Blue states should start collecting all federal and state income taxes from people’s paychecks in their states and not send the money to federal government. It can be used to extort Trump and his lackeys.
Sounds good, but doesn’t work that way with Federal taxes. What’s more likely to happen is regional blue states will form pacts to share state resources to assist neighboring states because their economies are interwoven. Thinking New England/Mid-Arlantic; Great Lakes; Pacific Coast.
I live in his district. Lawton also has a VA hospital. Ft Sill is an artillery and basic training base. Lots of veterans live in his district. Maybe they will vote this rep out. One can only hope for at least ONE blue district in OK.
The people behind Project 2025 want to hurt everyone, not just Democrats. They didn’t expect this much backlash. Now, they are realizing Republicans in Congress will get voted out if they don’t give things back to their constituents. It BS. They are trying to do maximum damage without losing power.
Exactly! I don’t see how anyone could ever vote for a Republican after what we have seen since Trump was sworn in. It’s nothing but an assault on the American people. So, what if they give it back. The fact they attempted to take it in the first place tells you everything you need to know.
i don't know what it will take for magakulters to ever turn away. the base is all in. it's "their team". "go team", even as that team breaks their hearts again and again
It takes people like veterans,caucasians and the wealthy figuring out they are not so special after all. For example, you could have one million in investments sitting in the bank right now thinking you are set. But, if Medicare gets defunded, you will likely spend every dime of it on medical care.
Omg all this is awful- I’m glad we are keeping those things but Jesus Christ -just so you know people are protesting at the state capitol, the Okc Tesla dealership at 13th & broadway and in Tulsa- there may be others not yet covered.
By no means should anyone believe them. They will lie to your face and stab you when you walk away.
A leopard don’t change their spots.
Believe them the first time.
Not that easy if the law is followed.... or I'm sure WA, OR and CA would jump! If it was that simple, we'd also let EASTERN OR join racist IDAHO... like they want to. Not every IDAHOAN, especially not majority BOISE!
And what they don’t get is all of these things are important to some people. Everyone sees waste in the things that don’t benefit themselves but critical programs in the things that do. We are all members of this society and contribute to support each other
I wouldn’t go so far as to say “everyone” ONLY cares about self-interest. I don’t see combatting AIDS in Africa as a waste of money. You don’t have to convince me it’s to my personal advantage, just a net good. Problem is about 40-60% of adult Americans now lack the capacity for human empathy 🤷🏻♂️
Something weird happened to American discourse where you now HAVE TO be completely disingenuous at all times. They want people fired in blue states and not fired in red states. As revenge for perceived injustice perpetrated by the “other team”. So they lie. But both perspectives are fiction based.
That is, the whole red/blue my/your team home/away game mentality is really weird and fictional. The “mah constituents are IMPORTANT to me” mentality is also a lie. I don’t think USA was always like this. I noticed it after living abroad from 2008-2015. Something really strange happened to the USA..
The real dilemma for them is California. R's love to hate on liberal California, but almost as many Californians as Texans voted for Trump. So if they screw California, they hurt their own base.
I hope some Dem candidate runs against Cole, no matter how red the District is. The campaign material writes itself:
"WHY IS REP. TOM COLE, ELON MUSK AND DONALD TRUMP HURTING THE FAMILIES OF OK?!?"
End of the union right there. It is not sustainable just because the alternative is too extreme to imagine. There was a time an administration like this was too extreme to imagine and yet here we are. You can’t just hope to win the midterms so that the government stops using its power to harm you.
Exactly, Musk met with Republican members of Congress and told them basically to give him a call if there’s a problem. This is so riddled with corruption and it is not holistic.
So it’s common sense prevailing for Oklahoma, a state that got us into this mess? What about the rest of the Country that’s forced to deal with this senseless chaos? Screw you Cole and the rest of you selfish, self serving MAGA republicans
You have to wonder what the trade off was. This administration is trans and will stop at nothing to get what it wants in return. Watch out OK, you may be grateful now, but maybe not so much when chips start to fall.
*transactional.
Seems to me, states that send more money to the feds than they receive need to re-assess and adjust their contribution accordingly. I'd be very happy to send fed taxes to my state govt to help them offset this discrepancy and let them decide how to subsidize the federal govt. Flip the switch.
Among many other things, the National Weather Center includes the NWS Storm Prediction Center. The Storm Prediction Center issues tornado watches, severe thunderstorm watches, and convective outlooks nationwide. Closing it would have been a disaster.
No they are not.
And those of us in red states that are pointing out the real harm being done right here at home are getting NOWHERE with our so-called representation.
In my state, the best known Senator’s primary focus is on transgender athletes. Because of course.
So rather than unify with all other legislators to demand that Trump stop Musk from conducting these illegal closures, republicans are just begging Trump to save their own hides. Cowards and quislings; the entire lot of ‘em.
Of course not! That’s the plan, right? Announce for everyone. Then MAGA red state republicans cut a side deal or bribe the White House & get reinstated while blue states suffer
I guess he doesn’t care about NOAA in Miami, or any place else. But as was mentioned, these are only happening in “red” states. I really hate this division of our country into Red or Blue, this is supposed to be the United States of America. The founders must be rolling over by now.
And wasn’t this the ultimate fear/goal. Punish blue districts and create an us and them dynamic. Problem is it won’t work. They are closing small offices in Oregon (blue state) but punishing mostly red areas so far. So Trump voters still getting screwed in rural America.
Fr if my taxes are no longer supporting federal programs that benefit my community and I don’t feel confident any of my money is doing anything good for the rest of the country, I’d rather what I pay go to my state to pay for programs whose funding was slashed.
They provide vital valuable services, except if the people receiving those services are Democrats, in which case they are wasteful and full of fraud and abuse. Got it.
I think this is what Trump meant by “no blue states in 2026”. He’s going to force Dems to capitulate otherwise they won’t restore funding. We need the military to remove these fuckers ASAP or America is done.
Blue states need to immediately stop and hold their federal tax dollars. It's clear they are going to continue funding only districts that kiss the ring.
We saw ALL of this coming during Covid when he blackmailed governors who refused to “open up” their states. He threatened to take away Covid funding, give them needed medical equipment & PPE if they didn’t. THAT’S when I realized what a fucker he was.
Yep. We all knew Trump was a grifter and fraud when he ran for office the first time. But Covid showed us he doesn’t have a single atom of humanity or decency in his whole large orange body.
yes, jared's plan to put it back on the states, so they could shift blame there, on demand. the whole plan is always based on how can we blameshift, coa, take credit, at the expense of actually, uh.. solving the fucking problem.
let's see a list of doge salaries and what it's costing to put everything back together and while we're at it a list of all the criminal charges filed against all the fraudsters they're exposing because something something total transparency
They're trying to provoke specific demographics, but they're wasting their time. The plan has always been to arrest POC at protests as an easy way to implement deportation for immigrants and restart slavery for black ppl, but it isn't going to work. We'll be in the house until 2029. We know better.
Maybe you missed the marihuana tax act of 1937.
It works. Americans love laws that target foreigners criminally without a crime being committed. We will spend trillions and arrest millions to ensure it. And if you speak out you will be crushed.
1937 was nearly 100 years ago, and that has nothing to do with black people knowing better than to be in the streets protesting during a tRump administration. We learned from his last presidency that at the end of the day, we're on our own and WILL be scapegoated. We'll be in the house until 2029✌🏽
How many lost their right to vote because a pig dropped a baggie in their car? Got pulled over and shot because of a “smell”? 100 years of that shit, like you said. What did freedom loving Americans do to stop it? Put cops in schools of course.
Trust no one.
I DON'T trust anyone, but that doesn't change what I just said. Could they use their normal shady tactics? Of course, but we won't be in the streets protesting. They think we're as dumb as their base is, but they're mistaken. We know them very well. They don't know us at all.
It’s not like anything with culture will be present there these days. Might as well have the ketamine addicted Apartheid nepo baby prison fuck our atmosphere some more.
this is part of the plan. reward true believers with services and punish dissent with denial of services. watch as these offices get closed in SF, LA, NYC, and chicago.
And a justified reason for our blue state Governors to withhold our states' tax payments to the federal government. No taxation without representation. #Resist #FreeLuigi
The states have almost 0 control to do that. Your work takes that money from your check and sends it straight to the feds. A state can tell a company not to do so, but the feds have more leverage in that game.
But we can set our deductions to zero. California could file suit on behalf of its citizens a la taxation w/o representation. Californians send about $692 billion in taxes to the fed govt but only get about $600 billion back from the feds. That was before Trump 2.0 took office. #resist
Trump said something to the effect of blue states not existing at some point in the future
Once unimaginable actions are becoming insanities that we wouldn’t put past him and his orcs
“I’m thrilled to announce I didn’t care about any of this destruction until the wrecking ball came for my house” is not courage. It’s complete and utter lack of awareness, empathy and good judgement. It’s pathetic.
I can't help but thinking about all the other things that were closed and will stay closed and unavailable, but he is distracting from with these three things.
That’s the bottom line. Republicans didn’t care until they realized Trump’s plan is to hurt them. I think it’s hilarious people are screaming about veterans losing their jobs and the Veteran’s Administration funding being slashed. Somehow Republicans thought they would be spared the indignity.
100%. Your last sentence is spot on, which is why they are running from their constituents by not doing town halls. They know the agenda is unpopular, and they are still onboard.
Two things about this statement - 1) maintaining things as “operational” is not the same as continuing them on as fully functioning. He must clarify the level of commitment. 2) He makes no mention as to who took first action to close these operations down. No glory in saving why you helped destroy
Rep. Cole. What did you promise the FELON??? Because we all know he doesn't provide favors for nothing. Please tell us the true cost of those walk-backs!!!!!!
So even though there was waste and fraud leading to the closure of these offices, they can all stay open. Gosh it seems like these actions are just random.
Well Blue States will just stop paying federal tax and we will take care of ourselves. We will see how long red states can run without blue tax dollars.
Well well, they get their canceled important Officers back open But he didn't help every State that has their important offices open!!
It doesn't effect us but that's ok, because they don't matter!
Do the math. If certain states citizens are being treated differently than other states by a corrupt government, the Union has self-segregated. At that point, secession is just paperwork for survival.
This has been the plan all along. Create the illusion of destruction hiding behind false claims of waste, fraud and abuse, then wait and see who is willing to overlook the blatant infringement upon the constitution and very soul of American democracy.
I second that! Schumer looking over his glasses reading a prepared statement exemplifies how Dems come to the fight with a butterknife, while Republicans are using a literal chain saw. On the other hand, AOC, Bernie, Jasmine Crocket, and several others are really rocking it.
While I’d like to see younger leadership in Congress, my hope lies in state legislatures & governors, as they still have the power to make & enforce laws & have “well regulated militias” in the form of National Guards under their command.
Fighting this in Congress is the butter knife to me.
Perhaps he pondered on the upcoming, unnecessary deaths and injuries - sorry, his political future - in tornado alley after a season without predictions and warnings.
Senator Susan Collins also having her state’s sea grant program reinstated.
Republican senators publicly praising Trump for cutting costs and privately begging “not in my state please”🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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What a profile in courage you’ve shown.
A leopard don’t change their spots.
Believe them the first time.
Lmao
Look it up folks
Probably more the DoE, however.
"WHY IS REP. TOM COLE, ELON MUSK AND DONALD TRUMP HURTING THE FAMILIES OF OK?!?"
It won't be funny because the sister fucking rednecks are still going to blame us anyways.
*transactional.
Instead, the states gave money to the federal govt on a voluntary basis.
Just saying.
And those of us in red states that are pointing out the real harm being done right here at home are getting NOWHERE with our so-called representation.
In my state, the best known Senator’s primary focus is on transgender athletes. Because of course.
① yes
② hell yes
Each office is being forced to put up a plaque of the Ten Commandments ...
... and a picture of the big, fat, orange, what-his-face?
Elon only met with republicans
It works. Americans love laws that target foreigners criminally without a crime being committed. We will spend trillions and arrest millions to ensure it. And if you speak out you will be crushed.
Trust no one.
Stop tax incentives for Tesla buyers!
Kill Starship! Why are we going to Mars? If we don't have money for the NIH or USAID, we don't have money to go to Mars.
The richest man in the world doesn't need tax dollars to support him!
Either way, we don't have money to go to Mars. There should be no further Starship launches.
We supposedly can't afford the NIH and USAID, but we have money to go to Mars?
Red districts get waivers
Once unimaginable actions are becoming insanities that we wouldn’t put past him and his orcs
Woopie.
Trump’s MO.
Why not, I wonder?
helps lead Oklahoma rank 49th in education.
"Common Sense"...Ahhh!"
" ...I can't stand them. Like Kryptonite on my soul!"
"Make them go away, I'll pay you anything!"
It doesn't effect us but that's ok, because they don't matter!
Fighting this in Congress is the butter knife to me.
Republican senators publicly praising Trump for cutting costs and privately begging “not in my state please”🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼