• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      12 days ago

      NEVER argue or give Republicans any benefit of the doubt ever again. If someone says they’re Republican you should immediately shut them out of your life.

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        I can’t tell if your joking. The average Republican is pretty much the same as the average Democrat. I believe shifting blame onto a stereotype of the other party is some sort of Freudian transferance.

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          I disagree, the average Democrat at least pretends to care, the average Republican would happily put the boot to your neck if you’re an out group.

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    He’s bankrupting the country like he bankrupted all his other businesses.

    Guys, it’ll trickle down any second now.

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      The debt is trickling down. Every dollar you give as taxes goes towards that debt and war machine. Since rich don’t pay taxes all the debt payment is yours.

      Even if you don’t pay income taxes; sales tax, property tax, tariff is a payment towards the debt.

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    HOW is this Possible? We ELIMINATED all of my VA Benefits, my Child’s Education and School Lunch, SNAP Benefits, Healthcare and Infrastructure Funding! SURELY that gives us Enough Money for Billionaire Tax Breaks and Wars?

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      All those programs? A drop in the war bucket. We could have spent MORE on those programs healthcare and infrastructure, kept the tax breaks for billionaires and still have a bigger war bucket than the next few countries on the list.

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    The debt is high as balls of course, but really there is no specific significance to reaching the level of the GDP of one year. You could just as well say it has reached 400% of the quarterly GDP or 33% of the three year GDP.

    Personally I’m more worried about concrete numbers like the cost of servicing the debt yearly. That has reached 17% of your yearly budget by now.

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      Every American, babies to retire owe like $100.000 (napkin math, IIRC it’s even more) if you split up the debt.

      I’d start thinking about that if I were an economist over there. Or a politician. Someone is going to have a huge, huuge, leverage over the usa til you fix that.

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        I still think the funniest thing about the Vance edits is that they look more normal than the real thing. Don’t know how or why but the fucker lost the phenotype roulette and just looks surreal.

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            I think I figured it out, his head or at least face is too babyish. I don’t know if it’s because he’s had work done or if he is just unlucky but his eyes up are normal ish but below his eyes are weirdly rounded. The edits often unify the rounding of his face resulting in him not looking so weird.

            Though his head shape as a whole is kinda off regardless I think it’s the weird assymetrical nature of his face that causes the surreal look.

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    I am so sick of the fiscally irresponsible Demonrats running up our national debt. If only they could follow the fiscally conservative Republisaint’s example and cut all those pesky welfare programs like Social Security and Medicare.

    Imagine if we took all that wasted money and gave it to wealthy to manage. Trickledown only works if we send a tidal wave of money upwards. So much money that some invariably trickles down to the undeserving poors.

    We just have to switch to a regressive national 10% sales tax (with exceptions for large ticket item purchases that only wealthy people can make of course) we could have our Demonrat debt problem solved within a couple of years.

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    It’s simple, really. Trump has foreseen all of the economic mistakes the next democrat president will make and is already fixing them, before they even happen. Some of you should be a little more grateful.