What?
You must have missed this link posted by @sitchensis
Fucking, free-loading troll.
Well bigt are you willing to state you were wrong?
And my point is proven.
I quoted her post, what are you on about?
And yet, clearly didn’t comprehend it.
So please help poor stupid me. Please use small words so I can attempt to understand. What does Republicans have 0% of disposable income mean?
Sorry, no. That’s a stupid Trumpist crutch and you’ve had your four years.
I would hazard a guess that it means something other than Republicans have approximately 0% of disposable income purchasing power.
Do you feel helped, stupid?
You folks can’t be that dumb. Look, Ann’s manic rant was factually challenged no need to double down on the stupid out of partisan loyalty.
We’re not. You are.
Look who’s complaining about doubling down out of partisan loyalty.
Hit a nerve, I guess.
Of course Republicans and conservatives don’t literally have 0% of the disposable income in the country. This is the pit, not Great Debates. I was being sarcastic. But they do have way less disposable income than liberals and Democrats.
@running_coach, thanks for posting that Brookings link, I was set to embed it in this post.
It’s often been said that in our world of advertiser sponsored content, that the consumer isn’t the customer, they’re the product. And Democrats are simply a better product. Content is geared to appeal to the people that have more money to spend. Liberal boycotts work, conservatives boycotts don’t. If I watch network TV in prime time, I’ll see lots of programming featuring gay and mixed race couples, lots of dramas about powerful men brought down by strong women, not shows featuring white Christian men with submissive churchgoing wives. It’s also what makes the “Democrats are radical socialists” talking point a delusional fantasy. Stick with the one about Democrats being out of touch elites. I don’t agree with it, but at least it’s a political opinion with a connection to reality.
Do you remember back when Thom Tillis made headlines by suggesting that the government should not be required to mandate that restaurant employees wash their hands because free markets?
I know he’s a major dumbass, but when he made that comment he probably wasn’t picturing a restaurant being driven out of business by a because an employee sparked a massive cholera epidemic.
He was probably picturing a sparkly clean diner where the sparkly clean owner proudly proclaimed that he believed in hand-washing and his employees had the cleanest hands ever. He was advocating for companies to set and enforce their own standards. More so, he believed that consumer pressure would keep those standards high, that clean restaurants with clean waiters would draw more customers than filthy restaurants with grimy waiters.
This is the very essence of the conservative argument against deregulation, the argument that companies should self-regulate and that consumer pressure will guide them to regulate well.
Which is exactly what Disney is doing. Disney is the restaurant, Gina Carano is the waitress that won’t wash her hands.
Add me to the @Ann_Hedonia fan club. Magnificent analogy.
Brava.
Content such as this is why I still check in here after 20 plus years.
Well, if you were honest, you would have read her entire post, noted the extensive paragraph about how frequently conservatives are the victims of fraud and grift, and interpreted the subsequent sentence in that context, and realized that she meant they have (effectively) 0 disposable income, because they keep throwing it away on “buy gold” scams, stockpiling ammo for the inevitable moment when Bill Clinton Barrack Obama Joe Biden finally comes for their guns, or just giving it away, no strings attached, to a man they ardently believe is already a billionaire.
And if you weren’t stupid, you’d realize that everybody else would understand the context, and not be fooled by such clumsy dishonesty.
But you’re both, and so here we are.
I’m so old I can remember when Republicans were evil because they were the rich, and the Democrats were the party of the poor, representing the downtrodden against the evil rich.
Now apparently Republicans are poor, and therefore stupid, and being rich and able to consume a lot is a sign of Democratic superiority.
The idea that Republicans are more gullible and open to scams is refuted every time I walk past a ‘natural healing’ store.
The other day I saw a $20 bath bomb laced with THC. Apparently it’s for ‘healing’. I guarantee you Republicans aren’t the customers for that.
Well, you only showed that you don’t know what “disposable income” is and why was that according to Ann_Hedonia.
Yeah, I’m so old I remember when Sam_Stone added value to this forum, rather than just warmed-over American-style conservative drive-bys.
No, the argument is that they’re stupid and therefore poor. Decades of bombardment by right-wing media with “alternative facts” and paranoid conspiracy theories have seriously undermined the commitment to practical common sense and technical knowledge that conservatives used to pride themselves on. This has made many of them easy prey for grifters and con artists.
Of course, there are still plenty of wealthy Republicans, and of course, there is not now and never has been any reliable correlation between poverty and stupidity: socioeconomic status is mostly inherited. But it’s undeniable that stupidity is often a contributing factor in non-inherited poverty, and equally undeniable that conservative media for decades have been actively promoting toxic levels of stupidity, which naturally has had the most severe impact on their conservative audiences.
Wow, you really are old if you’re still imagining that “natural-healing” type woo and/or cannabis consumption is a reliable distinguishing characteristic between Republicans and Democrats! 
The percentage of Republican voters supporting cannabis legalization is around 54%, as compared to 58% of all voters. And the so-called “health freedom” movement, which strongly supports various kinds of “alternative” and “natural” therapies including CBD remedies, is heavily conservative/libertarian and conservative Christian. Anti-vax beliefs and COVID quackery, of course, are found among both liberals and conservatives, and AFAICT the COVID quackery is substantially worse on the conservative side.
You’d be wrong. Most of the people I know (my dad included) who put faith in natural remedies, homeopathy, and such are right wing Republicans. It’s part of the “can’t trust science” ethos. Yes you do have your left wing hippy types who go in for that but these days it’s embraced more by the other side.