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The GOP message to voters is: &#8220;you will bank more money if Trump is elected.&#8221; A lie&#8230;but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>GREED.<\/p>\n<p>Greed is an altered state. It&#8217;s a kind of drunkenness. It makes people stupid. More likely to believe lies. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, Biden made a mistake, with respect to support on the left. He shouldn&#8217;t have eagerly leapt at supporting Israel&#8217;s retaliation against Hamas&#8217;s brutal incursion of October 7&#8211;a retaliation which Netanyahu&#8217;s political opportunism turned into a panoply of war crimes. But the latest Big Lie from Republicans is a simple falsehood endlessly echo-chambered: the claim that Biden&#8217;s economy is faltering. And Trump will, supposedly, put more money in the public&#8217;s pocket. The average person will probably feel some shame, in voting for Trump. They know he&#8217;s a rapist, a liar, a con artist, and they may even suspect that he is a Russian Kompromat. A traitor. But they&#8217;ll vote for him out of kneejerk, salivating GREED. &#8220;I&#8217;ll have more money in the bank if Trump is elected.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>They won&#8217;t be proud of it. But many of them will do it. Partly because they believe the lie about the economy. Partly because of simple&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>GREED.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/president-general\/\">https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/president-general\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If national polls are to be taken as a general trend lasting into November, then it could be that Trump will win against Biden. It&#8217;s a real possibility that this man fighting 91 court charges could once more be President. It seems that voters are being bought&#8211;purchased by the counterfeit-currency of lies. 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