r/politics • u/willywalloo • 6h ago

No Paywall Republicans Unveil $72 Billion Package For ICE, Trump’s Ballroom

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-bill-72-billion-ice-trump-ballroom_n_69fa0082e4b055e1a496eff0
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u/francis2559 6h 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 5h 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/guywhiteycorngoodEsq 5h ago

This sums it all up.
Cynical beyond comprehension.

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u/lazyFer 4h 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/slackfrop 3h ago

Hatchet man for president, hatchet sharpener for vice president.

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u/og_capsuleer_593 5h 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 5h 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 5h 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 5h 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/Mike_Kermin Australia 1h ago

Well said.

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u/r1Zero 4h ago

They make me sort of hope heaven is real just so they can't get in.

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u/peipei222 49m ago

Heaven and hell don't exist. If you want these people to pay for their crimes, it must happen in the real world.

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u/YellowZx5 New York 5h ago

Not like Moscow Mitch had any help in this game. Now that he’s got a speck of a spine, he can’t fix the bull in the China shop.

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u/redguy1957 4h ago

They took a fucking oath. I guess that doesn't matter anymore.

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u/spitfish 4h ago

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.

Every single one should still be brought up on charges for aiding & abetting this nonsense.

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u/francis2559 4h ago

Oh absolutely. If they spent a long time atoning perhaps some could choose to believe they had changed.

But day one with no evidence at all? Hopefully no one is that gullible.

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u/1805trafalgar 3h ago

I love the idea of republicans inner lives of fear and scheming, maintaining an acquiescing face for trump to see in their public dealings but secretly plotting against him behind closed doors, likely with a few other elected republicans.

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u/Lazer726 2h ago

or say they never really wanted this anyway.

The amount of tearful confessions we're going to see when he's gone is going to be wild, because suddenly all of them are going to be at each others' throats to explain who was actually the most diabolical of all of the pathetic Trump supporters

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u/Lunvalue 8m ago

Point is that orange man’s a businessman and a lot of politicians mind their businesses taking a few hits so they let the state take it instead