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The GOP has become the Soviet party

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The GOP has become the Soviet party

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1/21/19
Once upon a time, Ayn Rand-reading, red-baiting Republicans denounced Soviet Russia as an evil superpower intent on destroying the American way of life. My, how things have changed. The Grand Old Party has quietly become the pro-Russia party — and not only because the party’s standard-bearer seems peculiarly enamored of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Under Republican leadership, the United States is starting to look an awful lot like the failed Soviet system the party once stood unified against. Supposedly middle-class workers — people who have government jobs that are supposed to be stable and secure — are waiting in bread lines. Thanks to government dysfunction and mismanagement, those employed in the private sector may also be going hungry, since 2,500 vendors nationwide are unable to participate in the food stamp program while the government is shuttered and unable to renew licenses for the Electronic Benefit Transfer debit card program. Why? Because of the whims of a would-be autocrat who cares more about erecting an expensive monument to his own campaign rhetoric than about the pain and suffering of the little people he claims to champion. And for now, at least, most of those little people are too frightened of the government’s wrath to fight back overtly. Instead, desperate to keep jobs that might someday offer them a paycheck again, the proletariat protest in more passive ways: by calling in sick in higher numbers. The would-be autocrat surrounds himself with toadies who spend more time scheming against one another — sometimes to comic effect — than trying to offer their boss sound guidance or thoughtful policy solutions. In his presence, and perhaps especially when the cameras are on, they praise him relentlessly: his brains, his leadership, his “perfect genes.”

Apparent corruption among these kowtowing aides — including improper use of public funds or private favors for fancy travel and other pampering — remains rampant. Unlike in true socialist states, it seems, our leaders haven’t run out of other people’s money. Meanwhile, federal law enforcement is publicly directed to pursue the would-be autocrat’s political enemies, as well as the family members of those enemies, such as former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s father-in-law. Purges of law enforcement or other members of the “deep state” are also demanded, and sometimes acted upon. Such actions, when taken by thugs abroad, were once denounced by Republicans. State-run media, or something closely approximating it, feeds the public a steady diet of pro-leader propaganda and shields viewers from news that might embarrass the head of state. Independent sources of information or accountability, or those who deviate from the party line, are branded “enemies of the people.” Just as government has inserted itself into more markets, though, it has abruptly stopped functioning, holding up the processing of those farmer subsidies or tariff exemptions. It’s the old Soviet model in a nutshell: promising much, interfering a lot, failing to deliver. The government may be officially shuttered, but President Trump decided to do an end run around the constitutionally mandated, democratic appropriations process. He is picking and choosing which government functions are allowed to function.

Never quite thought of it in these terms, but the Republican Party of today is indeed markedly different than the Republican Party of Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford.
 
The GOP has become the Soviet party

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Never quite thought of it in these terms, but the Republican Party of today is indeed markedly different than the Republican Party of Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford.

Isn't it MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry just chanelling the grok logic......:roll:

The additional exclamation point GUARANTEEE 1000% credibility, but the GOP obviously is 10,000% credible, clearly and everyone knows that cept dumm libruls!
 
Just...wow!

Talk about projection! So this is what an Ivy League education buys nowadays?
 
The GOP has become the Soviet party

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Never quite thought of it in these terms, but the Republican Party of today is indeed markedly different than the Republican Party of Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford.

Right.

When tens of millions die in a purposeful, government-created famine, when dozens of millions of people are sent to gulags, mostly for political crimes, when the news media consists ONLY of state-written pieces it's a literal crime to disagree with, let alone attempt to dispute with your own publication, when everything is monitored and surveilled to the technological best of the state's ability, when worshipping the god of your choice is a crime, THEN we'll be just like Stalin.

Before that, give me a ****ing break.

As for the bolded statement, it's ANTI-MAGA people here who are calling for that.
 
Didn't reagan call russia part of the axis of evil? Funny thing is, he couldn't get past a primary today.

Reagan wouldn't recognize this Republican abomination.

Could you imagine his anger at learning his beloved GOP in 2016 was cavorting with an authoritarian Russian regime?

Yikes!
 
The GOP has become the Soviet party

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Never quite thought of it in these terms, but the Republican Party of today is indeed markedly different than the Republican Party of Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford.

Don't expect big government Bolsheviks to understand American freedoms and values or to support the Constitution and the Constitutionally elected government.
 
Reagan wouldn't recognize this Republican abomination.

Could you imagine his anger at learning his beloved GOP in 2016 was cavorting with an authoritarian Russian regime?

Yikes!

No, actually I can't imagine it. His head would explode seeing the state of the GOP today.
 
Reagan wouldn't recognize this Republican abomination.

Could you imagine his anger at learning his beloved GOP in 2016 was cavorting with an authoritarian Russian regime?

Yikes!

Ronald Reagan would be called a "librul" by todays right wingers who have infected the Republican Party the way a venereal disease infects its host.
 
The GOP has become the Kremlin party. Soviet Union hasn't existed in 28 years lol (and they were left-wing, whereas Putin/GOP are right-wing)
 
The GOP has become the Soviet party

imrs.php




Never quite thought of it in these terms, but the Republican Party of today is indeed markedly different than the Republican Party of Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford.



To be honest we don't know what the GOP is anymore.

It doesn't have a voice.

The only voice we can hear is Trump and what is he ?
He's an egoistic, narcissistic, nationalist.

Eisenhower and Ford and even Nixon would never have made 800,000 Americans and their families suffer to make a political point.

Those men knew their positions existed in order to SERVE the American people. Not to starve them.
 
The GOP has become the Kremlin party. Soviet Union hasn't existed in 28 years lol (and they were left-wing, whereas Putin/GOP are right-wing)

That's how to do it folks! Accuse Trump of being a communist and dummies will believe it. Accuse the Pope of being a racist and dummies will believe it. Accuse Hillary of being an abused innocent gentle kind woman who never lies, cheats, steals or commits crimes and only has the best interest in all people she loves, and idiots will believe it, if you are a respected leftist journalist or politician with lots of brainless sycophantic followers.
 
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