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Re:AT&T lied about everything it promised to do if it got a ... by mdorazio on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:09PM (#22193039)
What are the long-term losses and when will they impact the party? If the answers are in the realm of "esoteric things like national debt" and "not for 10+ years" then it's pretty clear the strategy is working as intended - they get votes and policy decisions now in exchange for problems that get kicked down the road for someone else to deal with.
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Re:AT&T lied about everything it promised to do if it got a ... by zelon88 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:12PM (#22193076)
Probably a democratic Administration who will then be scapegoated for "ballooning the deficit."
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Re:AT&T lied about everything it promised to do if it got a ... by xenospn on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:29PM (#22193843)
The democratic admin will be scapegoated for literally anything. As soon as the current admin is out the door the standards reset and it's back to outrage about "tan suits" and "saluting with coffee".
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Re:AT&T lied about everything it promised to do if it got a ... by Supermancho on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:08PM (#22194326)
Probably because they will, with their own pet projects. The idea that there's a huge difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is a fantasy. Democrats are new wealth, profiteering from government inefficiency, while Republicans are old wealth who profiteer from the same things they always have. Some would say I'm cynical, but I believe I'm just old.
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Re:AT&T lied about everything it promised to do if it got a ... by amylene on Thursday January 30, 2020 @10:20PM (#22198719)
My sense is that republicans prefer to concentrate the pork to the ownership class, while the democrats want the waste distributed to a broader voting base.
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