Please consider supporting and donating to John Zarbano, the Democrat running against Glenn Grothman this fall:
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2024
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John Zarbano sounds like the name of the cool, competent guy that keeps the Get Smart guy on the right track.
wishing him and you all luck!
Alright so it's not literally ripped from the book or show, just fits in perfectly. I wish the title was more clear on this because now the title is wrong.
Also fuck that guy for his shitty opinion.
Sadly, this is not an isolated opinion. Not just one fringe crazy that can be talked over and ignored. There are many more like him, that want to see things like these be reality again, and [insert Trump’s current polling numbers] percent of Americans that seem to agree at least in spirit or are somehow very, very unaware.
I fear for the future.
It’s not, but the situation has been leading towards a revolution for a longtime. Which is why unions were in place, and so many of the rich are building bunkers. We’re animals who want to believe we can prepare for anything, but reality is a cruel bitch.
You can’t prepare for after shit hitting the fan this late into the game, the only true solution will always be avoiding it hitting altogether. But the ultra rich rolled the dice, so here we are heading to the next step.
Spoken like someone who doesn’t have any personality to offer his wife? Men have a purpose in the family besides providing money, relationships are more than just transactional sex for money agreements. Republicans are sad people
Let’s bring back 1960’s taxes on the rich and corporations!
Of course they'll just pick and choose which ones they want back just like they do with the bible.
That dude has a bad case of nostalgia poisoning.
Sorry guys but this is one of the reasons I fucking hate your country.
You think we like it?
Lot of then seem to, lots of people actually VOTED for this. After this yo'd think at the next election they'd get maybe 10 votes. Lots will still Vote fir him, lots for Trump.
Yeah, so lots love this shit.
He won because of our fucked electorail system. Not because he was popular.
If I had 74,223,975 friends, I'd consider myself popular.
What country are you from?
What ain't to country I ever heard of. They speak English in What?
The cons just have never gotten over the 60s, have they?
They really didn’t like it when women and “colored folk” started having… opinions.
I remember when I was a youngin and heard men from the "greatest generation" bitching about things like "no fault divorce"...or women driving. Or having banking accounts. And voting.
Not even kidding. I was not surprised to know that a lot of dipshits still have resentments toward women about stuff like equal pay, or abortions, etc...that's pretty much a given and they've been hooting about this openly for a long time. But to learn that some men (that are decades younger than these greatest generation dipshits I'm thinking of) still think things like no fault divorce need to be rolled back is mind-boggling.
I guess a lot of them are deeply sexually frustrated, and imagine that if they can just corner women again, they'll be forced to have sex with these incels (or incel adjacent).
Luckily those generations are about to all die off.
They've passed their *isms onto some of their kids, but less than before.
We just gotta keep working at it and it'll get smaller and smaller.
I'm wondering about that 80 year cycle theory and getting increasingly worried, TBH. The ultra-rich thinking their money will save them from any repercussions are sowing more and more division and hatred, while stealing all the money and making people even more miserable (that they then blame on "liberals" like Soros, and Big Tech, etc.) and even more desperate and hateful is not going to lead to good things.
What cycle theory?
It's not well-supported, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory
I think you mean "the bullshit generation full of dipshits that fucked this country into the goddamn ground"
They done went and got all uppity.
The 60s was the civil rights Era. Can't have that, too horrifying
I bet he doesnt want the tax rates from back then though...
It is amazing how much the US politics confuses fiction books written as warnings if dystopies with political manuals: 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Handmaids Tale...
...Torment Nexus...
It's part of the propaganda.
"It sucks that white men don't have ALL of the power."
-GOP Shitheads
Jeez this is one quotable piece of shit:
They’ve taken away the purpose of the man to be part of a family.
Now that's some serious entitlement if I've ever heard it. You should earn your place in the household, not be given it because the rest of your family would be on the street without you.
Over the years, millions of children have had their dreams stolen before seeing the light of the day.
Didn't know kids deepest desires were to be abused, neglected, abandoned, or die horribly within moments of being born.
I commend the six justices who voted to overturn Roe for having the courage to base their decision on sound legal principles
Legal principles that don't include the recognition of precedent.
I want to go back to the 1800s
I wanna go back to WWII, when it was okay to shoot Nazis.
Just stay on the ride, we're circling back.
Only a dead nazi is a good nazi🥰
Under his eye
The Earth is doomed