The Republican Utopia

[commando]

4 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

One moron in the house doesn’t make the party. 

there is more than 1 moron who said that.  

[Archy1221]

Just now, commando said:

there is more than 1 moron who said that.  

About the reconciliation bill, not about a straight infrastructure bill

[knapplc]

24 minutes ago, commando said:

https://iowastartingline.com/2022/01/19/hinson-takes-credit-for-infrastructure-funds-she-labeled-as-socialist-voted-against/

 

The release came three days after Hinson voted “no” and delivered a floor speech in the US House criticizing the bill. Hinson also compared the infrastructure bill to Marxism in her Nov. 8 press release.

“It’s the biggest leap toward socialism this nation has ever seen—it takes the Marxist ideology that once only existed in textbooks and makes it law in the United States of America,” she said.

 

 

 

There's no confusion. Conservatives want federal funds, too. They just want the sound bite that allows them to pretend to be fiscally responsible and against those tax-and-spend liberals. 

 

But once the money is available, they go running back to their district crowing at how great it is that she secured these funds for her constituents.

 

And the constituents won't bat an eye. Because they want that money, too. They all just live in a pretend world where libruls = bad and they're the conservative heroes. 

 

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

 

[Archy1221]

24 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

 

There's no confusion. Conservatives want federal funds, too. They just want the sound bite that allows them to pretend to be fiscally responsible and against those tax-and-spend liberals. 

 

But once the money is available, they go running back to their district crowing at how great it is that she secured these funds for her constituents.

 

And the constituents won't bat an eye. Because they want that money, too. They all just live in a pretend world where libruls = bad and they're the conservative heroes. 

 

 

 

Which has nothing to do with your claim of comparing infrastructure spending to socialism. 

[knapplc]

LET'S SEND TROOPS TO THE BORDER!!!! is a great stir-up-the-base phrase.

 

The reality, as often happens when Republicans are forced to try to "govern," is not living up to the expectations.

 

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

2 hours ago, commando said:

https://iowastartingline.com/2022/01/19/hinson-takes-credit-for-infrastructure-funds-she-labeled-as-socialist-voted-against/

 

The release came three days after Hinson voted “no” and delivered a floor speech in the US House criticizing the bill. Hinson also compared the infrastructure bill to Marxism in her Nov. 8 press release.

“It’s the biggest leap toward socialism this nation has ever seen—it takes the Marxist ideology that once only existed in textbooks and makes it law in the United States of America,” she said.

 

 

This is why I want someone to pin a conservative down on how we can Make America Great Again, which starts by identifying America's greatest period and seeing how we might get back to that. 

 

Of course it's a trap. Because nobody wants to understand how America actually works, and nobody wants holes shot through their ideology. Much easier to screech Marxism and avoid follow up questions. 

[Guy Chamberlin]

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

Which has nothing to do with your claim of comparing infrastructure spending to socialism. 

 

Again, there is not a lone wingnut comparing Joe Biden's every move to an extreme socialist agenda. It's the MO of every messaging and election campaign operated by the GOP. 

[JJ Husker]

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

Shouldn’t there be something inherently wrong (illegal) about forming and operating a non-profit to support domestic terrorists? Really that is more dangerous and subversive to the United States than anything Al Queda or other foreign entities have ever done. Bannon should be executed for treason.

[NM11046]

But JJ ... they're PATRIOTS

[knapplc]

Gee, I can't imagine why Abbott's Republican Utopia is having a worker shortage fueled in part by lack of immigrant workers. 

 

IT'S SUCH A MYSTERY.  

 

 

As labor shortages deepen, bosses ask, ‘Where are the immigrant workers?’

 

Labor shortages are rippling through the service and construction industries, pushing up wages even among undocumented workers. Legal immigration has been hurt just as much with many U.S. consulates and embassies on reduced schedules due to COVID-19 safety provisions.

 

“This is bad for Texas’ economy, just like it’s bad for the economy in every other part of the United States,” said Alex Nowrasteh, director of policy and economic studies at the libertarian-centric Cato Institute. “People fuel economic growth and without more people, our economy is going to stagnate and eventually shrink.”

Nowrasteh estimates that 1.6 million to 3.2 million immigrant workers would have been added to the labor mix had the economy continued on its go-go 2016 trajectory, when a high of 1,065,000 migrants came to the U.S. from other countries, according to the Census Bureau.

 

The bureau says net migration fell to 247,000 last year.

 

With such a tough job market, retirees may be cajoled into rejoining the job hustle, economist Peri said. Dallas Federal Reserve economists have estimated that about 1.5 million more people retired between February 2020 and April of 2021 than would have if 2019 trends had continued.

 

But the loss of immigrants may be a more vexing and long-lasting problem. First, they are much younger, with decades of work life ahead. Half those lost immigrants would have been college-educated immigrants, the U.C. Davis economist said.

 

“Their absence could weaken the innovation and patenting potential of those universities, research institutions and businesses that depend on cutting-edge research and innovation,” Peri wrote in a paper with economist colleague Reem Zaiour.

 

Immigrants have a three times higher probability of starting firms than natives in the U.S., the U.C. Davis economists said. They cite estimates from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private nonpartisan group based in Cambridge, Mass.

[Guy Chamberlin]

Know what's funny?

 

Greg Abbott is going to get primaried by significant contingent of Republicans who don't think he's been tough enough for Texas. 

 

By "funny" of course I mean not very funny at all. 

[commando]

12 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

Know what's funny?

 

Greg Abbott is going to get primaried by significant contingent of Republicans who don't think he's been tough enough for Texas. 

 

By "funny" of course I mean not very funny at all. 

Crenshaw also

 

[Archy1221]

1 hour ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

Again, there is not a lone wingnut comparing Joe Biden's every move to an extreme socialist agenda. It's the MO of every messaging and election campaign operated by the GOP. 

 

1 hour ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

Again, there is not a lone wingnut comparing Joe Biden's every move to an extreme socialist agenda. It's the MO of every messaging and election campaign operated by the GOP. 

@knapplcsaid Republicans equate infrastructure spending to socialism.  That’s simply not true.  We all understand that.  
 

To refute my point, @commandobrought up a congresswomen referencing the reconciliation bill, which had much much much more than just infrastructure (see Joe Manchin) and that was her cry of “Marxism”.  Again, not the infrastructure spending.   

[knapplc]

Meanwhile, as Republicans plan on blocking all efforts to hold anyone accountable for 1/6, their mouthpieces are inciting violence.

 

Swell party.