The Opiniated Ogre
This little twit is my next target....
He wrote the following post on Substack but blocks anyone who disagrees with him from commenting. So, I copied his screed and responded to every single one of his pathetic points. See below…
Republicans Can't Stop Telling Us They're Assholes
Here is the text of his post, with my responses in Bold Italic…or you can click the above underlined title and read his post without my comments. If you do, be sure to have your barf bag nearby…
[Yes, that is the lovely header for his post.]
“Dear America, Go Fuck Yourself! Love, The GOP”
Republicans used to be more subtle.1 They didn’t just come out and spew racism. They used dog whistles and code words.
Where is this racism you rant about? Do you just make stuff up? America is probably the least racist country in the world…unless we want to include the racist hatred on the part of minorities toward white citizens. If you come back at me with examples of racism toward nonwhites, I will come back at you with 10X the number of examples of hatred toward whites because, as you damn well know, the vast majority of racist hatred in America today is from Blacks toward Whites.
They didn’t just come out and say they wanted to privatize Medicare. They talked about letting the free market “improve it.”
Where’s your evidence? Show me the quote. As for the free market, it has performed far better than literally any government program; Obamacare being the supreme example of government increasing the cost of things.
These days, though? Republicans can’t stop telling us they’re assholes. They’re proud of it. They want to shout it from the fucking rooftops! And boy howdy, are they shouting.
Behold, the Republican Study Committee. What do they study? Presumably how to cause as much misery and suffering as possible because it sure as fuck is not “how to make America great again.” Here are some of the details via the White House and the RSC itself of what they plan to do if Trump steals another election:
The RSC’s proposed budget would:
Raise the retirement age for Social Security to 69 because fuck you, non-millionaires. Work until you die. Some of them are actually saying this out fucking loud
Well, isn’t that interesting. You find one guy saying something and all of a sudden, it’s every Republican in the country. But as long as you brought up retiring, perhaps we can talk about all of the useless government bureaucrats at every level of government retiring in their fifties after only 30 damn years! I’m 76 and still working. How about you Mr. Stay-at-Home Mom? Have you ever worked, you worthless slug?
Cut 1.5 trillion from Social Security to, what else?, pay for tax cuts for the rich
Do you dimwitted Dems ever get tired of that tired cliché? Of course not, because it has worked for decades with you clueless, dimwitted Dem voters. Trump’s tax cuts finally gave some much-needed tax relief to the beleaguered middle-class, but if it also benefitted anyone other than your welfare losers, it’s a bad idea. Right?
End Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices (this is the thing that brought the price of insulin down from well over $100 to just $35 a month and saved thousands of lives)2
Show the proof that Republicans are trying to end this. I’ll wait, you lying bastard.
Privatize Medicare, which would send costs for senior citizens skyrocketing but would make billions for the medical industry
Again, prove it. I see nothing but an accusation. Show me the evidence.
Massive tax cuts for the rich because something something “job creators”3
Again, nothing but empty accusations. You lying Leftists lie as a core strategy, content in the knowledge that nobody in the lapdog media will call you on it. It’s quite a tag team you have.
End the estate tax on the rich so they can pass their unearned wealth to their lazy, entitled children who never worked a day in their lives
Listen, loudmouth, when someone creates a legacy for himself and his family, who the fuck are you to think you have a right to confiscate it for redistribution to losers like you who never leave the house and report to work?
Claw back the money being used by the IRS to hunt down millionaire and billionaire tax cheats. The IRS doing its job has been filling the right with unholy fury. We’re “stealing” billions from the rich!
LMFAO! Your lunatic Dem congressmen voted to hire Eighty-seven thousand NEW IRS agents!! WTF! And you call that merely a “claw back”?? It was an outrage that such a thing should even be up for discussion, much less passed! Remember: “All the government wants is all of your money,” is as true as the day it was first said.
Kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau so companies can rip off hundreds of billions from the public. Any agency that protects the public from greedy corporations is a problem for the GOP and the CFPB has been exceptionally good at its job. Republicans will never stop trying to kill it
The CFPB is an abortion of a bill that has created more problems than it will ever solve.
And, of course, a national abortion ban because when they said they would never do that, they were fucking lying. And you know who will immediately rule that it’s constitutional? The same Republicans on the Supreme Court who just insisted that the federal government couldn’t regulate abortion. Because this was the goal all along and the only people who didn’t know it were the media who called us “alarmists.”
Roe v. Wade was unconstitutional the day it was passed. Even Norma McCorvey, the woman who brought the lawsuit, wishes it had never passed. It was a dark, dark day in American jurisprudence, and unconstitutional as hell.
That’s just the top-line stuff. Republicans also want to:
End government research into climate change
Do you even know anything about CO2?? Carbon dioxide is a gas that is essential for life on Earth. Humans need carbon dioxide to regulate respiration and control blood pH. Plants use carbon dioxide to create oxygen through photosynthesis. You are clueless, and so-called climate change has been a tax scam from Day 1.
Cut funding to the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration because they’re too “woke” or focused on climate change
They both have been converted into extensions of the lobbying effort by you lunatics on the Left who want nothing less than totalitarian control over America’s economy and culture.
Cut subsidies for car companies to produce electric vehicles
Why should taxpayers pay for subsidies to produce EVs? Even ultra-liberal Michael Shellenburger admits that EVs are a huge mistake. The damn electricity comes mostly from carbon-based power plants!
Gut the Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA is no longer a government agency, they are political activists on the front lines promoting the climate change scam, including naming carbon dioxide a dangerous gas, for god’s sake!!
Gut the CDC for being too “woke” because vaccines and viruses apparently have a political agenda
The CDC has finally admitted that Covid was just another flu, and that Ivermectin and other interdictions should have been made available. They deserve to be gutted! Millions died because of them. They were in the pocket of Big Pharma. Get a grip.
Eliminate the National Labor Relations Board which has been enabling the recent surge of union activity and sending Corporate America into a terrified panic
Prove it. I have seen no evidence that they are trying to eliminate the NLRB. You make shit up out of whole cloth.
It goes on and on and on. Page after page of this crap. A detailed blueprint of how to break a country into pieces and hand it over to oligarchs.
Let’s be clear: This Republican plan will not improve the lives of their base of rabidly racist misogynists in the slightest.
Republicans are rabidly racist mysogynists? Based on what evidence? If anyone is rabid, it is you. Do you believe that by spewing this vile hatred, you can get people on your side of the divide so pissed off that they lose their minds and don’t do their homework. By the way, and for the record, I’m a registered Independent, and have been one for nearly 40 years.
It will actively make their lives worse in every conceivable way.
Really? Here is what Trump did when he was president…
America gained 7 million new jobs—more than three times government experts’ projections
Middle-class family income increased nearly $6,000—more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration
The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century
Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job hirings
More Americans reported being employed than ever before—nearly 160 million
Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low
The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest level on record
Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly three decades
Unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those without a high school diploma all reached record lows
Unemployment for women hit its lowest rate in nearly 70 years
Nearly 7 million people were lifted off of food stamps
Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans reached record lows
Income inequality fell for two straight years—and by the largest amount in over a decade
The bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth
Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue-collar workers—a 16 percent pay increase
African American homeownership increased from 41.7 percent to 46.4 percent
Created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs
Put in place policies to bring back supply chains from overseas
Small business optimism broke a 35-year-old record in 2018
The DOW closed above 20,000 for the first time in 2017 and topped 30,000 in 2020
The S&P 500 and NASDAQ have repeatedly notched record highs
An October 2020 Gallup survey found 56 percent of Americans said they were better off now than four years ago, even in the midst of a global pandemic
During the third quarter of 2020, the economy grew at a rate of 33.1 percent—the most rapid GDP growth ever recorded
Since coronavirus lockdowns ended, the economy has added back over 12 million jobs, more than half the jobs lost
Jobs have been recovered 23 times faster than the previous administration’s recovery
Unemployment fell to 6.7 percent in November, from a pandemic peak of 14.7 percent in April—beating expectations of well over 10 percent unemployment through the end of 2020
The 8 percentage point decline in the unemployment rate from April to November is the largest seven-month reduction ever recorded
Under the previous administration, it took 49 months for the unemployment rate to fall from 10 percent to under 7 percent, compared to just 3 months for the Trump Administration
Since April, the Hispanic unemployment rate has fallen by 10.5 percent, Asian-American unemployment by 7.8 percent, and Black-American unemployment by 6.4 percent
80 percent of small businesses are now open, up from just 53 percent in April
Small business confidence hit a new high
Homebuilder confidence reached an all-time high, and home sales hit their highest reading since December 2006
Manufacturing optimism nearly doubled
Household net worth rose $7.4 trillion in Q2 2020 to $112 trillion, an all-time high
Home prices hit an all-time record high
The United States rejected crippling lockdowns that crush the economy and inflict countless public health harms and instead safely reopened its economy
Business confidence is higher in America than in any other G7 or European Union country
Stabilized America’s financial markets with the establishment of a number of Treasury Department supported facilities at the Federal Reserve
Immediately withdrew from the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Ended the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and replaced it with the brand new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
The USMCA contains powerful new protections for American manufacturers, auto-makers, farmers, dairy producers, and workers
The USMCA is expected to generate over $68 billion in economic activity and potentially create over 550,000 new jobs over 10 years
Signed an executive order making it government policy to Buy American and Hire American, and took action to stop the outsourcing of jobs overseas
Negotiated with Japan to slash tariffs and open its market to $7 billion in American agricultural products while ending its ban on potatoes and lamb
Over 90 percent of American agricultural exports to Japan now receive preferential treatment, and most are duty-free
Negotiated another deal with Japan to boost $40 billion worth of digital trade
Renegotiated the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement, doubling the cap on imports of American vehicles and extending the American light truck tariff
Reached a written, fully enforceable Phase One trade agreement with China on confronting pirated and counterfeit goods, as well as the protection of American ideas, trade secrets, patents, and trademarks
China agreed to purchase an additional $200 billion worth of United States exports and opened market access for over 4,000 American facilities to exports while all tariffs remained in effect
Achieved a mutual agreement with the European Union (EU) that addresses unfair trade practices and increases duty-free exports 180 percent to $420 million
Secured a pledge from the EU to eliminate tariffs on American lobster—the first United States-European Union negotiated tariff reduction in over 20 years
Scored a historic victory by overhauling the Universal Postal Union, whose outdated policies were undermining American workers and interests
Engaged extensively with trade partners like the EU and Japan to advance reforms to the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Issued a first-ever comprehensive report on the WTO Appellate Body’s failures to comply with WTO rules and interpret WTO agreements as written
Blocked nominees to the WTO’s Appellate Body until WTO Members recognize and address longstanding issues with Appellate Body activism
Submitted 5 papers to the WTO Committee on Agriculture to improve Members’ understanding of how trade policies are implemented, highlight areas for improved transparency, and encourage members to maintain up-to-date notifications on market access and domestic support
Imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions worth of Chinese goods to protect American jobs and stop China’s abuses under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974
Directed an all-of-government effort to halt and punish efforts by the Communist Party of China to steal and profit from American innovations and intellectual property
Imposed tariffs on foreign aluminum and foreign steel to protect our vital industries and support our national security
Approved tariffs on $1.8 billion in imports of washing machines and $8.5 billion in imports of solar panels
Blocked illegal timber imports from Peru
Took action against France for its digital services tax that unfairly targets American technology companies
Launched investigations into digital services taxes that have been proposed or adopted by 10 other countries
All of the above, you know, just in case you actually do give a damn about the average American (You don’t. You only care about the losers who want every single dime we producers earn.)
But it will make the billionaire scumbags who own the GOP happy even as the Republican base, too fucking stupid to know their throats are being slit, cheer because it made the libs cry.
The fucking stupid people are those who stand up and cheer while Joe Biden dismantles America in too many ways to count. You idiots can’t even see that he and his cabal are intent on converting America from a capitalist showcase to a Marxist shithole country. Or, perhaps you actually can see what he is doing and are applauding it. Let me remind of a truism: “If you take from the productive sector of society, and redistribute their wealth to the unproductive members of society, we will all be poor because the productive – people like me who get up every single day and work 10-12 hours a day – will STOP WORKING, you moron!!
So why are Republicans so open about this? They used to circulate their plans in secret while smiling to the public and promising to make things better. Now they just send out a press release bluntly stating how they’re going to fuck the American people raw without a drop of lube.
So, let’s see this mystery press release that says the Republicans are going to fuck the American people raw without a drop of lube. I’ll wait. What an insane lunatic…
The answer, as always, is the press. This is a two-parter. The first part is that the Republican base lives in a sealed information bubble. Republicans can quite literally tell them that cutting funding for the IRS is good for America because billionaires shouldn’t pay taxes. If the evil government can do that to a billionaire, think about what they can do to you! Blablabla.
Pure bullshit. The conservative base of this country is sick and damn tired of paying more and more in taxes, and receiving less and less in benefits because assholes like you redistribute the money to people who contribute little or nothing to the economy. We hate the billionaires just as much as people like you do.
So, the base will never see this stuff as it actually is because it will never be reported accurately inside their bubble.
The premise that the media is on the side of Republicans is laughable on its face. What planet do you live on?? Oh, wait…never mind. I forgot…you, like Mars, stay at home all day and spew bile while you send your wifey out to do the real work.
But what about outside of the bubble? Well, that’s the second part and a whole different problem. As I mentioned numerous times before, the press works overtime to normalize and downplay Republican extremism. They do this because it would be “biased” to inform the public of just how off-the-wall insane and evil the GOP has become.
You. Are. Delusional. Or are such a well-practiced liar that you have even convinced yourself that the media is on the side of the Right in this country. That is the single most laughable thing you have written in this screed (and that is saying A LOT!)
That, in turn, would hurt their bottom line as the public recoiled in horror from the monstrosity the Republican Party has become. Elections would cease to be competitive as Republicans found themselves isolated and ostracized by people with functioning moral compasses.
LMFAO Republicans are the ones with no moral compass, and you zero morality cretins – “If it feels good, do it.” “Open the borders to anyone!” “No bail for felony criminals!”, “Go ahead, steal whatever you want.” etc. - on the Left are those with the moral compass. Hilarious…
No horse race means no horse race coverage and that is a loss of hundreds of millions in revenue for the press. Better to pretend the GOP is a normal political party and keep things interesting (and lucrative).
If you think the liberal media wants to see Trump in the race, take that argument to them. It sounds like an intra-party spat to me.
The result of decades of media complicity is that the public simply does not believe Republicans are, in fact, cartoon villains. It doesn’t matter how depraved they are or how brazen about it they get, the public has been conditioned by the press to shrug it off. “Oh, that’s just an exaggeration by the Democrats.” Even if it’s a video of a Republican announcing how they want to end Social Security and Medicare, it’s just brushed off as partisan bickering.
As I said, if you believe that Pablum you’re spreading, take it up with your sweethearts in the media.
Republicans are keenly aware of this and know they can say anything they want with no repercussions. Why bother hiding how evil you are when the press will just cover it up anyway? The problem, of course, is that the GOP is now caught in a cycle of escalation from which there is no escape; a victim of their own “success” in manipulating the media.
The GOP is manipulating the media. Bahahaha!! The GOP will be surprised to hear that. In fact, they will immediately demand a return on their investment. What a clueless dimwit.
Now that they don’t have to restrain themselves, they can only sink further into depravity and they have to move fast to satisfy the rage center of the base. The practical effect of this is screaming at the top of your lungs what an asshole you are. Look at me! Aren’t I the biggest dick you’ve ever seen?! I’ll make the libs cry for sure!
Actually, that is a perfect description of you, amigo.
But that kind of escalation can only be covered up for so long. The press has been insisting for two years now that the Dobbs decision is no big deal. That it wouldn’t keep impacting elections. Despite these assurances, Republicans were creamed in the midterms, the off-year, and almost every special election since then.
The timing of the Dobbs decision was by design by someone who actually had it in for the Republicans, and you know it. It was horrific.
Election night this November is going to be a very bad night for Republicans and the press because the GOP is exceeding the press’ ability to normalize them. So please, Republicans, keep telling us all exactly what kind of assholes you are as loudly as you can. More cruel budgets. More Project 2025 sadism. It’s the best campaign ad for Democrats I can imagine!
Sadly, for you and your sycophants, Election night will be every bit as depressing for you as 2016 was for Hillary.
There are 224 days until the 2024 election. Vote blue like your life depends on it.
Yes, life as you know it will end on November 5, 2024. You are correct.
This would be after they discovered screaming the N-word at the top of their lungs and viciously beating Black protestors on TV was very unpopular with the public.
Now Republicans are beating Black protestors? LMAO You are one of a kind. I guess you missed the BLM riots (No, not protests…riots) and the drugstore bandits and looting gangs marching in and out of retail stores with millions in loot without a single cop trying to stop them. Talk about selective memory!
The press tried REALLY fucking hard to make it seem like drug companies did this all on their own out of the goodness of their hearts. Fuck you. Biden and the Democrats twisted their arm until they tapped out. That’s what the government is for: To beat greedy multi-billion-dollar corporations into submission on behalf of We The People.
I have no time for greedy corporations either, but even less time for a greedy government - you know, the government you think can solve every problem - that can’t ever get enough of my money.
To the surprise of actually no one, the GOP’s trillion-dollar tax cut didn’t do a fucking thing except make the rich even richer. So of course they want to make those cuts permanent instead of letting them expire in December of 2025.
You really have a hard time telling the truth. I refer you back to the economic record of Trump, accomplished in only four years. Compare it to the pathetic record to date of the fraud in the White House. And Trump accomplished it all against a very strong headwind from morons like you who actually believe in Utopia, Unicorns, and Marxism as a cure-all.
Go crawl back in your hole, you pathetic cretin.
Better yet, go get a damn job.
—The Liberator
Yeah, I’ve read a couple of his posts. Pretty juvenile. But, in the immortal words of Fabre College’s Dean Wormer, “fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life”. Apparently, this clown didn’t get the message.
Oh yeah! Loons of the highest order.