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    Biggest theft of wealth in the history of human civilization, this racket that they’ve been running for the past half century and more. It’s as successful as it is impressive as it is evil.

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      Approval rating of arsonist who is currently burning down the neighborhood:

      57% disapprove

      39% approve

      4% undecided

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    Oh my God you guys, I think this career conman might’ve *gasp* lied to us to get the power he wanted to do what he wanted. 😱

    Who could’ve predicted this?!

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    The new motto should be: “This is a war country, not a healthy country!”

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    trying anything and everything to distract from epstein files, and the fact that he got rid of bondi in the hopes delaying the deposition for the EPSTEIN files.

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    Well if we didn’t have the middle class shouldering the highest effective tax bracket and if you and your cronies stopped pocketing it then maybe we could afford healthcare, daycare, and destruction!

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    “We can’t afford to use the money we forcibly take from you or the money we create on your behalf, to do anything that would benefit you.”

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    No way he ran on healthcare and childcare. Maybe im dumb and dont remember, but maga is very much against aca and medicare for all, and any kind of socialized service.

    If you were saying he ran on “no new wars”, sure.

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      He ran on “LET ME TELL YOU, IT’S GREAT, VERY GREAT, IT’S THE BEST, IT’S VERY BEST, YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE, THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA, EVERYTHING FAKE, I’M AWESOME, THE MOST AWESOME, THE BEST MOST AWESOME, MANY PEOPLE SAY”

      And people literally fell for that shit. That was his whole program.

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        Trump ran on “It sucks now, and I have a concept of a plan for the best healthcare ever”.

        Trump spoke towards a truth we all feel about how bad it is, then lied about the cause and what he was going to do, democrats told us better things aren’t possible, america is already great, but if you vote for us, we miiight consider doing .01% less genocide.

        People fell for it because the alternative “Shut the fuck up and vote for tax cuts for small business owners and The Most Lethal Military Evar!” is too depressing.

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      Im pro medicare for all, but im anti aca. The ACA raised my health insurance massively. I paid 6k a year in 2012, and now i pay 36k a year.

      Forcing everyone to pay into for profit health insurance doubled healthcare in a few years.

      The average health insurance cost per person should not be 18k a year, no one should be paying 36k a year like i do.

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        My point is I really doubt he ran on a pro-healthcare pro-daycare platform. I could be wrong, but I would be shocked to learn otherwise.

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          He made statements that we’d have the money to pay for things if we didn’t go to war.

          So to now say that we can’t pay for something because of war is in direct contrast.

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    Anyone, and I truly mean anyone, who couldn’t see that he is completely driven by selfish reasons (ego/wealth/power) has Fetterman level brain damage.

    At this point, I can’t even communicate with people that support trump. They are incapable of measured, honest, logical thought. We now have a full-blown cult that has grown to a frightening scale. c’est la vie USA.

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      Trump1.0 might have been excusable, but 2.0? I felt physically sick when they announced election results in '24, halfway across the globe.

      This is not about being conservative, or even politics anymore. Or “different opinions”. This is an absence of basic decency & common sense. Decades of brainrot. A people spoiled (sorry to the good apples in this analogy).

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      I have a coworker who I respect greatly because she is a nice person and she does great work. I have no reason not to like her and treat her as one of my best coworkers. We work in IT management for a large organization. She is educated, smart, coherent, and like I said, she is one of the best that I get to work with. I’m thankful for her.

      But man is she brainwashed by Fox. We once got into a conversation on politics in 2024 and it became clear to me that she was voting for Trump. She thought Kamala couldn’t string a sentence together and that things had been better under Trump. We respectfully disagreed.

      Politics came up again a couple of days ago. She offered that she was pissed that gas prices were so high. She offered that she felt betrayed, etc. I felt like it was progress in her opening up to the idea that Trump is a turd UNTIL she kept on with the What-About-ism with Kamala and then how both sides claim the other side cheated in elections, etc, yada yada. She has a Fox talking point for everything. So we drop it. Life goes on.

      Trump’s supporters will give up a little in admitting that Trump is wrong in the Iran war because life has been made even more inconvenient and Trump has broken his campaign promises now time and time again, but it’s still a step too far for them to acknowledge that they couldn’t see this coming or that he really does smell like a turd despite it being so fucking obvious. I can agree that Kamala was going to be an another democratic establishment president, but at least she wouldn’t be terrorizing us all every day.

      Our president is an evil dim-witted asshole.

      He was elected by well-intentioned but equally dim-witted assholes.

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        No, they are definitely not well-intentioned. They are as equally evil dim-witted assholes as he are.

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      I screamed and pounded the keyboard back in 2020 at family. Those same family didn’t listen, posted their alternative facts, and voted for him again in 2024. I was a pile of raw nerves back then. Now I am numb. heartbroken and numb. Maybe this was how Cassandra felt when Apollo cursed her.

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      this was clear from back in 2016

      millions of people knowingly voted for him.

      millions of people didn’t vote cause of gaza (or cause both parties are the same)

      his own VP called him a Nazi

      now all these people will vote him out cause gas prices are high

      i still won’t be able to talk to them

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          you might be right. it’s known that Republicans increase unemployment and the national debt. but millions vote for them anyway.

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            my parents gleefully watch fox news and right wing talking heads all day everyday, they are completely insane, and all of their friends and a lot of my extended family are right there with them. everyday i hope the new extreme insane mask off thing that drops will have them changed and capable of interacting with me, but it never happens, they just become more and more discusting cheering it all on and dismissing the impact. they love trump today just as much as 2 years ago and will vote like the discusting pawns they are, and there are shit loads more people just like them and worse. They think the gas prices and any other problems that emerge is something they bravely have to endure for their leaders master plan. They think the war is some important strategic part of making america great again. There is nothing i can say or do to help them either, they see me as a dumb animal who doesnt understand the real truth that they do no matter what i say or do. They have been cut off by beloved family members and still wont change and dont care. This is the reality of the maga cult i think people who dont have to be around it dont realize, i see it everyday because i am stuck living with them.

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            They would vote for a democrat if there were:

            1. A viable candidate that actually ran on policies specifically those which doesn’t consist of not being the other party.
            2. They actually gave a shit about solving the numerous problems this country has as opposed to funding special interest groups via nonsense bills.
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                Free healthcare and childcare polls well even among republicans. The “99% hitler” triangulation strategy that has been conventional wisdom among the dem political class for decades attracts nobody.

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      Don’t kid yourselves guys, you will have a civil war to fight before it can get any better. And this time i hope you don’t “reconcile” with the traitors afterwards.

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        Short of France bankrupting itself again to fund an overseas militia would incentivise a revolution movement.

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          China’s big gun manufacturer was banned because supposedly they were trying to sell machine guns and tanks to gangs. But I genuinely think this was just a pretense to justify protectionism and China wouldn’t do something so cool.

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            Where are you going? If it’s online, remember the people that run the major platforms have a vested interest in reducing your opinion of other human beings.

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              Plenty of videos of English white nationalists being shitheads. The rise of the AfD party. Italy has a rising fascism problem and Meloni. Hungary with Orbán. I’m sure there are more examples. Face it, the western world is having an identity crisis.

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              Mainly western Europe. Most people consider their comfort way more important than other people’s survival.

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      It already was. Fun fact, Penn Wharton just came out with a full breakdown of federal spending as it pertains to civil benefits with regards to your age. In other words, how much the government spends on its citizens according to age. For fiscal year 2025, the federal government is spending $43,700 for every person over the age of 64. Conversely, it spends $4,300 on every person under the age of 26. That works out to the government spending 10x more on elderly people than children.

      The full breakdown is here if anyone is interested. We’re great again!!

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        Representative democracy only represents those who vote and the olds have more incentive unfortunately.

        Compulsory voting would be great except most folks are dumbasses.

        Democracy is the lie that a million voices are smarter than one, but idk what a better alternative is tbh.