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$5000 Bribe Checks [GarthToons]
(lemmy.nz)
Garth German | Bluesky
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Comic Header: The Reality of My Surroundings by GarthGerman
A white guy in a MAGA hat and grey shirt with the American flag on the front, and I H8 Socialism on the shoulder sitting at a table with his wife who is showing him all the past due bills.
MAGA: I’m telling you, once we get the checks from Trump for the DOGE savings…
…and tariff windfall…
…and midterm bribe…
… we’ll be fine!
Their house is in shambles. Their cupboards have stickers that read “Socialism is Evil” and “Stop the Government Handouts”
Yeah, so the terminology used by the US right-wing media is so fucked that essentially liberal=communist= anyone to the left of Reagan, but ALSO, for fearmongering purposes, they're all actually super left-wing extremists.
The only part of it that has taken hold outside of conservative bullshit circles is that the word "liberal" no longer means someone who loves the free market and now has more to do with social justice and even supporting universal healthcare is a "liberal" thing in the US because the socialism word is evil or whatever.
Parts of it have carried over to some EU countries too because at least here in Estonia, the far right looks to Trump and Fox News for their talking points these days (weird in a country with <30% religious people) and our liberals (actual liberals, the kind who want to cut services and reduce taxation) have been called socialists lmao
Reagan is too left for the modern GOP
they have significant amount of south americans that are R voters, they also need to keep them in check with the communist boogeyman, cant afford to lose thier votes them in the south.