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Cyrano

(15,023 posts)
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 04:02 PM Aug 2020

Are we all frogs being boiled?

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, put a frog into a pot of water, turn up the heat and, over time, it will never realize it's being boiled to death.

That's the story of the past three and a half plus years in America. Trump, and the Republican Party are the owners of the pot, and we are the frogs.

Yeah, we are aware that we're being fucked. Yeah, we have tried to fight back. Yeah, we're in the streets marching against the horrible injustices that still exist in "the greatest country in the world." And, yeah, we know that the "greatest country" thing is total right wing bullshit.

Nonetheless, we are frogs being boiled to death.

AND NOW, the boiler in chief has decreed, with an "executive order," that Americans will no longer receive Social Security or Medicare (which was deducted from every single pay check you've ever received.) It's not an "entitlement." It's a bought and paid for benefit.

Let me say that again. Dear Leader has said that we will no longer receive Social Security or Medicare! (Even though every one of us have it deducted from every single paycheck we've ever received throughout our working lives.)

I don't really believe this will stand. But I don't hear any Republicans outside my door screaming that this insane "executive order" is illegal, immoral and totally criminal.

Will we survive the prick in the White House until election day and then until January 20th, 2021? I really don't know. But if we do, the wreckage he leaves behind will take decades to repair.

Somehow, someway, we must never allow this to happen again. And one way to ensure it and protect our freedoms, is by the total destruction of today's Republican Party which made this monster possible.



















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Are we all frogs being boiled? (Original Post) Cyrano Aug 2020 OP
Been simmering for about 30 years now... Wounded Bear Aug 2020 #1
Yes, for sure. LisaL Aug 2020 #2
I'm cooked, hoping I grow a hard shell stillcool Aug 2020 #3
Boiled frogs legs with a nice Brie cheese and slightly chilled white wine is good some say.... magicarpet Aug 2020 #4
Alas, that's a remarkably enduring myth. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2020 #5
The frog boil started forty years ago... PlanetBev Aug 2020 #6
I'd say the pot is now at a rolling boil Hekate Aug 2020 #7
That's my sense, and it's been going on for a very long time. smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #8
I was using that very analogy the other day... SKKY Aug 2020 #9

PlanetBev

(4,098 posts)
6. The frog boil started forty years ago...
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 02:06 AM
Aug 2020

the second that Ronald Reagan was escorted into the White House. I cried for a week. Once the GOP hitched their wagon to the Christian Right and the greedy supply side bastards, I knew America’s finest days were numbered.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
8. That's my sense, and it's been going on for a very long time.
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 02:45 AM
Aug 2020

The heat has just been turned up over the past 3 1/2 year at a quicker rate.

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