Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

Over the years, I've encountered a ton of Republicans who wail and whine about their taxes and socialism. A lot of them come from red states that take more federal money than any blue state ever did. I've had these lost souls tell me that they voted for Trump because "Socialism doesn't work." I've seen their eyes glaze over and felt their palpable anxiety at the mere mention of President Obama's name. Some of them "like that Affordable Care Act" and tell you that it's much better than "that socialistic Obamacare." They lack the intellect to discern that the two are one and the same. Critical thinking is foreign to them and we know how they feel about anything foreign. Even the simplest things make their brains hurt and are too difficult for them to grasp. So, if you say anything positive about "Obamacare" out screams the word "Socialism!" From my experience, at least half of them still think Obama got into this country due to lax border security and made it all the way to president. FOX "News" has done a good job of programming these suckers and fools. There's really no point in speaking with them further. I mean, you have to be pretty far gone if you think Obama was a socialist president from a foreign land; so far gone that you're never coming back, in fact. So why bother. "What a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind..."

Ah, but now they want us all to pay for their big, shiny border wall, their monument to their own xenophobia and racism. More than once, I have had to explain to them what the word xenophobia means. Usually, they don't care though. Perhaps they just think it's one of their better qualities, just like that little red hat makes a fashion statement they take pride in. At this point, they would place a pile of doggie shit on top of their heads if Sean Hannity or Alex Jones told them it was the best way to express their support for Trump. That's how I see Rudy Giuliani now anyway. I see him on FOX "News" and I see him with a big, steamy pile on top of his head; flies buzzing 'round his bug eyes like they're returning home.

But here's what I do every time the conversation about "the evils of socialism" comes up when I run into someone from the Trump Party: I tell them "Fine. It's a free country and people died for your freedom. But, if you don't like socialism, then don't drive on Ike Eisenhower's Interstates that our tax dollars built and still care for. The traffic situation will be better. And, They are a monument to the advantages of socialism." I also tell them, "Don't drink the water from the reservoirs that socialism built and that socialism protects. And don't call the township, county, or state police if you're upstairs sleeping one night and you hear a burglar downstairs, unless you have a privately contracted police force, of course. Ditto the fire department. Oh, and don't fly on a plane as long as the government is funding the FAA (Federal Aviation Authority)." I also tell them they'd better not ever think about applying for Social Security and that those of us who aren't so hypocritical and admit to wanting Social Security will push for having their unclaimed funds go to a better use, like being divided up amongst those of us who are in favor of Social Security. If the fool I'm talking to comes from a farm state, I tell them to have their state reject the additional billions in farm subsidies that are headed their way to offset their boy Trump's tariffs on things like soybeans. I might even explain to them that our dreaded tax-funded socialism pays for some of our food protection, the TSA, Homeland Security, the FBI, and other police agencies that protect them from groups like MS-13. That last particular irony is lost on such limited minds of course. To them, I am some kind of commie liberal elitist just because I have a functioning brain. It doesn't matter. I lost them at the word interstate.