Except Dems have always been the party of fiscal responsibility too.
That’s what’s baffling, social services are fiscally conservative, taxing the richest in order to make sure the poorest have better living conditions is fiscally conservative, not spending public funds on companies worth billions is fiscally conservative… Fiscal conservatism is supposed to be spending public money wisely, well the most logical way to spend money for a government is by having a monopoly on certain things to make sure they’re provided to the population without the goal of making profit from it!
The most fiscally responsible stance is to be against corruption. The corruption is the thing that causes money magically disappear.
There are bad apples in Democratic party (Kevin de Leon from LA for example. I hope he never gets beyond current position) and we should fight hard to kick them out, but right now GQP is in its own league in terms of corruption.
Yeah it’s become the party of lies and grifts. Electing actual conspiracy theorists and complete morons because they repeat lies that fox “news” tells everyone. Supporting a habitual lying con man for president who hocks crappy overpriced shoes, bibles and NFTs for 1000% their actual cost.
Soon to be the Uncle in Prison party.
Also, I’m suspicious this is really Bill Maher…
I’m suspicious this is really Bill Maher
It’s from page 106 of “What This Comedian Said Will Shock You”, Maher’s 2024 book.
Bill Maher is a boomer. But this is some broken clock high level thinking.
Sorry, but fuck Bill Maher. He’s a fucking groomer.
(That article doesn’t include the part where one of the little girls tells Maher that Sofia Vergara’s character’s husband is much older than her and he says to them, “nothing wrong with that.”)
It’s not. I just asked if you believed in the concept. Let’s say you really liked a painting, then found out the painter was a murderer.
Do you still like the painting?
If it were me, the answer is yes. Similarly, I think Bill Maher is an idiot, but I like the analogy.
I’ve never heard the GoP called the “Daddy Party”.
Who the fuck is calling them that?
Bill Maher, and the shitlibs agreeing with him that the Republicans used to be respectable.
To be fair, old school Republicans from 30-40 years ago would be losing their shit at how much the current party has been cozying up to Russia and the Saudi’s which is where a very large chunk of the modern corruption comes from.
Yeah god damn assholes trying to find common ground should be burned at the stake.
I never heard them called the daddy party exactly, however the concept is not new. Hell I remember there was an episode of The West Wing like 20 years ago where they talked about this. The mommy problem. It’s a thing in politics that gets talked about. Democrats are the ones you go to when you want things like jobs and Healthcare whereas Republicans the ones you go to when you’re scared. It certainly a strategy Republicans bank on, as we see it’s basically the only thing they have right now. Lie to people tell them to be scared of immigrants and minorities and crime. That’s the entirety of their campaign right now, there’s not a lick of policy or anything else.
