What Are You? An Moron?
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There are many reasons to detest Republican politicians.
Personally? I can’t stand it that they think I am as stupid as they are.
Mitch McConnell has been serving Kentucky as a United States Senator since 1985. He is currently the most powerful Republican in the Senate, and up until two years ago was majority leader.
McConnell was reelected to a seventh term in 2020 with 57 percent of the vote. One would think that’s because his voters benefit by having such an influential representative in Washington serving them.
But Kentucky, according to US News and World Report, is currently the third unhealthiest state in America. It has the seventh worst economy and 40 percent of its citizens are obese.
Only an idiot would keep voting for him.
Asa Hutchinson is running for the Republican presidential nomination. Up until last year, he was the Governor of Arkansas.
Arkansas, according to US News and World Report, is the second unhealthiest state in America.
Judging by test scores, it also has the eighth worst public school system in America.
Yet somehow the man who couldn’t rescue Arkansas is going to save the Republican Party.
Only a moron would vote for this moron.
Nikki Haley is also running for the Republican presidential nomination. Up until 2017, she was the Governor of South Carolina which, by the way, currently has the seventh highest crime rate and tenth worst public school system in America.
As Governor, she gets an F.
But the people who voted for Nikki Haley, and will vote for her yet again, are way too ignorant to know that there are grades besides an F that you can get on a report card.
Republican Tim Scott has been in the Senate since 2013 and recently announced the creation of an exploratory committee so he too could run for the Republican presidential nomination. Like Nikki Haley, Scott is from South Carolina. He too has failed his constituents.
You’d have to be a complete imbecile to vote for Tim Scott which is why I’m absolutely certain that Tim Scott is voting for Tim Scott.
In South Carolina, one out of five African Americans live below the poverty line. While the median income for all of Senator Scott’s constituents is $50,570 a year, his African American constituents have a significantly lower median income of $32,175.
I would tell his voters to do the math, but they can’t.
One would think that because Scott is African American, he would worry about black poverty. But Scott’s a Republican so he’s doing exactly what he’s supposed to for his community — absolutely nothing.
The secret to success for any African American Republican candidate is to make it seem perfectly reasonable to blame black poverty on black people instead of systemic and structural racism.
You must be stupid to believe that, and of course racist.
If you want to make it as an African American in the Republican party, then you emphasize personal responsibility in poor black communities to protect the personal irresponsibility in the rich white ones.
Florida’s Governor, Republican Ron DeSantis, is also about to officially declare he’s a candidate for President by highlighting his Florida Blueprint for the rest of America.
By any measure, DeSantis’ only blueprint is one for failure.
There is not one single success story that Ron DeSantis can point to, other than leading the nation in banned books and actually being a bigger menace to Democracy and freedom than Donald Trump.
DeSantis presents himself as a fighter, waging war on the Woke because he can’t win the wars on crime, poverty, income inequality or Covid.
He demonizes the transgender community, passing laws demanding they go to the correct bathroom while his entire state falls into the toilet.
Despite his claims of being tough on criminals, Florida has the sixth highest crime rate in America.
Despite calling himself Pro Life, Florida’s infant mortality rate is worse than the national average.
Despite his claims of being tough on drug dealers, Florida has the second highest number of drug overdoses.
Florida is among the bottom ten states in providing health care to children.
It has the lowest vaccination rate in America.
Florida ranks 7th  in income inequality, and has the 15th lowest median income.
Florida workers pay more for health insurance than almost any other state.
It ranks near the bottom when it comes to health care coverage and it’s at the top when it comes to high school dropouts.
So why is Ron DeSantis so popular in Florida?
Well, I’m going to let you in on a little secret about the Sunshine State. You probably didn’t know this because you rarely hear about Florida in the news, but it turns out Florida has a lot of incredibly stupid people living there.
I know this must come as a shock. I know you all think of Florida as nothing but oranges and palm trees. But, believe it or not, Florida has a lot of idiots living there. And, I’m not just talking about The Trumps.
Stupid people aren’t the sole voters for DeSantis. Well, actually they are.
It’s stupid people filled with nothing but hatred for humanity, including themselves, their wives, and alligator prostitutes that they have sex with.
So, if you want to punish everyone, including yourself, DeSantis is your guy.
And finally, we come to Donald Trump.
People voted for him because they thought the star of The Apprentice would know how to fix our economy.
Like I said, stupid.
Trump is stupid, his children are stupid, the people who vote for him are stupid. He’s an all you can eat buffet of stupid.
And yes, it’s just that simple.
More jobs were lost during the Trump administration than at any time since the height of the Great Depression under President Herbert Hoover who, just like all the aforementioned, was a Republican.
Meanwhile there’s a Democrat in the White House and today they announced 253,000 jobs were added to our economy in April dragging the unemployment rate down to  3.4 percent-- the lowest since 1969.
Wages are up 4.4 percent over last year.
Granted Americans need better jobs, with much higher pay.
But that’s never going to happen with Republicans in charge.
And yet, with no record to run on, these idiot Republicans insist they have a record to run on.
Only Republicans could think the rest of America is as stupid as they are.
In other countries stupid people are to be pitied. But thanks to gerrymandering and voter suppression in Americans stupid people are to be feared.
Republicans are stupid.
What are you? A Democrat? Or an moron?
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Dear David, Talk about hitting the nail on the head! What I don’t understand is why can’t we fool the stupid people into doing the right thing? Tell them that voting against their own interest is a good idea, that way we know they will do the opposite. I’m about to give up hope ….
It seems the Republican rank and file are actually eager to cut off their nose to spite their face.