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The Independent @the-independent.com

Sen. Josh Hawley wants to exclude ‘Biden voters’ from $600 Trump tariff rebate checks

jul 30, 2025, 5:03 pm • 137 84

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Cyndicate @cyndicate.bsky.social

Ran for his life during the attack on the Capitol.

jul 30, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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gertrude1907.bsky.social @gertrude1907.bsky.social

He's such a forking whack job.

jul 30, 2025, 6:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Leigh @constantbitch73.bsky.social

Biden voters ? I didn’t know Biden was on the docket in the last election? When is blue states gonna stop assisting red states with funding ? That’s the REAL QUESTION?

jul 30, 2025, 5:07 pm • 66 2 • view
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Bea @autiebea.bsky.social

hahaha, you're right!

jul 30, 2025, 5:20 pm • 4 0 • view
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Myrno1 @myrno1.bsky.social

Has anyone seen the price of meat lately? Or gas? ⛽️ They are through the roof!

jul 30, 2025, 5:19 pm • 6 4 • view
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Duz @ddr3ck.bsky.social

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jul 30, 2025, 5:55 pm • 3 0 • view
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flaagan.bsky.social @flaagan.bsky.social

How about we fuck off with the tariffs in the first place and have some responsible and intelligent adults managing the economy and trade agreements?

jul 31, 2025, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
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Fallingdownblue @fallingdownblue.bsky.social

This is incredible. They essentially put a huge tax on goods via the tariffs and are now re-distributing it to households that make less than $150,000 per year. This is socialism, pure and simple. It's great, don't get me wrong. But they don't even realize it.

jul 30, 2025, 5:18 pm • 23 3 • view
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Green Rotom @greenrotom.bsky.social

Not quite, but also going to point out a tariff is a regressive tax, so it's the worst way to try and redistribute money.

jul 31, 2025, 1:37 am • 0 0 • view
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Cringe Lib Dad @skisup.bsky.social

They don't care if it's socialism or not. They care about punishing enemies and rewarding friends.

jul 30, 2025, 5:34 pm • 16 0 • view
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BeepBoop @beckalecka.bsky.social

So what, we use that money to help buy stuff that is more expensive now? That makes zero sense.

jul 30, 2025, 5:42 pm • 3 0 • view
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Fallingdownblue @fallingdownblue.bsky.social

Well the theory of redistribution is that you tax everybody and only give it back to the lower income folks. Since higher income folks tend to spend more, you are somewhat taking more from the rich and giving a portion of it back to the poor. Imperfect? Yes. Socialist? Definitely.

jul 30, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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BeepBoop @beckalecka.bsky.social

You don't understand how tarriffs work. This isn't a tax rebate.

jul 30, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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Fallingdownblue @fallingdownblue.bsky.social

Please, genius, explain to me how tariffs work.

jul 30, 2025, 8:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jayne Starkey @jaynestarkey.bsky.social

Next they’ll suggest excluding you from your SS payments.

jul 30, 2025, 6:39 pm • 2 0 • view
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Lord McPee @lordmcpee.bsky.social

Wow what a dumb piece of dogshit

jul 30, 2025, 5:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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Duz @ddr3ck.bsky.social

They think so little of their base it’s astonishing.

jul 30, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dr Robin @robinindfw.bsky.social

If you want to play that game: To be fair, MAGAs voted for the tariffs so they shouldn’t get a rebate. We didn’t vote for tariffs or Trump so we should get some money back.

jul 31, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mark with the Sea @shogungts.bsky.social

Let me start by saying that I can't stand Hawley or Trump, but this is misleading... Yes he says 'Biden voters' but goes on to classify them as rich dems and hedge fund managers. He is not suggesting that a Republican making $50K a year gets the rebates and a Democrat making the same doesn't.

jul 30, 2025, 5:24 pm • 7 1 • view
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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social

Right. He's just saying that Biden voters are all rich hedge fund managers, to try to whip up class fury on false grounds. The party base is Black wo.en, not hedge fund managers. Hedge fund managers vote Republican.

jul 30, 2025, 5:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social

It's his assumption that hedge fund guys are more likely to be Democrats that I find laughable.

jul 30, 2025, 5:33 pm • 21 1 • view
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Mark with the Sea @shogungts.bsky.social

Not sure if he was saying hedge fund mgrs are Dems or just lumping them together as people who don't like tariffs... “I mean, you know, the rich people don’t need it … what I mean by that is all those Democrat donors of Wall Street, all these hedge fund guys, who all hate the tariffs, by the way.”

jul 30, 2025, 5:37 pm • 4 0 • view
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Chairman Meow @jdny2.bsky.social

Keep your blood money, Hawley

jul 30, 2025, 5:12 pm • 4 1 • view
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Stevie Prince @stevie-prince.bsky.social

He would only send money to Trump voters??? It's their fault this is even happening! This is like if an additive causes cancer you wouldn't send checks to the people who got cancer but the people who added the cancer-causing chemical. #GOPlogic 🙄

jul 30, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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Nuggutron, Mimeflayer @nuggutron.bsky.social

there better be a fucking Zero missing from that number If I get anything less than $6,000 I'm spending it on getting a fucking Third Party candidate elected

jul 30, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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J.S. Grump @impcus.bsky.social

These guys are so fucking funny, man. Every single time they accuse Dems of doing something it's just them telling you what they want to do. They insist ActBkue pays voters or something and now they're just gonna try to do the same thing. Predictable, pathetic, but so funny in a morbid way

jul 30, 2025, 5:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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renagade01.bsky.social @renagade01.bsky.social

Fuck that little douchebag..

jul 31, 2025, 1:45 am • 0 0 • view
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renagade01.bsky.social @renagade01.bsky.social

What an ass..

jul 30, 2025, 5:06 pm • 2 0 • view
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💀💩L @jweland.bsky.social

Fuck Josh Hawley all day, every day.

jul 30, 2025, 6:00 pm • 2 0 • view
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Craig 🏳️‍🌈 @craiggarver.bsky.social

Go to hell.

jul 31, 2025, 6:14 am • 0 0 • view
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Nancy LS @nlbe.bsky.social

Hawley is a joke!

jul 30, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social

Remember when the GOP said Biden bought his voters... Good times... Its astounding to me that GOP blatantly lying & contradictions of themselves as a routine basis is a third rail in media political coverage. They deserve their own weekly special segments...

jul 30, 2025, 5:31 pm • 9 0 • view
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PattyG 🐝🌷 @patloug.bsky.social

He also wants to deny blue states fema help. So blue states pay more for less.

jul 30, 2025, 5:44 pm • 2 0 • view
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mrootes.bsky.social @mrootes.bsky.social

Another distraction from the Epstein files!!

jul 30, 2025, 5:18 pm • 6 0 • view
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Frank Hart @hartpi.bsky.social

Do we officially have to say we don't want Trumps fucking bribe?

jul 30, 2025, 5:09 pm • 3 0 • view
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Kobolds! How do they Yip? @koblbird.bsky.social

Well I want him excluded from his Microsoft Live subscription for treason then, but nobodys reporting on that...

jul 30, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Feathered Stone @stonefeathers.bsky.social

So you have to show proof of who you voted for to get your money cool I don’t want your $600 anyway so no thanks

jul 30, 2025, 5:04 pm • 17 0 • view
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zdubya83.bsky.social @zdubya83.bsky.social

Capping it at $150k for joint filers already rules out most in blue states

jul 30, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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zdubya83.bsky.social @zdubya83.bsky.social

Absolutely love the idea of my Maryland tax dollars to no longer subsidize red states.

jul 30, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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Wally @huds7.bsky.social

Dividing the country for power, hate, stupidity again. He’s not Americsn, he’s something else

jul 30, 2025, 5:06 pm • 9 0 • view
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sophiemyjoy.bsky.social @sophiemyjoy.bsky.social

I thought other countries paid the tariffs 🙄🙄🙄

jul 30, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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keltharper.bsky.social @keltharper.bsky.social

How about giving Biden voters the rebates since they didn't vote for tariffs and none to the trump voters since they wanted them.

jul 30, 2025, 4:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social

So he wants every person in California and New York to give $600 to every racist piece of shit idiot in trump states.

jul 30, 2025, 5:16 pm • 5 0 • view
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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social

If you vote for the wrong person the winner will take your money and give it to his own voters seems like a reason to just fucking end this country and split up.

jul 30, 2025, 5:17 pm • 8 0 • view
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Rigged-System @riggedsys-resist.bsky.social

Sen Josh Hawley really wants his ass kicked! Stealing from Democrats to give to Republicans is asking for trouble .

jul 30, 2025, 5:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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Rigged-System @riggedsys-resist.bsky.social

Those money is from the country’s taxpayers not just Republicans.

jul 30, 2025, 5:09 pm • 1 0 • view
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Marycat 2024 @marycat2022.bsky.social

Illegal and disgusting.

jul 30, 2025, 5:05 pm • 9 1 • view
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Lean Lefty @leanlefty.bsky.social

This obviously won't go anywhere but what a piece of shit. Imagine a world where unproductive rural communities pulled their fair share. Yeah yeah farmers, but those farmers wouldn't be around if it wasn't for massive BIG GOVERNMENT subsidies

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Lean Lefty @leanlefty.bsky.social

Plus, all American farmers grow is soy and corn. If anyone if feeding America it's fucking Mexico and California

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ibethany.bsky.social @ibethany.bsky.social

and we will put chocolate milk in all the drinking fountains... but only for the trump voters.

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HeroicOne @heroicone.bsky.social

Let me start by apologizing for the salty language that I'm about to use, but only because it's technically the polite thing to do. That said, Josh Hawley can eat a bag of dicks.

jul 30, 2025, 5:27 pm • 2 0 • view
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Soy Ron Mexico @soyronmexico.bsky.social

Why? Aren’t they paying for it in the form of increased prices?

jul 30, 2025, 7:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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New Level of Hell 🦚 @newlevelofhell.bsky.social

Where's the money coming from?

jul 30, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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feh-lahn.bsky.social @feh-lahn.bsky.social

as long as blue states get to stop subsidizing red states sure

jul 30, 2025, 10:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sean @bookclayfood.bsky.social

Thought it was supposed to be $5K?

jul 30, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Political Potter @politicalpotter.bsky.social

Not going to happen anyway, also why would people need rebates on the tariffs if we don’t pay for them?

jul 30, 2025, 6:04 pm • 2 1 • view
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Brian Eisley @brianeisley.bsky.social

Josh Hawley knows this is dead on arrival, if not in Congress then in the courts. He's only doing performative assholery for MAGA.

jul 30, 2025, 6:47 pm • 8 0 • view
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Lu @otitetutetati.bsky.social

If rich people liked Democrats, Republicans wouldn't control all three branches.

jul 30, 2025, 5:20 pm • 7 1 • view
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A Manatee @gablaw.bsky.social

wow that's really fucking dumb

jul 30, 2025, 8:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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slightlyannoying.bsky.social @slightlyannoying.bsky.social

This is enraging. But not enough to make me forget about the Epstein-Trump files Nice try Hawley

jul 30, 2025, 5:21 pm • 2 0 • view
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Queenie @moodisorder.bsky.social

Great job continuing to try "bipartisan" stuff, Dems. Fucking idiots

jul 30, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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Matt (Communes with the night) @hwbrgdtse.bsky.social

Score, I voted third party.

jul 30, 2025, 5:20 pm • 2 0 • view
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who cares @maaaatttt.bsky.social

I’m all about inclusion, not exclusion, so I’m including Josh hawley in the group of people who can lick my taint

jul 30, 2025, 5:13 pm • 5 1 • view
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Allison Y💜❌👑 @youngallison63.bsky.social

jul 30, 2025, 5:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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juli @julierthanyou.bsky.social

Like, voted for him ever? Or, as a write-in in the last election in which he did not run?

jul 30, 2025, 5:17 pm • 2 0 • view
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David Grebow @davidgrebow.bsky.social

Since he knows this cannot stand, this is like most of the shit the GOP pulls, purely performative to get noticed by being stupid. And there's no cure for s t u p i d. Actually I am wrong. Voting his stupid ass out of office will cure it.

jul 31, 2025, 4:24 am • 0 0 • view
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LA @tryingtohelp.bsky.social

Simply insane

jul 30, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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terrifiedstill2024.bsky.social @terrifiedstill2024.bsky.social

Fuck you hawley

jul 30, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lea Leander @lealeander.bsky.social

Guy needs a slap in the face. I volunteer to provide.

jul 30, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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Giackal (Giancarlo) 🔞NSFW🏳️‍🌈🔜 AFC @giackal.bsky.social

Fine. California can just stop halt federal income tax payments. And so will other states.

jul 30, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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JackInEC @jackinec.bsky.social

In short: Sen. Josh Hawley is a cowardly idiot. Don't forget his scamper to his safe space after he encouraged the January 6th attackers at the Capitol.

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cstucker.bsky.social @cstucker.bsky.social

The guy who just voted for huge tax cuts for the very wealthy says what now?

jul 30, 2025, 6:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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A Manatee @gablaw.bsky.social

How are they gonna know I thought votes were secret ?

jul 30, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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askgma.bsky.social @askgma.bsky.social

He’s such an asshole

jul 30, 2025, 5:05 pm • 26 1 • view
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Ceiling Cat @ceilingcat.bsky.social

Everyone pays the tariffs; it’s a tax on consumers.

jul 30, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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takethepith.bsky.social @takethepith.bsky.social

The article says this is just an income cap on the rebate. Hawley says rich people are all "Biden voters". He's just throwing chum to the base.

jul 30, 2025, 5:24 pm • 2 0 • view
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Lisa 🇨🇦 @pinkmouse.bsky.social

Is this to make up for cutting so many of his constituents off Medicaid/Medicare by voting yes on the disgusting, abomination of a bill. After he swore he wouldn't.

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radiobill @radiobill.bsky.social

‘The rich people don’t need it ... all those Democrat donors of Wall Street, all these hedge fund guys, who all hate the tariffs,’ Republican lawmaker tells Steve Bannon Oh, but they need a massive tax cut??

jul 30, 2025, 5:20 pm • 2 0 • view
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daydriver66.bsky.social @daydriver66.bsky.social

F hawley

jul 30, 2025, 5:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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Chris Wagnon @wags1680.bsky.social

How about my state quits subsidizing Missouri.

jul 30, 2025, 5:05 pm • 118 2 • view
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Tony’s boat @stu-gots.bsky.social

And every other red state.

jul 30, 2025, 5:55 pm • 8 0 • view
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Adopt or Foster a Dog 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @adoptorfoster.bsky.social

Saying out loud what we already know: Republican politicians consider less than half of electorate their actual constituency. The rest of you can go fuck yourselves.

jul 30, 2025, 5:34 pm • 1 0 • view
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Fight, Fight, Fight against the MAGA uneducated hordes. @pepe-mccormack.bsky.social

Sounds like a great precedent for the future given that Republicans states are mostly federal funds takers.

jul 30, 2025, 7:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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PatriotBoy2025 @patriotboy2025.bsky.social

Please do better Missouri.

jul 30, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Holli Winters @holliwinters57.bsky.social

He seems to think only the rich voted for Joe Biden. He is absolutely wrong. He is also admitting that there is inflation due to the tariffs. Go suck yourself, Josh.

jul 30, 2025, 5:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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Expel the Sedition Caucus @oldsourpuss.bsky.social

Only if Biden voters can be exempted from tariffs.

jul 30, 2025, 5:06 pm • 3 0 • view
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Joe @joe248.bsky.social

This strikes me as a distraction from trump and Epstein.

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Neon Genesis Jordan Peterson @hamantaschendog.bsky.social

I think we should exclude “having a head” from Josh Hawley

jul 30, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Michael Aiken @rfkdemocrat.bsky.social

#Repbulicans are all about cruelty. I've never inmy six decades of living seen anything like it.

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Nit. @blockyield.bsky.social

Don’t care. Release everything the government knows about Epstein.

jul 30, 2025, 5:11 pm • 4 1 • view
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tmx775.bsky.social @tmx775.bsky.social

Hawley is always the unAmerican partisan

jul 30, 2025, 5:11 pm • 2 0 • view
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Mister Reporting as Elegible @demandafan.bsky.social

I thought other countries paid for the tariffs what do I need a rebate for

jul 30, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Post Mo Thóin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social

I knew this was coming. bsky.app/profile/dave...

jul 30, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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Greg H @wuutguy.bsky.social

what if i voted for my dog?

jul 30, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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free2be-me.bsky.social @free2be-me.bsky.social

FJH

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Mike Gerts @gerts-michael.bsky.social

Whatever happened to those DOGE Checks?

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James Who Lives in Queens @jamesfromqueensny.bsky.social

Just like we exclude Josh from the list of actual men who are what they seem while not being a closeted homosexual dumb fuck. Because that’s Josh.

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BeepBoop @beckalecka.bsky.social

Who fucking cares anymore? $600 is nothing. Are people so stupid they can be placated with $600 while the cost of everything continues to rise?

jul 30, 2025, 5:49 pm • 2 1 • view
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AMERIKKKA IS A JOKE @kskm3.bsky.social

Yes they are that stupid, but he knows it won’t pass and it doesn’t actually exclude Dems. That Hawley continues to pretend rich people are Dems is hilarious. He’s so obviously lying about everything all of the time.

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Jaxspeak (Usdi Asgaya) @jaxspeaks.bsky.social

Everyone’s vote in the US is supposed to be by secret ballot

jul 30, 2025, 10:38 pm • 1 1 • view
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J. Dvorak @jvd001.bsky.social

It’s none of Hawley’s effing business who I voted for, or his reprobate party’s.

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Ben Crossbones @bencrossbones.bsky.social

Ok

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Zazecki @zazecki.bsky.social

Oh boy, light that candle and see how it works out, republicans. Really test the waters there and see how quickly dem states stop subsidizing republicans

jul 30, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Brad Carpenter (he/him) @brad-carpenter.bsky.social

Purple like a bruise.

jul 30, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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☮️ @softblacklady15.bsky.social

Can’t miss ish.. you never had 🙄

jul 30, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Adam Lerner @adamlerner28.bsky.social

This whole thing is a joke, it won't help anyone

jul 30, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social

Also, Harris was more popular with rich voters. Biden was more popular with poor ones.

jul 30, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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Antiwar Observer 𓅶 @casualobserver.bsky.social

Petty

jul 30, 2025, 6:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bea @autiebea.bsky.social

by calling it a "rebate", i can't tell if they're laughing at us or if they're just that stupid.

jul 30, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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thathonkey @thathonkey.bsky.social

good thing i didnt vote for biden

jul 30, 2025, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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CisHet Billionaire @bennettelder.net

He's so fucking slimy. A tax credit isn't necessarily a refund or even a check at all.

jul 30, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social

I voted for Harris in the last election cycle. Also Hawley can 🤬-off with that unAmerican 🤡💩.

jul 30, 2025, 5:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bananas @citizen12345.bsky.social

Wait- so how does this work? Companies are selling higher priced items -because they’re paying tariffs- which can now be afforded by the blue collars because of the $600 checks- so what’s the impact of tariffs? Is it just a pass through game? Isnt the goal to make imported goods too expensive?

jul 30, 2025, 5:14 pm • 1 0 • view
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Michael Powell @foggen.bsky.social

I need to not have keyboards because I'm going to wind up on a list

jul 30, 2025, 5:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Hot Stepper @gusto1904.bsky.social

$600? I've spent triple that on tariff related increases since April. What a fucking joke.

jul 30, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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tartan37.bsky.social @tartan37.bsky.social

We don’t live in a republic anymore. The Republicans have no moral or ethical center…

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