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My favorite was that reddit users predicted some of the ludicrousness of Trump's moronic tweeting: /u/ohnodopey jokes how Trump will tweet that he has a bigger nuclear button than Kim Jong Un. The next day, Trump tweets just that. Redditor jokes about Trump claiming credit for airline passenger safety in 2017 few hours before Trump actually does exactly that He's such a goddamn embarrassment.

Anyone see the headlines? Noted liberal cuck Steve Bannon didn't get the memo that the Russia investigation is Fake News and the Greatest Witch Hunt in Political History. But collusion isn't the real problem, according to Deep State operative Steve Bannon: No worries, I'm sure it'll all blow over like it did in Puerto Rico.

Yes, I'm sitting here seething every day over Trump, blood roiling, tossing and turning over politics. You figured me out.

Again, what a stunning defense of the tax bill.

What a stunning defense of the tax bill.

Ah yes, I remember how decisions were looked at differently after the last big tax cut and spending went down. Totally starved the beast. Well done Republicans. You're a gullible twat.

You're looking at it all wrong. When you're happy you're productive, and so by earning less and fostering these personal relationships you're actually going to earn more. You just need to convince your bank of that the same way that Republicans have convinced their gullible voters. Less revenue means more revenue!

Point is, I know how to manage my time better than those fucksticks in upper management, I tell you hwat.

You being a twat isn't new either but that doesn't mean I shouldn't call it out.

Let me say it again. The fucksticks in Washington are still spending the money that you don't think they know how to spend, but now they're borrowing it so your kids can pay it back. What a great dad.

What's truly remarkable is that Kirk somehow successfully navigated medical school but can't seem to figure out the difference between a tax bill and a spending bill. Maybe it's just hard to concentrate with all these guys sucking your nuts.

Clearly the solution to this problem is more borrowing. MAGA

No way, I'm gonna vote for all those politicians who advocate spending tax dollars irresponsibly. Twat. You know, I've been following politics for a couple decades now and I feel pretty comfortable with which party has a better track record of being better stewards of my money. I'll give you a hint, it's not the party that started 2 wars and continues to bloat an already bloated defense budget. I'm comfortable with my votes. You keep voting for politicians who promise (and only sometimes deliver) lower taxes while doing fuck all to actually curb spending. Republicans are con artists, and their voters buy their bullshit every single election.

That's adorable. I'm not blaming you for future generations getting fucked, I'm just pointing out that you seem to be oddly OK with it.

You are, yes. Future generations, fuck those guys, they're not entitled to shit, amiright? Twat.

In order to pay for these tax cuts now, the government is going to have tax people even more in the future. People like my kids. Right? That should make you so goddamn mad. But you don't care as long as you get yours, because you feel entitled to it.

Great, so why are you OK with taking money from my kids? You should be outraged on their behalf. But you don't care about them, you entitled snot.

Bullshit. Have you not been following the discussion? You don't want social programs even if you don't have to pay for them. It's not about your money and you know it. Bullshit. You just said you don't think poor people should get handouts. If they shouldn't get them from the government because it creates dependence, then why don't the handouts from my parents do the same thing? Pay attention to your own logic, man.

And here you reveal the great lie of the conservative mindset about wanting to help others. Republicans of my parents generation will claim that they like charity, they just don't want to be forced by the government to give. My parents, in fact, are classic Reagan Republicans; they go to church, they donate to the poor, they volunteer with the homeless, but they want to do that stuff of their own volition, not with tax dollars. But that mindset has been supplanted by one that says don't give poor people anything. It will make them weak, and keep them in poverty. Which is bullshit, of course. What's happened is that the cancerous ideas of Ayn Rand have infiltrated the modern conservative movement, to the point where people are convinced that selfishness results in better outcomes for everyone. It's wrong, and it's absurd, but it's explains this visceral reaction conservatives have, not to having to pay taxes to help the poor, which many hardcore conservatives demonstrably don't earn enough to actually do, but to the very idea of the poor getting something for nothing. The fact that you think the difference between you and me is that I don't believe in people is laughable. I believe in society, and you believe that everyone looking out for themselves is what made America great.

I dunno, for decades Republicans have been arguing that we can't afford things like subsidized health insurance for poor people while at the same time pretending like they genuinely do care about their plight. Frankly, that's hard to square with this recent tax bill. Things Republicans will borrow against our future for: tax cuts for the wealthy, defense spending, pointless wars. Things we can't afford to borrow against our future for: helping poor Americans get medical care. What's been revealed here is that the drum that Republicans have been beating for the past 20 years about fiscal responsibility is nothing more than a fig leaf for social retribution. What we've seen here, through the actions of congress and the words of (presumably) Republican voters in this thread, is, to quote Brandon upthread, "Who gives a shit about the national debt, honestly." Indeed. Never again will Republicans be able to claim that we can't afford something because of the deficit and national debt with any integrity. Even Rand Paul, deficit hawk numero uno, has revealed himself to be a fucking fraud. No, the actual message here is simple: we can afford to subsidize health care for poor people but we shouldn't, because they don't deserve it. It absolutely is about empathy here. This isn't about, "Oh, why should I be forced to pay taxes to pay for shit that I don't use," because even if you say, "Fine, no taxes, we'll just borrow the money like we do for everything else that you don't seem to mind," and the answer is still no.

That's adorable.

Did the new tax bill reduce the amount of money we're spending? Did it reduce the amount of money we're borrowing to piss away on the spending that you guys hate so much? If so, just as many dollars are being "pissed away" after the tax bill as before it. The only difference is, you know, it's our kids' dollars or something. Whatever. Problem for another day, amiright? All the sudden Republicans aren't concerned about the national debt :lolguy:

Why do you want to increase the national debt?

Yeah, it was showing 0 for a while, then it disappeared for me, now it's back and recovering at about the same pace as the others.

$240 now. It's been a crazy 40 minutes, eh?