Mastodawn

I welcome Trump voters changing, but I am getting really tired of hearing, "I didn't vote for this."

@augieray America would have the same policies no matter who got in. Politicians serve their donors, that's not the American people, it's corporations, special interest groups and the rich, it's a democracy for them not you and theirs is the only "vote" that matters which has any real bearing on government policy

Americans are so focused on the fake left vs. right divide, they fail to notice who is pulling the strings, or why no party delivers for the people or why things get worse year on year

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Augie Ray Feb 23

@Rastal This is the dumbest response of the week. Same policies? If Harris had been elected, we'd have saner trade policies, ICE would not be policing our street and shooting Americans in the head, we wouldn't have cut taxes on billionaires again, we wouldn't be threatening Greenland and our allies, and thousands of federal workers would still be employed. I hate the whole "left and right are the same BS."

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Rastal

@augieray Yes. Listen to AOC in Munich. Then listen to Rubio in Munich. They are saying exactly the same thing. All they do, all they ever do, is spin the narrative differently to their audience, but then do the same. Continuity of agenda.

As for ICE, more migrants were deported under Obama than Trump. Trump's audience responds better to theatre so that's what is provided, Obama's audience wanted this muted so it was. But it's the same thing happening regardless, irrespective of the framing.