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[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 84 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So fucking do something, you worthless traitor filth.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Pretending they care is step one of doing something, step two is blaming liberal bureaucrats for the problem, step three is pretending they solved the problem or repeating step two depending on whether the constituent phone call is happy or angry

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Well no shit, Sherlock. Blue states pour more money into the federal coffers. They tend to have robust economies. Red states on the other had only survive by latching on to the federal teat and sucking out more money than they put in. Who do you think is going to suffer most from Trump's decimation of the federal government?

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I felt a great disturbance in the Farce, as if millions of leopards suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear face eating has happened.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not bad, not bad at all. I would make a couple changes though. For example, why would the leopards cry out in terror? How about:

I felt a great disturbance in the Farce, as if millions of leopards suddenly cried out in ~~terror~~ hunger and were suddenly ~~silenced~~ sated. I fear a mass face eating has happened.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Yes - Leopards are the face eaters, they should only cry out in terror, if there are no faces to be eaten.

I think it's been a long time since Leopards had so many faces showing up for dinner, willingly to be eaten.

And all faces brought a little appetizer with them, they are all wearing Surprised Pikachu Jpeg Masks. An extra treat for Leopards.

[–] TheAthena@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago
[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago

Fox News says it's "the transgenders"

[–] venotic@kbin.melroy.org 20 points 1 month ago

Ah shut up, you republicans love him. This is what you wanted. You either go all the way or go all the way. No half-assing.

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

Not enough to actually do anything about it of course. Bless those furrowed brows of concern!

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 13 points 1 month ago

I guess we'll find out how much of their own well-being they're willing to sacrifice in order to hurt the poeple they want to hurt.

I can't wait until they start cutting red state welfare.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

let me help calm those worries: they will. your best bet is to divorce yourself from GOP policies

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Your average Republican voter, I can understand consternation about their livelihoods under the oppression coming from the party they identify with.

Political leaders like Murkowski, at this point unless they start putting words into action against Trump, Musk and MAGA, I will stop caring about Republican whining because, other than the words "I love DEI&A, CRT, wokeness, LGBTQIA+ and immigrants. Biden brought these jobs here and Trump is taking it away", they are meaningless to me now.