Well, you are the government
Well, you are the government
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Well, you are the government
When someone tells you who they are, listen.
Interesting how these types of people seem to have a set of phrases with their own fixed meanings that don't necessarily correspond to the literal meanings of the words that make them up. "Can't trust the government" in this context really means "can't trust liberals/progressives". You can see that in her response if you watch the video. She's not stumped when the reporter points out the apparent contradiction. She expect everyone to make the same mental substitution, under which there is no contradiction.
Another good example is a 5 minute youtube video about homelessness from a fake university with an orange logo. They cite an example of a bridge between Los Angeles and Culver City that has a major homeless encampment on one side, but not the other, due to different laws in the two cities. To quote directly:
the Los Angeles side is full of tents and the Culver City side is empty. Why? Because the two cities have different public policies. Los Angeles has effectively decriminalized public camping and drug consumption while Culver City enforces the law.
If Los Angeles has no law against homelessness, then what law is it supposedly failing to enforce? This seems like a contradiction, until you realize that "Culver City enforces the law" has nothing to do with actual laws, but with the "law" of the moral framework that the authors are trying to propagandize.
Literal, actual retards are running the show now.
Placed there by literal, actual retarded Americans.
Wild that our country became so pathetic.
And she's the secretary for homeland security of all things now?...
“less than useless”
Hey, that's the same type of language my mother use against me, a human being...
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They aren't good people.
he didn't trust herself
They need to stop hitting themselves in the face with the ugly stick. Holy shit.
Is there a name for this phenomenon for when people start to look inbred due to having all of the terrible plastic surgery? It's like the Habsburg jaw but within a single generation because the deformity wasn't a product of breeding.
Laminated face ~ Bill Burr
We can't trust the government now. We couldn't trust it before either, but we also can't trust it now.
The sad thing is, there actually used to be some areas in which you could trust the government. You could trust the CDC for health information, the FDIC with your money, the FDA for food regulations, the USPS to deliver your mail..
Nowadays, everything good about government will be getting axed and everything bad amplified. But what can you do~
But what can you do
If there's a Covid-25, I wouldn't recommend getting a vaccine from this government. Not without a consensus approval from blue state governments.
I would wait for Canada or an EU approved vaccine.
Will they require travels to be vaccinated to travel if they're explicitly traveling there to be vaccinated?
What with how Trump is pulling out of WHO and deregulating the chicken industry, if the avian flu becomes transmissible to humans, it will make COVID-19 look like childsplay. At which point things may get so dire vaccine hesitancy is likely to get you killed, and I'd probably recommend a quick plane trip to Canada to get vaccinated, if that's even still an option..
I'd be surprised if they offered any vaccine.
I used to not trust the government.
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I still do not trust the government, but I used to, too.
You especially can't trust it now.
We can trust that they will do the absolute worst thing instead of not knowing if they will or won't!
Very true.
Is it just me or does anyone else have to fight the urge to be horribly misogynistic to these Trump worshippers? I always fall back to my gender-neutral profanity (such as "Trump's shit-guzzler") but I just feel a deep rooted desire to be as maximally offensive to and about MAGA cultists and enablers as humanly possible. I know it's lazy but I mean if anyone deserves to be insulted in the most extreme way possible it's these creatures.
They're literal traitors to the United States of America that are attempting to dismantle its government, causing unimaginable suffering.
They deserve a lot more than being called mean names.
It's fine, you can call her a cunt
Nah, she lacks the depth and warmth.
Call her a Nazi.
Don't let them bring you down to their level. There's so many fun gender neutral insults.
I mean really, there's just so many.
or better yet, Shakespeare Insult Generator! https://www.librarieshawaii.org/learn/brain-games/bardly-barbs/
That doesn't sound too strange. Sometimes I want to use "ft" as an insult, but I don't, because that would be homophobic and I'm not homophobic
I accidentally used cock sucker as an insult but I meant it in the billionaire-cock sucker, not the way it used to be used. There's nothing wrong with sucking dicks, but if you suck the dicks of billionaires then you're a problem. Still I recognize how it could have been taken and felt badly.
If you must give up your values then you might as well give them up in exchange for something in return. In this case you get nothing in return which is why I too recommend using gender-neutral insults.
They want you to lower yourself to their level. Wrestling pigs just gets you muddy. Please call them out though, it is important work.
You’re not going to be able to put them in their place better than they do for themselves already. Save the effort IMO.
Although, that being said… I have no issues with any kinda of verbal antagonism towards fascists. If a woman is a nazi, and we’re all saying it’s ok to punch nazis; is it ok to punch a nazi woman? I say yes.
Actually, no, and I'm an arsehole. I guess I learned something about myself today.
Video of the exchange:
Holy shit, I wasn’t expecting it to be word for word the same. Wow…
Points for honesty… I guess?
To be fair, it was like 2 overlapping conversations interrupting each other.
Still, though, she can go fuck off.
"We'll be continuing to talk to him about what he has access to"
Thats what you do before you give them access. Who is she and what is her position of authority? Something tells me i dont want to know.
Wow CNN "journalists" really can't interview worth a damn.
In equally current news, that Back to the Future sequel looks very promising!
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It’s Bluesky, not x
you can actually never trust the government
Libs see absolutely nothing wrong with the war on drugs and prison slavery. Thus California super happy to vote to keep their prison slaves. Progressive my ass.
Oh those cops that abused and maimed protestors during the george floydd protests? The ones that aren't legally required to protect you? They will be in charge of your safety and security. Please turn in your guns, ignore January 6th 2021. Don't worry, we passed a bill to require them to wear a rainbow BLM sticker over their body cams.
it doesn't matter if they're nazis, commies, or whatever, the governments job is to exploit the people in order to stay alive
When someone in your Government is a bimbo girl, then you know you are fucked up
I submit that president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is a male bimbo, and we should BE so lucky to be led by such a saint in comparison to real life.
Bimbos are cool and they are fine in positions of power. She is a fascist though, you could have just used that instead of using weird misogynistic stereotypes.
How is the bimbo any more dangerous than a nepo baby?
It seems when some rich white crotch fruit gets the job, that's right and proper... They are "competent" but if a hot chick or a black dude get the gig, automatically "we are so fucked"
Bootlicker culture is very strong in USia
women 😤
Congratulations, you just showed everyone you're a shitty person. Now everyone knows to not take anything you say seriously.
Anyone can look however they like no matter their position in society. What matters is their views and how they handle that position. Doesn't matter if it's a bimbo or whatever else, that shouldn't be something of concern at all. This one just happens to be a really shitty person, which is fully expected from who chose her, and that's what matters.
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A government large enough to supply all your needs is a government powerful enough to take everything from you.
What's the size of a government that supplies precisely zero of my needs yet is still powerfull enough to take everything?
The current one
This government doesn't provide for people's needs and is still powerful enough to take everything from us.
The real problem is if it's not powerful enough to maintain a top position on violence then I'll end up paying a second set of taxes to the local sheriff and his posse of Ranchers.
We need to ensure power is used responsibly. Not just get rid of it and hope nobody comes along to fill the vacuum. (Spoiler Alert, they will, and there won't be voting)
So glad government mass surveillance has stopped all crime!
Not sure what you’re trying to say here. I’m against mass surveillance! I’m against big powerful government in general. All the fear people had with the Republicans coming to power would not have happened if there was no power for them to come to in the first place.
As for crime, that’s the job of a small, local, effective, community police force to deal with. Not a militarized thug squad that we have now!
Good job sounding profound while spewing absolute bullshit.
I’m sure a social safety net propped up entirely by bureaucrats is going to suddenly deprive every one of their rights. It won’t be a government with mass surveillance and militarized police. Nope, those are definitely not two different things. Big government is big government regardless of form apparently.
I’m not against safety nets. I’m against bureaucracies and mass data collection. A social safety that features mass surveillance (means testing) is another tool for social control. A simple safety net via a negative income tax doesn’t leave any cookies in the jar for Musk and his goons to plunder.
Good fences make good neighbours. The government I trust most is the one with the least power to hurt me. When you vote for a new bureaucracy with broad powers over people’s lives you’re setting a time bomb that’s waiting to explode the moment the bad guy wins an election.
Never forget that it was the power of the bureaucracy that allowed the Nazis to be so ruthlessly efficient at rounding up all the Jews. The lesson of history was not “only the good guys should be allowed to win”, it’s “we shouldn’t be leaving so many loaded guns laying around the house.”