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    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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    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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    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.

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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?

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

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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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    America - the land of “people should be punished for voting the ‘wrong’ way.”

    It’s amazing that all it took was a few months of Trump in office for Republicans to stop even bothering to pretend to be anything other than overtly and explicitly anti-American - to out themselves as deliberate and even enthusiastic enemies of every single thing that ever made America great…

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      Conservatism is, at its root, monarchist. The original writers and thinkers were focused on preserving authoritarian rule, then upon how to build and maintain hierarchies of society where people rule over others.

      They’ve never been interested in democratic ideals unless it suits them to reinstate a dictatorship.

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        It must be such a radically different mindset to live in. Like, I can’t imagine ever feeling enthusiastic about enforced hierarchies and monarchy.

        Social mobility feels the most liberating, and social constraints the most confining. How can anyone feel differently? I genuinely do not understand.

        Weren’t we supposed to be in suppprt of free markets? Aren’t those supposed to empower people to make deals with other people on their own terms, create value, compete, and prosper? Enforced hierarchy and oligarchy feels like not at all that.

        It must be control-freakery which, again, I cannot relate to at all.

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          Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre were not anti-monarchist at all. Rather the opposite. If you’re thinking of the founding fathers of the United States then you’re not having the same conversation as who you replied to.

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      I’m totally fine with this. Assuming there is going to be another election, and a democrat wins, I think social security should only be for people who support socialism. Those “backbones of our country” trump voters can go get jobs or die.

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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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    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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    I’d like to exclude Trump voters from all future elections. They’re clearly too stupid to handle the responsibility.

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        Smart? Probably not, but motivated by fear, hatred, and ignorance? Most definitely. Of course, if the specter of a second term didn’t motivate you to vote, then that is not too smart either.

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      TBH yeah, anybody who votes against democracy itself shouldn’t get the privilege, but implementing that fairly would be next to impossible.

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        It would be trivial. Look how people voted for the last 50 years and note that the south has been basically terrible. Demote all southern states to territories with no voting privileges beyond their own borders. Take away the vote of everyone that lives in the south.

        Who cares about fairness the US will be so far ahead in 10 years that nobody will want to go back.

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          Fucking lol at complaining about Republicans taking money from Democrats while suggesting the solution is to remove constitutional rights from everyone, no matter how they voted if they live in the wrong place.