indecipherable "that's not fair" over potential vendor purchases and repeated desires to be some "elsewhere" more desirable.
Another group observed upon exiting this scene were shouting loudly after a young female family member had fallen from a ridiculously elevated and testosterone dripping pick-em-up truck. I casually observed that the girl did not appear to be seriously injured, but much of the shouting was directed towards the injured girl for having ruined their plans and now they would have to take her to the hospital. It all even drowned out the dual Trump stickers in the rear window of the truck. I could still hear the caterwauling from around the block as I headed back to my SMART car, parked around the corner.
After some aspirin and a midafternoon bowl of Udon, my call time complete and content to be in my sanctuary of relative peace to calm my canine in case of fireworks noise intrusion this evening, some bemused speculation of these observances led me to this long winded rambling diatribe.

[amuse bouche]

16. Gorgeous

[Scurrilous]

17. K&R

[Cha]

18. Happy Fourth of You Lie.

Link to tweet

[Niagara]

19. K & R