♫ Imagine... ♫
2mon 16d ago by piefed.social/u/PugJesus in noncredibledefense@piefed.social from media.piefed.social
Meanwhile El Taco be saying he wants to kill Medicare and daycare to pay for more bombs to drop on Iran.
We don't have federal daycare programs of any significance that I am aware of
Sure we do. It's called Congress.
Fun fact. US spending on social welfare programs as a percentage of GDP is over six times what is spent on military...but it's still 22nd in the world.
Also, USA only 18th as a percentage of GDP on military spending.
That says more about the US gdp than anything.
Isn't the US military spending still more than the next like 6 country's combined?
Healthscams are out of control
Self awareness is not a feature of these idiots.
Projection, on the other hand...
I feel like projection is a product of a lack of self-awareness.
All of it ties to narcissistic traits; narcissistic personalities speak through and in service of the ego, which the narcissist perceives as infallible and supreme. Therefore the self-reflection required to check oneself before making statements and accusations about the behaviors and beliefs of others is nonexistent.
Besides, even if what a narcissist says about another person can also be applied to them personally, they see themselves as a righteous exception. Perfect example is the narcissist’s prayer.
Because their leaders are usually narcissists.
I want to coldcock that guy so hard
He’s got a really punchable face!
I'll do you one better and hotcock him
hang on wait a second
One more better:
Spatchcock him
Even better, slash cock him.
Though really he should be in a prison on the world's best healthcare to keep him alive and in a cell for as long as humanly possible.
Even even better, since that pesky slavery thing is still around, let’s make him work at mcdonalds and pay for his own medical care from what little he earns. Even copays.
I mean we little people are supposed to be able to do it with rent and food and stuff as well, surely he can do -just- medical, right?
Whoa whoa lets not get crazy here
I was thinking more of a "I have no mouth, and I must scream" kind of scenario where no matter how much he wants to die we keep him alive to suffer more and more humiliation and grovelling.
Don't feed him McDonalds like he wants, make it a veggie Burger King Whopper liquified in a slurry with a full sugar coke once a year to celebrate his removal from office.
They say these things on purpose as a fuck you.
The worse thing is, I know, and grew up around, conservatives.
I couldn't guarantee that this is intentional. This is just legitimately how some people view the world, with fact-resistant tribalism and a total lack of self-awareness.
It's not intentional, at least not yet.
Did he actually say this?
Projection levels out of this world
NASA is hiring their projection levels to build a ladder to outer space.
But why spend money on people when you can make arms companies stock go up
Hey now, arms companies are people too.
i mean legally they are, unironically
If they can't afford health insurance let them buy arms companies stocks.
literally a few hours apart from Trumps speech where he says "we can't give heathcare to everyone. there is no money" but they got money for a war no one wants
Don't worry, we've come a long way since 2014, when a bunch of wimps who took the whole 'Cross of Iron' speech from some commie in the 1950s seriously and reduced the defense budget. We've doubled it since, and it's being proposed to increase it by another 50% in the next few years!
If Americans could read they’d be very upset.
Well, he said it on TV.
Did Fox News or Newsmax show it?
If it's not on Fox News, can an American hear it?
I dunno. I'm not form there and only saw clips on YT.
But notice the image is a TV capture frame.
I think I'm missing the context here?
This guy was mocking a cross dresser whose private pictures and communications were leaked. I asked what he did to deserve being mocked for what he does in private. This guy said he’s married to Christy Noem.
He thinks saying that I love ICE is some amazing argument-winner.
... okay, well, as the accusation is without relevance in the context of this conversation, I'd like to ask, as a moderator, that it be dropped on this comm unless a conversation wherein the issue is relevant comes up.
Done and done.
Thank you.
Speaking of illiteracy…
She and Corey send their regards. They’re admirers of your bullying.
You don't know when to stop do you. Pug already said to let it go.
Let it go.
Every US/Israeli accusation is a confession has to be a law of physics at this point.
At least they are spending it on defense instead of invading countries on the other side of globe.
I mean, it's Iran. They've certainly spent it on numerous unwelcome proxy wars, including sending literal thousands of IRGC members to fight for Assad in the Syrian Civil War.
Yes, just imagine.🙄
Almost there...
You don't say...
They're shortcircuiting lol
Nah, they've lost any sense of Aigency and independent thought to an LLM.
Loving that typo! (at least I assume it is one?)
It's an onpurpose.
Was it r/selfawarewolves or "so close" or something like that?
We have c/selfawarewolves at home
Really?
Do US next.
The disconnect is shameful
yeah, imagine if spending people's money on people was possible
This can't be for real...
I wish I could tell you sweet, comforting lies like that... I wish I could shield you from the immense stupidity of our timeline...
I know it is real but it never gets easier.
Nah, we are going to spend the money hurting people instead.
Because humans are an always evil race.
Hard to argue, but humanity also has some of the best folk around.
Oh that's just the soulrot.
I was just having a migraine and my face recognition glitched out
Fuck you Gussano scum.
How the hell would he know?
The remarks made by the MAGA clowns should be the main headlines. Sadly, most Americans somehow absorb this BS and allow the country to fall apart. AmeriKa Last!
Ron Paul was right all along, I blame fiat currencies, if they had to actually raise taxes to fund their military adventurism instead of just debasing paychecks then voters would kick their ass to the curb.
We also wonder why houses can be 10x income now gatekept by 30 year mortgages, its because its underwritten by the money printer.
I really don't think you understand fiat currency. Or the national budget.
Whats hard to understand. They use the CPI to determine the money supply should grow at roughly 7% on average, as they survey boomers that bought their house for a sack of potatoes what they would rent their own house for to determine housing inflation, as they deduct the inflating price of goods based on subjective measures of technological improvement like Doby speakers that may or may not offer any tangible benefit, and when people get too poor and substitute to cheaper goods they change the basket.
This then lets them spend large deficits with no fear of default, because their debt gets cheaper to pay back as more currency circulates.
"The government is lying to us about living standards" doesn't relate to the issue of taxes and the national budget, unless you think people are deciding their reaction to declining living standards based on whether the government is telling them their living standards have declined, improved, or stagnated.
Would you like to trace the national debt, defense spending, and deficit through the past century, just in the US? Or should I talk about the massive deficits ran up by European countries even in the golden age (ha) of representative commodity money?
As I said initially, if the government had to directly tax them for all this then they'd actually care about the cost. If their living standards fall thats more of a mystery to them, they blame corporations or whatever their political leaning dictates.
I dont think we did have as large of military waste historically, in fact I think even entering WWII was resisted. Of course places like France and the UK had a well funded military, in order to colonize.
As I said initially, if the government had to directly tax them for all this then they’d actually care about the cost.
... would they? The fucking government under the GOP reduces taxes and increases spending. Functionally, what is the difference between that and increasing spending without increasing taxes? What would be different, in this scenario, speaking from the perspective of the electorate, under a non-fiat currency?
If you think that government policy is only being pursued because it IS sustainable under a fiat system, and that if it wasn't sustainable, it wouldn't be pursued, I have a whole case file of fascinating-yet-horrifying actions of governments and orgs throughout history.
... and also feel the need to point out that it's not sustainable under this system either.
If their living standards fall thats more of a mystery to them, they blame corporations or whatever their political leaning dictates.
Then what is the relevance of the entire subsistence basket point?
I dont think we did have as large of military waste historically, in fact I think even entering WWII was resisted.
We had dozens of interventions in Latin America and Asia during the 1900s, 1910s, and 1920s. The only differences are that life was cheaper then, both politically and financially, and extraction of 'reparations' from occupied countries was more acceptable.