But it's OK: Kristi Noem gets two $170,000,000 private jets, Trump gets a golden ballroom, a luxury airliner and billions of dollars in bribes, Argentina gets $40,000,000,000, and ICE get all the weaponry they desire plus big fat bonuses for hitting their kidnapping targets. So as you sit hungry through the holiday season, know that your tax dollars are at least giving someone a good time.
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Don't forget the $250 million that he feels he is owed by the DOJ for being prosecuted, which he intends to instruct the DOJ to settle and pay.
Let's instead phrase it that ICE gets more budget for militarization than the entire Israeli military.
Just let that sink in for a bit. ICE and resources allocated than the Israeli military.
It's the 16th most funded militarized force in the world.
Essentially equal to Canada's military budget.
Shits fucked
Did somebody say Bell riots? I thought I heard Bell riots.
Star Trek future here we come, huzzah!
Don't forget we have to do the Eugenics Wars first as well...
I’m sure Mark Twain will rescue me from those
As well as World War III killing a double digit percentage of the world population.
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Just a reminder that no one steals food in America. If you thought you saw someone shoplifting food, no you didn't! That never happened, you imagined it, turn around and walk away, nothing to report here.
Not American, but I totally didn't see someone shoplifting a couple of weeks ago and I just carried on with my business, but on the way out I heard another customer grassing them out. What is the world coming to?
You know what you hardly ever see - billionaires telling on each other for their crimes for no reason. Solidarity, people!
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Thing is, it's gonna hit the rural MAGA folks the hardest.
There's a part of me that wants to go "I told you so.." which is expected..
But the more cunning part of me wants to leverage their hunger, dismay and rage and work to aim it squarely against Trump and the entire MAGA movement.
MAGA will blame the Ds and "libtards", because that's what they've been told to do.
Most of them will, but we don’t need most of them to tip the scales.
Who isn’t? It’s the “Schumer shutdown” and what did they say on Fox News? Something like “open the government and then discuss”. They eat that shit up.
Who do you imagine is going to blame the republicans? Trump is untouchable because they’ll just invent some story to justify their blind faith.
Hell, I had a family member tell me “you got to read between the lines. Don’t take anything he says literally”
Yup. Chomsky talked about the Angry White Man syndrome and how they were right to be angry, but they were angry at the wrong people.
Faux and other wingnut welfare outfits didn't run in the red for years on end (maybe some indefinitely) for no reason. All that infrastructure - Faux, Washington Times, hate radio, Regnery publishing, etc....is all there to properly indoctrinate a certain percentage of the population into believing all their problems are a result of anything else BUT Republican and conservative ideology.
I'd like to have empathy, and publicly I won't call out these hypocrites, but I honestly can't care less if these fuckers starve. I feel bad for the children and helpless that are affected, but the others that voted for this are reaping what they sow.
Yeah, but "he's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting".
I try to have compassion for people that have made bad choices in their lives, but fucking hell, it is really hard to sustain that for people that voted to hurt other people. Actively wanting that to happen. Not to really improve their own lot in life, but to hurt others.
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Republicans don't give a fuck if they kill people by withholding healthcare, obviously they don't give a fuck if people starve.
At some point the Democrats have got to realize this and start acting accordingly, but Democrats are still bending the knee: 13 Senate Democrats just voted to install a conservative judge in Alabama.
Republicans don’t give a fuck if they kill people by withholding healthcare, obviously they don’t give a fuck if people starve.
Maybe that's why they love Israel so much?
Not an American but if the government shutsdown and they are cancelling programs, shouldn't you not have to pay taxes for that time period?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Most working people have their estimated taxes deducted from their pay before they receive it. They don't have an option to not pay.
Well, that one congressional district that has their congress person being kept out should definitely not have to pay because that would be a taxation when they have no representation.
Also, several congresspeople have said that they "don't represent the Democrats" in their districts. I think that, too, should immediately exempt those residents from taxes.
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Fact: absolutely none of this would have happened if Kamala had won.
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This administration needs to be concerned about what happens when you have millions of people with nothing to lose anymore.
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What the fuck. I know Republicans despise poor people and think they can just magically pick themselves up by their own bootstraps, but... People still need to eat! We obviously have to! Hoping no one I know is hurt in the upcoming riots and crime.
In the meantime, please consider donating to food banks and nonprofit organizations, since apparently none of our tax dollars will go to helping those less fortunate...
Can any Americans explain to me, a Canadian, how it makes sense for essential services like food benefits to be suspended just because your government can't get their shit together?
Like, genuine question here; how is this is a good system? How does your country benefit from things being designed this way? I'm not saying we don't ever have political deadlock in Canada, we most certainly do, but even as someone who gets half my household income from the military, I've never had to worry about a missed paycheck just because politicians are being stupid. We have failsafes for that. Why don't you?
So, many many years ago, there was a system where when a bill was passed, that meant it got funded. Simple and sweet. Actually it wasn't that sweet, because Nixon was refusing to spend money that the law required the U.S. government to spend, similar to what Trump is doing today.
The current system is generally based on the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. There have been many small and large changes since, but the structure basically goes back to that.
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In a sensible country, the government would continue to spend at the levels of the previous budget in the event of a delay in negotiating the renewed budget. It makes no sense. There are no benefits. Please do what you did in 1814 again we need it.
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Very Christ-like.
I'm a Free Thinker Who Does Her Own Research Republican using SNAP and if the DEMONRATS let this happen I'll be FURIOUS and VIOLENT towards THEM and THEM only (because Fox News TOLD me to!)!
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And with only one week for people to prepare. Smooth.
if you really didn't see this coming, it's on you, honestly