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Old 09-05-2023, 09:48 AM
 
Location: Vallejo
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All of this narrative ignores the basic fact that the party runs on the donations of very wealthy contributors, who basically run the party and set the agenda.

So while you might have the impression that something significant has changed about the party, it hasn't. It's all a mind game being played on the MAGA faithful following. MAGA is a marketing scheme.

The very wealthy donors still call the shots, set the policy and write the legislation. The likes of Rick Scott, Chuck Grassley, Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz are all the same neocons they ever were ... Even the darlings of the MAGA movement (Hawley, Gaetz, Taylor) are the children of wealth. These people do not represent the working class.

All that is ever proposed by Republicans in Congress is the same old neocon BS they have been peddling since the 1980's, and the MAGA faithful support it all without question.

Nothing has actually changed.
Koch Bros used to be the lefts boogeyman for Republican donos like Soros is for the right for Democrat donos. The funded dried up significantly when MAGA took over but now the facet is being turned back on to keep Trump/MAGA out.
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Old 09-05-2023, 09:49 AM
 
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The party is nowhere if it keeps running MAGA candidates.
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Old 09-05-2023, 09:50 AM
 
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The good cop(pubs) bad cop(dems) routine got old decades ago. Theyve been in it for the money forever, but now its just obscene.
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Old 09-05-2023, 09:53 AM
 
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The party is nowhere if it keeps running MAGA candidates.
MAGA has become the party. There is no GOP outside of MAGA any longer. Witness how terrified Republican candidates are to utter a single negative thing about Trump. It's not a party any longer, it's a Trump cult.
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Old 09-05-2023, 09:55 AM
 
Location: New York City
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I read this blog by James Howard Kunstler today and it summarizes how I am feeling about the Republican Party and the sorry state of our country
What you are referring to as "the Republican Party" is the uni-party establishment that is indistinguishable from the Democrats.

That party is dead and buried and the population has woken up, at least on the conservative side.

The liberal side was waking up, but the Democrats quashed the movement by rigging the primaries against Bernie Sanders. You have a chance again with RFK Jr., should you choose to escape the control of corporate media propaganda
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Old 09-05-2023, 10:22 AM
 
Location: So Cal
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What you are referring to as "the Republican Party" is the uni-party establishment that is indistinguishable from the Democrats.

That party is dead and buried and the population has woken up, at least on the conservative side.

The liberal side was waking up, but the Democrats quashed the movement by rigging the primaries against Bernie Sanders. You have a chance again with RFK Jr., should you choose to escape the control of corporate media propaganda
The DNC tanked Bernie Sanders. No way would the big corporate establishment would let a Bernie type in.
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Old 09-05-2023, 10:43 AM
 
Location: Middle America
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Whoever they were, they rolled over for Tyrant Trump to take over. And much worse, with all that's transpired since, they continue to support the criminal and lunatic.

Triple M: Mega MAGA madness.

All my family used to be strong Republican. Half are now dedicated Democrats. The others are unaffiliated, though anti-GOP.
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Old 09-05-2023, 10:45 AM
 
Location: New York City
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Whoever they were, they rolled over for Tyrant Trump to take over. And much worse, with all that's transpired since, they continue to support the criminal.
Trump is the cleanest president in history, they could not find any illegal behavior in his nearly 4 decades of existence so they had to invent a bunch of crimes (fabricated Steele Dossier, fabricated corruption charges calling Ukraine to get evidence of actual Biden corruption, keeping classified papers when presidents have supreme authority to declassify, etc...).

You should be more concerned with actual criminals like Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. Obama knowingly assassinated an American citizen without trial, and Hilary/Bill are suspected of several murders outside of when they were in the white house
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Old 09-05-2023, 10:48 AM
 
Location: Florida
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@Bobdreamz...

You leftists sure like abortions.
Nobody likes "Abortions"

We just want them to be "safe" and "Legal" as opposed to the extreme who thinks that they won't happen despite the "Draconian Laws imposed on Women.

Where is the Moral objectivity?

Perhaps we should "Neuter" all Heterosexual Men also since they are the ROOT cause of Pregnancy and Un Wanted Abortions?
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Old 09-05-2023, 10:50 AM
 
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Trump is the cleanest president in history, they could not find any illegal behavior in his nearly 4 decades of existence so they had to invent a bunch of crimes (fabricated Steele Dossier, fabricated corruption charges calling Ukraine to get evidence of actual Biden corruption, keeping classified papers when presidents have supreme authority to declassify, etc...).

You should be more concerned with actual criminals like Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. Obama knowingly assassinated an American citizen without trial, and Hilary/Bill are suspected of several murders outside of when they were in the white house
Sometimes it's hard to spot satire online, but the sad thing is, I think you actually believe all of this.
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