A Day in the Life of Joe Republican

[615 Vol]

Day in the life of a liberal...

2:47 p.m.: Wake up
2:58 p.m.: Check mailbox for gov't check
3:30 p.m.: Roll up joint and eat a bag of Fritos
4:00 p.m.: Go to sleep
8:09 p.m.: Wake up (again)
9:14 p.m.: Roll up joint (again) and head to the neighborhood bar
9:28 p.m.: Bum a cigarette from one of the regulars and promise to pay him back later
9:33 p.m.: Borrow $10 from another regular and buy a pitcher of Bud Light
12:37 a.m.: Roll a joint (again)
2:13 a.m.: Escorted out of the bar after last call
2:48 a.m.: Start a rukus at the Waffle House after refusing to pay for large coffee and an order of scattered/smothered.
3:13 a.m.: Go over friends' house to burn a few joints
5:35 a.m.: Leave friends' house, making sure to steal a few dollors from their night stand on the way out.
6:13 a.m.: Go to gas station and get Little Debbies, coffee, and pork skins as you manuever your way around the Republicans that are heading to work
7:06 a.m.: Go to bed

Nice. What's wrong with that?

 

[utvolpj]

Day in the life of a liberal...

2:47 p.m.: Wake up
2:58 p.m.: Check mailbox for gov't check
3:30 p.m.: Roll up joint and eat a bag of Fritos
4:00 p.m.: Go to sleep
8:09 p.m.: Wake up (again)
9:14 p.m.: Roll up joint (again) and head to the neighborhood bar
9:28 p.m.: Bum a cigarette from one of the regulars and promise to pay him back later
9:33 p.m.: Borrow $10 from another regular and buy a pitcher of Bud Light
12:37 a.m.: Roll a joint (again)
2:13 a.m.: Escorted out of the bar after last call
2:48 a.m.: Start a rukus at the Waffle House after refusing to pay for large coffee and an order of scattered/smothered.
3:13 a.m.: Go over friends' house to burn a few joints
5:35 a.m.: Leave friends' house, making sure to steal a few dollors from their night stand on the way out.
6:13 a.m.: Go to gas station and get Little Debbies, coffee, and pork skins as you manuever your way around the Republicans that are heading to work
7:06 a.m.: Go to bed

college memories......

 

[TennNC]

I don't at all like the implication here that the only reason you would be skeptical of unions is the notion that your parents taught you to be.

First, that's an indictment of your own ability to form opinions.

ummm...thanks for standing up for me against...myself?

 

[TennNC]

I don't at all like the implication here that I will make sweeping implications whenever I feel like it.

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[superdave1984]

I would like to ask whoever wrote the article that LG posted if he (or she) actually believes that Joe Republican would have none of the things he (and the rest of us) take for granted had it not been for those commie liberals? I seriously doubt that there would be no fresh water, no safe food to eat etc. I challenge you to find anybody that thinks that we don't need standards for our consumable goods. Yes, we need safety standards for our food, our water, our air, our products we use daily. However, what we don't need is people or government telling us how to live that daily life, distributing the fruits of our labor to the masses even if they refuse to work, or telling me what is the proper method for raising my children.

 

[BigPapaVol]

ummm...thanks for standing up for me against...myself?

then why the qualifier? just some random extraneous info? Maybe it's just an opinion that you can't remotely validate. Maybe it's just words. I don't know.

How's this: the earth is roughly 93 million miles from the sun and light takes approximately 8 minutes to make the journey at C? Does that help make some point?

 

[TennNC]

college memories......

surely your college experience taught you how to spell dollar, ruckus and maneuver though.

 

[TennNC]

then why the qualifier? just some random extraneous info? Maybe it's just an opinion that you can't remotely validate. Maybe it's just words. I don't know.

How's this: the earth is roughly 93 million miles from the sun and light takes approximately 8 minutes to make the journey at C? Does that help make some point?

what on earth are you talking about? what qualifier? that I was raised that way?

 

[BigPapaVol]

what on earth are you talking about? what qualifier? that I was raised that way?

why the need for the word 'too'. Your upbringing has nothing to do with it. You used the word 'too' to make your reason for skepticism inclusive.

That's what I'm talking about.

 

[TennNC]

why the need for the word 'too'. Your upbringing has nothing to do with it. You used the word 'too' to make your reason for skepticism inclusive.

That's what I'm talking about.

wow - I had no idea what you were talking about. I had to go back and read the post. allvol123 and I were in the middle of a discussion about unions, and I was trying to make the point that I wasn't overly biased in favor of them - that I grew up being skeptical of them. The "too" was in reference to being skeptical of them (like allvol123 obviously is), not how I came to that skepticism. And "was raised" probably had more to do with the community I grew up in than what my parents taught me.

Apologies for any confusion. did that touch a nerve?

 

[BigPapaVol]

wow - I had no idea what you were talking about. I had to go back and read the post. allvol123 and I were in the middle of a discussion about unions, and I was trying to make the point that I wasn't overly biased in favor of them - that I grew up being skeptical of them. The "too" was in reference to being skeptical of them (like allvol123 obviously is), not how I came to that skepticism. And "was raised" probably had more to do with the community I grew up in than what my parents taught me.

Apologies for any confusion. did that touch a nerve?

no nerves touched at all. I just thought you were implying that anyone skeptical of unions could not have come to that conclusion empirically. I disagreed and, for once, voiced my disagreement.

 

[MG1968]

somewhere in the OP there should be a few additional lines:

"the lifestyle Joe enjoys is further enhanced by the tax cuts proposed by his Republican representatives. Those tax cuts allowed him to keep more of the money he earned and were also shown to have significantly increased revenues to the federal treasury. Joe can't understand how liberals think that tax increases benefit the country as a whole. He lost his first job when a liberal administration imposed a windfall profits tax on his company and his employer was forced to reduce costs in order to remain financially solvent."

"Joe loves his American-made car, but secretly wishes he'd bought an import. He recently read that GM is forced to pay the union salaries of thousands of workers who don't actually work. He is also upset that a recent UAW strike was over a proposal by Ford management that the employees pay an additional $10/week for their health care premium, raising the contribution for a family of 4 to $25/week. Such a move would have saved Ford billions of dollars, money which could have been invested in alternative fuel technologies. However, the union didn't see it that way and shut down one of the largest employers in Joe's area for over 6 months."

 

[TennNC]

no nerves touched at all. I just thought you were implying that anyone skeptical of unions could not have come to that conclusion empirically. I disagreed and, for once, voiced my disagreement.

well I'm glad we sorted it out.

 

[TennNC]

somewhere in the OP there should be a few additional lines:

"the lifestyle Joe enjoys is further enhanced by the tax cuts proposed by his Republican representatives. Those tax cuts allowed him to keep more of the money he earned and were also shown to have significantly increased revenues to the federal treasury. Joe can't understand how liberals think that tax increases benefit the country as a whole. He lost his first job when a liberal administration imposed a windfall profits tax on his company and his employer was forced to reduce costs in order to remain financially solvent."

"Joe loves his American-made car, but secretly wishes he'd bought an import. He recently read that GM is forced to pay the union salaries of thousands of workers who don't actually work. He is also upset that a recent UAW strike was over a proposal by Ford management that the employees pay an additional $10/week for their health care premium, raising the contribution for a family of 4 to $25/week. Such a move would have saved Ford billions of dollars, money which could have been invested in alternative fuel technologies. However, the union didn't see it that way and shut down one of the largest employers in Joe's area for over 6 months."

Sounds like the combination of the two is working out pretty well for Joe.

 

[MG1968]

Sounds like the combination of the two is working out pretty well for Joe.

yeah, liberals are useful for a few things. mostly a few good laughs, but they occasionally come up with a good idea, unfortunately, I'm at a loss to come up with the last liberal good idea.

 

[VolDad]

yeah, liberals are useful for a few things. mostly a few good laughs, but they occasionally come up with a good idea, unfortunately, I'm at a loss to come up with the last liberal good idea.

nvm

 

[volinbham]

The "Day in the Life" thing was sent to me by a friend in an email. I have no idea who authored it.

I did post it to get people talking. I personally think its a bit over the top. But its interesting and there is a least a grain of truth to parts of it, I think people would admit.

Aren't you the one that is always freaking out about misquoting, one-sided presentations of information (I believe you attribute them all to Hannity).

Good to see you stick objective analyses...

 

[KentheOrange]

welcome.

i got the information first-hand from talking to migrant tobacco workers at their campo 30 miles from where I live. I happened to be out there on a Sunday afternoon at 5 pm, and it was 110 degrees between the rows.

do you know what you're talking about?

Well, I know I can't find any evidence of the temp in that area being over 100 this year, but the daily records I found only go through 8/5/08. I take it that you were told it was 110 degrees by a migrant worker and you just accepted it as fact. Is that a habit? Just asking. I get curious when pieces don't seem to fit.

BTW, it appears the highest temp recorded in your area was 105 in 1988 and again last year.

 

[notverycrucial]

Well, I know I can't find any evidence of the temp in that area being over 100 this year, but the daily records I found only go through 8/5/08. I take it that you were told it was 110 degrees by a migrant worker and you just accepted it as fact. Is that a habit? Just asking. I get curious when pieces don't seem to fit.

BTW, it appears the highest temp recorded in your area was 105 in 1988 and again last year.

Dude, the official temperature records are not taken in the middle of a tobacco field. In fact, they are controlled readings taken in the shade!! Last time I checked, there ain't much shade in the middle of a tobacco field. It's the same way on the football field (ever notice they show the temp gauge on the field before the game starts -- it's often over 100 degrees).

btw, it appears the high temp in my attic yesterday was 120 degrees, but the national weather service says it was only 85 here. how can that be?

 

[VolByBirth]

Day in the life of a liberal...

2:47 p.m.: Wake up
2:58 p.m.: Check mailbox for gov't check
3:30 p.m.: Roll up joint and eat a bag of Fritos
4:00 p.m.: Go to sleep
8:09 p.m.: Wake up (again)
9:14 p.m.: Roll up joint (again) and head to the neighborhood bar
9:28 p.m.: Bum a cigarette from one of the regulars and promise to pay him back later
9:33 p.m.: Borrow $10 from another regular and buy a pitcher of Bud Light
12:37 a.m.: Roll a joint (again)
2:13 a.m.: Escorted out of the bar after last call
2:48 a.m.: Start a rukus at the Waffle House after refusing to pay for large coffee and an order of scattered/smothered.
3:13 a.m.: Go over friends' house to burn a few joints
5:35 a.m.: Leave friends' house, making sure to steal a few dollors from their night stand on the way out.
6:13 a.m.: Go to gas station and get Little Debbies, coffee, and pork skins as you manuever your way around the Republicans that are heading to work
7:06 a.m.: Go to bed

Hmm...I didn't realize over half our population was unemployed and high.

 

[lawgator1]

Aren't you the one that is always freaking out about misquoting, one-sided presentations of information (I believe you attribute them all to Hannity).

Good to see you stick objective analyses...

I'm not sure I see how one has anything to do with the other. I do think that the right tends to employ the straw man form of argument a lot. Talk radio hosts are particularly good/guilty of really bastardizing what Democrats have said, then attacking the host's version, rather than what was actually said.

The Joe Republican thing is just made up. Its not taking someone's statement and mocking a revised version of it.

The two just aren't in the same category.

 

[MG1968]

I'm not sure I see how one has anything to do with the other. I do think that the right tends to employ the straw man form of argument a lot. Talk radio hosts are particularly good/guilty of really bastardizing what Democrats have said, then attacking the host's version, rather than what was actually said.

The Joe Republican thing is just made up. Its not taking someone's statement and mocking a revised version of it.

The two just aren't in the same category.

unbelievable. You've conveniently forgotten all the times the left has used strawman arguments and hyperbole?

how about starving kids and seniors if the GOP gets it's tax cuts?

or how the GOP was coming after grandma's social security check because they want to paritally privatize the system.

or McCain wanting to stay and fight in Iraq for 100 years.

W's refusal to sign hate crimes legislation in Texas was like killing James Byrd all over again.

electing republicans will cause more black churches to burn.

and those are just a few examples of the left's distortion machine in action.

 

[chavisut]

Where did the Joe Democrat thread go?

 

[onlyut4me]

Just curious.....if not one union existed in the United States what would things be like? Assuming a union employee at Nissan in Smyrna is making $20.00 an hour, what would they make as a non-union employee? I'm not asking in support for union rather looking for thoughts on this issue for further understanding.

correct me if i am wrong but i do not believe there are any union employees at nissan. i believe the average wage at nissan is around 20 an hour. i also believe it to be true that when nissan opened its plant in smyrna they assured the local gov't they would never lay anyone off. i believe they have lived up to their word. no lay offs but 100 grand buyouts.

 

[Headed For Home]

if every union were just like this, we'd be in violent agreement. but you and i know it's not that way.

yes, that is exactly the role they play. and the reason is b/c migrant workers can't just whip out their blackberry, search for a reputable local attorney and call them up as they're being carried into the trailer from heat exhaustion. it would help if they had a telephone. and internet access. and transportation. and could speak english. but since they're only going to be here for 6 months, that stuff isn't feasible. so a few bucks going to a union who keeps the employer honest seems like a good investment.

Are you really trying to justify unions through the "plight" of the migrant worker? The same workers who are here illegally? If they don't like the working conditions, they could go home where they can live legally.