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Author: albaby1 ✶🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Trade deal with UK reached
Date: 05/09/2025 10:31 AM
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No, Republicans have been claiming for two decades that they could continue to cut taxes and balance the budget without deep cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, SS or defense.

That is a lie.

The dog has caught the car.

The Republicans now control all three branches of the government and are trying to figure out how to keep promises that they knew they could not keep.

They are trapped by their own lies.

Sadly, though, the same thing happens to Democrats as well.

Democrats have been claiming for many years that it is possible to materially fight climate change or provide single-payer universal health care in a way that allows everyone to benefit, save a few designated villains (like fossil fuel companies or pharma companies, respectively). That there's so much waste and inefficiency in the current system that it would be costless to switch to something better.

But then when they had their own trifectas in 2008 and 2020, they couldn't actually keep those promises.

So we end up with a very disillusioned electorate.
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