Month Eight: Crashing Out Over A Podcaster

[6souls]

https://x.com/adamcancryn/status/1981780728187904031

Private donors can now fund our government. Someone did some napkin math and figured that that $130M will fund our military for roughly an hour. At best, $100 per active service member.

[Lokus]

Every single member of Congress, Senate and House, should be ineligible for reelection if the Government is shutdown.

Laws that will never pass but should.

[6souls]

https://bsky.app/profile/warren.sena.../3m3xkmednv22q

A former Wells Fargo exec had been fined for $10M for taking part in the opening of mass fake accounts, but now that the Trump admin is in charge, his fine was reduced to nothing.

[Tyche]

Trump admin has 6 billion in contingency reserves for SNAP and are refusing to use it. Starve people with little to lose. Starve the 53ish percent of beneficiaries that are in a Republican held districts. Now sprinkle in some images of malnourished little white girls in red states to really fan some flames.

Maybe the GOP can host a softball game in a poor district.

[kuronosan]

You know what's worse? People who post about how liberalism is the true fascism because Reagan said so and ignore all of this fucking shit happening now.

[Madeline]

I've got a 72 year old grandmother and I'm her caregiver. She has no way to purchase food starting in about a week.

Going to be fun times. No help is coming. No relief from these people. So what do you do at this point? A lot of old people are about to be unable to eat. And a lot of them don't have people like me there to make it better.

The Dems better not fucking fold. They should by now be all over the place refuting the misinformation but there's just nothing or not enough. And this certainly isn't helping the average idiot's view of them given half the EBT pages in the US have a cute little disclaimer at the top blaming the democrats for everything happening which is probably a violation of the hatch act but y'know, pile that in with the other myriad violations, broken laws and completely illegal things and I'm sure that'll mean fuck all.

This country is beyond fucked.

[arus2001]

Yeah, my mom is tapped, and while her finances are technically salvageable, it would require her letting me supervise things so she doesn't waste her money. I can only guilt trip her so much and my siblings pretty much don't give a fuck.

[Guitarman]

While all this horrible shit is going on, all i keep picturing is all these millions of people are going to be starving without SNAP, and right around that time, fuckface is going to host that damn WWE (MMA? I forget) match on the whitehouse lawn. Like, I never, EVER thought we would get to this level of fucking disgrace that a rennovated white house with a gaudy-ass gold ballroom, hosting a fucking fighting match while people starve en masse. Get me off this ride.

[Outlaw]

I mean yeah you can break this whole shebang down into three pieces:

1) project 2025 implementation
2) grifting and conning for personal gain
3) distractions

of course all three categories kinda blend together but that's basically all any of this is. anyone who is still thinking about this outside of those three points is never going to grasp the insanity

4: Russian agents

[Bombur]

Lol the Ronald Reagan tariff ad is in the Fox MLB feed.

[Meresgi]

While all this horrible shit is going on, all i keep picturing is all these millions of people are going to be starving without SNAP, and right around that time, fuckface is going to host that damn WWE (MMA? I forget) match on the whitehouse lawn. Like, I never, EVER thought we would get to this level of fucking disgrace that a rennovated white house with a gaudy-ass gold ballroom, hosting a fucking fighting match while people starve en masse. Get me off this ride.

At least we arent like dem banana republics though! It's pretty fucking bad, got an email the other day about fed works and where to find support and help to get through all of this. Known a few who already left their fed job just because they couldn't deal with the uncertainty and got offered a private gig they couldn't turn down.

[Obsidian]

Trump adding 10% to tariffs on Canada because Ford hasn't pulled the ad yet.

And the ad is, obviously, a national security concern, which is why he can do it. Or something.

[Richybear]

Counter by running the ad 10% more.

[kuronosan]

They shouldn't take any asshole seriously who posts a video of him shitting all over his people.

[Obsidian]

He also continues to say "the rate that Canada pays" which still makes me laugh because we don't pay it, you do.

[Drai]

Apparently the B.C government is going to be running some Tariff ads here shortly as well lol

[Dowzer]

I work for a company that sells to the American military, oil companies, and a few other programs that haven't slowed down at all. In some cases production has increased in case the penalties -they- pay, or are temporarily exempt from, may inflate even further.

[6souls]

https://bsky.app/profile/kylegriffin.../3m3zs7etkxc2k

Drone manufacturer, Unusual Machines, has won a Pentagon contract. This wouldn't be newsworthy except for it's backed by Don Jr.

Edit: https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1981855966602690641

Don Jr didn't join the company until after the 2024 election.

[6souls]

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1982431760949371240

Donny still can't get over having to walk up stairs and having to read a speech without a teleprompter

[kuronosan]

Just a bunch of corrupt toddlers.