We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev...Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
~Ronald Reagan
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But the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Paul Ryan, Speech at a 2005 Atlas Society event.I got up to make some food, while my cheesy rice was cooking, I logged into Twitter and this was the first thing I saw.
Paul Ryan, Democrat pretending to be a Republican.
Paul Ryan, "Communist."
Paul "Dead-eyed Granny Starver" Ryan, 2012 Republican Vice-Presidential Nominee.
We're talking about a guy here who made his Congressional staffers read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" and who literally spoke at the Ayn Rand society and assorted other Objectivist gatherings.
This is a guy who's entire bit was that he was some kind of Republican technocratic policy wonk who was going to reinvent the Federal Government in the image of Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand and by god, he was going to persuade us of the rightness of being a selfish bastard-flavored bastard if it killed somebody.
I mean for fuck's sake, Romney/Ryan was Corporate America's goddamn dream ticket! Combined with the then-cresting Tea Party wave, that shit was probably the closest we will ever get to any sort of "Libertarian" government.
You know, the kind a lot of these MAGA's say they want.
Yeah, sure, things started to go a little downhill with Mitt's infamous "47%" comment, and when Ryan himself got rhetorically disassembled and put back together in embarrassing positions by then Vice-President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. (Who is now your President, bitches.) But dude would go on to replace John Boehner as the Speaker Of The House until he was replaced by Nancy Pelosi in January of 2019.
Hell, I have a video somewhere saved off of YouTube, one of Chuck Colson's old "Two Minute Warning" spots where he preached against Ayn Rand...because of people like Paul Ryan.
For...honestly one of the last Republicans that I find understandable, he had a pretty damned good run.
And I can't...I mean...I really can't even think of anybody who defined the whole Tea Party thing better.
But Paul Ryan has limits, apparently, and he's never particularly supported Trump. (And this has never been a big secret.)
Which, to the MAGA's is, of course, apostasy before their GOD!!!
Fuck this silly bullshit. Communism hasn't been a thing since 1989. I know, I was there. I watched the Wall come down live on CNN in November of 1989.
And I'm tired of hearing about it.
Communism. Is. Not. A. Thing. Anymore.
Stop laughing, Vlad.
Seriously, if Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand acolyte extraordinaire and former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives isn't good enough for these motherfuckers I don't know who the hell is.
The Republican Party is, yet again, showing itself to be nothing but the Cult Of Trump. The Mango Messiah basically ate the goddamned Republican Party alive from the inside out, and nobody who could do anything even tried to stop that shit at the time.
Republicans...you created this horde of mindless ravening Zombies.
And it looks like they're going to eat you first, have fun.
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The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angkar are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive. ~Dith Pran, The Killing Fields
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