House Freedom Caucus is also demanding an end to ‘woke policies’ at the defence department and more money to be spent on border enforcement

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      They don’t hate it, they’re trying to take it over.

      They just hate that it’s not so easy to do that as is.

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        Nah they hate it. They hate diversity (people not like them), they hate freedom (to be gay), they hate everything America actually is and love the false memory of what they’ve been told America was.

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          It’s funny that they somehow think 'murica would be better if they had their way, yet in every single instance where they have had any power, they managed to fuck it all up beyond repair.

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            Fucking it up is part of their overall strategy. They destroy the economy for short term gains, then point to those gains as evidence that their policies work. They defund and break parts of the government that they don’t want and then point to those failures that the government doesn’t work. There are literally hundreds of examples I could give where destruction serves their agenda.

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              Ya, the conservatives up in Canada have taken a page right out of their playbook. They keep slashing budgets to healthcare, then say that it’s not working and we should privatize it. (See Ontario and Alberta, but others are following suit.)

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          Isn’t the Fbi tracking down jan 6th rioters, investigating Trump, and all the other things? Defunding them I think is an attempt at slowing all the evidence piling up against them.

          If the Fbi were working in their favor, they’d be handing money over left and right.

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            Defunding the FBI won’t slow down the Jan 6 investigation at all. They would simply reduce spending in other areas of crime fighting, such as foreign terrorism.

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    Then I guess the #GOP is shutting the government down again.

    Didn’t work out great for them the last times.

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    House Freedom Caucus is also demanding an end to ‘woke policies’…

    Do they know that phrase is embarrassing? It’s unprofessionally vague.

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    The border isn’t even an issue. More Mexicans are leaving the country than arriving. How about you fix the country so that people want to be here before you worry about keeping people out?

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    Wow. I’m all about abolishing the prison industrial complex, but I didn’t anticipate that I’d be on the same side as the lunatic coup plotting fringe.

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      Or, here me out now, we properly fund necessary government agencies and ignore the demands of terrorists.

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    Wait there is public support to keep FBI funded?

    I guess somebody got to entrap people with metal disability on bogus terrorist charges, plan for governor kidnappings and storming of the Parliament buildings…