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.”

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    I’m just so fucking pissed that Trump keeps pulling his fucking punches. He’s made so many missteps only to walk them back at the last minute. Still fucking horrible, still hurting people, but avoiding the vast majority of the actual impact and lethality of his decisions.

    Tariffs being example A, B, C and D.

    I do NOT want prices to skyrocket, I do not want people to suffer, I do not want a fucking civil war. But holy shit. You can’t play stupid chicken as the president and continuously get away with saying “oops” sorry someone else ruined the sick flip I was going to do over and over.

    If he’d been forced to commit, he’d likely already be dead or out of office.

    I’m so fucking exhausted.

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      Walking back the tariffs was always part of the plan. The whole thing is the biggest market manipulation fraud in history. He puts the tariffs on for a few days, the market tanks, them he postpones the tariffs, and the market bounces back.

      He’s only been in about 3 months, and he’s already done it 3 or 4 times. It’s all a scam, everything with these mobsters is a scam.

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      I’m so fucking exhausted.

      You and me both. 🫂

      You can’t play stupid chicken as the president and continuously get away with saying “oops” sorry someone else ruined the sick flip I was going to do over and over.

      If you are Trump, for reasons I still cannot fully fathom and which have seriously damaged my view of humanity in general, you can, it seems.

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      No, he hasn’t really held back. The worst damage has its effects delayed, but will become apparent within two years: The elimination of food and drug standards, the death of NOAA’s weather services, the destruction of our scientific institutions, cutting of federal workers of every category.

      Our society has been hollowed into a house of cards, and will only require a breeze for everything to fall apart.