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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • This quote is bothering me. I’ve been seeing it all over for the past few days, even before Bondi’s hearing, and I literally can’t find a single government official that said it. Let alone Pam Bondi.

    I know it’s not the first time it’s happened but it’s kind of wild that someone can just make something up and so many people just latch onto it and run with it without it even being a thing. There were so many other hilariously dumbass quotes from Bondi’s hearing to take but people choose a made up one instead.


  • Maybe in this instance but don’t get confused, Kirk has said many times MLK is a bad person and what he did was terrible. There’s tons more if you just go looking but just for starters he said:

    “MLK was awful. OK? He’s not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn’t believe. Go research MLK, you should go research him.”

    When asked if it was true that when he was younger, he used to describe MLK as a hero and a civil rights icon, he responded simply:

    “That’s true, and I used to be wrong.”

    Regarding the Civil Rights Act that MLK famously pushed so hard for:

    “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s.”

    Again this is just a bit. Go digging and you’ll find much much more.



  • Yes. BUT there are certain ways a government can help its citizens (and itself in most cases) by allowing them to be self sufficient that has nothing to do with electric companies or monopolies at all. The subsidies for solar panels were a great example of this. Depending on your personal needs, you could generate enough power to take yourself off the grid, and the government invested in your panels by way of those subsidies. In many cases the extra electricity from the panels that you don’t use can go back into a grid to be used by someone else. Theoretically helping you and the government. There are, of course some issues with the system but speaking from experience it can absolutely work and work wonderfully.

    Unfortunately Trump (of course) has killed these subsidies so that will not be a thing as of new years 2026.



  • I mean the entire doge “savings” were instantly wiped out by the $200 billion increase in military spending. And I say savings incredibly generously because there are a ton of studies that say the agencies and people they cut will leave a hole in federal capabilities that will end up costing the American people way more than all of the money they claim to have saved (Some speculate the massive cuts to the IRS alone will end up costing about $1 trillion in lost tax collections).

    But this combined with the cost of the shutdown and the farmer bailout and so much more is just icing on the cake I guess.



  • I feel like it’s incredibly important to note here that 4 days ago the US military, at the direct order of president trump, destroyed a Venezuelan civilian boat in international waters killing every one on board. The ENTIRE reason the trump administration claimed this move was legal (it isn’t in either courts of US law and the International Criminal Court) is because they claimed the boat was carrying members of Tren de Aragua which they recently officially announced as a terrorist organization.






  • I used to live in a town that did something very similar to this. It sorta worked but mostly did not. But as another commenter pointed out you need more than just homes. Obviously they help a ton but a lot of people need more help than just a roof over their head. Financially, medically, mentally, employment… It’s a bigger, more complicated problem.

    But it goes without saying that this is a step in the right direction and absolutely better than collectively shrugging our shoulders and walking away.