• @[email protected]
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    I just got off of a rotation at a medical shelter in Asheville. Politicians and pundits are playing the blame game. The victims and volunteers are rolling their sleeves up and doing the work. The clown show taking place around them is the furthest thing from their minds right now and they’re better for it

  • @[email protected]
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    142 days ago

    It’s not that wild when you consider the Republican strategy “Government doesn’t work! Elect me and I’ll prove it!” Especially when the government is currently “run” by a Democrat, that’s when they really love to make it not work.

  • @[email protected]
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    462 days ago

    “We ShOulDnT sEnD OnE MoRe ReD CeNt To FoRiEgN CoUnTrIeS uNtIl tHe DaMaGe FrOm HuRrIcAnE HeLeNe Is FuLlY RePaIrEd.”

    Posted on Facebook by a relative who: A.) Has exactly zero understanding of how the federal government functions. B.) Would gladly tell the people whose homes were destroyed by flooding to go fuck themselves if it meant showering Israel with financial support for their “special military operation”. C.) Is painfully oblivious to irony.

  • @[email protected]
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    382 days ago

    The FEMA “bankrupted itself to give ‘illegals’ money while denying citizens’ valid requests” bullshit is penetrating. It’s obviously bullshit, but it needs to be countered.

    • @DogWater
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      142 days ago

      And Trump did it in 2019 lmao

      He actually diverted the money

  • bizarroland
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    My aunt somehow managed to wedge Kamala and North Carolina into a conversation about my grandmother.

    She said, it’s not doing anything and I wanted to tell her, as the vp, the vice president shouldn’t be doing anything other than directing other people to do things.

    But you can’t argue with crazy, you can’t feed the trolls, so I just told her I don’t pay attention to the news because all anyone wants to do on the news is tell you the most horrible things they can imagine so that you’ll keep listening to the news and that got her off that topic to Armageddon or something.

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s probably more complicated, but I wonder how much their opinions would change if they didn’t have cable or Facebook. Like a Netflix & Disney sub were the only things on their TV, you’d be hearing about Paul & Prue instead.

      • @takeda
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        42 days ago

        Many of them don’t and they get their news from Facebook, YouTube and similar sources. Those are the least informed ones.

        • bizarroland
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          I guess part of it also comes from wanting to be important.

          Like, sure your life may have sucked but if your life ended at the rapture and then branched off into eternal Paradise because you were one of the good ones then it was all worth it right?

          That’s sort of what I think is going on for people that are over 60 right now. They know that life sucks, they just are hoping for a way out because there isn’t any solution to the current suckage that the elders are going through.

  • barnaclebutt
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    C’mon, two billionaire dipshits is a little light. Let’s not understate the dipshittery. The others are buying the supreme court judges for Jesus or something.

  • @BetaBlake
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    192 days ago

    No you had it right the first time just 1 billionaire and one guy who has never been a billionaire.

  • @UnderpantsWeevil
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    102 days ago

    If people don’t believe the government can help, politicians can eliminate the service without anyone complaining

  • @[email protected]
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    202 days ago

    Suggesting Democrats are doing “everything possible” on an issue like healthcare is absolutely wild.

    The last time we heard Dems talk about healthcare was when Bernie pressured candidate Biden into “supporting” a public option. Then once elected, with control of congress, Dems didn’t even broach the subject.

    • JustEnoughDucks
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      True, but to be a little fair to them, the republicans have the power and use it to completely block all objectively good attempts at progress at all. Nothing good can happen in america without a supermajority or a complete change of the system.

    • @BaldManGoomba
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      It isn’t everything possible.

      They did negotiate lower prices on 10 of the most expensive drugs that of a certain age old

    • @Maalus
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      No, you don’t get it. Democrats are the best at everything and always doing whatever possible to solve all issues in the US and abroad. Hence why what’s happening in Gaza is completely unstoppable, why healthcare sucks so much because it’s an unsolvable problem etc.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’ve got the opposite impression from the Democratic Party; ever since 2016 the only thing they seem to be capable of telling the American people is “at least we’re not as bad as The Other Guy!”

        • @Maalus
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          Shoulda put an /s at the end there I guess

  • @yokonzo
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    42 days ago

    Wait which dipshits are being HURRICANE deniers?!?

    • @rhadamanth_nemes
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      They (Rs) voted to slash FEMA funding like a couple of weeks ago…

  • @[email protected]
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    22 days ago

    isn’t “making others believe their product would be worth a multiple of too expensive by numerous lies” one of the very few reasons why billionaires even exist? and whoever can manipulate you to believe such, could possibly also use these skills to manipulate you to believe someone else would be a demon. maybe thats why that is. 🤷

  • t�m
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    22 days ago

    Fox news / Onan (what ever that channel is) mostly