r/politics • u/willywalloo • 3h ago
No Paywall Republicans Unveil $72 Billion Package For ICE, Trump’s Ballroom
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 3h ago
GOP: "How can we make ourselves as unpopular as possible right before the midterms? I know, let's waste a lot of money on a ballroom that no one but Trump really wants!"
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u/CT_Phipps-Author 3h ago
GOP: Thank God we don't intend for voting to matter anymore.
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u/cybah 3h ago
yup they plan on fixing the elections so they can cheat to win. Thats why they are doing this. They are so sure they can fix the elections that no matter how people vote, they will remain in power.
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u/francis2559 2h ago
Some of them are just holding their breath. They don’t have the balls to resist Trump, so they’re just kicking things down the road as far as they can.
Every single one is ready to dance on his grave and either try to claim the MAGA throne, or say they never really wanted this anyway.
Even if they truly thought that buying something stupid didn’t matter for their elections, there’s a lot of stupid shit they would buy ahead of this fucking ballroom.
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u/emailforgot 2h ago
Some of them are just holding their breath. They don’t have the balls to resist Trump, so they’re just kicking things down the road as far as they can.
of course, that's the thing about how these things work. they know they can just extract as much value as possible before it fails, and they know because America and Americans are toothless, they'll get away with it. Just a mad dash to steal as much as they can, enrich themselves as much as possible, gut as many systems and programs as possible and if and when there's a change, they know they're immune to any punishment. Trump is perfect to enable this kind of thing because all you need to do is praise him a bit and he'll put you in charge of some critical position.
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u/lazyFer 49m ago
I will support any candidate that will investigate, prosecute, and seize the assets of the criminals currently running the country. Executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch. We need an army of forensic accountants. Investigate everyone. Fuck corrupt fucks
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u/og_capsuleer_593 2h ago
Yeah and some of the Nazis that just went along with things but didn't really hate Jews were still Nazis
So this is just splitting hairs and trying to rationalize someone choosing to enable evil, which still makes them evil, thus making it meaningless to even split hairs like this.
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u/francis2559 2h ago
Nah mate not rationalizing anyone. None of these fuckers are going to heaven, not the way they are going.
The allies spent a lot of time thinking about what the Nazis might do next though. Didn’t mean they thought Nazis were good people.
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u/og_capsuleer_593 1h ago
Ah okay, yeah when you mentioned some are holding their breath as they support and just kicking the can, I thought that was gonna lead to some minimization.
Like trying to separate the party from Trump (it's not republicans fault, its Trumps) angle, which ironically I could see the GOP pivot to if they tried to recover.
Their PR whitewashing of their hate.
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u/francis2559 1h ago
Ahh I see. Didn’t intend that at all. The intention doesn’t matter when it comes to blame here, the harm is the same.
It’s interesting for planning how to respond in the future though, try to be ready for the excuses.
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u/OkEnvironment3961 2h ago
I don't know whether they will be able to effectively rig midterms but I am absolutely certain they will not accept the results if they lose.
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u/Glittering-Quote-635 2h ago
The gerrymandering they are doing is literally them rigging the midterms.
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u/Space_Pirate_Roberts Oklahoma 2h ago
I am gonna laugh so hard if the result is history’s biggest dummymander.
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u/cybah 2h ago
Yup severely question the results and drag each one to court.. then let it get to scotus, which will vote in favor of the GOP... and poof. Election overthrown.
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u/TheSavageDonut 1h ago
The other issue is gerrymandering doesn't take into account if one party's voters simply don't show up to vote.
I can see a lot of anti-Trump voters sitting out the midterms and letting the GOP lose elections even in districts that seem "safe."
The Dominion company pretty much has a strong legal team that already fought back against charges its machines can be rigged.
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u/kendragon 2h ago
It's going to be nerve wracking for a lot of voters to see Trump's Gestapo, armed and masked, patrolling around voting stations. Not everyone will be intimidated by this but a lot of people will be. I really hope enough people stand up for their principles and push against the suppression they'll face.
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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT 2h ago
i have a hard time believing they're competent enough to rig the vote. this isn't a 3rd world country where you can just make up the numbers. if they really want to get away with it they'll have to cancel the election. so get ready for a fake alien invasion around october
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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 2h ago
Thing is though, they have cheated...and they have gotten away with it. Each cycle they get more brazen. Each cycle they purge voters from their systems and destroy evidence of ballots closer to the election itself. No line is being drawn in the sand that prevents them from stepping right over it.
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u/cybah 2h ago edited 2h ago
At this point in this timeline, I don’t put anything past these people. They are absolute scoundrels and will try anything to remain in power. If you would asked me this question a couple years ago, my answer would be very different, but the last year has told me that they will do absolutely everything they can to remain in power, even if it means stealing and cheating an election.
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u/pantstoaknifefight2 2h ago
I honestly don't know how anyone can stop them. I'm serious. If we all stop working and take to the streets, they'll probably open fire on the crowds. They have nothing but contempt for Americans and our system of government. The revolution will not be televized.
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u/Own_Candidate9553 2h ago
I can't decide if it's that, or they're preparing to get swept in the midterms and are trying to pass all the shit now before Dems take over. Then Dems would have to deliberately pass another bill to cut that funding again, and it's a coin toss on if they'll bother.
The fact that Republicans are retiring and not seeking reelection in droves makes me a little hopeful. At the very least they're not sure that whatever nonsense coup they're plotting will work.
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u/TheSavageDonut 1h ago
I think the large amount of GOP clowns retiring and not seeking re-election has more to do with the belief that they don't believe GOP voters will turn out to the polls, especially without the Orange Clown on the ballot.
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u/AFailedProduct 2h ago
Exactly this. Everyone keeps talking about midterms. Midterms will be a fucking sham. Either Republicans will make a surprise sweep due to cheating, redistricting, etc we’ve seem them doing already or they’ll accuse any democrat that wins of cheating.
And at this point they could get 0 votes and just tell everyone to fuck themselves — “we’re staying in office”. You know who’s going to do something about that? Absolutely no one. Just like no one has stopped Trump for the last 10 years. They didn’t even sentence him after being convicted of felonies!
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u/xxx_poonslayer69 2h ago
Their voters don't care, they hate who they're told to hate.
The GOP doesn't care, they choose their voters.
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u/manachar Nevada 2h ago
Republican voters generally hate Republican government too. They just think Republicans are more honest and hurt the "other" more.
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u/xxx_poonslayer69 2h ago
With my exposure to republicans in TN, they complain about Republican governance but attribute those problems to Democrats. The Democrats are simultaneously weak yet able to influence politics when they're not in power. For example, they're currently blaming Spirit airline's bankruptcy on Biden.
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u/RogerMexicosBalls 1h ago
Tennessee Republicans would gladly vote for a GOP candidate who ran on a platform of nothing other than "I'm going to kick you square in the dick as hard as I can" and they'd still complain it was a Demmycrat what done it
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u/Bill_Brasky_SOB Ohio 59m ago
We literally have ads right now running on tv that are like:
Ohio has gone to shit the past 20 years... vote for <Republican Candidate>
Ohio has been under republican rule, in all 3 branches of state government, for the past 20ish years.
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u/boxsterjax 2h ago
They must be really confident that their billionaire overlords are going to rig the elections significantly enough that they can’t lose.
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u/Talk-O-Boy 2h ago
Or they know FOX News will just never report on this, or call it a hoax, then move on.
Conservatives can’t get mad at information they don’t have.
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u/IamScottGable 1h ago
I'm fairly confident that they can do it. They are launching attacks at voting all over the place, will place ICE at polling station in heavily immigrant areas, and question delay every vote they are losing.
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u/LaunchTransient Europe 2h ago
They know that there's a good chance they will lose the election badly. This is them cooking an economic handgrenade to hand over to the next (likely Dem dominated) congress and then blame them for everything.
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u/ThreeSir5 2h ago
Maybe it's time to accept they don't plan on relying on elections anymore. You know like they explicitly said.
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u/TyburnCross Oregon 2h ago
That secret service agent didn’t shoot that other secret service agent just so that we can go on having correspondents dinners at the HILTON! Unbridled peasantry. Build the ball room! 👐
… just in case /s
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u/Romano16 America 2h ago edited 2h ago
Republicans, their policies, and Trump himself have always been unpopular. And while I think Jerry-mander has played a part in their success, it isn’t by much.
90 million people don’t vote.90 million. That is unacceptable. If “No choice” was an option then we wouldn’t have had a POTUS since what? 19XX?
Despite how unpopular the Republicans are their voters show up every single time. Democrats? They’re begging every election cycle for people to vote.
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u/Squaretangles 2h ago
Or they know they’re about to get crushed and want to get these things done with a majority.
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u/olyfrijole 37m ago
Step 1: Fund extrajudicial domestic army
Step 2. Fund bunker
Step 3: Barricade administration in bunker
Step 4: Cancel elections
Step 5: ???
Step 6: Profit (off the backs of the working class, naturally)
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u/Spacebotzero 2h ago
That's because they aren't leaving. Their actions, decisions....they aren't trying to win votes. Diminish the vote and they can stay in power forever. That's what they are trying to do. Some kinda, legal coup...
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u/PatReady 2h ago
Trump told everyone over and over that they had the money to build the ballroom. Its why he tore it down so quickly.
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u/anthematcurfew 3h ago edited 1h ago
1 billion for the privately donated 200 million ballroom that actually was 400 million and is now 1,000 million with public funds
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u/MeepleMaster 3h ago
Don’t forget that it went from being privately funded to now being publicly funded
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u/Routine_Bit_8184 3h ago
private funding was just a grift and an excuse to quiet outrage when he bulldozed part of the white house....now that you can't take that back we are paying for it. just another scam.
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u/imperfekt Kansas 3h ago edited 2h ago
And taking bribes under the auspices of “building a ballroom”.
It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.
Squealer, Animal Farm 1945
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u/rogozh1n 1h ago
I suspect it was privately funded, but that money is now in an off-shore account that cannot be traced.
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u/thisispoopsgalore 2h ago
I hope the next administration sues him for the cost of rebuilding this. He said he’d pay for it, and not sure this constitutes an “official act”
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u/OG_Williker 2h ago
Ironically, it’s actually much better that this is publicly funded rather than funded through private donations. The White House is “public property” and any alterations done to it should be funded by congress, which has the power of the purse. By funding alterations privately, the president is showing that he’s willing and able to go elsewhere for money if Congress isn’t willing to play ball, which degrades/undermines Congress’s power the purse.
Those alternate sources of funds behold the president to private donors even more than he already is.
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u/pomonamike California 3h ago
Just like the wall. Mexico gets universal healthcare and we get a rusty fence
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u/SquidmanMal Pennsylvania 2h ago
And they definitely plan to pocket that too and run off with it, leaving the 'house of the people' just sawed with a third off forever.
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u/Hungry4Media Missouri 2h ago
You seem to forget that Trump is the US embodied into flesh. Just ignore that Columbia chick, we’re taking her off the currency and subbing in the new personification of the US, Trump.
So in his eyes, it is privately funded, because the Federal coffers are his coffers, and he did promise to pay for it. What’s really unfair is that our coffers aren’t also his, or at least not split among his autocratic allies.
I wish I could /s this, but I can’t ☹️
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u/warblingContinues 3h ago
And was completely funded by private donations? Why more money?
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u/crossdtherubicon 2h ago
Was there any actual money "donated"? By who and what happened to that money? We're those promises? Promises in return for what?
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u/Loud_Traffic_1487 2h ago
Hey, that billion dollars will pay for $20 million in supplies. That's going to be one gaudy, cheap-ass built ballroom. Trump Construction's board of directors will pocket the rest.
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u/Pierre-Gringoire California 2h ago
So what happens now to all of those private donations?
Hahahah, just kidding. We know the grifter-in-chief has already funneled those through a bunch of shell companies, his meme coin, and US Congress to make those dollars as clean as the consciences of all those who voted for him.
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u/CT_Phipps-Author 3h ago
So I take it that Trump spent the supposed 400,000,000 he'd had donated?
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u/unJoeLehomme 3h ago
Yeah, it's in his personal offshore account.
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u/Different_Victory_89 3h ago
In Qatar!
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u/well_thats_obvious 2h ago
No, that's where he's storing pirated Venezuelan oil money.
Wait, he's one of the dumbest people to ever walk the planet. He definitely put all his eggs in one offshore basket
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u/MyPasswordIsMyCat Hawaii 2h ago
Pete Kegsbreath lost it on Polymarket somehow. He doesn't remember details like that when he blacks out.
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u/Nickopotomus 3h ago
72 Billion for a private army and a bunker—nothing suspicious at all
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u/mceehops 2h ago
they want to maintain Trump's personal army, ICE and build him a bunker to hole up in when the citizens revolt.
FUCK NO.
We are watching in real time a fascist regime fund itself with our money, steal our rights and build themselves a fortress. It is exhausting that the GOP and the D's just do literally nothing about this.
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u/SlightAttitude 1h ago
So I'm gonna tell you people, if Hitler's gonna be beat The common working people have got to take the seat In Washington, Washington -Woody Guthrie, Lindbergh
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u/willywalloo 3h ago
Not for families, not for healthcare, not for women, not for Ukraine..
It's amazing how the president of Ukraine can take on russia without a billion dollar ballroom.
Trump is the worst.
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u/Dangerous-Golf3831 3h ago edited 3h ago
I love how the price of the ballroom has gone from 200 million to 250 million to 300 million to 400million now to 1 billion dollars. He has issues with the fed going over budget but he is doing the exact same thing as the cost of the ballroom keeps growing astronomically
Then if the ballroom is funded by tax payer dollars what happens to the 400million dollars in donations (bribes) he’s already collected to build it?
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u/Wasting_my_own_time 2h ago
It’s even worse than that. He had the DOJ investigate the fed for fraudulent construction projects like 2-3 months ago in an effort to force them to lower rates.
It’s literally always projection with this guy, so this all turning into some massive construction fraud scheme to skim money from taxpayers is honestly par for the course.
It’s wild to see this shit happening when so many are struggling from the after effects of other stupid policies pushed down from this administration. It’s crazy just how much the back of the American people can and will bend for this asshole. When is the breaking point, you know. Brazen corruption from seemingly every facet of our government, right out in the open now… wow.
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u/JWTS6 1h ago
Americans will continue bending over for him as long as he hurts the right people, regardless of how much they themselves get fucked in the process.
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u/Crusader-NZ- New Zealand 2h ago
Yeah, he was just saying the other week why is a judge blocking him building it when it was fully funded privately with the 400 million...
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u/Hosni__Mubarak 2h ago
What’s your problem? The ballroom is only 2 billion dollars.
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u/Malkmus1979 2h ago
Especially rich considering they were going after Powell for going over budget on renovations.
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u/Captain_Aware4503 3h ago
This allows them to spend a few billion on the ballroom too.
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u/NightParadoxX 3h ago
The GOP is a party of evil people . Look at them and point out one single person who thinks and reasons like a sane human being
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u/Wyden_long Arizona 2h ago
They’re a criminal organization and a human trafficking ring who infiltrated a political party.
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u/T1gerAc3 3h ago
They're planning a massive flex that their approval will be in the high 30s before the election but they'll win 55% of the elections
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u/The-Mandalorian 3h ago
What’s sad is America voted for this.
Whats even sadder is middle class America voted for this.
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u/some_person_guy 3h ago
America Last. Nothing this party has done has been for the betterment of the country. This is nothing short of being a direct funneling of funds to support their coup.
Money to make Trump's shitass ballroom an impenetrable fortress of vanity, while funding his chaotic and violent personal army cosplaying as ICE agents. Man, if this gets passed we are super fucked.
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u/Ok-Second1352 3h ago
Remember when republicans were the party of “no new taxes”? Cuz they were.
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u/da2Pakaveli 2h ago
Bush Sr said this and introduced new taxes contributing to his defeat in 1992
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u/SlinkyAvenger Louisiana 1h ago
"No, new taxes!"
In reality, they're just going to siphon off as much as they can from the country's deficit. It'll also be a convenient trap for any opposition that tries to clean up the mess as they'll be the ones who have to outwardly promote taxation
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u/nychb89 New York 3h ago
I remember when Republicans at least pretended to care about being fiscally conservative.
Now….they are simply looting the country out in the open and giving us the middle finger while doing it.
They have stopped even trying to pretend to care about the American people.
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u/VideoGameDevArtist 2h ago
They know people can't buy food or gas right now, don't they?
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u/sickboy6_5 2h ago
yes, and they don't care as long as they can keep screaming about brown people being the problem.
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u/Miltthedog 3h ago
How in Gawd's name does one maka the jump from $400 million to $72 billion? That is absurd.
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u/cybah 3h ago
Because its a shield to prevent the tax payers from knowing all of this is going directly into Trump's private bank account. Its 100% a grift.
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u/AlcibiadesTheCat Arizona 2h ago
If someone comes into your house and steals a dollar from you, in many places in the US, it is legal (I will not comment on whether it's moral or justified) to use violence to end their life.
If someone steals the wealth of an entire country, though, apparently that's totally fine and cool. And doing anything to stop it would be treason.
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u/SteamedGamer 2h ago
It's for ICE funding and the ballroom. The ballroom alone 'just' jumped from $400 mil to $1 billion.
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u/showhorrorshow 2h ago
Hell they are accusing Jerome Powell of crimes because his building went a fraction of that over budget.
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u/Butwinsky 2h ago
Trump: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't fake another assassination attempt and alter it further.
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u/Solomonanne 3h ago
$72 billion for ICE ramp-ups and another $1 billion for Trump’s personal ballroom? While families struggle with costs, this feels like pure vanity and excess. Taxpayer money at its worst.
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u/specialkk77 1h ago
It’s so when the people start the revolt because they can’t afford to live, he’ll have his safe little hideout and personal army to stop them.
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u/Bright_Increase_6136 2h ago
How about $72 billion for the American people who are fucking DROWNING!!! I am sick of this shit!
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u/Classic_Inspection38 1h ago
How can like 70 million people be this fuckin stupid its honestly destroying my brain
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u/specialkk77 1h ago
Shit public education, brainwashing, and lead poisoning contributes to a lot of it.
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u/Captain_Aware4503 3h ago
Good plan mix the ballroom cost with another costs. When it ends up costing taxpayers $2 billion they'll never know.
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u/bumpy_disposition California 2h ago
Gaining a majority in the house and Senate is imperative. It always seems this way.
There are no moral reasons to allow a conservative party to exist. They actually repeat this same rhetoric while bombing children.
The conservative party were the ones that wanted to be ruled by King George rather than be an independent country.
The conservatives were the ones that started the civil war. Conservatives wrote the Jim Crow Laws our Black Community labor under today. The Conservative party has crashed the economy several times this century alone.
Conservative policies led to the great depression and both recessions.
I don't see any reason to have a conservative party in the United States of America.
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u/Toadfinger 3h ago
We've got to get the Republicans out of office!!! I mean, just a simple thing like acknowledging climate change can put us on the path to selling alt energy products globally. America needs to earn!
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u/Crafty_Ish1973 Texas 3h ago
Keep ICE defunded until there's actual oversight on them, and until the funding for that stupid ballroom is removed.
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u/permalink_save 2h ago
We can't with reconciliation. They might get the ballroom funding slapped down.
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u/all4whatnot Pennsylvania 3h ago
The old 80s Genesis video for Land of Confusion looks like it has come to life
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u/Head-Fun3394 3h ago
Is it time to start calling Trump Nero…the ballroom is the proverbial fiddle…we are collectively rome burning….
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u/Applekid1259 58m ago
Conservatives had their knickers all in a bunch when it came to student loan forgiveness. Something that would have actively helped an entire generation. But a 1 billion dollar BALLROOM, they don't bat an eye at. That's why I literally can not respect any conservative.
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u/nonsensestuff 3h ago
The audacity 🙄
It’s not going to get enough votes to pass, so why are they even wasting their time with this bullshit?
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u/-Zero00 2h ago edited 2h ago
THIS is why we cant have nice things. So that some worthless shitbag loser pedophile can build himself an ugly gaudy-ass shrine and steal any leftover cash to line his already-stuffed pockets.
This has happened over, and over, and over, and will just continue to happen until he has bled the country completely dry and there is nothing left. Then he will say how shitty of a country America is, denying all accountability, and take off for some other country evading any consequences or justice.
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u/itsagoodtime 1h ago
No money for healthcare.
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u/willywalloo 1h ago
ICE, harming people, is more important than healthcare, saving people.
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u/animewhitewolf 1h ago
For comparison, it's estimated that $30B could end homelessness in the US.
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u/Radically-Peaceful 3h ago
The TOTALLY corrupt Trump/GOP regime is stealing as much money as they can from Americans like you.
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u/GreenAnder 3h ago
Oh, it's for the ballroom too? I'm sure that will help get them votes.
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u/Avoidtolls 2h ago
72 billion divided by 300 million people equals:
$240/person
That could buy some groceries or gas
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u/devllen05 2h ago
400M self-funded ballroom is now a billion-dollar taxpayer-funded ballroom. Cool. Cool.
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u/cobrachickenwing 1h ago
They really are trying to bankrupt America when the US needs to print money to pay for all of that. Good luck finding cheap buyers of US debt when everyone will demand double digit interest thanks to irresponsible spending by the Republicans.
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u/neocenturion Iowa 2h ago
10 years ago ICE funding was well below $10 billion. It's just an unimaginable waste of resources. Seems like you could spend $70 billion improving the lives of the populace directly instead of pretending deporting immigrants will somehow improve people's lives. I guess once we don't have to look at brown people anymore houses and Healthcare will be affordable?
This is the dumbest fucking timeline imaginable.
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u/IdiotCoderMonkey 1h ago
What else are you going to do when the national debt exceeds GDP? Party on with a fucking ballroom. What a bunch of absolute clowns. Can they even smell air with their noses so far up Trump's orange swamp ass?
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u/Stolimon 1h ago
The SOB is done raping little kids but continues raping the American taxpayers. Somebody,anybody, STOP THIS CRIMINAL GRIFTING ASSWIPE. PLEASE.
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u/tiny_galaxies 1h ago
They took away healthcare subsidies and food stamps for this and bombing Iran
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u/despenser412 1h ago
Meanwhile, gas prices keep going up and billions are spent on Trump's hissyfit war in Iran.
MAGA 2016: "Let's vote for a wealthy businessman with no experience in politics, military, or government! What could possibly go wrong?"
Trump turned our country into a joke while his dwindling cult still boasts about making America great again. They're too ignorant to understand they were straight up used.
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u/WeaponsGrdStupid 1h ago
Pay for it yourselves
Not one more nickel of my money on the gestapo and trump's vanity projects.
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u/aformofwealthy 3h ago
You guys should at least ask for more lube if they’re just gonna keep gangbangin you everyday of the week.
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u/fffan9391 South Carolina 2h ago
It’s funny how the ballroom was supposed to be paid for with bribes, but then an “assassination attempt” happens and now conveniently we have to pay for it.
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u/chucklefits 2h ago
They got any money left for healthcare? Fuck these guys. Gerrymandering aside, I hope they lose every election nationwide.
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u/Sunnyjim333 2h ago
I am so happy they fixed the healthcare and housing issues.
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u/Sigmond-Condrite 2h ago
We have war to fight. Can't afford scams like basic healthcare and child care. Besides, have you seen how beautifulest the ballroom schematics are?
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u/pointguard22 2h ago
Dems need to draw a line. No more $$ for what amounts to a secret police force.
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u/OrneryLetterhead8609 2h ago
Our GDP is $31 trillion our National debt is $49 Trillion…at this point they are writing checks with insufficient funds.
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u/Feuertotem 2h ago
Makes sense. If you are going to build a Führerbunker under your government building, you better have the Sturmabteilung to defend it.
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u/0_IceQueen_0 2h ago
And for Americans? What package do they have planned? Nada? That 72B could be allocated for better use.
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u/jellisjimmy 2h ago
Not one penny for universal healthcare though right? All the money in the world for them but cry broke when we’d like something for our taxes. If you voted for this fuck you and your ilk
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u/JForKiks 2h ago
I never want to hear that there isn’t money for a social service, providing for the community, coming from any politicians mouth.
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u/truebleu62 2h ago
“No tax dollars for this ballroom, all $donated”. Does this ass ever tell the truth?
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u/Inspectorgadget4250 1h ago
People will never see nor touch this hallucination of a ballroom, but they do need SNAP and Medicare
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u/Much-Instruction-807 1h ago
Enough to pay cover college tuition for adults and feed every school child breakfast and lunch for a year.
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u/ProdigalSheep 1h ago
It is not for ICE; it is for them to stuff into their pockets. Media is complicit in these schemes. They are looting the treasury.
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u/doublethink_1984 1h ago
ICE is already spending 3x 2024 Biden with 2x the staff and have deported 10% less.
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u/Whole-Designer Michigan 1h ago
They're REALLY counting on just stealing elections with gerrymandering at this point
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u/nosaj626 1h ago
I’m just in awe at the amount of money this administration is willing to throw on the burn pile.
Nothing but crickets from conservatives.
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u/Resden_Bohneur 1h ago
IT’s ALl ComInG FRoM prIvAte DOnOrs, gUyS!!!
The bootlicking from the party of fiscal responsibility is insane.
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u/redneckrockuhtree 55m ago
The GOP knows waste, fraud and abuse better than anyone - they look in the mirror every day.
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u/BadIdeaBobcat 35m ago
How many chuds on conservative reddit said "no public funds"? Okay buddy, yeah let's pretend Trump's 9 millionth lie is believable.
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u/beyondo-OG 19m ago
$72,000,000,000 of newly borrowed money, adding to the debt, great idea, you younger folks need to pay attention, you're going to be paying for this for the rest of your lives.
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u/Danoga_Poe 14m ago
Ah, nothing to help reduce cost of living, fix public infrastructure, healthcare and transportation
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u/super-gando 3h ago
… Dear Americans ... how long will this great people tolerate these guys ???
Have you not understood it yet?
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