Summary
At a Missouri town hall, Rep. Mark Alford faced backlash after telling fired federal workers that “God has a plan” for them and urging them to find new jobs, insisting the economy would improve.
Constituents, angered by Trump’s sweeping government cuts and Elon Musk’s influence, heckled Alford throughout the event. Similar protests have erupted nationwide, reflecting growing discontent.
Critics, including both Democrats and some conservatives, compared the movement to the Tea Party backlash in 2009.
Many federal employees fear further uncertainty under Trump’s policies.
The plan: get a Saturday night special at the local pawn shop and imitate Luigi.
God isn’t real so it sounds like you just don’t have a fucking plan.
“God has a concept of a plan for you.”
Does his plan involve anarchy?
Perhaps rebellion?
Separate your church and state, bitch.
That’s the opposite of what they want though
If god is real she sends Republicans to hell.
If god is real and benevolent. If god is real and is letting current situation in the world, then I don’t think we can make assumptions on they being any good for us.
God could be real and benevolent, but just not paying attention. To paraphrase Epicurus:
- Omnipotent
- Omniscient
- Benevolent
Choose any two.
God has a history of sending plagues and has promised Armageddon.
Pretty sure that’s literally their plan.
Yeah, they’ve been trying to speed run the apocalypse.
Bro, god might have a plan for you too.
JesusMangione take the wheel!“God has a plan”. And what part of that plan is going to help these people pay their bills?
The governor of Virginia made a similar plea after Trump fired thousands of workers from the state. He promised to come up with a “plan” to help them. And of course, we all know what this plan is: (1) Give people a bunch of lip service to appease them, (2) Repeat step 1 until something else makes the news, (3) never mention it again. And of course, he has no idea what the hell these workers are supposed to do in the meantime.
Eventually, the GOP will solve the problem of continually angering their own voters by not having town halls and considering the problem solved.
goddamn glenn youngkin sucks. i hate him and his stupid fucking vest. i’m so glad the democrats could use virginia as an experiment to see if being exclusively anti trump with no other campaign strategy could win an election, and then learn nothing when they fucking lost
Religion is such a great way to control people.
"Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!
But He loves you… Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!"
-Obligatory George Carlin
God is the invention and tool of charlatans and the refuge of the wilfully ignorant, and it always has been. 🌎 🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
It’s demoralizing at this late hour, with our own habitat turning against us by our own hands, that the two great banes of human civilization, God and Capitalism, still hold near universal sway over our species. Both toxic and incompatible with a lasting technological civilization in homeostasis/equilibrium with its environment.
Why care about this world or your species if your “eternal reward” is somewhere else in your deluded mind? How can you find equilibrium with your environment if metastasis/growth is your only practiced priority?
Unfortunately for us, and fortunately for the Earth and most life on it long term, the physics of the greenhouse effect can be neither suckered nor bribed. The Earth will recover on its own timetable after we are dealt with. Just another problematic evolutionary mistake like the trees of the carboniferous period that couldn’t yet efficiently decompose (the bacteria to do so hadnt yet evolved), causing the opposite problem of the one we’re causing, leading to an Ice age.
The tragedy of our species is that we had the agency and knowledge to NOT destroy the climate of our habitat, and simply chose to do so anyway. Don’t worry though, Gawd’ll save us!
Well I think we’d all very much like to hear a plan better than “Jesus take the wheel”, you fucking dipshit.
Republican Economic Policy:
‘Thoughts and Prayers.’
… that would have been attacked as a hyperbolic, cynical smear 10 years ago.
Now it just actually is the policy.
It’s such a transparent non-answer, one that religious people have been conditioned to accept and not question.
I have to assure you that most religious people would not accept “God has a plan” from their politicians. MAGA are a unique breed.
A plan? Like arming up and stop the coup?
