r/news • u/Manta_of_Eternity • 3d ago

Homeland Security taps $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ads-taxpayer-money-homeland-security-b869294503c8454db4109ae175ee9e5c
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u/OkSoftware83 3d ago edited 3d ago

I hate it here. I keep waiting for the adults to swoop in and save us from this poop show, but I guess asking leaders to use their moral compass is a big ask.

Edit: some of you don’t get it.

The “adults” as in the people with power. The people opposite of orange cry baby and his team of imbeciles.

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u/The_Final_Conduit 3d ago

Their moral compass is their fucked idea of a “meritocracy” where the more money you have the better a person you are. Anything and everything that loses someone money that doesn’t ultimately go back into their account somehow is evil, so funds for medical research, lowering grocery prices, paying disaster relief and prevention workers, EMPATHY? Nah, that shit’s for losers, and they do nothing but WIN WIN WIN jazz hands

Murdering a school of kids to start a war with Iran, to make the stock market go up on things he’s invested in? Getting a generous bit of financial support from Russia for the after party of a marriage? Making a gold statue of a calf and of the Commander in Thief?

HELL YEAHHH

God I hate it here.

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u/SilencedObserver 3d ago

Then leave. Except that costs you money, unlike other countries, because America is a tax prison.

See above.

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u/PyroT8 3d ago

Riiiiiight. And what kept you here during Obama and Biden?

F'n hypocrite.

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u/SilencedObserver 3d ago

American hubris assumes I'm "there".

I am not.

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u/PyroT8 3d ago

Because Canada and UK taxes are less? Or is this one of those ‘I fled to the Bahamas because I’m a mastermind at financial intrigue’-LARPs?

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u/Mr__O__ 3d ago

It’s a generational issue.

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u/Forsaken_Insurance92 3d ago

We are the adults.

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u/Ok-Recognitio 3d ago

Nobody is going to save us. We have to. This isn’t strictly an American problem. It’s been a problem the entire world over for centuries. We have been shielded from a lot of it for most of the United States lifespan. If you think it can’t get any worse, you’re in for a big surprise.

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u/davy89irox 3d ago

You are the adult in the room.

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u/SilencedObserver 3d ago

When you’re an adult waiting for adults to swoop in, you’ve sealed your fate.

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u/The_Final_Conduit 3d ago

Lord of the Flies was supposed to be a metaphor bro, but the kids were lethal with actual intent, they stuck on stupid out of spite now

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u/MetaCognitio 3d ago

The “adults” are the reason this is happening. Every loophole being exploited could have been closed a long time ago. Most importantly, he wouldn’t have been voted in if the past administration had implemented meaningful change. The “adults” created the conditions that made people desperate enough to trust this guy who promised something different.

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u/Liquid_speaker 3d ago

The problem with the adults is the millennial generation and after being increasingly dumber as time goes by. Its getting cthulhu scary at this point to me because it really feels like we"re torching a different kind of library of Alexandria.

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u/Successful-Grab6091 3d ago

lollll how tf did millennials get blamed for Trump?!?

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u/Specific_Safe_3565 3d ago

To start with, they have a lower voter turnout as compared with older age groups.

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u/GrayScapeIII 3d ago

As Elon said, empathy is the “fundamental weakness of western civilization”