• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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    Maga/gop/republicans are building reputation that is going to be remebered for generations.

    That’s what I thought during the Bush years. I thought so again during Trump 1.0.

    Then they forgot.

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      Trump killed over 1 million Americans through his completely fucked up and politicized Covid response.

      Literally there’s more dead Americans from Covid than anywhwre else. AND we’re the 18th highest in deaths per capita despite being so very spread out.

      Bush didn’t let everyone’s grandparents die in a pandemic then bail out his corpo friends with an unmonitored 1.7 trillion dollar blank check while the economy was failing.

      No one forgot Bush. Trump is the concentrated malignant greed at the heart of how Bush got elected. He is magnitudes worse of a leader in every measurable and conceivable way. He corrupted the GOP from one that publically hated him into one that literally worships him as a king. He literally killed the GOP by converting them to his own MAGA religion, and they let him. So he’s now killing millions through starvation with the death of USAID and SNAP benefits while demolishing the Whitehouse and extorting American corporations for the money to do so.

      Bush was no where near this level of fucking insanity.

      MAGA is now the face of the GOP. So the GOP is never coming back.

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        Okay but they still forgot MAGA between 2020 and 2024. The reason MAGA and the GOP won isn’t because they got more people to vote for them, it’s because 8 Million who voted for Biden in 2020 did not vote for Harris in 2024. I really wish this were the same political landscape as the 1960s where we can hold on to our grudges forever, but clearly the advent of propoganda like Fox News, TikTok, X-Twitter, and FaceBook have made it very easy to program people en masse.

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          It definitley has. But they’re only programmed to support the things they hear will help them while they are already being helped. So once the help stops coming, and they realized WHO stopped it from coming, the GOP will no longer be able to piss on their face while telling them it’s raining. They no longer have a house to protect them from that piss, let alone a job or Healthcare.

          The reason the GOP won is because they’ve been using social media and cable news to create a false reality for the past 2 decades.

          One where intelligence is bad, and everything America stood for is woke. In this reality democrats and liberals are the defacto bad guys keeping America from winning. Winning what? Whatever game this narrative designed to be played by two political teams. The war on drugs. The war on terror. The war on DEI. All bullshit. All to distract from the reality where those teams are all part of the same government forum designed to enact policy compromises.

          GOP members in 2024 didn’t vote Harris simply because they never even heard from her.

          Dems have failed to fight the growing false reality built against them. Not even daring to call Trump a bad name when he killed millions.

          So the problem is simply that Dems have no accurate representation in this false reality. And it’s a reality that’s now consumed the world. Simple because algorithmic searching for information can be manipulated to present the results you want. So billionaires and their hedgefunds purchased the ways and means of every internet, telecom, media, and newspaper to make sure you never even know what’s real anymore. As whatever they want you to read about the world is the only thing their algorithms will provide you.

          So we have farmers getting fucked by Trump while saying Biden and Harris did nothing. Despite Biden and Harris bending over backwards for them.

          In this very thread we have someone telling me Biden was president in 2020. 5 years ago. Can’t remember president Trump telling us to eat horse pills instead of getting vaccinated.

          This false reality is only enabled as long as the means of the people in it are being met. They no longer are. Trump made sure of it. Publically.

          So now it’s really hard to lie to someone now they realize it’s not rain Trump is hitting them in the face with. Gotta have windows to get away with that.

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        Don’t forget a significant chunk of America was happy to let those people die so the well could still go to Applebee’s and not wear masks. They were old and weak, and they were going to die anyway, right?

        Many look at Bush fondly because he makes paintings and refused to vote for Trump.

        And the dems rolled over again and again and didn’t erect barriers to further destruction so they could appease the “centrists.”

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        I hear you but Bush unknowingly approved a lot of fucked up shit a la dick Cheney.

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          Agreed. He certainly did. But expanding the executive branch to control congress to take over several Independant institutions like the FCC and SEC fits the literal definition of Tyranny as it changes the actual shape of our government, permanantly, by the whims of a single man.

          Bush is bad. But he’s not Trump bad. After Bush there was still elections to win. After Trump there might not be. (if we are to take January 6th as an example of what happened last time he lost.)

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          Trump was president in 2020. The election was that November, and Biden didn’t enter office until January 2021.

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          He wasn’t. You’re completely and unquestionably wrong.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden

          Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.[a] (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025.

          This was less than 5 years ago my dude. Enough fingers on one hand to do the math working backwards.

          You should, unquestionably, be able to remember Trump telling us to eat horse pills instead of getting vaccinated. Or injecting bleach into your skin instead of getting vaccinated.

          Something that actually hurt and killed several people, and was tracked in reality. Something you clearly don’t participate in:

          https://www.poison.med.wayne.edu/updates-content/kstytapp2qfstf0pkacdxmz943u1hs

          From the year 2020, proving you wrong again:

          Accidental poisonings as a result of Americans ingesting bleach or other household cleaners spiked over March and April, nearly doubling as President Trump suggested the chemicals could be useful in fighting coronavirus infections.