Sen. Josh Hawley wants to exclude ‘Biden voters’ from $600 Trump tariff rebate checks
Sen. Josh Hawley wants to exclude ‘Biden voters’ from $600 Trump tariff rebate checks
Hey quick question: how do you know who I voted for?
Doesn't matter, they'll just go by electoral votes or something
Remember DOGE? Remember all of the databases they got access to without any actual clearance? It’s probably somewhere there. Especially if Trump’s allusion to the voting machines being provoked in his favor by his pet Muskrat are true.
He wants to exclude Biden voters from the $600 Trump tariff rebate checks?! The ones Trump got for us?
The same Trump that was best friends with Jeffery Epstein up until his suspicious suicide? You know, that known pedophile that Trump said "liked them young?" Remember when Trump wrote him a weird birthday card? That was odd for a president to do that. Trump did say he liked to grab women by the pussy. That was weird too.
Wait what were we talking about again? Oh yeah the $600 "sorry we dismantled your somewhat functioning government" check I probably won't get. Cool.
So they're taking the money from the American people and then "generously" giving them back a portion of it and they say only to people who might financially need it. Almost like they're taxing people and redistributing income to those in need. If it wasn't for the hefty piece they're taking off the top and the blatant buying of votes, it almost sounds like Socialism!!
Republicans have always been the biggest recipients of welfare.
Also you have to pay taxes on the $600.
I’d like to exclude Trump voters from all future elections. They’re clearly too stupid to handle the responsibility.
Unfortunately they were smart enough to go vote.
Smart? Probably not, but motivated by fear, hatred, and ignorance? Most definitely. Of course, if the specter of a second term didn’t motivate you to vote, then that is not too smart either.
This headline is a bit alarmist.
“I mean, you know, the rich people don’t need it … what I mean by that is all those Democrat donors of Wall Street, all these hedge fund guys, who all hate the tariffs, by the way.”
So he is basically just implying everyone who is poor voted Trump, and everyone rich voted Biden. It's basically a neutered version of class consciousness with a tribal mindset. Which is exactly the type of class consciousness I would expect Hawley to want his constituents to have. He's still being disingenuous, but he's not (as of right now) suggesting that we keep voter records to punish people for wrongthink.
Meanwhile, Trump Admin requested the voter records for San Francisco county. Now I wonder why he would want that? 🤔
It's cute that he thinks that Wall St hedge fund guys are Democrats
Oh no not $600 whatever will I do without reaping the paltry benefits of our environment, due process, democracy, national parks, worldwide alliances, hope for any future other than an oligarchic dystopia, and soon, I’m sure, my ability to ever retire being destroyed by an orange rapist? Gee, that $600 sure would make all that feel way better!
I love that there are two parties, one that represents all of America, and one that represents half of America, and the half side keeps getting elected? Do you want ants, America? Because that's how you get ants
I love that you think either one of them represents all of America.
You are right, neither of them do. At least one isn't trying to cut the throats of half the country though. Nice rebuttal! One is willing to put aside differences and find middle ground, the other wants to throw anyone who disagrees in a deep dark prison so they never see the light of day. Totally both sides though, ammirite?
To be honest, I'm just looking forward to the massive tax savings and ridiculously lowered tax bill I'm one billion percent sure is going to materialize in 2026 from all the DOGE savings we've attained. Totally holding my breath on that one. Do cremated remains even pay taxes? Who the fuck am I kidding, this is the USA, of course they do.
How about you and I team up and throw a party, the size of which directly scales with the savings we experience this year? Of course, any tax savings must first be offset by cost of living increases. Can one throw a party of negative size?
Can one throw a party of negative size?
That's called a revolution.
I think thats just called crying alone in your room
oh boy, 600 whole dollars. Woohoo. That'll cover like 3 months of price increases due to the tariffs.
my rent is 1600$ for 900 sq ft lmao
Doesn’t that cover healthcare for the millions of people losing Medicaid and ACA plans?
It covers 45 seconds of healthcare for them.
Gonna need that in number of eggs
After reading through the article, this is a misleading title. It sounds like he's trying to say that Biden voters are all wealthy people that wouldn't need this:
Well, you wouldn’t give it to everybody, you’d give it to the working people,” the Missouri Republican told far-right podcaster and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon on Tuesday. “You’d give it to our people.”
“I mean, you know, the rich people don’t need it … what I mean by that is all those Democrat donors of Wall Street, all these hedge fund guys, who all hate the tariffs, by the way."
Gotta love clarification that makes a position more reasonable inside the clown-world fantasy the individual lives in but, in turn, also reveals just how more exaggeratingly stupid they actually are.
The rich people don’t need it .
He means millionaires like him?
Wait... they're doing rebate checks? I thought these tariffs were supposed to magically cover the overwhelming budget deficits? And how exactly will they do that when it's being distributed as free money?
Literally trying to bribe their terrible ideas into being popular, while blowing the deficit out even further. 600$ will finally convince Americans their economy is doing well and isn't barrelling towards utter catastrophe at mach speeds. Astounding work.
That sounds awful socialist to me.
Well, that certainly seems fair. After all, even though I'm a Leftist and I detest the majority of Dems, I still voted for Kamala against Trump and that makes me a traitor.
It's cool. I don't need to be bribed to vote.
Also don't need a placebo incentive to make fucking over our partners and allies seem ok.
All this ignores the fact that everything has gotten more expensive under this chucklefuck kiddy rapist 'n chief that 600$ ain't gonna do fuck all but piss me off even more!
Now that's how you do a cognitive dissonance!
Also, Sen. Josh Hawley should be excluded from terrestrial oxygen.
It's only $600 per person? One time right
There are so many things wrong with every single Hawley quote in this article, it’s like he’s pioneering a new subgenre of intellectual failure. He’s not just wrong on the facts, or the descriptions, or the correlations; he’s blending all of it into a dense, swirling vortex of confident nonsense, that’s somehow more structurally unsound than the sum of its parts. And I’m about 78% sure he knows exactly what he’s doing. I just can’t decide whether that’s impressive, or evidence of some latent morlockian genetic ability to produce lies so elaborate and self-assured, that they short-circuit your instinct to question them.
It sounds like what an LLM does. Maybe AI can replace him
I would take a hamster with a Yes / No button over Hawley
Shit like this is a good way to get a dude in a uniform knocking at your door.
So you don’t want to boost the economy and businesses?
Conservatism is entirely "in-group to protect, out-group to hurt". So, so. They don't. They are worse then toddlers.
America - the land of "people should be punished for voting the 'wrong' way."
It's amazing that all it took was a few months of Trump in office for Republicans to stop even bothering to pretend to be anything other than overtly and explicitly anti-American - to out themselves as deliberate and even enthusiastic enemies of every single thing that ever made America great..
I’m totally fine with this. Assuming there is going to be another election, and a democrat wins, I think social security should only be for people who support socialism. Those “backbones of our country” trump voters can go get jobs or die.
There won't be
Obligatory
Conservatism is, at its root, monarchist. The original writers and thinkers were focused on preserving authoritarian rule, then upon how to build and maintain hierarchies of society where people rule over others.
They've never been interested in democratic ideals unless it suits them to reinstate a dictatorship.
It must be such a radically different mindset to live in. Like, I can’t imagine ever feeling enthusiastic about enforced hierarchies and monarchy.
Social mobility feels the most liberating, and social constraints the most confining. How can anyone feel differently? I genuinely do not understand.
Weren’t we supposed to be in suppprt of free markets? Aren’t those supposed to empower people to make deals with other people on their own terms, create value, compete, and prosper? Enforced hierarchy and oligarchy feels like not at all that.
It must be control-freakery which, again, I cannot relate to at all.