• @carl_dungeon
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    1701 year ago

    It’s weird how all the things fucking up our country have been Republican lead- it’s almost like they don’t have people’s, or the country’s best interests at heart? Crazy coming from such flag waving patriots…

    • Making sure, that Putins and Xis interests are protected… The Republican party is evidently chilling for Russia and at least by coalignment helping China tremendously too. How these traitors are not rotting in prison cells is beond my understanding. But well at least it is entertaining to watch from afar.

    • @PunnyName
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      1 year ago

      They literally want less government.

      You’ve all seemingly misunderstood my comment. Oh well, downvote away.

      • @minorninth
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        561 year ago

        Do they?

        When Republicans are in power they never actually cut spending.

            • @PunnyName
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              What kinda stupid shit do you think I’m saying? I’m a fucking progressive, not some bootlicking GQP idiot.

              Plus, it’s a link to a different user’s comment, clarifying my original point.

              Edit: and to think, “link for the lazy” has been oft used for at least a decade.

              • @Leviathan
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                81 year ago

                You could’ve just clarified your original comment in that edit or in any of the subsequent comments instead of a link. You could’ve saved yourself this anger by being clearer.

                • @PunnyName
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                  -71 year ago

                  Meh. I’m not here to think for others.

      • darq
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        421 year ago

        The definitely do not. They want the government to be involved in private medical decisions about one’s own body. Conservatives love invasive and overbearing governments.

      • @[email protected]
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        401 year ago

        That’s why they want politicians to tell us what medical procedures we can get, why they want women to not be able to leave their states, why they want governments to pick and choose what books people can read and even what nicknames you can be called! Because small Government!

      • Stoneykins [any]
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        That isn’t really true, now or ever. It is old, crusty propaganda. It is their excuse for their actions of opposing any and all (useful and fair) government spending, but they really just want to funnel all that same amount of government money, if not more, into the pockets of the people who bribe them. They also obviously don’t believe this as far as personal liberties, they want more power with which to control all finances to their own ends.

        None of that is “small” it is better described as “ineffective” or how I see it, “not designed for your benefit”

      • @brygphilomena
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        201 year ago

        They want to show the government is “failing” so they can gut it and replace it with what they want. Profit and control. They know not enough people will pay attention to notice it’s republicans actively causing the failures.

      • @AFaithfulNihilist
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        That’s what they write on the can but not what they put in it.

      • @[email protected]
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        171 year ago

        They literally don’t. The last time Republicans cut anything (spending, agency scope, etc) was… back in Reagan’s time? They say they want smaller government, but every time Republicans have control, they grow government, they just grow it differently than Democrats.

        For example:

        • Bush Sr. - didn’t do much other than passing bipartisan bills
        • Bush Jr - Patriot Act, TSA, military spending
        • Trump - tax cuts and increased spending (at the tail end of an economic boom), stupid tariffs

        And Reagan wasn’t the epitome of small government either, he just talked about it a lot. According to Mother Jones (strong leftist bias), Reagan grew the national debt substantially and increased the number of government employees (there were far fewer in 2012 than the end of Reagan’s presidency).

        I used to consider myself Republican back when I believed they were actually in favor of small government, but I have seen no evidence that Republicans actually are. So I switched my registration to Libertarian and now vote for both parties, depending on how I think the candidate views government.

      • @c0c0c0
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        81 year ago

        No worries. This will not go on your permanent record.

      • @BassaForte
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        61 year ago

        They want less of the “wrong” government…

  • @[email protected]
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    651 year ago

    I wonder how many of their supporters have already forgotten that welfare checks won’t be sent out either?

    • @InverseParallax
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      681 year ago

      Their supporters aren’t on welfare, that’s for freeloaders.

      Their supporters are all on SSDI because they have back pain from being overweight, and they can both cash the social security checks (which come out of a different section of the budget) and as a bonus they can sell any oxy pills they don’t snort.

      • @[email protected]
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        231 year ago

        “everyone else are freeloaders. I actually need the support I get though!”

        smh, it would have been funny if it isn’t such a common mentality.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          I wish we could just cut the BS and do something like UBI or NIT. The welfare system is so complex that understanding it is a job in itself, and I really can’t understanding how the poor navigate it. Just give them cash, and phase it out as they earn more.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        can sell any oxy pills they don’t snort.

        God I basically know a town made up of these people. Then they have to trade back pills for pill counts, crazy lifestyle those people live.

        • @InverseParallax
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          21 year ago

          Yes, but to be fair, they were personally saved by Jesus Christ, so how DARE you judge them!!!

    • rynzcycle
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      171 year ago

      Govmit better keep their hands off my social security check!

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    211 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Hardline Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a bill proposed by their leader to temporarily fund the government, making it all but certain that federal agencies will partially shut down beginning on Sunday.

    The defeat left Republicans - who control the chamber by 221-212 - without a clear strategy to avert a shutdown that would close national parks, disrupt pay for up to 4 million federal workers and hobble everything from financial oversight to scientific research if funding is not extended past 12:01 a.m.

    U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Friday that a government shutdown would “undermine” U.S. economic progress by idling programs for small businesses and children and could delay major infrastructure improvements.

    Holdouts say Congress should focus on writing detailed spending bills that would cover the entire fiscal year, rather than temporary extensions, even if doing so prompts a shutdown.

    “We’re in the middle of a Republican civil war that has been going on for months, and now threatens a catastrophic government shutdown,” top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries told reporters.

    McCarthy and Biden in June agreed to a deal that would have set agency spending at $1.59 trillion in fiscal 2024, but hardliners like Gaetz say that figure should be $120 billion lower.


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  • @[email protected]
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    You know the Democrats could have stopped the government from shutting down forever by getting rid of the dumb accounting rules and passing something like the Stop STUPIDITY act in 2019, or similiar bills during Obama’s terms. But For some reason they just didn’t want to, almost like they don’t really care that funding keeps getting disrupted, or that abortion is getting banned or any of the things we all see the the government doing.