Hot conflict
O…..kay.
…the American people – regular people that are out there working every day, hard-working Americans – they’re getting trampled by a system that is rigged against them.
So it’s the Democrats who grind the faces of the poor, and the Republicans who have their interests at heart. (Mind you, the Democrats do very little more than Republicans to help working people, but that’s partly because they keep having to claw back a little of the ground Republicans have grabbed.)
I think you miss his rather special definition of “American People”. He means oil company tycoons, bank ceos, Nazis, and religious scammers. The rest of the population doesn’t really count except as a “resource” to be exoloited.
Yeah, the system in which everyone is allowed a vote is rigged against hard-working Americans. Because none of us who vote Democrat work? Or we’re not Americans?
The system isn’t rigged against the Republicans; they’ve worked the system for a long time to their benefit. When a Democrat gets elected, they feel cheated because somehow it happened in spite of all their efforts to rig the election. The bad thing is, Republicans managed to hold onto a lot of state houses in a census year. We could be on our way to a permanent Republican majority – even if they don’t get a majority of the votes.
Gimme that old time sedition…
We should add “Elections are rigged against Republicans” to “Reality has a well-known liberal bias” in our stock of derisive catch phrases.
Elections are increasingly rigged against the demographics of the past.
Brian M,
I think you’re missing the, uh, complexion of his remarks. Note his reference to the dangers of giving statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington D.C.
Margaret Sullivan has an excellent column in today’s Washington Post pointing out that these are not conservatives, but rather radical right wingers. Personally I’ve long thought that the true conservatives, at least in the Burkean sense, are moderate Democrats like Biden.
What a Maroon:
Duncan has an excellent analysis of that very column here: http://thisislikesogay.blogspot.com/2021/01/higgledy-piggledy-radical-liberals.html
He points out this is LONG TIME reality of “conservatives”, who are helped in their efforts by bog standard dembots and mainstream liberals who we see to this day rhapsodizing about the War Criminal George W. Bush. (And we can’t forget The Peace Prize President’s expressed admiration for f%$#@ing RONALD REAGAN for gawd’s sake. Gag me! (Not an Obama fan here!)
He is one of my favorite boggers. He holds our side to the fire as well as the enemy. And yes, at this point the Republican Party is THE ENEMY. Sorry. True.
According to the Guardian today,
As it happens we saw a film of Ivanhoe (with Elizabeth Taylor when she was young and very beautiful) from the 1950s this afternoon. It ends with a trial by combat. I’m wondering whether Giuliani will choose an axe or a ball and chain to fight with.
The Guardian comments:
I was going to say – what reputation would that be?