Fingers crossed for Mar-a-Lago. Preferably with the owner in it.

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    Oh, no. Mar-a-Larvae will have undocumented servants as human barriers, holding up sandbags.

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    Well yeah, no shit. We’re going to have 4+ years of random disaster shit demonstrating why we had govt agencies devoted to dealing with preventing said shit or dealing with the fallout and it’s going to be realllllll interesting watching the red states fail to deal on their own

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      And just remember. Once we lose a public service, no matter who is in office later, we never get it back. Disaster relief is a thing of the past.

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        One of the goals of this administration is to borrow and spend so much money that any future govt is so buried in debt it can’t function so, yeah, you’re spot on. We’ve entered terminal state capitalism now where citizenship means debt service and nothing more.

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        These agencies are clearly failures and we should cut all funding to them so we can pay double for half as much support to some private agency senator ___________'s friend/relative/donor owns!

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      Watch Trump give lucrative disaster response contracts to private companies owned by his biggest donors. Maybe Musk will dump a bunch of cybertrucks on the government somehow.

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      That is way too optimistic. We are going to have 4+ years of random disaster shit demonstrating to the MAGA crowd that the agencies devoted to dealing with the fallout are all corrupt and thus need more budget cuts.

      I wish I was being sarcastic but 100% thats gonna be the spin.

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    60 minutes had a story on how a large chunk of relief funds get defrauded and sent overseas with stolen personal information from people who need it most.

    Large sums of money, perfect target for DOGE? No he got a jet so international crime rings can rake in the dough 10x.

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      Yeah, anyone who needs proof of this, scroll the EBT or Food Stamps subreddits. So many people having their funds for the month stolen, and now they are fucked because congress said no replacements of funds 🫠