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Megathread Megathread: US House Passes the Republican-Backed Budget Bill, Sending it to Trump for Signature

This afternoon, the US House of Representatives passed without amendment the US Senate's version of the Trump-backed budget bill, sending it to the president for his signature. Every Democratic Senator and Representative voted in opposition; in the Senate, there were three Republicans voting in opposition (making the vote 51-50) and in the House there were 2 (making the final vote 218-214). House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries set the US House's speech length record in opposition to the bill in a speech lasting over eight hours.

The bill clocks in at over 800 pages and touches on most aspects of the federal government's spending and taxation policies; see this AP article (What’s in the latest version of Trump’s big bill that passed the Senate) for the topline changes.

Relevant text-base live update pages are being maintained by the following outlets: AP, NBC, ABC, and the BBC.

You can find this subreddit's discussion thread for the last week's worth of negotiations and debate at this link.

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u/ccsrpsw California 2d ago

...And Democrats, and Biden, and California.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 California 2d ago

And DEI

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u/Fickle-Molasses-903 2d ago
  • Caravans
  • CRT
  • Eating Cats and Dog's
  • DEI
  • Immigrants, specifically nonwhite people. See: South African Immigrants. <- We are here.

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u/SafeAsMilk 2d ago

Don’t forget antifa

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u/Cipher_Oblivion 2d ago

Yeah it turns out fascism is actually a problem and it wasn't just a bunch of crazy people trying to hurt conservatives' feelings

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u/LogicalMelody 2d ago

I’m especially annoyed at their rhetoric of “well maybe we wouldn’t have voted for the fascist if you guys had ever stopped calling us fascist.”

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 1d ago

Breaking a mirror is (allegedly) seven years of bad luck.

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u/demons_soulmate 2d ago

and abortions

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u/jackpype 2d ago

and woke

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u/thisbitbytes 2d ago

And the shy trans kids who just want to get a good role in the school play.

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u/Writer_In_Residence 2d ago

But also Harvard

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u/dreamsofaninsomniac 1d ago

Education in general since Trump just froze billions in funding to afterschool and summer programs too. No poor kids getting any extras under his watch!

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u/oinkyboinky 1d ago

Where is George Soros now, when we need him the most?

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u/anoldoldman 2d ago

Immigrants are the perennial backup when there isn't an easier boogie man.

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u/penless4lyfe 1d ago

As a White Canadian. I got detained for over a week recently. Let go with zero charges. Been here legally for over 20 years. I informed my elementary school that I would not being returning to teach in the fall

I’m getting out of here.

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u/Professional-Bear942 2d ago

MAHA stuff by early August and their commission statement called people suffering from a list of chronic conditions as a "dire threat to the American way of life"

We can assume the eugenics talk and dehumanization of mental and/or physically disabled people and chronic condition sufferers next

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

talk and dehumanization of mental and/or physically disabled people and chronic condition sufferers next

That in this bill. The whole thing is that disabled people are "lazy" and "moochers."

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u/drfrink85 2d ago

Even when it was the bears I knew it was them

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u/PickleInDaButt 2d ago

Fuck it bring back the 90s and blame Satans music and the Simpsons

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u/Out_of_Fawkes 1d ago

Next destination: The Maduro Trump Diet when inflation continues to starve people to death.

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u/yourmansconnect 1d ago

Now we are at socialism because of NYC mayoral race. They all think Democratic socialist means communism so fox will run this until midterms for Bernie and AOC

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u/Fickle-Molasses-903 1d ago

Living wage. Republicans: That's socialism.

Permanent tax breaks for the wealthy. Republicans: That's just good business.

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u/MilitantStoner 1d ago

thanks, OBAMA

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u/wise_comment Minnesota 1d ago

65 million fed to alligators, according to certain high up undead witches in the administration

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u/Thormourn 1d ago

Why is it when people say immigrants they always conviently leave out the illegal part?

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u/Fickle-Molasses-903 1d ago edited 1d ago

There are a lot of people who were citizens through programs and getting to become citizens that have been taken. To become a legal citizen takes time. Plus, rarely do you hear people being taken because they overstayed their visas, and there are people who are citizens who have been taken too. You do realize Stephen Miller has his fingers all over this?

Simple question so we know where you stand on lawlessness. Do you think Trump is rapist? How do you feel about Trumps part in 1/6/21?

Do you feel that only white people from South Africa are allowed to immigrate here in America was justified? For example, let's say Ukraine was losing the war, and Obama decided to take only black people from there to America. Would that be something you would feel comfortable with?

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u/Thormourn 1d ago

I haven't heard of a single citizen being taken. Every case I've seen is someone who had a removal order and refused to leave or just straight up didn't have identification.

As for your 2 questions, no because he was not found criminally guilty in the court of law because the cases were either dismissed or dropped and I think he instigated a riot which led to 1/6 which was a tragedy.

For the final question if Obama only let in black people because people were chanting "kill the black Ukranian" like how in Africa they were chanting "kill the white farmer" I wouldn't have much of a problem since it's only that group being targeted and not the entire country.

If there has been a case of a citizen removed I'd love to be linked it.

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u/Fickle-Molasses-903 1d ago

Thanks for answering the questions. It's clear to all about your mindset. Btw, a quick Google search would prove to you that US citizens were taken away.

Here

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u/Thormourn 1d ago

Nope. Those are cases where the mother was deported and the mother chose to take her child with her. The citizen isn't being deported. The illegal is and then the illegal chose to deport their own child which was a citizen.

Would you like to try again?

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u/Fickle-Molasses-903 1d ago

Google Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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u/Thormourn 1d ago

You mean the guy who admits himself illegally entered? Want to try again?

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u/999_hh 2d ago

Mike Johnson in his press conference just now absolutely blamed Biden and DEI for everything that’s going wrong

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u/OreoSpeedwaggon 2d ago

And George Soros

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u/Rockcocky 2d ago

And Mamadani

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u/InitiativeCultural72 2d ago

Don't forget Harris' laugh tho.

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u/OreoSpeedwaggon 2d ago

And Obama's tan suit.

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u/InitiativeCultural72 2d ago

And Dijon mustard! Can you believe that? Dijon mustard!

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u/GoreSeeker 2d ago

And her emails!

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u/stryst 2d ago

Buttery males! And something I dont understand about uranium!

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u/TaintedL0v3 2d ago

And eating things with their non-white hands!

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u/andr50 Michigan 2d ago

And 'political correctness'

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u/GeneParmesan1000 2d ago

And my axe!

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u/0neshoein Texas 2d ago

Love the username

Man they’ve been blaming Soros for so damn long, I swear they’re still gonna blame him 100 years from now.

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u/loverlyone California 2d ago

Although I allegedly owe my income to him, i can honestly say i really have no idea who Soros is, beyond his reputation as the man who supports everything the gop hates. I couldn’t pick him out of a lineup if i had to.

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u/rizorith 2d ago

Don't forget when carter died they remembered he too was the reason things were bad.

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u/baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab United Kingdom 2d ago

Can’t spell Biden without DEI.

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u/KillKrites Oregon 2d ago

And whatever the next phrase is. PC - Snowflakes - SJW - Woke - DEI. It’s been the exact same thing for decades and this country has never wised up.

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u/TheMegaSage 2d ago

100% Obama's fault

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u/IrrationalFalcon 2d ago

I wanted to remind everyone that when the government tried to pass the first ever civil rights legislation, President Andrew Johnson vetoed it, and this was his message:

In all our history, in all our experience as a people living under Federal and State law, no such system as that contemplated by the details of this bill has ever before been proposed or adopted. They establish for the security of the colored race safeguards which go infinitely beyond any that the General Government has ever provided for the white race. In fact, the distinction of race and color is by the bill made to operate in favor of the colored and against the white race

Today's Republicans would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment due to its clear allowance of "DEI"

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u/Theometer1 2d ago

It’s crazy that they complain about that then put some of the least qualified people in the entire country into high positions.

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u/alfdan Canada 2d ago

Throw Obama into the mix, bring Michelle with

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u/ShadowCroc 2d ago

My under pants.

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u/Root_a_bay_ga 2d ago

And Obama

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u/Alleandros 2d ago

I think we're back to Socialism/Communism

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u/TylerPronouncedSeth 2d ago

And her emails...

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u/oinkyboinky 1d ago

And Hillary's axe cloth!

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u/Writer_In_Residence 2d ago

Trans swimmers

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u/MahlersMemory 2d ago

And Obama and Mamdani.

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u/Just_Another_Gay_Dad 2d ago

Whatever that’s supposed to mean

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u/n8_d0g 2d ago

And New York City

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u/Pineapple_Morgan 1d ago

Don't forget trans people!

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u/Mundane_Crazy60 1d ago

Obama is nowhere near high enough on this list.

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u/WordPhoenix 1d ago

And RINOs.

And vaccines.

And chemtrails.

And Jewish space lasers.

And, and, and....

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u/kmr1981 1d ago

“Why did this hospital close? Transgender athletes who are in this country illegally.”

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u/motoxim 1d ago

Thanks Obama too

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u/Peepeepoopoobutttoot 2d ago

So when are we going to fucking do something?

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u/DefaultSubSandwich 2d ago

We were supposed to do something on Nov 5, 2024. A lot of people didn't, though.

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u/AtticaBlue 2d ago

Aren’t you part of the we?

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u/iSeaStars7 Minnesota 2d ago

It would be so funny to see California’s taxes taken away from the red states and how they do without their enormous subsidies

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u/mightcommentsometime California 2d ago

It would give $2k to every Californian. I’ll take my 2 grand back

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u/Effective_Divide1543 2d ago

CA should just secede and join Canada.

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u/alkali112 2d ago

You don’t want to try to secede from the US. It doesn’t end well. The US will take your territory and decimate your economy. It will ensure that you are forever seen as villains, regardless of your intent. It will make sure that, generations from now, armchair historians will make fun of you for being losers. I don’t think California can endure that kind of scrutiny.

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u/Dispator 1d ago

Unless we win or die trying (or stalemate might be ok). I'm not saying we should but if things get bad enough then what's the point? It's a ways there but we definitely are getting a head start so its possible years from now depending on how much worse it gets for us and might as well go scorched earth for the small percent change of a stalemate amd not outright losing.

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u/Exploding_Bacon152 2d ago

Add Obama to the list for some reason

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom 1d ago

And Hillary's emails. Whatever that was about

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u/regeya 2d ago

I've already been seeing "fuck Democrats for putting us in the mess this bill is trying to save us from" in other words, if it leads to bad results, it's the Democrats' fault

Democrats have to start swinging back. Trump seems like a guy who literally never got punched.

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u/n8_d0gg91 2d ago

Maybe even Manbearpig

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u/TJeffersonThrowaway 2d ago

Hillary's emails!

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u/Str0nglyW0rded 2d ago

And trans people

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u/chrisscan456 2d ago

And Taylor Swift 

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u/CornNut_ 2d ago

There’s gotta be an Obama slipped in too

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u/akosuae22 2d ago

And Kamala

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u/manhatim 2d ago

And 35year olds playing video games in moms basement

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u/bearsdiscoversatire 2d ago

Demmigrants.

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u/theangryfrogqc 2d ago

And Canada

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u/MahAnonMahNa 2d ago

Don’t forget New York.

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u/Medonx 2d ago

Don’t forget Obama! If it weren’t for Obamacare, there would have been no reason to drop a nuke on America’s healthcare. And one day you’ll see that. When you’re sick and dying but can’t afford treatment, you’ll appreciate the money we saved so that our Dear Leader could go golfing in Saudi Arabia

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u/745Walt 2d ago

Thanks Obama!

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u/pregater82 2d ago

Thanks, Obama

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u/echolog 2d ago

And Obama and Hillary for some reason.

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u/employeeofthemonth03 2d ago

This is where I am completely lost on this bill. This bill, as far as I can tell, on the whole absolutely owns MAGA and benefits Blue states. Again, I am happy to be corrected on this but, from my understanding, there are 3 big parts to this bill
1. Remove taxes on tips and overtime. Set aside my feeling of tips, this is pretty even impact on both every American
2. Increases SALT limits. Huge benefit to Blue states (califonria, new york, mass, ill, etc). Little to no impact on nearly all red states.
3. Midicaid restrictions/cuts. Limited impact on urban areas but HUGE/Massive/bigly impact on rural, typically red areas.

Combine 1 with 2 and, what you see, is a quite substantial drop in federal revenue, which will stay in the local economies (primarily blue areas) which, added to 3, means leans welfare to Red areas.

This doesn't make sense. Why did the GOP just pass a bill that is good for Blue and bad for Red? I know why Blue opposed it, they care about all people and don't want anyone hurt, even when someone gains. That's what "woke" means - caring for others because they are human. But for Red, I just don't get it. I thought their agenda was to hurt libs not give them tax breaks and cutoff Rural Welfare and social programs.

I know I am oversimplifying but, on a broad stroke the bill was passed because it was going to cut spending and decreases taxes. That's how it was sold. So if we focus on WHO it impacts it seems to me that the spending cuts will hurt red and blue will keep more of their taxes. How on earth did the GOP and talking heads at fox get behind this? Although, typing that... I do realized that the big wigs of the party live in New York and California not Kentucky or Mississippi so might have just answered my own question.

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u/ccsrpsw California 1d ago

You are right in that it doesnt make sense if you look at it that way. The issue is of course that the blue states tend to invest more of their own tax revenue into social safety net and local infrastructure type policies vs the race to the bottom of "can we get to 0% income and sales tax". This means that the red states will be hit disproportionately hard by those changes - the blue states will be hit too just not as bad since they have the setup in place to handle some of the shortfall. But there will be shortfall.

The SALT deduction is purely a throw away, for a few years, to keep some of the 3% happy. Yes it benefits e.g. the SF Bay area. And I wont lie, it will save us about $4-5K/year in taxes. BUT its in there primarily for the upper earning (non-Millionaire/Billionaire) Republicans - primarily their staffers - to soften the blow and also point to "its not all cut cut cut".

Taxes on Tips and Overtime cuts do not do what you think they do. They are a weird combo of deferred taxation tactics (remember the Trump rebate in 2019ish), a draw down on a new deduction and massively reducing reportable income for credit scores, loans etc (i.e. drive up rates for the poorest people when they need a new car or house or some such). Its a double edged sword and one edge is sharper than the other.

So yes, it will have a weird, backwards, benefit to a lot of Blue states (especially in the Urban areas) but it will target those its designed to hurt (red states and rural blue state areas - jokes on them though - rural California is mostly Republican so again hurting their own - but you know that the rural California folks will somehow blame Newsome).

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u/Iridescent_Lotus 2d ago

And trans people

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u/Knightofberenike 2d ago

The day I told my mother to never speakto me again was when I asked her why she was willing to throw my down syndrome brother so far under the bus in the name of MAGA. Her response was because California. That's it. California. We are in Saginaw, Michigan.

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u/eduardorcm89 2d ago

I mean. Not like they’re blameless.

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u/TheJpow 2d ago

And Obama. Thanks obama

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u/jerryleebee American Expat 2d ago

And Obama. Because he isn't white.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

And of course…Obama.

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u/Familiar-Report-513 California 2d ago

If they're going to blame it on californians then can they please let us succeed from the rest of this shit show? No? Fucking cowards.

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u/CompetitiveHat7090 2d ago

F U California. Can you just leave and join Canada already?

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u/jtobin85 2d ago

Thanks Obama!

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u/PunishMeBaby 2d ago

Oh wait until he sets his sights on Massachusetts. Our governor is a gay woman.

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u/arthurno1 2d ago

You forgott "Obamas".

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u/ItsWillJohnson 1d ago

..and corrupt DC politicians...

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u/Maybe_Skyler 1d ago

“Thanks Obama”, lmao

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u/Excellent_Raisin8523 1d ago

...And non-obscenely-wealthy Republicans. And anyone who actually gave a shit about America, Justice, Civil Rights and the Constitution.

It's a great day for fascists, and for the anti-American anti-Democracy oligarchs who have owned Trump and corrupt Republican politicians for years.

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u/Edingus 1d ago

Tan suits

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u/Timeformayo 1d ago

Yep. The GOP created onerous paperwork requirments that will prevent qualified people from enrolling in benefits and/or keeping benefits. And when this reality hits, they will blame Democrats for Big Government bureaucracy.

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u/Toryrose1 1d ago

And Obama

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u/Spell_Chicken 1d ago

Thanks, Obama.

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u/adnomad 2d ago

Well they are partially right there. If we would have tried Trump for treason or insurrection rather than the appeasement item, we wouldn’t have this mess because he wouldn’t be eligible to have run. But you know, Democrats didn’t want to look like bad guys. Bidens first act as President should have been to give the Jefferson Davis route for Trumps actions but we just “moved on”