The Reality of the DBT Thing

[beantownbubba]

I have recently had reason to learn that DBT's home territory - Lauderdale County, Tuscumbia, most of Muscle Shoals (I think), Zip City, the Wilson Dam area, etc - is part of the Alabama Fifth Congressional District. As it turns out, in a Beltway filled w/ the scum of the earth, the Representative of the Alabama Fifth has revealed himself to be among the scummiest. Mo Brooks (R-AL) believes that good health is a sign that one has lived a good life, done things "the right way" and, correspondingly, ill health is a sign of moral failure. I thought that way of thinking went out around the time of the Salem witch trials, but nope, it's alive and well in the person of Congressman Brooks. I look forward to discussing Congressman Brooks' views with him someday in true DBT style, over sweet tea at my son's graveside.

"My understanding is that (the new proposal) will allow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to contribute more to the insurance pool," Brooks said. "That helps offset all these costs, thereby reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives, they're healthy, they've done the things to keep their bodies healthy. And right now, those are the people--who've done things the right way--that are seeing their costs skyrocketing."

[Clams]

Show him the sinkhole and look the rabbi in the eye, bubba.

[John A Arkansawyer]

I've been listening to this song--the whole record, really--not quite obsessively lately. I'm not sure why it helps me, but it does. Maybe it'll help you. If not, I'll go your bail.

[pearlbeer]

Congressman Brooks is an under-educated asshole. These bastards like everything that benefits THEM, but refuse to help to anyone else.

1) That ain't how insurance works
2) That ain't how morality works
3) I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that Brooks is down with Jesus...and that ain't how that works either
4) Fuck that guy

While he equates health to a 'good life', he is likely talking about race. The dog-whistle sounds again. He just does not want money going to anyone browner than tan.

....and a quick Wiki search, confirms my suspicions....

On August 4, 2014 Brooks went on The Laura Ingraham Show and Ingraham played Brooks a clip of Ron Fournier warning that the Republican Party could not survive as the "party of white people." Brooks responded: "Well, this is a part of the war on whites that's being launched by the Democratic Party... And the way in which they’re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. It's part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race, on sex, creed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things." The comment drew considerable comments and controversy. When asked about the comment later that day, Brooks repeated the claim of a war on whites, stating: "In effect, what the Democrats are doing with their dividing America by race is they are waging a war on whites and I find that repugnant."

5) Fuck that guy. I find him repugnant.

[Tequila Cowboy]

I'm rooting for Bubba to find the sinkhole and invite Rep. Brooks for some pot roast beef and mashed potatoes and sweet tea
and follow it up with some banana pudding and a walk around Massachusetts.

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

I'm rooting for Bubba to find the sinkhole and invite Rep. Brooks for some pot roast beef and mashed potatoes and sweet tea
and follow it up with some banana pudding and a walk around Massachusetts.

fuck that, it wouldn't take my man long to do the job, just a partially sawed through steering rod

[pearlbeer]

Alternatively, this asshole suggests that you can simply move to another state that might be more equipped to handle medical needs of its community.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-g ... -condition

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

Mo Brooks?

More like Mo Asshole

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

Alternatively, this asshole suggests that you can simply move to another state that might be more equipped to handle medical needs of its community.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-g ... -condition

I wonder if he tells those experiencing economic anxiety over losing that factory or mining job to just move to another state

[brett27295]

Alternatively, this asshole suggests that you can simply move to another state that might be more equipped to handle medical needs of its community.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-g ... -condition

Yep...that's our asshole.

[Flea]

Alternatively, this asshole suggests that you can simply move to another state that might be more equipped to handle medical needs of its community.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-g ... -condition

Yep...that's our asshole.

Can't you keep him in your shithouse?

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

Another day, another embarrassment from my home state.

[brett27295]

Can't you keep him in your shithouse?

He keeps escaping.

[pearlbeer]

Can't you keep him in your shithouse?

He keeps escaping.

I'll trade you for one Ted Cruz.

[beantownbubba]

Can't you keep him in your shithouse?

He keeps escaping.

I'll trade you for one Ted Cruz.

Let's not forget their enablers, also known as voters.

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

Alternatively, this asshole suggests that you can simply move to another state that might be more equipped to handle medical needs of its community.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-g ... -condition

Yep...that's our asshole.

Can't you keep him in your shithouse?

that shitter's way beyond full, it's bubbling over and looking to expand it's territory

[misterbrow]

And people ask, "Why did Patterson move all the way to Oregon?"

[njMark]

So by his logic, my mom deserved to die from diabetes, a disease she suffered with from childhood, she raised with my dad us 4 kids, took in multiple foster kids, was a deacon in our church, worked 2 jobs along with my dad to raise us, taught me that hate has no place in our lives, sthat she led a bad life and deserved to die? Understand people, this is no aberration, these people are not a few bad eggs, this is america, always has been. The difference is they are now empowered by Cheeto Mussolini to spew forth upon us. Ban me if you will but if you voted for him, I truly, in my bones, hope you die in a fire.

[glennrwordman]

So by his logic, my mom deserved to die from diabetes, a disease she suffered with from childhood, she raised with my dad us 4 kids, took in multiple foster kids, was a deacon in our church, worked 2 jobs along with my dad to raise us, taught me that hate has no place in our lives, sthat she led a bad life and deserved to die? Understand people, this is no aberration, these people are not a few bad eggs, this is america, always has been. The difference is they are now empowered by Cheeto Mussolini to spew forth upon us. Ban me if you will but if you voted for him, I truly, in my bones, hope you die in a fire.

Yep, by his "logic". And by that I mean "what benefits those who put him where he is, and I don't mean voters". He's a Grade B Asshole.

And your Mom sounds freakin' heroic.