A day in the life of Joe republican...

[Heartstrings]

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Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good, because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.

With his first swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take, because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised.

All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan, because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Joe gets it too.

He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat, because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents, because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.

Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean, because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

He walks to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees, because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation, because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards.

Joes employer pays these standards, because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.

If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check, because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home, because of his temporary misfortune.

Its noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC, because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan, because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.

Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world, because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards.

He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration, because bankers didn't want to make rural loans.

The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.

He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension, because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.

Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day.

Joe agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."

Credit to : http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/editorial/guest-commentary/21099-day-in-the-life-of-joe-middle-class-republican.html

[oasis]

1. +1000 K and R

[femmocrat]

2. Excellent!

And so true!

[iluvtennis]

41. +++ agree

[lunasun]

3. Sicko "self made" freaks really need to have a clue

I saw a big SUV on the side of the highway road with a bumper sticker that said
No thanks I don't need help I'm a republican
She looked like she had car troubles, hope she wasn't looking for the highway patrol to stop
Often other drivers will pullover to assist
No one had done that either nada

[Nwgirl503]

4. Every single paragraph is true

Bravo!

[Canoe52]

5. I'd send this to my family, but they've been so

brainwashed I'd get ten arguments back.

Especially from the one with the special needs kid, who also works in the auto industry, who has great insurance and pension plan. The one who would have lost everything if the auto industry hadn't been bailed out by Obama.

[griloco]

6. Yeah, but I hate those Liberals Commies Pinkos cuz

everything they do means those ingrate deplorables will be on this planet longer.

[Maynar]

7. This one comes up fairly regularly

and I'm glad it does. It bears repeating, over and over until some conservative, somewhere, actually gets it through their thick skulls that this is how shit works!

[calimary]

16. And it NEEDS to come up - more often than that.

Great reminder - for ALL of us, regardless which side you're on.

[SticksnStones]

8. Credit where credit's due

http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/editorial/guest-commentary/21099-day-in-the-life-of-joe-middle-class-republican.html


REPUBLISHED: Originally published by TvNewsLIES.org July, 2004.
Written by John Gray Cincinnati, Ohio - [e-mail] - Published July - 2004

[Tatiana]

19. Thank you for providing the credit to Mr. Gray. It's as valid now as the day he wrote it.

Perhaps the OP can edit the post to reflect this information.

[Heartstrings]

42. Done....:)

[Cooley Hurd]

20. Kick for correct attribution

[Beartracks]

34. Thanks for that link to the original.

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[TNNurse]

9. Can you get this out in the public more?

This is so very very true.

[packman]

10. And the next day, Joe goes out to vote

for a conservative running on a platform of anti-government hand-outs and entitlements.

[BigOleDummy]

11. Truer than ...

..... you like to even think about. That's pretty much my sister and brother. At least my brother-in-law gets it though. My one sister lives in a very nice home in the outer suburbs, thanks to my bro-in-laws pension from the U.A.W., beat breast cancer thanks to her union supplied health care, had a wonderful son thanks to that same health care (many dollars because of problems with both of them). Can go weeks or even months without coming in to contact with a minority personally but is terrified of them because....... who knows. She even bought a gun because she's "worried" that some "Mexican" will break into their house. My brother is just an Arizona fascist who won't even consider that Rush/Hannity/Fox could be wrong about anything. My bro-in-law on the other hand KNOWS and appreciates what the U.A.W. has done for them and is active in the Union's political side. This past election was the worst personal time for them I ever saw. Yes, he was a Bernie guy but voted for Hillary and of course my sister voted for our orange wannabe fuhrer. We USED to be able to at least talk/debate politics but she's gotten worse the more she immersed herself in the circus from the right.

We cannot even spend more than an hour together anymore because somehow, no matter what the topic, it always boils down to how us "libtards" are ruining the country. SMH. I miss my sister as this has all happened in the last 10 years or so. I miss my sister.

[Cosmocat]

13. Yep - it is all around us

Some conservative a-hole at the gym.

I tried for several years to talk politics with him, but to him I was the "get something for nothing" liberal, and he was one of the "makers, not takers." No amount of reasonable discussion could get him to see things with me even half way. The maker he is - sell textbooks, all his accounts, tax payer funded educational institutions and school districts. His wife - a teacher in our school district.

So, I had enough and avoided all political discussions, just talked sports and what not.

One day were talking about health related things, and he glibly goes, "well, I take my wife's health care because it is better than my companies ..." and I had to walk away to avoid the rage driven urge to put a dumb bell through his skull. Our fin tax dollars to pay his health care ...

[ProfessorGAC]

45. Same Thing At Golf Course

Now, understand, this is not a fancy schmancy country club. I am not the country club type. It's just an open to the public, with yearly memberships golf course and i would guess that nobody that plays there makes my kind of money.

But, there are a few guys out there, with Gadsden flag decals on their car, concealed carry bumper stickers, and i hear some pretty bad things out of their mouths.

Since i don't suffer fools, and even though i like these guys personally, i don't give them an inch. And i'm very quick to remind them that i make a lot more than they do, and that i'm the one with a net worth well into 7 figures, but i'm a liberal. I tell them they had better not be referring to me as a taker, because even though they're 5 years older than me, i know i've paid more in taxes in my life and i'm not the one comlaining about it.

I also remind them (and some of these guys are 60's70's era veterans that one of us actually behaves like this is the home of the brave.

They don't talk politics in front of me anymore.

[Cosmocat]

48. Good for you!

A BIG part of the problem here is them being able to get away with it because our folks are too passive.

I live in a fairly conservative area and am pretty active in the community with a lot of republican people.

Everyone knows my politics. I don't have to say a lot, I don't get pushy with it or what not.

But, I have said clearly that I thought BHO was a fine president, Hillary would have been a fine POTUS, etc, and I will stake my progressive flag in a direct, non-aggressive manner during discussions. I let people have their beliefs and don't pile on, but anyone who knows me knows where I am with things.

We are right and they are wrong on pretty much everything.

We need to stake our flag.

[Alice11111]

22. Same w my brother and mother. I don't like to be around

them anymore. It is mutual. Even the most innocuous thing leads to hostility, which they start (they would probably disagree). My bro just sent me a video of my niece's bday party, which is basically a big family reunion, of people I love, but I am excluded from seeing. I was not invited. It is farther for us, but that's not the reason. It is exclusion.

It is like a non military civil war in our country now. I remember the days when there was closeness and love. We could vote differently, but it wasn't a big deal. Now, it is a values difference, and a big deal, for everything.

Funny, most of the Repubs there and their kids, 18 of 20 maybe, have some sort of govt subsidized health insurance (CEO of Univ Hosp, Medicare, retired educator, etc.), but HATE Obamacare...it is so unfair, those govt subsidies, and such bad insurance. Duh?

[sharedvalues]

25. Nonmilitary civil war - created by Limbaugh and Murdoch

And Ailes.

Those right wing media idiots are responsible for so much hate and pain in America.

[Alice11111]

29. Assisted by Chaffetz, Gowdy, Ryan, McTurtle

Sean Hannity, OReilly, oh well, some patriots they are.

[alanbudda]

43. Cons

I have a similar situation with a friend. He is successful and educated yet 'right-wing-stupid'. In lively discussions with him he will eventually make an absurd prediction. I'll jump on it and bet him money he is wrong ( example; Obama will collapse the economy in 1 year).

I have literally won hundreds of dollars from him. Latest bet; our 'fiat' dollar will collapse and banks will fail. Oh, and buy gold.

[Lonestarblue]

12. Excellent portrayal of government that helps people instead of taking rights away from them.

Thank you, Heartstrings! Could I share some or all of your post on my Facebook?

[Heartstrings]

14. Absolutely....go for it!

[ffr]

15. Clear as day. Damn straight. Thank you!

Just give these types someone else to blame for their plight and you can rob them blind. Republican values.

[IndianaDave]

17. The philosopher John Locke wrote that

"The children of the poor should work from age three." His not-so-enlightened views were dominant for over a century of our nation's history. We should also thank God for the liberals who enacted child labor laws!

[Alice11111]

30. I did not know that, and I was a philosophy major

Age 3. God. Merciless, cold blooded man.

[IndianaDave]

49. I definitely agree with you.

[zentrum]

18. Wish in real life

....we could do an experiment where they are forced to live without all the liberal benefits just for one month.

[Alice11111]

23. No kidding. My big Repub brother took paternity leave.

He was 51 when his wife got PG. They had excellent insurance (because of being a CEO of a University Med Hospital) that paid for 4 in vitros, because science (which they were against because of testing w embryonic disposed material) had advanced enough to enable a successful in vitro.

[talking-liberally]

21. We need to advocate for the government.

The government cannot advocate for itself. The press is not supposed to do it either. Democrats/liberals/progressives need to get better at pointing out the good things that government does.

Reagan was so effective it made liberals gun-shy about saying good things about what government has done. This has to be reversed. We need to do a better job. We need to get comfortable with it. This is a start.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[sharedvalues]

27. The government is us. And the rich pay the media to lie about it.

The government is us - it is the way you and me achieve goals together in society.
We want to have a social safety net. We can join together as a society in government to do that.

And the reason so many people hate the government is because a few of the 0.01% spend money on PR and media to lie to America. And the wealthy pay for lies to destroy the government to cut taxes... on the wealthy. That's their only agenda.

[Carter Johnson girl]

24. Love it!

This is so good.

[Kath2]

28. Love your signature line.

War is Not the answer.

[Kath2]

26. Right on!

Love it!

[warmfeet]

31. Been around for years.

As true today as it ever was.

[tsuukiyomi]

32. Tell it like it is!

Hang this on the walls of every public place, title it something that'll appeal to right-wingers and trick them into reading it!

This, right fucking here is what I try to tell my friends (who I'm not so sure about are really my friends) who say they're definitely okay with Trump being President because supposedly "Mexicans will pay for the Wall" and he's "gotten us jobs".

[Akamai]

33. Thom Hartmann has been reading this for years! I applaud every time he reads it.

[whistler162]

35. AN oldie but goodie....

Written by John Bray from Cincinnati, way back in or before 2004, according to this source - http://matt.baya.net/day-in-the-life-of-joe-republican/

"No idea who the original author is though in googling this I found one source that attributed it to John Gray of Cincinnati, Ohio ([e-mail]). I e-mailed that address to verify but not sure if it’s correct. [Update – He confirmed he is the author]"

[napi21]

36. That's a spetacular summary! Thanks!! I'm ending a copy of it to the few pubies I know.

Give 'em something to think about!

[PatrickforO]

37. Did you write this, and can I pass it on, citing you?

This is REALLY good.

[Heartstrings]

38. I can't take credit for writing it...

Got it from an Occupy Democrat site...I think there's a link to the actual writer in a previous comment tho....

I'm pretty sure no one would mind if you passed it along.

[PatrickforO]

40. Yes, I saw that, thanks!

[Kablooie]

39. Boy I wish the Republicans now would show their true colors.

They have a great opportunity to ruin everyone's lives but they are screwing it up.

But the only way guys like Joe might begin to understand what's going on is if the GOP dramatically hurts everyone's lives.

Will that happen? If they stay in power, yes.
Will they stay in power?
The only chance to change things is for Joe to see the truth by 2020 because redistricting happens soon after that and will set the Congress for the next decade.

[Soxfan58]

44. The proverbial

Nail on the head

[ck4829]

46. Now we are at Joe Teabagger

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9035416

[GallopingGhost]

47. This is hilarious

and so true.

I'm one of those environmentalist wackos.

Sorry, Joe.