President 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 go...

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.”

  • 13igTyme@lemmy.world
    962·
    10 个月前

    I think the blue states should cut all the funding they provide for the government.

    • Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
      353·
      10 个月前

      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?

      • frezik@midwest.social
        262·
        10 个月前

        It’s too late for that. Everyone is finding the exit for the USD as the reserve currency. That loss of soft power alone is seismic.

          • frezik@midwest.social
            133·
            10 个月前

            Nope, it is. There is no reason anyone should trust the USD as a reserve currency. Even if Trump is impeached, Vance is impeached, and everyone down the line of succession is impeached until you get someone who isn’t MAGA, it’s still too late. It’d just be highlighting how unstable the US political system has become. Nobody wants to keep their reserve money in a system like that.

      • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
        291·
        10 个月前

        California secession / Calexit would be beautiful. That is how I know it would never happen, even as rest of the US collapses into Gilead.

          • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
            111·
            10 个月前

            Here is the CalExit website. We got 210,000+ signatures through there, probably a bit more through other means. Hopefully Californians would do the right thing and reach the petition’s requirement. California should R&D the possibility of secession sooner, rather than have many surprises if later forced into a crisis.

          • mhague@lemmy.world
            26·
            10 个月前

            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.

              • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
                3·
                10 个月前

                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.

            • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              10 个月前

              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.

      • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 个月前

        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.

    • Jesus@lemmy.world
      54·
      10 个月前

      All those red districts in blue states, get ready to get screwed. Trump ain’t helping you.

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 个月前

        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.

    • xyzzy@lemm.eeEnglish
      381·
      10 个月前

      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.

        • themadcodger@kbin.earth
          9·
          10 个月前

          We’re still your allies and friends! We’re devastated that it’s come to this. You guys are the best!

        • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
          6·
          10 个月前

          Michigan still loves you. This is like watching your drunk dad run out onto the little league field and start punching the refs and little kids.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
          3·
          10 个月前

          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

      • Feelfold@lemm.ee
        101·
        10 个月前

        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.

        • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
          8·
          10 个月前

          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.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 个月前

          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

      • atmorous@lemmy.world
        11·
        10 个月前

        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

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      101·
      10 个月前

      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.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      10 个月前

      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.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    56·
    10 个月前

    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?

  • Spiral75@lemmy.world
    46·
    10 个月前

    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?

  • atmorous@lemmy.world
    461·
    10 个月前

    Blue states cut off those wankers

    They’ve been stupid and malicious for too damn long. Let them eat their own shit

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    41·
    10 个月前

    You want Boston to throw another tea party? They’re game.

    No taxation without representation motherfucker.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      565·
      10 个月前

      No, they treat all Americans as All Americans. Which is apparently a fucking unbelievable concept.

      • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
        91·
        10 个月前

        Oh for sure. But it’s just so stupid that Republicans are going the “power grab” route since probably Democrats (might) be so inclined to do the same next time they have power.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    27·
    10 个月前

    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?”

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    10 个月前

    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.

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      10 个月前

      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.