That there were people cheering on the DOGE cuts because they thought the government would send them a $500 check from all the money saved firing scientists and park rangers is quite sad to me.
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I wouldn't assume most were desperate. But they were willing to have tens of thousands of people lose their jobs so that they could get the equivalent of a nice watch.
Most Americans have no idea what factors have given us a relatively high standard of living. This is burning down your house to stay warm for a few minutes.
The media did a good job promoting for decades of neoliberal deregulation by Republicans and Democrats as justified for being wasteful. The media pushed the lie that privatization saves money and the government is wasteful. See Goldblum’s character’s father’s dumb hammer speech in Independence Day.
They've been miseducated & would take a free slushie coupon if someone offered it in exchange for ripping up the road our of their apartment complex. Destructively self-interested.
Selfish, misogynistic and racist people deserve all the shit coming them. Remember, the rich can weather the storm and the poor cannot.
This applies to states as well, and the liberal states (that create most of the wealth in the U.S.) can support their people with the state taxes they take in.
After we establish a unified federal schooling system, we ought to make Aesop's Fables required reading every year of k-5 since apparently none of these conservatives' parents ever read them any of it(or maybe just make up watch Mr. Rogers and Looney Tunes XD)
Especially because the government has spent billions more than this time last year. Kristi Noem is so far over budget that she will run out of money before end of June. I guess all those ICE agents and flights to El Salvador are expensive.
We desperately need civics education in schools so future generations understand that THEY are part of the government and must know how it works. You can't truly claim to be a proud American when you don't even bother to learn what ACTUALLY makes a country great.
PS- now those mAgA sucKKKers are waiting for their $5000 checks. Soon it will be $50,000 checks, and (checks notes) they will still bs stupid, racist, sexist idiots. Just X amount of hours older, none the wiser.
Republican push through selling off of Public Recreational land to Privatise mega donors.
Our hiking trails, national parks, lakes and mountains.
Will soon be own by the RICH to build mansion and park their yachts.
What money saved? They shut down social services to immiserate the public and weaken them vis a vis the billionaire class. There was no money saved. It cost enormously.
I worry that the “checks” WILL come, in one form or another. They won’t really be “because of the DOGE cuts” (of course), they’ll be a part of a breathtakingly regressive package deal with huge tax cuts for the rich… and they’ll most certainly be well “branded” as coming from Trump.
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1) people are desperate enough for $500
2) the same people are willing to destroy society and civilization, which will only make their situation worse.
Vote for a dangerous idiot so that you might get some tax cuts and ignore every disqualifying statement and action he's ever taken.
This applies to states as well, and the liberal states (that create most of the wealth in the U.S.) can support their people with the state taxes they take in.
The susceptibility of vast numbers of people to utter bullshit is a real challenge to the idea of democracy.
It's the best thing we've got, but it seems all too easy for to hijack and turn to ill purposes.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
Taking from the future to give yourself an extra TV today!
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2025/03/17/americans-wait-doge-stimulus-check-payout/82405542007/
Unless, of course, they wake up
Amazing to see how a dumb rumor spreads. At first I didn't think people would be that dumb. But it got worse.
- the US is trillions of dollars in debt
- so let's cut spending
- but not use the money saved to pay off the debt
- instead give it to citizens
just falls apart on step 3
Our hiking trails, national parks, lakes and mountains.
Will soon be own by the RICH to build mansion and park their yachts.
https://www.backcountryhunters.org/late_night_amendment_to_sell_public_lands_erodes_bha_s_optimism_for_house_budget_package