Jeff Danziger for August 18, 2023

That is the Republican philosophy — Keep Americans poor and desperate enough to see participating in their wars of private economic interest as a viable path to survival.

They are so concerned for the life of the baby before it is born, but don’t give spit about the life of the baby after it is born.

That policy has been working for years. It close to: Your choice – join the military or go to Juvenal reform school (jail).

It’s worse that than, Jeff. Repubs are great at protecting the unborn, but once born, they’re on their own. Repubs lose interest in the born till they’re old enough to vote for their latest liars.

That’s life in the Confederate Republican south.

Republicans are defunding democracy.

While it may be satisfying to call Trump and his enablers “fascists,” there’s a deeper truth here, with which America must come to terms: the Trump/MAGA faction of the GOP has declared war on democracy itself.

Funded by rightwing billionaires who, themselves, view democracy as an inconvenient pain-in-the-ass and — when Democrats talk about them “paying their fair share” — an actual threat, these MAGA Republicans have also joined forces with wealthy international elements dedicated to ending democracy all around the world.

They’re supported by a media machine itself largely created by rightwing billionaires — Murdoch’s Fox “News,” over 1500 rightwing radio stations, and think-tanks and publications based in every state in the union — dedicated to tearing down democracy in our country and promoting the interests of oligarchs, the fossil fuel industry, and autocrats.

They gin up suspicion of racial, religious, and gender minorities to replace the natural distrust working class people have historically had of corporate bosses and the morbidly rich.

The main weapon they’re using in this war against democracy is distrust. After 247 years, they want Americans to believe that our form of government is unreliable, feeble, and has been taken over by “weak” liberals bent on feminizing our nation’s men.

This then becomes the foundation of the homophobic and transphobic hate we’re seeing displayed across our nation literally every day.

This is nothing new. From Greece’s Alexander the Great, to Rome’s various Caesars, to Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler, autocrats have gained popular support by declaring themselves the saviors of a nation’s men and their strength, virility, and potency.

There are 147 federal legislators who voted to not recognize Biden’s win. These people are either stupid, bat poop crazy, cynical opportunists, or some combo thereof. They shouldn’t be running a popsicle stand (with all due respect to real popsicle stand operators), much less in positions of power and trying to run this country. Vote, and vote blue!

Republicans are “pro-life” people who don’t care if children get murdered in school.

Another useless waste of oxygen. I have run out of denigrating adjectives for these morons

Republican logic from a Republican Hero.

But, it is A-OK to kill them once they are born!

‘I don’t care’: Tommy Tuberville digs in on blockade of hundreds of military promotions

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville is now expanding his claims to support his eight-month long blockade on more than 300 military promotions, saying he does not care if anyone in America’s Armed Forces gets promoted.“I’m not changing my mind,” Tuberville said Thursday (video below). “I don’t care if they promote anybody. To be honest, we got 44 four-star generals right now. We only had seven in World War II. So I think we’re a little overloaded to begin with.”

Insurrectionist Confederate Republicans admit to not caring about the USA military.

he has no business being any kind of elected offical much less U S senator

Might have problems getting new recruits for the US Military:

9/29/22 EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – New figures from the U.S. Dept. of Defense show that less than a quarter of Americans of prime recruiting age are eligible to serve in the military.

The most recent data indicates that only 23-percent of Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 would meet the necessary qualifications to enlist.

A group called “Mission: Readiness” suggests this could have major implications for national security.

Many potential applicants would be disqualified due to physical fitness concerns including obesity while others would likely not be able to join the military due to their criminal history or drug-related issues.

I suspect, if you cut tuberville in half, just green ooze would come out.

A complete waste of a senate, any seat for that matter! He really wasn’t a good football coach on top of it all….

NBC News just wrote about disgraced Texas AG Paxton defending a prison that wouldn’t let a 7-month pregnant woman go to the hospital when she was in distress. Hours later when they let her go, she had a stillbirth that the doctors said they could have saved its life if she’d gotten there sooner. Paxton’s argument is that the fetus isn’t a person so doesn’t have rights which is the exact opposite they’re swearing in every court in the country when they worked to end Roe and now to ban drugs. So never believe Republicans when they say they care about the unborn. They don’t. They just want women back in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant. It’s 100% about control.

You load 16 tons, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

St. Peter, don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go

I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin’ when the sun didn’t shine

I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine

and that is our kids future if it is not stopped

Tuberville doesn’t live in Alabama – THROW HIM OUT!

Someone should put Tuberville in the hospital so that we can get the ball rolling on military getting their just desserts.

This isn’t just government by the minority, it’s government (the lack of) by one pathetic football coach. Something’s seriously wrong here…

Nous sommes un people violent.

St. George of Carlin was so right. They are anti-woman and anti-life.

Destroying public education and using taxation and wage/benefits control will keep a majority of the population financially unable to better themselves will provide both industries and the military with bodies. Not slavery, but an oppressive system nonetheless. Gone will be the days when the average American aspired to have a better life than their parents.

Poor people are what armies are made of. They’re Alabama’s second most important product after football.