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Michael Tae 🎃Spooky🎃
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"deny blue states disaster relief because we refuse to vote for fascists" has been a mainstream Republican position since before Trump, when Republicans tried to block Hurricane Sandy aid. You probably didn't hear about it because the media likes Republicans and wants them to win elections.

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boblamirande.bsky.social

He will also withhold federal funding to NY unless they overturn his convictions and financial penalties.

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JPjeremypeppas.bsky.social

There’s more Republican there than in any other state and most of them, the ones not directly impacted, would agree that California shouldn’t get federal help for “those people.”

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Phenkepotamus.bsky.social

Amazing how it's always "Money for blue states is communism, but money for red states is patriotism that puts America first." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

MSNBC article from Sept. 30, 2022: Over the past decade or so, an unsettling number of Republicans have voted against federal disaster aid packages, only to adopt an entirely different position when it’s their constituents who need a hand. In fact, the club features some high-profile GOP figures, including Sens. Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton and Rand Paul.

That same club now has a new member. The New York Times reported:

    As a freshman congressman in 2013, Ron DeSantis was unambiguous: A federal bailout for the New York region after Hurricane Sandy was an irresponsible boondoggle, a symbol of the “put it on the credit card mentality” he had come to Washington to oppose. “I sympathize with the victims,” he said. But his answer was no.

As the Times’ report noted, the far-right Floridian is now offering the public “tonal whiplash,” insisting that the kind of disaster aid he used to vote against is the same kind of disaster aid the people of Florida now need.
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I remember it well! Tea Party decisions brought us here for the most part!

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Jjefffreyspies.bsky.social

Living in NJ I absolutely heard about it

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Ppophouse.bsky.social

the wildest part of that position is that, without political consequence, the people trump would be hurting by withholding aid in california is the millions of far right trump lovers in the rural wooded areas

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MTmtsw.bsky.social

people who study these sorts of scenarios mathematically would say Democrats can either respond tit-for-tat to non-cooperating republicans or else they can just live with blue states having our money stolen. bsky.app/profile/henk...

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neuroid99.bsky.social

Yes, but do you even consider the positive effect of tax cut's on our true and rightful masters' bank account balances?

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Cchrisbyc.bsky.social

This is who is and who he's always been. AND will always be. Selfish, self-centered, a dick, and just plain nasty.

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Michael Tae 🎃Spooky🎃
@mtsw.bsky.social
I cut film and tv @mtsw on Twitter and mastodon.social
22.7k followers1.8k following21.3k posts