The Republican voter base has been conditioned to listen for the dog whistles used by the Southern Aristocrats - the owners of the Republican party - for so long now that some are genuinely surprised that “small government” means something other than thinly veiled racism. Now they’re getting exactly what they asked for, but what they’ve asked for isn’t what they actually want. Cutting government programs hurts rural communities more than cities. The Republican base has become the dog that’s caught the car.

According to the 53rd Chair of the Republican National Committee, Lee Atwater:

Y’all don’t quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*****, n*****, n*****.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*****”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*****, n*****.”

small government is when white people get food stamps

big government is when black people get food stamps

Supporting their constituents in the class war is presented as an afterthought, as usual from the corporate Democrats, and this congresscritters proposal is just the standard right-wing, milquetoast, failed Democratic policy that got us into this mess.

There are over 100 million people without a home in USA, and this guy thinks housing 10% of them will be sufficient. He won’t even say a number when it comes to minimum wage. Three fifths of the proposal is just masturbatory lust for power.

thoughts and prayers for their tooth

The short answer is “no”.

The long answer is “noooooooooooooo.”

Taxes at the Federal level don’t pay for goods or services. Creating new money is how the Feds pay for stuff.

Federal taxes just delete money from target populations.

are you my dog?

the standardized testing was a response to red state teachers preaching alternative facts instead of giving their students real education

fReE sPeEcH

There are no minable deposits of rare earths anywhere. That’s why they’re called rare earth elements. Nowhere on Earth are there geologic processes that concentrate them into ores. The only way to get them is to process absolutely enormous volumes of dirt, at great expense in terms of energy used and pollution created.

Every country has them.

Who sells it is a question of which country is willing to render some portion of their territory uninhabitable for the foreseeable future, while also making a larger portion of their territory sick and dirty.

Encouraging the automakers to stop outsourcing factory work and bring those jobs back to the States was the silver lining, so naturally the Republicans are going to fuck that up too.

“Let the bus continue to accelerate off the cliff, then the Republican voters will be mad at the driver!” says the corporat Dems sitting on the bus.

Two entertainers making a spectacle. A cynic might think it was staged.

the one thing that gas is good for is cooking

Only if your kitchen is adequately vented, but most that I’ve seen are not.

A modern gas furnace or water heater will have a flue, and if the system has been installed properly then exhaust gasses, including CO, will get sucked out of the house.

Most gas ovens/ranges are unvented - they just spew combustion products, including CO, directly into the home. Its so bad that the 1st generation of CO detectors had to be retired because they were constantly going off when people would cook dinner. Modern CO detectors will only go off if CO levels remain elevated for hours.

Cooking with gas in a home that lacks a large hood fan that’s ducted to the outdoors is a terrible idea.

nothing says “free speech” like muzzling journalists

Tomato, tomato.

Rules that lack consequences for breaking them are just suggestions.

Or else what? What are the courts going to do about it when their orders get ignored?

The Supreme Court has already said that anything a POTUS does in an official capacity is legal.

the plate is just more capitalism because the DNC has learned nothing that their corporate donors haven’t paid them to learn

I have mixed feelings about these kind of memes. It creates a fall guy who’s immune to falling damage. Anything the cons don’t like they can pin on the other nepo baby.