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Grover Norquist, who decries "government spending" (really, what he doesn't like is spending on anything "liberal"), got one of these grants (because they're not really loans).

Oh, the irony...................

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PBS News Hour: "As much as $273,000,000 in federal coronavirus aid was awarded to more than 100 companies that are owned or operated by major donors to President Donald Trump’s election efforts."

$273M...small change, right? Trumputin's buying loyalty but we pay the price for it.

Oh, yeah, this is totally Putin behavior, rewarding friends to keep them on the same page.

Sure, some Dem programs, Planned Parenthood, and other non-trumputin folks got money - hell, it was hundreds of billions of dollars, so what's a few hundred thousand here and there falling off the back of the federal bank truck to people who don't like him? - but the control of the distribution was essentially trumputin's through loyal representatives. This isn't just corruption at this point; this is fuck-you corruption - doing it in public, kind of like shooting someone in Times Square and trumputin saying, try to stop me.

We are not irrelevant yet, but if he "wins" in November, and you still can't emigrate to some other country, you're essentially trapped in Trumpworld until he is removed by law or disease or death.

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How this happens is what has to change. I'm exhausted.

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Sad that a lot of our tax payers dollars went to DT and CO instead of struggling business's.

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I don't think 'questionable' is quite the word...

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Amee, if this administration is deplorable, what are the ten worst presidents we have had? It seems hard to top removing infants from new mothers seeking political refuge, or caging children without any hugging whatsoever. The list continues with the deregulated PPP. I’m just curious if there are any nonfiction books out there with a Consumer Reports-like chart.

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