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Tariff Isn't Tax on Other Countries?🤪
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If you're Republican it's simple:
I don't think he'll live more than 4 years anyway. Hopefully the movement collapses when he does
The r’s are going to replace one clown with another. Approval isn’t necessary if you’re a dictator.
I'm really looking forward to the turmoil in the Trumpublican Party after he's had his final Big Mac Attack. All the opportunists who've been using MAGA to advance themselves will be vying for position and clawing each other to pieces like the rats they are.
If you're a republican at this point you're one of two classes:
Elite, business owner, capitalist. Out for yourself and with enough money and resources and support to do what you want and evade hardships with ease while blaming people below you for their own problems. These are the people who know that if the system changes, they will lose their benefits and comforts and have every motivation in the world to keep pushing right-wing ideology even if they don't actually believe in it on some level. They have the luxury of not actually caring.
One of the people below the elite who work two or more jobs or can't get ahead no matter what they do because the system is designed to keep the poor where they are and keep filtering the wealth upwards. These are the people without the time or education to learn why their lives are trash, and manage to watch 30 minutes of FOX or OAN news clips on facebook every Sunday night before bed so they truly, honestly believe that immigration and trans people are the source of all their problems and genuinely don't understand why the good guys aren't doing something about all the bad guys, because this is the extent of their mental strength.
In truth I'd bet most of these people in numbers 2 are watching this stuff on their phones far more often than 30 minutes on Sunday night.
The wildest stuff comes up on my coworkers and acquaintances apps while scrolling. Like they'll be watching a cooking video then scroll down and a video about why this trans woman is the devil shows up. Usually they'll scroll right by but it's a constant stream of hate/disinformation on top of the usual low quality click bait.