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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 126 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

"Okay, sooooo...with no tax revenue or money, zero education, and no energy.......that's still a country somehow right? How does this work????"

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Doesn't DoE like do nuclear shit?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They also inform the nation's energy policies, meaning taking responsibility for federally funded energy transportation and coordination.

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Feudalism. We already live in a system of neo digital feudalism where you own nothing. DeSatan master of the Dick Handle state is aiming to bridge our digital and analog feudal future faster than it is happening without him.

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[–] comradegreetingcard@lemmy.ml 94 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Guaranteed he has no idea what the department of energy does.

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee 75 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

DeSantis is a Harvard law school grad and Navy lawyer, he absolutely has an idea what all of those governmental entities do, this is just him and the GOP trying to normalize the fascistic accumulation of power, step one of becoming a dictatorship.

Also this is the GOP's plan to do exactly that:

Project 2025

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/conservatives-aim-to-restructure-u-s-government-and-replace-it-with-trumps-vision

It's just a step by step to purge the government, then whatever else, of undesirables while making an effort to destroy our government one piece at a time. Fascistic Libertarian hellscape here we come! (Also this is nothing new from them, just more open fascism)

[–] drdabbles@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

No idea what DoC does either, clearly. This is the problem with these people- no idea WTF they're talking about and nobody holds them to account for that.

[–] ViewSonik@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah.. same exact thought when I read the article.

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[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago

Reaganomics was a horrendous failure for this country, and nearly 50 years later here we are with Republicans pushing those policies again on the American people.

What DeSatan is talking about is a continuation of Reagan's terrible "Starve the Beast" policies.

Starve the Beast is a plan by conservatives to reduce funding for various government departments and programs to a level below which those entities can function properly. Salaries and equipment cost money. Below a certain level, you can't do your job properly. And that's what Republicans have been pushing for a few decades now. Cut funding for programs, and then claim those same programs aren't doing their job properly, and use that as the excuse to kill off those programs altogether.

It is a self fulfilling prophecy all so big business and the ultra rich can pollute more, hide their real wealth from taxes, and make our children dumb enough that future generations willingly vote Republican.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

as president i promise to dismantle the whole government

[–] Filthmontane@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

It's more that he wants to destroy the regulatory systems that prevent companies from doing anything they want. This is a big step for fascism. Hitler and Mussolini both deregulated the markets and privatized everything they could. Fascism is simply Capitalism run rampant. After that they usually invade another country and create a slave labor force, which is why he wants to "go to war with the cartels."

[–] PilferJynx@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

As president I promise there to be no president.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So no federal taxes; education; or commerce regulation?

Because that's going to end well.

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

So basically the plan is to restore the late 1800s and be ruled by corporate barons

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

They miss it

[–] VonCesaw@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've seen over 200 PragerU videos and they literally believe that it was a better time back then, and would actively invite a lower quality of average life if it meant they could execute the gays/asians/blacks

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[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years ago

This is the problem with a party whose entire political platform is to prove that government doesn't work. It wants dysfunction.

[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So he'd make the USA into a non-functional country? Sounds about right.

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Folks, I'm just gonna show up at your door, burn your house down, and claim the land. There are too many regulations, and quite honestly, you don't deserve them." -The next guy to up the ante.

Thunderous applause from the gomers

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"I like him because he says what he means, unlike other politicians" -too damn much of the voting population

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[–] onionbaggage@lemmynsfw.com 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, but you have the charisma of a wet saltine so...

[–] Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 years ago

Come on now, that's not fair, if a wet saltine was my only food, I would choose it over starving. If DeSantis was the only candidate I could put on the ballot, I wouldn't vote.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 2 years ago

Good luck with infrastructure when you stop collecting taxes. What a clown.

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

I love how even his childish simplistic plan was over thought. Why get rid of all of them when the IRS will single handedly kill the country if eliminated. That military budget that gets R's so hard goes bye bye.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

100% this filthy meatball is ogling social security

Taking care of the elderly, even inadeqiately, is "woke"

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And unlike Rick Perry, he remembered all of them...

https://youtu.be/MyMosJdIfdo

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Remember when forgetting an item on a list would get you kicked out of the running for president?

[–] swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or just making a weird excited sound at a rally.

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[–] Asimo@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

So his job is to look so bad that trump seems reasonable?

But if it gets support, also yay?

Russia/China are clearly playing the games the UK and the USA have around the world back on them.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

IRS. From the party of law and order.

And with the others, if there was any doubt it should now be crystal clear this is the party of burn it all down.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And, fiscal responsibility!

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[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

It hasn’t been the party of law and order for decades at this point.

Nixon showed the cracks, Reagan opened the floodgates, and the Twice-Impeached One showed how far they can push people.

[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago

Democracy is a nuisance for the fascist RW

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago

OP this article wasn't even relevant 2 months ago. This loser isn't even getting nominated.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

desperate and stupid ideas from a desperate and stupid man

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Clearly going for the no-arithmetic vote.

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[–] Snekeyes@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Lol. This guy

[–] ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.net 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

So would there be no federal taxes?

[–] VonCesaw@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The aim is to starve out communities that rely on it, and sic the military on dissenters

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[–] transigence@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

He would be so assassinated, so quickly. The IRS does not fuck around. Neither does the Department of Education.

[–] ThatHermanoGuy@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago

Do his idiot supporters really not realize that he can't just do that? I know they desperately want a totalitarian dictator, but come on...

[–] persolb@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

The irony of the background saying Restore Sanity

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