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There was a comment about how so many European countries provide aid to new parents.
My niece just had a baby and she has a GoFundMe to help buy baby supplies and wondering if she should sell her car, while Elon Musk blames people like her for existing.
That's the price of freedom babyyyyy
Damn, spittin' facts. Keep at it.
Edit, adding transcript, SYAC:
"$890 million per day. Think about that. That's how much Trump is costing us in war with Iran. $890 million per day. What do you think our country could do with that money in just 30 days? Social security secured for every generation for life. Universal healthcare for everyone. A livable wage for teachers and nurses so they wouldn't have to pay out of their own pocket for supplies while billionaire fat cats profit. The only war that we should be in today is a war on greed, a war on poverty. Because once that war starts and we take back from the billionaires and the corrupt politicians everything they took from all of us, only then will we truly be America first. But y'all MAGA people wanna keep on making justifications for this immoral, corrupt, pedo^[subtitled "ped-o"] POTUS because you're too prideful, you're too consumed with hubris^[subtitled "hubrice"]. You can't simply say you were wrong. And I will repeat as I always have, even though y'all hate me, denouncing Donald Trump and^[subtitled "in"] this administration does not magically turn you into a mythical lib. You can remain republican and conservative and we can still disagree about shit. And we will. But the MAGA movement is and always was a foreign funded psyop to get you to not only wanna harm me, but harm yourselves. Remember when that flag stood for freedom? All you gotta do is reach out and admit it."
EDIT: Removing nit-picky comment regarding transcript - attention should go to parent.
(I would have edited out sooner but fell asleep)
Awesome, and you're right. I'll edit my post.
This guy gets it
Hell yes! This is an older dude I agree with and wish there were more of.
It’s dumb but I saw him and immediately thought maga. I’m always glad to be wrong about stuff like that
I would bet that he's partly trying to look MAGA on purpose. They'll skip past the video that looks like it's from a person who would stereotypically disagree with them. This guy though, standing in front of a flag? They'll click it, and hopefully they'll get far enough in to get something out of it.
I’m the same way; I’ve been extra gripey about Boomers lately and it was really nice to see one with some sense and a handle on reality.
The govt can fix all those things the guy in the vid pointed out at any time, at the drop of a hat too. They actively choose not to.
While I agree with the sentiment, social security pays out over 1.2 USD trillion annually. The cost of this "short operation" will be in the trillion dollar plus eventually if it turns out like the last few wars in the area but even the AP says that bot Iraq and Afghanistan came out to 2 trillion USD over the course of their respective conflicts. . Much of domestic payments from the federal government is for the Pentagon and Social security, with social security being the biggest line item on the US budget.
they're requesting a defense budget of 1.5T next year for an agency that's never passed an audit and can't account for 60% of its spending
While that may be true it doesn't mean that the spending on the shindig in iran is where all that money goes, a large majority of it goes into salaries for soldiers and soldier benefits such as the GI bill and the VA, even if the care and salaries aren't very good there are millions of Americans getting their salary from the DOD or military directly.
Quit being selfish. (Our grotesque idea of) God bless America should be quite sufficient. There, see we said it. It proves ever so much that God wants us to be stubbornly & stupidly cracked out on a power trip that it fuck it Aaaaaarrrgggghhhhh we will win! Amerikkka!
*hubris
Endless war but if you get sick you get to die at home. MAGAts you are the most vile humans.
Is that flag at half-staff? Jibes with his rap. Which I dig.
It's what we vote for every four years.
He could not be signifying USMC any harder with that haircut
Those “bangs” are way out of regs. He should have his high-and-tight-horseshoe card revoked.
It’s that simple