HATEFUL CONSERVATIVE RHETORIC HAS CONSEQUENCES

 

Let there be no doubt that the latest mass shooting at the LGBTQ bar in Colorado Springs was brought to you courtesy of Republican, Conservative, Right-Wing- rhetoric. If you watch Fox News, if you listen to Conservative- Right-Wing radio, if you read and listen to Conservative-Right-Wing blogs, you are just as guilty as the guy who went to that bar and shot those people. Just like with the killings of the Asian women in the massage parlor in Atlanta, (as well as many other attacks on Asians,) the murder of the people at the black church in Charleston, the murder of the people at the grocery store in a predominately black neighborhood in Buffalo and countless others, this shooting is the result of the hatred and vitriol that Right-Wing Conservatives spew out to their followers on a daily basis. And if you support the Republican Party, and especially if you are part of the MAGA fringe, you are supporting people and policies that promote guns, promote hatred of anyone who isn’t just like them and people who are against education being affordable for everyone. Believe me, education is the enemy of racism and bigotry and they do not want that. And just like on January 6th, the most weak-minded of you, those who are the most susceptible to the radical-conservative-mind-fuck-brainwashing, act out in violent ways. A good example is the guy who drove cross-country with his assault rifle to attack a DC pizza parlor because he believed that Hilary Clinton was running a child sex trafficking ring out of the basement. Luckily he was stopped before he killed anyone but seriously, who but a poorly educated and brainwashed person could believe such nonsense? So make no excuses because as far as I’m concerned, if you support the Republican Party and all of the peripheral republican propaganda machines you are responsible for this latest massacre as well as similar ones in the past and those still coming in the future. And to take this op-ed one step farther, if the hatred that conservative republicans promote is in line with your beliefs and how you feel then I don’t want anything to do with you. I don’t want to know you and I don’t want you in my life. Feel free to un-friend me on social media and stay the hell away from me in the real world. You are what is wrong with this country. You are the problem.

WHAT ARE THE INTEREST RATE HIKES ACCOMPLISHING?

 Jerome Powell and the feds want to tell us they are countering inflation with these interest rate hikes but all I see them doing is killing the stock market and the real estate market. Yes the price of everything is off the hook but have you seen the profits reported by major corporations? The problem is corporate greed not interest rates! Smaller quantities and higher prices equal higher profits! At least when interest rates were low an average working person could buy a house or a car at an affordable monthly payment. And prior to all these interest rate hikes an average person with a 401K had their net worth growing. Now these higher interest rates have put buying a home out of reach and the stock market is down 25%. Not to mention that anyone who is carrying a balance on credit cards is now probably struggling to make those payments too. These hikes are not helping the average person at all and in fact they're making things worse!! The problem is corporate greed not interest rates! And while I'm on this rant, they also need to stop subsidizing these industries! Do oil companies that are reporting profits in the billions really need my tax dollars in the form of subsidies? HELL NO!!!! I'll say it again for the folks in the back, the problem is greed not interest rates!