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bucolic_frolic

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1. It's about power, privilege, money, libertarianism, destruction of the New Deal.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Apr 30, 2025, 06:33 AM

Apr 30

If it were about the budget, they would have chopped benefits 7% or so and the public would have bought it.

No this is about cruelty, anger, power. An attempt to make America into Dickensian England. Bob Cratchit and all.

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It's about power, privilege, money, libertarianism, destruction of the New Deal. bucolic_frolic Apr 30 #1