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Arazi

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21. The GOP has had these goals for decades and they're so close now

Reply to Maine Abu El Banat (Original post)

Sun Jun 29, 2025, 10:29 AM

Jun 29

They’re not going to give up.

Look at the fall of Roe - a decades long project, seemingly hated by the vast majority of Americans, yet focusing on eliminating that right didnt hurt them at all. They won everywhere in 2024.

They know Americans have the attention span of a turnip and they have the propaganda machines to ensure their agenda gets spun to the rubes any way they like.

Dems poured trillions into projects for red states - didn't matter.

Dems expanded Medicaid and other programs for the poor - didnt matter.

The GOP manufactured a “recession” and a “bad economy” that wasn’t even real and their rubes ate it up.

Dems must find a way to counteract the GOP propaganda. Stat

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Exactly, it is already rigged Hornedfrog2000 Jun 29 #7

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By any means necessary JustAnotherGen Jun 29 #18

100%, one way or another, anyway but loose. I am open to whatever is necessary. marble falls Jun 29 #38

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More to the point The Blue Flower Jun 29 #29

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