r/politics • u/harsh2k5 • 1d ago

Soft Paywall The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order | It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193650/trump-administration-just-violated-another-court-order
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u/momamil 1d ago

I remember reading that Kushner said, it’s a blue state problem (at first). So effing evil.

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u/Skiinz19 Tennessee 1d ago

He said it was a city issue and cities vote blue. If you were a red state with a blue city you also got screwed. It was so dumb it was dangerous.

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u/Alan_Shutko 1d ago

Red states with blue cities are happy if the blue city gets screwed. In fact, it seems to be the official past-time of the MO legislature.

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u/worldspawn00 Texas 1d ago

Same in Texas

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u/crackhead_tiger 1d ago

""BuT hOUsToN iS ALL cRiMe RiDDeN""

  • every small town mom in surrounding counties watching Houston news every night while ignoring the fact that their quaint little town is being ravaged by meth

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u/Turbulent-Ad6620 1d ago

BAHAHAHa! They say this about Madison, WI… Madison. Wisconsin.

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u/Superpieguy 1d ago

It's the same people who think Woodman's is "sketchy"

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u/Severin_Suveren 1d ago

Not an American so I have no clue what that is, but let's call it what it is ok, it's political racism. One side seems to be playing politics, while the other is playing divide and conquer wargames, and have been doing so for some time

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u/Dwayne_Gertzky 23h ago

Woodman’s is a great employee owned Wisconsin grocery store that are primarily based near major population areas like Milwaukee, Madison, and Kenosha. So it’s definitely what you said.

It’s famous for its massive selection of cheese and frozen pizzas. If you’re ever visiting Wisconsin it’s worth checking out for the novelty if you happen to be driving by one.

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u/Turbulent-Ad6620 12h ago

That’s the first thing that pops into my mind. Sketchy Phil Woodman is out rounding up stray carts like a real menace. /s

I have 2 woodmans on my liquor sales route and worst thing about them is they don’t accept my work credit card. Beyond sketchy are some of my secluded, rural liquor stores though. Like the setting of a Texas chainsaw massacre scene but dustier.

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u/billypilgrimspecker 1d ago

omg I grew up in rural Kentucky and always heard that about friggin Lexington, of all places. moved here and couldn't ask for a better place in the US to raise kids...

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u/phoarksity 17h ago

Similar to what I see about Austin when scrolling through Nextdoor from Cedar Park.

Granted, I live in Cedar Park because I can’t afford to live in Austin, But while I’d like to blame that on the government itself, it’s mostly because of the NIMBY-ism which comes from property owners from all parts of the political spectrum.

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u/trogloherb 1d ago

Same in IN!

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u/CaffeineGlom 1d ago

NC, chiming in!

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u/microwavepetcarrier 1d ago

Oh hi, from Ohio.

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u/thisguytruth 1d ago

same in michigan.

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u/SammySoapsuds Minnesota 1d ago

checking in from the burning ruins of Minneapolis.

p.s. I agree with the other person, thanks for the weed!

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u/Memphistopheles901 Tennessee 1d ago

I was there for work last year and thought the city really looked great for having been completely burned to the ground by antifa supersoldiers

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u/Timeformayo 1d ago

Hi, Michigan! Kentucky liberals thank you for your cheap weed!

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u/thehalfwit Nevada 1d ago

Illinois checking in.

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u/Basil_Lisk 1d ago

La la la la Lousy-ana!

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u/Memphistopheles901 Tennessee 1d ago

Tennessee here

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u/NMSenditmf 1d ago

I see whatcha did there lol

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u/Ill_Technician3936 1d ago

In Ohio's defense it's so gerrymandered that pretty much everywhere is red.

I also don't believe Bernardo or James David Bowman (J.D. Vance) were elected by the people. Tampered machine's absolutely same for the gerrymandering bill.

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u/Subject_Leopard997 20h ago

Y’all, I’m in LOS ANGELES! A real hellscape if you look at any right wing source. I’ll be out protesting today in sunny, 76 degree weather with a huge variety of people from all walks of life, from all over the world, where we all live together with minimal problems or even crime for a city this size. We have delicious taco trucks on every corner (and pupusas and banh mi sandwiches and every other yummy thing you can imagine). We have some of the most creative people in the world here. Yet we are vilified by most of the rest of the country who have never been here and have no idea what they’re missing. We did recently suffer 2 massive fire events - due to climate change - and those withheld FEMA funds would be another huge blow, salt in an open wound, completely unfair in every way. California is a “donor” state to the rest of the country, contributing more money to the federal government than we ever get back in resources and funding.

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u/HealthyInPublic America 1d ago

But Texas loves small government so much! Unless those damn hippies in Austin do something like ban single use plastic bags... then we'll sue 'em!

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u/TankTopTyga 1d ago

Lol. Beat me to it.

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u/Naive_Swan3844 1d ago

One thing we really need to change though is we need an absolute lot less guns only the govt. needs them

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u/Bryan2966s 21h ago

That makes zero sense… im a democrat but im also a veteran and i know for a fact that the ones that are doing the crime dont care if they are breaking the law by having a gun… did you know the percentage of mass shootings that have been stopped due to a law abiding civilian with his concealed carry before they even started? Its lots higher than you’d think tbh and frankly i think all of us would agree when a mass shooter aims at us we would much rather there be a chance that the shooter take a bullet from a nearby before they squeeze that finger and we don’t get to go home to family dinner…. If you take guns away from the good guys then who can save you. It’s a known fact in america that most police departments have policy’s stating they don’t have to defend you if they fear for their life… they get paid and get the choice to save you or not … now i do agree fully we need stricter rules on acquiring a firearm legally and even more than that we need the mental health care and screening in the youth to be more stringent and looked after

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u/wabushooo North Dakota 1d ago

The state already took over the KC police and are now trying to do the same with St. Louis metropolitan police. Jeff City absolutely despises the parts of the state with people in them.

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u/aunttiffany 1d ago

Tennessee fucking hates Memphis

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u/FalstaffsGhost 1d ago

I’m pretty sure Texas has tried multiple times to pass laws that basically are designed solely the fuck over Austin

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u/Its_Pine New Hampshire 1d ago

Kentucky regularly passes laws to control or dismantle efforts of Louisville

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u/Interesting_Hope6849 14h ago

And Indiana legislature does the same to Indianapolis

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u/Complete-Pangolin 1d ago

They view cities as plantations

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u/EnCroissantEndgame 1d ago

That the dogwhistle, a way of saying that black people live there.

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u/ATheeStallion 1d ago edited 21h ago

The $$$ from New Orleans to the very red state.

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u/Dwayne_Gertzky 23h ago

From Milwaukee to MAGA rural red our $$$ flows

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u/Frowny575 1d ago

Amazes me how they do this yet it tends to be those cities that bring in the most money to the state. They love money then seem to hate the generation of it?

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u/Aggressive-Delay-420 1d ago

Alabama checking in!

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u/wial 1d ago

I've toyed with the idea of "The United City-States of America". Must democracy include the drooling brain-drained hinterlands? The word "civilization" means "city culture" not exurb fascism.

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California 17h ago

Same. The whole of the "Northstate" constantly complains about how dirty & crime ridden San Francisco is, while it's an every day occurrence to hear about domestic violence, child harm & drug trafficking around our the Northern towns.

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u/Sufficient_Owl_3413 1d ago

I’m in TN as well. What confuses me is that Republicans will cheer that he outright punishes blue states and cities, but NO state or city is 100% blue (or red for that matter). How do Republicans not see this???

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u/Firecrotch2014 1d ago

They dont care. They see anyone living in a blue state even if theyre hard core maga red they "chose" to live in that state so they deserve it.

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u/GenericRedditor0405 Massachusetts 1d ago

I've come to conclude over the years that a common theme of Republican policies is that Republican voters are okay with collateral damage. With the death penalty, they would rather an occasional innocent person be executed than allow a criminal to live, with abortion they're fine with risking the lives of women with life-threatening pregnancy complications if it means that they can prevent women from having elective abortions, with welfare they would rather needy people starve than allow someone to abuse the system and be a "welfare queen," etc.

It's not like Trump has been quiet about wanting to punish blue states, and it's not like his voters are upset about it either. They're happy to sacrifice other people to punish the ones they hate.

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u/Firecrotch2014 1d ago

Of course. They dont care if policy hurts other people. When it starts to hurt them or the people they care about then its suddenly a terrible idea.

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u/EnCroissantEndgame 1d ago

They do care if it hurts other people. In fact that's the major driving motivator of their policies. They want to hurt people that they don't like, that's the main thing they care about. Not making a better society, but making sure that they drag down their enemies and making their life miserable, even if it results in making their own life miserable.

Misery loves company.

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u/inhaledcorn 23h ago

They also believe that, if other people were given the chance, they'd be the ones being crushed under the boot. They have to be the ones wearing the boot before they're the ones beneath it. It's part of their zero-sum mentality.

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u/EnCroissantEndgame 1d ago

It's called lack of empathy. Conservatives that think this way are the dark side of the human experience.

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u/poopfacestuffington 1d ago

Yeah but, if only blue or red people lived in certain states, everybody with half a brain knows that the red areas will be FUBAR in no time. If it wasn't for the blue people the red people would have died out decades ago, so. Well done fuck jobs. You kept these ass clowns alive and now the rest of the world has to suffer for it.

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u/Firecrotch2014 1d ago

I agree. Ive said it for years. Maga wont even acknowledge the fact that blue states underpin many of the red state's budgets with our taxes. If California and NY stopped paying taxes today states like KY would be fucked within a month. They take so much from the fed government and give so little back its not even funny.

Its so ironic that McConnel was leading the charge to repeal Obamacare which 70% of the people in his state use. Like how fucked is that. Youre fucking over your own constituents just so say FU you Obama. And the worst part is they admitted they had no plan to replace Obamacare either. People would literally be dying in those states bcs they wouldnt be getting the life saving meds or medical care they need.

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u/i_ReVamp 1d ago

Also they’re mostly welfare states so without the blue state taxes they couldn’t survive. So they’re cheering for their own downfalls. Per ushz

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u/VanderHoo 1d ago

NO state or city is 100% blue (or red for that matter). How do Republicans not see this???

I hate to both sides this one, but Democrats do this too. They ridicule MS, AL, and other lower performing states "because they voted for it". FL gets some of the worst I see, here's one from from today I ran across. Ron Desantis only won his first election by 33,000 votes, in a state with 23.5 million people, and they act like it's a right wing cesspit deserving of annihilation.

Us vs Them is a toxic mentality.

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u/Conscious_Emu6907 1d ago

There is a difference between ridiculing or mocking a state and refusing aid or funds to a state. If dems ever take power back, I'm going to be calling my senator to refuse any and all aid to any red state that faces natural disaster. We are entering a cold civil war and the red states started it.

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u/VanderHoo 1d ago

It's like you missed the substance of the comment chain you responded to. Red states contain blue cities, blue states contain red cities. Punishing regional areas is stupid, it hurts everyone.

... the red states started it.

100% of every red state? Or are there a bunch of innocent people in there, perhaps literally millions who are actually on your side? You want to refuse people on your side aid during natural disasters, which can be fatal, just to spite your perceived enemies? How is this any different that just being Trump?

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u/Conscious_Emu6907 1d ago

This has been the nature of every war. There were good Germans in Dresden. Flattening it was still the right call.

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u/somesortoflegend 1d ago

And yet he fucking got reelected.

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u/stinky-weaselteats 1d ago

Republicans live in blue cities also. That administration murdered Americans.

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u/RJ815 1d ago

Remember, genocide is okay if it owns the libs. See also Israel and Palestine.

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u/AdOutrageous7790 1h ago

It's only fair to give it back like the regime serves it to us only literally this time with our 2nd amendment rights..

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u/One-Internal4240 1d ago

Well, infectious agents are known for their conscientious adherence to CITY LIMITS signage.

Fucking idiots.

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u/BrentHolman 1d ago

Lucky For America 80% Live In Cities & Only 20% Are Complete Masochistic Death Cultists.

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u/EnCroissantEndgame 1d ago

Saying "blue city" is kind of redundant. Every city is blue. Towns on the other hand, sometimes red and sometimes blue. But any major population center will be 100% of the time blue.

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u/radicalelation 1d ago

Not just that, but they actively ransacked medical supplies from hospitals and ports.

People forgot too quickly about states activating their national guards to protect their medical resources from the feds.

I said it then, been saying it since, the first Trump admin committed politically motivated genocide, not just inactively by targeted withholding of aid (which is already arguably not "inactive" or "passive"), but by actively robbing states of their own supplies.

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u/aneomon 1d ago

Boston had to literally smuggle PPE using the New England Patriots’s airplane.

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u/No-Opportunity1813 1d ago

I think Maryland may have done some emergency supply runs.

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u/BleepBopBoop43 1d ago

Murder via targeted government theft and neglect has a name I once came across - democide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide

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u/radicalelation 1d ago

Some people say polticide, and some like to claim it doesn't count as genocide if it's not a Geneva/UN recognized version.

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u/Local-Potato6883 1d ago

If it's not from the Genoa region of Italy, it isn't genocide just sparkling mass murder

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u/crag-u-feller 1d ago

Well here is quite the bing card

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u/awalktojericho 22h ago

We should rename it Republicide.

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u/floofelina 1d ago

They did, and their supporters deliberately went out and about without masks, including onto Native American reservations.

After watching Trump supporters the last time, I understood how the Holocaust happened while “ordinary Germans” were claiming not to know what was happening. They gleefully participated in an attempted genocide while claiming to not believe anyone was dying. Unforgivable.

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u/Toughbiscuit 1d ago

Not just that, but they actively ransacked medical supplies from hospitals and ports.

To send to russia iirc

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u/RCG73 22h ago

I think it was a extreme failure for this not to have been just pounded on the airwaves. So many people just didn’t know it happened because it was lost in the chaos of the news cycle

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u/Extension_Silver_713 1d ago edited 22h ago

Blows me away kushner or Ivanka were never investigated but we heard about hunter regularly and they went after him and pressed charges and tried to get him prison time for something no one gets prison time for.

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u/sQQirrell 1d ago

Kushner also was given two billion dollars by the Saudis to "invest" and nobody heard anything more about it.

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u/Extension_Silver_713 1d ago edited 1d ago

That was for Khashoggi to be dismembered alive by the Saudi prince’s goons.

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u/awalktojericho 22h ago

And recorded. I guess so they could enjoy it later.

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u/Extension_Silver_713 22h ago

I never listened to it, but I heard it was horrific. Nothing like a lazy, evil Saudi prince to get others to do his shit work because he didn’t like a journalist reporting on what a real shit hole Saudi is live in

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u/PunxatawnyPhil 1d ago

It’s always one way for republicans and a different way for everyone else. My gawd, it’s so freakin obvious. It’s the biggest injustice existing in our nation where all other injustice emanates from. And it’s all because we have no Fourth Estate informing the citizenry any longer. Mainstream media is nothing but useless and counterproductive.

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u/Bryan2966s 21h ago

I mean have you heard of ground news the app? Its literally the fact checker king for all news… i pay for the app because it literally shows how bias a story is with a line graph. As well as it tells ya what the factuality level of it is, whether its regional/national/international news and whether it’s a “blindspot” to those in the left or the right isles… Trust me its a amazing app for those that don’t trust the news be it mainstream or otherwise. To be real though majority of the news outlets have been being real honest and spitting facts recently the most factual news the majority of stories, if not all the stories, it seems is AP news (the associated press) they literally nonstop are rated as ‘very high factuality’ and really they are my go to at this point… but the only one thats consistently marked as ‘mixed factuality’ is fox lol occasionally the others have one marked ‘high factuality’ but the tabloids and fox are the ones always seem to be ‘mixed factuality’ you should check it out its killer stuff for fact checking and making sure your news isn’t misinformation distribution. Fact✅Shit^

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u/StonedGhoster 1d ago

And Hunter wasn't even in the god damned administration, unlike those two grifters.

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u/Extension_Silver_713 1d ago edited 22h ago

Exactly. Hunter makes a plea deal that would mirror most other plea deals for the crime of being an addict and lying on his background check for a gun. Republicans demand the plea deal be rescinded and he gets jail time, so they rescind it and make Biden pardon him. They get raked over the coals for that while Trump pardons numerous felons for all sorts of real crimes. Nobody says shit about kushner lying on his security clearance forms to be around top secret shit and was still allowed the position of power he was within the government. Not one fucking investigation after making billions off his appt. The fact kushner or ivanka were never even investigated spoke volumes. The whole thing is rigged and the media treats us as stupid as republicans do.

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u/PunxatawnyPhil 1d ago

You are not wrong, and what you said is important, at the root of all our problems.

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u/Individual-Guest-123 22h ago

Where are they this time around?

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u/Extension_Silver_713 21h ago

Probably staying low until the country is completely under control and all dissidents rounded up. They have to know they should be in jail if we had any true justice system. I’m sure they know this is a full takeover and don’t want it to backfire like last time because the country might not be so willing to let shit slide.

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u/Vambo-Rules 12h ago

Didn't Trump pardon Ivankas father in law?

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u/m-r-mice Massachusetts 1d ago

Right? The MAGAs tried to destroy the life a private citizen, just because his father was the person who defeated their golden idol. Their goal was to break President Biden by destroying his remaining living son who'd struggled with addiction his whole life after seeing is mom and sister die in a car accident that he and his brother survived.

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u/Extension_Silver_713 22h ago

Never mind what absolute coke heads trump’s own sons are while posing with guns and animal’s they slaughtered for shits and giggles all the time. I said they should have drug tested them. If the show had been on the other foot fox would have demanded jr at the least be tested.

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u/japinard 1d ago

Deflection. The idiots who follow him eat it up.

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u/progbuck 18h ago

For Fascists, hypocrisy by leaders is not a flaw, but a demonstration of power. They think it's a good thing that their leaders are powerful enough that they can ignore them.

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u/Extension_Silver_713 10h ago

Absolutely which is why it’s infuriating they never went after them. Why?? They should have been easier to dig shit up on and real fucking crimes unlike Hunter Biden. So why weren’t any charges filed?

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u/japinard 1d ago

Deflection.

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u/Extension_Silver_713 22h ago

And yet no one in real power bothered to open an investigation into the real criminals

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u/AVeryHeavyBurtation 1d ago

They were stealing PPE from hospitals for themselves, iirc. They literally had goons go into hospitals and take masks. They were also hoarding the strategic reserves.

They are pure evil.

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u/suckyousideways 1d ago

They were stealing PPE from hospitals for themselves, iirc. They literally had goons go into hospitals and take masks. They were also hoarding the strategic reserves.

While overworked nurses and first responders wore garbage bags.

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u/Fnordmeister 16h ago

And Trump sent COVID testers to Putin. Because Murica First!

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u/Professor-Woo 1d ago

It is arguably a crime against humanity.

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u/Zebidee 1d ago

As is dismantling medical research facilities.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 1d ago

I recall so vividly him saying: “it’s our stockpile” about medical equipment the federal government owns to help states in need. Like these people literally thinks things we pay for belong to them while people are dying. Entitled jerks.

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u/GreyouTT America 1d ago

that "it's our supply" comment still pisses me off

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 1d ago

Also really stupid and highlights how dumb these people are that they couldn’t work out that letting a disease spread unchecked anywhere will end up with it spreading everywhere.

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u/Juxtacation 20h ago

Very Regan AIDS coded, isn’t it.

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 19h ago

Republicans did the same with HIV/AIDS.

Reagan didn't act, because it was affecting mostly gay men, drug users, and minorities.

So many people lost their lives unnecessarily.

Republicans don't care about anyone but themselves. They're unfit to govern a modern nation.

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u/Custom_Destination 23h ago

Also, “our stockpile, not yours” when referencing supplies for Covid aid.

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u/SolJinxer 23h ago

I remember something about sending bodybags to blue states...

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u/awalktojericho 22h ago

Don't forget the stealing PPE so his buddies could sell it at marked up prices.

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u/Individual-Guest-123 22h ago

I heard recently that Kush had bought up warehouses of PPE stock when COVID hit. if true, he had a financial interest in stopping the government from providing it for free.

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u/Jouleswatt 20h ago

Kushner — WTF is he not being grilled about his ill gotten gains?!!!!