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Example number 876 in the category of “I didn’t change, you did Republicans”: The whole “states rights” was all BS They don’t care about Epstein and his list anymore.

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Zip-tying innocent sleeping children after pulling them out of bed, firing on protesters - the party in control is enabling the turning of poorly-trained militia against the residents of states the tyrant doesn’t like. We will not forget and those enabling need to answer for these unAmerican acts.

Yet here you are, still saying you are a Republican. I was once a Republican, but 2015 made me a solid blue Democrat. Why are you still saying you’re a Republican? You cannot change the Republican Party back to the party of “small government”. trump blew that. It’s never coming back.

Oh I think they care about the epstein files; they care that they dont get released. At this point, if they become public, most will lose their cushy jobs. Their opponents just need to run on the fact that they protected a pedophile.

The public has a very poor grasp of policy and the ideology behind it. For decades the GOP brand was small government. Now they praise a dictator who seeks to inject the government into every aspect of our lives and “solve” every “problem” in society. 90% of GOP doesn’t even see the contradiction.

For the past 30 years or so, every gun-toting 'Merican claimed that they needed their 2nd Amendment rights to protect themselves and the country from a tyrannical government. Now that the government is sending the military in American cities... ...Crickets. Fucking liars & cowards.

Yes. And the whole “pro-life”, “fiscal conservatism”, small government: all bs, just wedges that can be used against a complacent and inattentive public to keep themselves in power. I think maybe the only they they really care about in the deep recesses of their black soul is white, male supremacy.

I saw this coming decades ago. Letting Nixon get away with his crimes set the stage for this. Also, Reagan letting Murdoch get US citizenship (totally undeserved) early so he could launch Fox propaganda on us. They've been the selfish party of the rich since the Gilded Age, for god's sake!

Murdoch was a permanent resident long before citizenship and didn’t need to be a citizen to have a cable channel. Propaganda is also protected speech. Please don’t get an education from bad memes.

Now an ex-R, I felt this “it’s just about power” in 2004 when after years and years of “fiscal responsibility “ and “national debt on future generations “ I saw Rs cut taxes and raise spending. It was just talking point B.S. to get ahead in elections. So after 28 years as an R I left.

“Do you hear the people sing, singing a song of angry men, it is the music of a people who will not be slaves again. When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, there is a fight about to start when tomorrow comes.” Les Miserables #ProtectTheConstitution! 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U

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It's Trump's Rights, biotch! The nation's rights don't matter. State's rights don't matter. Your personal rights don't matter. All that matters are Trump's rights. This is the Republican Party you voted for so sit down and shut the fuck up.

It’s the only way this dystopian nightmare ends. Trump’s an idiotic, cruel, narcissistic sociopath, chip away at the base of what’s left because what’s going on now is something true Republicans would never stand for. Didn’t Trump say Biden would turn the military on us? Do they understand irony?

You’re part of this Adam, you supported this for 4 years and only opposed after you figured a way to make money off of it, you’re no beacon of light, you’re still guilty, try owing it.

They are purging generals. It's the last step before complete control. So they do not care about it anymore because if someone were to publish it unredacted, or to speak about it, he would be sent to torture camp n°37 without resistance. It is a clear sign that you are FAFO-ed Enjoy white fascism

"It's about power, not issues or morality" Exactly... I have always challenged people on their former "state's rights" argument they preached for decades. Donald is in the Epstein Files, and now they all defend him - they're greedy and subservient.

They also don’t care about their supposed “America First” mantra. How much is Trump now sending to Argentina? $20 Billion? I thought he and MAGA didn’t believe in financial aide to other countries.

You are on the money AK. I’ve followed politics for 50 years. I have a pretty good memory. My dad was a republican and a career military man. He would be appalled at the Republicans and be using extremely colorful language to express his disgust.

To be honest they were never actually about States rights. They were about the right of certain states to impose their will on other states. They wanted the right to force the northern states to return the slaves but they never wanted the northern states to have the right to offer sanctuary

They don’t have any values or principles and haven’t for a long time. It’s all what their lizard brain wants and anything is reverse-engineered to get them to that point. Nothing was more telling than when the official R platform was ax’d for whatever T wanted in any given moment.

I think you’re a good man and I appreciate and respect you. But the conservatism you embrace has never existed in this country, not in your lifetime. Conservatism was real, back when there were conservative democrats and liberal republicans. John Birches and Lewis Powell changed that.

MAGA is not GOP but for reasons that I can’t fathom so many of what would be considered traditional GOP drank some tainted punch because they done lost their collective minds sounding like you all need some cult deprogrammers 😳

This is where I would argue and say YES, MAGA is most certainly the GOP. That option to take the high road sailed years ago and everyone is team Trump and 100% MAGA. If not, who are the Reagan/Bush type hold outs who still have any real say in the party? That old GOP is gone.

It has always been the party of propaganda, BS, voter suppression and intentional division and obstruction since I've been paying attention. You are the exception. Most GOP men I've met aren't too bright and often racist and assholes.

The GOP are the descendants of slave-owners. The North let the Confederacy off far, far too easily after the Civil War and we're still paying the consequences, even today. They believe there will never be consequences for their actions and that laws don't apply to white men.

There are an couple issues here. 1 let’s stop with the Epstein files, they will be so tampered with and faked, it won’t matter. 2. As much as I love you speaking this truth, I find it hard to believe you didn’t know this bait and switch game was being played when you were in dc.

You could've stayed in Congress and made a difference. Your words now mean nothing. You pussed out. Just like the Republicans that stayed and bent the knee.

I was about seven or eight years old when I saw the hypocrisy in the Catholic Church that I was brought up in. I was about 13 or 14 when I saw the hypocrisy in the members of the Republican Party. I hope more former Republicans wake up.

Do you honestly think that if the files were released unredacted and Trump’s name is all over them that the cult would actually care? Personally I think they will just say fake news regardless if all of the evidence in the world proves him guilty. Their orange calf is what they worship.