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Mysterian

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5. For their generous welfare checks

Reply to Gaugamela (Original post)

Mon Sep 15, 2025, 12:14 PM

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The "fiscal conservative" republicans raised the debt ceiling by $5 TRILLION so they will be sure to borrow more money from China and other countries to give red-state farmers a new round of welfare checks. They call them "subsidies," but it's just another word for freeloaders getting taxpayer money.

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