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NanceGreggs

(27,817 posts)
Tue Apr 16, 2019, 09:55 PM Apr 2019

Republicans Are Upset

I just read a headline from Huff Post: House Republicans Are Upset Democrats Are Investigating Voter Suppression Allegations

It struck me how often we’ve seen the phrase “Republicans are upset” – especially over the past two years.

It also struck me that the Republicans always seem to be “upset” about anything that benefits the citizenry and gives it a voice.

Republicans are upset when more people can vote, when more people have access to healthcare, and when more people can earn a living wage.

Republicans are upset when women claim dominion over their own bodies, when transsexuals can use public bathrooms, and when programs that feed the hungry and shelter the homeless get funding.

But at the same time, Republicans never get upset about a pResident who has told over 9,000 lies, grovels before Puttin and takes his side over our own country’s, is a racist who incites violence, is a self-proclaimed ‘pussy-grabber’, and is under investigation for a myriad of crimes.

Republicans never get upset about children locked in cages, non-existent national emergencies, or a “pResident” so unhinged he’s proudly announced that the noise of wind turbines causes cancer, and his Bronx-born father was born in Germany.

Republicans never, ever get upset about tax-breaks for billionaires, kids doing without a good education, incompetent toadies being appointed to powerful positions, trusted advisors to their “pResident” being indicted, homeless vets, people having to work two jobs in order to get by, and easy access to assault weapons.

When you look at what Republicans get upset about and what they don’t, it really tells you everything you need to know.

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Republicans Are Upset (Original Post) NanceGreggs Apr 2019 OP
That upset line is running its usefulness these days. Wellstone ruled Apr 2019 #1
K&R stonecutter357 Apr 2019 #2
K&R. Went for ice cream, missed soup. n/t rzemanfl Apr 2019 #3
Poor little snowflakes mcar Apr 2019 #4
This is the truth, and superbly spoken as always, dear Nance! n/t CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2019 #5
k&r n/t lordsummerisle Apr 2019 #6
K&R smirkymonkey Apr 2019 #7
Republicans are depressed The Wizard Apr 2019 #8
k&r Demovictory9 Apr 2019 #9
... ancianita Apr 2019 #10
"It's getting so you can't lie, cheat, and steal without somebody investigating! struggle4progress Apr 2019 #11
+1,000 Canoe52 Apr 2019 #12
LOL Gregory Peccary Apr 2019 #15
Bingo. geardaddy Apr 2019 #22
The nerve of more honest people,... magicarpet Apr 2019 #24
Meanwhile they are preaching to foreign countries malaise Apr 2019 #13
k and r, and spot on, as always. niyad Apr 2019 #14
yep. pwb Apr 2019 #16
Transgender people. yardwork Apr 2019 #17
The GOP is the party of voter suppression Gothmog Apr 2019 #18
The "DAY" I will be concerned over what repugs are "upset" about Ferrets are Cool Apr 2019 #19
Nailed it NanceGreggs!!! K&R... spanone Apr 2019 #20
Unfortunately, many rethugs accept tRUMP Linda Ed Apr 2019 #21
K&R 2naSalit Apr 2019 #23
K&R Cetacea Apr 2019 #25
Why, every day is "Upset A Republican" Day! Blue Owl Apr 2019 #26
We're upset too. Chin music Apr 2019 #27
Republicans bdamomma Apr 2019 #28
It's how the game is played. Firestorm49 Apr 2019 #29
Okay, had to bookmark this one. PatrickforO Apr 2019 #30
The only good Republican Liberalhammer Apr 2019 #31
The texas repugs are adopting another voter suppression law Gothmog Apr 2019 #32
10 years ago I would listen to what Republicans had to say Trenzalore Apr 2019 #33
That makes 2 of us. Kath2 Apr 2019 #34
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. That upset line is running its usefulness these days.
Tue Apr 16, 2019, 09:59 PM
Apr 2019

For decades,the media has loved to use that phrase went talking about the Rethugs.

struggle4progress

(118,334 posts)
11. "It's getting so you can't lie, cheat, and steal without somebody investigating!
Tue Apr 16, 2019, 11:22 PM
Apr 2019

What's become of my country?"

malaise

(269,157 posts)
13. Meanwhile they are preaching to foreign countries
Wed Apr 17, 2019, 10:47 AM
Apr 2019

about free and fair elections - what a fucking joke!

yardwork

(61,703 posts)
17. Transgender people.
Wed Apr 17, 2019, 02:40 PM
Apr 2019

I like your OP and appreciate your points, but the term "transsexual" is no longer used by advocates. Would you update your OP? Thanks, Nance!

Ferrets are Cool

(21,110 posts)
19. The "DAY" I will be concerned over what repugs are "upset" about
Wed Apr 17, 2019, 03:59 PM
Apr 2019

is the day they are concerned with putting kids in cages.

Linda Ed

(493 posts)
21. Unfortunately, many rethugs accept tRUMP
Wed Apr 17, 2019, 04:23 PM
Apr 2019

🍄rump had five children by three women, two of them immigrants, was having sex with a porn star while his wife recovered from childbirth, talked about grabbing women’s genitalia, went bankrupt, didn’t pay people who worked for him, lied and cheated? Well, we wouldn’t have decided to elect him. . We would have said that he was not worthy of the office.

I have lived under many presidents going back to Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W, Bush, Bill Clinton, George W, Bush, Barack Obama and now, sadly, Donald Trump. Trump is the absolute bottom of the pit. He is the most arrogant, incompetent, narcissistic, immoral piece of CHIT that ever was in the role of president.

I thought Bush W was the absolute worst president, certainly of my life time and one of the worst of all time. 🍄rump makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.

“A fool is proud of what a smart person is ashamed of.”



bdamomma

(63,921 posts)
28. Republicans
Wed Apr 17, 2019, 07:06 PM
Apr 2019

are against government of the people, by the people, for the people. Haven't they proved that??

PatrickforO

(14,587 posts)
30. Okay, had to bookmark this one.
Wed Apr 17, 2019, 07:59 PM
Apr 2019

They only get upset when they think someone who is old, poor, sick or different might in some small way benefit from a policy.

That bugs the shit out of 'em.

Trenzalore

(2,331 posts)
33. 10 years ago I would listen to what Republicans had to say
Wed Apr 17, 2019, 11:39 PM
Apr 2019

I wouldn't necessarily accept any of it but I would listen to their point of view to see if there was any areas of mutual understanding.

After the way they behaved with President Obama around 2011 and the way they are behaving with Trump if someone tells me they are republican I politely move the conversation off of politics. I don't really give a shit what they have to say and I'm not listening.

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