Local Republican party tweets: "Republicans hate poor people"

[KingsGambit]

http://www.newsweek.com/republicans-...ia-post-868290

They fired the guy quickly, but I'm curious how many among the rank and file actually think this but don't have the courage (or have the political sensibility) to say it.

[Mountain Man]

You think it takes courage to say something like that? I think ignorance is the more necessary quality.

[Tassman]

http://www.newsweek.com/republicans-...ia-post-868290

They fired the guy quickly, but I'm curious how many among the rank and file actually think this but don't have the courage (or have the political sensibility) to say it.

Isn't the Republican meme that if you're poor it's your own fault?

[EvoUK]

Isn't the Republican meme that if you're poor it's your own fault?

Might explain why they love giving tax breaks to those who least need it. Something about the cash trickling down to the plebs, opposed to them just pocketing it.

[Psychic Missile]

Isn't the Republican meme that if you're poor it's your own fault?

Also, simultaneously, there are no poor people because everyone has a refrigerator.

[Mountain Man]

This seems to be the thread for straw men, so here's one of my own: Liberals think they can eradicate poverty by making everyone equally poor.

[KingsGambit]

This seems to be the thread for straw men, so here's one of my own: Liberals think they can eradicate poverty by making everyone equally poor.

How is it a straw man? This is literally what the guy said.

[Cerebrum123]

How is it a straw man? This is literally what the guy said.

I believe he is referring to some of the later replies, and not the OP.

[demi-conservative]

http://www.newsweek.com/republicans-...ia-post-868290

They fired the guy quickly, but I'm curious how many among the rank and file actually think this but don't have the courage (or have the political sensibility) to say it.

Yuge number of libs hate working class for voting for Trump, enabling Trumpslide.

Sad!

[demi-conservative]

How is it a straw man? This is literally what the guy said.

What one guy said.

When lib does something stupid, people like you rush to say 'he's just one person!!! not most libs, also all libs!!!!!'

[Tassman]

Yuge number of libs hate working class for voting for Trump, enabling Trumpslide.

Sad!

Only as a consequence of being targeted on social media by the St Petersburg Troll Factory and 68 million misappropriated Facebook profiles by Cambridge Analytica. But these blue collar workers will be sorry when they realise that they were conned and find themselves worse off than before.

[Mountain Man]

Still beating the Cambridge Analytica dead horse, I see, while ignoring the fact that the Trump campaign used the exact same tactics that Obama was praised for.

I see you're also continuing to ignore the fact that the so-called "troll factory" had a negligible impact on the election with less than 10-million people even seeing the ads before the election, with over half the ads purchased after the election. And these are people who merely saw the ads, which isn't to say that 10-million people were necessarily influenced to change their votes. There's also the often ignored fact that the ads were not exclusively in favor of Trump but were split between promoting Trump and conservative values, and Hillary and liberal ideology.

[demi-conservative]

Only as a consequence of being targeted on social media by the St Petersburg Troll Factory and 68 million misappropriated Facebook profiles by Cambridge Analytica. But these blue collar workers will be sorry when they realise that they were conned and find themselves worse off than before.

As if loser Hillary didn't used scraped data of Facebook, also spend millions to target voters.

She just was terrible candidate. Nasty woman!

[JimL]

What one guy said.

When lib does something stupid, people like you rush to say 'he's just one person!!! not most libs, also all libs!!!!!'

Mirror, mirror! Glass house, Irony, Hypocrisy.

[Mountain Man]

Mirror, mirror! Glass house, Irony, Hypocrisy.

All good descriptions of liberals like you!