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[โ€“] stickly@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's very strange timing to do this at a huge scale as the US economy is teetering and the dollar is spiraling. Bread and circuses is the playbook for a reason, their tax bill is going to hit like a brick wall for a lot of Americans. And instead of your pop-pop getting his Medicare check you're now seeing that spent on concentration camps in your back yard.

There's a limit to fear mongering and strong arming when it pushes against economic reality. No amount of crackdowns will help when bread costs $20/loaf, international money stops coming in, and the job market crashes all in less than a few years. It's one thing to manufacture a crisis but they might be burning the Reichstag a little too hot.

[โ€“] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The cuts don't come through until after the '26 elections. Fucking Republican cunts will point their short little pudgy fingers at Dems and say,"What did you do?" and idiot fucking voters (or even more idiot single issue non-voters) will grab it like a trout going after a fly.