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Celerity

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3. They do it because they not only get away with it, but they are rewarded by the Rethug/MAGAt base

Reply to Chin music (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 26, 2020, 01:00 AM

Dec 2020

who love to see people hurt and hammered into oblivion (triple points if it is people of colour getting fucked over). Only way to stop it is to vote them out. Trump has so openly empowered huge swathes of the RW electorate to see government at all levels as a punitive 'white nationalist/war on the poor/smash the (utterly imaginary) 'commies' ' tool (the old 'he isn't hurting the people he needs to be hurting' meme) that it makes it twice as hard.

Trump voter: 'He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting'

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting-msna1181316

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PA misses deadline to spend $108M in rent, mortgage relief from CARES Act (it goes to prisons now) [View all] Celerity Dec 2020 OP

Once again - the Republicans... oh never mind. You know the rest. Marie Marie Dec 2020 #1

This is a fuckup that we own too Amishman Dec 2020 #11

You are right but this is the paragraph that caught my eye: Marie Marie Dec 2020 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Dec 2020 #2

They do it because they not only get away with it, but they are rewarded by the Rethug/MAGAt base Celerity Dec 2020 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Dec 2020 #5

The Rethugs control both the PA House and the PA Senate with clear majorities. Celerity Dec 2020 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Dec 2020 #8

Another example of why direct payments are better MoonlitKnight Dec 2020 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Dec 2020 #6

Conveniently going to prisons, probably their privately owned ones. TheBlackAdder Dec 2020 #9

How Republican party is that, to take from the poor, and give to the jailers? Roisin Ni Fiachra Dec 2020 #10

Contacted my Republican state rep about a related DeminPennswoods Dec 2020 #13