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GOP rep laughs gleefully as voters boo Musk’s DOGE at raucous town hall

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GOP Rep Laughs Gleefully as Voters Boo Musk’s DOGE at Raucous Town Hall

Summary

Rep. Harriet Hageman faced loud boos at a Wyoming town hall after endorsing funding for Elon Musk’s DOGE cost-cutting initiative.

The crowd, mostly opposed to her stance, jeered as she laughed and clapped, labeling the audience’s reaction "embarrassing."

Hageman defended Social Security funding despite concerns that Musk’s efficiency drive might cut it, calling it a “Ponzi scheme.”

The only bipartisan applause came when Hageman opposed closing rural mail distribution centers.

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Somehow, she thought these were good talking points:
“I voted in favor of the continuing resolution, or CR, which extends funding…” Rep. Harriet Hageman said as the booing began. She smiled as she continued, “…for the fiscal year until September 30.”
“It keeps the lights on for President [Donald] Trump and DOGE to continue their work,” she added, as the booing reached a crescendo.
It's worth noting:
About 500 people had packed the civic center auditorium in Laramie, where a local reporter with the Cowboy State Daily estimated about three-quarters of the crowd were there to oppose her.
It was a “startling dynamic” in a state that Trump carried with more than 72 percent of the vote, according to the Cowboy State Daily.
The Luigi talk was interesting and suggests there is biparstisanship on the problem of the oligarchy:
During Wednesday’s town hall, the crowd also burst into chants of “Tax the rich!” and “January 6th!”
I'm also unsure why the crowd chanted "January 6th" given that the seditionists were pardoned and this is very red Wyoming. Could there be some bipartisanship here as well now?
These GOP townhalls are very enjoyable. Let's hope we see more of this.
- The implication I'm getting from that January 6th chant is that they're basically threatening to lynch 'em. I grew up and am still surrounded by these ingrates, they are surprisingly murder happy towards politicians in general let alone the feds.
  
  I grew up and am still surrounded by these ingrates
  Found JD Vance's Lemmy account
- These GOP townhalls are very enjoyable. Let's hope we see more of this.
  Let's hope the energy leads to change. I do want to be entertained, but I want to safe first.
- Maybe it was a "Let's Go Brandon" moment and they were chanting "January Siths?". Current administration does come across a bit...dark-side-y, to put it lightly...and the opposition isn't that great at branding.
  Musk and Trump have sort of an emporer/Vader dynamic. Hopefully one will find their humanity and kill the other before promptly dieing themselves. A man can dream.
Why would a cost cutting initiative need funding?
- I dislike doge just as much as the next person, but we all know this is not a good counterpoint and if used against dems we would ridicule it. You can't just willy nilly move government funds around (legally, don't get me started on all the illegal bs happening), so if doge is hiring people that are getting paid, the money needs to come from somewhere. That allocation would need to happen even if they WERE cutting billions in spending (they're not). That is a good rule for governments to have. There are sooooo many reasons to dislike doge, but the fact that a government agency needs funds to run is not a problem. People have been complaining about the post office using similar rhetoric. Just because it costs money, doesn't mean it's not saving/making money.
  For the record: DOGE AND TRUMP AND ELON ARE BAD
  
  USPS doesn't make money, it's not designed to do so. This standard of profitability is never applied, for instance, to the military.
  
  And when did Congress allocate that funding?
  
  My bad, I forgot the /s. Didn't mean to make you type all that out.
Welp, sounds like it's time to bring balloons full of piss!
- They think other people's pain is funny even their own constituents.
- Stick to milkshakes man no need to hurl a biohazard
This woman grew up wealthy and privileged--she comes from a family in Wyoming that was always connected and always had money. She's an attorney married to another attorney.
She is nothing like the people whose concerns she's laughing at and calling embarrassing. She doesn't have the same life experience as them, and she's never, for a single second of a single day, had to worry about paying her bills or lacking necessary things.
So she laughs when her constituents worry about these things, and she mocks them when they voice those concerns.
Traitors gonna traitor.
She didn't just call out embarrassing, she told them they were hysterical.

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