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No, liberals cannot be real men because they want a nanny to take care of them.
The men, yes.
What do hobbies have to do with anything?
When you first decide what to think, and then seek to interpret everything you see as supporting it, and ignore anything that doesn't, it's called "confirmation bias" and it means you will ALWAYS be wrong.
No, you're just becoming hypersensitive. Like a good metrosexual.
Ditto last comment.
Well, we're rebelling against you and the establishment.
We are anti-establishment. And you're for the status quo.
They think protesting against a safety net and letting corporations do what they please is being " anti establishment", lol.
No other nation would you see citizens protesting against universal healthcare. They just look laughable to the rest of the world but they're so deluded they proly think that's what makes this country unique eaves exceptional! LOL
When you add up all the Federal benefits that these Republican counties receive from SS, Medicare, Tricare, VA, Govt Retirement Checks, Disabilty, Snap, EITC, SSI, . add on miliatry bases and other government jobs and it doesnt make any sense. The Republican Party is one big government check and yet they want small gubbermint.
Heres a link how a good part of the Tea Party types voted againt their interests.
Where do you get the idea SS and medicare for starters are government handouts and do you realize people on both plans live in the city, the country and the suburbs. These are program we paid into for years, why do you think they are called insurance programs? Where are you getting the idea more people % wise receive snap in the rural areas than in the inner cities? Where are you getting the idea a government pension is any thing but that? A pension that people pay into, just like a 401K or any other form of retirement? Do you honestly think government employees do not pay into retirement? This goes for disability as well. I think you really need to do some research. if you did you wouldn't have to ask these questions.
I will add, any benefits any military person retired or active gets they deserve and most military personal regardless of the standing support the Republican party, but not for the reasons you think.
They think protesting against a safety net and letting corporations do what they please is being " anti establishment", lol.
No other nation would you see citizens protesting against universal healthcare. They just look laughable to the rest of the world but they're so deluded they proly think that's what makes this country unique eaves exceptional! LOL
Government and forcing it's mediocrity into our lives SHOULD be protested - and stopped.
And no, we don't like being forced like cattle, so, no "universal" anything. We're individuals, not clones.
And, while the rest of the world may grovel and beg from those in power, we see no need to emulate their passivity and fear.
Where do you get the idea SS and medicare for starters are government handouts and do you realize people on both plans live in the city, the country and the suburbs. These are program we paid into for years, why do you think they are called insurance programs? Where are you getting the idea more people % wise receive snap in the rural areas than in the inner cities? Where are you getting the idea a government pension is any thing but that? A pension that people pay into, just like a 401K or any other form of retirement? Do you honestly think government employees do not pay into retirement? This goes for disability as well. I think you really need to do some research. if you did you wouldn't have to ask these questions.
I will add, any benefits any military person retired or active gets they deserve and most military personal regardless of the standing support the Republican party, but not for the reasons you think.
If that's the case than TANF, the only true welfare program constitutes way less of the budget than y'all blather on about.
The reactionaries in America have are not interested in facts or reality. They are only interested in comforting lies they can tell themselves over and over even though, deep down, they know absolutely none of those lies are true. That level of denial, of willful self deception, and just plain ignorance is what makes them right wing nutjobs.
I agree, that's why they turn to FOX News.
However, I disagree with the part about deep down, they know these comforting lies are not true.
They do believe in the fairy tales on FOX News, probably a majority of the viewers do. These are not astute political watchers with the ability to discern fact from fiction. If they were, they would not be watching that crap.
Where do you get the idea SS and medicare for starters are government handouts
I get the idea because they are.
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and do you realize people on both plans live in the city, the country and the suburbs.
Point? Do you have one?
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These are program we paid into for years, why do you think they are called insurance programs?
Your money was taken from you and given to someone else. Now, you expect there will be someone else to take it from to give to you. Bad news, the people can't afford the promises politicians made.
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Where are you getting the idea more people % wise receive snap in the rural areas than in the inner cities? Where are you getting the idea a government pension is any thing but that? A pension that people pay into, just like a 401K or any other form of retirement? Do you honestly think government employees do not pay into retirement? This goes for disability as well. I think you really need to do some research. if you did you wouldn't have to ask these questions.
Here's a clue: 100% of everything a government employee gets was earned by someone else who actually worked and produced something for it. Government only consumes and obstructs.
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I will add, any benefits any military person retired or active gets they deserve and most military personal regardless of the standing support the Republican party, but not for the reasons you think.
However, I disagree with the part about deep down, they know these comforting lies are not true.
They do believe in the fairy tales on FOX News, probably a majority of the viewers do. These are not astute political watchers with the ability to discern fact from fiction. If they were, they would not be watching that crap.
Funny how you have no idea what you're talking aobut... but insist that those who don't agree with you are not able to discern fact from fiction.... You're posting fiction. Pretty much every post you make is fiction.
Omg, you guys are so crazy funny its unbelievable. Liberals cannot be men because they believe in a safety net for those in need? Most liberals are white metrosexual yuppies? Only conservative men are into cars hunting and fishing?
You guys are proving everyday what I've always assumed. That most of the displays of y'all holding your guns, showcasing your trucks and recently hunted bucks is largely a pride thing and a way to tell liberals to suck it. Over the last five years I've noticed the people in my home town (which is about as reactionary as you can get), become way more "country" and way more expressive about their way of life. It's as though y'all really truly feel that your way of life us being threatened and so you guys turned up the "I'm a conservative and proud of it" mantra to 11!
I was seeing people I knew that were never really all that into the life suddenly dress like they worked at a feed store. Others wore cowboy boots when i'd never seen them wear a pair before and there were suddenly WAY more pics of them on FB with guns and hunted animals quoting the 2nd amendment and Bible verses.
Y'all really think your being rebels or something. LOL.
It's like y'all's way of being anti establishment or something.
I wouldn't disagree with you there. There's a "conservative culture" that's developing, or at least several conservative cultures. There's the Christian right one, which has its own set of rules. The truck driving, camo wearing hunting types don't really fit in there because they like to drink beer and have premarital sex and stuff, and that's frowned upon in conservative Christian circles. So Bible verses for that group just show that they're American, country, Southern, etc.
That being said, I think the long term trend favors Republicans if they stop being evil. If they got rid of marginalizing the unfortunate, the uninsured, minorities, LGBT, etc., for real, the Democrats and their nanny-state policies would be wildly unpopular. The Democrats know this, and they're scurred, which is why they're trying to make a lot of noise about it right now when the Republicans are clinically insane.
I'll sum it up - the average American is "bro." (I know this is a gendered term, but I mean this in somewhat of a gendered neutral way.) You're chill, you help people in need, and you treat others with respect. You know who the real oppressors are, and you don't assign the "oppressor" label lightly. I think the "country" guys you describe above get that.
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