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  When I clicked on this I didn't realize it was Math and I thought it was M *e* t h.
  Which to be fair he is from Bakersfield...
context: Math, science, history, spelling . . . they are all the common adversaries of the Republican Party. >
  
  Reading is definitely one of the biggest obstacles. >
  
  Case in point, Minnesota's THC edible snafu >
  
  Holy shit I forgot about that. >
  
  So did I, but I live in Minnesota, so it's for entirely different reasons. >
  
  You lucky bastard. >
  
  The goal of the Republican Party is to destroy the United States. >
  
  Always had been. Hence the States Rights motto >
  
  Except when they have power at federal level, then it's time for big government to be their cudgel. >
  
  
  Shifting over to discretionary spending, over half of the fiscal year 2023 omnibus package was dedicated to defense spending: $858 billion. In his backroom deal to gain the speaker’s gavel, McCarthy reportedly agreed to cap discretionary spending at the previous year’s levels, which would mean rolling back the defense budget to around $780 billion. He defended that potentiality on Sunday, telling Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that there was room to cut inside the Pentagon’s budget, especially “money spent on ‘wokeism.’” But that idea hasn’t sat well with other House Republicans, many of whom insist that nondefense spending bear the brunt of any cuts.
  
  lol. Kevin is ridiculous >
  
  So this fool thinks he can find close to $80 billion dollars of DoD "woke" programs to cut? I bet he can't even define "wokeism" in any sort of objective way. >
  
  Woke-ism is just a label to attach to things their propaganda networks tell them to hate. Woke is society changing and old men tying lemons to their belt, as was the custom at the time, rather than just leaving folk to love whom they want and live how they want >
  
  Reality tends to be the biggest enemy of any republican. >
  
  I am sure the military will save a fortune by doing away with the training that tries to teach soldiers to not rape women and to not be racist assholes.  Rapes and murders always improve moral for those committing them. >
  
  Just ask the Russian military. >
  
  Basic math is too woke for republicans. >
  
  Did you know it’s full of Arabic numbers? What’s wrong with American numbers, huh? This is indoctrination and we shouldn’t stand for it! >
  
  Wait until you learn who invented the number zero! >
  
  The GOP wants to gut medicare, Social Security, SNAP, and any and all safety nets. They want to play chicken with global financial colllapse.
  What is absolutely insane to me is, even if the GOP gets the spending cuts they want, and ultimately raises the debt ceiling after getting their way, it just tells every country in the world that trades in the US dollar, (where the dollar gets its actual value) that we are an insecure investment.
  Either way what the GOP are doing is bad for the American economy, and bad for the global economy.
  Your dollar only has value because it is the currency of global commodity trade. Because it is the currency of global commodity trade, the treasury is able to print more, and borrow more, because the world trusts that we are good for it and will pay our debt and invest in their countries. That trust is all that is there holding the dollar value up.
  Just like with a cryptocurrency, the dollar has value because people trade in the dollar.
  If the GOP keeps playing chicken like this and keeps threatening to blow up the piggy bank, eventually the other kids in the world aren't going to want to play anymore, and seek reserves in China, which ironically goes against the GOP's OWN foreign policy goals.
  I can't understand the GOP being so hard up to destroy Social Security and Medicare, )admittedly a huge historical wishlist goal for them) when that is the very thing that has allowed American businesses to gut pensions and their Healthcare costs for employees that they have to pay themselves. 
  You get rid of that safety net, and employers are going to have to pay more, and have less growth. Never forget, Social Security and Medicare is your money, that they want to pick out of your pocket. Every day you go to work, you pay in. For people that say taxation is theft, they sure want to take the money that you gave out of your check.
  I'm actually not surprised at this point that the GOP lined up behind Donald Trump as a " successful businessman," /FFS If this constant game of chicken and throwing a tantrum is their strategy, it makes all the sense in the world.
  Cutting yourself off from the global community and saying "I don't want to play anymore" hasn't worked for the Brits with brexit, and it surely won't work for the United States. If we go down everybody goes down.
  If their goal is just more pain for Americans, you're basically getting what you wish, voting for sociopaths who aren't even aware of Their Own mental illness, and will be there with egg on their own face when it all blows up and hurts them too. >
  
  The cuts are based on the swimming pool closure reasoning of the 50s/60s. Better to do without than share with others - especially if it hurts ‘others’ more.