I don't even know what word IS strong enough for that crowd. I think I have a pretty darn good vocabulary, but no word I can imagine fully expresses the SEEETHING hatred I have for the basturds.

comes to mind.

Monsters

Demons

Minions of the hell they so vociferously purport to oppose

Or just asshats

As long as they can convince their Archie Bunkers that "this mostly hurts them minorities," they'll continue to applaud it - ballroom, obscene corruption and all.

And if it hurts some Republicans too? Meh. You make an omelet, you break a few eggs.

If you need those things, it’s your own fault. That’s their attitude.

Capitalism sucks.

so they could be richer while their steel workers worked ridiculous hours and tens of thousands died or were disabled from unsafe conditions.

What turned things around was New York robber barons who wanted Teddy Roosevelt out of the governorship convinced McKinley to take him on as VP, where they thought Teddy would have no power. But for McKinley's assassination, we might have been in this place more than a hundred years ago. His Progressive Era gave us trust-busting, regulation of food industry, preservation of vast natural areas, labor protections including the 8 hour work day, inheritance taxes....

His presidency was a miracle without which our country would be a very different place.

No more moving to an ever rightward shifting middle. Time to be bold. Here's hoping enough people will see the light after Trump decimates the country. And that democracy will survive. Or another Teddy Roosevelt-like miracle.

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,rich people who don't need it. The ballroom is for the wealthy, so of course, they're all on board.

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Only 20% or so want the ballroom? Do they really think gerrymandering will help them when even Republicans will decide to vote for someone else or not vote at all?

...they scramble to grab a bit more loot before the cops show up.

Great post!

insane degenerate piece of shit, with the lowest approval numbers in the history of presidential polling, and no one will put a stop to it?

yes indeed

IMO

keep telling us to be patient and prices have gone down. Effn pricks

It succinctly sums up who and what they are for, and it ain't us.

Cake, anyone?

Ballroom republicans. Perfect.

Shortly after the East Wing was demolished.

A right wing Christian Nationalist woman who is part of an affinity group I'm in posted that Obama had done the same with his basketball court.

She was gently corrected, then she doubled down and brought in reinforcements, and they were all not so gently corrected.

In one exchange it was noted that the price for this could feed and house a lot of poor people. This right wing Christian who spends time supposedly helping poor women posted "the poor will always be with us but we deserve opulence in the USA, like Saudi Arabia."

I checked their social history (open to the public) and it was full of gross racist AI memes featuring Barack and Michelle Obama.

There is no reasoning with these people. They pretend to be nice but they are followers of greed and evil. They betray their supposed Christianity. They're not following Jesus. They're following something else and calling it Jesus.

The experience has kind of haunted and upset me. There are millions like this.