Burnwinter they've literally paused federal reimbursements and even cut programs that subsidize infrastructure, energy, and basic necessities, mostly affecting poor working people, mostly white at that. This affects food banks, water, electricity, etc.

Water bills are dependent on federal grants for ongoing infrastructure developments. If the feds won't reimburse, bill goes up. Same for energy, food, etc. Food banks are stretched thin, and families already on the brink are being pushed over the edge.

I've sat by the hospital bed of a 5 year old who was near death from starvation in this fuckhole of a country, which relies on individuals to give up their own comforts to rescue a few from the pits of despair they are directly driven to by corporations and the governments that serve them.

DOGE is literally starving people. Killing people. JazzyGs sassy ideological excrement is an abortion of thought that deserves no response but utter disdain.

      The people cheering for DOGE are the ones who think the most unfair thing about society is that they happen to pay a bit too much tax.

      Coombs What? Seriously what the fuck does that even mean? What specific government policies made you such prick?

      It means we are talking about the current cuts by DOGE. You said 15m kids are going hungry because of them so I asked you which of their cuts are causing these kids to go hungry, were they not going hungry before the new administration came in? No need for the insults. I get it you don't like the current lot,

      No specific government policy made me a prick, reading some of the opinions on here has 😉

      Coombs JazzyGs sassy ideological excrement is an abortion of thought that deserves no response but utter disdain.

      Firstly my name is not JazzyG. Petty insults coming out now, insult me all you like if it makes you feel better.

          JazzG why would you be surprised? If you look into USAID's track record and don't celebrate their demise there's something wrong with you imo.

          Buffett is part of the problem, except he most likely understands how economies work and still chats shit to influence economic policy in his interest. Politicians across the West cause a LOT more damage in comparison by not spending enough rather than spending too much, and if it is the latter it's always because some harebrained dickhead just told them to pump 5% of their GDP into bombs.

              jones why would you be surprised? If you look into USAID's track record and don't celebrate their demise there's something wrong with you imo.

              I was being sarcastic, saw Mike Benz on Joe Rogan the other day talking about USAID and he had an interesting quote, if it was too dirty for the CIA they gave it to USAID! Remember years ago a Pakistani guy I know telling me about USAID and how it was a bit shady.

                  JazzG trump and vance showing their true colours lecturing Zelenskyy on sacrifice they have no idea of the meaning of the word and to stage it just to try to humiliate him is totally pathetic but just who they are.

                      Just beating up on the poor fool. Feel sorry for him.

                      Unfortunate times where we have these immature leaders all around.
                      Kinda not very hard to see trump’s point in the ensuing tweet he put out, if you ignore the dramatic nature of this crazy shouting match.

                      Coombs No disrespect, and I mean it when I say that, but coming from a third world country, I’m a little curious and doubtful about your definition of starvation.

                      For the record, whatever the merits or demerits of DOGE, I think it’s utterly wrong and shows the complete and deep disconnect between the working man and the current Musk administration at how these particular policies and cuts are being carried out. Any idiot on the street could run things this way. The point of a govt and civilized society is to bring about changes without affecting or at least giving a soft landing to the people that’ll be affected by them changes.

                          JazzG I've never seen anything like it. de Gaulle's had the last laugh.

                            RowJimmy yeah no. polling shows that only 30-35% of US adults agree with musks current position in government. basically the rusted-on maga hardliners only. they can hide behind the waste/fraud propaganda as much as they want, but the way they're doing it does not have popular support outside of maga world, and that public opinion will keep doing down.

                                JazzG I'm sure this clown said plenty of 'interesting' things

                                https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna119213

                                “If I, a Jew, a member of the Tribe, Hebrew Schooled, can read Mein Kampf & think ‘holy shit, Hitler actually had some decent points.’ Then NO ONE is safe from hating you once they find out who is behind the White genocide happening all over the world,” he wrote in another post.

                                the state of the sources and accounts you cite is consistently horrible

                                    wingnuts like this guy sitting in on meetings as high stakes as this sums up the trump admin.

                                    Zelenky has gotten way too comfortable lecturing world leaders. It was stupid to think that same strategy was going to help him with Trump and Vance.

                                      "Have you said thank you once in this entire meeting?"

                                      Vance is an extraordinary animal.

                                      This US administration is pathological. Makes me think civil war could actually happen.

                                        Coombs Sorry by the way. I shouldn't have framed that the way I did. The speed and brutality with which Trump has been able to do certain things through the Presidency is alarming and unfamiliar.