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Bluetus

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1. Maybe if they stopped looking at this as s political football game and instead
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 01:10 PM
Yesterday

started thinking what is good for average Americans, and the stability of the world in general, they would find the people more willing to vote for them.

I mean, just today, Trump started talking about "his next military conquest" at the same time that Republicans are doing everything in their power to block the war powers act.

Everybody needs to understand that "all politics is local" is complete bullshit in 2026. It was never literally true and now most cities barely have a locally owned newspaper or TV station. Everything is global. Information travels in milliseconds. And when politicians commit crimes, we may not be able to stop it immediately, but we can all learn about it in hours, rather than years later.

2026 is not the same as 1985, when most of the political leaders learned their craft.

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