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Multi-Billionaires arguing forcefully in the public domain that American pensioners should be given nothing and likely sent to the poor house thereby fāing up the local economy even further and causing even more social spending by the government to try to keep these folk out of the street, while the money owed to their own companies should be paid in full. Because liberty and freedom!
Iām not sure how clearer a picture you can get on just how fād up the American political system (and the party that supports these psychopaths, the Republicans) has become than this picture right here.
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So bailouts (Excuse me ā āsettlementsā) are horrible and badā¦ but blackmail is hunky-dory. Got it.
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āā¦Detroit has gotten enough of our tax dollarsā¦ā
The Koch brothers, on the other hand, want some more.
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Freddy, the Kock Bros father and a bircher, made his first $5 Million dealing with STALIN who Slaughtered Millions of Sovietsā¦so same same . They kill off the poor and vulnerable like in NC where they are fighting REPORTING THE DEADLY CHEMICALS from FRACKINGā¦ with JAIL time if reported to PROTECT their OIL profits and POISON the people and the environment, and the water!
Apple and treeā¦Killersā¦none the less!
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No, no! Bailouts are just fine when theyāre used to save the phony-baloney ājobsā of multi-millionaire CEOās and Wall Streeters. We just donāt want to see any public funds going to help any of āthose peopleā (nudge-nudge, wink-wink).
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āThe organization, formed to fight big government and spending,ā
Really TPM? you canāt do better than this? Way to frame an argument with no context.
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The Koch brothers are one of the biggest threats to our country at this time. They are a racketeering organization designed for the purpose of stripping the country of its wealth and comity. Americans should shun these criminals and elect any candidate they oppose.
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The Kochs are fundamentalists, as committed - and dangerous - in their ways as Al Qaeda is in theirs. Like their Hitler-admiring father before them, they see the ideal world as one of pure free market, where itās kill or be killed, where āfairnessā is, in and of itself, a weak and dangerous concept.
If the Democrats, from Obama on down, had an ounce of sense, theyād focus on corralling the Koch-supported forces into that fence, so that the American public sees very clearly that these guys arenāt evil geniuses; theyāre religious fundamentalists, with wealth being their religion.
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Fair enough. But who in the Democratic Party can organize anything coherent and all encompassing? Why is it that Reince Priebus is well known and often quoted on this blog, but his Democratic counterpart is not?
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The democratic counter part would be Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Iām not sure I got the spelling right, but I donāt think she is as unknown as you seem to suggest. I donāt think the messaging is really as hard as you seem to suggest either. Thanks for your concern though.
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Lets call those thugs what they really areāAmericans for the Prosperity of the 1%!
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As if we didnāt already know, the Kochs are vile, despicable people this nation would be better served without.
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Who the h*ell are the Kochs to tell Americans how to lived their lives in a democracy? They are meddlesome monsters, touting heartlessness and greed as the only āreal American valuesā when all these are are the Koch Brothersā values. Ignore the monsters.
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Dude, this is an AP story, not one written by TPM.
You can tell by the lack of typos or grammatical mistakes.
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Oops! missed that, wouldnāt have mentioned it otherwise. Whew! I guess that means TPM is entirely without fault.
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Are you claiming, Squirreltown, that this is NOT the way that the psychopaths behind Americans for the Prosperity of the 0.1% describe themselves?
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When the hell is Karma going to get a stranglehold on these a$$holes?
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I expect context from TPM. AP, not so much.
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