Republicans wanted Milei style austerity and American voters wanted Republicans.
We all get what America voted for and God luck with that economy there.
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You know how people look back at history and go "the situation back then wasn't perfect, but the idiotic way some in power tried to fix it just made it soooo much worse!"...
Yeah, this is the next step up in the current cycle of this. In centuries to come anyone who is about to reflect on things will not look at Johnson et al at all favorably.
in the centuries to come, the beings that replace humans won't know who the fuck mike johnson was.
My original comment was supposed to say 'able' not 'about'. Because I had the same thought as you.
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They're not trying to fix anything, just keep people down while they rape and plunder.
The wrong people will die due to how callous, and/or stupid the trump administration will be.
Some of the right people, but mostly none of the people who made the bad and wrong choices
I don't know, man. There are a LOT of guns floating around out there to be making people desperate.
Just ask the United Healthcare CEO about making decisions that affect people's lives negatively.
Oh wait.....
From your lips to God's ears. As they say
You're going to have to take care of yourself, and those around you. You should be prepared to [email protected]
Americans better learn compassion. Our survival depends on it.
Americans, as a whole, have actively rejected compassion. Survival now depends on cunning.
We must show CEOs and the powerful the same compassion they show us.
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Cool. So, like the ATF, the IRS, and the NSA?
What, not those agencies? Curious.
Why the fuck would you want the IRS to get the axe? They get shat on by the GOP for the express purpose of starving them, so they can't go after the wealthy
The Department Of We Already Know What Taxes You Owe But Are Waiting To Punish You For Guessing Wrong On Your Paperwork?
They already don't go after the wealthy, and they basically never have. At this point the IRS basically just exists to harass the poor and uneducated. A block of wood could come up with a better way for the federal government to collect taxes.
Don't they want to handle your paperwork for you but are prevented from doing so by laws written, effectively, by Intuit?
Don't they very much want to tax the rich but are unable to do so because they aren't given funds sufficient to fight the lawyers employed by the rich?
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Ah yes the old "government so small they can drown it in a bathtub" plan. They want all this cut. But also want to police abortion and trans people. Small but only in the areas they want.
If they actually start doing this, none of them will be in office in 4 years.
I don't think they're planning to have elections again...
I agree. I didn't mean they would be voted out.
You're probably waiting for someone smart to do something though, right? You can't. Family job etc... not worth the risk?
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It just blows my mind how evil these people are. They put all this destructive effort into everything they can think of 24/7, with little to no creation of anything with benefits.
They're little evil toddlers just smashing everything they can get thier mitts on.
start with yourself, cunt.
Calling him a cunt is an insult to cunts.
Depth, warmth, etc
Ax thyself firstly foul hypocrit
Isn't that like several hundred thousands of employees? Suddenly unemployment will be sky high and you think health care CEOs are going to be looking over their shoulders now? Just wait. Mike will need his own presidential security detail to just look outside.
There are roughly 2 million US government employees. So 1.5 million people unemployed? Which wouldn't send unemployment sky high, but pretty high.
1.5 million people who know how the system works hell bent on fucking over one shitty human.
1.5 million in direct unemployment, but consider the knock on unemployment for all the services those workers won't need. Coffee shops, dry cleaners, parking lots, Uber/Lift drivers, childcare, etc. Employed people pay for services while employed that are directly tied to that employment and those businesses will also layoff their workers when these jobs disappear
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Does that 2 million include contractors?
No, though I imagine they would rather hire a ton of contractors and end up paying them more
I think it's privitazion that will be their preferred option. The government workers will be offered jobs in the private sector at less pay while the privatized company will charge more.
They'll probably even have another company that will manage leasing office space. The We Work guy is probably waiting for his comeback.
The private sector is not equipped to absorb millions of people. Most of these government workers are highly educated and highly specialized. These people aren't going to just replace the millions of jobs Trump is planning to deport from the labor force.
You know that, I know that and I'm sure the people calling for these cuts know it. The difference is they don't care.
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You won't have any agency recording unemployment levels, so there will be no details about it. All you need to know citizen is that the Trump leadership is flourishing as it enters its 6th term, and all your problems that you experience are because of minorities.
We got to vote these corrupt politicians out in 2026! If we can get enough Democrats into office then that means Trump can be impeached.
I can't tell if you're joking. Your comment is making me have 2017 flashbacks
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L O L
And they'll all live happily ever after. Grow up.
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If this happens there would be a blue wave that took over and would spend the next 4+ years trying to reduce the bleeding which is long enough for many non politically engaged people to forget it was the republicans that started it, who would then blame the Democrats for screwing up the economy .
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As an outsider looking in, I am wondering whether this might mean that the Republican party has a vision for a weaker federal government, such that the states would have more, well, rights. I.e., if the federal government gets very scaled down, is that at the same time emptying up the regulatory space for individual states to go in all sorts of different directions, or does it come with some kind of libertarian straightjacket?
The majority of the US population lives in wealthy blue states. If the regressive rural states can't stomach the kind of extensive welfare state that makes sense in more urbanized places, fine. Like a "two speed Europe", they can choose to stay behind, so long as California, Massachusetts, NY etc get the freedom to experiment with social democratic policies.
Edit: this kind of more decoupled federalism also exists eg in Canada. Quebec gets to pretend it's France while Alberta gets to pretend it's Texas.
Wait until the override the posse comatatus act. The. It will be clear. They plan to make money slaves out of blue states.
In effect they want states to be able to do what they want, as long as it aligns with Republican ideals. All you need to do is look at their rhetoric towards sanctuary cities for the "states rights" argument to fall apart.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
-Frank Wilhoit
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
-Frank Wilhoit “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” ― John Kenneth Galbraith
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Easier said than done. Dems can use the fillibuster and a lot of gutting of federal agencies require going through a budget committee as well. Things move slow in congress and they have 2 years to slash everything...
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