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‘We lose the midterms’: Republicans worry Iran might have already cost them Congress
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They won't attempt to stop doing the things the country hates, however...
Democrats will take office on Jan 2nd and announce the need to compromise with Moderate Republicans about three days later. They'll pass enormous bailouts for the tech industry, a marginally increased spending package for ICE and the Pentagon, a massive tax cut plan for middle class people with over $40k in auto loans, the Joe Manchin Memorial Coal Energy Independence Act, and then advance the "Act to Declare Donald Trump a Naughty Boy" which... gosh darnit... we just can't get it out of committee because we don't have the votes!
Nonetheless, Democrats will declare that they outsmarted Trump, by tricking him into signing the "Make Israel Great Again" Act. And we'll hit a bipartisan consensus on adding antisemites to the concentration camps. Also, Elon Musk will be given a trillion dollars, in a bag, out the back of the Capital Building. Please don't ask how or why.
I will be called a Russian bot for predicting this.
No you'll be called a Russian bot for the needless bothsiderism you threw out as a completely unrelated response to what you were replying to.
Like, holy shit dude. When someone points out Republicans doing bad, you don't always have to jump in with a much longer complaint about Democrats doing shit too. Time and a place.
~ Julius Nyerere, a Tanzanian politician, anti-colonial activist, political theorist, and Russian botfarm
This is what these people don't understand. They're the same side of the same coin, the other side doesn't have representation hardly at all. Voting for evil is still evil winning.