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RE: The Absurd GOP
March 2, 2023 at 2:24 pm
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More white welfare. That's not really new or surprising. The entire business of the us gov in rural areas is and has historically been to transfer wealth to white landowners. The irs is in on it, the usda does it, the fsa does it. In fairness, they've recently acknowledged as much and tried to put together programs so that benefits, subsidies, tax breaks, and debt collection protection is more inclusive..but they can't really change the past or the current demographic realities of those areas so it's not going to do much, if anything.
Still, that extra % isn't much... and it might actually be better to view this as a way, sure, to put more money into the right sorts of peoples hands...but predominantly as a part of starving governments of revenue. Remember, the gop is a nihilistic death cult. Their thoughts on government is that there shouldn't be one.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
March 2, 2023 at 6:23 pm
(March 2, 2023 at 11:30 am)Tomato Wrote: I'm honestly becoming very depressed by the conservative rule of this country.
Biden isn't going to be reelected. The next president will be a hardcore republican.
Things in this country are about to get real bad, real fast.
Anti-woke, after all, is mere white supremacy.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
March 3, 2023 at 3:33 am
(March 2, 2023 at 2:15 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Texas republicans introduced a bill to give huge tax cuts to *straight* couples having children—with up to 100% cut in property taxes for TEN kids.
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/bi...02889I.htm
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RE: The Absurd GOP
March 3, 2023 at 6:20 am
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(March 2, 2023 at 2:18 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: Notice that the children have to born within wedlock, and must be born to the natural child of both spouses. Lesbian couples needn't apply.
And you can’t be one of those millions and millions of anti-abortion patriots who are falling all over each other in a mad rush to adopt children of colour.*
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RE: The Absurd GOP
March 3, 2023 at 7:32 am
(March 2, 2023 at 2:18 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: Notice that the children have to born within wedlock, and must be born to the natural child of both spouses. Lesbian couples needn't apply.
Saw that too. That would have meant my husband and I wouldn't be able to take advantage as the kids are mine, not his, even though we have been married since my youngest was four years old.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
March 4, 2023 at 12:16 am
South Carolina Republicans have introduced a bill that would allow women to be executed if they have an abortion. The bill is also vague enough to potentially include miscarriages.
https://wpde.com/news/local/abortion-sou...rs-2-22-23
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RE: The Absurd GOP
March 4, 2023 at 12:19 am
(March 4, 2023 at 12:16 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: South Carolina Republicans have introduced a bill that would allow women to be executed if they have an abortion. The bill is also vague enough to potentially include miscarriages.
https://wpde.com/news/local/abortion-sou...rs-2-22-23
One woman was already arrested there because she took pills to terminate.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
March 4, 2023 at 12:32 am
Ron DeSantis appointed an anti-gay religious zealot to the board overseeing Disney World. Ron Peri called gay people "evil" and claimed tap water was turning people gay.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/03/polit...index.html
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RE: The Absurd GOP
March 4, 2023 at 1:02 am
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RE: The Absurd GOP
March 4, 2023 at 5:06 am
DeSantis Appointee On The Dangers Of Tap Water
Quote:A man appointed to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' Disney oversight board has a history of making anti-LGBTQ comments, including a claim that tap water could be turning people gay, CNN reported.
Quote:In a January 2022 Zoom call, Ron Peri asked, “So why are there homosexuals today?"
"There are any number of reasons, you know, that are given. Some would say the increase in estrogen in our societies. You know, there’s estrogen in the water from birth control pills. They can’t get it out,” Peri said.
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