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[ "I swear guys, I'm totally done posting comments on r/politics.", ">\n\nYep, totally done.", ">\n\nNot gonna post anymore at all.", ">\n\nNobody check if I've continued to post. That would be very untrusting of you.", ">\n\nOppositeDifference fans: \"He's not posting, he's replying\" taps forehead", ">\n\nIt'd be rude not to, afterall.", ">\n\nThat’s a lie.", ">\n\nThis should just be the top comment for any comment section discussing this.", ">\n\nits true... people can change. My girlfriend cheated on me 12 times, but she told me she is done banging truck stop transients so we're going to make it work! so HAPPY!", ">\n\nI believe in you and your lot lizard.", ">\n\nDude is treating us like we're in an abusive relationship with him\n\"I wasn't lying!\"\n\"You're just fixated on the lying!\"\n\"ok baby, look I won't lie anymore, don't go!\"", ">\n\nWho funded your campaign?", ">\n\nSo he is admitting it lied egregiously to get elected. Therefore he needs to go.", ">\n\nHow does a person even become that amoral, unethical and depraved? They want drug tests for welfare recipients but how about mental health evaluations to screen nutcase Congresspeople.", ">\n\n\"The lie detector has determined, that is a lie!\"", ">\n\ncrowd reacting noises", ">\n\nThis, too, was a lie.", ">\n\nStarting... now. No wait... now.", ">\n\nWell, that solves it. I have no reason not to believe him", ">\n\nAnd Lucy is totally going to let Charlie kick that football this time", ">\n\nThat's a lie too. George Santos is lying about lying. He's a meta-liar.", ">\n\nA pathological liar never stops. He needs to resign and revoke his benefits", ">\n\nAnother lie", ">\n\nGoing to assume he’s pivoted to collecting intel information and selling it.", ">\n\nIt was an impressive interview. He almost ran through the entire narcissist prayer in one sitting. You can see the 'you deserved it' just starting to crown in his mouth as he explains that society made him lie about his education. \nEven the legends have a hard time doing that. They usually don't even bother. The republican party probably understood how Kevin Bacon felt in The Air Up There when they discovered this natural talent.", ">\n\nOh thank goodness. So I guess we can just forget this whole thing happened then?", ">\n\nThis is a ruse.", ">\n\n\n“Trust me.”", ">\n\n\nI will never lie to you\n\nBagdad Barbie", ">\n\nI don’t know why, but I believe him this time.", ">\n\n.....and MTG is done with all the qanon nonsense.", ">\n\nAnother lie…", ">\n\nHe ran out?", ">\n\nExcept, he LIED about that!", ">\n\nBut what if he's lying now...?", ">\n\nLiars can't quit... they just keep lying.", ">\n\nHow long before another of his lies surfaces?", ">\n\n\n“I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nCongratulations, it's only taken you 34 years to learn lying has consequences. Also there's no need to \"double check\" or \"cross reverence\" yourself if you just tell the fucking truth.", ">\n\nWell that is probably a lie", ">\n\nThe logic behind this statement is so obvious…. 🤣", ">\n\nWell, that settles that!", ">\n\n[Record scratch] \"he wasn't\"", ">\n\n\"He's good now, Jimmy!\"", ">\n\nIs that like being done pooping?", ">\n\nOh, you're done? Well ok then.", ">\n\nToo late. Indictments probably in the next few months.", ">\n\nExcept that, and that and that....", ">\n\nI hope not. A man ought to do what he's best at ... Although on second thought he's not particularly good at it.", ">\n\nAwwww, that’s cute.", ">\n\nAnd I'm finished smoking cigarettes forever..... nnnow.", ">\n\nI’m just looking forward to finding out he lied about being a human being and he is actually a horse", ">\n\nLies. More Lies.\nBor Gullet.", ">\n\nHe's not \"all done the lying\"... he's \"done all the lying\". There is literally nothing else he could lie about.... there's nothing left!" ]

[ "I swear guys, I'm totally done posting comments on r/politics.", ">\n\nYep, totally done.", ">\n\nNot gonna post anymore at all.", ">\n\nNobody check if I've continued to post. That would be very untrusting of you.", ">\n\nOppositeDifference fans: \"He's not posting, he's replying\" taps forehead", ">\n\nIt'd be rude not to, afterall.", ">\n\nThat’s a lie.", ">\n\nThis should just be the top comment for any comment section discussing this.", ">\n\nits true... people can change. My girlfriend cheated on me 12 times, but she told me she is done banging truck stop transients so we're going to make it work! so HAPPY!", ">\n\nI believe in you and your lot lizard.", ">\n\nDude is treating us like we're in an abusive relationship with him\n\"I wasn't lying!\"\n\"You're just fixated on the lying!\"\n\"ok baby, look I won't lie anymore, don't go!\"", ">\n\nWho funded your campaign?", ">\n\nSo he is admitting it lied egregiously to get elected. Therefore he needs to go.", ">\n\nHow does a person even become that amoral, unethical and depraved? They want drug tests for welfare recipients but how about mental health evaluations to screen nutcase Congresspeople.", ">\n\n\"The lie detector has determined, that is a lie!\"", ">\n\ncrowd reacting noises", ">\n\nThis, too, was a lie.", ">\n\nStarting... now. No wait... now.", ">\n\nWell, that solves it. I have no reason not to believe him", ">\n\nAnd Lucy is totally going to let Charlie kick that football this time", ">\n\nThat's a lie too. George Santos is lying about lying. He's a meta-liar.", ">\n\nA pathological liar never stops. He needs to resign and revoke his benefits", ">\n\nAnother lie", ">\n\nGoing to assume he’s pivoted to collecting intel information and selling it.", ">\n\nIt was an impressive interview. He almost ran through the entire narcissist prayer in one sitting. You can see the 'you deserved it' just starting to crown in his mouth as he explains that society made him lie about his education. \nEven the legends have a hard time doing that. They usually don't even bother. The republican party probably understood how Kevin Bacon felt in The Air Up There when they discovered this natural talent.", ">\n\nOh thank goodness. So I guess we can just forget this whole thing happened then?", ">\n\nThis is a ruse.", ">\n\n\n“Trust me.”", ">\n\n\nI will never lie to you\n\nBagdad Barbie", ">\n\nI don’t know why, but I believe him this time.", ">\n\n.....and MTG is done with all the qanon nonsense.", ">\n\nAnother lie…", ">\n\nHe ran out?", ">\n\nExcept, he LIED about that!", ">\n\nBut what if he's lying now...?", ">\n\nLiars can't quit... they just keep lying.", ">\n\nHow long before another of his lies surfaces?", ">\n\n\n“I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nCongratulations, it's only taken you 34 years to learn lying has consequences. Also there's no need to \"double check\" or \"cross reverence\" yourself if you just tell the fucking truth.", ">\n\nWell that is probably a lie", ">\n\nThe logic behind this statement is so obvious…. 🤣", ">\n\nWell, that settles that!", ">\n\n[Record scratch] \"he wasn't\"", ">\n\n\"He's good now, Jimmy!\"", ">\n\nIs that like being done pooping?", ">\n\nOh, you're done? Well ok then.", ">\n\nToo late. Indictments probably in the next few months.", ">\n\nExcept that, and that and that....", ">\n\nI hope not. A man ought to do what he's best at ... Although on second thought he's not particularly good at it.", ">\n\nAwwww, that’s cute.", ">\n\nAnd I'm finished smoking cigarettes forever..... nnnow.", ">\n\nI’m just looking forward to finding out he lied about being a human being and he is actually a horse", ">\n\nLies. More Lies.\nBor Gullet.", ">\n\nHe's not \"all done the lying\"... he's \"done all the lying\". There is literally nothing else he could lie about.... there's nothing left!", ">\n\nAww, I just can’t stay mad at that face! Go on, ya little scamp! tousles hair" ]

[ "I swear guys, I'm totally done posting comments on r/politics.", ">\n\nYep, totally done.", ">\n\nNot gonna post anymore at all.", ">\n\nNobody check if I've continued to post. That would be very untrusting of you.", ">\n\nOppositeDifference fans: \"He's not posting, he's replying\" taps forehead", ">\n\nIt'd be rude not to, afterall.", ">\n\nThat’s a lie.", ">\n\nThis should just be the top comment for any comment section discussing this.", ">\n\nits true... people can change. My girlfriend cheated on me 12 times, but she told me she is done banging truck stop transients so we're going to make it work! so HAPPY!", ">\n\nI believe in you and your lot lizard.", ">\n\nDude is treating us like we're in an abusive relationship with him\n\"I wasn't lying!\"\n\"You're just fixated on the lying!\"\n\"ok baby, look I won't lie anymore, don't go!\"", ">\n\nWho funded your campaign?", ">\n\nSo he is admitting it lied egregiously to get elected. Therefore he needs to go.", ">\n\nHow does a person even become that amoral, unethical and depraved? They want drug tests for welfare recipients but how about mental health evaluations to screen nutcase Congresspeople.", ">\n\n\"The lie detector has determined, that is a lie!\"", ">\n\ncrowd reacting noises", ">\n\nThis, too, was a lie.", ">\n\nStarting... now. No wait... now.", ">\n\nWell, that solves it. I have no reason not to believe him", ">\n\nAnd Lucy is totally going to let Charlie kick that football this time", ">\n\nThat's a lie too. George Santos is lying about lying. He's a meta-liar.", ">\n\nA pathological liar never stops. He needs to resign and revoke his benefits", ">\n\nAnother lie", ">\n\nGoing to assume he’s pivoted to collecting intel information and selling it.", ">\n\nIt was an impressive interview. He almost ran through the entire narcissist prayer in one sitting. You can see the 'you deserved it' just starting to crown in his mouth as he explains that society made him lie about his education. \nEven the legends have a hard time doing that. They usually don't even bother. The republican party probably understood how Kevin Bacon felt in The Air Up There when they discovered this natural talent.", ">\n\nOh thank goodness. So I guess we can just forget this whole thing happened then?", ">\n\nThis is a ruse.", ">\n\n\n“Trust me.”", ">\n\n\nI will never lie to you\n\nBagdad Barbie", ">\n\nI don’t know why, but I believe him this time.", ">\n\n.....and MTG is done with all the qanon nonsense.", ">\n\nAnother lie…", ">\n\nHe ran out?", ">\n\nExcept, he LIED about that!", ">\n\nBut what if he's lying now...?", ">\n\nLiars can't quit... they just keep lying.", ">\n\nHow long before another of his lies surfaces?", ">\n\n\n“I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nCongratulations, it's only taken you 34 years to learn lying has consequences. Also there's no need to \"double check\" or \"cross reverence\" yourself if you just tell the fucking truth.", ">\n\nWell that is probably a lie", ">\n\nThe logic behind this statement is so obvious…. 🤣", ">\n\nWell, that settles that!", ">\n\n[Record scratch] \"he wasn't\"", ">\n\n\"He's good now, Jimmy!\"", ">\n\nIs that like being done pooping?", ">\n\nOh, you're done? Well ok then.", ">\n\nToo late. Indictments probably in the next few months.", ">\n\nExcept that, and that and that....", ">\n\nI hope not. A man ought to do what he's best at ... Although on second thought he's not particularly good at it.", ">\n\nAwwww, that’s cute.", ">\n\nAnd I'm finished smoking cigarettes forever..... nnnow.", ">\n\nI’m just looking forward to finding out he lied about being a human being and he is actually a horse", ">\n\nLies. More Lies.\nBor Gullet.", ">\n\nHe's not \"all done the lying\"... he's \"done all the lying\". There is literally nothing else he could lie about.... there's nothing left!", ">\n\nAww, I just can’t stay mad at that face! Go on, ya little scamp! tousles hair", ">\n\nWell that’s a lie admitting to lying." ]

[ "I swear guys, I'm totally done posting comments on r/politics.", ">\n\nYep, totally done.", ">\n\nNot gonna post anymore at all.", ">\n\nNobody check if I've continued to post. That would be very untrusting of you.", ">\n\nOppositeDifference fans: \"He's not posting, he's replying\" taps forehead", ">\n\nIt'd be rude not to, afterall.", ">\n\nThat’s a lie.", ">\n\nThis should just be the top comment for any comment section discussing this.", ">\n\nits true... people can change. My girlfriend cheated on me 12 times, but she told me she is done banging truck stop transients so we're going to make it work! so HAPPY!", ">\n\nI believe in you and your lot lizard.", ">\n\nDude is treating us like we're in an abusive relationship with him\n\"I wasn't lying!\"\n\"You're just fixated on the lying!\"\n\"ok baby, look I won't lie anymore, don't go!\"", ">\n\nWho funded your campaign?", ">\n\nSo he is admitting it lied egregiously to get elected. Therefore he needs to go.", ">\n\nHow does a person even become that amoral, unethical and depraved? They want drug tests for welfare recipients but how about mental health evaluations to screen nutcase Congresspeople.", ">\n\n\"The lie detector has determined, that is a lie!\"", ">\n\ncrowd reacting noises", ">\n\nThis, too, was a lie.", ">\n\nStarting... now. No wait... now.", ">\n\nWell, that solves it. I have no reason not to believe him", ">\n\nAnd Lucy is totally going to let Charlie kick that football this time", ">\n\nThat's a lie too. George Santos is lying about lying. He's a meta-liar.", ">\n\nA pathological liar never stops. He needs to resign and revoke his benefits", ">\n\nAnother lie", ">\n\nGoing to assume he’s pivoted to collecting intel information and selling it.", ">\n\nIt was an impressive interview. He almost ran through the entire narcissist prayer in one sitting. You can see the 'you deserved it' just starting to crown in his mouth as he explains that society made him lie about his education. \nEven the legends have a hard time doing that. They usually don't even bother. The republican party probably understood how Kevin Bacon felt in The Air Up There when they discovered this natural talent.", ">\n\nOh thank goodness. So I guess we can just forget this whole thing happened then?", ">\n\nThis is a ruse.", ">\n\n\n“Trust me.”", ">\n\n\nI will never lie to you\n\nBagdad Barbie", ">\n\nI don’t know why, but I believe him this time.", ">\n\n.....and MTG is done with all the qanon nonsense.", ">\n\nAnother lie…", ">\n\nHe ran out?", ">\n\nExcept, he LIED about that!", ">\n\nBut what if he's lying now...?", ">\n\nLiars can't quit... they just keep lying.", ">\n\nHow long before another of his lies surfaces?", ">\n\n\n“I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nCongratulations, it's only taken you 34 years to learn lying has consequences. Also there's no need to \"double check\" or \"cross reverence\" yourself if you just tell the fucking truth.", ">\n\nWell that is probably a lie", ">\n\nThe logic behind this statement is so obvious…. 🤣", ">\n\nWell, that settles that!", ">\n\n[Record scratch] \"he wasn't\"", ">\n\n\"He's good now, Jimmy!\"", ">\n\nIs that like being done pooping?", ">\n\nOh, you're done? Well ok then.", ">\n\nToo late. Indictments probably in the next few months.", ">\n\nExcept that, and that and that....", ">\n\nI hope not. A man ought to do what he's best at ... Although on second thought he's not particularly good at it.", ">\n\nAwwww, that’s cute.", ">\n\nAnd I'm finished smoking cigarettes forever..... nnnow.", ">\n\nI’m just looking forward to finding out he lied about being a human being and he is actually a horse", ">\n\nLies. More Lies.\nBor Gullet.", ">\n\nHe's not \"all done the lying\"... he's \"done all the lying\". There is literally nothing else he could lie about.... there's nothing left!", ">\n\nAww, I just can’t stay mad at that face! Go on, ya little scamp! tousles hair", ">\n\nWell that’s a lie admitting to lying.", ">\n\nHere he goes, lying again." ]

[ "I swear guys, I'm totally done posting comments on r/politics.", ">\n\nYep, totally done.", ">\n\nNot gonna post anymore at all.", ">\n\nNobody check if I've continued to post. That would be very untrusting of you.", ">\n\nOppositeDifference fans: \"He's not posting, he's replying\" taps forehead", ">\n\nIt'd be rude not to, afterall.", ">\n\nThat’s a lie.", ">\n\nThis should just be the top comment for any comment section discussing this.", ">\n\nits true... people can change. My girlfriend cheated on me 12 times, but she told me she is done banging truck stop transients so we're going to make it work! so HAPPY!", ">\n\nI believe in you and your lot lizard.", ">\n\nDude is treating us like we're in an abusive relationship with him\n\"I wasn't lying!\"\n\"You're just fixated on the lying!\"\n\"ok baby, look I won't lie anymore, don't go!\"", ">\n\nWho funded your campaign?", ">\n\nSo he is admitting it lied egregiously to get elected. Therefore he needs to go.", ">\n\nHow does a person even become that amoral, unethical and depraved? They want drug tests for welfare recipients but how about mental health evaluations to screen nutcase Congresspeople.", ">\n\n\"The lie detector has determined, that is a lie!\"", ">\n\ncrowd reacting noises", ">\n\nThis, too, was a lie.", ">\n\nStarting... now. No wait... now.", ">\n\nWell, that solves it. I have no reason not to believe him", ">\n\nAnd Lucy is totally going to let Charlie kick that football this time", ">\n\nThat's a lie too. George Santos is lying about lying. He's a meta-liar.", ">\n\nA pathological liar never stops. He needs to resign and revoke his benefits", ">\n\nAnother lie", ">\n\nGoing to assume he’s pivoted to collecting intel information and selling it.", ">\n\nIt was an impressive interview. He almost ran through the entire narcissist prayer in one sitting. You can see the 'you deserved it' just starting to crown in his mouth as he explains that society made him lie about his education. \nEven the legends have a hard time doing that. They usually don't even bother. The republican party probably understood how Kevin Bacon felt in The Air Up There when they discovered this natural talent.", ">\n\nOh thank goodness. So I guess we can just forget this whole thing happened then?", ">\n\nThis is a ruse.", ">\n\n\n“Trust me.”", ">\n\n\nI will never lie to you\n\nBagdad Barbie", ">\n\nI don’t know why, but I believe him this time.", ">\n\n.....and MTG is done with all the qanon nonsense.", ">\n\nAnother lie…", ">\n\nHe ran out?", ">\n\nExcept, he LIED about that!", ">\n\nBut what if he's lying now...?", ">\n\nLiars can't quit... they just keep lying.", ">\n\nHow long before another of his lies surfaces?", ">\n\n\n“I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nCongratulations, it's only taken you 34 years to learn lying has consequences. Also there's no need to \"double check\" or \"cross reverence\" yourself if you just tell the fucking truth.", ">\n\nWell that is probably a lie", ">\n\nThe logic behind this statement is so obvious…. 🤣", ">\n\nWell, that settles that!", ">\n\n[Record scratch] \"he wasn't\"", ">\n\n\"He's good now, Jimmy!\"", ">\n\nIs that like being done pooping?", ">\n\nOh, you're done? Well ok then.", ">\n\nToo late. Indictments probably in the next few months.", ">\n\nExcept that, and that and that....", ">\n\nI hope not. A man ought to do what he's best at ... Although on second thought he's not particularly good at it.", ">\n\nAwwww, that’s cute.", ">\n\nAnd I'm finished smoking cigarettes forever..... nnnow.", ">\n\nI’m just looking forward to finding out he lied about being a human being and he is actually a horse", ">\n\nLies. More Lies.\nBor Gullet.", ">\n\nHe's not \"all done the lying\"... he's \"done all the lying\". There is literally nothing else he could lie about.... there's nothing left!", ">\n\nAww, I just can’t stay mad at that face! Go on, ya little scamp! tousles hair", ">\n\nWell that’s a lie admitting to lying.", ">\n\nHere he goes, lying again.", ">\n\n\nHe lied.\n\n-- Morgan Freeman, probably" ]

[ "I swear guys, I'm totally done posting comments on r/politics.", ">\n\nYep, totally done.", ">\n\nNot gonna post anymore at all.", ">\n\nNobody check if I've continued to post. That would be very untrusting of you.", ">\n\nOppositeDifference fans: \"He's not posting, he's replying\" taps forehead", ">\n\nIt'd be rude not to, afterall.", ">\n\nThat’s a lie.", ">\n\nThis should just be the top comment for any comment section discussing this.", ">\n\nits true... people can change. My girlfriend cheated on me 12 times, but she told me she is done banging truck stop transients so we're going to make it work! so HAPPY!", ">\n\nI believe in you and your lot lizard.", ">\n\nDude is treating us like we're in an abusive relationship with him\n\"I wasn't lying!\"\n\"You're just fixated on the lying!\"\n\"ok baby, look I won't lie anymore, don't go!\"", ">\n\nWho funded your campaign?", ">\n\nSo he is admitting it lied egregiously to get elected. Therefore he needs to go.", ">\n\nHow does a person even become that amoral, unethical and depraved? They want drug tests for welfare recipients but how about mental health evaluations to screen nutcase Congresspeople.", ">\n\n\"The lie detector has determined, that is a lie!\"", ">\n\ncrowd reacting noises", ">\n\nThis, too, was a lie.", ">\n\nStarting... now. No wait... now.", ">\n\nWell, that solves it. I have no reason not to believe him", ">\n\nAnd Lucy is totally going to let Charlie kick that football this time", ">\n\nThat's a lie too. George Santos is lying about lying. He's a meta-liar.", ">\n\nA pathological liar never stops. He needs to resign and revoke his benefits", ">\n\nAnother lie", ">\n\nGoing to assume he’s pivoted to collecting intel information and selling it.", ">\n\nIt was an impressive interview. He almost ran through the entire narcissist prayer in one sitting. You can see the 'you deserved it' just starting to crown in his mouth as he explains that society made him lie about his education. \nEven the legends have a hard time doing that. They usually don't even bother. The republican party probably understood how Kevin Bacon felt in The Air Up There when they discovered this natural talent.", ">\n\nOh thank goodness. So I guess we can just forget this whole thing happened then?", ">\n\nThis is a ruse.", ">\n\n\n“Trust me.”", ">\n\n\nI will never lie to you\n\nBagdad Barbie", ">\n\nI don’t know why, but I believe him this time.", ">\n\n.....and MTG is done with all the qanon nonsense.", ">\n\nAnother lie…", ">\n\nHe ran out?", ">\n\nExcept, he LIED about that!", ">\n\nBut what if he's lying now...?", ">\n\nLiars can't quit... they just keep lying.", ">\n\nHow long before another of his lies surfaces?", ">\n\n\n“I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nCongratulations, it's only taken you 34 years to learn lying has consequences. Also there's no need to \"double check\" or \"cross reverence\" yourself if you just tell the fucking truth.", ">\n\nWell that is probably a lie", ">\n\nThe logic behind this statement is so obvious…. 🤣", ">\n\nWell, that settles that!", ">\n\n[Record scratch] \"he wasn't\"", ">\n\n\"He's good now, Jimmy!\"", ">\n\nIs that like being done pooping?", ">\n\nOh, you're done? Well ok then.", ">\n\nToo late. Indictments probably in the next few months.", ">\n\nExcept that, and that and that....", ">\n\nI hope not. A man ought to do what he's best at ... Although on second thought he's not particularly good at it.", ">\n\nAwwww, that’s cute.", ">\n\nAnd I'm finished smoking cigarettes forever..... nnnow.", ">\n\nI’m just looking forward to finding out he lied about being a human being and he is actually a horse", ">\n\nLies. More Lies.\nBor Gullet.", ">\n\nHe's not \"all done the lying\"... he's \"done all the lying\". There is literally nothing else he could lie about.... there's nothing left!", ">\n\nAww, I just can’t stay mad at that face! Go on, ya little scamp! tousles hair", ">\n\nWell that’s a lie admitting to lying.", ">\n\nHere he goes, lying again.", ">\n\n\nHe lied.\n\n-- Morgan Freeman, probably", ">\n\nWhatever, when lying is like breathing, is he going to stop breathing?" ]

[ "I swear guys, I'm totally done posting comments on r/politics.", ">\n\nYep, totally done.", ">\n\nNot gonna post anymore at all.", ">\n\nNobody check if I've continued to post. That would be very untrusting of you.", ">\n\nOppositeDifference fans: \"He's not posting, he's replying\" taps forehead", ">\n\nIt'd be rude not to, afterall.", ">\n\nThat’s a lie.", ">\n\nThis should just be the top comment for any comment section discussing this.", ">\n\nits true... people can change. My girlfriend cheated on me 12 times, but she told me she is done banging truck stop transients so we're going to make it work! so HAPPY!", ">\n\nI believe in you and your lot lizard.", ">\n\nDude is treating us like we're in an abusive relationship with him\n\"I wasn't lying!\"\n\"You're just fixated on the lying!\"\n\"ok baby, look I won't lie anymore, don't go!\"", ">\n\nWho funded your campaign?", ">\n\nSo he is admitting it lied egregiously to get elected. Therefore he needs to go.", ">\n\nHow does a person even become that amoral, unethical and depraved? They want drug tests for welfare recipients but how about mental health evaluations to screen nutcase Congresspeople.", ">\n\n\"The lie detector has determined, that is a lie!\"", ">\n\ncrowd reacting noises", ">\n\nThis, too, was a lie.", ">\n\nStarting... now. No wait... now.", ">\n\nWell, that solves it. I have no reason not to believe him", ">\n\nAnd Lucy is totally going to let Charlie kick that football this time", ">\n\nThat's a lie too. George Santos is lying about lying. He's a meta-liar.", ">\n\nA pathological liar never stops. He needs to resign and revoke his benefits", ">\n\nAnother lie", ">\n\nGoing to assume he’s pivoted to collecting intel information and selling it.", ">\n\nIt was an impressive interview. He almost ran through the entire narcissist prayer in one sitting. You can see the 'you deserved it' just starting to crown in his mouth as he explains that society made him lie about his education. \nEven the legends have a hard time doing that. They usually don't even bother. The republican party probably understood how Kevin Bacon felt in The Air Up There when they discovered this natural talent.", ">\n\nOh thank goodness. So I guess we can just forget this whole thing happened then?", ">\n\nThis is a ruse.", ">\n\n\n“Trust me.”", ">\n\n\nI will never lie to you\n\nBagdad Barbie", ">\n\nI don’t know why, but I believe him this time.", ">\n\n.....and MTG is done with all the qanon nonsense.", ">\n\nAnother lie…", ">\n\nHe ran out?", ">\n\nExcept, he LIED about that!", ">\n\nBut what if he's lying now...?", ">\n\nLiars can't quit... they just keep lying.", ">\n\nHow long before another of his lies surfaces?", ">\n\n\n“I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nCongratulations, it's only taken you 34 years to learn lying has consequences. Also there's no need to \"double check\" or \"cross reverence\" yourself if you just tell the fucking truth.", ">\n\nWell that is probably a lie", ">\n\nThe logic behind this statement is so obvious…. 🤣", ">\n\nWell, that settles that!", ">\n\n[Record scratch] \"he wasn't\"", ">\n\n\"He's good now, Jimmy!\"", ">\n\nIs that like being done pooping?", ">\n\nOh, you're done? Well ok then.", ">\n\nToo late. Indictments probably in the next few months.", ">\n\nExcept that, and that and that....", ">\n\nI hope not. A man ought to do what he's best at ... Although on second thought he's not particularly good at it.", ">\n\nAwwww, that’s cute.", ">\n\nAnd I'm finished smoking cigarettes forever..... nnnow.", ">\n\nI’m just looking forward to finding out he lied about being a human being and he is actually a horse", ">\n\nLies. More Lies.\nBor Gullet.", ">\n\nHe's not \"all done the lying\"... he's \"done all the lying\". There is literally nothing else he could lie about.... there's nothing left!", ">\n\nAww, I just can’t stay mad at that face! Go on, ya little scamp! tousles hair", ">\n\nWell that’s a lie admitting to lying.", ">\n\nHere he goes, lying again.", ">\n\n\nHe lied.\n\n-- Morgan Freeman, probably", ">\n\nWhatever, when lying is like breathing, is he going to stop breathing?", ">\n\n…which is basically another lie. The media have zero critical thinking skills. We shouldn’t be giving this guy more chances to redeem himself. He’s an utter fraud. Kick him out." ]

[ "I swear guys, I'm totally done posting comments on r/politics.", ">\n\nYep, totally done.", ">\n\nNot gonna post anymore at all.", ">\n\nNobody check if I've continued to post. That would be very untrusting of you.", ">\n\nOppositeDifference fans: \"He's not posting, he's replying\" taps forehead", ">\n\nIt'd be rude not to, afterall.", ">\n\nThat’s a lie.", ">\n\nThis should just be the top comment for any comment section discussing this.", ">\n\nits true... people can change. My girlfriend cheated on me 12 times, but she told me she is done banging truck stop transients so we're going to make it work! so HAPPY!", ">\n\nI believe in you and your lot lizard.", ">\n\nDude is treating us like we're in an abusive relationship with him\n\"I wasn't lying!\"\n\"You're just fixated on the lying!\"\n\"ok baby, look I won't lie anymore, don't go!\"", ">\n\nWho funded your campaign?", ">\n\nSo he is admitting it lied egregiously to get elected. Therefore he needs to go.", ">\n\nHow does a person even become that amoral, unethical and depraved? They want drug tests for welfare recipients but how about mental health evaluations to screen nutcase Congresspeople.", ">\n\n\"The lie detector has determined, that is a lie!\"", ">\n\ncrowd reacting noises", ">\n\nThis, too, was a lie.", ">\n\nStarting... now. No wait... now.", ">\n\nWell, that solves it. I have no reason not to believe him", ">\n\nAnd Lucy is totally going to let Charlie kick that football this time", ">\n\nThat's a lie too. George Santos is lying about lying. He's a meta-liar.", ">\n\nA pathological liar never stops. He needs to resign and revoke his benefits", ">\n\nAnother lie", ">\n\nGoing to assume he’s pivoted to collecting intel information and selling it.", ">\n\nIt was an impressive interview. He almost ran through the entire narcissist prayer in one sitting. You can see the 'you deserved it' just starting to crown in his mouth as he explains that society made him lie about his education. \nEven the legends have a hard time doing that. They usually don't even bother. The republican party probably understood how Kevin Bacon felt in The Air Up There when they discovered this natural talent.", ">\n\nOh thank goodness. So I guess we can just forget this whole thing happened then?", ">\n\nThis is a ruse.", ">\n\n\n“Trust me.”", ">\n\n\nI will never lie to you\n\nBagdad Barbie", ">\n\nI don’t know why, but I believe him this time.", ">\n\n.....and MTG is done with all the qanon nonsense.", ">\n\nAnother lie…", ">\n\nHe ran out?", ">\n\nExcept, he LIED about that!", ">\n\nBut what if he's lying now...?", ">\n\nLiars can't quit... they just keep lying.", ">\n\nHow long before another of his lies surfaces?", ">\n\n\n“I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nCongratulations, it's only taken you 34 years to learn lying has consequences. Also there's no need to \"double check\" or \"cross reverence\" yourself if you just tell the fucking truth.", ">\n\nWell that is probably a lie", ">\n\nThe logic behind this statement is so obvious…. 🤣", ">\n\nWell, that settles that!", ">\n\n[Record scratch] \"he wasn't\"", ">\n\n\"He's good now, Jimmy!\"", ">\n\nIs that like being done pooping?", ">\n\nOh, you're done? Well ok then.", ">\n\nToo late. Indictments probably in the next few months.", ">\n\nExcept that, and that and that....", ">\n\nI hope not. A man ought to do what he's best at ... Although on second thought he's not particularly good at it.", ">\n\nAwwww, that’s cute.", ">\n\nAnd I'm finished smoking cigarettes forever..... nnnow.", ">\n\nI’m just looking forward to finding out he lied about being a human being and he is actually a horse", ">\n\nLies. More Lies.\nBor Gullet.", ">\n\nHe's not \"all done the lying\"... he's \"done all the lying\". There is literally nothing else he could lie about.... there's nothing left!", ">\n\nAww, I just can’t stay mad at that face! Go on, ya little scamp! tousles hair", ">\n\nWell that’s a lie admitting to lying.", ">\n\nHere he goes, lying again.", ">\n\n\nHe lied.\n\n-- Morgan Freeman, probably", ">\n\nWhatever, when lying is like breathing, is he going to stop breathing?", ">\n\n…which is basically another lie. The media have zero critical thinking skills. We shouldn’t be giving this guy more chances to redeem himself. He’s an utter fraud. Kick him out.", ">\n\nThat's his biggest perpetual lie yet." ]

[ "I swear guys, I'm totally done posting comments on r/politics.", ">\n\nYep, totally done.", ">\n\nNot gonna post anymore at all.", ">\n\nNobody check if I've continued to post. That would be very untrusting of you.", ">\n\nOppositeDifference fans: \"He's not posting, he's replying\" taps forehead", ">\n\nIt'd be rude not to, afterall.", ">\n\nThat’s a lie.", ">\n\nThis should just be the top comment for any comment section discussing this.", ">\n\nits true... people can change. My girlfriend cheated on me 12 times, but she told me she is done banging truck stop transients so we're going to make it work! so HAPPY!", ">\n\nI believe in you and your lot lizard.", ">\n\nDude is treating us like we're in an abusive relationship with him\n\"I wasn't lying!\"\n\"You're just fixated on the lying!\"\n\"ok baby, look I won't lie anymore, don't go!\"", ">\n\nWho funded your campaign?", ">\n\nSo he is admitting it lied egregiously to get elected. Therefore he needs to go.", ">\n\nHow does a person even become that amoral, unethical and depraved? They want drug tests for welfare recipients but how about mental health evaluations to screen nutcase Congresspeople.", ">\n\n\"The lie detector has determined, that is a lie!\"", ">\n\ncrowd reacting noises", ">\n\nThis, too, was a lie.", ">\n\nStarting... now. No wait... now.", ">\n\nWell, that solves it. I have no reason not to believe him", ">\n\nAnd Lucy is totally going to let Charlie kick that football this time", ">\n\nThat's a lie too. George Santos is lying about lying. He's a meta-liar.", ">\n\nA pathological liar never stops. He needs to resign and revoke his benefits", ">\n\nAnother lie", ">\n\nGoing to assume he’s pivoted to collecting intel information and selling it.", ">\n\nIt was an impressive interview. He almost ran through the entire narcissist prayer in one sitting. You can see the 'you deserved it' just starting to crown in his mouth as he explains that society made him lie about his education. \nEven the legends have a hard time doing that. They usually don't even bother. The republican party probably understood how Kevin Bacon felt in The Air Up There when they discovered this natural talent.", ">\n\nOh thank goodness. So I guess we can just forget this whole thing happened then?", ">\n\nThis is a ruse.", ">\n\n\n“Trust me.”", ">\n\n\nI will never lie to you\n\nBagdad Barbie", ">\n\nI don’t know why, but I believe him this time.", ">\n\n.....and MTG is done with all the qanon nonsense.", ">\n\nAnother lie…", ">\n\nHe ran out?", ">\n\nExcept, he LIED about that!", ">\n\nBut what if he's lying now...?", ">\n\nLiars can't quit... they just keep lying.", ">\n\nHow long before another of his lies surfaces?", ">\n\n\n“I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nCongratulations, it's only taken you 34 years to learn lying has consequences. Also there's no need to \"double check\" or \"cross reverence\" yourself if you just tell the fucking truth.", ">\n\nWell that is probably a lie", ">\n\nThe logic behind this statement is so obvious…. 🤣", ">\n\nWell, that settles that!", ">\n\n[Record scratch] \"he wasn't\"", ">\n\n\"He's good now, Jimmy!\"", ">\n\nIs that like being done pooping?", ">\n\nOh, you're done? Well ok then.", ">\n\nToo late. Indictments probably in the next few months.", ">\n\nExcept that, and that and that....", ">\n\nI hope not. A man ought to do what he's best at ... Although on second thought he's not particularly good at it.", ">\n\nAwwww, that’s cute.", ">\n\nAnd I'm finished smoking cigarettes forever..... nnnow.", ">\n\nI’m just looking forward to finding out he lied about being a human being and he is actually a horse", ">\n\nLies. More Lies.\nBor Gullet.", ">\n\nHe's not \"all done the lying\"... he's \"done all the lying\". There is literally nothing else he could lie about.... there's nothing left!", ">\n\nAww, I just can’t stay mad at that face! Go on, ya little scamp! tousles hair", ">\n\nWell that’s a lie admitting to lying.", ">\n\nHere he goes, lying again.", ">\n\n\nHe lied.\n\n-- Morgan Freeman, probably", ">\n\nWhatever, when lying is like breathing, is he going to stop breathing?", ">\n\n…which is basically another lie. The media have zero critical thinking skills. We shouldn’t be giving this guy more chances to redeem himself. He’s an utter fraud. Kick him out.", ">\n\nThat's his biggest perpetual lie yet.", ">\n\n\n“I’ve learned my lesson,” Santos told Caitlin Sinclair. “I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nNarcissism dies hard." ]

[ "I swear guys, I'm totally done posting comments on r/politics.", ">\n\nYep, totally done.", ">\n\nNot gonna post anymore at all.", ">\n\nNobody check if I've continued to post. That would be very untrusting of you.", ">\n\nOppositeDifference fans: \"He's not posting, he's replying\" taps forehead", ">\n\nIt'd be rude not to, afterall.", ">\n\nThat’s a lie.", ">\n\nThis should just be the top comment for any comment section discussing this.", ">\n\nits true... people can change. My girlfriend cheated on me 12 times, but she told me she is done banging truck stop transients so we're going to make it work! so HAPPY!", ">\n\nI believe in you and your lot lizard.", ">\n\nDude is treating us like we're in an abusive relationship with him\n\"I wasn't lying!\"\n\"You're just fixated on the lying!\"\n\"ok baby, look I won't lie anymore, don't go!\"", ">\n\nWho funded your campaign?", ">\n\nSo he is admitting it lied egregiously to get elected. Therefore he needs to go.", ">\n\nHow does a person even become that amoral, unethical and depraved? They want drug tests for welfare recipients but how about mental health evaluations to screen nutcase Congresspeople.", ">\n\n\"The lie detector has determined, that is a lie!\"", ">\n\ncrowd reacting noises", ">\n\nThis, too, was a lie.", ">\n\nStarting... now. No wait... now.", ">\n\nWell, that solves it. I have no reason not to believe him", ">\n\nAnd Lucy is totally going to let Charlie kick that football this time", ">\n\nThat's a lie too. George Santos is lying about lying. He's a meta-liar.", ">\n\nA pathological liar never stops. He needs to resign and revoke his benefits", ">\n\nAnother lie", ">\n\nGoing to assume he’s pivoted to collecting intel information and selling it.", ">\n\nIt was an impressive interview. He almost ran through the entire narcissist prayer in one sitting. You can see the 'you deserved it' just starting to crown in his mouth as he explains that society made him lie about his education. \nEven the legends have a hard time doing that. They usually don't even bother. The republican party probably understood how Kevin Bacon felt in The Air Up There when they discovered this natural talent.", ">\n\nOh thank goodness. So I guess we can just forget this whole thing happened then?", ">\n\nThis is a ruse.", ">\n\n\n“Trust me.”", ">\n\n\nI will never lie to you\n\nBagdad Barbie", ">\n\nI don’t know why, but I believe him this time.", ">\n\n.....and MTG is done with all the qanon nonsense.", ">\n\nAnother lie…", ">\n\nHe ran out?", ">\n\nExcept, he LIED about that!", ">\n\nBut what if he's lying now...?", ">\n\nLiars can't quit... they just keep lying.", ">\n\nHow long before another of his lies surfaces?", ">\n\n\n“I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nCongratulations, it's only taken you 34 years to learn lying has consequences. Also there's no need to \"double check\" or \"cross reverence\" yourself if you just tell the fucking truth.", ">\n\nWell that is probably a lie", ">\n\nThe logic behind this statement is so obvious…. 🤣", ">\n\nWell, that settles that!", ">\n\n[Record scratch] \"he wasn't\"", ">\n\n\"He's good now, Jimmy!\"", ">\n\nIs that like being done pooping?", ">\n\nOh, you're done? Well ok then.", ">\n\nToo late. Indictments probably in the next few months.", ">\n\nExcept that, and that and that....", ">\n\nI hope not. A man ought to do what he's best at ... Although on second thought he's not particularly good at it.", ">\n\nAwwww, that’s cute.", ">\n\nAnd I'm finished smoking cigarettes forever..... nnnow.", ">\n\nI’m just looking forward to finding out he lied about being a human being and he is actually a horse", ">\n\nLies. More Lies.\nBor Gullet.", ">\n\nHe's not \"all done the lying\"... he's \"done all the lying\". There is literally nothing else he could lie about.... there's nothing left!", ">\n\nAww, I just can’t stay mad at that face! Go on, ya little scamp! tousles hair", ">\n\nWell that’s a lie admitting to lying.", ">\n\nHere he goes, lying again.", ">\n\n\nHe lied.\n\n-- Morgan Freeman, probably", ">\n\nWhatever, when lying is like breathing, is he going to stop breathing?", ">\n\n…which is basically another lie. The media have zero critical thinking skills. We shouldn’t be giving this guy more chances to redeem himself. He’s an utter fraud. Kick him out.", ">\n\nThat's his biggest perpetual lie yet.", ">\n\n\n“I’ve learned my lesson,” Santos told Caitlin Sinclair. “I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nNarcissism dies hard.", ">\n\nPress X to doubt" ]

[ "I swear guys, I'm totally done posting comments on r/politics.", ">\n\nYep, totally done.", ">\n\nNot gonna post anymore at all.", ">\n\nNobody check if I've continued to post. That would be very untrusting of you.", ">\n\nOppositeDifference fans: \"He's not posting, he's replying\" taps forehead", ">\n\nIt'd be rude not to, afterall.", ">\n\nThat’s a lie.", ">\n\nThis should just be the top comment for any comment section discussing this.", ">\n\nits true... people can change. My girlfriend cheated on me 12 times, but she told me she is done banging truck stop transients so we're going to make it work! so HAPPY!", ">\n\nI believe in you and your lot lizard.", ">\n\nDude is treating us like we're in an abusive relationship with him\n\"I wasn't lying!\"\n\"You're just fixated on the lying!\"\n\"ok baby, look I won't lie anymore, don't go!\"", ">\n\nWho funded your campaign?", ">\n\nSo he is admitting it lied egregiously to get elected. Therefore he needs to go.", ">\n\nHow does a person even become that amoral, unethical and depraved? They want drug tests for welfare recipients but how about mental health evaluations to screen nutcase Congresspeople.", ">\n\n\"The lie detector has determined, that is a lie!\"", ">\n\ncrowd reacting noises", ">\n\nThis, too, was a lie.", ">\n\nStarting... now. No wait... now.", ">\n\nWell, that solves it. I have no reason not to believe him", ">\n\nAnd Lucy is totally going to let Charlie kick that football this time", ">\n\nThat's a lie too. George Santos is lying about lying. He's a meta-liar.", ">\n\nA pathological liar never stops. He needs to resign and revoke his benefits", ">\n\nAnother lie", ">\n\nGoing to assume he’s pivoted to collecting intel information and selling it.", ">\n\nIt was an impressive interview. He almost ran through the entire narcissist prayer in one sitting. You can see the 'you deserved it' just starting to crown in his mouth as he explains that society made him lie about his education. \nEven the legends have a hard time doing that. They usually don't even bother. The republican party probably understood how Kevin Bacon felt in The Air Up There when they discovered this natural talent.", ">\n\nOh thank goodness. So I guess we can just forget this whole thing happened then?", ">\n\nThis is a ruse.", ">\n\n\n“Trust me.”", ">\n\n\nI will never lie to you\n\nBagdad Barbie", ">\n\nI don’t know why, but I believe him this time.", ">\n\n.....and MTG is done with all the qanon nonsense.", ">\n\nAnother lie…", ">\n\nHe ran out?", ">\n\nExcept, he LIED about that!", ">\n\nBut what if he's lying now...?", ">\n\nLiars can't quit... they just keep lying.", ">\n\nHow long before another of his lies surfaces?", ">\n\n\n“I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nCongratulations, it's only taken you 34 years to learn lying has consequences. Also there's no need to \"double check\" or \"cross reverence\" yourself if you just tell the fucking truth.", ">\n\nWell that is probably a lie", ">\n\nThe logic behind this statement is so obvious…. 🤣", ">\n\nWell, that settles that!", ">\n\n[Record scratch] \"he wasn't\"", ">\n\n\"He's good now, Jimmy!\"", ">\n\nIs that like being done pooping?", ">\n\nOh, you're done? Well ok then.", ">\n\nToo late. Indictments probably in the next few months.", ">\n\nExcept that, and that and that....", ">\n\nI hope not. A man ought to do what he's best at ... Although on second thought he's not particularly good at it.", ">\n\nAwwww, that’s cute.", ">\n\nAnd I'm finished smoking cigarettes forever..... nnnow.", ">\n\nI’m just looking forward to finding out he lied about being a human being and he is actually a horse", ">\n\nLies. More Lies.\nBor Gullet.", ">\n\nHe's not \"all done the lying\"... he's \"done all the lying\". There is literally nothing else he could lie about.... there's nothing left!", ">\n\nAww, I just can’t stay mad at that face! Go on, ya little scamp! tousles hair", ">\n\nWell that’s a lie admitting to lying.", ">\n\nHere he goes, lying again.", ">\n\n\nHe lied.\n\n-- Morgan Freeman, probably", ">\n\nWhatever, when lying is like breathing, is he going to stop breathing?", ">\n\n…which is basically another lie. The media have zero critical thinking skills. We shouldn’t be giving this guy more chances to redeem himself. He’s an utter fraud. Kick him out.", ">\n\nThat's his biggest perpetual lie yet.", ">\n\n\n“I’ve learned my lesson,” Santos told Caitlin Sinclair. “I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nNarcissism dies hard.", ">\n\nPress X to doubt", ">\n\nAnd it determined that was also a lie. -Maury Povich" ]

[ "I swear guys, I'm totally done posting comments on r/politics.", ">\n\nYep, totally done.", ">\n\nNot gonna post anymore at all.", ">\n\nNobody check if I've continued to post. That would be very untrusting of you.", ">\n\nOppositeDifference fans: \"He's not posting, he's replying\" taps forehead", ">\n\nIt'd be rude not to, afterall.", ">\n\nThat’s a lie.", ">\n\nThis should just be the top comment for any comment section discussing this.", ">\n\nits true... people can change. My girlfriend cheated on me 12 times, but she told me she is done banging truck stop transients so we're going to make it work! so HAPPY!", ">\n\nI believe in you and your lot lizard.", ">\n\nDude is treating us like we're in an abusive relationship with him\n\"I wasn't lying!\"\n\"You're just fixated on the lying!\"\n\"ok baby, look I won't lie anymore, don't go!\"", ">\n\nWho funded your campaign?", ">\n\nSo he is admitting it lied egregiously to get elected. Therefore he needs to go.", ">\n\nHow does a person even become that amoral, unethical and depraved? They want drug tests for welfare recipients but how about mental health evaluations to screen nutcase Congresspeople.", ">\n\n\"The lie detector has determined, that is a lie!\"", ">\n\ncrowd reacting noises", ">\n\nThis, too, was a lie.", ">\n\nStarting... now. No wait... now.", ">\n\nWell, that solves it. I have no reason not to believe him", ">\n\nAnd Lucy is totally going to let Charlie kick that football this time", ">\n\nThat's a lie too. George Santos is lying about lying. He's a meta-liar.", ">\n\nA pathological liar never stops. He needs to resign and revoke his benefits", ">\n\nAnother lie", ">\n\nGoing to assume he’s pivoted to collecting intel information and selling it.", ">\n\nIt was an impressive interview. He almost ran through the entire narcissist prayer in one sitting. You can see the 'you deserved it' just starting to crown in his mouth as he explains that society made him lie about his education. \nEven the legends have a hard time doing that. They usually don't even bother. The republican party probably understood how Kevin Bacon felt in The Air Up There when they discovered this natural talent.", ">\n\nOh thank goodness. So I guess we can just forget this whole thing happened then?", ">\n\nThis is a ruse.", ">\n\n\n“Trust me.”", ">\n\n\nI will never lie to you\n\nBagdad Barbie", ">\n\nI don’t know why, but I believe him this time.", ">\n\n.....and MTG is done with all the qanon nonsense.", ">\n\nAnother lie…", ">\n\nHe ran out?", ">\n\nExcept, he LIED about that!", ">\n\nBut what if he's lying now...?", ">\n\nLiars can't quit... they just keep lying.", ">\n\nHow long before another of his lies surfaces?", ">\n\n\n“I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nCongratulations, it's only taken you 34 years to learn lying has consequences. Also there's no need to \"double check\" or \"cross reverence\" yourself if you just tell the fucking truth.", ">\n\nWell that is probably a lie", ">\n\nThe logic behind this statement is so obvious…. 🤣", ">\n\nWell, that settles that!", ">\n\n[Record scratch] \"he wasn't\"", ">\n\n\"He's good now, Jimmy!\"", ">\n\nIs that like being done pooping?", ">\n\nOh, you're done? Well ok then.", ">\n\nToo late. Indictments probably in the next few months.", ">\n\nExcept that, and that and that....", ">\n\nI hope not. A man ought to do what he's best at ... Although on second thought he's not particularly good at it.", ">\n\nAwwww, that’s cute.", ">\n\nAnd I'm finished smoking cigarettes forever..... nnnow.", ">\n\nI’m just looking forward to finding out he lied about being a human being and he is actually a horse", ">\n\nLies. More Lies.\nBor Gullet.", ">\n\nHe's not \"all done the lying\"... he's \"done all the lying\". There is literally nothing else he could lie about.... there's nothing left!", ">\n\nAww, I just can’t stay mad at that face! Go on, ya little scamp! tousles hair", ">\n\nWell that’s a lie admitting to lying.", ">\n\nHere he goes, lying again.", ">\n\n\nHe lied.\n\n-- Morgan Freeman, probably", ">\n\nWhatever, when lying is like breathing, is he going to stop breathing?", ">\n\n…which is basically another lie. The media have zero critical thinking skills. We shouldn’t be giving this guy more chances to redeem himself. He’s an utter fraud. Kick him out.", ">\n\nThat's his biggest perpetual lie yet.", ">\n\n\n“I’ve learned my lesson,” Santos told Caitlin Sinclair. “I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nNarcissism dies hard.", ">\n\nPress X to doubt", ">\n\nAnd it determined that was also a lie. -Maury Povich", ">\n\nThere once was a shepherd boy who was bored while watching the village sheep. To amuse himself, he cried out \"Wolf! Wolf!\"..." ]

[ "I swear guys, I'm totally done posting comments on r/politics.", ">\n\nYep, totally done.", ">\n\nNot gonna post anymore at all.", ">\n\nNobody check if I've continued to post. That would be very untrusting of you.", ">\n\nOppositeDifference fans: \"He's not posting, he's replying\" taps forehead", ">\n\nIt'd be rude not to, afterall.", ">\n\nThat’s a lie.", ">\n\nThis should just be the top comment for any comment section discussing this.", ">\n\nits true... people can change. My girlfriend cheated on me 12 times, but she told me she is done banging truck stop transients so we're going to make it work! so HAPPY!", ">\n\nI believe in you and your lot lizard.", ">\n\nDude is treating us like we're in an abusive relationship with him\n\"I wasn't lying!\"\n\"You're just fixated on the lying!\"\n\"ok baby, look I won't lie anymore, don't go!\"", ">\n\nWho funded your campaign?", ">\n\nSo he is admitting it lied egregiously to get elected. Therefore he needs to go.", ">\n\nHow does a person even become that amoral, unethical and depraved? They want drug tests for welfare recipients but how about mental health evaluations to screen nutcase Congresspeople.", ">\n\n\"The lie detector has determined, that is a lie!\"", ">\n\ncrowd reacting noises", ">\n\nThis, too, was a lie.", ">\n\nStarting... now. No wait... now.", ">\n\nWell, that solves it. I have no reason not to believe him", ">\n\nAnd Lucy is totally going to let Charlie kick that football this time", ">\n\nThat's a lie too. George Santos is lying about lying. He's a meta-liar.", ">\n\nA pathological liar never stops. He needs to resign and revoke his benefits", ">\n\nAnother lie", ">\n\nGoing to assume he’s pivoted to collecting intel information and selling it.", ">\n\nIt was an impressive interview. He almost ran through the entire narcissist prayer in one sitting. You can see the 'you deserved it' just starting to crown in his mouth as he explains that society made him lie about his education. \nEven the legends have a hard time doing that. They usually don't even bother. The republican party probably understood how Kevin Bacon felt in The Air Up There when they discovered this natural talent.", ">\n\nOh thank goodness. So I guess we can just forget this whole thing happened then?", ">\n\nThis is a ruse.", ">\n\n\n“Trust me.”", ">\n\n\nI will never lie to you\n\nBagdad Barbie", ">\n\nI don’t know why, but I believe him this time.", ">\n\n.....and MTG is done with all the qanon nonsense.", ">\n\nAnother lie…", ">\n\nHe ran out?", ">\n\nExcept, he LIED about that!", ">\n\nBut what if he's lying now...?", ">\n\nLiars can't quit... they just keep lying.", ">\n\nHow long before another of his lies surfaces?", ">\n\n\n“I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nCongratulations, it's only taken you 34 years to learn lying has consequences. Also there's no need to \"double check\" or \"cross reverence\" yourself if you just tell the fucking truth.", ">\n\nWell that is probably a lie", ">\n\nThe logic behind this statement is so obvious…. 🤣", ">\n\nWell, that settles that!", ">\n\n[Record scratch] \"he wasn't\"", ">\n\n\"He's good now, Jimmy!\"", ">\n\nIs that like being done pooping?", ">\n\nOh, you're done? Well ok then.", ">\n\nToo late. Indictments probably in the next few months.", ">\n\nExcept that, and that and that....", ">\n\nI hope not. A man ought to do what he's best at ... Although on second thought he's not particularly good at it.", ">\n\nAwwww, that’s cute.", ">\n\nAnd I'm finished smoking cigarettes forever..... nnnow.", ">\n\nI’m just looking forward to finding out he lied about being a human being and he is actually a horse", ">\n\nLies. More Lies.\nBor Gullet.", ">\n\nHe's not \"all done the lying\"... he's \"done all the lying\". There is literally nothing else he could lie about.... there's nothing left!", ">\n\nAww, I just can’t stay mad at that face! Go on, ya little scamp! tousles hair", ">\n\nWell that’s a lie admitting to lying.", ">\n\nHere he goes, lying again.", ">\n\n\nHe lied.\n\n-- Morgan Freeman, probably", ">\n\nWhatever, when lying is like breathing, is he going to stop breathing?", ">\n\n…which is basically another lie. The media have zero critical thinking skills. We shouldn’t be giving this guy more chances to redeem himself. He’s an utter fraud. Kick him out.", ">\n\nThat's his biggest perpetual lie yet.", ">\n\n\n“I’ve learned my lesson,” Santos told Caitlin Sinclair. “I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nNarcissism dies hard.", ">\n\nPress X to doubt", ">\n\nAnd it determined that was also a lie. -Maury Povich", ">\n\nThere once was a shepherd boy who was bored while watching the village sheep. To amuse himself, he cried out \"Wolf! Wolf!\"...", ">\n\nI promise to quit pooping. Soonest. Promise." ]

[ "I swear guys, I'm totally done posting comments on r/politics.", ">\n\nYep, totally done.", ">\n\nNot gonna post anymore at all.", ">\n\nNobody check if I've continued to post. That would be very untrusting of you.", ">\n\nOppositeDifference fans: \"He's not posting, he's replying\" taps forehead", ">\n\nIt'd be rude not to, afterall.", ">\n\nThat’s a lie.", ">\n\nThis should just be the top comment for any comment section discussing this.", ">\n\nits true... people can change. My girlfriend cheated on me 12 times, but she told me she is done banging truck stop transients so we're going to make it work! so HAPPY!", ">\n\nI believe in you and your lot lizard.", ">\n\nDude is treating us like we're in an abusive relationship with him\n\"I wasn't lying!\"\n\"You're just fixated on the lying!\"\n\"ok baby, look I won't lie anymore, don't go!\"", ">\n\nWho funded your campaign?", ">\n\nSo he is admitting it lied egregiously to get elected. Therefore he needs to go.", ">\n\nHow does a person even become that amoral, unethical and depraved? They want drug tests for welfare recipients but how about mental health evaluations to screen nutcase Congresspeople.", ">\n\n\"The lie detector has determined, that is a lie!\"", ">\n\ncrowd reacting noises", ">\n\nThis, too, was a lie.", ">\n\nStarting... now. No wait... now.", ">\n\nWell, that solves it. I have no reason not to believe him", ">\n\nAnd Lucy is totally going to let Charlie kick that football this time", ">\n\nThat's a lie too. George Santos is lying about lying. He's a meta-liar.", ">\n\nA pathological liar never stops. He needs to resign and revoke his benefits", ">\n\nAnother lie", ">\n\nGoing to assume he’s pivoted to collecting intel information and selling it.", ">\n\nIt was an impressive interview. He almost ran through the entire narcissist prayer in one sitting. You can see the 'you deserved it' just starting to crown in his mouth as he explains that society made him lie about his education. \nEven the legends have a hard time doing that. They usually don't even bother. The republican party probably understood how Kevin Bacon felt in The Air Up There when they discovered this natural talent.", ">\n\nOh thank goodness. So I guess we can just forget this whole thing happened then?", ">\n\nThis is a ruse.", ">\n\n\n“Trust me.”", ">\n\n\nI will never lie to you\n\nBagdad Barbie", ">\n\nI don’t know why, but I believe him this time.", ">\n\n.....and MTG is done with all the qanon nonsense.", ">\n\nAnother lie…", ">\n\nHe ran out?", ">\n\nExcept, he LIED about that!", ">\n\nBut what if he's lying now...?", ">\n\nLiars can't quit... they just keep lying.", ">\n\nHow long before another of his lies surfaces?", ">\n\n\n“I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nCongratulations, it's only taken you 34 years to learn lying has consequences. Also there's no need to \"double check\" or \"cross reverence\" yourself if you just tell the fucking truth.", ">\n\nWell that is probably a lie", ">\n\nThe logic behind this statement is so obvious…. 🤣", ">\n\nWell, that settles that!", ">\n\n[Record scratch] \"he wasn't\"", ">\n\n\"He's good now, Jimmy!\"", ">\n\nIs that like being done pooping?", ">\n\nOh, you're done? Well ok then.", ">\n\nToo late. Indictments probably in the next few months.", ">\n\nExcept that, and that and that....", ">\n\nI hope not. A man ought to do what he's best at ... Although on second thought he's not particularly good at it.", ">\n\nAwwww, that’s cute.", ">\n\nAnd I'm finished smoking cigarettes forever..... nnnow.", ">\n\nI’m just looking forward to finding out he lied about being a human being and he is actually a horse", ">\n\nLies. More Lies.\nBor Gullet.", ">\n\nHe's not \"all done the lying\"... he's \"done all the lying\". There is literally nothing else he could lie about.... there's nothing left!", ">\n\nAww, I just can’t stay mad at that face! Go on, ya little scamp! tousles hair", ">\n\nWell that’s a lie admitting to lying.", ">\n\nHere he goes, lying again.", ">\n\n\nHe lied.\n\n-- Morgan Freeman, probably", ">\n\nWhatever, when lying is like breathing, is he going to stop breathing?", ">\n\n…which is basically another lie. The media have zero critical thinking skills. We shouldn’t be giving this guy more chances to redeem himself. He’s an utter fraud. Kick him out.", ">\n\nThat's his biggest perpetual lie yet.", ">\n\n\n“I’ve learned my lesson,” Santos told Caitlin Sinclair. “I can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything is always going to be above board, and it’s largely always been above board. I’m just gonna go the extra step now to double check, cross reference, everything.”\n\nNarcissism dies hard.", ">\n\nPress X to doubt", ">\n\nAnd it determined that was also a lie. -Maury Povich", ">\n\nThere once was a shepherd boy who was bored while watching the village sheep. To amuse himself, he cried out \"Wolf! Wolf!\"...", ">\n\nI promise to quit pooping. Soonest. Promise.", ">\n\nOmfg what a piece of shit" ]

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[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now.", ">\n\nReading the article brings home the simple, basic, plain point that most Americans don't like mean and divisive politicians." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now.", ">\n\nReading the article brings home the simple, basic, plain point that most Americans don't like mean and divisive politicians.", ">\n\nThat's literally their political strategy; be a complete douchebag." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now.", ">\n\nReading the article brings home the simple, basic, plain point that most Americans don't like mean and divisive politicians.", ">\n\nThat's literally their political strategy; be a complete douchebag.", ">\n\nThey won’t stop. The only way is to defend yourself." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now.", ">\n\nReading the article brings home the simple, basic, plain point that most Americans don't like mean and divisive politicians.", ">\n\nThat's literally their political strategy; be a complete douchebag.", ">\n\nThey won’t stop. The only way is to defend yourself.", ">\n\nThey need to constantly attack & attack. That’s what their whole belief and persona is about. Kinda like fascists." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now.", ">\n\nReading the article brings home the simple, basic, plain point that most Americans don't like mean and divisive politicians.", ">\n\nThat's literally their political strategy; be a complete douchebag.", ">\n\nThey won’t stop. The only way is to defend yourself.", ">\n\nThey need to constantly attack & attack. That’s what their whole belief and persona is about. Kinda like fascists.", ">\n\nEvery republican who reads that headline will laugh and immediately think of the left as snowflakes. Call them what they really are" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now.", ">\n\nReading the article brings home the simple, basic, plain point that most Americans don't like mean and divisive politicians.", ">\n\nThat's literally their political strategy; be a complete douchebag.", ">\n\nThey won’t stop. The only way is to defend yourself.", ">\n\nThey need to constantly attack & attack. That’s what their whole belief and persona is about. Kinda like fascists.", ">\n\nEvery republican who reads that headline will laugh and immediately think of the left as snowflakes. Call them what they really are", ">\n\nThe only way to change is if network news tells them to." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now.", ">\n\nReading the article brings home the simple, basic, plain point that most Americans don't like mean and divisive politicians.", ">\n\nThat's literally their political strategy; be a complete douchebag.", ">\n\nThey won’t stop. The only way is to defend yourself.", ">\n\nThey need to constantly attack & attack. That’s what their whole belief and persona is about. Kinda like fascists.", ">\n\nEvery republican who reads that headline will laugh and immediately think of the left as snowflakes. Call them what they really are", ">\n\nThe only way to change is if network news tells them to.", ">\n\nMore top notch political analysis from the magazine whose fawning coverage of JD Vance made him into a household name. \nThe Atlantic is the magazine for people who have one of those \"In this house we believe...\" signs on the front yard of their 3 million dollar house in a gated community." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now.", ">\n\nReading the article brings home the simple, basic, plain point that most Americans don't like mean and divisive politicians.", ">\n\nThat's literally their political strategy; be a complete douchebag.", ">\n\nThey won’t stop. The only way is to defend yourself.", ">\n\nThey need to constantly attack & attack. That’s what their whole belief and persona is about. Kinda like fascists.", ">\n\nEvery republican who reads that headline will laugh and immediately think of the left as snowflakes. Call them what they really are", ">\n\nThe only way to change is if network news tells them to.", ">\n\nMore top notch political analysis from the magazine whose fawning coverage of JD Vance made him into a household name. \nThe Atlantic is the magazine for people who have one of those \"In this house we believe...\" signs on the front yard of their 3 million dollar house in a gated community.", ">\n\nJerks need to stop being elected" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now.", ">\n\nReading the article brings home the simple, basic, plain point that most Americans don't like mean and divisive politicians.", ">\n\nThat's literally their political strategy; be a complete douchebag.", ">\n\nThey won’t stop. The only way is to defend yourself.", ">\n\nThey need to constantly attack & attack. That’s what their whole belief and persona is about. Kinda like fascists.", ">\n\nEvery republican who reads that headline will laugh and immediately think of the left as snowflakes. Call them what they really are", ">\n\nThe only way to change is if network news tells them to.", ">\n\nMore top notch political analysis from the magazine whose fawning coverage of JD Vance made him into a household name. \nThe Atlantic is the magazine for people who have one of those \"In this house we believe...\" signs on the front yard of their 3 million dollar house in a gated community.", ">\n\nJerks need to stop being elected", ">\n\nBut that's the core of who they are! Birds fly, Fish swim and Republicans Jerk." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now.", ">\n\nReading the article brings home the simple, basic, plain point that most Americans don't like mean and divisive politicians.", ">\n\nThat's literally their political strategy; be a complete douchebag.", ">\n\nThey won’t stop. The only way is to defend yourself.", ">\n\nThey need to constantly attack & attack. That’s what their whole belief and persona is about. Kinda like fascists.", ">\n\nEvery republican who reads that headline will laugh and immediately think of the left as snowflakes. Call them what they really are", ">\n\nThe only way to change is if network news tells them to.", ">\n\nMore top notch political analysis from the magazine whose fawning coverage of JD Vance made him into a household name. \nThe Atlantic is the magazine for people who have one of those \"In this house we believe...\" signs on the front yard of their 3 million dollar house in a gated community.", ">\n\nJerks need to stop being elected", ">\n\nBut that's the core of who they are! Birds fly, Fish swim and Republicans Jerk.", ">\n\nCareful the mods banned me for a week because I called a republican delusional on this sub." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now.", ">\n\nReading the article brings home the simple, basic, plain point that most Americans don't like mean and divisive politicians.", ">\n\nThat's literally their political strategy; be a complete douchebag.", ">\n\nThey won’t stop. The only way is to defend yourself.", ">\n\nThey need to constantly attack & attack. That’s what their whole belief and persona is about. Kinda like fascists.", ">\n\nEvery republican who reads that headline will laugh and immediately think of the left as snowflakes. Call them what they really are", ">\n\nThe only way to change is if network news tells them to.", ">\n\nMore top notch political analysis from the magazine whose fawning coverage of JD Vance made him into a household name. \nThe Atlantic is the magazine for people who have one of those \"In this house we believe...\" signs on the front yard of their 3 million dollar house in a gated community.", ">\n\nJerks need to stop being elected", ">\n\nBut that's the core of who they are! Birds fly, Fish swim and Republicans Jerk.", ">\n\nCareful the mods banned me for a week because I called a republican delusional on this sub.", ">\n\nThey can’t do that! What would they have left?!" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now.", ">\n\nReading the article brings home the simple, basic, plain point that most Americans don't like mean and divisive politicians.", ">\n\nThat's literally their political strategy; be a complete douchebag.", ">\n\nThey won’t stop. The only way is to defend yourself.", ">\n\nThey need to constantly attack & attack. That’s what their whole belief and persona is about. Kinda like fascists.", ">\n\nEvery republican who reads that headline will laugh and immediately think of the left as snowflakes. Call them what they really are", ">\n\nThe only way to change is if network news tells them to.", ">\n\nMore top notch political analysis from the magazine whose fawning coverage of JD Vance made him into a household name. \nThe Atlantic is the magazine for people who have one of those \"In this house we believe...\" signs on the front yard of their 3 million dollar house in a gated community.", ">\n\nJerks need to stop being elected", ">\n\nBut that's the core of who they are! Birds fly, Fish swim and Republicans Jerk.", ">\n\nCareful the mods banned me for a week because I called a republican delusional on this sub.", ">\n\nThey can’t do that! What would they have left?!", ">\n\nCollectively, Republicanism needs a politcal black eye.\nScandals don't bother them if ethics don't matter, fines don't bother them if they're smaller than lobbying dollars, and laws don't matter if the judiciary refuses to enforce them.\nSo what stops the Republican machine?" ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now.", ">\n\nReading the article brings home the simple, basic, plain point that most Americans don't like mean and divisive politicians.", ">\n\nThat's literally their political strategy; be a complete douchebag.", ">\n\nThey won’t stop. The only way is to defend yourself.", ">\n\nThey need to constantly attack & attack. That’s what their whole belief and persona is about. Kinda like fascists.", ">\n\nEvery republican who reads that headline will laugh and immediately think of the left as snowflakes. Call them what they really are", ">\n\nThe only way to change is if network news tells them to.", ">\n\nMore top notch political analysis from the magazine whose fawning coverage of JD Vance made him into a household name. \nThe Atlantic is the magazine for people who have one of those \"In this house we believe...\" signs on the front yard of their 3 million dollar house in a gated community.", ">\n\nJerks need to stop being elected", ">\n\nBut that's the core of who they are! Birds fly, Fish swim and Republicans Jerk.", ">\n\nCareful the mods banned me for a week because I called a republican delusional on this sub.", ">\n\nThey can’t do that! What would they have left?!", ">\n\nCollectively, Republicanism needs a politcal black eye.\nScandals don't bother them if ethics don't matter, fines don't bother them if they're smaller than lobbying dollars, and laws don't matter if the judiciary refuses to enforce them.\nSo what stops the Republican machine?", ">\n\nIf by jerks you mean assholes, then I agree." ]

[ "Did someone write this 40 years ago and it just got published now?", ">\n\nIt was written by a moderate. A person who self identifies as someone who will enable any right wing extremism to avoid conflict with that right wing extremism.\n​\nThe conservative brain is entirely self centered. If being a \"jerk\" benefits them, they won't ever stop until it stops benefiting them.\n​\nThat's why moderates are so dangerous. They exist to make sure extremist never suffer the consequences of the actions because it would cause too much conflict.\n​\nIt was moderate Germans that gave the Nazi's the support they needed, not their minority of Nazi supporters.", ">\n\nFrum is a former speechwriter for w bush. He's not really a moderate as much as he hasn't followed the republicans hard right turn towards performative cruelty under trump.", ">\n\nWhich makes him a moderate in the republican party. Not a true moderate.", ">\n\nHe is a \"true\" moderate. The differences between him and moderates in the democratic party are superficial. They deliver the same results for different reasons.", ">\n\nAre you honestly going to tell me that a neoconservative cheerleader for the invasion of iraq and a boring, mainstream democrat like idk pete buttigieg would have the same policy priorities?", ">\n\nNot sure you wanna use Iraq as your example on this one. Democratic moderates didn't exactly stand in opposition there. And if given the opportunity, I'm sure Buttigieg would be willing to compromise his policies down to something entirely agreeable to moderate republicans. That's what we've seen consistently over the last 30 years. For example, that's why Obamacare isn't repealed. It got negotiated down to a republican plan. Moderate republicans got the policy they wanted and they got to make it look like they were being hardasses for their base. \nThat's why I'm saying they're superficially different. They have different agendas on paper and probably different ideals in their hearts, but when it's actually time to play the game moderate democrats only really do anything that moderate republicans are ok with.", ">\n\nI'm using Iraq because that's literally who wrote this article and while democrats weren't great at opposing them at the time, they weren't exactly out there lying to the public every day either. While it's easy to criticize them in hindsight, you're glossing over the fact that 63% of the American public supported the military action against Iraq at the time, which makes it really hard to oppose when your job depends on the support of those very same people.\nHere are a few non-superficial differences between everyday Democrats and non-Trumpy Republicans:\n\nThe Democrats would not stack the courts with conservative idealogues. This is useful if you enjoy having bodily autonomy and being able to vote.\nThere was a major policy difference on climate between the two parties at the time this guy was active in politics. Al Gore, the Democratic 2000 candidate, had a powerpoint presentation that he liked to show people and later turned into a book, An Inconvenient Truth. Republicans, much like today, didn't think the threat of climate change was real enough to do much about.\nTrump wasn't the only one slashing environmental regulations, Bush liked to do that too. \nRepublicans would really like to privatize social security and slash social spending. This sort of spending is useful for people who enjoy having things to eat and basic healthcare.", ">\n\nThey need to stop subverting democracy. But yeah sure don’t be jerks too I guess.", ">\n\nThat feels like the kind of talk the FBI should know about.", ">\n\nThat's been their brand my entire life, since the 1960s. \nJerks or not, we need to do a better job putting these criminal, insurrectionist traitors in jail instead of in office.", ">\n\nThe entire conservative ideology is about the idea that whoever has an advantage right now deserves it and should have it entrenched and guaranteed. Rich people, white people, men, Christians, straight people, etc. It is explicitly about being a jerk. Being a jerk is their reason to exist.", ">\n\nYour first sentence there is spot on. You can’t have crony capitalism without the cronies.", ">\n\nGive this up already. In the last 50 years republicans have taken advantage of the idea you think they might come around. The media uses this against you too.", ">\n\nThe republican party is fascist. Their goal is to destroy our democratic institutions. People and ‘the media’ do not recognize this because our grandfathers died protecting us from it.", ">\n\nIt is my belief that the wealthy that own the media, oil, and just about everything else are the ones setting this policy. Even the \"left\" leaning media debate Republican talking points keeping them in the forefront.", ">\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations.", ">\n\n\nThe “left leaning” media are owned by right leaning corporations \n\n​\nCorporations are paper constructs that people hide behind they are owned by some of the same wealthy people that own the GOP members.", ">\n\nIf they stop being jerks they stop being GOP politicians", ">\n\nYeah, may as well tell them to stop breathing.", ">\n\nRepublicans have a warped view of strength. They seem to think that being an asshole makes you strong. It doesn't, it just makes you an asshole. Being a dick to everyone is easy, setting your ego aside and listening takes way more strength.", ">\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"", ">\n\n\n\"You gotta understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness, because that's what they believe strength is, hatred for weakness.\"\n\nI'm glad to see this is still being reposted. Definitely cuts through the Leftwing's romantic ideas of the political opposition. The two sides are playing a completely different game.", ">\n\nI think there’s a better chance of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians", ">\n\nJared was sooo close to getting that figured out.", ">\n\n“You were born a jerk and you’ll die a jerk and only the jerks you owe money to will mourn you.”", ">\n\nGrizzly bears have to stop eating honey drizzled salmon.", ">\n\nTheir most nourishing and flavorful natural choices of food web options, that isnt what it really is, its a damn amphibious seasponge acting like a treasure mimic, a seasponge that began co-evolving with the bacteria and fungi trying to break down plastics made by mobster monsters for decades, a bowel obstruction that got caught in their collective buttholes one stormy night. they are what they eat after all.\ntheyre so malnourished in reality, they are the mangey dog everyone thinks is a cracked out chupacabra.", ">\n\nThey'll only agree to do that if democrats agree to cut social security, make abortion illegal, repeal the civil rights act, make Trump president for life and get an enlarged poster sized framed picture of Hunter Biden's leaked engorged glistening custard launcher for each member of congress and their immediate families.\nBut only the first Thursday of each month, and only if it doesn't fall on a mildly recognized holiday. And of course they reserve the right to revert to being jerks at any time with a single congressional objection.\nCome on Dems!! Stop constantly governing in bad faith and come to the table.", ">\n\nYeah but then billionaires would stop funding them", ">\n\nIt’s so nice to know that not one democrat is funded by billionaires.", ">\n\nNever said they weren’t. But This is about pathologically chronic jerks in GOP paid to be exactly that.", ">\n\nBut then they would have no personality or identity at all.", ">\n\nLike removing a fish from water", ">\n\nI'd be fine if they were just jerks instead of the racist xenophobic assholes they are.", ">\n\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks- Stop that Mr. Simpson.\"", ">\n\nGOP, the party of bullies and assholes.", ">\n\nIf they can’t run on the bootlicking bullies platform what platform DO they have?", ">\n\nThe problem for Republicans is they need a corporate owned media to brainwash the masses through propaganda to distract the people while picking their pockets clean. Millennials and younger do not consume this media like all other previous generations, and thus are more impervious to their attempts to propagandize. Add on policies that literally crush these younger generations, and you are setting yourself up for some seriously bitter and resentful demographics moving forward.", ">\n\nJerks? LOL. How about lying, criminal, stealing, little pieces of infected DNA, mewling, childish versions of failed adults, insignificant motes of drooling, useless, traitorous, seditious, back biting, racist, fascist, false god pushing, elitist, snot sucking, idiots. Whew....don't need my therapist meeting today! :-)", ">\n\nYeah but only a jerk would lie, be criminal, steal, act childish, betray, be racist, elitist, and stupid!", ">\n\nYup.", ">\n\nThey are genetically jerks, cant help it, wont change.", ">\n\nthey can at least stop being alive then", ">\n\nGQP: the suffering is the point", ">\n\nIf you vote Republican and/or do not vote, this is what you support.", ">\n\nThey're between a rock and a hard place now, it's too late, their supporters view not being jerks as suspicious", ">\n\nThe cruelty is the point", ">\n\nBut that's like... their thing...\nIf they stopped being jerks and actually did good things for actual people (not just for the ultra-wealthy/corporations) they'd cease being Republicans.", ">\n\nJerks? No.\nThey are Fascists.\nThey need to stop the authoritarian Fascism.\nFuck this normalization of fascism. Jan 6th wasnt a bunch of \"jerks\"", ">\n\nJerks? They want to overthrow our democracy. Asking them to stop isn’t going to cut it.", ">\n\nSome real Norm Macdonald energy.", ">\n\nRepublicans: no", ">\n\nI don’t think they can", ">\n\nOf course.\nWhile we’re at it, let’s suggest that the ocean floor cease being underwater, or life forms stop containing carbon.\nIf they weren’t jerks, they wouldn’t be Republicans.", ">\n\nIs 'Jerk' a new euphemism for quasi-fascists now? If anything the Republican party says today would be said by a Politician here in Germany, they'd be under constant surveillance by the domestic intelligence agency.\nAnd i don't say that - them being quasi-fascists - lightly. Do i have to reminding you that the first books burned were about transgender research, and the first people to be send to prison and killed were Gay men. Apparently, anything that isn't some serious Nazi sh*t is 'woke' now.", ">\n\nBut then they wouldn't be Republicans", ">\n\nThen they would no longer be Republicans.", ">\n\nYou're going to need to develop a treatment for the oversized conservative lizard brains first. Which I'm on board for btw.", ">\n\nThey won't. Why would they stop doing something that gets them what they want with little to no consequences? It's the people who need to hold them accountable. Not other politicians. We have to start from the bottom up and help elect local officials who can set policies in place that stop Republicans from being jerks. Arm yourselves with knowledge as to who is running for elections, and support/vote in the people who really have your best interests at heart. Be vigilant. Never stop. That's it.", ">\n\nIt’s more likely that the sun won’t rise tomorrow.", ">\n\nThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.\nJerks don't quit being jerks because they suddenly realize it's not cool. They only do it when they are forced, en masse, to knock the bullshit off.\nVote. \nLess than half of the electorate actively participates in elections. And it shows.", ">\n\nThat’s all they got!", ">\n\nBut being cruel is all conservativism is today", ">\n\nWhy would they stop? Their base loves it when they’re jerks. There’s money to be made out of punitively punishing minorities and the unfortunate.", ">\n\nPretty sure that’s not possible", ">\n\nHow about “Republicans need to stop being fascists”", ">\n\nThe right wing party in America have been \"jerks\" since our founding. Not just in America. Being a right-winger, means that you are by definition, an asshole. Anywhere in the world, at any point in history.", ">\n\nIsn’t that their essence? They’re greedy, hateful, intolerant bigots. If those characteristics don’t define jerks what does? I don’t think there’s any way they’re going to change. They appear to be constantly getting worse. Their base demands it.", ">\n\nRepublicans need to stop being poo poo and pee pee heads too", ">\n\nJerks? We passed that threshold 30 years. We are firmly within straight up malicious and violent now.", ">\n\nReading the article brings home the simple, basic, plain point that most Americans don't like mean and divisive politicians.", ">\n\nThat's literally their political strategy; be a complete douchebag.", ">\n\nThey won’t stop. The only way is to defend yourself.", ">\n\nThey need to constantly attack & attack. That’s what their whole belief and persona is about. Kinda like fascists.", ">\n\nEvery republican who reads that headline will laugh and immediately think of the left as snowflakes. Call them what they really are", ">\n\nThe only way to change is if network news tells them to.", ">\n\nMore top notch political analysis from the magazine whose fawning coverage of JD Vance made him into a household name. \nThe Atlantic is the magazine for people who have one of those \"In this house we believe...\" signs on the front yard of their 3 million dollar house in a gated community.", ">\n\nJerks need to stop being elected", ">\n\nBut that's the core of who they are! Birds fly, Fish swim and Republicans Jerk.", ">\n\nCareful the mods banned me for a week because I called a republican delusional on this sub.", ">\n\nThey can’t do that! What would they have left?!", ">\n\nCollectively, Republicanism needs a politcal black eye.\nScandals don't bother them if ethics don't matter, fines don't bother them if they're smaller than lobbying dollars, and laws don't matter if the judiciary refuses to enforce them.\nSo what stops the Republican machine?", ">\n\nIf by jerks you mean assholes, then I agree.", ">\n\nThey can’t help themselves, it’s very profitable.\nAll of the biggest jerks are 1%’ers that pay republicans to wreck anything that would make the country better." ]