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Feeble Resistance
Shocked by Donald Trump’s election, Democrats adopted a strategy of resistance that’s simple and blunt: Anything Trump is for, they’re against.
It’s turned out to be one of the least successful strategies a political party has ever pursued. But Democrats have stuck to it.
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/feeble-resistance/article/201095
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Eye Roll
My family is away today (our holiday together will begin tomorrow), so I’m going to do something uber tacky and post politics on Christmas. Cut me some slack, please. It’s just me and the dog here and I need the distraction.
Poor Bernie. He hates the tax cuts. He and all his Dem cronies voted against them. But they’re really popular and will almost certainly turn out to be a very good thing for the economy and disposition of the nation.
What’s a socialist to do? Prepare to eye roll.
During a CNN interview with Jake Tapper, he actually said OUT LOUD, that the tax cuts are “a very good thing. And that’s why we should’ve made the tax cuts for the middle class permanent.”
Yeah. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure. That’s why you VOTED AGAINST THEM, RIGHT?! Tweeters responded:
- Bernie, you don’t get to take credit for the tax bill you claimed would only help rich ppl.
- April Fools right? THIS man is trying to tell us that he believes in tax cuts? ROFL
- And yet not 1 Democrat voted for the bill. Hmm.
- Bernie Sanders wants the tax cuts permanent? Jeeze man why didn’t you speak up?
- Looking forward to him campaigning on this and working with Ryan/McConnell to make that happen.
- 2018 will top 2017 for surprises, as Bernie Sanders switches from Socialist to Republican.
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Share your gifts
O Come, Emmanuel – Lindsey Stirling & Kuha’o Case
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Elitist Schmucks
The GOP’s tax bill will mean an extra $800 or $1,000 per year for a working family.
Lefties mocked this on Twitter, saying that wouldn’t matter A BIT to ANYONE. But the REALITY these elitist schmucks clearly do not understand is that $800 to $1,000 is YUGE for many families.
- More than half of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings and checking accounts combined.
- Most of these say they couldn’t pay for a $400 emergency without borrowing money or selling some of their possessions.
The true hypocrisy of those tweeting twits may be that they’d shriek tweet outrage the mere suggestion of reducing public benefits by $800 to $1,000 per year.
Writing in The Atlantic, a self-described “middle class” writer described what it was like to be one of those Americans who doesn’t have $400 to spare:
I know what it is like to have to juggle creditors to make it through a week. I know what it is like to have to swallow my pride and constantly dun people to pay me so that I can pay others. I know what it is like to have liens slapped on me and to have my bank account levied by creditors. I know what it is like to be down to my last $5 — literally — while I wait for a paycheck to arrive, and I know what it is like to subsist for days on a diet of eggs. I know what it is like to dread going to the mailbox, because there will always be new bills to pay but seldom a check with which to pay them. I know what it is like to have to tell my daughter that I didn’t know if I would be able to pay for her wedding; it all depended on whether something good happened. And I know what it is like to have to borrow money from my adult daughters because my wife and I ran out of heating oil.
CtH: This is us as well. Life got much easier once we had grown, well employed offspring who generously help out when we suffer a short fall. This year of the Trump Economy has been amazing! We were able to easily afford what we needed, plus splurge on some of the stuff we had done without for years (like a dehumidifier for the moldy basement FINALLY).
The fact is that architects are the worst paid white collar workers in the country. They live from job to job and woe betide the family budget if even a single client stiffs them. Blessedly, this happened to us only twice; it was devastating and hard to forgive since neither of these selfish couples were depending on a single income to care for a disabled adult and 3 minor children!
Dearest is well established in his profession now, but he was new and wet-behind-the-ears when Saddam invaded Kuwait. That recession put him out of work for a full year. I was disabled with medical bills and our three elementary aged daughters needed all the usual, plus child care help for me whenever Dearest wasn’t home and they were.
A few differences between us and that fellow who wrote in The Atlantic are that I know what it’s like to be down to my last three cents (for a month!); we’re allergic to eggs so ate oatmeal while waiting for the next paycheck; and our daughters knew from a very young age that they were on their own for cars, weddings, and college. We were just really grateful that God gave them all straight teeth!
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Stilton’s Christmas Toon
This is the Hope n’ Change cartoon we waited nine years to write.
Thanks to jolly old Saint Trump and his happy workshop of GOP elves, Christmas came early for people who pay taxes, people who want jobs, people who don’t want to be fined if they can’t afford Obamacare, people who support Israel, and people like us who are currently singing “O, Schadenfreude” to the tune of “O, Tannenbaum.”
Of course, the Democrats also gave us a significant gift: their unanimous opposition to all of the above. Meaning that when the rising economic tide lifts all boats, they’ll still be holding their breath in the backseat of Teddy Kennedy’s sunken car wondering when help from voters will arrive (spoiler alert: it won’t).
http://stiltonsplace.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-very-barry-christmas.html
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This, of course, does NOT apply to OUR comment section! LOL
From the Babylon Bee (Christian satire):
U.S.—Doctors speaking on behalf of the nation’s medical community Wednesday recommended that Americans not stare directly into the black, empty void encompassing the nation’s comment sections.
While doctors have long known of the harmful effects of dwelling upon the vast wastelands comprising comment sections on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and websites at large, the symptoms have become far more pronounced in recent years, according to medical professionals.
“We’ve found that severe psychological side effects may accompany thinking too long and hard about any comments you encounter while you’re on the internet,” Dr. Sherman Danforth, a leading psychology expert told reporters. “If you must browse a comment section for any reason, we recommend a brief, cautious glance to get a sense of it, but turn away quickly, lest you do irreparable damage to your psyche.”
Doctors also confirmed staring too long into the void of comment sections can have the undesirable side effect of having the void stare back into you.
“Each day, thousands of people stare too long into the black hole of vitriol present in online comment sections, correlating things which were not meant to be correlated in the human mind, and end up babbling incoherently about ‘the eyes in the darkness,’ ‘the black pit,’ and ‘the nameless one,’” Danforth added.
“Don’t let it happen to you.”
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http://babylonbee.com/news/medical-experts-now-recommend-not-staring-directly-comment-sections/
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Hypocrite
People have been blackballed and fired for less than this … but only when it was right-wingers being rude to or about left-wingers. When the shoe is on the other foot, you get 21K+ “hearts” from folks who were outraged and offended by “Pocahontas.”
These are the same people who had nothing to say about Creepy Joe Biden pawing females of all ages, then practically peed themselves laughing about how Pence doesn’t dine with women unless his wife is present.
Flippin’ hypocrites.
On the plus side, it’s Twitter, so everybody who wanted to got to say exactly what they thought of it. My personal faves:
- Decades in pervy Tinseltown and you can’t even spell “fellatio.”
- “Trump’s tax cut is working already, and everything I stand for is a lie.” Fixed it for you.
Best of the day!
- Delete your account, meathead.
For those of you too young to remember, that’s Rob Reiner playing “Meathead” Mike.
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