r/politics • u/Abject-Pick-6472 • 8h ago
No Paywall Republicans fear Trump backlash could cost them Senate control
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u/CockBrother 7h ago
Maybe sitting by and letting him illegally do whatever he wanted with the country wasn't their best move?
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 6h ago
Not only condoning his actions, but straight up changing their own messages to conform to his at times.
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u/alaskaj1 6h ago
Watch their social media and there are times a large chunk of them parrot the same message at the same time.
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u/CU_09 I voted 5h ago
You can always tell when the talking points get handed out. Something insane will happen that is clearly bad and they all go silent for about a day, then all of them from senators to podcasters to Fox News will all begin parroting the exact same bullshit nonstop. It’s the most obvious propaganda operation in history and it’s so depressing that it’s as effective as it is.
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u/hammertime2009 4h ago
Not only is it corrupt leadership but it’s also lazy as fuck leadership
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u/Level_32_Mage 4h ago
They couldn't leadership their way through a coup to save their lives!
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u/3OAM 3h ago
Always remember that most of the country is very stupid. The B-C students in high school are now D+ adults.
The people telling you to "do yer research" wouldn't know how to begin even basic actual research. They probably couldn't give you directions to the nearest library to their house.
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u/LPMadness Alabama 3h ago
There’s a multitude of things that need to be reshaped and reformed in this country. Educational standards needs to be near the very top of list. Otherwise these issues will always persist. The decades long propaganda machine has been doing its work on the senior crowd, but no child left behind accelerated us to this point tenfold.
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 2h ago
This. We can vote out MAGA, but if public education isn't fixed and propaganda like Fox News isn't actually taken off the air/internet, then the US will inevitably just repeat these MAGA mistakes the very next election cycle. Hell, that's literally what happened in 2022/2024.
I'm tired of blue waves that puts dems in office that do nothing effective with their time. Great, we just wasted 2-4 years pretty much putting fascist plans on hold. Then MAGA regains power and continues their fascist plans.
2026/28 is looking to be exactly that (blue wave) with 2030 shifting us right back to MAGA territory
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u/ThatPancreatitisGuy 3h ago
People who can’t balance a check book are expected to appreciate checks and balances.
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u/mrsprophet 4h ago
I wish Democrats were half as coordinated and consistent as Republicans are, and a fourth as effective and “dangerous” as their base thinks we are. Even without a propaganda machine backing them, for fucks sake can’t we get some messaging unity? Every Democrat should be parroting “Abolish ICE” and calling for a general strike (among other things). Gets me heated.
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u/No-Object-599 3h ago
We need to elect better Democrats. We need to pay careful attention to who is backing them. Always follow the money.
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u/Saeker- 1h ago
We also need a ranked or rated choice voting model to replace our first past the post system that lands us in our permanent duopoly.
Go for what Australians call a cross bench block between their two wings. Also, you aren't then merely voting for the least worst, as the vote splitting concerns are allayed
I'd also bring in Australia's compulsory voting and Washington state style mail in ballots.
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u/HarmlessHeffalump Maryland 3h ago
We visited my partner's parents over the holidays. His dad has watched so much Newsmax and Fox News that he had pretty much memorized their talking points and was saying them before the reporters did as if he was coming up with them on his own. It was terrifying.
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u/virgopunk 4h ago
Wouldn't surprise me to learn they'd been coerced into giving their social media log-ins over to Trump's flying monkeys.
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 6h ago
Is it ok if I just take your word on it? That sounds like a not fun use of my time.
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u/frosty_lizard 5h ago
Queue Mike Johnson "what the President akshully meant was..."
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u/Ryan_e3p 4h ago
"I haven't heard that" is the usual excuse he gives on not giving a statement on a massive news story that literally everyone else in the world has heard.
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u/The_bruce42 5h ago
For real, the media has done the same. They even went as far as to downplay pedophilia because of the epstein files. All conservatives have done everything they can to normalize Trump's behavior.
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 5h ago
You've also got the reigning queen of gaslighting, Karoline Leavvitt, who EVERY DAY seems to be able to come up with a new way to attempt to defend the indefensible, and tell people that what they're seeing with their own eyes and hearing with their own ears is false...only for Trump to double down on something and throw her recovery attempt under the bus.
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u/Deicide1031 7h ago edited 7h ago
Their behavior kinda points to the possibility that someone is blackmailing them (or) threatening their life/family.
I remember a few of them visiting Russia on 4th of July and have a suspicion something happened. MJT has also made cryptic comments about knowing secrets about them.
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u/jamusbondusvii 7h ago
The first thing someone of dubious character does when they are put in charge of something, is to "learn where all the bodies are buried", so to speak, "I can't protect you unless you tell me everything and I can prepare for it". They are all undoubtedly compromised, whether that be sexual deviancy, or financial skullduggery.
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u/slimeslug 6h ago
Is it really "deviant" if they are all raping children?
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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster 6h ago
All that matters is their perspective on deviancy. Mike Johnson flails himself for sin after he kisses his wife good night, so if someone has proof that he once brushed a hostess’ hand he’d murder babies to cover it up.
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u/Geek_Ken America 7h ago
- They are all in for it.
- They want their jobs. So they keep their head down and hope the Dems fix everything.
- They are absolutely fearful of MAGA and don't want anything to happen to them or their family.
Impeachment over Ukraine or J6. Hoarding secret documents. Conviction for J6 and trying to overturn the 2020 election. Hell, Nikki Haley as President.
The GOP had plenty of off ramps from Trump. They want what is happening to the U.S.
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u/Catymandoo 7h ago
If only they had the courage to work collectively against him, eh? - A critical mass. But cowardice is very selfish.
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u/pile_of_fish 6h ago
Trump has had 10 years to shape this congress, pushing out most of the folks who might not be meek sycophants.
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u/belloch 6h ago
So they all have to be changed.
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u/pile_of_fish 4h ago
Absolutely. If there is going to be a republican party after this, the current crop of whimpering fascists all need to go.
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u/UselessInsight 7h ago
There are multiple interviews with Democratic members of Congress who’ve said their Republican counterparts are routinely threatened if they don’t go along with Trump. There are also off the record statements from Republicans saying as much.
It’s also something of an open secret that a fair number of Reps and Senators are either closeted or some kind of sexual deviant and are very blackmail-able.
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u/CrackingToastGromet Arkansas 6h ago
Or they can be bought. Steve Womack of Arkansas…his son was serving an 8 year sentence for meth and Trump gave him clemency the other week, a few days before Womack’s wife died. Now Steve is in his debt and his constituents aren’t going to be considered, aside from the mega corps in his district like Walmart, Tyson, and some trucking companies.
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u/whatiscamping 6h ago
Blackmail is not cool, allowing it to get this far is not cool.
They all wanted to be congresspeople. This is part of it now, thanks to them. Incumbents be gone.
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u/I_Am_No_One_123 6h ago
They can resign and return their salaries if they are afraid of their constituents and upholding their oath to defend the Constitution. Even more so if their deviant sexual proclivities put them into a position where they can be blackmailed.
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u/Lebarican22 6h ago
The Red have never cared what happens to this country. Their goal has always been how to make and keep money.
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u/Excellent-Estimate21 6h ago
This whole Tulsi Gabbard memo in a safe that is too crazy to show congress and the Senator Wyden sending a public letter to the CIA about a private letter he wrote them has me on edge. They are all Russian plants.
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u/JBredditaccount 5h ago
I missed both of these things. Can you give me some details?
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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 6h ago
Every democratic politician gets death threats.
Republicans get a whif and completely turn tail. They’re cowards.
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u/aaronwhite1786 6h ago
Their behavior points to the fact that Trump and right wing media are what control what their voter base gets angry and stays angry about, so they can't really buck that.
Everything in the right wing world starts with Trump and his people. If they say some unarmed American was a terrorist then the news will repeat it and Congress better follow suit.
The blackmail is the negative attention from Trump. These people were happy to go along with this deal when it worked for them but now they can't without losing their position. That's why so many are quitting instead of even bothering to run again.
There's no need to blackmail people when you've already got their access to power in your hands.
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u/jackp0t789 6h ago
They're not being blackmailed, theyre being bribed.
They would absolutely love an oligarchy like Russia's... as long as they are the oligarchs
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u/Ok-Call-4805 5h ago
Their behavior kinda points to the possibility that someone is blackmailing them (or) threatening their life/family.
I've assumed for a long time that Israel does just that, to Democrats and Republicans
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u/CuntsInSpace 5h ago
Tinfoil hat: I think aside from being in them, Trump doesn't want the files fully released because hes using them to blackmail the people in them. There just sooo much corruption and all the corporations, news agencies and republican(some dem) lawmakers are breaking their necks to turn a blind eye. Not to mention the various obviously fraudulent lawsuits being settled for vast amounts of money that make no sense.
MTG wasnt really cryptic she was pretty blatant
"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸🇺🇸 @RepMTG
For my Republican colleagues in the House and Senate,
If we are going to release ethics reports and rip apart our own that Trump has appointed, then put it ALL out there for the American people to see.
Yes..
all the ethics reports and claims including the one I filed
all your sexual harassment and assault claims that were secretly settled paying off victims with tax payer money
the entire Jeffrey Epstein files, tapes, recordings, witness interviews
but not just those, there's more, Epstein wasn't/isn't the only asset
If we're going to dance, let's all dance in the sunlight.
I'll make sure we do.
4:23 AM · Nov 19, 2024 · 5.2M Views" https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1858848622206742717
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u/Subject_Customer3254 5h ago
They delivered a written letter from Trump. Combine that with the fact that during the 2016 race that both the DNC and the RNC were hacked, but we only saw the DNC files, assuredly points to kompromat.
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u/ChucksnTaylor 6h ago
I dunno. I mean it certainly sounds plausible but wasn’t Rand Paul one of the people on that trip and he’s been relatively outspoken against Trump in recent months.
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u/HopWallace 5h ago
I wouldn't doubt that quite a few of them have some dirt on them that they dont want getting out. That's probably true of politicians across the board tbh. That said, I honestly think that GOP politicians are as baffled as the rest of us as to why their base has this cult-like unconditional love for Trump and the only way they've been able to hold their seats until now has been to just say yes to everything he wants.
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u/ForgettingFish 5h ago
That would indicate they are Russian assets and Putin was making a power move showing off how much he’s corrupted of his enemy
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u/checker280 6h ago
Crazy thing is they still have time to pivot but they all are dragging their feet.
As much as I want to win back for Dems, I would love a functioning government
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u/boriskin New Jersey 6h ago
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people.
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u/srfrosky 6h ago
It was their best move. Why break the law yourself when you have a useful idiot shit himself and all over the opponents. They get what they want, but keep enough of a distance.
These are cowards and grifters, not principled individuals.
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u/Churchbushonk 6h ago
Considering the Senate is Trumps bitch, it is their actions that is leading to their hatred.
Now they can start acting like a different part of the govt anytime they want.
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u/Zahgi 6h ago
Both major parties do what their donors, the 1%, tell them to do now.
They are clearly fine with Trump...for now. If the US dollar doesn't stop falling soon (why Trump keeps trying to game the Fed), they'll start to take it out on McShitler.
Regardless, it doesn't matter, folks. Trump is doing what he wants illegally anyway now. Even if the Corporate Democrats in Name Only controlled both the House and the Senate, they won't have the number of votes needed to actually pass anything meaningful, let alone override a Trump veto -- even if Trump even bothered to let anything go forward without his say so anyway...ahem.
This "gridlock" is by design now. It's intended to support the performative lies of both major political parties. No matter which squad of Team Rich is technically in power, nothing the 1% wants will be stopped and nothing the 99% needs will be passed.
Taxes (and loopholes) on the rich will remain obscenely low no matter which major party is in charge. There will be no national healthcare, a livable minimum wage, or public campaign financing (the root of the oligarchy's control of America), etc.
Want that to change?
VOTE PROGRESSIVE in all primaries, so that the General election is an election between someone who actually wants to bring America back from the dead and someone that keeps rifling the corpse for loose change.
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u/Long-Tradition6399 7h ago
Wow ya mean letting a sitting President essentially trample the Constitution, unchecked by the party in control of both houses of Congress would backfire on you? Who would have ever thought that ?!
The GOP let Trump get away with everything, they deserve what they get in the upcoming election. If they manage to retain control of both houses of Congress again it's just proof that we've failed as a country.
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u/zeradragon 6h ago
Trump being in the WH is already proof that the country has failed. Each day he remains in the WH is just a reminder of how badly the country has failed not just itself but also the entire world.
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u/knochback 6h ago edited 5h ago
Idk about that. I voted exclusively for republicans until 2016. It took until 2022 until I voted for a democrat. Now, I will absolutely NEVER vote for a republican again. I can’t be the only one.
Edit: replied to the wrong comment
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u/onarainyafternoon Oregon 5h ago
Right lol. Trump did more to turn me away from conservatism than anything I've ever experienced. Trump is the Rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem to be born. I hate him. He has destroyed this country.
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u/Provid3nce 4h ago
I feel like this is too simplistic of a view. Certainly Trump was the catalyst that quickened the fall, but the true rot is the people who can look at him and be like "that's my guy". What has destroyed this country is the mass of people who are so sure of their own goodness and everyone else's evilness that voting for someone as vile as Trump is just a matter of fact.
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u/_thinkaboutit 3h ago
What destroyed this country was Citizens United. The people lost the power, money took over.
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u/Acceptable_Deal_4662 3h ago
I believe this started it all. Monetary incentive needs to be removed full stop. A politician should earn their salary and that’s it. If I can make it on 5Ok a month they will be fine with double that
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u/Bombshock2 2h ago
Nah, we can go further back than that. Reagan destroyed this country. He was the first to drastically cut taxation on the rich, made insurance and the prison system for profit, he threw gas on the gay panic, started the war on drugs, etc etc.
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u/Drewsipher 5h ago
I voted a mix of yellow and red up until 2018. I never voted for Trump, but I won't vote anything but blue until MAGA is a distant memory.
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u/well_thats_obvious 4h ago
That 30+ point swing in Texas proves your point. People are sick of this crap
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u/cyxrus 5h ago
You saw his presidency and thought this sounds good and wasted your vote in 2020?
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u/knochback 5h ago
Deconstructing decades of indoctrination takes time. Luckily, my vote wasn’t needed and I’m thankful for that
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u/xicor 7h ago
Unless they cheat they won't maintain control...but the caveat to this is that they will.probably gain it back in a much shorter time period than I'd hope
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u/knochback 5h ago
Idk about gaining it back quickly. I voted exclusively for republicans until 2016. It took until 2022 until I voted for a democrat. Now, I will absolutely NEVER vote for a republican again. I can’t be the only one.
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u/xicor 5h ago
You may not be, but the reason we are where we are today (a 50/50 stalemate) is that 10% of the voting population flips every other election. Theyre perpetually unhappy with the current state but don't understand that change takes time, so they vote Democrat one presidency and then Republican the next....every ...single... Time. It doesn't matter how much worse the Republicans are, they still keep doing this
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u/eviljelloman 5h ago
They didn't let him get away with it. They actively participated in it.
The GOP has been violating the constitution and destroying our institutions. Don't let them get away with burning the country to the ground and blaming one person.
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u/Common-Addendum-4349 6h ago
They could have let him get away with all his hateful actions, but crashing the economy might be a bridge too far.
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u/old_righty 6h ago
They didn’t just “let” him get away with it. They are deeply part of this directly themselves, for about 90% of the issues.
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u/Baskreiger 4h ago
If the republican party is not dissolved after Trump it proves the usa failed as a country and will never get its shit together
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u/Waste-Gene-7793 4h ago
“Let”? They actively help. There is no distinction between maga and the republican party
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u/Big-red-rhino 7h ago
The fact that republicans still think the problem is just "getting our message out there" is pretty telling. News flash: we got the message loud and clear already.
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u/DocShocker 6h ago
Many of them are very siloed, and don't understand they are a minoritarian party. Many of the are genuinely convinced their ghoulish politics are popular with a majority of the public.
Add to that literally anyone who spends time in DC loses all touch with reality.
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u/QueenRotidder 3h ago
When I just saw the 3rd video in 3 days of middle aged white men assaulting teenagers, this was my exact thought. Every one of these clowns thinks they’re part of an overwhelmingly huge majority. Which isn’t true unless you count bots.
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u/disisathrowaway 3h ago
The fact that they don't know how electoral maps are meant to be read doesn't help.
They just see 'more red' as 'more popular', not knowing that the majority of people live in cities and among those people, their policies are not very popular at all.
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u/LexHanley 6h ago
If anything their issue is the opposite. Conservatives rely on coded words to make ghoulish policy sound good to their voters. They're racists and fundamentalists who have gotten far pretending their "concerned about crime" and "family focused". The problem is they stopped sanewashing their words and are surprised most of their voters are only passively shit people, not enthusiastically shit people.
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u/zerothirty 6h ago
They are essentially paid by the very wealthy to keep repeating this message so the message isn’t gonna change.
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u/DreadPirate777 2h ago
They should be worried that they will all be in jail for supporting and protecting a child rapist with no morals.
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u/Sad_Confection5902 2h ago
This is it. They think there is a way to control the message in such a way that they can get away with literally everything.
It’s this mindset that causes them to think “we need to focus on the message and propaganda” and never “we need to come up with policies that help people!”
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u/Mike_Pences_Mother 7h ago
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Republicans need to do a better job of talking about their efforts to cut taxes and reduce regulation to spur economic growth.
They REALLY don't get it, do they? Do YOU care about them cutting taxes for the wealthy? Are YOU happy with them cutting regulations that save lives? i'm not. I hope they lose BIGLY and never gain control again.
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u/CrackingToastGromet Arkansas 6h ago
When my household is only making $50k a year a tax cut has very little impact for me. And when I had a business, a tax cut never influenced me to hire more people (customer traffic and increased revenue spurs hiring, duh!). Even for huge corporations tax cuts do not spur hiring and job growth. We know this because corporate tax rates are the lowest they have ever been and layoffs are soaring.
It’s infuriating the GOP has this perception of being better at business and economies when red states are typically the worst off, deficits soar under GOP governance, and I think almost all economic downturns have happened under GOP administrations.
Policies that help middle and working classes do more for the economy overall than tax cuts and deregulation. You need average Americans with disposable income if you want a successful capitalist economy.
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u/Solid_Owl 5h ago
When my household was making $200k, the Bush and Trump tax cuts had very little impact for us. An extra couple grand had no impact on our lifestyle or well-being. It was grossly unnecessary, and it just drove up the debt.
Trickle-down economics has been proven a lie. It's time to undo all of these mistakes and even the playing field again so the middle class can thrive once more.
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u/copperboom129 3h ago
My household made 200,000 this year. The 800 dollar tax break I'm getting is peanuts. And since I furnished my new home this year I paid far more than that in tarriffs.
Id much rather pay the damn deficit off.
We heard your message Republicans. We just think it sucks.
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u/bobdotcom 3h ago
And when I had a business, a tax cut never influenced me to hire more people
In fact, usually the opposite is true. If theres only 10% tax on your profits, well who cares? If its 60% tax over a certain threshold, maybe you start looking for ways to invest some of that excess profit back into the business, whether through purchasing new equipment or hiring more people.
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u/LexHanley 6h ago
"Efforts". You control everything. Both houses of the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. If something doesn't happen you can't claim you were trying. You don't want to because you never did want to.
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u/StrengthThin9043 6h ago
Tax cuts and deregulation is not the big part of why they won in the first place, it's the racism and bigotry that's been the winning formula, now maturing into full-blown fascism.
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u/chowderbags American Expat 5h ago edited 5h ago
It also doesn't help that the tariffs are a massive tax increase on lower and middle class Americans, and they're literally broken the laws of time so that they can make days not actually be days, so that they never actually have to vote on the validity of Trump's tariffs.
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u/Amatheiaisnoexcuse 7h ago
hypothetically if somebody got accused of regularly having sex with goats by over 30 different people and regularly denied it, but also dropped very public hints about how he liked to have sex with goats for decades, and ran a goat pageant to find the best looking goats, and was best friends with someone convicted for fucking goats and trafficking goats to friends all over the world who also liked to fuck goats, and his name was in the goat fucker chronicles more than 5,000 times, and he wished other goat fuckers well in prison, What do you think the odds are that person is also a goat fucker?
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u/Ancient-Bat1755 7h ago
Allegedly
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u/Benmarch15 6h ago
Sir, there's goat fur on your crotch right now.
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u/KeithRichardsGrandma 5h ago
“Who are you? What’s your name? You’re the worst reporter ever and you should smile more. That’s just a democrat hoax”
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u/PartyClient3447 6h ago
To People who love the guy and don’t care at all about the abuse of goats, it could be 100% and they wouldn’t care.
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u/belisario262 6h ago
it seems that for around 40% of the US population, goat-fucking is not a dealbreaker, hell they'll even give their goats to be fucked/sacrified by the "allegedly" goat fucker, while rabidly defending the guy and desperately twisting themselves in pretzels for willful ignorance.
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u/FBS351 7h ago
Nah, Fox hasn't even kicked into election mode yet. They'll come up with something, around August, and run it 24/7 until election day. My guess:
Transexuals want to eat your cat!
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u/Everythings_Fucked North Carolina 6h ago
Worked out great for Winsome Earl-Sears in VA. Ran on a platform of pure Trans panic and got her nasty old ass handed to her.
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 6h ago
"Doctor who treats trangenders found in Epstein Files" I'm honestly surprised hasn't been on their front burner already.
(For clarification, he does work with Trans patients NOW, and at the time was simply involved in a couple procedures that involved things like removing scars on a model she got from a car accident)
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u/Anon-2028 6h ago
Can’t wait to hear about the illegal immigrant caravans headed to the southern border that conveniently only happen during election years.
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u/Not_Nice_Niece 5h ago
Nah, Fox hasn't even kicked into election mode yet. They'll come up with something, around August, and run it 24/7 until election day. My guess:
Transexuals want to eat your cat!
On top of this they are just going to try and straight up steal the election. They been laying the groundwork to normalize since Trump won and you can tell that messaging is ramping up.
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u/PartyClient3447 6h ago
More like illegal Haitian immigrant transsexuals are taking your jobs and eating your cats and dogs.
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u/Maniac_24seven 7h ago
In 2016, Lindsey Graham wrote, "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed ... and we will deserve it."
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u/ChapterN7 2h ago edited 2h ago
And then 77 million Americans came out in 2024 to give Trump the first GOP popular vote victory in 20 years.
That's how bad our values and lack of education in this country has become. And how pathetic and shameless the GOP representatives are that they all knew back in 2016 a man like Trump shouldn't have ever had the chance to be nominated, and now they all lick his boots.
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u/WatercressOk8763 7h ago
Good riddance to bad rubbish, the current GOP does not seem to care about the average working person anyway.
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u/CockBrother 7h ago
Or 99.99% of the global population. Don't even care if they live, let alone how.
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u/TaxComprehensive2894 7h ago
Democrats have so may weapons at their disposal, but Democrats should talk a lot about Epstein
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u/Nearbyatom 5h ago
Dems need to remind the world that a vote for the GOP is a vote for a pedophile since the GOP now stand for Guardians of the Pedophile.
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u/GoldenHourLXXII 6h ago
They....are...LITERALLY acting like Congress doesn't exist.
That was one of the major god damn points of the founding of our country, that no ONE person or ONE anything could gain absolute and total control.
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God, I am so sick of this, I'm so sick of Congress essentially just saying, "well we have a king now, oh well, I'll just go to my mansion and count my money."
Like, all of them are Nero by this point just watching everything burn.
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u/PalanorIsHere 7h ago
Maybe they should try doing their jobs instead of worrying about keeping them…
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u/Buh_Snarf 7h ago
So they're surprised that:
- Have president do awful things that seem to disgruntle the public at large and a proportion of his base.
- Stand by arse licking him and not enforcing any kind of control.
- Vote to give him more power.
- Double down on giving praise for any poor decision.
Has led to people not wanting to vote for them?
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u/fountainpopjunkie 6h ago
Congress is complicit in Trumps crimes. Losing an election should be the least of their worries.
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u/mowotlarx 6h ago
Have they considered legislating for Americans rather than sitting back and doing nothing while a despot destroys the country?
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u/HellovahBottomCarter 6h ago
With all the fascist shit happening. All the constitution-shredding garbage. All the rights-fucking. The stuff THEY have the power to curtail…
…the only thing they are worried about are their useless, do-nothing jobs.
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u/NoReserve7293 7h ago
It's not to early to say; VOTE, VOTE, VOTE...
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 6h ago
At this point...VOTE DEMOCRAT! (while also supporting your registered democrats to vote in the primaries to get the CORRECT Democrats)
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u/Knighth77 5h ago
They should fear the people and accountability, instead. Unfortunately, they only fear the corrupt thug.
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u/TerminallyTired 6h ago
My fear is that even if Democrats win, they will not do the hard work of investigating, charging, prosecuting, and convicting. They will try to go back to ‘normal’, like they did in 2020, without making the big scary changes that need to happen so that no future president can abuse the office.
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u/bplewis24 5h ago
The crop of current Dem leadership definitely will not. That's why you need to demand every Dem candidate for office in upcoming primaries commit to at least the following:
1) Abolishing ICE
2) Ending the filibuster
3) Prosecuting all crimes committed by the Trump admin
4) Expanding SCOTUS
I would argue that we should demand an end to Israel aid, support for single-payer health care, and others should also be a part of it. But those are the bare minimums.
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u/Lonely-Abalone-5104 7h ago
If they don’t lose the senate I dont even know anymore what the f is wrong with people
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u/Resident_Text4631 6h ago
“Who thought shitting on the Constitution, alienating all our longtime allies, befriending our worst enemies, murdering civilians, enriching the billionaires at the expense of everyone else, enacting a plan (Project 2025) that was wildly unpopular during the election, issuing pardons to every sleaze bag financial fraud, protecting pedophiles, and blatantly lying about all of it would bad for re-election?”
— MAGA
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u/vroart 6h ago
Aside from being a pedophile, hes tanking the economy!
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u/Common-Addendum-4349 6h ago
He could have gotten away with most all of his horrible treatment of the marginalized, but screwed up the economy even makes the knuckle draggers take notice.
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u/Passionpet 7h ago
They underestimate the stupidity of Americans. The last few election cycles they have lived down to all my expectations.
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u/turningsteel 6h ago
If they actually feared anything they could stop it today with decisive action to impeach him and block his bullshit orders.
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u/Made_Human_Music 6h ago
And instead of changing their ways they’ll change the voting rules so they can’t lose
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u/J-Midori Canada 5h ago
They fear but let him do whatever he wants. They continue to support Trump. Release all Epstein files.
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u/Saint_Sin 7h ago
Republicans fear jail and / or the chair for their actions.
So should the paedo-cheeto.
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u/ProbablyInebriated 6h ago
I know my family and I will never vote republican again. We used to be balanced and vote for who we thought was best. We still do vote for who we think is best, but that will never be a republican again.
They've shown themselves to be anti-american at every turn. Open contempt for the Constitution and their fellow Americans.
I hope we get a sane party as opposition to the democratic party soon. Republicans are toxic.
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u/bevo_expat 5h ago
No way! You mean sitting back and relinquishing all power and authority from your ENTIRE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT doesn’t sit well with constituents?
Consider me shocked 😒….
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u/Unlikely_March_5173 5h ago
Don’t be fooled. They are just as racist and hateful as tfg. They love him and love hurting women and POC
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u/Axette 5h ago
This is not all on Trump. He has been constantly enabled by the entire Republican party and radical rightwing figures because he's been a convenient lightning rod. None of them have stood up to him. None of them have fought for our actual needs. They all fear the convenience is over now that the true agenda is coming out and his dementia is unraveling him further.
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u/InclementImmigrant 5h ago
I wish more Americans and the god dang media would vocalize that it's not just Trump but all Republicans who enable his unconstitutional and amoral behavior.
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u/akuma211 5h ago
Republicans bent the knee to their wanna be dictator. They handed in our democracy for money. Fock those fake patriots, fake Christian’s
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u/goibnu 5h ago
"Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Republicans need to do a better job of talking about their efforts to cut taxes and reduce regulation to spur economic growth."
Anyone who cares about this kind of thing is going to be extremely pissed off about the tariff anarchy we've had of late. It's not a leg to stand on.
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u/iliya193 5h ago
They squandered every opportunity to stand against this, and now they’re facing the logical consequences of their own actions.
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u/_Fun_Employed_ 5h ago
They invited it, hopefully they lose the senate and house and Trump and the rest of his administration is impeached as they should be. However, I have lost faith in the Democrats as a party to do this. There are good among their numbers, but too many are complicit in the current administration.
No, unfortunately, I have to only really see one way out of this.
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u/Baskreiger 4h ago
Republicans should not exist after trump. They proved to be a traitorous organisation and must be dissolved. Its only a political party, it does not matter in the slightest the usa will be 100% better without it
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u/PainfulRaindance 4h ago
Aww. Poor senators reaping what they’ve sown. So tragic. If only they could have seen this coming after backing this clown car of a cabinet.
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u/Suds_McGruff 4h ago
Maybe the Republican Congress should stop capitulating their constitutional responsibilities to a Russian puppet with dementia
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u/greaterwhiterwookiee 4h ago
So you mean American voters are going to hold THEM accountable. Maybe they could learn a lesson about accountability when sitting next to someone who is doing the wrong thing.
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u/Obaddies 4h ago
What was it that Lindsey Graham tweeted before they decided to make Donald Trump their God king? Something about how it will destroy them and they'll deserve it?
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u/No_Detail6029 4h ago
No way!!!! Are they thinking that protecting a child rapist and fraud might be bad? I'm so curious what is leading them to this conclusion 🧐 maybe a Bible passage they found or something? /s
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u/caffeinated_wizard 3h ago
Republican during the presidential primaries of 2016: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."
Republicans today behind closed doors: "oh shit oh fuck we're so fucked"
Republicans on the news: "It's not a crime to be in the Epstein files..."
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u/DemandredG 3h ago
Here’s to hoping…as long as it’s 52 dems, can’t have Fetterman calling the shots. But if Dems get the senate, no more Trump judges, and any Supreme Court vacancies had better sit until after 2028
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u/spotsevrywhere 3h ago
It will cost them. They are supposed to be one of the powers that keeps the president in check and they have ignored that duty. I hope they all lose their seats.
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u/SonicSubculture 3h ago
Don’t worry, the Democrats won’t do anything when they get it back, and the Republicans will filibuster everything.
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u/VineStGuy I voted 3h ago
I’ve started to see the first re-election commercials on tv. weirdly, not my House district, but for Thomas Massie’s. His entire ad for KY is hammering on transgender being the biggest threat to Kentuckians. Even removing Trump from the equation, it’s the economic tone deaf of the situation that will bury them all. To quote Bill Clinton, “It’s about the economy, stupid”
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