jk it's only $120 billion a year lmao (and you know it's goin' down the drain).

  • cawsby [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Bike lanes for billionaire enclaves and $10 million for bridges.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      That's too optimistic, most of it will go towards fixing potholes in billionaire enclaves, building additonal treat terminals at ports on the West Coast, and funding some powerpoint engineering project for the development of hydrogen-powered planes titled "totally not the Hindenburg 2".

    • blobjim [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Future's lookin' bright baby 😎 🌞

    • Mother [any]
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      3 years ago

      Ha this is exactly what’s going to happen

  • Yurt_Owl
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    3 years ago

    All the money to go to a single firm to fix one pothole over 5 years and no one will bat an eye

  • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I'm pretty sure Pete Buttigeig was assembled by extradimensional beings from primordial goo and spit out a portal like Curtis from Phantasmagoria.

    • chiefecula [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I might be naive and optimistic, but don't you think they'd do a better job?

      He's just a CIA trained sleeper agent, the work is too shoddy to be done by advanced aliens/higher beings.

      There has to be some potential for making a funny reference to some incompetent spy comedies... A grown up Spy Kid, who spent his childhood fighting those thumb goons? He's definitely not cool enough to be compared to Austin Powers... Someone help me out, please?

      • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Oh I don't mean to imply he was purpose-built as a politician or anything, I think thats just what he chose. My guess is that they were just trying to see if they could build a human, and they almost managed it.

      • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I feel like there was another more competent CIA candidate and he was just the way too obvious red herring there to distract us.

        The question is, who?

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Wait...

    Wait.

    It's down to 1.2 trillion now? I'm torn between abject rage and hysterical laughter. They're gonna end up 'compromising' with this 6 billion dollar, mega ambitious plan being worth less than the actual compromise one

    • JmWave [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      China spent 8 trillion on infrastructure in 2020 alone :xi-gun:

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        And now its on the verge of collapse. Yes, sir. Any minute now. China Fall Down.

        Meanwhile, Pete Buttigieg is going to become the most powerful man in Washington what with his $2.1T $1.2T $600B $50B $420.69 transportation budget.

    • PeterTheAverage [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The $1.2 trillion is the bipartisan bill that Biden just signed yesterday. The reconciliation bill is at $1.75 trillion I believe, but since the other bill has been signed it's most likely dead.

  • Quimby [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    Secretary of Transportation Peter Buttigieg be like "yep, that is a bus."

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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    3 years ago

    A few billion for easier access to animal shelters, a few billion for the dog-catcher funds, and all you can eat buffet at the buttygeige house

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    You know how people say that Stalin, rather than being a known and respected figure among the Bolsheviks, was supposedly some unknown party functionary who was slowly stealing and consolidating power behind the scenes, somehow, and then when Lenin died he staged a coup or something?

    That, but it's real, and Pete Buttigieg is Stalin.

  • LilComrade [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    This guy is just another CIA plant like all of the Bush’s and their “friends” who went from like being a city council person to an ambassador