GOP Three-Card Monte

Three-card Monte – also known as find the lady and three-card trick – is a confidence game in which the victim, or "mark", is tricked into betting a sum of money, on the assumption that they can find the "money card" among three face-down playing cards. It is the same as the shell game except that cards are used instead of shells.[1]

In its full form, three-card Monte is an example of a classic "short con"[2] in which a shill pretends to conspire with the mark to cheat the dealer, while in fact conspiring with the dealer to cheat the mark. The mark has no chance whatsoever of winning, at any point in the game. In fact, anyone who is observed winning anything in the game can be presumed to be a shill.

This confidence trick was already in use by the turn of the 15th century.[3]

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Instead of shells or cards, Republicans are using the three branches of government, all of which they control, to run the classic three-card monte scam.

In this version of the con, Fox News is the shill and Americans in the middle and lower classes are the marks.

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Where's Donnie?

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Donald Trump's heads a real estate empire. His lawyer, John Dowd, appears to be totally unaware that in real estate Location, location, location! is rule number one.

Dowd claims that because Trump occupies the Oval Office he is above the law.

I think Dowd needs a new GPS.

Given his marital record, business history, and performance in office, Donald Trump is unquestionably beneath contempt.

Pin The Caption On The Elephant

Republicans like playing games with the public. One of their favorites involves claiming the moral high-ground while conducting under-cover operations at the bottom of the cesspool.

Next week's special senatorial election in Alabama is such a game.

The family values Republicans are backing a pedophile who preyed upon teenage girls when he was in his thirties. His opponent successfully prosecuted two Ku Klux Klan perpetrators of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing which killed four young African-American girls.

So, if it's games they want, today's post offers the following game you can play on them. It's called Pin The Caption On The Elephant, and the rules are simple. Pick your favorite caption for the Jim Morin cartoon below from the following list, or write one of your own and add it as a comment.

A. Southern Exposure
B. Look Away Dixieland
C. The South Shall Rise Again
D.

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Inviolable Republican Moral Values - The Complete List

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The Disconnected GOP (Items 4, 5, and 6)

disconnected |ˌdiskəˈnektəd| adjectivehaving a connection broken: he expected the disconnected phone to start ringing.• [predicative] (of a person) lacking contact with reality: I drove away, feeling disconnected from the real world.• (of speech, writing, or thought) lacking a logical sequence; incoherent: a disconnected narrative.
In the comics and comments below I will continue to illustrate and explore how disconnected the once rational GOP has become from the real world and the lives of the American people.

We'll begin with another comic strip.

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Item 4: Congressional Leaders (They know what's best for you.)

Mitch and Paul know what's best for the pee-ons they claim to be serving. So does Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, who has this to say about why he supports the repeal of the estate tax.

I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it's on booze or women or movies.

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Item 5: The Electorate (AKA The Base)

Managers need people to manage. The more gullible they are, the better.

Are Donald Trumps Supporters Idiots?

Jared Kushner 'admitted Donald Trump lies to his base because he thinks they're stupid'

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Item 6: Promoting Christian, Family Values (My Pedophile Right Or Wrong.)

RNC to support Roy Moore in Senate race in Alabama, weeks after cutting ties with his campaign

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The Disconnected GOP (Items 1, 2 and 3)

disconnected |ˌdiskəˈnektəd| adjectivehaving a connection broken: he expected the disconnected phone to start ringing.• [predicative] (of a person) lacking contact with reality: I drove away, feeling disconnected from the real world.• (of speech, writing, or thought) lacking a logical sequence; incoherent: a disconnected narrative.
The GOP has taken its cue from The Donald and embraced a total disdain for facts. Unfortunately, over thirty years of right-wing propaganda has brainwashed a large portion of the American electorate into accepting unsubstantiated opinions and alternate facts (i.e. lies) as being of equal value to researched and verified factual information.

For its part, the media have been complicit in this flight from fact to fantasy. They have allowed blatant lies to go unchallenged out of fear that the liars will no longer grant them interviews. Simultaneously, Fox "News" has provided a separate-but-unequal forum where those liars have been portrayed as paragons of truth to the growing throng of the brainwashed by fawning shills for the Koch Brothers posing as journalists.

In the comics and comments below I will attempt to illustrate and explore how disconnected the once rational GOP has become from the real world and the lives of the American people.

Let's start with a simple question posed by America's favorite engineer and proceed to the evidence.

Why is it that the nuttiest people define reality?

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Item 1: Healthcare (If you're not well-off, you don't deserve it.)

Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.– Donald J. Trump, February 27, 2017

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Item 2: Climate Change (For starters, Trump called it a Chinese hoax.)

What Has Trump Said About Global Warming

How G.O.P. Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science

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Item 3: Tax Reform (The GOP plan is as helpful to the middle class as a wart transplant.)

How the Republican tax bill benefits the rich, according to government analysis 

Who benefits from GOP tax plan? "The wealthy," Bloomberg editor says

"We Want Our Money Back!" The Rallying Cry of the 99% After GOP Tax Scam Bill Passes Senate

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The GOP's Tax Reform Scam in Pictures

1. The Senate passes a bill without knowing what it contains in order to tell voters that they did something.

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2. The President gets behind the legislation.

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3. It's the same old story but with a new twist.

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Any Questions?