How greedy are the Republicans?

They only want all the chips in the pile and the game too.

With the rise of Christian Nationalism promises of a new less woke America is on the horizon. With the SVB bank failure being called into question as the bank was “woke” so of course it failed. More moronic logic from the right and Fox as it spreads nonsense better than it spreads itself.

Republicans want your vote, for no discernible reason aside from the other that is promising to help working Americans, children and everyones health and climate. The GOP has offered more babies, less healthcare for mothers with little support in the way of childcare or financial help.

Republicans want tight boarders, effective policing, everyone in and lights out by 10 with no taxes to the rich but taxing the middle class won’t work because, we are poor and poor adjacent already. Snidely Whiplash abides in the hearts of republicans everywhere.

Their greed is endless, pivots easily on a little slippery dime called hypocrisy all the while running down the street in red white and blue sneakers. What used to be a Superman cape saving the world is a Trump 2024 flag tied at the neck, the wearer also sporting two extended middle fingers. Charming. And pretty true.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders. A name so Southern it is honey and fired chicken all at once and don’t let the yummy allusion fool ya. This former state of a plantation economy, Arkansas still grows cotton and has a thriving tourist industry as well as grows soybeans, and rice. On the manufacturing side, makes steel and also aircraft. Poultry as a product is notable, too. It’s a state of about three million noted the in 2020 census and the birth home of Bill Clinton.

Mike rocking the bass in 2008.

Sarah took the podium as White House Press Secretary for Trumps early years. After Spicer, around Scaramuchi’s time but before Kayleigh McEnany. After this stint in on the national scene she seemed to nearly inherit the governorship from her father, Mike Huckabee a Baptist minister, guitar strummer and staffer for televangelist James Robson when Mike was a younger Huckabee. He stood on stage as a Republican presidential hopeful in 2016 against the pack of republicans in TFG’s run.

Huckabee-Sanders is the news now for a law passed in Arkansas lowering the bar for companies to employ children weakening laws that protect children from harm. Speculation is this is better for the companies who seek cheap labor.

The likelihood of hiring only immigrant or from economically marginalized communities seeks to continue the tradition of keeping the most hopeful of our citizens and workers down. No longer a need to get the ok from a parent to make the hire. It is called “The Youth Hiring Act of 2023”, as if it were a good thing.

With this news is the revelation there are children the NY Times reports last month about the “extensive use of migrant children in hazardous factories that make products for some of the wealthiest companies in the US”. In the US. The bill seeks to continue to diminish rather than strengthen laws that protect children. One bill, to Florida’s many more in DeSantis’s moments that seem more like a smash and grab to his state and the kids and women than a precursor to a presidential run.

There can be no moral outrage or holding to account for these lost in a sea of propaganda, lies, super complex conspiracy theories that finger point around the circle to point inward. To the origin. They have no right to self esteem as they have lost their dignity. We keep assigning it and that is a problem for us left of center. We need them to be. We have two parties and that’s it. If we ignore, sideline or marginalize we have lost them. I say let them be lost, make them hurry to keep up. The media is lazy or over compensating by giving them intellectual legitimacy they have lost. Journalists have abandoned reporting to instead “calling out” behavior. Nothing more “woke” than thinking “calling someone out” will have a positive effect.

We are as a country finding ourselves very far down a road where MAGA and GOP are one and the same. They have been inserted into school boards, every level of government except POTUS for the time being. I say inserted because they are hired to be politicians. They are the politician like the “crises actors” Alex Jones was sued over. George Santos is the poster boy for an outed pretend politician. Party of Fake needs to be dealt with differently. More strongly, more effectively. Fox No News News litigation with Dominion will be a great test of what we will continue to accept from ourselves.

The “they” I keep referring to are lost. We are not. We need to act like it more. MAGA is not stupid, they are playing a different game than we are.

They are greedy, have no dignity and are destroying democracy. There. And yes, I do feel better.

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