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What a disgusting hypocrite. Or maybe it's jealousy, since nobody is ever going to offer him $400k to talk about anything.
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SignUp Now!thewiseben said:What a giant bag of bullshit this is. Republicans are going to pat themselves on the back for finally repealing that evil Obamacare and replacing it with something that strips the protections away for millions. All to finance a tax break for the rich. Trickle down economics has never been shown to work better than investing for the poor and middle class in the long term. At best the short term benefits accumulate almost entirely to those who are already wealthy.
How do they convince people that this is the Christian, charitable, and humane way to run a society?
thewiseben said:As much as I've raged against organized religion, and Christianity in particular in the past, I'm gaining some tolerance with age.
Most of the actual Christians I know have been nothing but kind in their daily dealings with me. I've got nothing but loathing for the brand associated with our Republican party though.
I know this was a rhetorical question but: appeal to bigotry, religion, and the false belief that the "free market" actually exists and will one day work for them.thewiseben said:Right, but how does this actually convince poor people that these people have their best interests at heart?
SeanMayTriedToEatMe said:This is a microcosm of the game that has been played by wealthy conservatives to win over the poor to be competitive in elections for decades.
rome8180 said:These people are murderers. Not gonna sugarcoat it. They are human scum, and they are singing on the House floor about the eventual deaths of tens of thousands.
And they literally say things like the Republican plan reduces "the costs to those people who lead good lives, they’re healthy, they’ve done the things to keep their bodies healthy." When one of them is diagnosed with cancer, does that prove they've lived a bad life? Are they kicked out of their rich murderer club? Or is the real bad life they're referring to simply not being rich?
Especially since there's very little that is particularly Christ-like reflected in it.thewiseben said:I've got nothing but loathing for the brand associated with our Republican party though.
Brother Ben!!thewiseben said:deepdarkblue said:thewiseben said:As much as I've raged against organized religion, and Christianity in particular in the past, I'm gaining some tolerance with age.
Most of the actual Christians I know have been nothing but kind in their daily dealings with me. I've got nothing but loathing for the brand associated with our Republican party though.
I spend a lot of my days among the salt-of-the-earth so-called Christians who like to call our former president a ni&&er, who believe ripping people off is just "good business", who believe abortions are murder but that funding birth control or food programs for poor children is "just paying them to have more kids".
Forgive me if I can't relate to your own Christian experiences.
Physics is gonna laugh his ass off when he reads that I'm defending Christianity after some of the things I've said here, even a year or two ago.
thewiseben said:As much as I've raged against organized religion, and Christianity in particular in the past, I'm gaining some tolerance with age.
Most of the actual Christians I know have been nothing but kind in their daily dealings with me. I've got nothing but loathing for the brand associated with our Republican party though.