The republicans want us know they have a Big Tent too. Or, maybe they don’t want us to know. You can never be sure with the pod people.
They’ve been talking about their Big Tent strategy for several years now. We’ve noticed how they’ve attracted racists, homophobes, xenophobes, misogynists, gun fetishists and religious cultists. We’re just about certain those aren’t the only tent dwellers they are talking about.
After an hour long in depth investigation by the NNNE Fascism Wreckers™ we have determined that their Big Tent is more of a Big Tenement. They want to force out the current residents, turn it into a collection of shoddy condos and use it to launder Russian mob money and the spare change from Putin’s couch cushions.
We have learned just exactly who have major stakes in the Podpublican Big Tent.
- Big Healthcare — These are the bean counting healthcare folks who put profit above quality of care.
- Big Energy — This group is all about extracting every dollar they can, regardless of any effect their practices have on he climate. Big Coal was a big player in this space, but now it the Freakin’ Frackers.
- Big Money — “Profit is our god and we shall not sacrifice any of it” is the motto here. Banks, stockbrokers, arbitragers, money managers and the like worship at the altar of profit over everything.
- Big Oil — Closely allied with Big Energy, but large enough to destroy the environment by themselves, their greasy tentacles reach from OPEC right into the halls of congress. They chose profit over staving off planetary destruction.
- Big Religion — A bit of an outlier in the tent, these folks worship profit over God and are willing to pervert the belief system they espouse in order to gather as much filthy lucre as they can steal or coerce from their flocks of eager
suckers believers.
- Big Real Estate — Profit over safety is the catchphrase here. Cut the corners. Eliminate oversight. Cheat on taxes. They demonstrate a lot of what is wrong in the world today.
- Big Hate — For profit hate. Who’d thunk it? Limbaugh, Hannity, Carlson, et al have become quite wealthy pushing hatred of everyone who isn’t just like them. They’ve given cove to all the Boi militias and other nutjob cosplay hate clubs. This jerks do damage to society on a daily basis.
- Big Opiods — Part of the pharmaceutical industry wants people to become addicted to their products. They don’t care about the outcomes as long as the dollars roll in. After all, there are always more victims to addict. They put their profit over the health of our communities.
- Big Insurance — These leeches want us to pay for care they they will only grudgingly allow. Their profit over appropriate care is the reason we rank so low in the global health rankings.
- Big Death — We have card carrying nihilists like the Teabaggers and End Times cultists like Pompeo and Barr all over our government. It’s not clear what they seek to gain except chaos and destruction.
- Big Supremacists — We’ve mentioned them before. They are the foot soldiers of the Big Tent owners. They are the dwellers in the 8chan forums; the readers of Breitbart and Daily Caller. They are Amon Bundy’s army. They are all the bois dressed in camo and waving assault weapons. They are racists and, yes, Nazis parading around with their Tiki torches. They are a blight on the planet. And the asshole in the White House loves them.
As you can see the republicans have worked hard to fill their Big Tent with a consortium of bigness. Over the last 60 years it has become infused into their DNA. If it is short-sighted, ill-advised or downright stupid, they they are all for it. Their Big Tent is bigly messed up.
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