The Week in Radical Leftism, 7/13/2018

This weeks song goes out to all those telling the President of the United States what he should be doing to keep things as screwed up as they made them.

Oh dont tell our “friends” they cant be leeches
Dont meet with leaders of other countries
Reunite the children with pervs, traffickers and MS13

I saw a couple of funny takes on a few of your points, Bro Bob.

One had Pres Trump announce that he has “Made Oxygen Great Again” while Dems put plastic bags over their heads to avoid breathing ever again:

The other had a successful flight of the baby Trump over London (in real life it was shot down within a few minutes).
From his place in the sky over London Baby Trump could see 12 rapes and 9 stabbings taking place.

As to your portion about how thuggish the Left has become, Andrew Klavan wrote an excellent essay:
https://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/why-leftists-become-thugs/
Besides Andrew’s historical tie-in of modern Leftists to violent slave owners of the past (and present) he makes his point via an illustration about wife beaters:

A quick way to come to wisdom about yourself is to understand this:
you are what you do.
You’re not your good intentions.
You’re not your noble feelings.
Your deeds are what make you who you are.
A man who beats his wife then cries in remorse is a wife-beater.
That’s all he is.
When he stops punching her — stops for good — then he has a chance to become something else.
Then he can cry all he wants.
Until then, his tears mean jack-diddly crap.
He’s a wife beater.
That’s all.

He is correct that the Left keeps trying to excuse their thuggishness because their intentions, their goals are So Noble!
The Left’s thuggishness, and excusing it, is a big part of the reason more from the Left are Walking Away.

This is what you get when you elect Republicans

It goes much further than their repugnant and disastrous effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but all the contemporary GOP’s pathologies could be seen there: their outright malice toward ordinary people, their indifference to the suffering of their fellow citizens, their blazing incompetence, their contempt for democratic norms, their shameless hypocrisy, their gleeful ignorance about policy, their utter dishonesty and bad faith, their pure cynicism, and their complete inability to perform anything that resembles governing. It was the perfect Republican spectacle.

It’s remarkable to consider that there was a time not too long ago when the Grand Old Party was known for being serious, sober, a little boring, but above all, responsible. They were conservative in the traditional sense: wanting to conserve what they thought was good and fearful of rapid change. You might not have agreed with them, but there were limits to the damage they could do. The devolution from that Republican Party to the one we see today took a couple of decades and had many sources, but its fullest expression was reached with the lifting up of Donald J. Trump to the presidency, this contemptible buffoon who may have been literally the single worst prominent American they could have chosen to be their standard-bearer. I mean that seriously. Can you think of a single person who might have run for president who is more ignorant, more impulsive, more vindictive and more generally dangerous than Donald Trump? And yet they rallied around him with near-unanimity, a worried shake of the head to his endless stream of atrocious statements and actions the strongest dissent most of them could muster…

But that was the entire point. They’re supportive of an angry outburst and a lot of venting and acting out, not of any particular well-thought-out body of policies. The little cartoon at the top of the page summarizes what they imagine they’re getting. There really is an agenda, of course, but average Trump supporters are pretty much blind what that’s actually all about. It certainly isn’t about the betterment of their lot, unless they happen to be at the top end of the economic ladder.

@Kitt, #9:

Republicans—who have simultaneously controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House for over a year-and-a-half now—have pretty much assured Obamacare’s collapse by methodically kicking out essential components put there to make it work.

So how’s that better and cheaper alternative that will be available to everyone coming? Trump said it was ready to roll as soon as he was elected. Any news?

@Greg:

Republicans—who have simultaneously controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House for over a year-and-a-half now—have pretty much assured Obamacare’s collapse by methodically kicking out essential components put there to make it work

Oh, my. Republicans ended the slush funds that were paid to insurance companies out of taxpayer dollars in order to prop up Obamacare for the first few years. So while I saw my supplemental insurance premiums go from zero, to well over $150 a month due to the CWA not adhering to contracts (all with Obama/Democrat permission in order to facilitate Obamacare) to now well over $250/month, I also had the privilege of paying income taxes into the federal coffers so that Obama could buy off the insurance companies.

But then, let’s not forget that our current crop of snowflakes are now considered “children” until they reach the age of 26.

What part of the Constitution do you think guarantees you health insurance coverage? Hell, Greggie, what part of the Constitution do you think guarantees you health care?

@Greg: Do you think we are not pissed at the lying uniparty RINO Republicans, lobbists from big pharma and insurance companies pouring cash into their war chests to screw over everyone? They lied for 8 years with we have a better plan, a few of them might but Ryan and Turtleman refuse to bring them to the floor for debate, the exit of Ryan is great news for us. Biggs AZ or Davidson OH would be great replacements for RINO Ryan. Tempted to take a page from the democrats and chase them in public places asking wheres our better plan wheres our balanced budget wheres our wall.

@Greg:

What part of the Constitution provides 45,497,828 elderly Americans and their dependents with monthly Social Security checks? Would you prefer not to be receiving them?

After what Democrats have done to Social Security, the day is fast approaching when people that have paid into the system WON’T receive them. Buying votes is expensive when your political accomplishment is terrible.

@Deplorable Me, #18:

Democrats created Social Security. Every elderly American who depends on that monthly retirement check as a means of avoiding destitution has a democrat to thank for it.

If you want to talk about total fiscal incompetence, lets start with the rapidly growing deficit and the GOP’s permanent tax cuts for corporate America and the wealthiest, who needed them the very least. They’ve set the nation up for trillion-dollar-per-year additions to the national debt at a time when there’s no need whatsoever for stimulus spending. They’re robbing the people blind, and their supporters seem completely oblivious to the fact that they’re even doing it. The proceeds of this epic cash grab sure as hell aren’t going into the pockets of the poor, or struggling families, or elderly retired Americans, or homeless vets, all of whom will be lucky if their own temporary tax cuts offset their cost of living increases. The deficits won’t be funding infrastructure improvements. That redirected cash–essentially obtained by taking the nation’s credit card to an unsupervised ATM–will be going into the pockets of self-serving people like Donald Trump. The rest of us get will get the bill.

Once again, republican voters have been sold a bill of goods, and will be given the same old line that the predictable consequences are all the fault of somebody else. They go for it every damn time, because understanding the con game would involve a recognition of their own gullibility and responsibility.