The republicans are getting ready to put together their platform for the 2020 elections. It will mostly be the same old reconstituted thin gruel of advantages for the advantaged, tax cuts for the wealthy and scapegoating others for their own crimes and blunders.
Notable this year, now that they’ve started to say the secret stuff out loud and on the record they will be adding some new planks.
- In future, all voting will be restricted to registered republicans only.
- All constitutional amendments, except the second, are candidates for repeal.
- Minimum wage shall be reduced to $2/hour with no overtime increase, vacation or sick leave. (That works out to $8,000/year for an average 80 hour work week). In this time of recession, belt-tightening needs to occur so republicans can afford to make their yacht payments.
- Health care will only be available to republicans.
- OSHA will be disbanded as safety in the workplace is not important.
- Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid will be abolished and replaced with something.
- The Affordable Care Act will be abolished and replaced with something.
- All judges, federal and state, will be required to swear fealty to Donald tRump in order to keep their place on the bench.
- Women will be required to remain continuously pregnant and will no longer be allowed to speak in public.
- Prosperity Christianity will be renamed as the Republican Evangelical Church and will become the official religion of the United States. All non-parishioners will be taxed at 90% to support the lifestyles of the preacher class. Parishioners will only be taxed at 75% to support the lifestyles of the preacher class.
- Grover Norquist, Alan Laffler and Newt Gingrich are to be newly canonized as saints in the republican pantheon.
- Donald John tRump is named Archangel of the Second Coming and will be the titular head of the Republican Evangelical Church.
- Insider trading will be legalized for all republican politicians.
- Science (Climate and Health) will be ignored at the discretion of the republican
party church.
- All of those pesky COVID-19 related deaths will be pre-dated to have occurred during the Obama presidency.
- Criticism of Donald John tRump will be a class one felony.
- Any non-white citizen will no longer be a citizen. Non-citizens will be deported to their country of origin (or ancestor’s origin) at the express whim of the leadership. Non-citizens permitted to remain in the country will be required to work in the fields.
- IOKIYAR will become federal law.
The Democratic platform is also changing with the addition of several progressive positions and this new plank.
- Termites and carpenter ants will be provided for the republican platform (and House(s)).
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