Summary
Rep. Harriet Hageman faced loud boos at a Wyoming town hall after endorsing funding for Elon Musk’s DOGE cost-cutting initiative.
The crowd, mostly opposed to her stance, jeered as she laughed and clapped, labeling the audience’s reaction “embarrassing.”
Hageman defended Social Security funding despite concerns that Musk’s efficiency drive might cut it, calling it a “Ponzi scheme.”
The only bipartisan applause came when Hageman opposed closing rural mail distribution centers.
This woman grew up wealthy and privileged–she comes from a family in Wyoming that was always connected and always had money. She’s an attorney married to another attorney.
She is nothing like the people whose concerns she’s laughing at and calling embarrassing. She doesn’t have the same life experience as them, and she’s never, for a single second of a single day, had to worry about paying her bills or lacking necessary things.
So she laughs when her constituents worry about these things, and she mocks them when they voice those concerns.
Why would a cost cutting initiative need funding?
I dislike doge just as much as the next person, but we all know this is not a good counterpoint and if used against dems we would ridicule it. You can’t just willy nilly move government funds around (legally, don’t get me started on all the illegal bs happening), so if doge is hiring people that are getting paid, the money needs to come from somewhere. That allocation would need to happen even if they WERE cutting billions in spending (they’re not). That is a good rule for governments to have. There are sooooo many reasons to dislike doge, but the fact that a government agency needs funds to run is not a problem. People have been complaining about the post office using similar rhetoric. Just because it costs money, doesn’t mean it’s not saving/making money.
For the record: DOGE AND TRUMP AND ELON ARE BAD
And when did Congress allocate that funding?
I never said they did (or didn’t)? Clearly they are attempting to now, but my comment was not really about doge in specific. I said that needing funding is not inherently antithetical to a cost cutting department, and that it’s not really a valid reason to take issue with a department. I also said more than once that I don’t like/support doge.
Not sure if it’s a reading comprehension issue, or people are on edge because literal fascist are coming out from the woodwork, but not every comment against Doge/Trump/Elon is valid (most are) and not every comment pointing that out is inherently fascist.
My bad, I forgot the /s. Didn’t mean to make you type all that out.
Nah, you’re all good. You never know how to read things online. I’ll leave it up just in case it saves someone else the time lol.
Fair.
Welp, sounds like it’s time to bring balloons full of piss!
They think other people’s pain is funny even their own constituents.
