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Circular Firing Squad, Trump's civil fraud trial continues, and criminality spreads across

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GOP had pretty much every systemic advantage going into 2024? They had a deeply unpopular president of

the United States, the approval ratings in the high 30s, low 40s, a president of the United States,

the approval ratings on the economy in the 30s or 20s. What if I told you that the GOP had an economic edge on the issues that is their biggest since 1991? Well, what if I told you that going into the election, there was a very solid shot that Joe Biden's economic policies were going to drive America directly into a recession? Well, all of those things are true. All of those things are true. And yet, somehow, Republicans have come up with a brand new strategy. This strategy is to join in idiocry. It's a movie from the 2000s. Join in the idiocracy show, Al My Balls. This is their actual strategy, is just to kick themselves over and over in the balls until they

win. I cannot see any other strategy here. I don't know why it's happening. It makes no sense to me.

It is incredibly frustrating because I would like to see Joe Biden not be president of the United

States. I'd like to see Democrats not make policy for the United States. I'd like Chuck Schumer

not to be the Senate Majority Leader. And yet since Republican victory in 2016, Republicans have lost something like 11 governorships. Republicans have lost

something like 20 plus house seats. Republicans have moved from a majority to a minority in the Senate,

all in the face of wildly unpopular Democrat policies. The Democratic Party has moved to the

radical left. They continue to mirror

all the policies of the radical left. The American people don't like them on any of the issues,

and yet Democrats keep getting elected. And so the question becomes, why? Why would that be?

Well, maybe the reason for that is because Republicans are strategically inept.

Maybe it is because Republicans have essentially decided that protest votes are more important

than actual votes.

Maybe they've decided that dousing themselves in gasoline and setting a match is probably the best

strategy. I don't know what it's a strategy for other than maybe feeling good for a brief

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