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Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 1h

It’s not all literally bad things if you really enjoy seeing racial minorities and people you disagree with constantly being brutalized by the state. They are willing to tolerate a lot of bad outcomes in the economy etc as long as they get to feel like they are a part of mass racism

Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 7h

It’s almost as if absolutely nothing they ever say or do is in good faith and/ or based on any principle other than political expediency

Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 7h

Pubs have made it pretty clear that indulging their racism is more important to them than having a healthy economy

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Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 8h

But Bill Cassidy promised this wouldn’t happen

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Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 14h

He is so fucking stupid

Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 15h

So if ICE physically harms my family during a kavanaugh stop we can’t get medical help until we prove we have state authorization to receive basic emergency care?

Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 15h

Are these alleged thought crimes being committed by the nonexistent organization or some other sort of crime?

Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah exactly. That’s part of my point and what I find most alarming.. they’re testing the waters and escalating in a systematic way, or so it seems to me

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Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 16h

He found someone willing to fork over $1 trillion Argentine pesos at a later date if we hand over a few dozen billion USD to them

Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 16h

Yes but Tennessee is a very red state rather than a swing state. The backlash to this sort of thing could turn the tide in a swing state which is why I assume Trump isn’t unleashing the national guard /ICE hydra into places like Atlanta or Detroit or Philly or Phoenix

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Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 16h

That’s probably part of it, but it’s also testing the waters of force and authoritarianism in a politically safe way.. which is why it’s also happening in a place like Memphis

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Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like it’s not being talked about enough, but they aren’t doing this in swing states. They want to punish Dem cities but know that this stuff pisses people off if it’s too close to home

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Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 17h

After all this talk about Christians being persecuted in the US it’s wild that a priest being literally shot in the head with a tear gas canister suddenly is all good if said priest is protesting the pussy grabber’s administration

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Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 17h

The problem isn’t quantity. The problem is we have a 20% tariff for soy exports to China thanks to the trade war while Argentina has suspended their export taxes. Our biggest soybean export market has literally disappeared and has been entirely ceded to Argentina and Brazil. All because Trump

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Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 17h

And he’s bailing them out while they’re aggressively going after our soybean export market with China. It’s unbelievable

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Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 17h

South America First

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Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 17h

It’s like the geopolitical version of the Seinfeld car rental reservation bit

Funk Dr @funkdr.bsky.social · 22h

I just called Todd Young’s office to ask about the tariffs and Argentine bailout and how they have completely destroyed our biggest export market (to China) and his office said they have no stated position.

Indiana is the third biggest soybean exporting state in the country