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Tessie's avatar

"in case you were wondering, like the smart and very attractive Wonkette reader you are"

::blushes::

Why, SIR!

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Jacqueline Klein's avatar

In cities like NYC, logic says that kids who have nowhere to go, could turn to joining a gang. It’s how gangs recruit children to do their dirty work like selling drugs. When they have supervision like these programs offer, what else could they do? Most people can not afford to send their kids to summer camp in these days with the decimation of the middle class. When I was a kid of the middle class living in the Bronx the middle class had that option. Since my mother worked they shipped us off to camp every summer till the summer I graduated from HS. I loved it!! I learned things that most city kids will never learn. And like you stated, they will find a way to make sure MAGA heavy states will receive these funds. The republicans are now solely owned by the Mad King Donny. I guess he would prefer that kids in Democratic states were all shipped off to Alligator Alcatraz to be blown away by the next hurricane.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

A President's top priority is to see that the laws are faithfully executed. Someone who has other priorities is not a President.

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Lisa Joy πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ's avatar

Are you sure it isn’t because they have run out of money for this fiscal year for ICE?

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David Starr's avatar

I think this is horrible on its face. That said, I’m coming around to settle for that’s just what all those bubbas and their sweet spouses voted to get. They should stew in it.

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Notorious J.I.M.'s avatar

" our de facto poet laureate"

Weaving doesn't count.

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Eva Porter's avatar

Fuck every fucking idiot who voted for Trump, and those who didn’t vote at all. This shit is on you.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

I see Iran has already accomplished the "fat" part -- when comes the "wa"?

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Hannah's avatar

Just ugh.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

If it's illegal why dos it happen?

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tehbaddr's avatar

By cutting these he saved ~ 5 Billion, enough to cover ~ 1% of his hand out to billionaires and Gestapo Weaponization bill!

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

Should be almost enough to cover his golf trips for the rest of his term.

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tehbaddr's avatar

"like the smart and very attractive Wonkette reader you are"

I are also Smexy too!

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

Do we even want to have a functioning society?

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SethTriggs's avatar

This is important in sadopopulism, to destroy the "lazy takers." So it has a greater purpose..the cruelty helps make more people desperate and suffering.

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

The money will go into McMahons steak sauce slush fund.

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JunkYardDogg's avatar

Totalitarianism needs an uneducated, ignorant population to thrive. The first target of an authoritarian regime is the intelligentsia.

The Christo Fascists want all the money to go to Christie Nationalist Madrasas and close all public schools.

But, what do you expect when one political party refuses to use the terms β€œethnic cleansing” & Christian Nationalists.

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Mark Lungo's avatar

"Trump personally loathes people with disabilities, even in his own family." You could end that sentence after the fourth word.

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