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If the midterms were a referendum on whether trans athletes should be barred from women’s sports, or the White House ballroom should be gorgeously renovated, or God should be identified as “nonbinary,” then Republicans would have a clear and confident closing message.

Unfortunately for the GOP, voters are less concerned with the Christian deity’s preferred pronouns than with their own cost of living. Which is understandable: Diesel fuel prices just hit a record high, mortgage rates are climbing, and groceries keep getting more expensive.

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Many Republican speakers did address the subject of affordability in Dallas. And the party’s broad narrative is straightforward enough: Democrats created the cost-of-living crisis, Republicans alleviated it by cutting your taxes.

But this is a tough line to sell. Americans might still disdain President Joe Biden’s economic management. Yet they’re far more likely to blame high prices on the current president than the previous one, according to polls.

And not without reason. After all, it was Trump — not Biden — who engineered an oil shock and global trade war. Tellingly, on Wednesday night, all four battleground state Senate candidates — Ken Paxton, Jon Husted, Michael Whatley and Mike Collins — made no mention of the Iran war or of the president’s tariffs.

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 21 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

This war is now entirely about him saving face, performing as if he knows what he’s doing and is powerful. The reality is that his ego and ignorance was used by Israel to manipulate him into attacking Iran. He’s a dupe, boxed in, and bound to a policy that is accelerating the bleed-out of the US as a project.

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It’s like he copied Putin’s stupid, stupid, fucking stupid homework

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 6 hours ago

Well, sure, ever since Kindergarten, Trump has beat up some nerd to force him to do every homework assignment. That's why he is so profoundly ignorant, he literally knows NOTHING.

And when you know nothing, you don't know that the homework you are copying is wrong.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think you are mistaking ego and ignorance principally for the epstein files and other blackmail held by Israel but yes.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

It’s definitely two things