And the senate, and the White House, and mar a lago

& they are succeeding, worldwide

Trump and the Republicans want to kill poor people.

Don't forget, he's also very stupid, and I honestly believe the narcisist thinks things are going really great right now, he just can't find a way to get the numbers to agree with him. Sadly, on a purely metric issue this might be a winning play. Unemployment numbers are counted based on how many people are collecting unemployment. Kick people off unemployment = they don't count as unemployed. In his narcisism he might actually believe that "fake unemployed people are making the job numbers worse". Secondly jobs numbers themselves. Take away unemployment, people will work shittier jobs that might delay homelessness, or possibly get food when they are homeless.

Who do they think the rich will live off of then?

Or maybe they haven’t thought that far ahead.

They don't want to kill the poor, but they don't care if they die. What they want are tons of poor, desperate voters and workers.

"Make poor people their slaves" Yes

They also think that they will save money by letting people get poorer. Moving everyone a step down won’t have that effect.

@WatDabney @MicroWave of course not. they want to enslave them.

Burnt through their head start after ww2 and squandered it all.

Living through the fall of the US is the fucking worst but also fascinating. It isn't too often that folks get to see this kinda thing. I hate this so much, but I am very curious to see how shit plays out. I'm doing what I can to improve conditions, but I can only do so much

We effectively had our Hannibal moment getting locked into a stalemate with Iran.

Punctuated equilibrium.

Contracting as in having the reflection pool painted?

Be careful. Facts, logic, and common sense will only get you on a gov't watchlist these days.

Like Trump's no bid contracts that he's been giving out?

We’re in fascism these scam companies and the government are one in the same.

I know it's easy to hate on everything Elon, but Falcon launches are about an order of magnitude cheaper than any other launch, primarily by virtue of the fact that launch vehicles aren't single-use. Starship hasn't done that well yet, but the estimates I've been able to work out put the total budget so far for that project to be as much or less than the cost of launching a single SLS launch, and it only has a lifespan of 5 launches before it gets dramatically more expensive. Falcon was cheaper to get into full operational mode than Starship, sure, but if you thought it would be easier to make one of the biggest rockets ever, then you would be mistaken.

And spent 14 million painting a pool blue?

I'm a cynical bastard who hates that fat orange child raping corrupt disgusting blob of gonorrhoea to my very core and my first thoughts were this is one of two things.

Either corruption. Such as: "why give this money to those poor people when I can have it, I'll funnel it through numerous companies. Plus with that new ruling about me and my family not being investigated by the tax people then there's no way anyone will do anything about it"
Or a scare tactic. "Vote for me in the midterms or lose your benefits. By the time this gets to the courts and reversed you'll be starving or dead AND it's obvious that no one will do fuck all to me for doing this to you"

they even published a fucking playbook called project 2025.

dumbfucks

Yeah and what about that $300B in taxpayer dollars we're giving to Iran? Seems like the definition of waste, fraud, and abuse.

Nah, this is social safety net cutting. Don't you know that desperate people don't care what those above them are doing? (Also, truly desperate people turn to violence, which is casus belli for a nationwide crackdown)

Not everything is a distraction, most things are moves in and of themselves. It's just that it takes place inside so much noise that focusing on one thing loses everything else.

If they remember that, they remember I started the war to distract from my child prostitution ring.

Also privilege, Republicans see themselves as privileged, it's not fraud when they do it, they are allowed, it's fraud when others without sufficient privilege do it.

It's rationale: how would anyone need unemployment benefit with the best economy the USA, the world, sorry: the Universe have seen since the US exist the creation of Earth by God??

Thats not true. My state governor is also a criminal and is grifting on a state level too...

California funds its own unemployment benefits, of course Trump is too stupid to know this.

It says they will take funding from states that don't comply with their bullshit so I'm sure the red states will be fine

Then, magically unemployment will go down and they'll call it a success. Even though all that's happened are fewer people qualifying for unemployment, and more than likely it will result in a net increase in unemployed people.

If you take the top 10 states by unemployment rate, half of them are red states. Top 20, almost 3/4.

There's not really a mechanism for withholding federal taxes

That's what the federal cabal wants.

That's the idea. Make it so the poor have no choice but commit crimes and then lock them up for it

Yeah...

But they're idiots.

There's not enough jobs to go around, people won't quietly starve. And the only people with anything to steal from are the wealthy.

They just created a shit ton of people with literally nothing to lose.

Correct they are effectively rolling back as much as they can to before the New Deal