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      I was really surprised at first that it was a woman, but then it became pretty clear that she was an old, white woman, and then it at least made more sense. She’s (presently) unaffected by any of the bullshit that is being thrust upon women of child-bearing age, the persons of color, the non-binary folk, the young people hurt most by skyrocketing housing costs, etc; and she’s thoroughly unapologetic about her lack of empathy for any of those groups of her fellow Americans. Goddamn, what a bummer.

      EDIT: Then I made the mistake of continuing to listen, and half or more all of the callers for the next 20 minutes are brainwashed boomers ranting about how Biden was the devil and Trump is going to save us from the illegal immigrants who are ruining all of our lives. Yeesh.

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        You have to remember who watches C-Span enough to want to ever call in. They are, in general, not sane people.

        But it does show you what some Trump fans think.

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        Fucking boomers. That’s all they can do is repeat the exact same talking points verbatim to what they get spoonfed on Fox News. They can’t explain why, they can’t produce numbers, they can’t even get surface deep and think about the logistics about the things they’re saying. Their minds can’t perform that kind of thought.

        “Why do you like Trump?” “He’s gonna get rid of them millions of e-legals that come over the border every day” “He said he would do that last time. Why didn’t he?” “The demoncrats wouldn’t let him!” “He had control of the House and Senate and…” “NO HE DIDN’T” “Um, yes he did and he here’s proof. And if he couldn’t get it done then he is incompetent.”

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        The irony is that autocracy can very well end up impacting her, as well as anyone else in the country. These people never really think it through - even if they are entirely selfish, there is no way that something like autocracy doesn’t end up being very inexact as to who it ends up harming.

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    Democrats and Republicans set him up to do it. No balanced budget, meaning we don’t spend more then is taxed, no line item budget with expenditures that is easily digestible to the public that shows real information like how much corporations are actually paying in total for taxes, with tax cuts, refunds, subsidies, you need to cruise their own financials to find out how much the fed is propping up corporations. All we get is massive trillions of dollars budget consolidations. They owe the citizens services like roads, libraries, affordable housing, because of the damn taxes we pay, hell we could likely even afford free college and hand outs to third world countries if that was all. But we are paying massive subsidies, and buying products at egregious markups, not to mention the damned bailouts to banks and wallstreet, if these bastards don’t pay taxes how the hell they giving them MY money when they get bailed out! because “we under employ hundreds of thousands, if we cowwapse all those people can’t pay their taxes and evewyting cowwapses, so bailout pwease”. Or because someone is a friend with someone so they got the government contract instead of someone that might be capable of doing an amazing job, but doesn’t have name recognition. NO DAMNIT!!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, IF THEY WONT PAY TAXES THEN WHAT THEY WANT THEY DON’T GET. No bailouts, no incentives for your fancy plastic devices, no discount for moving shipping here, move your shipping away and pay a tarrif equal to how much you are saving, and OUR tax dollars go to actually fix the country. I70 is a damn toll road, it costs you money to travel between states, like the physical act of passing over land has a cost associated, what the hell are my taxes paying for? Not quality education to make sure the poor dyslexic girl at McDonalds could get a good paying job ill tell you that. Best as I can tell the money I’ve ever paid in taxes is simply paying interest on bombs used to kill children. How can anyone defend this system, even if it is one of the top 100 systems around? You mean there are worse?!?!

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    Gotta remember he is a Russian asset and as such he is doing what his daddy Vlad wants

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    “”“Despite claiming to stand for “hardworking American families” — who are typically considered to be a different category of human beings than woke Marxist transgender green-dealers, at least within the Fox Cinematic Universe”“” 😂

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      OK I am going to use that with a slight alteration, " Fox News Cinematic Universe" only because fox owns aliens and predator, last I checked.

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    I told you this the entire campaign. But America cares more about trans people than their own interest.

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      “I mean, did you see that trans athlete in some state I’ve never even been to, and have no plans on visiting?! That has serious impact to my life!!! We must elect Strong Leader to fix this, stat!” <- just about every qon idiot

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      It sucks being right about all this because going “I told you this would happen” during the worst crisis America has faced since the civil war just makes us look petty and a dick.

      I tried warning people about this. I wanted Trump in jail. I wanted Biden to push for large reforms to make people turn away from Trump’s lies about how he will personally fix the economy. I wanted the court packed into overturning every bad choice they made in the last 20 years.

      And I was called defeatist and pessimistic. “It takes time to arrest someone for a crime they committed.” “Bringing that issue up would be political suicide.”

      And now we’re stuck with Trump.

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        Right? My short list for Biden was, handle the covid pandemic, prosecute Trump and his cronies, close down the inhumane border camps.

        He went 0/3 on it.

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    Wow, really? But I thought he wanted to make Mexico and Denmark pay for things, and do all’s kinda of stuff to help people?

    It’s almost like some fucking idiots voted a guy into office who doesn’t care about them, and wants to create a feudalistic state or something. Like…who ever even saw that coming?

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    The party who’s caused a recession every presidential term they’ve held power in my lifetime… Might cause a recession this time too???

    Try to kick the football again Charlie Brown 🤷‍♂️

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    The trade wars during the late 1920’s lead to the Great Depression. The asswipe Orange Nero is making an effort to weaken the USA.

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    Crash the economy and buy it up on the cheap while the masses are struggling.