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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Attero Dominatus on February 24, 2008, 10:07:26 PM
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-24-08 10:53 PM
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Republicans chestbang about being the moral party, but they don't give a damn
about old people. Today a Republican said to me that anyone who doesn't save for retirement, deserves to die of hunger. Why are they like this? Are they sociopaths? Are they born this way? Or do they LEARN to be this way? If anyone has answers, please provide them because I'm puke-sick of them.
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Totally lame bouncy. Zero bongs.
Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-24-08 10:56 PM
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1. Are they still doing that ?
I think you are recalling the past ... because there is no doubt that they lost their 'moral' way long ago ....
I dont think they even pretend anymore .... They have replaced that breastbeating with hand wringing fear ....
They dream of a day when they can pretend again, but it isnt going to happen soon ....
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-24-08 10:59 PM
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4. Oh YES! Ordinary run-in-the-mill Repukes still try to say they're the moral party
Which makes me crazy because I feel like giving them a good ass-whooping.
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-24-08 11:02 PM
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5. I just laugh and say ...
Tom Delay ...
or how about 'Larry Craig' ?
I mean ... Cmon, aren't you already slapping that BS down as soon as it comes out ?
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ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-24-08 10:58 PM
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2. That attitude allows them to feel superior to other people.
It also relieves them of any obligation to feel responsible for doing something about the misfortunes of others. They don't have to feel bad about being selfish, because if someone is poor it must have been his fault.
Of course, if some misfortune befalls one of these self-righteous assholes, it's always someone else's fault...
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-24-08 11:02 PM
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7. I actually saw one of those self-righteous assholes (a rich one) drop to the depths of poverty....
...The husband got terribly ill, and I saw them lose their business, lose their home, lose their furniture, their car, and end up living in a run-down trailer, living on food stamps and asking my sister for food because the food stamps were "not enough." This, years after having said that they didn't understand why the poor were too lazy to get out and find a job rather than live off food stamps.
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workinforalivin (27 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-24-08 10:59 PM
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3. It's because they believe in myths (religion)
and subscribe to all the patriarchal, inhumane, illogical, tenets that they espouse.
Until this country breaks free of these myths and the shackles incorporated within them, real progress will never happen.
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From the regressive liberals that likes to call themselves progressive :whatever:
Serenades (252 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-24-08 11:02 PM
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6. I guess
I guess inability to have empathy or to realize bad things happens to good people. It is drilled into people's heads with the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingraham, Boortz, etc. that poor people are just lazy and don't want to work. If you keep saying something over and over people will believe it.
After all, someone told me last night that Obama was muslim and his middle name was "Mohammad." I laughed.
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1/4 bong
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Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism -- America's Charity Divide--Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters
Arthur C. Brooks, James Q. Wilson (http://www.amazon.com/Who-Really-Cares-Compassionate-Conservatism/dp/B000WCTRPA/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203916893&sr=8-1)
As with most subjects the DUmp has no clue what's true.
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Assuming(and that's a big stretch) that this is true, I'd like to know how heated and involved the conversation was to that point. People have a tendency to stay stupid crap like that when they are angry to shut someone up.
I have a suggestion though to this whole thing. Maybe families could start footing the load again for their old folks. If someone is elderly and has family, it's their family who should be shamed, not the general public. My dad and I are estranged, however I would never let him walk around hungry on the streets of his neighborhood when he's elderly. The thought to me is so repugnant and this is even after the man left me to fend for myself as a teenager.
The reality though is that we all know we may potentially be elderly at some point and should be planning for that eventuality. It is not like having a child born with a disability or a life-changing accident as a young person. Those things can not be planned for to the same extent. But we all know that we potentially may age to the point of fraility. That sobering reality should encourage everyone to plan for such a future. If only to help their families make their final days more comfortable.
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-24-08 10:53 PM
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Republicans chestbang about being the moral party, but they don't give a damn
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What?
This Sarah Ibarruri primitive is still here?
Two years ago, the Sarah Ibarruri primitive was getting ready to leave the United States.
I wondered why franksolich never got an invite to her "farewell" party, her bon voyage deal.
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What?
This Sarah Ibarruri primitive is still here?
Two years ago, the Sarah Ibarruri primitive was getting ready to leave the United States.
I wondered why franksolich never got an invite to her "farewell" party, her bon voyage deal.
I doubt any of them leave the country as they say they are. They talk about how bad America is but seem to enjoy it here.
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The Truth-O-Meter is pinging a zero.
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And the Dems claim to be the tolerant party, yet they go around making racist statements about Thomas and Rice. :whatever:
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Feb-24-08 10:59 PM
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4. Oh YES! Ordinary run-in-the-mill Repukes still try to say they're the moral party
Which makes me crazy because I feel like giving them a good ass-whooping.
"We are much more moral than Repukes and to prove it, we will kick your asses!!!111"
/DUmmy
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Now that's funny. The most amoral and immoral beings on the planet are labeling others as being immoral. :thatsright:
They consider themselves moral because the want to help others but when it comes time for action and push comes to shove they're either too busy or tell you it's the government's job not theirs.
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Now that's funny. The most amoral and immoral beings on the planet are labeling others as being immoral. :thatsright:
They consider themselves moral because the want to help others but when it comes time for action and push comes to shove they're either too busy or tell you it's the government's job not theirs.
They're too busy??? Nah, most of the DUmp is standing there with their hands out wanting their chunk of the give-away. They're idea of "helping their fellow man" is handing a homeless person a couple bucks...while the fundies they hate are paying for everything else the homeless person receives.
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Now that's funny. The most amoral and immoral beings on the planet are labeling others as being immoral. :thatsright:
They consider themselves moral because the want to help others but when it comes time for action and push comes to shove they're either too busy or tell you it's the government's job not theirs.
They're too busy??? Nah, most of the DUmp is standing there with their hands out wanting their chunk of the give-away. They're idea of "helping their fellow man" is handing a homeless person a couple bucks...while the fundies they hate are paying for everything else the homeless person receives.
Perhaps I should have said... "they pretend that they are too busy."
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Mark Folely (R), inappropriate relationship: booted
Gary Scruggs (D), pedophile: re-elected and applauded
'nuff said
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Mark Folely (R), inappropriate relationship: booted
Gary Scruggs (D), pedophile: re-elected and applauded
'nuff said
Ted Kennedy (D), killer of young girl: practially canonized by dems