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Here's Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) today, refusing to answer a reporters questions on affordability (Original Post) justaprogressive Thursday OP
The brass of that shit sack pretending that being a GOP apparatchik is work The Polack MSgt Thursday #1
These folks do not give a shit about anyone other than themselves.But really.... walkingman Thursday #2
I agree especially on inequality karynnj Thursday #7
That fuckin' clown... GiqueCee Thursday #3
You gotta wonder how guys like this get in? Ars Longa Thursday #4
Are Dems using this in campaign ads? Mysterian Thursday #5
Actually, this was a couple of days ago. mwmisses4289 Thursday #6
He doesn't represent my area of Texas but even though my Rep doesn't run his mouth walkingman Thursday #8

The Polack MSgt

(13,861 posts)
1. The brass of that shit sack pretending that being a GOP apparatchik is work
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 09:34 AM
Thursday

Wallowing in filth and sucking up to the wealthy is not work for those people, it's practically their fetish.

FTG

walkingman

(11,369 posts)
2. These folks do not give a shit about anyone other than themselves.But really....
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 09:42 AM
Thursday

think about it. Our representative government has failed the American people over the last 50 years. That is the reason that people are tired of the status quo. Lots of talk, perpetual war, and the largest inequality that this nation has ever had. If we do not unite against this mess it will just continue to get worse.

karynnj

(61,283 posts)
7. I agree especially on inequality
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 10:56 AM
Thursday

I do think most Democrats have been sincere in wanting to make the gap smaller. The lack of success is that measures that do that are much harder to pass than measures that make it worse.

It is harder to pass a tax increase than a tax cut. This is true even if the tax increase is only on the top, however that is defined. It is harder to create and fund programs that help people than it is to kill or refund them. That is probably the most did depressing. Every program required enormous work to get something that could pass and it can be defunded with much less effort.

Another factor is that even with all laws kept the same, capital if invested even reasonably generates increasing income for those that have it. Limiting the estate taxes allows families to pass wealth from generation to generation.

Also consider that in the last 50 years, the inequality gap was reduced in just one President's term and then only slightly. That was Biden and he didn't get enough credit for it.

GiqueCee

(5,196 posts)
3. That fuckin' clown...
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 10:19 AM
Thursday

... is, as they say in Texas, all hat and no cattle. Or, in his case, no brains.

mwmisses4289

(5,298 posts)
6. Actually, this was a couple of days ago.
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 10:37 AM
Thursday

Stupid jerk supposedly represents my area of Texas, but he certainly doesn't represent me!

walkingman

(11,369 posts)
8. He doesn't represent my area of Texas but even though my Rep doesn't run his mouth
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 11:37 AM
Thursday

like Nehls, he basically doesn't do anything for his district. He is just as despicable, just keeps his mouth shut. Not only that.....I can assure you he will be re-elected next term.

People like to blame gerrymandering for this but in my opinion it is because the people of Texas (the voters) continue to support these assholes.

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