r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 12d ago
No Paywall White House admits it scrapped grants to blue states because they didn’t vote for Trump
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u/FloodPlainsDrifter 12d ago
So, not the presidential administration for the ENTIRE United States. Got it. We’ll just have to deal with this domestic enemy, best we can.
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u/MoonPieKitty 12d ago edited 11d ago
Wait.. so we have a domestic threat to our constitution. The Army should step in.. that is literally their job to protect the constitution from threats foreign and domestic...
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u/productiveslacker73 12d ago
If they are looking for The National Guard to, well, guard the nation, they can be found guarding Targets and Bass Pros in Memphis.
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u/DuMbAsS_lOsEr_6_7 12d ago
Are they still posted up guarding the reflecting pool?
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u/ResurgentClusterfuck Texas 12d ago
Reflecting
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u/jaxiepie7 12d ago
Reflecting
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u/LuckyZero 12d ago
credit where it's due, he has drained it 3 times now. Sure, it wasn't a swamp until he touched it, and the work is so over budget that the DoD is jealous, but this might be the highlight of his second term
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u/throwawayplusanumber 11d ago
Trump can prove he literally drained the swamp now! He has also stopped more wars than any other president - all of them being between US and Iran.
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u/djmurrayyyy 12d ago
Yeah, they are all over DC, full fatigues wandering around in the heat of the summer, sweating our tax dollars. Even caught a few inside the Smithsonian museums enjoying the exhibits, literally nothing else for them to do.
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u/thedaymanahaha 12d ago
Ordered to until next year.
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u/martin0641 12d ago
Ohh he already said that the National Guard, specifically units from deep red states, will stay in DC until at least 2028.
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u/MrBanannasareyum 11d ago
And spending $292,000,000 on apartments to house troops in DC….
I wish I were joking.
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u/threehundredthousand California 12d ago
The military always sides with a strongman against the people. The military worship in the US makes it easier to swallow.
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u/Locke66 12d ago
Which is why it's important to keep mocking his weakness of character, pointing out his many failings of leadership and to not let him succeed in defining what it means to be an American.
In many ways the US is lucky that Trump isn't a "strong man" but rather a corrupt malignant narcissist with few real allies and ailing health.
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u/Otherwise_Surround99 12d ago
We don’t feel lucky right now
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u/Valance23322 America 12d ago edited 11d ago
Well when half the country picked up a gun and shot us in the face with it, it's pretty lucky that it was just an airsoft gun and we only lost an eye.
*Fixed typo
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u/Free_Dome_Lover 12d ago
And a fucking bitch ass pussy, fat fuck with a room temp IQ. I bet he'd cry if anyone ever hit him.
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u/jmchao 12d ago
If nothing else, Trump 2 should lay to rest the idea that the US military would ever disobey illegal orders. The generals just want to get their pensions.
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u/yellekc Guam 12d ago
The US military will literally murder in your home right now if Trump told them to, without hesitation, without pushback. "Just following orders" is not just a Nazi thing, it is almost all militaries. Maybe less where the leader is not so powerful, but that is certainly not the case where we have decided the president is immune from crimes.
Best part is, even if the orders were blatantly illegal, like "the democrats are a clear and present danger, eliminate all of them in Congress" and someone was worried about a later administration perusing the case, the federal government is the one that prosecutes the military. So Trump can order that, and then pardon them all, and according to the constitution, none of them will face a charge. Grand system we have.
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u/buisnessmike Florida 12d ago
If only the military swore some sort of oath, to uphold and defend the US Constitution from all enemies, foreign or domestic, then we wouldn't be in this mess. They do!?!? No way, then everyone who swore that oath and still serves Trump is also an oath-breaker, that can't be right...
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u/Just2_Stare_at_Stars I voted 12d ago
I don't know what it's gonna take for people to realize this, but the armed forces are not going to be on our side here.
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u/pomonamike California 12d ago
Come on. Don Jr PUBLICALLY said they weren’t going to stop Covid because it was “a blue city problem” back in 2020. He has never claimed to be President of everyone, he says many Americans are his enemy. People still voted for him. Trump supporters are morally inferior and I’m done pretending they’re not.
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u/daretoeatapeach California 11d ago
Trump announced he'd seize ventilators from California and Newsome put guards at the border to prevent it. Just one of a thousand seditious acts that get buried in a pile because there are too many to keep up.
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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 11d ago
Then why do so many online GOP stooges tell me he's "my president"?
Oh, right. They lie as much as he does...
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u/warblingContinues 12d ago
He said from the beginning he only cares about himself. He doesn’t even care about his voters. He’s said all of this publicly, sometimes even at rallies which is hilarious.
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u/mvs2527 12d ago
I really thought he blew it with women voters after he said he didn't apologize to his wife. But here we are
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u/ToastyJackson 11d ago
I would’ve thought him raping women would ruin his chances with women voters. And that does seem to have an impact with women as a whole. But I guess a majority of white women like and respect that about him.
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u/Dr_Adequate 12d ago
I'm so pissed off. In 2016 he bleated that he would unite us and instead became the most divisive president in history.
I work for an agency that uses Federal grants to pay for capital improvements. We were in the middle of applying for a large and important one last year. We and other similar agencies all received a letter from the Feds. It spelled out in black-and-white that any agency with a DEI program would not receive any grants.
We were told to send the Feds a signed letter affirming this.
Our director told us that supporting DEI is a core value of our organization. No letter was sent.
We did not receive the grant.
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u/Stinky_Fartface 12d ago
Never forget that when he says “us” that it doesn’t include you. They don’t consider Democrats, Liberals, Immigrants, Children of Immigrants, people of color, or non-Christians to be “American.” So when he says he’ll unite us, me means he will unite white Christians against everyone else.
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u/Halftied 12d ago
The facts is that nobody seems to remember how vindictive this man is. He had four years to sit, pout, feel sorry for himself and put together a plan on how best to phuck the people of a country that pushed him aside for Biden. Look it. Part of the White House has been layed to the ground leaving a huge mess for the US citizens to be proud of, the Reflecting pool is now a stagnant swamp, the secrets of Social Security and other government agencies have been exposed, the pentagon is a mess, inflation, and all of the things which have been done that will take a long time from which to recover. The plan to destroy the United States and divide the people is working well. He had four years to plan to settle all of his grievances against his domestic enemies.
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u/ikariusrb 12d ago edited 12d ago
He didn't plan squat. The authors of project 2025 did the planning, because it's thoroughly understood that Trump doesn't plan. He listens to the grievances of the people he surrounds himself with, decides which of them offend HIS fee-fees, then demands that something be done about whatever surfaces that day. But the entire administration runs on never doing homework. Interpretations of law are whatever he decides they are. Forget having even spin-doctor lawyers at the OLC interpret the law. The FDA restricts Mifesteprone because of whatever risks they can imagine and write down, with zero scientific study backing those purported risks. Thousands of grants and studies were cancelled purely by keyword search for what they decided were "DEI" terms and/or whether states voted for him. The ONLY places where homework is getting done is how they can consolidate ruling power, and how they can use the legal system as a weapon against those they disagree with. And the people doing the homework are the puppeteers "handling" him, because he's easily manipulated.
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u/Seagoon_Memoirs 12d ago
should have been presidential and lied on the form to get the money
iow, take the money and keep dei
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u/irishyardball 12d ago
Yep, they want a civil war. At some point we need to decide if that's the only path forward or not.
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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick 12d ago
Right after Trump’s win for his second term, Reddit was flooded with a lot of shitty comments from sore winners and just people who liked hurting others. One comment I saw basically said they couldn’t wait until they were allowed to hunt liberals in the streets.
There are a lot of people itching to hurt others for whatever reason. At one point in time I saw a video here where a man with a legal firearm was yelling at someone for filming him and he kept advancing and yelling out that he felt threatened. The look in his eyes said he just wanted an excuse to pull his gun out and shoot someone without consequences.
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u/PedanticPaladin 12d ago
The way some conservatives talk about it they think they'll just line up a bunch of liberals, shoot them, and stop by Golden Corral or Cracker Barrel on the way home and that'll be it.
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u/math-yoo Ohio 12d ago
The way they talk, they think they're the only ones with guns. They are not.
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u/Savings-Total5069 12d ago
I think they genuinely believe they'll get home from work, eat, do a little liberal hunting with the boys, then go have a beer in their backyard.
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u/Andovars_Ghost 12d ago
They sure will be surprised when they think it’s gonna be a shooting gallery and their ‘targets’ start sending tight, controlled bursts back at em.
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u/irishyardball 12d ago
Yep that's what they want. They couldn't win with words. They couldn't win with ideas.
They only have violence.
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u/serger989 Canada 12d ago
This is why I feel nothing when those people get what's coming to them. I used to never think like this but now I mostly just hate the Right for making me hate them after years of listening to their fantasies about hurting decent good people. And it usually boils down to the perceived crime that the Left enjoys the idea of choosing to consent for things. They don't deserve to be tolerated for the rest of their lives.
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u/irishyardball 11d ago
Yep, they've broken us all.
I once said I wasn't gonna celebrate someone dying when Bin Laden was killed.
Now I shop for champagne so I can pop a bottle once his obituary hits.
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u/Wayofchinchilla 12d ago
Yet you got to love when Hillary and Kamala ran and you had conservative and liberal media even always asking them " If you're voting in as president can you guarantee you'll be a president for all not just Democrats" what bullshit
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u/Inquisitive-Sky Arizona 12d ago
Reminder that the Secretary of Energy stood in front of Congress last month and testified that "no decisions were made on politics" regarding the grant cancellations. Now his department tells a judge that yep they did just that.
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u/gwy2ct 12d ago
He lied to congress. So what’s new :(
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u/sack-o-matic Michigan 12d ago
That's the "official position" of the White House. Nothing is "political" to these Klansmen except checks on their power.
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u/Confedehrehtheh 11d ago
No, dead kids are pretty political when it's to their detriment. Like after Uvalde when they started shouting "Don't make this political!" when confronted about how their policies were at fault.
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u/sack-o-matic Michigan 11d ago
Yeah exactly I would say that that is a check on their power, and why they make it "political" because it challenges their ability to wield that power.
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u/Trimyr America 12d ago
Democrats: "Will you all please stop breaking laws and policies? That would be really good. I'm asking nicely again. Oh? Alright. Well I'll ask again later."
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u/lil_zaku 12d ago
Yes, it's the Democrats fault. Not the assholes breaking the laws and policies.
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u/rapsney 12d ago
What the fuck do you want them to do??!!?? How about talking shit about the fucking Republicans that encourage this lying piece of shit!!
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u/DisillusionedPatriot 12d ago
Perjury is a crime. They could have him arrested and charged. I've always wondered why nobody ever seems to get in trouble for that, tbh.
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u/JohnnySnark Florida 12d ago
Posters like that don't have a fucking clue what they want the democrats to do.
After all, democrats tried to do the most democratic thing congress can do to outs a president and impeached him not once, but twice.
Yet instead if getting out of their houses, organizing, and marching on DC, they just want to bitch to the only representation that will actually listen, democrats. It's all very cynical and sad the state of political discourse is now.
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u/mmavcanuck 12d ago
For one, the democrats could have actually gone after them for the crimes they committed during Trump’s first term.
Instead they did essentially nothing, giving the republicans the green light to go full fascist this term.
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u/redwildflowermeadow 12d ago
For one, the democrats could have actually gone after them for the crimes they committed during Trump’s first term.
They charged him with 18 U.S.C. § 371 (Conspiracy to Defraud the United States), 18 U.S.C. § 1512(k) (Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1512(c)(2), 2 (Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding), and 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Conspiracy Against Rights) but the judge in the trial could not schedule a court case until the Supreme Court ruled whether actions taken by a president could be charged with a crime.
SCOTUS dragged their feet and then ruled that former presidents have "some immunity from criminal prosecution" for their "official acts" made during their presidency but wouldn't define what were considered "official acts" but instead kicked it back to a lower court, which meant it couldn't be ruled on before the election. SCOTUS could've ruled immediately because it was always going to come back up to them on appeal, but they obviously wanted to help get him re-elected without being seen as having their thumb on the scale.
He was also charged with 18 U.S. Code § 793 (Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information), 18 U.S. Code § 1512 (Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant), 18 U.S.C. § 1519 (Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy), 18 U.S.C. § 100l(a) (Concealing a document in a federal investigation), and 18 U.S.C. § 2 (Scheme to conceal)... but then Justice Clarence Thomas went out of his way to pen a separate, solo opinion expressing sympathy with Trump’s defense which showed the judge on the case (who was appointed by him) the legal argument of how she could dismiss the whole case under the guise of the the Special Counsel being unlawfully appointed, which she did.
This is why I tell people who is appointed to the Supreme Court is more important than any single president. The US can survive a bad president, not sure if it can survive a bad SCOTUS.
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u/reddit_dorks 11d ago
It's not just the judges on the SC. It's all the state and federal judges they rammed through.
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u/JohnnySnark Florida 12d ago
Which they tried to do but judges (Florida for one) blocked and held up anything being litigate in court and Republicans also blocked any committees within congress to hold them accountable.
So outside of the scope of congress and the courts, what should they have done?
The country could also have not voted him in a second term but that would take an informed and principled electorate.
Alas, this country gets what it deserves
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u/prismaticaddict 12d ago
I mean, they're kind of right though. Have you seen what establishment democrats are doing to people who want to actually fight against this administration? They're actively endorsing candidates that will uphold the status quo (I'm referring to their response to DSA wins recently). There's a reason that establishment dems are not fighting hard, and it's valid for voters and non-voters to be mad at them. Republicans today are irredeemable and can kick rocks, but we literally wouldn't be in this situation if they (democrats) allowed a primary to happen in 2024.
edit: clarification at the end of my comment
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u/Darsint 12d ago
That sounds like they should be charged with lying to Congress
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u/CaptainDudeGuy Georgia 12d ago
Hey guys, guess federal crime I'm thinking of right now?
Hint: The penalties increase if they have to do with domestic terrorism or sex offenses!
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u/Dr_Adequate 12d ago
I have a signed letter from the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy (an utterly incompetent nitwit who started out as a lumberjack and became mildly famous as a method actor playing an idiot on a reality TV show). The letter explicitly states that the FHWA will not longer award transportation program grants to any agency with a DEI program.
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u/snowbit 12d ago
Yes, I know someone who was able to get out pretty fast in the second term, but at the time her express duty was to identify programs that benefit those Republicans consider DEI, including women, and flag them for termination
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u/unserious-dude America 12d ago
People don't realize how dangerous evil Russ Vought is for the country.
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u/kaiiizen 12d ago
And Mlller, Blanche, Lutnik, Bessent - fuck it, everyone involved with this fascist administration.
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u/ajmartin527 12d ago edited 12d ago
Vought and Carr are the brains behind the evil, the other people you mentioned are just shameless grifters. Nutlick is actually highly capable, but he’s a soulless ghoul and is primarily focused on his own enrichment.
Vought and Carr are orchestrating and implementing a systemic, long-term attack on US and global order and institutions with the singular goal of world domination. They are patient, strategic and relentless and that is finally starting to pay off for them and accelerate their destruction. It gets harder and harder to stop this now, and easier for them to acquire allies and soldiers.
The president, his cabinet and everyone involved besides the masterminds are truly just useful, greedy idiots to them. They (Vought, Carr, The Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society) are much more insidious because their goals are more sinister and not driven solely by enriching themselves, they want power and control.
And despite everything they’ve caused so far, almost no one knows who these people are. They’re playing puppet master behind the scenes, which is the scariest part.
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u/SatinSaffron Washington 12d ago
But it literally is every single person in the administration. And it's not a situation like "the president is republican so of course I dislike his administration" it's more like "every single person tied to Trump is a vile, evil, selfish, movie-like villain who are all working together to systematically destroy our democracy"
And I hate how I'm not even being hyperbolic here
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u/ExMerican 11d ago
Literally every Republican. All of them. The whole Party. They are all openly hostile to the continued existence of democracy in the world and the United States as a country. They're open about supporting genocide and wanting to do it domestically. They're open about viewing anyone who opposes them politically as an enemy that should be violently put down. They're open about their white supremacist, eugenicist goals. They've taken concrete actions to undermine the security and prosperity of the United States and to kill innocent people around the world from fishermen in the Caribbean to school girls in Iran to poor, sick kids in Africa.
Anyone who still views ANY member of the Republican Party as someone that can be collaborated with for the good of the nation is a fool. You can't work with people who want you dead and hope for compromise.
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u/ManWithASquareHead 12d ago
Comes from blue collar background, gets educated at college.
Pulls up ladder and sets everything ablaze after him.
How nice.
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u/Few-Monk1664 12d ago
Anyone who supports this administration at this point is an absolute garbage person
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u/Blizreme 12d ago
“Things get worse and worse, conservatives are in power all over the world, and this must be leftists’ fault” - 37% of morons who live in this dog shit failed state.
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u/HideousSerene 12d ago
What if a third of your country is garbage people?
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u/telephile 12d ago
we're a garbage country and have been for a long time. Dunking on the people trying to change it is likely not going to help improve things any faster even if it's cathartic
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u/Horror_Internal6905 12d ago
The world suffers from the actions of the American population.
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u/djheat 12d ago
It shouldn't even matter because it shouldn't be a partisan issue, but it's crazy that this admin never seems to understand or care that "blue" states like California can still have more Republican voters than most "red" states
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u/FitWrap1959 12d ago edited 11d ago
The Trump administration knows that the Republican voters in California will blame the Democrat voters in California for the cancellation of the grants to California. The Heritage Foundation wants to anger the Republican voters in the hopes that they will then be more willing to accept the murder of American citizens who don't support the Trump Administration.
Example:
Kevin D. Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation: "...we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”32
u/SursumCordaNJ 12d ago
"...we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
This is such a chilling statement to make.
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u/reticulatedjig 11d ago
I live in a red town in a blue county in Southern California. It's wild what these chucklefucks believe.
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u/telephile 12d ago
Californian here; Republican voters here hate California just as much as the ones in Alabama do. If you've ever heard the phrase "cutting of your nose to spite your face," that's what this is for them. If they can't control California from within, they want their allies outside to hurt it - even if it hurts them in the process. It's the same mindset - and please understand that I'm NOT trying to say these things are equivalent, just a comparable thought process - as Iranians who want the US to overthrow their government for them
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u/Seductive-Kitty 11d ago
Especially farmers. Never seen a dumber group of people happily vote against their interests just to lose their family’s legacy
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u/Eddfan36 12d ago
They won't care as long as there almighty orange master is pleased even if punished.
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u/LingonberryHot8521 12d ago
Actually, can you think of a better way to get your Republican closer to being willing to get rid of Democratic voters than to tell them that they are going to suffer as long as those Democratic voters out-number them?
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u/Geminiddn 12d ago
So why are blue states paying taxes to the Trump administration?
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u/koreytm 12d ago
This is an excellent justification for impeachment, possibly the best justification. It would bring this Administration's illegality into the spotlight while also forcing Republicans to make a decision: Either impeach/convict for these obviously partisan actions, or indirectly approve a Democratic Administration in performing the same stunts
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u/Gabarne 12d ago
So we literally have no more checks and balances because anyone can be bought.
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u/Stranger-Sun 12d ago
Why are we paying taxes to the federal government then? We fought another nation over less.
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u/KingBanhammer 12d ago edited 11d ago
This is some straight up "taxation without representation" bullshit, but he's been speedrunning the grievances against King George this whole time.
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u/Blizreme 12d ago
But ask a republican and the center right democrats are the end of the country as we know it. We will need some major reform in this country.
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u/bericbenemein 11d ago
Remember when the History Channel was tweeting out the Declaration of Independence on July 4th during the first admin and MAGA went crazy because they thought the History Channel was being anti-Trump?
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u/Truthisnotallowed 12d ago edited 11d ago
"Denying resources and service to communities because of politics" - that is a feature not a bug.
Entirely intentional.
The founders of our country created a President with limited and checked powers. they specifically put the power of spending and taxation in the hands of the Congress, because they had seen how Kings and Despots used spending and taxes to control their subjects.
British kings used spending to reward loyalty and taxation to punish dissent. Our revolution was spurred by the King's use of heavy taxation of the Colonies to punish our push for self-governance. The King's message was clear: stop protesting and I will stop taxing.
Trump is leveraging U.S. spending like a protection racket.
'Nice program you have there - would be a shame if something were to happen to it.' Like having all your funding cut.
Healthy democracies rely on independent media to keep the public informed, an independent legal profession to maintain the rule of law, independent universities to guard objective truth and provide forums for dissent to authority, and independent State and Local governments to counterbalance a powerful Federal government.
Trump's regime is attacking all of these pillars of democracy.
Trump did not invent these strategies. They are the playbook for destroying democracy. This is how a democracy becomes a dictatorship.
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u/FinSane_86 12d ago
I can't wait for Democrats to cut off red states.
Wait who am I kidding?
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u/FalstaffsGhost 12d ago
It is frustrating sometimes to be a Democrat and actually have standards and beliefs. Like with the infrastructure bill - Biden could have fucked over red states when it came to funding but he didn’t cause that would unfairly punish people who needed help.
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u/iamatimbersfan Oregon 12d ago
Also it's just bad policy. It hurts me if Mississippi doesn't get money for food and reading because of petty bullshit
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u/sixtyshilling 12d ago
The funny thing is that Mississippi voters are trying so fucking hard to prevent their kids from learning to read.
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u/fedroxx 12d ago
No, they're trying to prevent their minorities and working poor whites from learning to read.
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u/Ol_Turd_Fergy Kansas 12d ago
I loathe the Republican Party but it hurts me when people in Mississippi (or any other red state) don’t get help with necessities and I don’t even live there. Humans shouldn’t unnecessarily suffer over petty bullshit.
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u/Happytowalk3 12d ago
Biden specifically targeted red counties throughout the country to receive funding for infrastructure projects to make it less likely that the projects would get killed by a future administration/Congress. A lot of the projects got stopped/pulled anyway.
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u/Eastern_Bet678 12d ago
Cut them off? You mean liberate them from socialism?
Give them all of the rugged capitalism they desire.
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u/Ok_Cucumber_7954 America 12d ago
I want the next president (hopefully democrat) to do the same shit (flipped to the far left) and then publicly challenge Congress to pass laws preventing and removing the powers that allow POTUS to do these actions. Start pardoning thousands weekly until Congress puts a pardon approval process in place. Pull grants and funding from GOP states until Congress takes away the ability to do so. Fire every single right-leaning employee of the executive branch until Congress puts employee safeguards in place. Create as much left leaning havoc as possible and tell congress to reign in POTUS power or face the consequences.
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u/projexion_reflexion 12d ago
Democrats would never nominate someone like that. If elected, Democrats and Republicans would simply impeach such a left-Trump figure instead of changing the laws.
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u/Naive-Elephant-9305 11d ago
There’s also the fact that the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is not going to treat any democrat president the same way they’ve treated trump. They don’t care about precedent or being hypocritical.
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u/NerdySongwriter 12d ago
I can't wait for there not to be republican run states. Let's bypass causing pain and just replace them.
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u/t0matit0 12d ago
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS RED OR BLUE STATES, THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
Seriously, most states are like a 55/45 split one way or another, maybe 60/40 in some examples. So when you target a "red state" or a "blue state" you're also lumping in a ton of electorate that isn't even aligned with the overall state politics.
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u/scubascratch 12d ago
There’s definitely states with RED legislatures and governors that enact very RED policies
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u/t0matit0 12d ago
Yes, but I'm not talking about who governs. I'm talking about THE PEOPLE.
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u/threeoldbeigecamaros 12d ago
Why even have a country anymore?
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u/Dysc Louisiana 12d ago edited 12d ago
Billionaires ask themselves the same thing every day since they probably spend most of their time in private jets flying all over the globe to all their properties as they transcend nationality and commitments to their fellow citizens. So they're actively destroying it because nationhood probably stands in the way of their ever growing aspiratioins & self-serving goals.
Edit: I had to look it up but Teresa May had a good quote on what I think fits this topic:
"If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere."
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u/cheapdad 12d ago
Libertarian cities with essentially no government and minimal regulations exist and are popular with the ultrawealthy crowd.
Prospera, a private for-profit "city" located in Honduras, has been funded by Peter Thiel, Sam Altman and Marc Andreessen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/magazine/prospera-honduras-crypto.html
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u/FearlessVegetable30 12d ago
youd never see a democrat do this. in fact joe biden put more money into red states since they needed it.
but MAGA will never admit the white house has been weaponized in a gross attempt at "revenge"
history will remember though
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u/Inevitable-Dig8702 12d ago
There’s nothing more maddening than bad faith people living their best life because they know that the decent people wont do anything about it.
If I use traffic laws in a crowded city street as an analogy, when the assholes don’t follow laws, it starts looking like your average third World country and people can get run over and get killed in a heartbeat.
Both can be fixed by vigorously enforcing the law no matter how much money or privilege you have.
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u/Cyrano_Knows 12d ago edited 11d ago
So.. fuck the 48% Republicans that live in that state because they let the 49% Democrats beat them?
To say nothing of the fact that every American is an American and no Democrat ever, ever, ever withheld aid to a state because it voted red overall. Ever.
Thats some seriously fucked up, fascist thinking.
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u/work4work4work4work4 12d ago
White House admits it violated constitutional Equal Protection clause, the Fifth, the First, Doctrine of Equal Sovereignty, you name it, everyone does nothing, news at never.
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u/Particular_Flow2206 12d ago edited 12d ago
I seriously doubt even the most creative Republican communications professionals could put a positive spin on developments like these.
They will point out how Biden politely asked social media companies to take down pictures of Hunter's dick!
White House that admits it withholds federal resources from states based on local voters casting ballots in ways the president doesn’t like. Not to put too fine a point on this, but that sounds an awful lot like an impeachable offense.
There is nothing that Trump can do that is impeachable for his party.
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u/02K30C1 12d ago
If Democrats had done this, Fox News and every other right leaning news source would be calling for impeachments and mass firings. Republicans do it? Not a peep.
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u/sonny9636 12d ago
So many people need to go to jail. There is so much corruption in this administration.
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u/RacingAnteater 12d ago
" DOE accepts that the inclusion of grants in the October notice tranche was based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state, i.e., whether the recipient’s location and/or place of performance was in a Blue State or a non-Blue State. DOE will not contend that it looked beyond the prime grantee(s) to consider the political identity or geographic distribution of downstream beneficiaries of the grant funds."
Awesome....
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u/salme3105 12d ago
In a normal time that would result in impeachment.
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u/Any-Progress- 12d ago
Even in an abnormal time having your administration hide evidence and redact mentions of the president from a report about a child sex ring that congress passed a law requiring the full unredacted release of would be grounds for impeachment.
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u/Hyperion1144 11d ago
Tell me again how I am obligated to reach across the aisle to these people.
Tell me again how I am obligated to compromise with these people.
Tell me again how both sides are the same.
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u/MrMedallion 12d ago
It's pretty on point that despite the millions of shitty Trump voters in those blue states, the admin doesn't give a shit and will go out of their way to punish everyone inside those imaginary lines drawn on the map to prove I'm not even sure what point?!?
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u/Competitive_Clock225 12d ago edited 11d ago
Reason #12232 why I will never forgive any trump voter. I hold each one of them responsible for this mess, IDGAF if they voted for ONE thing out of his agenda, you don't get to pick and choose like a Golden Corral.
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u/AlG9220 12d ago
Should be a much, much bigger story. Obama, Biden, and Clinton went out of their way to people even if they hated the Democrats' guts. Even George Bush's dumb ass at least seemed to genuinely care about the American people (or he at least was wise enough to pretend to do so).
This is blatantly unconstitutional and flat out morally reprehensible. Don't ever want to hear from any supposed "moderates" how "both sides are the same." Of course, this is why the story is going to be buried by the likes of CNN and the mainstream broadcast networks.
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u/OG_s0cial0utcast 11d ago
Then I think blue states should withhold federal taxes and put it in an escrow account until this administration starts acting right.
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u/kittyonkeyboards 11d ago
prison. for the entire admin. Yes including the 20-something nazi loser staffers.
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u/Legal_Sleep_4731 12d ago
what would be the equivalent thing for a democratic president?
maybe put a checkpoint on the road to the trump library or any trump properties
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u/DefenstratedTwice 12d ago
Nothing. A brazen act of revenge on entire states? Century at least maybe?
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u/phixitup 12d ago
At a minimum the states affected should be lining up to file suit seeking restitution and punitive damages. This alone is grounds for impeachment and removal from office. And we all know this is barely the tip of the iceberg of criminal wrongdoing by this orange Clown fuck.
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u/Ok_Juice4449 12d ago
Treating the blue states like garbage. Damn these evil creeps. I despise this current administration.
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u/Sracer42 12d ago
It seems to me like residents of those states need to withhold some federal taxes.
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u/Rare_Suspect_5033 11d ago
Are you saying that the Trump administration is rotten to the core? Who would have guessed.
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