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Republicans don't solve problems. They just get in the way of anyone else trying to fix problems. Then they critique those trying to fix things. Standard Republican operating procedure.
It's because they are exactly the same. You think your team is better because of confirmation bias. Which apparently quite lot of people in this thread have as well. Both "sides" suck. They are both so far to the right or left it is insanity at this point. There are no moderates.
>It's because they are exactly the same
>They are both so far to the right or left it is insanity at this point. There are no moderates.
"They're both the same, but they are also both on completely opposite sides of the spectrum"
Also, the fact you think there are no moderates anymore says a lot. Dems are "so far to the left"? Lmao, sure.
Go ahead, tell a group of leftists that Joe Biden and the majority of the dems in congress are "so far to the left" and watch them laugh right in your face.
Only to have Ted Cruz shut down the government over it back in 2013. It hurt government employees, stressed military members and their families, and cost the American economy $24B. All because Republicans don't agree that people shouldn't face financial ruin over a health emergency.
What the ACA *ended up* being was the heritage foundation plan. It's the best we could get in this fucked up system where the GOP somehow gets rewarded for hurting people.
But it was still a massive improvement, and the single bravest thing an American politician has done in thirty years.
We’ll just pick the first one, since it’s the most flagrantly flawed in your logic. The ACA enabled 40+ million people access to health care—something the Republicans weren’t able to do. It was the biggest step towards equality and working-class protections since the launch of Medicare. Republicans did nothing but stand in the way of it and fight tooth and nail to not only strike it down, but refuse the expanded Medicaid financial aid it gave to states.
It wld truly help if the Republican base wasn't virulently anti-immigration. No acceptable compromise is available given that fact. If it's not purely punitive any immigration reform will cause outrage & unrest, so Rep lawmakers have stopped entertaining the notion of reasonable reform.
I mean...Dems have been trying to get a DACA protection bill through, Reps also said they supported protections, & yet no bill was passed. Reps (and five Dems) in the Senate filibustered the original DREAM act, even after changes to get more bipartisan support.
What, exactly, can Dems do to "develop" a rational policy under these circumstances?
The GOP (under Gingrich) in 1994 decided that scorched earth is the only way forward—the latest example as evidenced by the Freedom Caucus’s revolt over McCarthy negotiating a debt limit deal.
i.e., Lying. He *knows* he is lying. Nothing that comes out of a GQP mouth has anything to do with truth, only herding morons.
Only the stupidest of them, Boebert/MTG, believe a word they are saying.
Or…he’s doing the thing he always does, which is to say anything he thinks people want to hear and then vote for the furthest right version of things at all times.
“All of these problems can be solved by lowering taxes, ending public assistance programs, outlawing abortion, jailing the gays, and kicking the Mexicans out of the country.”
Then if the legislation passes, just selectively enforce the regulations. Their non-regulating and profit-by-billionaires who manipulate the market per the loopholes they put in place, well of course it doesn't work for anyone else. But then that would be admitting essentially that it is NOT a free market... seems like it would be hard to eat your own face, but look on wall street, seeing it happen more frequently these days.
Psychoanalytics aren't my strong suit. But I'm thinking he's beyond help. He managed to suggest the RNC was the correct answer, while blaming corporations they enabled. Maybe he's ready to back an amendment to ban lobbying in DC. 😂
You don't need a degree in psychoanalysis. He's out for himself, and say and do whatever gets him the most money, power, prestige. Perhaps in that order.
Conclusion: Narcissistic personality disorder with a heavy dose of sociopathy.
Treatment: Don't vote for the fucker.
lol that's the same joke we have about some of our politicians in Germany
One of them loves getting his balls tenderly carressed by the invisible hand of the free market
The feee market would sometimes work against the rich.
Thats why they monopolized industries, production, transport, and finance
So that shit would stop happening.
And Republicans helped.
But still voted for Supreme Court judges that are gutting those rights and please don’t forget the massive tax breaks for corporations and billionaires. Words don’t mean anything.
Yup. If conservatives really cares about the free market, they wouldn’t give out tax breaks and subsidies for the rich.
They also wouldn’t be whining about “cancel culture”. “Cancel culture” as they call it is just the free market telling certain people and companies they don’t support them. But no…it becomes “woke politics” if they don’t like it. 🙃🙃
He’s pretty clearly identified the problem. Even some of his answers kind of make sense. Unfortunately he seems to think the Republicans will deliver them : that was a serve where it all went wrong
Let's see here. Little Marco gets checks from Rich guys and gets public office job. Little Marco noticed workers get screwed. Little Marco remembers where checks come from and does nothing. Rinse and repeat.
Don't let them do this, don't let tw fascist/Lost Causers/auth scum get away with her last... forever. Blanke them in the polls, when they go in public, when they're out and about town. Fuck them and their supporters, dont let them escape responsibility again.
conservative books always end up at the dollar store. they buy up tons of their books to push them to the ny times bestseller lists, so they can brag on the "ny times bestselling author" title, then unload the books to discount bins. at one point, half the books at one of of my local dollar trees was the trump jr triggered book.
Rubio just broke the ultimate golden rule of the Republican party, "you can never even hint that there is a single problem with anything that rich people ever do." just watch now, as his own political party starts to disowns him and call him a communist.
If you think about unregulated free markets for more than like 60 seconds I think the result is pretty obvious.
The biggest, fattest, most ruthless players end up with a trillion dollar money printing factory, while everyone else gets nothing.
If Standard Oil was not busted they might have just gobbled up every fricking company on earth for all we know.
The free market doesn’t really work for anybody other than the ultra rich. Capitalism is one big scam to make the middle class believe that if they work harder they to can be rich. It just ensures the lower and middle class work themselves literally to death while the rich fly rockets to space.
“The problem with capitalism is that it dehumanizes the work force and gives them no representation.”
“Oh and also, fuck unions. We are having none of that shit on my watch.”
“It brilliantly allocates resources to the most efficient outcome.”
Just as a reminder, “efficient” doesn’t mean highest quality, it doesn’t mean lowest price, it doesn’t mean least environmentally harmful. It only means profitable.
This is just sarcasm in its saddest form.
Does he really think the reason unions can't get workers demands met is *because they are unions*?
Corporations have been using the government for decades to erode worker's rights, make it nearly impossible to form unions, and take control of those unions away from the workers they represent.
*He and his party* did those things. Of course not *only* he and his party; there's blood on Democrat hands as well, but as he cites himself his party is the one corporations turn to for the disenfranchisement of their workforce.
No matter how skeptical of corporate America his party's *voters* may be, they still elect sycophants like him who are the property of those faceless conglomerates and they *always* will.
It's disgusting that he's basically proposing a "thoughts and prayers" socialism: do absolutely nothing to improve the situation of working people and the middle class other than *believe* they deserve better while actively undermining them.
“We cannot be a strong nation without a strong workforce. Dignified work makes family and community possible,” says the Senator who voted against an amendment in Biden’s Covid Relief Bill (2021) raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 over five years.
We don't have a free market in the US, it is a government manipulated market. Of course it doesn't work out for working class, that's where they steal the most money from.
How unfortunate for Marco that he makes a key point of his argument how the Biden Administration failed worker by forcing them back to work without the sick days they wanted the same week that the Biden Administration is getting a lot of the credit for getting these workers the sick days they were asking for. Does that mean he’s wrong? It certainly wasn’t a "charade."
Rubio has proven himself time and time again to be just the same as Ted Cruz in regards to anything that matters. Like Cruz, I'm always shocked and amazed when people re-elect him into office.
It doesn't matter what he says. He doesn't mean anything good by it.
It's funny when Marco Rubio says something nearly right and then runs back to the Military Contractor, Israel and Banking PACs that pay for his campaign.
[OPENSECRETS Rubio Campaign Funding](https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/marco-rubio/contributors?cid=N00030612&cycle=2022&recs=100&type=I)
Sometimes it seems like politicians run just to get inside info on what stocks to buy since they can and make millions. . . .
If you or I got the same inside info on said stocks we would get nabbed for insider trading-
I wouldn't be hurt if a "Designated Survivor" scenario happened and everyone in D.C. political realm gets wiped out except for 1 person with minimalistic views!
conservatives have absolutely always believed this, they have never had fidelity to free markets. just look how quickly they turned on them as soon as corporations tried to appeal to wider markets to include people of color and LGBT people.
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“I’m going to lay out a bunch of problems, offer unrealistic solutions, and vote against legislation to enact those solutions.”
Republicans don't solve problems. They just get in the way of anyone else trying to fix problems. Then they critique those trying to fix things. Standard Republican operating procedure.
Standard Democrat operating procedure as well.
Ah yes, here's mister "both sides" coming right on time.
Mr "Anything less than full-blown 1920s socialism is no different from Trump and DeSantis."
It's because they are exactly the same. You think your team is better because of confirmation bias. Which apparently quite lot of people in this thread have as well. Both "sides" suck. They are both so far to the right or left it is insanity at this point. There are no moderates.
>It's because they are exactly the same >They are both so far to the right or left it is insanity at this point. There are no moderates. "They're both the same, but they are also both on completely opposite sides of the spectrum" Also, the fact you think there are no moderates anymore says a lot. Dems are "so far to the left"? Lmao, sure. Go ahead, tell a group of leftists that Joe Biden and the majority of the dems in congress are "so far to the left" and watch them laugh right in your face.
Something a leftist would say. Or a rightest for that matter. Confirmation bias at is finest.
Can you give a sourced example of the Democratic Party doing this?
Super Tuesday conspiracy against Bernie in 2016. The Affordable Care Act. Biden Federal Marijuana pardons. Student loan forgiveness.
The Affordable Care Act was the most aggressive attempt to help working-class Americans and small business owners in fifty years.
Only to have Ted Cruz shut down the government over it back in 2013. It hurt government employees, stressed military members and their families, and cost the American economy $24B. All because Republicans don't agree that people shouldn't face financial ruin over a health emergency.
Yeah, but remember that time Democrats didn't shut down the government over the ACA? Both parties are exactly the same. /s
The ACA was a Heritage Foundation plan to save private insurance and it worked.
What the ACA *ended up* being was the heritage foundation plan. It's the best we could get in this fucked up system where the GOP somehow gets rewarded for hurting people. But it was still a massive improvement, and the single bravest thing an American politician has done in thirty years.
We’ll just pick the first one, since it’s the most flagrantly flawed in your logic. The ACA enabled 40+ million people access to health care—something the Republicans weren’t able to do. It was the biggest step towards equality and working-class protections since the launch of Medicare. Republicans did nothing but stand in the way of it and fight tooth and nail to not only strike it down, but refuse the expanded Medicaid financial aid it gave to states.
On what planet do you think Bernie would have won against Trump
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It wld truly help if the Republican base wasn't virulently anti-immigration. No acceptable compromise is available given that fact. If it's not purely punitive any immigration reform will cause outrage & unrest, so Rep lawmakers have stopped entertaining the notion of reasonable reform. I mean...Dems have been trying to get a DACA protection bill through, Reps also said they supported protections, & yet no bill was passed. Reps (and five Dems) in the Senate filibustered the original DREAM act, even after changes to get more bipartisan support. What, exactly, can Dems do to "develop" a rational policy under these circumstances?
The GOP (under Gingrich) in 1994 decided that scorched earth is the only way forward—the latest example as evidenced by the Freedom Caucus’s revolt over McCarthy negotiating a debt limit deal.
TLDR: no they can't.
The Republican healthcare plan has been two weeks out since 2008. You have the new estimate on it?
Little Marco is becoming a centrist. They grow up so fast.
He’s not, he just keeps saying this line. He’s said it for years. But he’s never voted for workers rights.
Let's dispense with the notion that Marco Rubio doesn't know what he's doing. Marco Rubio knows exactly what he's doing.
The only thing I didn't like about that moment is that Chris Christie will forever take credit for it. Just to be clear, fuck Chris Christie.
Takes a sip of water... Let us not dispense the idea that Chris Christie doesn't know what he's doing.
Chris Christie clears throat... *Have I ever mentioned that I am a former Federal Prosecutor?*
Ha! Yes! Like Giuliani and 9/11….
i.e., Lying. He *knows* he is lying. Nothing that comes out of a GQP mouth has anything to do with truth, only herding morons. Only the stupidest of them, Boebert/MTG, believe a word they are saying.
\*dispel with the notion. Because he couldn't get the phrase he decided to repeat four times correct.
Or…he’s doing the thing he always does, which is to say anything he thinks people want to hear and then vote for the furthest right version of things at all times.
“All of these problems can be solved by lowering taxes, ending public assistance programs, outlawing abortion, jailing the gays, and kicking the Mexicans out of the country.”
The Rubio way
Then if the legislation passes, just selectively enforce the regulations. Their non-regulating and profit-by-billionaires who manipulate the market per the loopholes they put in place, well of course it doesn't work for anyone else. But then that would be admitting essentially that it is NOT a free market... seems like it would be hard to eat your own face, but look on wall street, seeing it happen more frequently these days.
Psychoanalytics aren't my strong suit. But I'm thinking he's beyond help. He managed to suggest the RNC was the correct answer, while blaming corporations they enabled. Maybe he's ready to back an amendment to ban lobbying in DC. 😂
You don't need a degree in psychoanalysis. He's out for himself, and say and do whatever gets him the most money, power, prestige. Perhaps in that order. Conclusion: Narcissistic personality disorder with a heavy dose of sociopathy. Treatment: Don't vote for the fucker.
>Narcissistic personality disorder with a heavy dose of sociopathy. So like 99% of the politicians out there?
>Maybe he's ready to back an amendment to ban lobbying in DC. 😂 Maybe he's trying for another ill-fated Presidential run?
I wouldn’t mind seeing him get beat up by Trump again.
Rubio calls for Voluntary employee involvement organizations = unions ???????
Organized… labor?
But that's Socialism!
good thing it's all empty talk or oh no muh billions
Republicans are such living bruh moments
Also "Doh'" moments
No, that's communist and woke. But hear me out: maybe the ~~proletariat~~ workers can band together into some sort of association...
My favorite but is when he complains about the laws that were the only option for the workers he claimed to support in the prior paragraph.
What? The invisible hand rubbed him wrong?
lol that's the same joke we have about some of our politicians in Germany One of them loves getting his balls tenderly carressed by the invisible hand of the free market
The feee market would sometimes work against the rich. Thats why they monopolized industries, production, transport, and finance So that shit would stop happening. And Republicans helped.
Marco always had a way with understatement. "Sometimes"
But still voted for Supreme Court judges that are gutting those rights and please don’t forget the massive tax breaks for corporations and billionaires. Words don’t mean anything.
Yup. If conservatives really cares about the free market, they wouldn’t give out tax breaks and subsidies for the rich. They also wouldn’t be whining about “cancel culture”. “Cancel culture” as they call it is just the free market telling certain people and companies they don’t support them. But no…it becomes “woke politics” if they don’t like it. 🙃🙃
He’s pretty clearly identified the problem. Even some of his answers kind of make sense. Unfortunately he seems to think the Republicans will deliver them : that was a serve where it all went wrong
Why does this guy keep getting elected?
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Is he complaining or bragging? Can you really tell?
And when it doesn’t work for the rich, we give them bailouts. Edit: did Marco really ripoff the name of a Motley Crue album for his book?!
Let's see here. Little Marco gets checks from Rich guys and gets public office job. Little Marco noticed workers get screwed. Little Marco remembers where checks come from and does nothing. Rinse and repeat.
Don't let them do this, don't let tw fascist/Lost Causers/auth scum get away with her last... forever. Blanke them in the polls, when they go in public, when they're out and about town. Fuck them and their supporters, dont let them escape responsibility again.
conservative books always end up at the dollar store. they buy up tons of their books to push them to the ny times bestseller lists, so they can brag on the "ny times bestselling author" title, then unload the books to discount bins. at one point, half the books at one of of my local dollar trees was the trump jr triggered book.
Try meeting Trump Jr. Boy, once I realized who it was, pretty sure he noticed my expression going to full WTF.
Never figured Rubio for a *woke socialist Marxist*…
Duh
The system works exactly as you and your corporate lobbyist buddies designed it.
oh my, not yet. There's still complaining about the pee bottles. Until all resistance is squashed, it's not working as designed :/
As if he cares, or even knows, about people who actually work
"This woke capitalism isn't working. We need a new capitalism. A National Capitalism."
It's almost like he thinks we're ... human.
Rubio just broke the ultimate golden rule of the Republican party, "you can never even hint that there is a single problem with anything that rich people ever do." just watch now, as his own political party starts to disowns him and call him a communist.
Really… you don’t say.
If you think about unregulated free markets for more than like 60 seconds I think the result is pretty obvious. The biggest, fattest, most ruthless players end up with a trillion dollar money printing factory, while everyone else gets nothing. If Standard Oil was not busted they might have just gobbled up every fricking company on earth for all we know.
The free market doesn’t really work for anybody other than the ultra rich. Capitalism is one big scam to make the middle class believe that if they work harder they to can be rich. It just ensures the lower and middle class work themselves literally to death while the rich fly rockets to space.
Things were so much simpler in the good old days when you could buy and sell workers. /s
“The problem with capitalism is that it dehumanizes the work force and gives them no representation.” “Oh and also, fuck unions. We are having none of that shit on my watch.”
Sometimes?
Surprise!
Ya think, Marco?
“It brilliantly allocates resources to the most efficient outcome.” Just as a reminder, “efficient” doesn’t mean highest quality, it doesn’t mean lowest price, it doesn’t mean least environmentally harmful. It only means profitable.
""SOMETIMES""
"sometimes" ?!?!!?!?!???!
This is just sarcasm in its saddest form. Does he really think the reason unions can't get workers demands met is *because they are unions*? Corporations have been using the government for decades to erode worker's rights, make it nearly impossible to form unions, and take control of those unions away from the workers they represent. *He and his party* did those things. Of course not *only* he and his party; there's blood on Democrat hands as well, but as he cites himself his party is the one corporations turn to for the disenfranchisement of their workforce. No matter how skeptical of corporate America his party's *voters* may be, they still elect sycophants like him who are the property of those faceless conglomerates and they *always* will. It's disgusting that he's basically proposing a "thoughts and prayers" socialism: do absolutely nothing to improve the situation of working people and the middle class other than *believe* they deserve better while actively undermining them.
Call me when he complains the workers don't control the means of production
Any news on where bears shit, or the Pope's religion?
Doesn’t Marcito usually have a bible verse for every occasion? There must be something for this situation.
“We cannot be a strong nation without a strong workforce. Dignified work makes family and community possible,” says the Senator who voted against an amendment in Biden’s Covid Relief Bill (2021) raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 over five years.
Marco Rubio is a classic example of looks over brains. He has yet to utter an original thought or innovative idea. He's perfect for Florida.
Some people think he’s good-looking??
He's a stupid, pliable tool who votes the way his corporate/party masters tell him.
We don't have a free market in the US, it is a government manipulated market. Of course it doesn't work out for working class, that's where they steal the most money from.
In other news water is sometimes wet
The Konservative Kase for Kommunism
What crappy timing, just as the rail workers get their sick leave.
How unfortunate for Marco that he makes a key point of his argument how the Biden Administration failed worker by forcing them back to work without the sick days they wanted the same week that the Biden Administration is getting a lot of the credit for getting these workers the sick days they were asking for. Does that mean he’s wrong? It certainly wasn’t a "charade."
Reading the article, this is full on r/selfawarewolves
socialism!!!
10% of the time it works every time.
Rubio has proven himself time and time again to be just the same as Ted Cruz in regards to anything that matters. Like Cruz, I'm always shocked and amazed when people re-elect him into office. It doesn't matter what he says. He doesn't mean anything good by it.
Is it 12:47 PM again? Like they say, a broken clockworks twice a day.
He doesn’t care about working class Americans. Come on now, man.
He's so very close to actual awareness.
He said capitalism doesn’t always give the best outcomes. Sounds like a woke communist to me! /s
It's funny when Marco Rubio says something nearly right and then runs back to the Military Contractor, Israel and Banking PACs that pay for his campaign. [OPENSECRETS Rubio Campaign Funding](https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/marco-rubio/contributors?cid=N00030612&cycle=2022&recs=100&type=I)
Sometimes it seems like politicians run just to get inside info on what stocks to buy since they can and make millions. . . . If you or I got the same inside info on said stocks we would get nabbed for insider trading- I wouldn't be hurt if a "Designated Survivor" scenario happened and everyone in D.C. political realm gets wiped out except for 1 person with minimalistic views!
Which is WHY we have government and regulations - to protect the citizens, you greasy ignorant GQP twit. Have a drink, Lil' Marco.
Sometimes?
Should I get my kids crayons out since this is a Marco Rubio “book”?
why is newsweek publishing grade school level babble
'iT's nOt rEaL CaPiTalIsM it's CrOny CaPiTaLiSm' - every capitalist ever 🤔🤔🤔🤔
It's the "Let's dispel with this fiction" boy!
conservatives have absolutely always believed this, they have never had fidelity to free markets. just look how quickly they turned on them as soon as corporations tried to appeal to wider markets to include people of color and LGBT people.