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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 02:40 PM Apr 2012

Around this time I usually post a rant about how much I hate Republicans

You know that I really hate them, right?

Good.

Well, instead of going deep into the details, let's just stipulate that for now.

There… Got that off my chest.

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Around this time I usually post a rant about how much I hate Republicans (Original Post) MrScorpio Apr 2012 OP
I concur. warrior1 Apr 2012 #1
No love for them here either. HappyMe Apr 2012 #2
I look forwad to your daily Re-Pubic-Con hating posts. Lint Head Apr 2012 #3
And I do my personal best to add to the tirade with my rants. What can I say... freshwest Apr 2012 #4
You've got company. LoisB Apr 2012 #5
Somehow when I read that... SunsetDreams Apr 2012 #6
I live in a community populated by many Republicans, and you do too hfojvt Apr 2012 #7
I just pulled out my CD with this song on it this morning!!!! hamsterjill Apr 2012 #9
Every time I think I cannot hate them more, they raise the bar. secondwind Apr 2012 #8
It's good to know that kinda thing is appreciated by some around here stupidicus Apr 2012 #10
I'm not a big fan of Republicans myself. Jamaal510 Apr 2012 #11
Great choice of videos MrScorpio Apr 2012 #13
I concur with your stipulation FlaGatorJD Apr 2012 #12
Not to defend any Repuke.. god knows.... lib2DaBone Apr 2012 #14
Suggestions? nt MrScorpio Apr 2012 #15
Yes. Ban the party! BanTheGOP Apr 2012 #18
Welcome to modern America BanTheGOP Apr 2012 #16
You, my friend, are not alone! BigDemVoter Apr 2012 #17
If you remember, there's a song for that: Rhiannon12866 Apr 2012 #19

SunsetDreams

(8,571 posts)
6. Somehow when I read that...
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 03:39 PM
Apr 2012

in my head it came out as




Not really sure as to why.......but make it stop please!

hamsterjill

(15,220 posts)
9. I just pulled out my CD with this song on it this morning!!!!
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 04:10 PM
Apr 2012

Listened to it over and over on the way to work. I was thinking how very relevant this song is (again)!!!

Thank you for posting.

 

stupidicus

(2,570 posts)
10. It's good to know that kinda thing is appreciated by some around here
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 04:50 PM
Apr 2012

methinks I've spent too much time on adversarial boards where the "kumbaya" BS prevailed in the last decade, and my rants of that kind were looked down upon as "uncivil"...lol

what an overrated concept that is these days.

I started the Bush admin with a few republican friends, but none of those relationships survived the experience.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
11. I'm not a big fan of Republicans myself.
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 05:02 PM
Apr 2012

What I detest about their policies is that they pretty much justify being fear-mongerers, selfish, uneducated, and socially backwards. For example, a number of them have come out against Affirmative Action, the EPA, Civil Rights, the Buffet Rule, PBO's Jobs Plan from last year, Universal Health Care, and even college education! These are things that would help the disadvantaged get ahead and even the playing field, and our community. Plus, they have outright alienated Atheists and people of other religions besides Christianity, as if Christianity is the answer to everything.

In addition, I hate how the top Republicans and Conservatives have been brainwashing their supporters to believe in the existence of a so-called liberal media, when in fact it has been the opposite. They claim there's a Liberal media, yet PBO's positive coverage has only been 18% compared to Willard M. Romney's 34%. Call me crazy, but I think they whine about this "elitist Liberal media" in order to not only dupe the voters, but to also pressure the mainstream media into either going easy on Republicans during their coverage, or somehow creating a sense of false equivalence between them and Democrats.

The Republican Party does so much fear-mongering that it reminds me of this episode of the Boondocks, where Ed Wuncler and Gin Rummy held up a convenience store, and they tricked the cop inside into thinking they were the good guys while the clerk was some crazed killer:
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That's what the GOP is doing to Democrats and Liberals. They want to trick Republican voters into thinking that the Left wants to "take away their freedom" and do things like take away their guns, even though PBO has yet to increase gun control.

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
13. Great choice of videos
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 05:53 PM
Apr 2012

From the comments:

Beer = Oil. Store = Iraq. "Look he got a weapon" = Weapons of Mass Destruction lie. "Your father helped me build this store" = Bush Sr. helping supply Iraq with chemical weapons and investing in Iraq and installing Saddam. "I don't know you motherfucked" = distance in relationship after Saddam invades Kuwait and threatens US oil reserves. Korean shop = Korea with actual weapons. "Do you want to die" = Scare tactics used by the US to get its people to go to war. Store robbery = war in Iraq.

FlaGatorJD

(364 posts)
12. I concur with your stipulation
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 05:07 PM
Apr 2012

However, that doesn't preclude the likely event of anti-Repuke thread, which
comes sometimes when I least expect it

I told someone the other day that regardless if anyone reads or agrees with me,
it makes me feel better

 

lib2DaBone

(8,124 posts)
14. Not to defend any Repuke.. god knows....
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 07:47 PM
Apr 2012

..but you have to realize that the whole Right/Left struggle is designed to keep America pre-occupied.

As long as America is fighting against each other.. they do not have the time to realize how bad they are being ripped off by the politicians.

This will buy the Joe Libermans and Max Baucus and Mitch McConnels more time to stuff their pockets with cash and vanish before the American people finally wake up and realize how bad they have been screwed-over for the last 40 years.

 

BanTheGOP

(1,068 posts)
18. Yes. Ban the party!
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 09:05 PM
Apr 2012

SPECIFICALLY...

1. Document everything that stand for and the actions they voted on that are antithetic to NOT just the US Constitution, but as Elena Kagan said, we must look to other constitutions from other progressive countries. In NO way do ANY other constitution have the inherent "negative liberties" ensconced in the Constitution, which prevent the people from initiating and starting processes that help stabalize economies, protect the planet, ensure racial and ethnic diversity, and most importantly, prevent the subjugation of people by tenets that are perpetuated exclusively through the American republican party.

2. We MUST sue as MANY different republican institutions and officials as possible on the basis that their tenets destroy the basic concept of human dignity. We must destroy any possibility that republican thought processes become commonplace.

3. Republicans MUST be destroyed if we are to have any...ANY!!... chance at having any chance at surviving as a people and as a species on this planet.

 

BanTheGOP

(1,068 posts)
16. Welcome to modern America
Mon Apr 23, 2012, 08:57 PM
Apr 2012

I've been saying that for YEARS. In addition, I've been documenting how the party itself is ILLEGAL in line with current RICO statutes. I would go so far as to treat repukes with the same response that they would respond to "A-Rab TERR-rists" and eliminate them if I could, but unfortunately, that's still illegal. But outvoting them is NOT an option anymore; we need to take them out through more direct means, including the courts.

They need to be DESTROYED. PERIOD!!

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