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If it plummets it will be Joe Biden’s doing. He made it go up remember. He’s making inflation happen in Joe Biden’s America.
Denying half the population healthcare doesn't seem like a solid platform, worst of luck with that >

They ran on a platform of denying most of the country healthcare before and their efforts would have worked if it wasn't for John McCain. So, don't think it will hurt them as bad as you might think. Once the spin factory gets a hold of it, they will make it seem like women being forced by the government to give birth to their rapist's baby is the only fair and honest thing to do. >

I disagree. Women and young voters punished Republicans pretty badly in this last election. Nothing I’ve seen has shown me that this issue will be going away anytime soon. It’s  one thing to TALK about denying people healthcare, but another thing to do it and shrug as people die. No amount of spin is going to convince the Pro-Choice movement that carrying a rapists baby to term is somehow moral. >

I get what you're saying, but the very first issue the republicans in the house tried discussing was cutting social security.
In some cases, people get well over $1 million dollars in total compensation from medicare/medicaid/social security.
Why any person would vote for that party is totally beyond my comprehension.
From a purely financial perspective, it's completely moronic. It's like voting to set yourself on fire financially.
You would be financially better off taking your money to a casino then being subjected to Republican policy making.
I don't even know how to go about doing something like convincing somebody to vote against their own best interests like that.
You have to give it to the republicans there... They're really, and I mean seriously good at manipulating people into doing things that are an absolutely terrible idea.
There definitely has to be a very major disconnect between their voters and reality. >

I used to think there was a disconnect. I don't think there is one.  Their base is okay with setting themselves on fire if it means certain people (anyone who is not them) will get hurt or suffer. >

For some of them, you're correct, but others have told thing me things like "my grand dad voted for republicans, my parents voted for republicans, so I vote for republicans," and I am talking to a person that does not understand the basics of US politics. I mean things like, how the electoral college elects a president, or how bills become laws, as examples. >

That’s that sweet Alpha Serf mentality the GOP wants! >

"So the problem with 2022 is that we didn't lose hard enough" >

That's exactly what I was thinking. McConnell urged GOP members to NOT talk about abortion and focus on other issues back in 2022. Unless they're taking a 180 on the issue, they really haven't learned from the past. At least they are consistent with their rhetoric. >

Lol Republicans don’t learn >

They have learnt.
They have learnt that they can gerrymander and restrict voting with impunity. They have learnt they can lie and use half-truths to stampede people. They have learnt that anti "woke" works, and demonising the "radical left" is a popular policy.
2024 will be a sh*t storm, and I see the GOP winning both the house and senate if something is not done about the broken electoral system in the USA.
Trump will get the nomination if he is not in prison, and if he is free still, he will use this to play the victim again. Why you might ask, well the GOP desperately wants to win again and at the moment no one is stepping up. I think DeSantis will step back, he's clever enough to realise the pain of going against Trump's base at the moment. >

I agree that the election systems are broken at the state level in some red states where gerrymandering is horrific, but in 2020 the presidential election and blue state congressional elections were pretty uneventful, and the Dems performed great. 
America is tired of Trump, and if Republicans run him again in 2024, his loss will be even greater and even more humiliating.  Unfortunately, the GOP has no choice but to let him continue to hold the party by the balls, because if they attempt to kick him out, he takes his loyal MAGA voters with him and the Republicans can't afford to lose any votes. 
Demographics are looking extremely bleak for the GOP. Their base of elderly conservative whites is dying off as a younger generation of diverse progressives is rising in their place. 2020 was very likely their last chance at the white house for a generation, and they flubbed it. 
The smart people within in the GOP realize this, and are planning accordingly. They know that their chances of controlling the federal government are further shrinking with each election cycle, and so they've instead banked on a new strategy: defang the federal government so that red states can return to a pre-civil rights order in which they ruled like oppressive mini confederacies without federal intervention. 
We're going to see the GOP hunker down in their fiefdoms as a regional party, lobbing political and legal attacks on the feds and promoting sectarian violence on blue urban centers, daring the feds to take action. 
A lot of rational people are rightly confused when they see the GOP continuing to attack civil rights, free speech, and reproductive rights when those issues cost them nationally in 2020 and 2022. But that's because those people don't understand the plan. >

They're intentionally targeting a fast growing demographic that is showing up to vote them out - young women. I will not be surprised if they go after birth control next. Precedents can clearly be overturned with this SCOTUS. My darkest take on this - young men will get even less consensual sex from young women because of these GOP policies. Then, the GOP will use this rejection and isolation and frustration in young men to drive more authoritarian values that require women to be suppressed for men to have better lives. They're banking on angry men saving them. >

Totally agree. Sexually frustrated young men are a terrifying demographic. And rather than teach them how to improve themselves and have healthy, respectful relationships with women, conservatives double down on these young men's frustrations and resentments. It's incredibly dangerous. >

Example ~ all the white boy’s shooters >

It’s almost funny how they don’t learn or understand. Then I look out from my perch and see how that ignorance and cruelty reigns. >

On one level they don't care about, or even want, the responsibility of governing. As long as they can grift, wage culture wars, own the libs, and pass the occasional tax cut, they're totally satisfied. >

And given that stroking their ego is a job in itself what do they actually accomplish? The world could burn and they’d still be unsatisfied >

Look we Republicans have to focus on social issues like abortions, wokeness,  transgenders, etc to evoke grievance, fear and hatred of the Libs. We have no answers to pressing problems like unemployment, National health insurance, lowering prescription drug costs, improving education, tax fairness, immigration etc. /s >


We have no answers to pressing problems like unemployment, National health insurance, lowering prescription drug costs, improving education, tax fairness, immigration. 

Yes, they do, no taxes on corps, high taxes for the rest, no healthcare for the masses, abject poverty for the majority, minorities where they should be.... That's the GQP way, fucking regressives. >

Yeah, they have an answer to the families struggling, one answer for all of it:
"Fuck you for being poor. Should have been rich, they're doing great. In fact, better than ever. But you choose to be poor? Fuck you." >

Sums it up >

They are leaning harder and harder into the e evangelical crowd. Really trying to push that religious war angle. >

I feel like it's gotten to the point where the crowd they were trying to please has just taken over. >

By the time 2024 comes around, there will be many more families who have been forced to become intimately familiar with how deeply these laws hurt pregnant women by limiting their access to life saving care. It’s almost like the people pushing this platform are totally unfamiliar with what led a Catholic nation like Ireland to legalize abortion (Savita Halappanavar). >

That’s what I’ve been thinking. We are already being subjected to accounts of women being put in the worst situations possible in states with harsh anti abortion laws. Do they think we’re going to forget that when it’s something we’re reminded of daily? >

Geez. South Carolina's my home state but I have lived abroad for many years now. What's the scoop? Anything on the local news or is it all anecdotal?
What are you hearing? >

I mean… all it takes is reading bills that’s trying to be passed by multiple Republican majority states all around the country & seeing what Republican legislatures are doing in exerting this power. Idaho and Tennessee have no exceptions for health/life of the mother (not like it would matter much anyway, exceptions are just Republican PR). A judge in Florida denied a 16 year old with no legal guardians judicial bypass for an abortion because her grades weren’t good enough. In states like Arkansas, women can be investigated for miscarriages. In Louisiana, a woman who was fourteen weeks along was denied an abortion even though her fetus was nonviable and was dying within her. SC tried to pass a six-week ban, but it was struck down by the state Supreme Court. However, the current legislature isn’t going to give up in trying to restrict abortion. >

Jesus, these people are hopeless. Abortion bans literally cost them the “red wave” and their first thought is “let’s keep doing that”… >

It isn’t about good policy or what is best for the people. It is a ideology that is simply based on doing the exact opposite of the Dems with all logic and reason thrown out the window.  Catering to the vocal far right right fringe nut jobs has become the GOP platform stance since they can’t rationally explain their reasoning. >

… It’s like they don’t really want to win any more elections.  They long ago lost the ability to govern. They just want some (?) people to listen to them when they rant … ? >

“states rights” lol >

" never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake " >

The RNC is not our enemy, but I get the Sun Tzu quote >

They absolutely are the enemy. They want to out law my lifestyle (gay) completely. They want to subjugate women and minorities. 
That not opinion, that’s fact supported by their words and actions. 
They are the enemy of equity and freedom. The fact that their slogans are all about freedom reinforces how evil they are: zero morality, zero empathy, 100% selfish greed and hate. 
If they are enemy, who is?
Don’t even get me started on the obvious Russian influence. >

I empathize with your experience and do not condone the positions of the RNC, but trying to change the RNC is like trying to change MAGA morons, lots of overlap there, which means treating them like the enemy will just drive them to further retain their fucked up values, not change them. >

They are lost. We’re all taking the high road right to an oppressive dictatorship. 
Can we fight fire with fire for like 2 years? Then go back to being the most purest righteous people once we have protected ourselves and our children from the US becoming Turkey? >

Nothing like juicing as many votes as possible in red states to win the Electoral College.
If abortion were the GOP's top issue in 2024, it would be interesting to see what happens in Wisconsin. >

What a fantastic idea.  RIP GOP.. >

Good...good... let the hate flow through you >

The republicans have figured out that getting and living off the grift of donations is easier if you don't have to spend time governing. They want to lose because they get the same amount of money without any responsibility. >

Why? Why so much hate for women’s liberties to make a choice!? >

Because they want women (i typoed that so bad autocorrect suggested wolverines...and i almost left it.) Barefoot, pregnant, and obeying.  
And im not kidding at all. >

I believe you! - look East to Afghanistan.  These radical religious cult have taken control of the entire country and now control all women activity! >

RNC.
Aka Gilead High Command. >

This worked out so well in 2022, I endorse this strategery. >

It doesn’t matter to me. As long as I’m alive it’s straight dem ticket. Taught the kids to vote democrat too. >

So we went from overturn roe v wade because it’s not constitutional, to federally ban it… in one year? >

If this gives Dark Brandon the trifecta again in 2024 then please, be my guest. >

Good. They can't commit seppuku fast enough for my liking. >

That's thankfully the Achilles heel of people who have personality disorders. They are psychotic in their need for attention which unfortunately puts them in positions of power, but they think they can never do wrong, so when they finally find something like this that actually pisses people off come up they can't get away from it and think they are always right >

RNC: “DON’T under any circumstances do what the majority of Americans want us to do!”
The silent part: Do what the ignorant, hateful, intolerant, bigoted minority want us to do. They’ll keep voting for us even though our single policy, less taxes for the wealthy and corporations only, is against their best interests. They’re ignorant and thrive on ‘owning the libs’. They’re so easily duped. >

Lose more then. >

I'm sure Democratic strategists are absolutely quaking in their boots at the prospect of abortion being an even bigger issue in 2024 than it was in 2022. >

This was the plan all along.  It had nothing to with "leaving it to the states".  They want to force their twisted ideology onto the whole country. >

Republicans. Are. Evil. >

Doubling down on their failed attempt at an agenda. >

Nothing says "party of small government" like stomping on people's rights.
How'd that work out in 2022? >

Umm, didn't work so hot in the mid-terms, did it? >

that’s a bold strategy cotton >

I see operation shit-garbage is going swimmingly. >

For the sake of argument, if they pass such a bill, what’s next in their agenda? >

Stoning girls who engage in premarital sex. >

Yay losers.  Even Kansans reject you and they lose patriarchy there. >

They should take a cue from Canadian conservatives which is give up and leave abortion alone. >


this makes me VERY HAPPY as the GQP clearly did not learn their lessons in outcome in Kansas...and 2022 elections in general >

As a millennial I seriously wonder what the hell happened to boomers, X, and greatest...  What trauma inspired this deep hatred of their children and grandchildren and convinced them it's for "their own good".
It's not all of them, of course, but unholy shit the conservative tilt older people have is disturbing. >

Story of my life. I’ve been wondering this since I was in high school. Boomers are simply propaganda sponges and I think Gen X is like caught in between a rock and a hard place sandwich generation. Gen X is pretty quiet. I think they’re too busy working and raising families. 
I really have no idea why there are women in this country who are working to ensure their daughters have less freedom and options and opportunities than they did. It’s next level fucked. Boomers think they are the greatest generation when they’re just the most entitled. Entitlements galore. They can’t imagine another world in which they don’t use their entitlement to tell people what they should do with their lives and how to live. Literally every boomer will say that they are practically the hardest working American ever, when in actuality they just have jobs and work like everyone else. It’s constant self aggrandizement. It’s a whole generation that was given so much that they just can’t imagine other people actually work harder than them and have far less than them. It doesn’t compute in their brains. The abortion issue is just like a relic and vestige of the past that they must wield power over even though they’re too old to fuck their wives and too self centered to empathize for women, who made the grave mistake of being human with another human and having an unintended pregnancy. >

Honestly the heavy propaganda of the Cold War in general likely made boomers and Gen Xers more susceptible to the propaganda of the GOP. They were preconditioned in a way we weren't. >

True story >

And how’d that work out for you in 2022? >

Keep pushing that winning strategy, hoss.. >

Imagine tripping over your untied shoes like they did on 2022 and immediately determining that the solution is longer and looser laces. >

The live in a bubble and because of that they’re too daft to know what public sentiment is. They know there are citizens protesting and speaking out on cable news but to them it’s just a small vocal minority it’s not the populace in their minds. The proof is them repeating the same mistakes they surround themselves with group think and nothing else gets in >

“Fuck around and find out.” -Women. We’re coming for dat booty RNC, and you’re about to get fucked. See you in 2024!! WOOF WOOF >

Idk about that, a concerning amount of women seem content to uhh, let themselves get fucked in terms of bodily autonomy >

Don’t worry about them. They want to find out the hard way. >

I don't want to though lol.. Where's the opt-out form >

I know. We don’t even want it for them. But they’re a tyrannical minority and it seems like come hell or high water they are determined to get what they want. >

Haven’t they been complaining about inflation for the past year? So the obvious choice is to focus on a nonissue to everyone except church goers. >

Woman’s right and separation of church and state mean nothing to this group 🖕🏻 >

Oh, so that "leave it to the states " and "states rights" argument was bullshit >

The American Christian Nationalist Party would be a better name for these morally corrupt mofos >

They still push this even though they know that the majority of the people in the United States  believe that abortion should be available.  Every place the question has been on a ballot the results have been overwhelming. >

Let's pass laws that appease only like 20 to 30% of the population 🤦‍♂️ when are they going to wake up and realize that they need to run on things people actually care about if they want to win elections? >

Less than 20% actually. Only around 15% of the population thinks abortions should be entirely illegal >

“We didnt lose hard enough! Quick bob! What will cost us every election for 30 years?”
Abortion. As seen in 2022. >

Yikes. 
I am surely one of many people who think things like a 6 week abortion ban are excessive and shouldn’t be installed anywhere, but also don’t like the Democratic Party. Moves like this will alienate a ton of their voters, and specifically the ones they need in urban and swing districts to win elections >

So the GOP is pushing for even more abortion restrictions AND playing brinkmanship with the economy while one of their front-runners is actively shilling for Putin AND threatening to "go rogue" is he doesn't win the Republican primary?
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What could POSSIBLY go wrong? >

I really hope more and more people start using their own words against them. These fascists don’t deserve to be in office. They are the anti-American party. >

TBH this is great news. The fascist party doubles down on what killed their red tsunami in 2022!
It's a bold strategy Cotton. Lets see if it pays off for em. lmao! >

Considering this, and McDaniel winning re-election, I think that I have a better understanding of Republicans who say that the GOP is just controlled opposition lmao.
Seriously did they NOT at all fucking pay attention to the midterm results? >

Literal insanity. They don’t ever want to admit fault so they’ll continue doubling down into oblivion. >

I thought they had moved onto regulating women's attire in state houses now? >

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. >

This is not a surprise.  They are making laws at the state level to limit abortions. >

Good luck with that >

Par for the course. >

I thought they said they wanted to leave it up to the states?
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smh >

Great idea. >

Proceed Governor >

I expect the inflation rate to plummet as soon as their agenda passes.