Paul Ryan's Upset Donald Trump Didn't Hurt Poor People Enough

Paul Ryan, former House Speaker, popped his head up as he does each year like the groundhog--promising at least 6 more months of GOP insanity. Ryan could've criticized Trump on the scores of illegal, immoral, venal & sociopathic things he did. Yet, Ryan criticized him for...not hurting the poor. Yep, Trump didn't fulfill Ryan's lifelong dream of crushing Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Cliff Schecter gives you the breakdown and the takedown.

Ryan's statement on SS

McCarthy to Ryan on Trump/Putin

Ryan's weak criticism of Trump a year ago

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Ah, Paul Ryan you may remember him. Former Speaker of the House for Republicans, former vice presidential nominee in 2012 for Mitt Romney. He obviously had a huge role in the party and what direction the party would take. But at some point he realized the crazies weren't going to let him do his job, he left congress and now, you know, much like the groundhog he seems to just pop up once a year to either criticize Trump or really not criticize Trump and offer us nothing. A year ago he talked about his worry that the hold by the Republican party that Trump, that Trump's hold on the Republican party, was dangerous and bad for America. Did he follow that up with anything? He's a board member of News Corps which owns Fox news which is like Trump propaganda 24/7. Tucker Carlson literally sniffing Trump's undies. Did he do anything about it? He didn't do anything about it.

But guess what? We got another appearance from the great man. He about 17, 18 hours ago yesterday he decided to show up at the American Enterprise Institute, a safe place, conservative think tank and tell us what he thought that Donald Trump and Republicans had did wrong. What they could have done better and of course you've got it, you know what he said right, I mean he must have talked about how, I mean this man allowed covid to spread and denied it and told people that they shouldn't get vaccinated and, you know, tell people that they should inject Mr. Clean and that maybe they should shove an ultraviolet light up their arse and see if that helped at all. Maybe he was critical of how Trump colluded, yes colluded, with Vladimir Putin's folks during the 2016 campaign, the fact that Don Jr. met with high-ranking officials who, and numerous people from his campaign were indicted and of course he ended up, were found guilty, he ended up Donald Trump ended up pardoning them all. Mike Flynn and Roger Stone and others who were directly doing Russia's bidding.

No, he didn't. Paul Ryan had nothing to say about that. Helsinki where Donald Trump basically got down on his hands and knees and bowed before Putin as his master. No, nothing there. His, the debt that Trump grew, the racism of [ __ ] countries and the rest, the xenophobia building a stupid wall he never built that won't help keep anybody out. No, he had nothing to say about that either. Shooting at protesters attacking him at Lafayette Park, the January 6th insurrection where police officers ended up being killed or 140 were stabbed beaten and the rest. Feces smeared on the walls. I'm going to keep saying that because it's so awful that in needs to keep being said. Broken windows and shots fired. No, you didn't say anything about that. The sedition that we've learned about since, the numerous plots in states and among with his acolytes to overthrow an election that was, a election that was fair where Joe Biden won by the biggest landslide since Barack Obama in 2008.

No, that is also something he didn't talk about. What did Paul Ryan think was important to talk about? He thought it was important to talk about the fact that Donald Trump was not mean enough to poor people. That's right. Let me say that again, not mean enough to poor people. You may remember Paul Ryan Ayn Rand trained, I think he probably read those books morning noon and night, obsessed with cutting social security, medicare. This is somebody who lost his father when he was young and grew up and was able to go to college based on social security benefits that are given to those who lose their father or mother, survivor benefits they're called. But in Paul Ryan's case it seemed to make him more obsessed with actually cutting these benefits which was like his life stream and so he criticized Trump for not having the courage to do what was unpopular and to cut social security and medicare more. Again, you know, not for the fact that this man is obsessed with toilets and laundry and water and water pressure and can't shut up about it.