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kateallday.bsky.social @kateallday.bsky.social

Just got to pay $270 for plumbing, and now I'm thinking about all the folks that don't have that cash lying around. We are about to be living in such a ghetto ass third world country. People are seriously gonna be like "Oh, a storm took out that window, so we just taped it up and hung a blanket."🥺

aug 19, 2025, 5:46 pm • 7 1

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mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social

We just paid $16,000 for a new roof + solar panel removal/reinstall. Took out our savings, mostly, but we’re hopefully good for the rest of our lives, touch wood. I’ve known for thirty years that if the government gave us each $10,000 per year of our money back, we would spend it on things we need.

aug 20, 2025, 8:18 pm • 1 0 • view
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mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social

Or, indeed, just gave us each $10,000 per year free and clear. Or, simply just an annual grant of $20,000 per couple, plus $10,000 per child. History suggests that the economy would boom like the 1950s, "lifting all boats". The greedos wont allow it, of course.

aug 20, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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kateallday.bsky.social @kateallday.bsky.social

🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ Of COURSE we'd all just immediately throw it right back into the economy! Even if we don't need a new roof we'd love to have nicer glasses, new jeans, fix our windshield, just actually take the wife out for a really nice dinner... It would IMMEDIATELY gas up the economy. That same DAY.

aug 20, 2025, 8:26 pm • 2 0 • view
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mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social

Whereas, if you give it to people for whom that’s just pocket change, it simply vanished into the investment house stratosphere and we never, ever see it. It actually depresses the economy.

aug 20, 2025, 8:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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kateallday.bsky.social @kateallday.bsky.social

I really think we just hang them upside down and beat them till they jingle. 🤷‍♀️

aug 20, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social

It would be simpler to declare them outlaws and confiscate all their family wealth that we can reach. I'm somewhat undecided about the French Solution at this point, but I'm willing to consider it for those who have done so much to actively kill the rest of us.

aug 20, 2025, 10:03 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bender @divebender.bsky.social

finally my talents as a jack-of-all-trades (master of none) will support me and my crew of delinquent dobermans as we roam the earth, whooping maga assess and spreading our message of misanthropy.

aug 19, 2025, 7:02 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kordo @keyuzo.bsky.social

Americans have no idea what's coming down. A year ago "hardship" meant the DoorDash guy got lost. We are woefully unprepared for this.

aug 19, 2025, 7:25 pm • 1 0 • view