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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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 10 points 5 hours 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 6 points 6 hours 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.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

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

-- magamushbrainz

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago

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

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

[-] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 32 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 25 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 3 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago

"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 7 hours ago

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 7 points 7 hours ago

Nah, that was covered:

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

[-] nocturne@slrpnk.net 25 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 14 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] Quokka@quokk.au 18 points 9 hours ago
[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 6 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 13 points 9 hours ago

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

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