Republicans haven't been pro-life since Roe v. Wade. They've been pro-fetus but once a child is born, they expect them to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and take care of themselves.
yes! there's a quote from an episode of LAW AND ORDER that sums it all up. "they just want those kids to be born. after that, they don't care what the hell happens to them."
Evil is a feature, not a bug. It bothers me that neither the RNC nor fuckface's people put out any kind of policy. They just took the most evil think-tank's policy and adopted it wholesale while lying about it like crazy.
The only policies I can uncover in the Republican Party today are: support fascism here and abroad, pretend dementia isn't real, and hate taxes.
If these people actually believe in anything other than their pocketbooks and their God-given right to a Congressional seat and accompanying free health insurance for life, no matter what, I haven't seen it.
Agree with one exception. Yes, dementia is real. Members of my family were medically diagnosed and treated for it. tRump exhibits no dementia symptoms based on my experience. Rather, every word out of tRump's mouth is deliberate and intended to achieve a specific result: obedience, love, loyalty, compliance, $$$$$$, respect, adoration, worship, veneration, praise, $$$$$$, and on and on and on.
The Republican Party is FINE with low or no taxes for corporations and the wealthy investor class; but tax the daylights out of the middle and even low end of the spectrum is their "good thing." And so is gutting essential services, infrastructure, and institutions that the elite rich don't think they themselves will ever need, and if they do, they can afford privately to buy the best. The only principles at work here are "opportunity, but only for some; drudgery, struggle, and insecurity for the rest. WHITE MEN RULE."
This is a very accurate assessment of policy positions of today's Republicans. They promise and, almost never deliver, policies and programs that actually help folks who need help. Nonetheless, they have managed to convince nearly half of the population that they are on their side. From the Republican President down to the lowliest Republican backbencher, they lie and cheat yet too few of us recognize it for what it is. Baldface dishonesty!
there is what amounts to a hatred of "the masses" who fall for those promises. as the republicans don't have to actually mingle with the great unwashed masses, they just use them to get what THEY want.
Trump doesn’t care about educating the masses. He wants more children so that they can serve the elite. Remember his questioning why they need more than 5 pencils. I wonder how many pencils his grandchildren have.
Thank you, Jen, for your insightful columns each day.
To a rational mind, it is a self-defeating and irrational policy. In the MAGA mind, it is a vision to female disempowerment and disenfranchisement (barefoot and pregnant), a swerve toward polygamy or serial monogamy (mommy death by pregnancy complications), a stepping stone for the halfwit sons of white patriarchs (cf: the Trump scions), the growth of an undereducated and dull-witted military force in the right’s territorial expansion dreams, and nostalgia for Father Knows Best. May we fight with all we have to prevent it.
Clarification and delineation of the damages that this badly assembled legislation creates is good, though in The Contrarian, it's reaching the wrong people. We have seen and kept track of this bill since its inception. Thanks to you, we have been well informed. The people who need to be reading this information don't read this publication! This kind of investigative journalism needs to be seen in a wider media, and for the most part, it is not. MSM is not serving us well.
I agree except what is "wider" media? I'd wager that the lion's share of MAGATs get their "news" from social media or Fox and its copycats. Others get their "news" from friends and family members who think like them. I don't know the answer except brainwashing or perhaps deportation. This administration is currently deporting the wrong people.
Faux Noise would and should be the first to change its format to telling "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" along with the major broadcasting companies and newspapers that are owned by oligarchs and corporate entities with an agenda.
Amen! Moreover, I would argue that overpopulation is contributing to decline of quality of Life (including non-human species) worldwide wide, not to mention climate change. It is time to increase awareness of organizations like Population Matters thathave tried for years to bring this fact to our attention.
Forced-birth-pro-death. That is the platform of the Republican party. They love fetuses but hate actual born children. They hate educated people, they are against helping parents raise children with financial assistance, and they are more concerned with the rights of gun nuts than with the lives of children slathered in mass school shootings. They are in favor of women dying in hospital parking lots because doctors are afraid to treat them due to draconian anti-anortion laws. All in all, Republicans are monsters that are not now, nor have they ever been, "pro-life."
Nobody can say that the MAGAts have a rational plan for their great transform of American Society. Coherent, cruel, callous, but not rational. It seeks to divide us into 'The Good People' and 'Those people'. It will eventually trash the economy. There will be a whole lot of unnecessarily-dead people on the deck. A whole lot of hungry, uneducated, traumatized kids.
As far as WHO should be having more kids, if you look at Don the Con's history, you'll see that he's a bigot and a bald-faced racist, and makes little if any attempt to hide it.
For some reasons, his followers love his ignorance, which is on full display almost daily; his gross language; and his fist-shaking dancing. Very presidential. At least that seems to be a prevailing sentiment among his followers that, unfortunately, include SCOTUS and Congress. These people aren't ignorant. I can only conclude that the love what he does and represents. I can't wait to see one of our Congress people or SCOTUS do a fist-shaking dance. Wouldn't be surprised.
Trump is our national MISTAKE that needs correcting, S.T.A.T. , along with his handlers, enablers, sycophants, toadies, golfing buddies, SCOTUS plants and minions. ENOUGH already!
Neither Trump nor anyone in his orbit ever listens to anything they say. They are clueless about the cruel paradox of supposedly wanting people (their idea of the right people) to have more children, but making it harder to bring up those children. Plenty of young people are very concerned about human-caused climate change and how bad life will be for their children, but Trump and company are doing their best to make climate change worse.
How long will it be before the DOGE insanity hits the public and not just the unsuspecting who lost their jobs? Besides the ongoing disaster and loss of life in Texas? Will there be "enough" before the mid-terms, even if we even have elections then? How much is deliberately being held off until after they happen?
I realize the information is out there somewhere, but I'm getting so many newsletters right now aside from just reading various people on here without a subscription, I can't stay on top of the fire hose of information.
Republicans haven't been pro-life since Roe v. Wade. They've been pro-fetus but once a child is born, they expect them to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and take care of themselves.
They aren't even really pro fetus. If they were, they'd make sure the "host body" was clothed, fed, housed, and received the best medical care.
Right on!!
Republicans were the party of 'pro-birth' long before Roe vs. Wade. They claimed one thing, (pro-life) but practiced another. Hypocrites.
"Right to life -- what a lie. You don't care if women die."
OR kids.
They are really pro control. They have zero interest in the fetus or child or woman involved. Their interest ends when they get out of bed.
When I was a kid in Pennsyltucky, most Republican women were pro choice.
If someone like Musk wants to replicate himself, cloning imay be the answer. https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Cloning-Fact-Sheet
Imagine: https://best-sci-fi-books.com/19-best-science-fiction-books-about-clones/
The last thing the world needs is another Musk. Cruel, racist, hypocritical, greedy - the list goes on and on.
Have you seen the pics of him before his hair transplants and facial plastic surgery? He is/was nothing but a dweeb with megalomania.
OMG he paid for that face !!! maybe the kardash family plastic guy can fix it...
Yes on hair, but I could find no evidence that he had facial plastic surgery.
For more than you want to know about his hair:
https://gracetouchclinic.com/elon-musk-hair-transplant-everything-you-need-to-know/
Look at his chin.
That face is better than what he was born with? Gobsmacking! I can't fathom how even his money can make him attractive to women.
witness bezos
Pretty sure it's his $$$$$ that attracts them...
You are right, but I still can't fathom money making him attractive.
There is a reason incels are incels. They radiate a creepy kind of dangerous…
This isn't funny. There isn't anything about Musk that is admirable. His image is largely hype from PR and fanboys.
relax...just entertaining ourselves until the midterms...
With a little gene editing to remove the malware, all that would remain is a puddle of grey goo.
Don't give the creeps any more BAD ideas!!!😱
yes! there's a quote from an episode of LAW AND ORDER that sums it all up. "they just want those kids to be born. after that, they don't care what the hell happens to them."
They are only pro-white evangelical or Catholic fetus, to be more precise.
Absolutely. Pro-life doesn’t care about the babies after they’re born because it’s never been about the babies. It’s about the sex.
Good point
Evil is a feature, not a bug. It bothers me that neither the RNC nor fuckface's people put out any kind of policy. They just took the most evil think-tank's policy and adopted it wholesale while lying about it like crazy.
The only policies I can uncover in the Republican Party today are: support fascism here and abroad, pretend dementia isn't real, and hate taxes.
If these people actually believe in anything other than their pocketbooks and their God-given right to a Congressional seat and accompanying free health insurance for life, no matter what, I haven't seen it.
Agree with one exception. Yes, dementia is real. Members of my family were medically diagnosed and treated for it. tRump exhibits no dementia symptoms based on my experience. Rather, every word out of tRump's mouth is deliberate and intended to achieve a specific result: obedience, love, loyalty, compliance, $$$$$$, respect, adoration, worship, veneration, praise, $$$$$$, and on and on and on.
He is a lying devil.
The Republican Party is FINE with low or no taxes for corporations and the wealthy investor class; but tax the daylights out of the middle and even low end of the spectrum is their "good thing." And so is gutting essential services, infrastructure, and institutions that the elite rich don't think they themselves will ever need, and if they do, they can afford privately to buy the best. The only principles at work here are "opportunity, but only for some; drudgery, struggle, and insecurity for the rest. WHITE MEN RULE."
BOOT 'EM ALL OUT IN '24.
MAGA = MA(fi)A
Lawlessness encourages the worst in people. Just look at the world's oligarchs.
A succinct and accurate summary, Kazperhauser!
Better headline/title would have been "MAGA's ugly budget at odds with anyone with an IQ above room temp as measured on the centigrade scale."
This is a very accurate assessment of policy positions of today's Republicans. They promise and, almost never deliver, policies and programs that actually help folks who need help. Nonetheless, they have managed to convince nearly half of the population that they are on their side. From the Republican President down to the lowliest Republican backbencher, they lie and cheat yet too few of us recognize it for what it is. Baldface dishonesty!
there is what amounts to a hatred of "the masses" who fall for those promises. as the republicans don't have to actually mingle with the great unwashed masses, they just use them to get what THEY want.
Hahaha.
Centigrade scale puts them exactly where they belong. Thank you for a good laugh.
There is no other way to describe this except to say that it is sick, twisted bullshit. These people want to take us back to the 1800s.
Exactly! They harken for the world portrayed in the cowboy tv shows of the fifties-sixties-seventies where it was just a
strong silent cowboy dad and his sons, no moms survived and the only women were childless Miss Kitty types who ran a local bistro.
miss kitty was a whore who rana bar and whore house...
she was however a businesswoman...
thank you for your post. i've been thinking that but was hoping i was overthinking it or being hysterical.
Agreed!
There were young ladies dressed Handmaiden's Tale style at the Wilmington, Delaware No Kings Day. So appropriate.
Trump doesn’t care about educating the masses. He wants more children so that they can serve the elite. Remember his questioning why they need more than 5 pencils. I wonder how many pencils his grandchildren have.
Thank you, Jen, for your insightful columns each day.
I doubt seriously, that he could pick his grandkids out of a lineup.
To a rational mind, it is a self-defeating and irrational policy. In the MAGA mind, it is a vision to female disempowerment and disenfranchisement (barefoot and pregnant), a swerve toward polygamy or serial monogamy (mommy death by pregnancy complications), a stepping stone for the halfwit sons of white patriarchs (cf: the Trump scions), the growth of an undereducated and dull-witted military force in the right’s territorial expansion dreams, and nostalgia for Father Knows Best. May we fight with all we have to prevent it.
if we don't fight with all we have we will live to regret it.
Clarification and delineation of the damages that this badly assembled legislation creates is good, though in The Contrarian, it's reaching the wrong people. We have seen and kept track of this bill since its inception. Thanks to you, we have been well informed. The people who need to be reading this information don't read this publication! This kind of investigative journalism needs to be seen in a wider media, and for the most part, it is not. MSM is not serving us well.
I agree except what is "wider" media? I'd wager that the lion's share of MAGATs get their "news" from social media or Fox and its copycats. Others get their "news" from friends and family members who think like them. I don't know the answer except brainwashing or perhaps deportation. This administration is currently deporting the wrong people.
Form a massive conglomerate to buy FOX, and then tell it like it is.
Faux Noise would and should be the first to change its format to telling "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" along with the major broadcasting companies and newspapers that are owned by oligarchs and corporate entities with an agenda.
Amen! Moreover, I would argue that overpopulation is contributing to decline of quality of Life (including non-human species) worldwide wide, not to mention climate change. It is time to increase awareness of organizations like Population Matters thathave tried for years to bring this fact to our attention.
Forced-birth-pro-death. That is the platform of the Republican party. They love fetuses but hate actual born children. They hate educated people, they are against helping parents raise children with financial assistance, and they are more concerned with the rights of gun nuts than with the lives of children slathered in mass school shootings. They are in favor of women dying in hospital parking lots because doctors are afraid to treat them due to draconian anti-anortion laws. All in all, Republicans are monsters that are not now, nor have they ever been, "pro-life."
absolutely, and i think they figure when women die, it's okay, because they are ONLY women.
Hear hear!
Alan, you nailed it. A thousand LIKES.
Nobody can say that the MAGAts have a rational plan for their great transform of American Society. Coherent, cruel, callous, but not rational. It seeks to divide us into 'The Good People' and 'Those people'. It will eventually trash the economy. There will be a whole lot of unnecessarily-dead people on the deck. A whole lot of hungry, uneducated, traumatized kids.
That is what they want. After all the old, ill and disabled die, the remainder will be slaves. 👹
The work you do is amazing. Trump is evil.
Interesting that MAGA does not recognize the hypocrisy of Vance being the front man for their white, Christian, pro natalist movement.
Vance only has two children. And his children are mixed race. His wife is a practicing Hindu.
That's two reasons why he'll be gone pdq! Wait for it......
As far as WHO should be having more kids, if you look at Don the Con's history, you'll see that he's a bigot and a bald-faced racist, and makes little if any attempt to hide it.
And he's the ultimate poster child for DEI (as are his spawn).
Up the reds! ♥️
For some reasons, his followers love his ignorance, which is on full display almost daily; his gross language; and his fist-shaking dancing. Very presidential. At least that seems to be a prevailing sentiment among his followers that, unfortunately, include SCOTUS and Congress. These people aren't ignorant. I can only conclude that the love what he does and represents. I can't wait to see one of our Congress people or SCOTUS do a fist-shaking dance. Wouldn't be surprised.
Trump is our national MISTAKE that needs correcting, S.T.A.T. , along with his handlers, enablers, sycophants, toadies, golfing buddies, SCOTUS plants and minions. ENOUGH already!
Neither Trump nor anyone in his orbit ever listens to anything they say. They are clueless about the cruel paradox of supposedly wanting people (their idea of the right people) to have more children, but making it harder to bring up those children. Plenty of young people are very concerned about human-caused climate change and how bad life will be for their children, but Trump and company are doing their best to make climate change worse.
How long will it be before the DOGE insanity hits the public and not just the unsuspecting who lost their jobs? Besides the ongoing disaster and loss of life in Texas? Will there be "enough" before the mid-terms, even if we even have elections then? How much is deliberately being held off until after they happen?
I realize the information is out there somewhere, but I'm getting so many newsletters right now aside from just reading various people on here without a subscription, I can't stay on top of the fire hose of information.