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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Wild that they continue to pretend like $100 million is a lot of money, when the President of the United States literally just created a slush fund that's worth like 20x that.

With the former going to feeding women and infants in need, and the latter going to violent jan 6 felons.

They're accidentally giving the game away. People are starting to put these numbers in perspective and realize every single "we can't afford that" claim has been utter horse shit

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

Yeah but this was ONE HUNDRED million!

The slush fund was only ONE POINT EIGHT billion.

  • The Morons worshiping the golden calf
[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

https://www.sierraclub.org/coal/how-trump-admin-giving-your-money-away-fossil-fuel-companies

The Trump admin has also paid to date $338M of Americans' money to keep coal fired electricity generation plants running, some of which are broken down through the duration of the so-called "emergency". Yet the Republican-controlled Congress hasn't lifted a finger to stop Trump for an expense that's triple the amount here.

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

WIC = Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Republicans: Cut funding for food assistance programs for poor pregnant women and children!

Also Republicans: Why aren't women having as many babies now?

[–] foxwolf@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, no, no, you misunderstand. Republicans want wealthy white women to be forced to have children. They want poor women, children, and men of all races to drop dead as soon as possible.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I think that the current Republicans in power would be okay with poor white women having babies. They just don't want the government to fund anything except (1) wars in countries with natural resources that they can exploit and (2) private corporations in which they own stakes.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The US Republican Party: "Once your children are born, fuck 'em"

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"If you're pre-born, you're fine; if you're pre-schooled, you're fucked. Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach military age. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they've been looking for.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers."

-George Carlin

[–] noodles@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He got it wrong, a lot of them like them in between as long as they're on an island waiting for them.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 11 points 1 week ago

Nah, that was covered:

if you're pre-schooled, you're fucked.

[–] urbanfoxe@mastodon.ie 1 points 1 week ago

@foggy @dan1101 and that's why they want to defund education, and if they can't do that pump it full of useless, repetitive crap - they want the population to lack critical thinking skills.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago

This statement right here is Exhibit A for why we need distinct words for figuratively and literally.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Five Republicans voted against the bill, while Democratic Representatives Donald Davis, Adam Gray, Vicente Gonzalez, and Marie Glusenkamp Perez voted for it, ensuring it passed the chamber.

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

North Carolina, California, Texas, and Washington. Wild

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

As a Washington resident, that worthless curr has been disappointing me at every turn. Any chance there is to step across the aisle, she does it. She's our version of Fetterman.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago

They probably thought they were voting to strip women, infants, and children. As in, make them all naked.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's just make one big fat headline to list the very few things this government does NOT strip funding for.

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 6 points 1 week ago

I'd say the military-industrial complex plus big tech, both of which surely include Israel.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

WIC sounds too close to woke, so it has to go.

-- magamushbrainz

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago

The christian party.