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MadameButterfly

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15. iCE for deporting hard working law-abiding immigrants
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 02:47 AM
Jul 20

and building detentions centers to keep them in, here and abroad
plus:
Tax cuts for the wealthy
A Cryptocurrency reserve that is guaranteed to lose most of it's value over time
Trump's legal defense and lawsuits
Deploying the military on it's own citizens
Paying farmers for their losses from tarriffs, cutting SNAP, and ending USAID
Trump jetting back and forth between DC and Mara Lago and putting up the Secret Service at luxury hotel rates
Bombing Iran, Panama, and Greenland
Cover loss in tax revenue from:
--cutting the IRS
---dwindling foreign travellers
---tarrifs
---loss of immigrant labor resulting in food scarcity, reduction in housing, people staying home to take care of elderly
---more job loss from closing of universities, fired federal workers, end of Department of Education and other agencies
---explosion of homeless people
---closings of hospitals and nursing homes from Medicaid cuts
---more people staying home to care for sick and eldery or just too sick to go to work themselves
---more people dying

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And we're allowing this... dlilafae Jul 19 #1
"We" are not allowing this. Many of us are working many hours a week in the resistance. Amaryllis Jul 19 #5
Isn't that the fucking truth ZDU Jul 19 #2
K & R for Jess Piper. She's great. Substack link here: chia Jul 19 #3
I remember people bemoaning Greece as austerity Farmer-Rick Jul 19 #4
I've been saying this about our paying taxes for months kkmarie Jul 19 #6
My guess is military or building structures and roads near the Nazi's new commercial "endeavors". efhmc Jul 19 #8
Pete Hegseth's makeup studio and Kristi Noem's cosplaying yliza Jul 19 #10
To service the debt intrepidity Jul 20 #14
iCE for deporting hard working law-abiding immigrants MadameButterfly Jul 20 #15
Yet megachurches and their multimillion dollar con artists Ruby the Liberal Jul 19 #7
Probably because most of those items... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 19 #9
yeah but if you believe in that, Federal taxes should go down MadameButterfly Jul 20 #16
Yep. We're just straight-up funding the end of democracy at this point. And little to nothing else. Karasu Jul 19 #11
Pretty much what i enumerated in #15 MadameButterfly Jul 20 #17
My kids have started asking me this. AllyCat Jul 19 #12
Someone suggested to me that with half the IRS cut MadameButterfly Jul 20 #18
I've reminded them the cuts at IRS were to help the rich AllyCat Jul 20 #20
330 million vs. 1 dickhead rickyhall Jul 19 #13
Really unfathomable how we can't overcome MadameButterfly Jul 20 #19
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