Republican American men are total pussies. Look at Orrin Hatch running from and dissing female protesters. They are constantly afraid and have to clutch guns and Jesus to hold off their fear of women, gays and educated people.
Snowflakes. Cowards. Liars. Bullies. But most especially cowards. Any movement towards equality terrifies and enrages them. They know they are weak and fake, that they have coasted on their categorical advantages, that they have to have an organized and aggressive bundle of corporations that will help them keep those advantages, in exchange for political license.
And on top of it all, they really aren't conservatives. They want to conserve nothing of America's heritage of many cultures, they abuse the political process and prize flag rituals over the Constitution. Liars and fakes. Oh, and they like to pretend that their rich entitled icons earned their wealth.
Here's the Republican fantasy. Trump teaching a man to fish.
Here's the grim reality, for those willing and able to READ:
The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.
By DAVID BARSTOW, SUSANNE CRAIG and RUSS BUETTNER
Oct. 2, 2018
President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found.
Mr. Trump won the presidency proclaiming himself a self-made billionaire, and he has long insisted that his father, the legendary New York City builder Fred C. Trump, provided almost no financial help.
But The Times’s investigation, based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records, reveals that Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day.
Much of this money came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes. He and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show. Records indicate that Mr. Trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more. He also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents’ real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... e=Homepage
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And so the truth that Republicans evade is that their hero, their model, increasingly their cultic God, is not only a liar and a fraud but a pampered little rich boy who his father made a millionaire by the age of 8. Look at the incredible panoply of lies and pretense and ignorance necessary to keep Trump in this position of reverence by the Republicans. What did Voltaire say? “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
The Republican party is now Trump's party. It isn't Reagan's and it sure isn't Lincoln's. It's a party that's embraced by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un. It's the party of the NRA and the Federalist Society. But it isn't a party for Americans. Not any more.
Teach a man to fish? What a joke. Teach him to have rich parents. Teach him to lie, lie, lie. That's the Trump lesson.
