the power in these men pointing is nearly palpable

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    I have to admit I actually agree with this. It’s the one thing that can turn non-voters into voters.

    A lot of Americans don’t believe any of the Epstein stuff. They chalk it up to conspiracy or celebrity gossip. There’s still alt of states where the unrestricted age of consent is 16, and where the age of consent can go as low as 14 depending on circumstances.

    People are dying all the time. There’s always another cop killing someone. These people don’t believe it will happen to them. It doesn’t happen in my neighborhood. It doesn’t happen to people like me. The propaganda tells them the victim deserved it.

    They don’t care about Venezuela or Greenland. A lot of Americans probably couldn’t identify those countries on a map anyways.

    They care about their bills. Their struggle to survive. Trump beat Harris by focusing on the price of eggs. That’s the key to defeating Trump. I don’t LIKE it. I wish my neighbors were better educated, more motivated, and made better decisions. But that’s the reality of America today.

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    Ummm they should be going all in an affordability becauae the country is suffering. Would they just ignore it if the president was Dem?

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    “Democrats in the House and Senate [are] focusing on lowering your costs, dealing with affordability. Republicans, led by Donald Trump, are focused on spending treasure and, God forbid, lives on military adventurism overseas,” Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer told reporters this week, just before the chamber voted to advance a resolution halting further attacks on Venezuela without congressional permission.

    Lmao Chuck Schumer is trying to play this card? Hey, how did you feel about throwing away countless lives and money in Iraq and Afghanistan? How about all the money we’re spending to help Israel commit genocide? Maybe if some of that had been spent on making things more affordable, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

    If Chuck Schumer actually believed that for a second, we’d be hearing about his resignation and suicide. It’s just a soulless ghoul saying whatever voters want to hear, just so long as it doesn’t involve bashing ICE.

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    To be clear they have “the other guy is shooting moms in the face on national television” and they went with this instead.

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      The “truth” is “poor mom mislead by left hate speech went rogue and an innocent good guy was forced to defend himself”. At least in the MAGA world.

      Moms being murdered won’t convert a single MAGA, they’ll cheer it on as long as they are told this mom was aedomestic terrorist.

      Affordability affects even the most brainrot MAGA supporter personally.

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      The other guy is also a known pedophile.

      The other guy is also a known rapist.

      The other guy is also a known racist.

      The other guy is also a known fascist.

      We legitimately have the first guy in history that’s actually WORSE than literal Hitler. I cannot ever remember anyone saying Hitler was a pedophile. Plus, at least Hitler had a cat.

      Omg, I can’t believe I’m over here putting Hitler in a good light compared to anyone else…but here we are.

      It reminds me of a thing that was said by Jim Cornette once. If you’ve never heard of him, Jim Cornette is/was a tv personality in pro wrestling during the 1980s. Not a wrestler, but a manager. The important thing to take away from this is that to say he’s a very opinionated person is an understatement.

      So, in the 1980s he was working in wrestling in the same organization as a guy named Ole Anderson. He’s not important, other than to say in the 1980s Cornette hated the guy.

      Then by the 1990s, Cornette is in a different organization working for a guy named Bill Watts. Again, he’s not important other than to say that EVERYBODY hates Bill Watts.

      Flash forward to around 1997, and he’s working alongside a guy named Vince Russo. And of anybody in life, he has hated Russo more than anyone on the planet. He’s been quoted in modern times as saying that his plan is to live at least 1 day longer than Russo, just so he can piss on his grave before he dies.

      So in 1998 when he briefly met up with Ole Anderson, the guy who he used to hate the most in the 1980s, he said this to Ole:

      “There was a time I thought you were worst person walking this planet. Just an absolute scum and absolutely miserable to be around. I actually have a list of people I hate the most. You used to be number one on that list. Well then I met some of these other jackasses, and you’ve moved down the list, simply by not doing anything differently. I just now have the displeasure of meeting everybody else.”

      And thats the quote that modern times reminds me of. Hitler has moved down the list simply by not doing anything different just because we now have the displeasure of knowing Trump.

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        Crazy how easy it is to win over voters by focusing on anti-fascism and affordability instead of just “I’m not the other guy”

        So easy even a brown muslim socialist in the heart of America could do it

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          So easy even a brown muslim socialist in the heart of America could do it

          You mean the CIA fake leftist plant? LMBO!

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              Is that what he’s doing? I read it as “limbo”, and thought he was making the commentary of “how low can we go?”

              I’m not saying I agree with that statement. I’d openly support a socialist president. Just so long as he doesn’t diddle kids, or murder americans. That feels like a really low bar, and yet we aren’t clearing it.

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    Maybe say something about the Stormtroopers all over our nation killing us? Maybe say something about torching all alliances? You can’t be this fucken idiotic, can you? Unless… Maybe… The Citizens United crowd wants this?

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    Affordability

    “My opponent wants to send 10,000 armed men to the border to begin seizing women and children, summarily executing any vaguely hispanic looking men, and looting them for their most valuable belongings before casting the survivors out into the desert to starve. And I say we need to consider whether all the money for this program could be better spent on a means-tested plan to subsidies charter schools in low income minority neighborhoods.”

    “Democrats in the House and Senate [are] focusing on lowering your costs, dealing with affordability. Republicans, led by Donald Trump, are focused on spending treasure and, God forbid, lives on military adventurism overseas,” Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer told reporters this week, just before the chamber voted to advance a resolution halting further attacks on Venezuela without congressional permission.

    Fully unironically. Jesus fuck.

    Schumer doubled down at his recent press conference, promising that “Democrats are going to make healthcare and other high costs, the high cost of living, the No 1 issue for all of 2026”.

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    Affordability AND anti-corruption would be better.

    That would give them a mandate to go after regime insiders for their many openly committed financial crimes.

    But the Dems would rather let fascism win if the alternative is jailing the rich for their crimes.

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      A lot of the Dems are corrupt. They have the same donors, the same insider trading, cut the same deals with corps, foreign investories, etc, and the get a cut of the pie.

      The reason they didn’t prosecute Trump etc, is because then they’d open up themsevles to prosecution for a lot of the same shit. Hence why they foot dragged and just hoped he’d go away.

      The reason to become a rep in american politics is to get rich, or richer. It’s not to serve your country or make people’s lives better. That disappeared in the 90s. Most it’s entirely pay to play.

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    Guarantee pardons and cash payouts for people that liquidate Republicans and ICE. Use the tactics your enemies use, that you struggle to defeat. You will either win, or discover the flaws in your enemies tactics

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    I want a candidate as pissed off as I am. I’m not voting for another old rich man, i dont give a shit which party he claims to represent.