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/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/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 22h 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.