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I thought we were supposed to be unified.

I thought they were going to bring us all together that we were entering a new phase

in the history of the country or at least in the recent history where we were all supposed to be.

Buddies united coming together in this new technocratic, competent, calm Biden administration.

Right? That was the promise.

And now what you're already seeing is that the Biden people aren't as smart as they told you they would be.

Don't give a crap about unity and are actually ideologues driven by their desire to play Kate.

The fringe interests that have so much control within the democratic party, whether it's on identity politics,

environmental issues, social justice, all these things.

It's not the presidency they said we'd get, but you knew that was the case.

It was always a lie.

It was always meant to convince medium to low information suburban voters in some key states.

You'll just have a return to normalcy. That's what they said, a return to normalcy.

Well, it turns out that's not what we're getting.

What we're getting is the return of the Obama administration.

That's what's really happening here.

That's the reality of what has now taken power.

And you see this with every decision being made so far.

And also all the people who are in charge.

The people that are making the decisions right now, we're making the calls about everything that's happening are very similar.

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