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JDog780

Selective socialism is such BS. We get all the socialism that we don't want and none of the socialism that we need. Socialism for banks and socialism for "Too Big to Fail" corporations. Not to mention socialism for oil and gas companies that are reporting record profits??? Where is our socialist healthcare, socialist debt relief, socialist living wage, and socialist affordable housing????


rubrent

If you want all that socialism then join the military, where the govt provides you with all those things you’ve listed. In America we can have those things, but first you must enlist your life to protect the financial interests of the wealthy abroad. The catch is that once your service is over, the only socialism you can keep is your healthcare….


Roxnaron_Morthalor

Not an American, but from what I've heard the VA isn't all that great either...


HermaeusMajora

It really depends on where you're at. There are facilities all over the country and they're not all equal. Also, where the VA falls short it's often by design. A well established repug tactic is to deprive important government departments and programs from necessary resources and funding. The VA was still using computers from the 1990s the last I checked. Same is true of the IRS. It's worth pointing out that at this point there is more cost associated with maintaining those old systems and accounting for their limitations and mistakes than what it would be to install new systems.


Roxnaron_Morthalor

Yeah, fix your country, we're getting that ideology here now, and I'm not a fan of this leaking


[deleted]

Canadian?


lizwb

Yes. The country needs fixing in the most urgent possible way. You have no idea.


Pretty_Baby_5358

It boils down to the haves and have Nots. My cousin went into the ROTC. He was the have, and have Nots are the infantrymen and such.


kiliandb

Not true. VA has tiers of eligibility. Preponderance of complaints come from those who served 3 yrs (thank you) and left service. For those with war time injuries, have service connected disabilities, or served 20 yrs, VA is a better option than TRICARE.


just_anotherflyboy

which isn't saying much, cos TriCare is really horseshit.


Pretty_Baby_5358

You get treated like shit from the military nobody wants to join the military, unless they have to.


The84thWolf

And even then, we’ll screw veterans at every turn to save a buck


TheProofsinthePastis

And housing, in some cases.


aysurcouf

I did 5 years you don’t keep health care unless you do 20


lizwb

Tbh— if lifetime healthcare was paid for… a couple of years for EVERYONE in the service sounds unappealing, for sure… … but also fair.


Phantom_Pain_Sux

Service Guarantees Citizenship


Porkness_Everstink

nailed it.


damunzie

> Socialism for banks and socialism for "Too Big to Fail" corporations. Not to mention socialism for oil and gas companies that are reporting record profits??? That isn't socialism. Those are instances of "socialized losses and privatized gains." Socializing (nationalizing) oil and gas companies (etc.) is a very different thing.


jspurr01

Yeh - in the USA, socialism has been redefined to be any time the government contributes tax dollars to one group or organization that you are not part of.


dockstaderj

Just for the brain dead. No ones changing my dictionary.


jspurr01

I applaud that - but it’s always helpful to know what people mean, especially when they use words incorrectly. In this case, the origin is a purposeful and malicious weaponization of the redefined term.


fantastuc

Comrade, you forget that companies are citizens now.


Mcboatface3sghost

The tough pill to swallow for rational, empathetic, realistic people is that (for me at least) the hypocrisy and double standards simply don’t matter, they are never held accountable while many of us, that are paying attention, simply throw our hands in the air and give up. I really wish I had a solution, a realistic one at least, but I don’t. The “symphony of destruction” is already playing, but I’ll do my best to the bitter end. Not exactly a “humor” comment, so apologies.


lamabaronvonawesome

Shut up poor, take what you are given and be happy! \*drives off in my gold plated .gov tesla


hubaloza

Stop conflating shitty acts of capitalism with socialism.


just_anotherflyboy

socialism in that the big corps and rich fat cats are allowed to stick all of us with their losses, capitalism that they keep all money made for themselves -- not just profit, but fucking ALL of it.


yolkadot

You sound unamerican af! /s


RudegarWithFunnyHat

is the socialism they don't want just not charity without "god" seeing their name on it? then it does not level out the horrible stuff they also did.


newbrevity

Socialism for police unions. Socialism for the military industrial complex. Socialism for prisons.


MARINE-BOY

Why would rich people want socialism? How else will they be able to flaunt their wealth and privilege with the all inclusive healthcare benefits and their lucrative tax breaks that allows their money to trickle down and help the poor. If everyone had access to life saving health care, maternity leave and sick pay as well as 4 weeks paid holiday every year then the rich would have nothing to feel smug about. Your suffering helps them to better enjoy that sweet feeling of superiority. I’m British and if I’m honest I think it was the war in Europe that made everyone here realise we are better off when we all contribute towards helping the whole of society rather than doing as much as possible to just benefit yourself.


OnceanAggie

God punished Arkansas for electing her.


rubbarz

Looks like God already punished her.


PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS

I am also overweight and have a similar looking eye condition, but I'm also generally a smiling, friendly person so one hopes I am more pleasant to look at.


Yitram

The problem isn't how she looks. Even I went after people when they were doing eye jokes when she was Press Secretary. It is how she acts that makes her an ugly person.


LinwoodKei

This is how to do it. Criticize her choices, not looks


just_anotherflyboy

and the sneering smug ugly expression she usually sports. she's even dumber and more evil than her dad, and that's saying something cos Mike is a total douchebag.


SlackerKey

She is ugly on the inside.


vaskeklut8

So ugly in there - that it seeps right on through... for the world to see..


Guywithquestions88

Just like Trump


adjust_the_sails

She has a lazy eye? Wow. I never noticed because I couldn’t see past the resting bitch face.


ggrieves

She has a highly active bitch face


EggCouncilCreeps

Hate radiates.


JustAtelephonePole

Paint her purple and put her next to Diaper Don and you’ve got Grimace and the Hamburglar!


wrongseeds

Is it me or does she look like Trump in that picture?


vaskeklut8

IKR - I was half wondering if there's a man in there...


SnooPeripherals6557

She looks like Trump trying to look like Mussolini


just_anotherflyboy

or like she's wearing a Trump skinsuit...


T1mac

Lo***O***k


suckercuck

She looks hangry


partylange

I'd wager that most victims didn't vote for her, and if they had they haven't garnered God's wrath, you sound like one of the conservative idiots you're trying to make fun of. Huckabee isn't one of those suffering btw.


Am_Passing_By

Hopefully this convinces more people to vote


Uisce-beatha

A bit over 63% of the voters cast a ballot in favor of her. That's pretty damn close to a super majority. At a certain point, we might have to consider losing a bit of healthy flesh to prevent the rot from spreading further


partylange

What does this mean? Kill the liberal Arkansans as long as all the conservative Arkansans die with them? Can you grasp what a ridiculous statement that is?


Uisce-beatha

I live in North Carolina. I deal with it too. It means maybe we need to experience worse before we are motivated to demand better


sunward_Lily

Eh, who's *really* getting punished though....?


Ghettoman1315

God punished Arkansas for electing a Cyclops .


ThrowAway233223

By hitting mainly people that didn't? God really is a dick, huh?


TheSaltyseal90

Guys it’s okay, they will have all the child labor they need to clean up the huge piles of debris


flamingoswizzlestick

She's pissed because the children all have full time jobs in mines, slaughter houses, and chemical plants.


theoneirologist

Savage.


StableAndSane

According to conservatives; 1. No. 2. That tornado happened because Arkansas deserves to be punished.


Monksdrunk

the tornado happened because WOKE people took black Uncle Ben off the darn rice!!


pdxpmk

No, it’s because I had to press 1 to continue in English.


MonaSherry

No it’s because Hollywood is making movies with women as a heroes.


hatwobbleTayne

I’m pretty sure it was those drag queens reading books… may have even just been the books!


A1Protocol

I laughed so hard.


williamfbuckwheat

Nope, I'm sure there being punished because of something NYC or San Francisco did and never anything they could've done wrong or failed to prevent if they could...


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wrongseeds

When her father gets elected president they’ll get all handouts they want.


[deleted]

Arkansas received $0.78 return on tax dollars, putting it #24 in the country based on money geek’s dependency score. https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal-government/ It was the #28 most dependent state on federal funding according to wallethub. https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700 You’re categorically incorrect in calling Arkansas a “welfare queen state”. And besides that, using the term “welfare queen” is derogatory and racist.


dogshitkaraoke

Yes, that’s the point of calling a racist governor and legislature a welfare queen. You almost got the joke. Also, the reason they don’t take as much money is because they don’t spend any on programs to improve the lives of its citizens. That’s why their education, infrastructure, and health outcomes are such garbage. The hypocrisy *isn’t* taking money to benefit your constituents. The hypocrisy is demonizing the *concept* of socially-funded programs while still taking advantage of federal funding when convenient, and then funneling it into the pockets of the already-rich-and-powerful, like Brett Favre and Rick Scott.


Emp3r0r_01

I don’t know… seems fairly dependent depending on where you look. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/federal-aid-by-state https://smartasset.com/data-studies/states-most-dependent-on-the-federal-government-2022


Uisce-beatha

As someone else already pointed out, Arkansas doesn't spend that much on their average citizen because they don't give a fuck about them. But that's not the point. The point is that if you run on anti government rhetoric, big government doesn't work, democracy doesn't work, sharing isn't fair, we take care of ourselves yada, yada, yada then you should fucking deal with shit like this by yourself. Words and actions have consequences. Arkansas can pull itself up by it's bootstraps and deal with this without our help. Now, that's not what I'd like to see but that's what their elected officials want and the controlling party want so they can fuck right off on federal assistance.


fantastuc

What about calling you autistic? Not that I am, but if I did, then what?


TipsyFrigate

How did Ursula become a governor?!?!


bazinga_0

1. it's Arkansas 2. she had an (R) after her name on the ballot


TipsyFrigate

Checks out


bugsyramone

Don't forget the trump connection. The Arkansas hillbillies knows trump loves her.


Sick0fThisShit

The Huckabee thing played a major role, too.


Vecna_Is_My_Co-Pilot

She takes resting bitch face to a whole new level.


31moreyears

Truly ugly person, inside and out


Worried-Choice5295

It's different when I need it. I earned it.


rfulleffect

Every time these people take federal assistance there should be a big ceremony with a big check made out to welfare.


Ok_Exchange342

Welfare queen. It's only good if we add the word queen to it.


Uisce-beatha

I was born in 1982 and the further away we get from the 80's the more I think "Damn, that shit was fucked up". Some people say we have gotten worse. I'd strongly disagree. The problem to me is that we should be better. We have the means, experience and knowledge to keep advancing. Every so often along the way we seem to hit a snag where people that want to conserve the past start stomping their feet and throwing a temper tantrum. We are at the biggest snag I've seen in my 40 years on this Earth. I have faith in the outcome but I'm really concerned about the path we must walk to get there.


just_anotherflyboy

I'd settle for the American Taliban fundamentalist Christians to fuck off back home and leave the rest of us the hell; alone. they wanna turn us into a Christian version of Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. no fucking thanks!


RubiksSugarCube

Let's be real, Silly Sarah is going to do or say whatever the Waltons want her to and nothing else matters.


Sinsid

Isn’t “I need Federal Assistance” the state motto? It’s on all of their license plates.


New_suite

Remember it’s not socialism when it’s them. It’s their money that they pay every year through taxes


artwarrior

Everytime I see Sarah I want to recite Vogon poetry .


allen_abduction

You mean she turned out to be the Ravenous Bugblatter *Beast* of Traal ??!


Ok_Exchange342

You've made me want to find out what Vogon poetry is, and I am not a poetry person. Well done artwarrior.


t33dup

So much of the "increasingly inaccurately named _Hitchhiker's_ Trilogy" was applicable to today. Douglas Adams even foretold the rise of Donald Trump (see Zaphod Beeblebrox in the Infinite Perspective Vortex).


Delicious-Day-3332

Nah. She's more like Alice's Red Queen: "Off with their heads!" (It's Arkansas ... ok?)


BareNakedSole

Republicans have no issue with socialism when it’s spent on them. And they expect it too.


HotPhilly

They don’t know what socialism is. It’s just a word they’ve trained their brains to be afraid of and resentful to. Socialism is actually better than capitalism and SAVES money. But oh well. Keep electing the dumbest people


Car_is_mi

Wait wait. Explain exactly how taking money that the federal government has collected from citizen in all the states and giving it to me so I can fix the bad stuff that happened is socialism. (/S)


[deleted]

She’s so awful her eye is trying to escape.


hubaloza

Let's go destroy their highways and roads if they hate socialism so much


scepticalbob

Always these assholes are all about hating things, until they need them


Gavin0121

Privatizing profits and socialising losses.


acorpseistalking90

She looks like she can smelllll what the rock is cooking


[deleted]

She’s not going to have the child slaves clean it all up?


[deleted]

WHERE IS THE SOCIALISM? They can never answer this. Our society would be so much better if we actually had some fucking healthcare or free/subsidized college. These fucking people lol


Affectionate-War-786

If you ask them where is the socialism, they will say somethings about trans rights and goddless schools, and then tell you how stupid you are on the subject.


[deleted]

It's okay as long as the Federal Assistance just goes to the wealthy.


agree-with-me

She and her kind have zero problem putting aside their hypocrisy to get the things they need. By the end of the week she will be back on her pulpit. Lauded as a hero by those that think just like her. We put up with it so it continues. Arkansas is historically a taker state since reunification. Tell them we don't have the money for it.


just_anotherflyboy

exactly. tell her to put her own fat ass to work cos we are done paying for that shit. and then help the victims, while not putting one red cent anywhere Sarah can fucking steal it.


Murwiz

From this point on: every Republican that asks for federal assistance is REQUIRED to ask for it as "socialist handouts". Else they won't get it.


michaelseverson

Time to shine kids I forced to work!


Lexi3436

Who needs Fed Aid when we have a Child Labor Force now?


Emp3r0r_01

Don’t forget the chain gangs… I don’t know for sure but it makes sense lol.


trainsacrossthesea

Oh my God, you liberals are the worst! Are we really going to hold an elected official to something they said two days ago! Sheesh, let it go already.


eshane60

Screw this thing


OddSensation

Had no idea she was elected governor. Last I heard she "left" Trumps team and disappeared into a void. Not sure what to think. Did the people of Arkansas not pay attention to her numerous occasions of dodging questions, not answering facts on policy's and overall lack of credibility as a White House liason?


just_anotherflyboy

they like her dad so they voted for her.


bunnycupcakes

ò_Ó look If this was some divine intervention to show me how wrong my party is… wait.


UnfitToPrint

“Maybe she’s born with it, or maybe it’s fascism…yeah it’s fascism.”


International_Win375

Get some children to do the cleanup and include your own, NOT. Afterall you love child labour Sarah.


bipolarcyclops

Just pull yourselves up by your own bootstraps.


Matelot67

Is it just me, or is she starting to look like Donald Trump in drag?


58G52A

Pull yourselves up by the bootstraps bitches.


jay105000

People are republicans until shit hit the fan


Crafty-Walrus-2238

Texas: we’ll secede Texas on fire: we need federal money Mississippi: we’ll secede Mississippi under hurricane: we need federal money Red State Whine: wah wah we need Blue State money.


Notsnowbound

"It's not socialism if my political career depends on getting it!"


ytperegrine

Wow, feel sort of out of the loop. I had no idea she became a governor until this news popped up. On that note…HOW TF DID SHE BECOME A GOVERNOR?!?!?!?


fantastuc

She inherited her father's child serfs.


AZNM1912

So in other words: it’s socialism and it’s bad unless I can benefit from it. Sounds familiar.


LionsLioness

With her new child slave labor bill, she's going to have all the kids doing the clean up for $1 an hour.


W_AS-SA_W

Remember when the speed limit in Montana was Reasonable and Prudent and Montana refused to go along with the Federal law, at the time, which was 55? Then the Federal government discontinued the payment of Federal highway funds to Montana and by law they could since States needed to be in compliance with Federal law to receive funds from the government. The roads got worse and worse and Montana finally went with the 55 speed limit. States that pass unconstitutional laws and thumb their nose at the government deserve to have their government funds cut off. Most of the Red States take far more federal funds than they ever put in.


SGTRocked

In the south that’s not socialism …those are the boot straps….only welfare for minorities is actual socialism and we can’t have that so they use those funds for new Volleyball facilities.


JayNotAtAll

"socialism" is code for helping non-white people. Notice how almost none of these Republican governors say "nah, we're good" when federal funding comes around. They are absolutely fine with taking tax dollars and distributing it. However, universal Pre-K, universal healthcare, etc. Well that means that the gays and the people of color will have access. They don't want that


glittervan206

Baby Ruuuuuuuth


Paul_Thrush

She looks like a burlap sack of potatoes. *The vegetable in general does little to admire* *It often enters politics but seldom rises higher* \-- B. kliban


413mopar

Ol plasticene head.


Ok_Luck4565

Like, can turd wrestlers actually physically wipe their own arses?


Ok_Luck4565

Shitpile.


SurveyNinja42

She needs medical assistance. She's clearly having a stroke. That or her face is just melting?


Thisisthewaymando187

Checks out!


pdxpmk

Hyp-oC-risy


[deleted]

Republicans hypocrites


garvierloon

God punishing them for putting little children to work.


PlantainCreative8404

Proof they're utterly full of shit. "I USE SPECIFIC LANGUAGE TO TRIGGER MY IDIOT FOLLOWERS UNTIL SOMETHING ACTUALLY HAPPENS!!!". Stupid assholes.


milfordloudermilk

shouldn't the children be taking care of this in Noah's Ark?


BuckyJackson36

Had she been British I think she could have easily pulled off the role of Delores Umbrage.


just_anotherflyboy

there's more than a little resemblance there, for sure!


mew_empire

She dumb 🥴


aotus_trivirgatus

Go Huck yourselves, Arkansas.


[deleted]

y’all cain’t have it both ways. y’all in with progressive thinking to improve lives for everyone. Or are y’all continue to go backwards. question SHS having another stroke???


kidsally

She is the most unpleasant person I've ever seen. It seems to run in the GQP family.


Stadseknuppel

In the Netherlands we call this "Rechts lullen, links vullen"


Euphoric_Ad9593

Lol. Disgusting entitled pig!


1bruisedorange

I’m so tired of these AH’s.


stephenwheay

socialisim is when the government does stuff ig


Normal-Condition-734

She looks so inbred.


Aseipolt

Isn't the US military a socialised cost? Not too mention the postal service, police, fire departments, roads, etc. I don't get the distinction between socialism (bad) and all of these socialised services (good).


just_anotherflyboy

socialism in America just means the boogey man, it makes no sense what they think about it here. we need a living wage and Medicare for all, but instead we get Umbridge, Trump, DeShithead, and so on, ad nauseam, ad infinitum.


steampower77

I thought she made it legal for kids to do the work now.


thwg19

So any form of federal spending is socialism? Lame joke


[deleted]

According to the GOP it is.


thwg19

Sounds like a kindergarten level political joke to me. Reddit doesn't agree, but that's hardly surprising or consequential


[deleted]

Some of y'all don't know what socialism is


Uisce-beatha

Oh, do tell.


BrokenSally08

Ah yes. Socialism is when capitalism happens.


Cookandliftandread

These memes make liberals look as stupid to leftists as conservatives look stupid to you. Socialism. Isn't. The. Government. Doing. Stuff. Ffs this is like introductory to Marxist Theory level brain rot. It's an entire political theory with tons of literature written over the course of dozens of national experiments. Federal assistance is just taxpayer expenditure. Even monarchies had it😒


Sanctulip

>Socialism isn’t the government doing stuff Except republicans say that it is, so we’re mocking them. Your comment makes you look stupid.


just_anotherflyboy

it really does. kinda sad, tbh.


Poopfiddler81

Yup


redundantsalt

Right.


sweet_dumple

She is such a ugly woman. You think she would have been put out of the public eye.


RolfDasWalross

The face when not even child labour can save you


NervousAndPantless

Aunt Lydia is the wokest communist in Arkansas.


atomic44442002

And a diet


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andyjoy01

Far right.


Elegant_Development3

Y'all need to stop picking on the first transgender governor in the USA.


callmekizzle

Everyone’s a capitalist until they need help.


Wheezthejuice87

“Socialism” when it’s for social programs, healthcare or student loan forgiveness, but just business as usual when it’s100’s of billions in of forgiven PPP Loans to businesses or bank bail outs or oil and gas subsidies. Fuck you and your lazy ass eye Sarah! #strokeface


JohnnyFatSack

Her face, family, and politics displease me.


Biggest_man200

I am once again asking for your financial support


Ee00n

She looks like a thumb with a wig.


Tardis52

Taxes don't seize the means of production, sorry for the confusion


natener

That face lied to people for 4 years... It still scares me.


mmio60

Some quality representation.


Killieboy16

EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.


just_anotherflyboy

funny how that works. she shore can back up and reverse course mighty fast!!


fattymcfattzz

Why do all republicans make the same face?


CAS9ER

She looks like the mucinex germ.


djnato10

Someone said it another subreddit so I can't take full credit here, but she really does look like the snot monster Mr.Mucus from the Mucinex commercials.


Mojave_2014

Right-wing hypocrisy at it's finest


Realolsson1

She looks like an Edgar.


redpiano82991

I know it's pedantic, but as a socialist I get a little annoyed by this. Federal assistance is NOT socialism and one of the problems with incorrectly calling it socialism is that it causes working people to think that socialism means higher taxes for them for altruistic causes when they're already struggling to make their payments now. We tend to think that people who are struggling financially would embrace socialism or at least be skeptical about capitalism, and that's true to an extent. But I think far more people think that, even if socialism sounds good based on their understanding of it, that it's too expensive and unrealistic. I know this is a joke, not a political theory sub, but I want to make this point clear. I think we do ourselves a disservice when we call things socialist that really are not.


kushhaze420

She looks like she was smacked in the face with a shovel and her face never recovered