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Yay!

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As Dick Cheney said, deficits don't matter.

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Karma got him but good.

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South Carolina is the "First in Treason in Defense of White Supremacy" state.

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When that happens, it's gonna get savagely vicious up in here. Let's see how well this comment ages with this following scenario:-In a few months from now, Tucker is finally gonna go over the edge and go on a n-word tirade live on his show. For good measure, he'll let the gay slurs fly from his mouth as well on the same show that the n-word tirade takes place. The next day, just about everyone, including this recipe sharing Mommy blog, will be screaming to the highest heaven that Tucker gets fired immediately. People from all over the country will pressure Corporate America to stop advertising on all Fox News media platforms, even the daytime shows, if Tucker isn't fired immediately, or Corporate America will face massive boycotts. Fox will fire Tucker. Then the Republicans will then scream to the highest heaven, "CANCEL CULTURE!!!11!!11" Finally, Republicans will punish Corporate America by ending their subsidies and raising both business and personal taxes.

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He went on to say that while Trump was able to energize voters by hitting on hot-button cultural topics, such as immigration and border security, it's now time for the GOP to get back to its traditional stance on fiscal issues.

Golly gee, why can't we all pretend again to be calm fiscal conservatives after we invited a TV monster to spend 4 years whipping up rage and welcoming the worst impulses in our base while we elected officials supported each other in our performance as theatrical scare mongers???

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It is ridiculous.

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I got my second Pfizer on April 9, and my second shingles vacc yesterday.

Am now purt near invinsible!

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I think that the economic anxiety argument does have some validity. When your wages don't keep up with inflation, like they have for the last 30 or so years, it does create anxiety among people, myself included. Republican politicians used tax cuts during the turn of the Millennium to increase purchasing power, when temporally relieved that anxiety among the people, myself included. But that increase in purchasing power doesn't last long. We are now at the point that cutting taxes don't bring increases in purchasing power anymore. That's why Republicans have turned to, as you put it so well, "racism, xenophobia, lost entitlement, and greed" to keep the base locked into the Republicans Party. Republicans big fear now is that the big "stimmy checks" that people have gotten recently might cause some of those economic anxious members of the GQP to leave the "family" and vote to the point that even voter suppression won't work for them.

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right... the dipweed who is forced to sit in her own plexiglass box in the VA legislature because she won't wear a mask... and was stripped of her committee assignments and censured by that same lege for calling the Capitol attackers 'Patriots' and not backing down...

Sound like a prizewinner

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America’s wealthiest counties became bluer in the 2020 presidential election. Among the 25 counties with the greatest concentrations of households earning more than six figures, President-elect Joe Biden won 16 – two more than 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. in 1988, Michael Dukakis carried just 5this is why they don't care about taxing the rich

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"Who is the party of fiscal restraint anymore?"

anymore? what did I miss? when were the Republicans ever that party of fiscal restraint you speak of?

Dear Lisa!

your idiotic gaslighting is an insult to everyone's (except your dumbass base who hates RINOs like you) intelligence.

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and lose the war they incite. again.

history may not repeat itself, but it rhymes (as someone much smarter than I am once said)

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When were the Republicans ever the party of fiscal restraint? Why, every time a Democrat was in the White House.

And that is absolutely the only time they are the party of fiscal restraint.

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Then we can haz infrastructure week?

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I think they're also getting tired of the own-the-libs bomb throwers. Since 2010, with the Freedom Caucus, the crazies have dictated the agenda and policies of the Republican Party. The Tea Party was crazy, Qanon's crazier. What's next?

Sure, bigbiz liked those tax cuts, but now, finally, ignoring all those problems the government didn't have the money to address is affecting their bottom lines. Every major bridge declared unsafe for vehicles over a certain weight is money out of their pockets when their trucks are forced to take the long way around. And you know they really loved conducting business over Zoom when their employees, customers, and clients all have shitty broadband access, unlike western Europe and parts of Asia where the government makes sure everyone has the access they need to do business.

We're falling behind on the global stage, and they know it, and it's now getting too expensive to stay competitive with those other places getting help from their governments, and they put all their eggs in the same basket with a handful of billionaires who are as batshit as their base.

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