I think someone has to finally say this:
When I was a kid in the 50s and 60s, there was a tacit assumption that the powers that be would avoid major wars including nuclear war because of the vast number of dead people associated with such. We know now that the Republicans don’t care one whit about the lives or deaths of people, including many people. They have allowed the deaths of over 700,000 people To date and would counsel the deaths of millions more to reach their objectives, Whatever the hell they may be…
Those of us who remember Fail Safe, the film and the book, would recall the character played by Walter Matthau who was willing to take us into full-blown nuclear conflict and kill billions of people to achieve his ends given That we had already launched an accidental attack upon the Soviet Union.. He was thought by the President, played by no less than Henry Fonda, to be insane. Matthau played this perfectly and I believe it’s a prototype for today’s GOP fanatic. Anyway, I think that there is no limit to the number of deaths this crowd will tolerate in order to achieve their goals, whatever they may be. The reason I say that, is that I don’t think we really fully understand what their goals are. this whole business is so beyond bizarre, and incompetently fascist, that I am in a certain sense speechless.
I never thought I would live long enough to see Americans be utterly conscienceless and without redemption. But here we are, and believe me, there is nothing, repeat nothing, that is beneath these people’s Abilities to disrupt and destroy. Make no mistake, make no assumptions, if 100 million people had to die that would be justified and OK with these people, they are malignant narcissists and sociopaths. They could easily justify the annihilation of a continent, including half of hours. Do you recall that it was OK with many of them if people died from Covid as long as it was largely in blue states? This is but the tip of the iceberg and you must understand that if somebody suggested rounding liberals up and putting them in camps to re-educate us, it would be a medium double digit percentage of Americans who would be happy to go along with this. It would not take much convincing For them to start building execution camps for the hard line liberals who, in their opinion must be purged from the civilization. If you think this is an extreme, you’re underestimating their evil.
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Sometimes, when watching Congress in action, I can’t decide whether to laugh, cry, or check myself into an insane asylum.
Not all lawmakers are political hacks, quacks, and corporate toadies – but that contingent does seem to dominate. Most infuriating is that while purporting to represent the people, Congress routinely does what the American majority does not want done and fails to do what people do want. Take a peek at the cuts Congress is making to Joe Biden’s landmark infrastructure proposals.
This is a monumental, long-overdue undertaking to reinvest in America’s physical house and social underpinnings (everything from roads and broadband networks to child care and paid family leave). The package would deliver real, tangible benefits across our nation, especially for low- and middle-income families, so it is enormously popular. Yet, when the first half of the plan recently came to a vote in the House, Republicans turned it into a partisan mudwrestling show, loudly voting “NO” on such obvious needs as fixing decrepit bridges, providing clean tap water in every community, and opening pre-school education programs to all three- and four-year-olds.
Cynical Republican gamesmanship aside, even more infuriating is the clique of self-described “moderate” Democrats who pose as champions of workaday Americans, but constantly scuttle public policies that would make their lives better. For example, the GOP and corporate Democrats have jointly demanded a trillion-dollar “compromise” in Biden’s national investment plans. What’s being compromised? Not proposals to fund the corporate wish list, but long-postponed needs of everyday Americans, including home health care, free community college, affordable housing, wage hikes, environmental justice, etc.
The wealthy and their political enablers complain that America can’t afford such projects. But, hello – these aren’t “projects,” they’re people! And permitting politicos and lobbyists to leave them behind yet again would be an abominable moral failure of our society.
Credit: Jim Hightower
President Merkin Muffley : You're talking about mass murder, General, not war!
General "Buck" Turgidson : Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.
without a medical exemption. DO NOT GO TO THE HOSPITAL, STAY HOME, TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND DRINK LOTS OF FLUIDS.You really believe it is no worse than an ordinary head cold, treat it as such.
Thank you for telling the story of your grandfathers. You are correct, we can't even imagine what they went through. I'm sorry your one grandfather would up taking his own life. 
They may kill millions of us and think they have 'won'.
However uncontrolled climate change will then kill them all along with the rest of the species.
Their supposed enclaves will not protect them at all.
Duly noted on a daily basis.
90% media control, Fox News still a thing and some worse still able to keep the spread of covid going, almost like their livelihoods depend on it?
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