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U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression, listing it among the Trump administration's top achievements.

Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Athens, Georgia, Vance recalled being confronted by a Ukrainian-American over his calls to halt funding for Ukraine.

"And this person got really agitated at me because I was saying we should stop funding the Ukraine war," Vance said.

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Their entire cabal should suffer the same way that We The People suffer under their rule.

Incarcerate them as common federal criminals.

Strip them of their material assets and mark them as sex offenders and ex cons. Then release them into our world: Where they have to use "marketplace" insurance that charges an arm and a leg but covers a pinky toe.

They can try to apply for loans with abysmal credit and a shitton of debt that keeps compounding because they can't pay off that debt.

Regardless of political following, the entire country knows or would find out quickly what terrible workers they would be at any real job, so they would need to apply and get ghosted endlessly to even begin to mount the steps to approach the class ladder they and their ilk constructed.

If they do get that job somehow. They get to enjoy clocking in and out every day, exhausted and abused, knowing the only influence they'll ever again exert is suggesting the taco value deal over the burger meal, or the brown purse over the black one. That every single day of this isn't getting them any closer to a brighter future or a way out of the cycle.

They'll go to their public libraries they fervently cried to defund, and they'll ask for help, but be kicked out by security after screaming about immigrants and bathrooms.

They'll be forced to use our crumbling, car-worshipping infrastructure after jumping through tons of hoops to validate their identification and get a driver's license and maybe even a "Real for really reals tho" ID if they ever want to board a plane. (But with today's airfare haha that's unlikely!)

See how far those bootstraps get them.

If a traffic accident, the healthcare system, garbage food, or gun violence doesn't do them in, they'll live out and die as they falsely professed themselves to be:

...Actual Americans like you and me.