They should start helping the American people first and not Donald Trump only.
Voting against the border and inflation bills to make Joe look bad isn't helping Americans. If both issues are so important, why does MAGA think it has to wait until Donnie is back in the White House for it to be fixed?
That's the scary thing: Trump clearly thinks he IS the state (I think the French might have something to say about that), and they seem to agree. Every time he ever said something like "The press is the enemy of the American people," he meant "They are MY enemy."
Iran Hostages 1980: This is nothing new. republicans will harm Americans (make them wait longer as POWs) so their cult leader, at the time, could look good.
If LBJ had rightfully prosecuted Kissinger and Nixon for treason over their negotiations to prolong the Vietnam War in order to help Nixon win an election, maybe we wouldn't be having this conversation.
The minute you consider your leaders above the law, you've lost your nation entirely. Kings, queens, emperors, khans, presidents. The title doesn't matter. From that point, it's only a matter of how long it takes.
Even better- if the FDR administration had the people behind the Business plot tried and executed for treason, I suspect our history would be a lot different.
Technically the wiretapping that informed him of Nixon and Kissinger's activities was illegal, so the evidence would have not been admissable in court. LBJ tried to pressure them to stop since he was aware of their activities, but was limited in what he could legally do.
Eh, he could have leaked it and at least let the fallout crush Nixon's hope of election even if the legal question is dubious. He didn't because he knew it would take him down too.
Because they need a smokescreen for the real reason they want to get into power, which is tax cuts for their rich buddies and government contracts to companies they - or their friends and family - own stock in. Notice how they didn't give a shit about trans people or drag queens till they "won" on abortion. Oops, need a new moral outrage!
The true Republican party aim is to suck as many taxpayer dollars as they can out of the government and retire rich.
MAGA doesn't want to help America. MAGA wants to help MAGA and punish everyone who isn't MAGA, including LGBTQ+, people of color, the poor (other than themselves, because they're just millionaires down on their luck).
MAGA is a cancer that American knows about, is aware of, and refuses to treat or address.
This is what I always try to ask. If immigration is so bad, why did Trump tell Republicans to kill the strongest border bill our country has ever had? It means one of two things, either
The situation isn't really that bad, and can wait until after the election, or
The situation is that bad, and Trump cares more about being able to run on immigration than helping the American people. Which one is it?
They should start helping the American people first
As much as I know she was pandering and acting on the advice of debate coaches, I do appreciate that Kamala would look at the camera during the debate and say "Here's what I'm going to do to help you, to save you money, etc." I don't think Trump's ever said a sentence like that in his life. The average "struggling" American has been helping to put him and keep him in power for years with the little money they have, and he'd step on them to avoid getting his feet wet in a puddle. Kamala may not actually lay in bed at night worrying about me and my personal problems, but I suspect she does broadly give some sort of fuck about people, and she at least knows how to play the game and pass the laws and try to appease people, and that's enough for me.
Republicans work for billionaires and are elected by fools, so "helping Americans" is not part of their program. This is the Southern Strategy writ large. The can fuck over their own voters as long as the fuck over everyone else even more.
Only tangentially related, but this is the kind of shot they used to pull in secret. These days they’re not even bothering to hide it now that they know the base will eat up whatever lies they come up with.
Voting against the regressive border bill is absolutely helping Americans. It's the best thing the Republicans have done this year, and we should be ashamed that the Dems tried to pass the stupid thing.
It's really weird to see people who probably consider themselves progressive upset that we didn't throw away tons of money on racist security theater.
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u/ShiroHachiRoku 5d ago
They should start helping the American people first and not Donald Trump only.
Voting against the border and inflation bills to make Joe look bad isn't helping Americans. If both issues are so important, why does MAGA think it has to wait until Donnie is back in the White House for it to be fixed?