Donald Trump argued that a GOP budget bill should help only Republican states instead of benefiting Democratic governors.
“We’re going to make a couple of tweaks,” Trump said of his “one big beautiful bill” during a Tuesday trip to Capitol Hill. “I mean, we don’t want to benefit Democrat governors, although I would do that if it made it better, but they don’t know what they’re doing.”
“We want to help all the states, but we have governors that are from the Democrat [sic] party, let’s say New York, Illinois, big ones, and let’s say Gavin ‘Newscum,’ who’s done a horrible job in California.”
Remind me which states pay all the fucking taxes again?
Remind me again why some states would want to remain in a union if they aren’t benefiting from the partnership
Just asking but what about Kansas that has 3/4 districts support the President and a Dem gov cause our most populated district is the blue one? Do we get the money? Half? Maybe we get the money but we go screw ourselves later?
As soon as tornado season is in full swing … you’ll know your answer
But they won’t know when the Tornados are coming because Trump gutted NOAA
Hey I only start civil wars in OTHER countries.
Sounds like something a CIA chatbot would say … hmmmmmm
The response to what happened in Tulsa was abject neglect; if it had happened in any other area of Oklahoma, it would have mattered. But Tulsa is Black and Blue.
Those of us in Missouri and Kentucky already know
External threats, namely Russia and China who worked hard to create this problem in the first place.
Can we just get to the Civil war part of this timeline already, I’m fucking tired man
The civil war has already started- and the “opposition” seems pretty content to spend the first stages allowing MAGA to set up the battlefields and terms of engagement to their liking.
It never ended. The side that thought it won just stopped fighting.
They didn’t only stop fighting- they tried to find a middle ground. Dipshits.
It’ll be super fucked if we do. If it’s left vs right you’ll have most of the major cities besieged by rural folk. If it’s state on state, Red and blue states both will have to “secure” vast swaths of their populations or suffer constant sabotage.
This isn’t as easily cut and dry, north vs south, as the US civil war was. Modern civil war would be a hell of destroyed cities and slaughtered or starving innocents. Just look at all current conflicts. You may be tired now, but it’s nothing compared to the reality of what USCWII would be.
If they try to secede this time, we should just let them fucking go.
I mean, let them go with crippled legs and salted earth, but yeah.
I mean… when they stop stealing taxes from the other states and realize how little they produce on their own and how few ports they have on their river ways… They can have a merry brexit all on their own.
They have said the next civil war we’ll be bloodless if the left allows it. And it seems the left doesn’t even know they are in a civil war.
He’s saying he wants to make that imbalanced dynamic worse than he did last time. It’s a comically nihilistic strategy - or at least, it would be, if I didn’t live in one of the bluest states in the damn country
Mine pays for a huge number of them. California.
We’re going to vote on whether we want to seriously pursue succeeding from the US in 2028. If this shit doesn’t stop, I imagine things will slowly fall apart in this country.
California recently (this year, I believe) became the fourth largest GDP in the world, previously the fifth.
2028 is a long way away.
I’m down for this.
What would it take for those states to stop collecting Federal income taxes?
A complete restructuring of our educational system at the moment. Right now there’s so many title one schools per state, which receives funding for additional educational assistance for students with low test scores. Money to hire in class para educators and teacher assistance, hell some of the schools in my state, even get money so that we can provide breakfast and lunch for kids who can’t afford it.
I don’t have hard concrete numbers right now, but the last time I checked Florida was receiving billions of dollars in student money that basically amounted to $2000 per kid in public schools 
Didn’t the DoE get axed? You still think that money is a sure thing?
Oh. Sorry. i misread. I thought he was asking what it would take for states to not “take” federal tax money from the Feds.
Mississippi and Arkansas.
The state that contributed the most taxes also elected Gavin Newsom and houses Elon Musk / Peter Thiel.
They are getting what they deserve.
Uh…
Muskovite’s primary residence is Boca Chica, Texas. (Much to my chagrin…) 🤷♂️
California voted to keep prison slavery in place. Our entire country is the sick man of the Americas.
It’s amusing to me that progressive talking points are the exact same as right wing ones.
Nope, I downvoted you both.
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Fair.
Paraphrasing a local comedian
“The left knows something’s wrong, the far right knows something’s wrong, the problem is that if you’re on the left and your talk to someone from the far right they’ll tell you “The elite are controlling us!” and yeah… “The government is hiding things from us!” and yeah again… “Vaccines cause autism!” and… Nope!”
“The United [sic] States.”
The Segregated States of Americans, nee United.
The Confederacy (took them awhile to get all their people in place since the 1800s)
I think the blue states should cut all the funding they provide for the government.
balkanization of the united states plays right into putin’s best interests. how about we just stack conservative bodies until this country stops being so fucking stupid?
Even just CA would absolutely make an impact.
California secession / Calexit would be beautiful. That is how I know it would never happen, even as rest of the US collapses into Gilead.
there is a petition. Sign it.
I love it. “Here’s a petition to betray the country. Any separatists come forward and put your name on this list.”
It will save sooooo much time.
(insert wendys meme here)
since you’re too dumb to notice, trump already betrayed the country.
trump already betrayed the country.
That means it’s time to separate the country from Trump.
Far past the time, actually, but it’s never a bad time to get started.
My guy, are you familiar with the Declaration of Independence?
Conservatives betrayed the country when they RE-ELECTED a felon rapist traitor to tank our economy, remove our rights, ignore our Constitution, and sow division amongst Americans.
Us blue states are just tired of giving our money to traitor fuck welfare queens.
The whole West Coast should secede, and form an alliance with Canada and Mexico. That would surround about 2/3 of the country with enemy territory, and cut America off from the entire west coast shipping lanes. They could charge America exorbitant tariffs to ship goods through the Rockies.
That would be hilarious. Also reminds me of the civil war.
That must be comforting to hear to republican citizens living in those blue states.
All those red districts in blue states, get ready to get screwed. Trump ain’t helping you.
Unless you’re in the top 1% of wealth, he isn’t helping you either.
Yesterday I drove into my home town, where I grew up. It’s been hard to go there since MAGA erupted. In a usually-blue state, my home town (and the surrounding area) goes deep red. I wish I could say it was inexplicable, but I grew up around these people - their current authoritarian boot-licking matches up with everything I always knew about them.
How wonderful this news could’ve been to hear on the TV 12 hours ago, when I was back in that town, sitting in a waiting room. There was only one other person in the room, a middle-aged white guy who kept loudly saying things in response to the news on the TV. I’m pretty sure he was just trying to chat with someone, but I know how easy it is to accidentally set some people off, and I’m not about to make small talk about the news with a stranger in that town.
So I ignored him. He kept making unsolicited commentary. I kept reading my phone. Thankfully, someone eventually entered the room with a dog, and that gave the man a chance to start a conversation about the good boi, which the dog’s owner happily obliged. But now I wonder what he would have said if this story had been on the news at that time. It might have actually been entertaining.
I live in an extremely blue city in an extremely red state so I’ll be sitting in the fabled catbird seat.
Time for articles of impeachment. Or secession.
Civil War 2: Revolution Boogaloo
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Believe me, many of us are down for that. Or the Pacific States of America. Or Cascadia and the Republic of California.
It’s the devastating war that would follow that we’re nervous about.
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The northeast still loves you. We’re sorry we invited that side of the family to the little league game and drunk red neck uncle is out there shouting gibberish and threatening everyone he sees
Could you maybe hurry up and annex Minnesota in retaliation?
Perty please?
Cascadia and the Republic of California
Dibs on the band name.
I imagining a mix of grunge and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Not sure how that would work, but I’m sure you’d find a way to rock it.
The devistating war is already on, and has been for generations. Maybe it’s a cold war from folks perspective, but I would contend that’s a matter of privilege.
Also where would California get water?
Repurpose the golf courses and stop growing stupid water hogging crops in the fucking desert. The city I live in is unusual for Cali in that it has plenty of water.
We’re already building desalinization plants along with more renewable energy than we need.
Same as now. The poverty-stricken inland will be desperate for the money and free to exploit their natural resources without regard to their future
Oi let’s get a Revolt app server up and running for each state and get people on it to work together to make that happen
Especially to work on all kinds of issues, discuss things, inform each other, collaborate, & show progress/milestones for all kinds of things
That’s what we’re all missing. A huge community for each state with ability to set it to specific cities/towns while still being informed about whole state. And have a server for whole country too
That way we don’t waste more time trying to reach out to people, or get people to do because we would all be in the same servers
California, Oregon, Washington. I think you should join Canada
And if we don’t want them?
Even the most left-ish states are still relatively right leaning by Canadian standards.
California, Oregon, Washington.
New independent country. We’ll call ourselves, “North Chile.”
Keep in mind, California has a higher population of Conservatives than the total population of these states: Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine, and New Hampshire.
Like, I’m all for it — a lot of trash lives here, though.
Let me sure I got this right. Your plan is to take states that don’t like you and teach them to be more independent of the federal government, is that correct?
Blue states cut off those wankers
They’ve been stupid and malicious for too damn long. Let them eat their own shit
I live in NC. We have a Dem governor, but the House and Senate are controlled by Republicans. The state has gone to Trump three times. What is his plan with that?
His plan, no matter what he says, is to fuck each and every one of us who isn’t already rich and preferably white.
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Dangle the money over the state and tell residents they can only have it if they remove the Governor.
Or the potus. Seems a much easier choice.
He’ll double down. Obvs.
You want Boston to throw another tea party? They’re game.
No taxation without representation motherfucker.
Divided States of America (DSA)
Untied states of America
United Scammers and Assholes
Note that there’s no claim of it helping any people or benefitting constituents, even his own. In this world of narcissism, there’s only “what’s in it for me?” And “how to spite anyone who disagrees with me?”
He’s a literal traitor.
Americans are just too stupid to see it in anything but hindsight.
Assuming the fascists don’t win and rewrite history, he will be considered a traitor in the history books.
He is objectively the most prolific traitor in American history, and it isn’t even close. He’s literally worse than ALL other American traitors COMBINED. It’s not even a debate.
I have been cursed with the foresight of this, sadly.
I don’t think he realizes this isn’t the gotcha he thinks. That means the poverty line between the states that already exists is going to get even worse, because they are taxing the lower income brackets even worse.
and we should have seceded and stopped paying fed taxes a long time ago.
at least im doing my part. I can cheat my ass off on my taxes and take payments under the table. they’ll be none the wiser. especially now that they’ve gut the IRS. If that hurts the blue state i live in, fine. like i said, we should have seceded already.
