Dear GOP, a Christmas Message from One of America's Average Citizens

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Dear GOP, a Christmas Message from One of America's Average Citizens

George Bailey: Just a minute... just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy?

He didn't save enough money to send Harry away to college, let alone me. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter, and what's wrong with that? Why... here, you're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers?

You... you said... what'd you say a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken down that they... Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000?

Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?

Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!

Mister Potter: I'm not interested in your book. I'm taking about the Building and Loan.

George Bailey: I know very well what you're talking about, you're talking about something you can't get you fingers on. And it's galling you. That's what you're talking about, I know. Well, I've...I've said too much...
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Jimmy Stewart is Delightfully Funny, FULL Interview on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show 1989

 

[Darkwind]

You should heed that message. Not once did he mention government.

BTW....isn't it you clowns who keep harking back to the days when a man could work and support a family and send their kids to college but now you support the notion that a man back then couldn't save up the money to buy a house?

So, which is it?

Oh, and try to get your message straight.

 

[theHawk]

The GOP got the message from the People last Novermber: Stop the progressive asswipes from destroying America.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Listen to this ignoramous Dante using Jimmy Stewart reciting a screen play as some sort of stalwart icon of the left. Hey moron, movies are fantasy. The reality? Jimmy Stewart was a GENERAL in the 8th Air Force who flew his B-17 on 20 missions over Germany. He loved America and he was ready to die for America, unlike all you degenerate cowards who hate this country and can't see its destruction soon enough.

 

[rdean]

Listen to this ignoramous Dante using Jimmy Stewart reciting a screen play as some sort of stalwart icon of the left. Hey moron, movies are fantasy. The reality? Jimmy Stewart was a GENERAL in the 8th Air Force who flew his B-17 on 45 missions over Germany. He loved America and he was ready to die for America, unlike all you degenerate cowards who hate this country and can't see it's destruction soon enough.

US Soldiers look just a weee bit different today than they did in 1944, don't cha think?

We can easily guess from the picture why Republicans keep trying to screw them over.

 

[S.J.]

The fact that an atheist would use a movie with a spiritual message to make a moral point is well, pathetic. And Jimmy Stewart was a conservative and a good friend of Ronald Reagan.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Listen to this ignoramous Dante using Jimmy Stewart reciting a screen play as some sort of stalwart icon of the left. Hey moron, movies are fantasy. The reality? Jimmy Stewart was a GENERAL in the 8th Air Force who flew his B-17 on 45 missions over Germany. He loved America and he was ready to die for America, unlike all you degenerate cowards who hate this country and can't see it's destruction soon enough.

US Soldiers look just a weee bit different today than they did in 1944, don't cha think?

We can easily guess from the picture why Republicans keep trying to screw them over.

You're full of shit as usual. While you democrat rednecks were busy stringing black men up from trees, the US military was busy integrating the armed forces from 1944 onward. The military was the first US government institution to integrate. Of course military-hating, race-baiting, self-loathing faggots like you wouldn't know about things like that, would you dean?

 

[Pogo]

You should heed that message. Not once did he mention government.

Listen to this ignoramous Dante using Jimmy Stewart reciting a screen play as some sort of stalwart icon of the left. Hey moron, movies are fantasy. The reality? Jimmy Stewart was a GENERAL in the 8th Air Force who flew his B-17 on 20 missions over Germany. He loved America and he was ready to die for America, unlike all you degenerate cowards who hate this country and can't see its destruction soon enough.

The fact that an atheist would use a movie with a spiritual message to make a moral point is well, pathetic. And Jimmy Stewart was a conservative and a good friend of Ronald Reagan.

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[Vigilante]

Listen to this ignoramous Dante using Jimmy Stewart reciting a screen play as some sort of stalwart icon of the left. Hey moron, movies are fantasy. The reality? Jimmy Stewart was a GENERAL in the 8th Air Force who flew his B-17 on 45 missions over Germany. He loved America and he was ready to die for America, unlike all you degenerate cowards who hate this country and can't see it's destruction soon enough.

US Soldiers look just a weee bit different today than they did in 1944, don't cha think?

We can easily guess from the picture why Republicans keep trying to screw them over.

President Obama s Joke Calling Troops Santa in Fatigues Silences Audience - Breitbart

 

[Pogo]

Thank you, Captain Offtopic.

 

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Darkwind

You should heed that message. Not once did he mention government.

BTW....isn't it you clowns who keep harking back to the days when a man could work and support a family and send their kids to college but now you support the notion that a man back then couldn't save up the money to buy a house?

So, which is it?

Oh, and try to get your message straight.

The success of FDR's programs were hat people did not need Potter's loan sharking. If you had the critical thinking skill set of a grammar school child, you would have figured out George Bailey is talking to a small company town business shark

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Listen to this ignoramous Dante using Jimmy Stewart reciting a screen play as some sort of stalwart icon of the left. Hey moron, movies are fantasy. The reality? Jimmy Stewart was a GENERAL in the 8th Air Force who flew his B-17 on 20 missions over Germany. He loved America and he was ready to die for America, unlike all you degenerate cowards who hate this country and can't see its destruction soon enough.

Jimmy Stewart is what you call today, a RINO. You asswipes today would run his liberal leaning Republican arse out of the GOP in a New York Second.

His best friend was probably Henry Fonda, whom he met while at acting camp. Early on they got into a fistfight over politics (Stewart was a very conservative Republican, Fonda a very liberal Democrat) that was won by Fonda, but they apparently never discussed politics again. When Fonda moved to Hollywood he lived with Stewart and the two gained a reputation as among Hollywood's biggest playboys. However, after each married and settled down, their children noted that their favorite activity when not working seemed to be silently painting model airplanes together. James Stewart - Biography - IMDb​

 

[Mad Scientist]

Is Janet Yellen a Republican or Democrat?

 

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Is Janet Yellen a Republican or Democrat?

She's a woman. she changes her mind like you change your diapers

on a more serious and informed note: 5 reasons Republicans should support Janet Yellen - Fortune

 

[rdean]

Listen to this ignoramous Dante using Jimmy Stewart reciting a screen play as some sort of stalwart icon of the left. Hey moron, movies are fantasy. The reality? Jimmy Stewart was a GENERAL in the 8th Air Force who flew his B-17 on 45 missions over Germany. He loved America and he was ready to die for America, unlike all you degenerate cowards who hate this country and can't see it's destruction soon enough.

US Soldiers look just a weee bit different today than they did in 1944, don't cha think?

We can easily guess from the picture why Republicans keep trying to screw them over.

You're full of shit as usual. While you democrat rednecks were busy stringing black men up from trees, the US military was busy integrating the armed forces from 1944 onward. The military was the first US government institution to integrate. Of course military-hating, race-baiting, self-loathing faggots like you wouldn't know about things like that, would you dean?

They may have been Democratic Rednecks in 1944, but history teaches us those who were stringing up black men ran to the GOP in 1964 when Democrats welcomed blacks into their party. The GOP is 90% white for a reason and Lincoln, who may have been a Republican was NEVER a "confederate conservative".

But you knew that.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Listen to this ignoramous Dante using Jimmy Stewart reciting a screen play as some sort of stalwart icon of the left. Hey moron, movies are fantasy. The reality? Jimmy Stewart was a GENERAL in the 8th Air Force who flew his B-17 on 20 missions over Germany. He loved America and he was ready to die for America, unlike all you degenerate cowards who hate this country and can't see its destruction soon enough.

That's where you lose all your credibility, in one fell-swoop.

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[007]

Listen to this ignoramous Dante using Jimmy Stewart reciting a screen play as some sort of stalwart icon of the left. Hey moron, movies are fantasy. The reality? Jimmy Stewart was a GENERAL in the 8th Air Force who flew his B-17 on 45 missions over Germany. He loved America and he was ready to die for America, unlike all you degenerate cowards who hate this country and can't see it's destruction soon enough.

US Soldiers look just a weee bit different today than they did in 1944, don't cha think?

We can easily guess from the picture why Republicans keep trying to screw them over.

 

[Statistikhengst]

You're full of shit as usual. While you democrat rednecks were busy stringing black men up from trees, the US military was busy integrating the armed forces from 1944 onward. The military was the first US government institution to integrate. Of course military-hating, race-baiting, self-loathing faggots like you wouldn't know about things like that, would you dean?

Only, that's not what happened. In fact, the vast majority of the US Military top brass, every single one of them white, was AGAINST desegregation. And it didn't happen in 1944. It happened in 1948, per Executive Order of Harry S. Truman, a Democrat:

Executive Order 9981 - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin. This policy shall be put into effect as rapidly as possible, having due regard to the time required to effectuate any necessary changes without impairing efficiency or morale.

Signed July 26th, 1948.

This was an expansion of EO 8802 (FDR, 1941), this time aimed specifically at the Armed Forces, since the military top-brass used the wording of 8802 as loopholes to get around it's actual intent and since we were in the middle of a war, there were other concerns at that moment.

More background history:

In April 1941 the US Navy convened its General Board to discuss expansion of the USMC. Major General Thomas Holcomb, Commandant of the Marines, who lived in Delaware and Washington, DC in his early years and attended private schools, said that African Americans had no right to serve as Marines. He said, "If it were a question of having a Marine Corps of 5,000 whites or 250,000 Negroes, I would rather have the whites."[10]

In 1941, civil rights activists Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, and A. J. Muste pushed Roosevelt to order fair employment for blacks in the federal government. The activists threatened to march on Washington, DC, in July 1941, and Roosevelt intended to prevent such a public relations disaster for his presidency. On June 25, 1941, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802; the elimination of racial discrimination from federal departments, agencies, the military, and from private defense contractors. The black activists cancelled their planned march.

Directed by Roosevelt and US Navy Secretary Frank Knox to accept black recruits, Holcomb proposed a separate battalion of African Americans, a seacoastdefense battalion armed with anti-aircraft and anti-shipping artillery. To make this battalion self-supporting, Holcomb determined that it would contain a rifle company, special weapons platoons, and a light tank platoon—all manned by black Marines.

In other words, Holcombe was unwilling to actually follow EO 8802 and deliberately created a new segregated regiment.

It was a DEMOCRAT who brought desegregation to the US Military.

And as a side- note: if you want to be taken even remotely seriously, you might want to consider a.) not lying and b.) not calling everyone who disagrees with you a "self-loathing faggot".


I graciously accept your concession.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Listen to this ignoramous Dante using Jimmy Stewart reciting a screen play as some sort of stalwart icon of the left. Hey moron, movies are fantasy. The reality? Jimmy Stewart was a GENERAL in the 8th Air Force who flew his B-17 on 45 missions over Germany. He loved America and he was ready to die for America, unlike all you degenerate cowards who hate this country and can't see it's destruction soon enough.

US Soldiers look just a weee bit different today than they did in 1944, don't cha think?

We can easily guess from the picture why Republicans keep trying to screw them over.

You're full of shit as usual. While you democrat rednecks were busy stringing black men up from trees, the US military was busy integrating the armed forces from 1944 onward. The military was the first US government institution to integrate. Of course military-hating, race-baiting, self-loathing faggots like you wouldn't know about things like that, would you dean?

They may have been Democratic Rednecks in 1944, but history teaches us those who were stringing up black men ran to the GOP in 1964 when Democrats welcomed blacks into their party. The GOP is 90% white for a reason and Lincoln, who may have been a Republican was NEVER a "confederate conservative".

But you knew that.

Indeed.