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Republicans never actually cut spending. If they did I might vote for them.
What a terrible, terrible disaster these Republicans are for the country ... and the world.  What is wrong with the people ... or anyone ... who voted for Republicans this past election?  This is on them. >

A majority of our citizens have given up and don’t bother voting. Those that do vote typically have to win by a big percentage to overcome partisan gerrymandering. >

Ironically though, there was higher voter turn outs in the last two elections. Problem is its mainly retired vs unemoyeed that is the make or break here. Young people are still on the low end with elderly still at ath. >

It’s good if you grade on a curve, but terrible by most measures.  McCarthy won with only 33% of his district voting. >

their base wont care. the info bubble they live in will continue to convince them that the right is 'fighting' for them and everything bad happening can be directly contributed to dems in every instance. >

Its weird knowing that in a lifeboat with 10 people, at least a couple would be trying to sink it while another few let them cook. How did we get this far?
Whats even harder to grasp is that my above statement could be used by the types on the ground level at least while they are actively trying to burn it down. >

As a liberal I would feel massively owned if I had to pay for socialized medicine. Spread the word >

I would feel so owned if we cut the military's budget. Hell, Let's dismantle tax cuts for the wealthy. Want to own me so hard? Corporate taxes look mighty low!!! >

Again: no ideas. Just fomenting a culture war up front and making deals with the wealthy in the back. >

GOP mullet? >

This is why everyone who voted these people in deserve nothing but your disdain. They are actively trying to destroy the country or are too stupid to realize that is what they are doing. Neither deserves empathy at this point. >

Agreed. >

Every single economic study shows that the wealthiest 10 percent of this country are raking inrecord profits as the rest of us live on less and less. Meanwhile, the GOP is advocating more tax cuts for the rich and spending cuts for social benefits. How can anyone making less than 500k per year possibly vote Republican? It's the most frustrating and confusing aspect of politics in the USA. >


How can anyone making less than 500k per year possibly vote Republican?

Ideology, plain and simple.  It's really easy to sway people to the party of "family values", "conservative traditions", rabid nationalism, and rugged individualism.  GOP has their cultural messaging perfected and has every church in the nation supporting their cause helping to spread that ideology. >

Those simple things resonate at face value and is easier than telling people what they don't want to hear about things like the debt ceiling:
Obama: "It’s not going to get easier.  It’s going to get harder.  So we might as well do it now -- pull off the Band-Aid; eat our peas." >

Theater 🙄 >

Yes. That's it.  Republicans Do Stunts.  Democrats Do (or attempt to do) Work.                                                                                      
Unfortunately, the "stunts" Republicans do are not really comical (the media love em though) but are damaging and cost us a lot. >

And when everything goes to hell they'll just blame Biden. 
Biden shouldn't give an inch. Obama negotiating with these terrorists cost him dearly and damaged the economy. 
Let the clowns burn the whole thing down >

And again, old boomer assholes got theirs and everyone else can fuck off and then wonder why younger people think boomers are a bunch of assholes. >

Boomer here. The assholes are the ones who don't vote, young or old. >

And the ones, mostly not boomers, who stormed the capitol. >

I would have to bring my walker.... >

Standard practice since Reagan. As the article says they spend and cut taxes when they are in power and don't care about deficit and as soon as they are out of power they suddenly care about it. The deficit was 800B when Reagan started and 2.2T when he left. Bush Jr was handed a budget surplus by Clinton and by the time he left after more tax cuts and Iraq war we were +7T.  But if you ask your Trump neighbor about this he will say it's all due to lib welfare spending on lazy brown people. Situation FUBAR'd. >

How did “own the libs” ever become greater than “taking care of your constituents” and how the everlovin’ fuck do they keep getting themselves elected? >

They’ve been cultivating a base built on hate for decades. This is a result of that. >

Destroying the earned benefits safety net that millions of our own voters rely on to own the libs
Crashing the world economy into a millennial hell-depression and screwing our corporate donors to own the libs >

Can we start with our trillion dollar a year military and 850 military bases on foreign soil. I will feel so owned if they can do that! >

Why didn't they do this when trump was president, and they had house and senate? >

Start with military spending, that'll show everyone you mean business >

“Hold on there buddy…let’s not get crazy here.” >

the mean "own the country" >

Liberals love America, therefore we must destroy America to own the libs!!¡1
— GOP "logic" >

Austerity for everyone! Well except the corporations and wealthy - tax cuts and stock buy backs for them! >

“In order to show how much we hate the liberals, we’re going to decimate the two programs most utilized exclusively by our own base” >

They can "eye" all they want. Until they win the Senate and WH it ain't gonna happen. >

As an ammendment to this. No state can receive any funding for any project or service that exceeds the amount of federal tax they contribute each year. No state shall have their federal tax sent to another state for any purpose, project or service including military bases and government facilities which will henceforth be solely funded in accordance with the federal tax each state has contributed. >

I'm fine with this, as long as they start with the military and their own outrageous salaries. >

I, too, want the GOP to commit suicide to own the libs. Please, go ahead. >

Remember the good old days when Dan Quayle was the dumbest person in the Republican party? >

Biden should request that any negotiations be televised. That should clear things up. >

Yeah, that's going to a be a fun sell.  Hey millenials... you aren't ever going to get social security, but please keep paying into it. >

How about we take away their pensions and health insurance >

It'll just hurt their own people more than Libs.  Let's face it, liberals are more educated and prolly have better paying jobs that conservative folks >

we dont need to cut anything execpt tax lawyers and raise taxes back to 70 %  for top earnres! >

The irony for me is that the house can't dictate anything. Has to pass the senate and the President so anything they pass isn't going to be worth the paper it is written on if it doesn't have bi-partisan support. Really the best case scenario for a GOP lead house. It will create some of it's own challenges I am sure. >

And again, we see a great example of how one party is primarily interested in winning, and the other is primarily interested in governing. >

Ultimate way to attack the public, and turn even more of it against you. >

Kick the can, f* the next generation