• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    17 hours ago

    There is no Republican Party any longer, they are as dead as the Whigs. They should only be referred to in an historical or scholarly context.

    They are the MAGA Party now. They have nothing in common with the traditional platform of the Republican Party - smaller government, lower taxes, economic/fiscal responsibility, family values, religious values, etc. MAGA embraces none of those foundational tenets, instead supporting and encouraging treason, racism, corruption, violence, genocide, pedophilia, misogyny, incompetence, ignorance, and more.

    The Dems should hold a press conference, and unilaterally, but officially, declare the death of the Republican Party, and then never refer to them again, always calling them the MAGA Party. The MAGAs are proud of being Republicans, and they will go out of their minds over this.

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      17 hours ago

      They have nothing in common with the traditional platform of the Republican Party - smaller government, lower taxes, economic/fiscal responsibility, family values, religious values, etc.

      Well they are still all in on lower taxes, and traditional religious family values.

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        16 hours ago

        No, they aren’t. Tariffs are taxes, and we are all paying much more, and it’s going to get a lot worse.

        And where does pedophilia and corruption fit into traditional religious family values?

        Okay, you may have me there.

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          14 hours ago

          Increased tariffs, aren’t going to compensate for the loss of the other taxes they cut. On balance it’s still lower taxes, just not for the poor.

          Pedophilia and corruption are unrelated to family values. I never mentioned them. Not sure what your getting at with that.

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            14 hours ago

            Tariffs are taxes, and tariffs have increased, therefore taxes have increased. Simple as that. No need to try to explain it away with magic math, taxes/ tariffs have increased. Period.

            MAGAs are not interested in lower taxes on citizens, just for Sociopathic Oligarchs and Corporations. That does not count as “Lower Taxes” as a policy.

            Pedophilia and corruption are unrelated to family values. I never mentioned them. Not sure what your getting at with that.

            I mentioned them as core MAGA values in my original post. Your post made me reconsider them as MAGA RELIGIOUS family values, since pedophilia and corruption are core values of all religions.