• Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    He really is resorting to his lamest trick which was the Covid checks. I bet you anything he’s going to sign them like last time.

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    To be honest, I’m just looking forward to the massive tax savings and ridiculously lowered tax bill I’m one billion percent sure is going to materialize in 2026 from all the DOGE savings we’ve attained. Totally holding my breath on that one. Do cremated remains even pay taxes? Who the fuck am I kidding, this is the USA, of course they do.

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      How about you and I team up and throw a party, the size of which directly scales with the savings we experience this year? Of course, any tax savings must first be offset by cost of living increases. Can one throw a party of negative size?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Well, that certainly seems fair. After all, even though I’m a Leftist and I detest the majority of Dems, I still voted for Kamala against Trump and that makes me a traitor.

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    He wants to exclude Biden voters from the $600 Trump tariff rebate checks?! The ones Trump got for us?

    The same Trump that was best friends with Jeffery Epstein up until his suspicious suicide? You know, that known pedophile that Trump said “liked them young?” Remember when Trump wrote him a weird birthday card? That was odd for a president to do that. Trump did say he liked to grab women by the pussy. That was weird too.

    Wait what were we talking about again? Oh yeah the $600 “sorry we dismantled your somewhat functioning government” check I probably won’t get. Cool.

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    I love that there are two parties, one that represents all of America, and one that represents half of America, and the half side keeps getting elected? Do you want ants, America? Because that’s how you get ants

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        You are right, neither of them do. At least one isn’t trying to cut the throats of half the country though. Nice rebuttal! One is willing to put aside differences and find middle ground, the other wants to throw anyone who disagrees in a deep dark prison so they never see the light of day. Totally both sides though, ammirite?

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          You are right, neither of them do.

          Duh.

          Nice rebuttal

          It wasn’t meant to be a rebuttal, it was meant to be a mildly condescending statement of an obvious truth

          Totally both sides though

          What if I told you that two things can suck, at the same time, even if they’re not exactly identical? If your choices are losing a toe or losing a leg, of course most folks would choose the toe. They’d have to be real douchebags to cheerlead for the people who cut their toe off though.

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            Which is exactly why the Democratic party stagnates around indecision. Every issue is “yeah, but…” Where as the Republican party just ignores literal crimes in their midst, because he’s “their guy”. This isn’t inherently an American problem, it’s a political one. Who is cheerleading? Both things can be true too, one is less evil but still needs to be fixed, it’s a lot better than literally chopping your own foot off with a blunt shovel and blaming the other guy. I’ve always been taught and discovered myself that one must always challenge authority, and to beware anyone promising you exactly what you want to hear.

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    oh boy, 600 whole dollars. Woohoo. That’ll cover like 3 months of price increases due to the tariffs.

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    Wait… they’re doing rebate checks? I thought these tariffs were supposed to magically cover the overwhelming budget deficits? And how exactly will they do that when it’s being distributed as free money?

    Literally trying to bribe their terrible ideas into being popular, while blowing the deficit out even further. 600$ will finally convince Americans their economy is doing well and isn’t barrelling towards utter catastrophe at mach speeds. Astounding work.

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    This headline is a bit alarmist.

    “I mean, you know, the rich people don’t need it … what I mean by that is all those Democrat donors of Wall Street, all these hedge fund guys, who all hate the tariffs, by the way.”

    So he is basically just implying everyone who is poor voted Trump, and everyone rich voted Biden. It’s basically a neutered version of class consciousness with a tribal mindset. Which is exactly the type of class consciousness I would expect Hawley to want his constituents to have. He’s still being disingenuous, but he’s not (as of right now) suggesting that we keep voter records to punish people for wrongthink.

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      It’s cute that he thinks that Wall St hedge fund guys are Democrats

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      Meanwhile, Trump Admin requested the voter records for San Francisco county. Now I wonder why he would want that? 🤔

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    I swear we need to start sending deadly things to politicians in the mail again. You get anthrax, you get anthrax, you get anthrax and you, you get a pipe bomb

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      Conservatism is entirely “in-group to protect, out-group to hurt”. So, so. They don’t. They are worse then toddlers.

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    So they’re taking the money from the American people and then “generously” giving them back a portion of it and they say only to people who might financially need it. Almost like they’re taxing people and redistributing income to those in need. If it wasn’t for the hefty piece they’re taking off the top and the blatant buying of votes, it almost sounds like Socialism!!

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    Now that’s how you do a cognitive dissonance!

    Also, Sen. Josh Hawley should be excluded from terrestrial oxygen.

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      Judging by his cognitive abilities I’d say he probably has been excluded from a good portion of terrestrial oxygen for most of his life.