'Trump says 'big bill' should only help GOP states: 'Don't want to benefit Dem governors'
'Trump says 'big bill' should only help GOP states: 'Don't want to benefit Dem governors'
'Trump says 'big bill' should only help GOP states: 'Don't want to benefit Dem governors'
Donald Trump argued that a GOP budget bill should help only Republican states instead of benefiting Democratic governors.
"We're going to make a couple of tweaks," Trump said of his "one big beautiful bill" during a Tuesday trip to Capitol Hill. "I mean, we don't want to benefit Democrat governors, although I would do that if it made it better, but they don't know what they're doing."
"We want to help all the states, but we have governors that are from the Democrat [sic] party, let's say New York, Illinois, big ones, and let's say Gavin 'Newscum,' who's done a horrible job in California."
Remind me which states pay all the fucking taxes again?
Remind me again why some states would want to remain in a union if they aren't benefiting from the partnership
Just asking but what about Kansas that has 3/4 districts support the President and a Dem gov cause our most populated district is the blue one? Do we get the money? Half? Maybe we get the money but we go screw ourselves later?
External threats, namely Russia and China who worked hard to create this problem in the first place.
Can we just get to the Civil war part of this timeline already, I’m fucking tired man
I realize I'm making some optimistic assumptions about the durability of our election apparatus, but if we can't get a shift in power at the midterms I suspect the fascist in chief will accelerate his rate of attacks on freedoms and it won't be long after that. I predict we make it no later than slightly past the midterms before hitting that point unless there's a big shift on the congressional side of things.
Not so much because I think people will take to the streets with that in mind, by the way, but because tensions will be so high that somebody somewhere is going to make just the wrong mistake, some people are going to die or get badly hurt, and it's going to set things off from there.
The civil war has already started- and the “opposition” seems pretty content to spend the first stages allowing MAGA to set up the battlefields and terms of engagement to their liking.
If there is a civil war, I'm sure the enemies of the US would rejoice. It's like that onion article that's like "al queda decides to sit back and watch US destroy itself".
But aside from that, I hope the conservatives lose. And I hope after they lose, we learn from history. Don't just let them come crawling back into power like after the first civil war. The ultra rich and their lackeys need to be removed from power, and kept out.
Then again, the 14th amendment should disqualify Trump and a bunch of the republicans, and that doesn't seem to matter.
It’ll be super fucked if we do. If it’s left vs right you’ll have most of the major cities besieged by rural folk. If it’s state on state, Red and blue states both will have to “secure” vast swaths of their populations or suffer constant sabotage.
This isn’t as easily cut and dry, north vs south, as the US civil war was. Modern civil war would be a hell of destroyed cities and slaughtered or starving innocents. Just look at all current conflicts. You may be tired now, but it’s nothing compared to the reality of what USCWII would be.
If they try to secede this time, we should just let them fucking go.
They have said the next civil war we'll be bloodless if the left allows it. And it seems the left doesn't even know they are in a civil war.
This is what always blows my mind. All these states with leadership bitching about mooching off the federal government are exactly the states which mooch off of the federal government, because their states produce literally nothing.
Wrong. Those states produce violent fascists and religious kooks. Build a wall around them and stop fucking giving them money.
Not completely true. They produce various goods, they just have so many dumb poor people that it's a net loss.
He’s saying he wants to make that imbalanced dynamic worse than he did last time. It’s a comically nihilistic strategy - or at least, it would be, if I didn’t live in one of the bluest states in the damn country
Mine pays for a huge number of them. California.
We're going to vote on whether we want to seriously pursue succeeding from the US in 2028. If this shit doesn't stop, I imagine things will slowly fall apart in this country.
California recently (this year, I believe) became the fourth largest GDP in the world, previously the fifth.
https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advisories/2025-news-releases-and-advisories/Proposed-Initiative-Enters-Circulation-Requires-Future-Vote-on-Whether-California-Should-Become-Independent-Country
Technically, it isn't a vote for secession, but rather a vote for dedicating resources towards researching the option. Which, honestly, would be better IMO. It gives California options, since we don't exactly know how things will look two-four years from now. We could have AOC sweeping out Trump in a special election, we could have Trump's parade murdering civilians who block the procession, we simply don't know.
So we should all prepare our blue states for the possibility of conflict, be it knowledge, resources, or institution. Hope for the best, expect the worst.
Well, huh. If half the state participates, and 55% of the participants vote yes, it'll mean a vote of no confidence in the US, but won't actually mean secession. It'll form a commission to study the viability though.
2028 is a long way away.
I’m down for this.
What would it take for those states to stop collecting Federal income taxes?
A complete restructuring of our educational system at the moment. Right now there’s so many title one schools per state, which receives funding for additional educational assistance for students with low test scores. Money to hire in class para educators and teacher assistance, hell some of the schools in my state, even get money so that we can provide breakfast and lunch for kids who can’t afford it.
I don’t have hard concrete numbers right now, but the last time I checked Florida was receiving billions of dollars in student money that basically amounted to $2000 per kid in public schools 
Mississippi and Arkansas.
The state that contributed the most taxes also elected Gavin Newsom and houses Elon Musk / Peter Thiel.
They are getting what they deserve.
Uh...
Muskovite's primary residence is Boca Chica, Texas. (Much to my chagrin...) 🤷♂️
California voted to keep prison slavery in place. Our entire country is the sick man of the Americas.
It's amusing to me that progressive talking points are the exact same as right wing ones.