Oligarchy 101.
Treat public expenses like it’s coming out your own pocket.
Treat the public purse like it’s your own personal bank account.
Latinos , take notice
Trump cultists: “He isn’t racist.”
And the only thing that matters: “Trump’s little butthole gremlin crawled out of his crack to comment: Lies! Democrat Lies! He never said this!!” and all the Magoos nodded in agreement at the absolute truth provided by an unbiased cult member.
Wtf are funerals that expensive?
It should be noted that the article says it was attended by the mayor and city’s police chief. I’m assuming quite a few more less notable people also came. I would also assume this increases the cost.
In the US, funeral homes try to get as much money out of you as possible because they know you are emotionally vulnerable. There are exposes on funeral homes having predatory services.
Is there a Ralph’s around here?
They can be, sadly. It depends where you live, where you have someone buried, and what services and coffin and whatnot you get. But yeah, the funeral business in the US is pretty crazy greedy. $60k is definitely on the higher end. According to a quick Google, my state’s average funeral cost is around $8k, with the total cost (including mortuary services, etc) around $20k.
Yeah but it’s gotta be cheaper for Mexicans, right? (/s, obviously)
The hell. What if your wage is 10k a year. Ie. you’re on disability benefits or social security. Will my family have to bury me in the backyard?
Not allowed to do that
But cremation is cheaper
So it’s illegal to die poor
Illegal to live poor too… shitty situation to be in
Have you tried not being poor?
Have I? Yes, yes I have. I live fairly comfortably in a house that I own with a good job to pay the bills. But I volunteer with people that are not in the same situation and it’s heartbreaking. People that can’t afford to pay for unexpected expenses like a car breaking down. So they lose the job then lose their place of residence.
Vets, people with disabilities or even people that messed up early in life can struggle.
We don’t really have a couple thousand saved up to throw at a cremation either. Urgh. Capitalism sucks.
That is the average, not the median. The median looks a lot different (cheaper):
“No, 60k is to bury a DEAD Mexican. The ones fucking generally don’t want to be buried”
How about just jacking off? I don’t want to be buried while jacking off, so you all know.
Like he’d pay any bill ever
Aw he’s trying to shout like a lil tough guy but he’s just unhinging that beta jaw for the ol “arnold palmer”, as he calls it.
“It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f—ing Mexican!” Is this trump admitting to murdering mexicans? Or at least knowing how much it cost to bury them afterwards?
Another source, Rolling Stone
For the rest of us.
Thanks MVP
Fuckface 45 is a disgusting pile of burning excrement.
To be fair fuckface 45, is a disgusting, con artist, rapist, mushroom-shaped penis’ed, pile of burning excrement in some wonderful orange make-up that’s totally normal for an 80 year old man. He also loves the phantom of the Opera which is perhaps the most offensive thing about home.
Don is a nasty POS, fuck him and all his supporters.
This is not someone killed in battle:
Donald Trump raged when he learned the funeral bill for Vanessa Guillén—the U.S. soldier who was sexually harassed and horrifically murdered by a male soldier at Fort Hood in 2020—cost $60,000, a bombshell report revealed Tuesday.
Somehow knowing the circumstances of her death makes Trump’s awful remark even nastier. Especially since he is a rapist.
Guillén, a 20-year-old American of Mexican ancestry from Houston, was buried in her hometown on Aug. 15, 2020. Months later, in December, Trump reportedly asked his advisers in a meeting, “Did they bill us for the funeral? What did it cost?"
When an aide responded “yes” with the bill’s total, Trump allegedly unraveled. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f—ing Mexican,” he said, according to people in the meeting who spoke to the Atlantic.
Trump says vile things every day but this has to be one of the vilest.
But he definitely doesn’t think the same way about the people voting for him…
That’s the main point I never understood about his voters. His political agenda and your political affiliation don’t even matter. All you have to understand is that everything he does is for his own benefit. Nobody wants an egoist in charge in a smaller setting - why the fuck elect one as president?
It’s as if they all think that they’ll be rewarded for their loyalty to him.
He talks in very “us vs them” styles and it seems like a lot of people respond to that thinking the in group is his supporters. It isn’t, but they’re so sure. And it makes sense, he clearly adores his fans. But the in group is him. Everyone else is at risk of joining the out group on his whim
He talks in very “us vs them” styles
Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words
Because they think that he will hurt people that they’ve been led to hate.
Damn, he was almost close to making a valid comment about how wildly overpriced funerals are today, then instead went full bore into super racism
Because he starts with super racism and goes from there.
Super racism. Almost makes ya reminisce over just plain ol’ regular racism, right?
. . . but not Gary, he’s one of the good ones!
I hate this man more than words can express
And yet somehow, not as much as I hate the people who will vote for him.
Trump would be nothing without his enablers. They definitely deserve your loathing first.
I have enough loathing to go around
He followed through with the sentiment too.
The magazine reported that Trump then turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and ordered him, “Don’t pay it!” That order was apparently heeded by Meadows, as the Atlantic reported that Trump never sent a dime to help cover funeral costs for the slain woman.
Back in the '80s Trump publicly offered to pay the funeral expenses of a child killed by a bear … and then reneged, naturally.
It’s absolutely vile to invite the mother to the white house, offer to pay, and then later rescind that offer.
If he’d never offered it wouldn’t matter.
This is just so so abhorrent, even for trump.
So like any other bill.
He pays hookers.
so they don’t leave bad reviews.
Lol
The fact that this election is close makes this all even worse.
Your country is fucked dude.
Bad news: if America goes under everyone goes under. You can’t rip out a backbone of the global markets and expect no fallout.
I almost wrote “and mine’s not far behind”
we’re all fucked, horray!
Oh we do expect fallout, I’ve even been collecting bottle caps.
Behold, first past the post in its natural state!
And this is an american. Republicans should be afraid he can change whatever “american” is whenever he wants.
What’s funny is his dumb brain immediately went with “What are the costs? I can blame the dems for cost” without even considering the circumstances
This is an American actively serving the country.
It’s perfectly emblematic of how Trump doesn’t just ‘other’ people for political gain, it’s built in.
You’re missing a verb but you’re probably right.
Edit: My bad, I misread.
They’re using “other” as a verb. “Othering” people, as in racism
Oh right, sorry, I missed that. Makes sense now - thanks!
I wrapped it in single quotes so it makes more sense. Thanks
At least he said Mexican.
And not…you know…something more racist.
Every cloud
And the family he said it about continues to kiss his ass. What the fuck is wrong with people?
We are grateful for everything he has done and continues to do to support our troops.
Says the sister of the soldier who was sexually abused and slain at Fort Hood, TX.
That’s what pissed me off the most when I read this. Fucking pathetic.
What an absolute fucking moron, I hope her sister is haunting her
If I were a betting man, I would wager that Donald will drop the “N” word by the time the election is over.
He got to occupy the news space so yeah why not. He wants hitler generals and “loves” Kim jong un and putin so there’s no limit IMO.
I don’t think so but I’d take a bet that he’ll drop racial slurs for mexicans
i think he hates mexicans much more than black people, though he hates both, and the mexican slurs are easier to get away with politically
I dunno. I don’t think any politician can come back from dropping an N-bomb (Trump excluded). I’d like to think the b-word would be treated just as harshly, but I guess white people haven’t been scolded enough over it yet.
One time when I was in highschool, a student said, in front of the principal, that he hopes trump would build that “beaner wall”, one of the other students confronted him, saying it was racist, the principal (a trump supporter, obviously) said “what’s racist about that?”
The fact that this interaction has ever occurred on this earth leaves me with no hope that it would be treated as harshly.
I would put money on that. What I wouldn’t bet on would be it losing him votes.
Just a matter of time before he lets that slip.
Let’s slip? He’ll probably bray it, and still not a single vote will change
