Most of my family
are proud members of the Grand Old Party. These are parts of some emails from
them. It may be a cousin (or two), it may not – I’ll never tell.
Here are my
responses. However, after I wrote them, I didn’t have the heart to send them.
Just because I can be a dick, doesn't mean I have to be.
Instead, I’m sharing them with you.
Keep in mind, they
are not the entire emails. Just the political parts. And they’re about 1% of
the email.
Like I said –
Family.
Enjoy…
Email #1
Family Member
Well the elections
are over, I'm sure you heard Christie was re-elected even over all the
bad-mouthing by BO. NJ is glad to have a Gov. who is honest and sincere and
seems to care about the people, taxes etc. and is trying to do better on all
the issues. Sorry for the political interjection but we can't afford another
"give it away politician" [read: Democrat] in office, our taxes are WAY too high
now paying for others free passes.
Me
As for the elections,
it was never in doubt that Christie would win. And Obama never said one single
word about him – stop listening to FOX. Democrats didn't produce money or time
or a candidate into that election that could beat him. NJ voted for a colorful,
bigger-than-life cartoon celebrity. That they also overwhelmingly voted for everything he was against speaks to that fact - minimum wage hike, gay
marriage, abortion rights, etc. It's perplexing. He raised your taxes. 19%
property tax increase, now at a record high. He spent $123 mil more in 2012
than revenues collected - only balancing the budget after raiding the state
surplus fund. Cut school funding by $1.5 billion & handed out $2.1 billion
to corporations - higher than the entire past 10 years. Gutted the free lunch
program for poor kids and cut funding for after school programs. Spent $24
million in your tax dollars on a separate election two weeks ago to keep Cory
Booker-voting Democrats away from his election. Largest transit fare hike in NJ
history - allegedly to help pay for the ARC tunnel, which he cancelled,
claiming NJ couldn't afford it, which was a lie because the Fed was going to
cover most of the cost and NY was going to cover the bulk of the rest. It would
have been the largest job creation project in America, but now he has that fake
"fiscal responsibility" tag that Republicans pretend to value. And
he's used the money from the increased tolls that was supposed to go to the ARC
tunnel and used it for infrastructure spending since he drained the budget -
which, "coincidentally," his brother profited from. Also, Christie
(and Cuomo) conspired with the Port Authority – he told them to say they were
going to raise the tolls by $6, then he would publicly rail against them, then
they would agree to only raise it by $4 (ending up at $4.50 – they got more
than they hoped), so Christie (and Cuomo) would look great, the Port Authority would look
good for compromising, and the gullible people who are happy for the $4.50 toll increase would still be screwed because
their toll hike was an unprecedented increase. He vetoed tax increases for
millionaires. Gave Panasonic $102 million in tax breaks to only create 200 jobs
over 10 years – wow, 20 jobs a year - totally worth throwing away $102 million. Awarded a no-bid contract to politically
connected AshBritt Inc, for Sandy clean-up, costing taxpayers millions more -
which is currently under federal investigation. NJ poverty rate is at a 52-year
high. Not counting federal stimulus, Christie needed more fund-raids and fiscal
gimmicks to balance the budget than Corzine - which he could have prevented by
simply not cutting taxes for millionaires. NJ unemployment rate higher than
national average and job growth slower than neighboring states and the national
average. I pay attention to what is done, not said. Corzine sucked. Christie is worse. He gives away free millions in hand-outs to corporations and
reduces their taxes, while screwing the people by raising their taxes. Just
like Republicans do. You don't mind because he has that "R" in front
of his name. In his victory speech last night after the election, all he said was, 'I'm going to finish
the job I started, except I'm going to quit before I finish in order to run for
president in 3 years." He'll never be president. He'll never even make it
through the entertaining Republican game show primaries. He did the assault
weapons ban, he accepted Obamacare Medicaid expansion and let's not forget
there are pictures of him shaking hands and playing on the boardwalk with a
Kenyan Muslim Atheist terrorist gay anti-Christ alien, you know.
**
This email happened
before the Bridgegate scandal blew up.
Which was immediately
followed by the revelation that Christie withheld funds for Hurricane Sandy
relief from Hoboken unless the Mayor illegally granted development rights to
Christie’s buddies.
Some more details…
And awarded $6mil of
Sandy funds to build a retirement complex in a town where the Mayor endorsed
him.
And gave $4.8mil of
Sandy funds to a developer with strong political ties to Christie for a luxury
apartment construction.
And here’s his Port
Authority toll increase plan…
Oh, and here’s the
latest discovery of what this fucking scumbag piece of shit was doing…
If you don't want to read, here’s a good
summation of all the shit this asshole has been doing…
Christie is a petty,
little, bullying, corrupt scumbag.
He will never be
president.
(Not that he was going
to be even before this.)
*** ***** ***
Email #2
Family Member
One of Maxine's very best!!
Minorities
We need to show more
sympathy for these people.
*
They travel miles in
the heat.
*
They risk their lives
crossing a border.
*
They don't get paid
enough wages.
*
They do jobs that
others won't do or are afraid to do.
*
They live in crowded
conditions
among a people who
speak a different language.
*
They rarely see their
families,
and they face
adversity all day, every day.
*
I'm not talking about
illegal Mexicans
~
I'm talking about our
troops!
Doesn't it seem
strange that so many are willing to lavish all kinds of social benefits on
illegals, but won't support our troops?
Wouldn't it be great
if we took the $360,000,000,000 (that's billion) we spend on illegals every
year, & spend it on our troops!!!
Please pass this on;
this is worth the time it takes!
A veteran is someone
who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United
States of America for any amount, up to and including their life.
Me
Republicans love and
support the veterans so much, let's look at all these bills proposed by
Democrats that they blocked...
H.R. 466 – Wounded
Veteran Job Security Act became H. R. 2875.
H.R. 1168 -- Veterans
Retraining Act
H.R. 1171 – Homeless
Veterans Reintegration Program Reauthorization
H.R. 1172 -- Requiring
List on VA Website of Organizations Providing Scholarships for Veterans
H.R. 1293 -- Disabled
Veterans Home Improvement and Structural Alteration Grant Increase Act of 2009
H.R. 1803 -- Veterans
Business Center Act
H.R. 2352 -- Job
Creation Through Entrepreneurship Act
S. 3457 -- Veterans
Job Corps Act of 2012
Plus:
-GOP Voted against
increased VA spending
-Michele Bachmann
proposed capping increases for health care spending at the Department of
Veterans Affairs and cutting disability payments "to account for (Social
Security) disability payments."
-A coward Republican
who chose to remain anonymous blocked Cost Of Living Adjustment on benefits for
disabled veterans and spouses and children of deceased veterans
-Republicans in Texas
defy Pentagon policy and refuse to process military housing allowance for
active-duty gay couples
-OK Governor Mary
Fallin (R) chose to deny military benefits to ALL married couples rather than
allow same-sex couples receive them
As for spending $360B
on "illegals," that is a completely invented lie not even slightly
supported by facts. We spend in the neighborhood of $40B on
"illegals" however, "illegal" immigrants contribute about
$70B in taxes for a $30B net benefit to the USA. Also, "illegal"
immigrants contribute 15% of their income to Social Security through their TIN,
which they can never collect on.
And, your lettuce
would be $25 a head if it weren't for "illegals." Construction would
go up. Restaurant prices would go up. A couple years ago, Georgia did a big
"illegal immigrant" sweep, and billions of dollars in fruit and
vegetables rotted on their vines. Also a couple of years ago, a farmer in
California held a huge job fair - no white people showed up. Mexicans can't
steal jobs white people won't do.
And
"illegal" immigrants are not eligible to collect public welfare
benefits, no matter how many times FOX "News" lies to you that we are
"lavishing all kinds of social benefits on illegal immigrants."
Lavishing. Yes. Fifteen people with no health care living in a 1 bedroom
apartment with no car and wait at Home Depot to see if you'll hire them for a
day to dig a hole for your new pool. What a "lavish" life. Boy, I
sure do wish I had it that easy. I bet one of them even has a cell phone.
I could easily
quadruple this reply with more facts, but I think this is already a lot for you
to ignore all at once.
*** ***** ***
Email #3
Family Member
Tonight is going to be
14 degrees, tomorrow is going to be 13 degrees and Thurs. is going to be 5
degrees. The lowest temperature recorded on EARTH was recently recorded in
Antarctica, 135.5 BELOW ZERO, beating the old record of 128 degrees BELOW ZERO,
recorded many years ago. I guess this is all part of Global Warming, DUH, did
they ever hear of weather cycles? 10,000 years ago NJ/NY/PA/ Mass/Me/RI and all
the northern and some southern states were under a mile of ice, if it's Global
Warming it's been going on for a long time with only natural carbon dioxide and
the smoke from Eskimo fires (ice is hard to light). I certainly think we should
continue to conserve, but don't blame EVERYTHING on us poor humans, Nature acts
in strange ways.
Me
That's not how science
works. Do you alternately support global warming during all the now-common
record-breaking summer heat waves? Most of the rest of the world is experiencing record-breaking heat right now. Stop judging life based on only what you personally experience. The term "Global Warming" while
true, is a misnomer, picked up as a nice, easy buzzword by the media in the
early 1980's. It's actually "Climate Change" even though the globe is
actually warming - unnaturally. The anthropogenic climate change is increasing
temperatures globally, and drastically changing climate patterns while doing
so. Normally dry places are wetter, wet are dryer, hot are cooler, cold are
warmer - and hot are hotter; cold, colder; wet, wetter and dry, dryer. This
pattern of extremes is obvious everywhere on the planet. A record-breaking cold
day in winter does not disprove decades of scientific study on climate patterns
- it actually supports it. Also, we've had a few dozen superstorms - not
caused, but fueled by warmer temperatures - over the past decade that were
considered 'once in a century' storms - Katrina, Ike, Sandy, Ivan, Haiyan,
Sidr, Nargis, Ida, Agatha, Bopha, Washi - to name a few. How's that for climate
change? Earth has now experienced 344 consecutive months with temperatures
higher than the 20th century average. It's not naturally occurring, as science
has proven. In the 150 year period from 1750-1900, 12 gigatonnes of carbon were
released unnaturally by man into the atmosphere. Over the next 100 years, we
released 334 gigatonnes. You seriously think that has had no effect? All the
while cutting down forests & rainforests, which could have helped absorb
that extra CO2. Rainforests alone used to cover 14%, now they're at 6% and
projected to be gone by 2060. Plus, the warming of the oceans will take up less
carbon because higher temperatures lead to smaller phytoplankton, which take
less carbon to the bottom of the ocean when they die. Warmer oceans also means more evaporation, putting more moisture into the atmosphere, causing the increasing sizes of storms. Warmer weather has caused
massive glacier reduction, which, with less white ice cover to reflect heat,
absorbs it instead and increases the temperature. Plus, the added benefit of possible
increased occurrences of earthquakes in Alaska due to less pressure on tectonic
plates, according to historical analysis. It's an anthropogenic climate
altering chain reaction.
You are repeating part
of the heavily funded misinformation campaign supplied by Oil, Gas & Coal
companies and the Republican politicians they pay to protect their profits.
Yes, some Democrats take O,G&C money, the ones in O,G&C producing
districts. But nearly 80% of their bribes, I mean "contributions" go
to Republicans. 97% of climate scientists in the world support anthropogenic
climate change, the 3% that oppose mostly work for O,G&C companies. Are you
really suggesting that 97% of scientists are wrong, and that the 3% that work
for the companies supplying the climate change material are correct? If 97% of
the doctors you saw gave you the same prognosis, would you balk and say the 3%
were telling the truth? The global warming misinformation campaign is literally
run by the same people who ran the "Science hasn't proven that tobacco
causes cancer" profit-protecting campaign (they had a good run, but they
eventually lost) and is massively funded by the O,G&C industry.
Comparatively, the environmental movement spends little $ on information and
mostly on developing technology - which is also bashed by O,G&C. Of the
13,950 peer-reviewed papers written on the climate between 1991-2012, only 24
rejected global warming.
Yes, climate has
natural cycles. Never has it changed so rapidly - except when something big
geologically happens - hit by meteors or massive volcanoes erupt or barriers
holding back huge bodies of water suddenly break or massive earthquakes alter
the biosphere. With the lack of any of these major Earth-altering trigger
events, all we're left with is man's influence. Otherwise, the climate would
take several thousand years to change, not a few decades.
Because science.
Notice global temperature highs compared to lows:
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