McConnell's office is distributing a document titled "Stopping Blue State Bailouts."

[demmiblue]

McConnell's office is distributing a document titled “Stopping Blue State Bailouts.”
So it's probably time for Joe Biden to echo his old boss: There's not a Blue State America and a Red State America. There's the United States of America.

Link to tweet

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/coronavirus-mcconnell-states-bankruptcy.html

[roamer65]

1. I think its time states like KY pay their own way.

Stop the welfare from states like NY and CA.

[Squinch]

8. Exactly.

[SoonerPride]

9. +1,000,000

the beggar red states need to pull themselves up their bootstraps. (and I live in one, so I know from whence I speak)

[True Blue American]

28. Amen!

[spanone]

43. Gov. Cuomo pointed this out in his presser this am

[Danascot]

55. Cuomo really scorched McConnell

It was a thing of beauty.

Video here:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/apr/23/coronavirus-us-live-house-484bn-crisis-aid-package-trump-cuomo-latest-news-updates

[Cha]

57. Yeah, and call OUt mitch on his Shite & KICK him OUT

of Office!

Best of Luck to Amy McGrath!

[still_one]

2. Next time a tornado or other disaster happens in Kentucky we should throw this into that

piece of garbage's face

F**k Him

[Blue_true]

30. The issue is people like McConnell know that democrats will never allow

people to suffer without federal help, even people in red states who vote republican. The view that Trump, McConnell and other republicans take is a pathological and cynical view that centers around avenging grudges.

[still_one]

33. Of course, and I am so grateful that Cuomo called him out on this

[Caliman73]

36. Exactly!

Republicans count on the fact that Democratic politicians and people in general fundamentally believe that government should be an instrument to lift all people up. We believe that all people have value and that the government should work to help us in times of need and set as equal a playing field as possible.

Republicans typically believe that people should suffer for their choices, unless of course they are rich, then they should never suffer because they are just better than everyone else.

[uncle ray]

37. why wait until next time? KY receives more fed tax $$ than it contributes.

Every. Single. Day. blue states bail out these red states.

[scarletwoman]

46. THIS!

[Iliyah]

3. uGH . . .

[enough]

4. Yes Biden should absolutely pounce on this. The president is the president of the

United States of America. Trump has never seen himself as that. And now this can also be put directly on to the republicans in the Senate.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Blue states are the giver states to the red states. Greed Over People hates that. . . . nt

[jberryhill]

6. No reason not to link the document....

Link to tweet

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. Which is what this ad says...

https://lincolnproject.us/news/ready/

[superpatriotman]

10. Wake me when November comes

nt

[EarlG]

11. Stand by folks

"Blue State Bailouts" will be the next Fox News/RW media wall-to-wall buzzphrase...

Even though, as pointed out upthread, it's actually "Blue States" that massively subsidize "Red States" through tax contributions:

(2017) AP FACT CHECK: Blue high-tax states fund red low-tax states

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders have spent months promoting the myth that red low-tax states are subsidizing blue high-tax states because of the deduction for state and local taxes.

An Associated Press Fact Check finds it’s actually the other way around. High-tax, traditionally Democratic states (blue), subsidize low-tax, traditionally Republican states (red) — in a big way.

https://apnews.com/2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c/AP-FACT-CHECK:-Blue-high-tax-states-fund-red-low-tax-states

[True Blue American]

31. Ohio, right next door.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-states-are-givers-and-which-are-takers/361668/

[riversedge]

12. all of a sudden Moscow mitch is worried about the deficit. all of a sudden.

[Caliman73]

39. Oh, GOP worries about the deficit EVERY TIME it might go to non-wealthy people.

They can never afford the money that could be used to provide health care, disaster relief, or social programs, yet they can ALWAYS find the money to buy weapons, wage war, or subsidize wealthy people with tax cuts.

They always seem to care about the deficit when a Democratic President is in office. It is odd that they are doing this with Trump in office, but again, money for non rich people is bad. Money for rich people is just the way things should be.

[riversedge]

54. truth!!

[eleny]

13. Gov. Cuomo calling out the partisanship at his presentation right now

Calling it irresponsible and reckless.

[demmiblue]

14. Cuomo is going off on him at his daily press briefing.

[CousinIT]

15. Gov. Cuomo is talking about the malicious viciousness of this RIGHT NOW. n/t

[demmiblue]

18. It's getting good...

It is your state that is getting bailed out, not my state.

[True Blue American]

32. Add an s

To that picture.

[Dem4Life1102]

16. Trump may be incompetent and crazy

but McConnell is pure evil.

[Cha]

58. trump is Pure Evil, too.. they both are.

[Frustratedlady]

17. I realize our main aim is to get rid of Trump, but this oaf should be even with or ahead of Trump...

being frog-marched out the door. He is one evil bastid!

[AllaN01Bear]

29. get rid of moscow mitch too

[marlakay]

19. If that really happens CA and NY should

Withhold Federal taxes since they pay the most.

[Blue_true]

40. I wonder whether that is constitutionally possible?

If so, those states should withhold funds and take what they need.

[marlakay]

44. I am sure its not or every time we have

A Democrat leading the country all the red states would withhold.

[Blue_true]

47. If they withhold, simply don't send federal money to them.

They get a lot more from the Feds than they payin. If they kept their paltry money, but got none from the Feds, they would go broke fast, or they would have to implement state income taxes and stop handing out candy to corporations.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. Does anyone still doubt that we are at war?

[smirkymonkey]

21. I need to take a break.

Getting this angry can't be healthy for me.

[Maven]

22. Call these people what they are: NEO-CONFEDERATES.

Mitchell McConnell is a traitor to the Constitution.

[Blue_true]

41. Yes, they have been refighting the Civil War ever since they lost it. nt

[Nature Man]

61. Not "NEO"

They are true confederate Johnny Reb scum. It just never went away.

The Union should have punished all CSA territories brutally and harshly and killed all this shit in the 19th century.

[ancianita]

23. Mitch McConnell, aka The Grim Reaper, is ANTI-AMERICAN -- on THAT, Cuomo brings receipts.

[Lonestarblue]

24. McConnell needs to add a couple of words to his title.

Stopping Blue State Bailouts of Red States

It’s an annual occurrence as blue states provide the money for red states to get goodies from Republican handouts.

Attach that to a chart showing which states get the most federal dollars and pay the least.

[Corgigal]

25. Can't wait to vote against

this fucker. Got 4 extra voters in Kentucky. I’m a New Yorker, but retired to this state. We love our blue governor, and I never met a person who liked our crappy senators. MCConnelly is running a commercial with him and our blue governor together. Ha, which means he’s worried, good. He’s beatable, all we have to do is show up.

We also live on my husband’s red state pension. All people who have earned pension deserve it.

[OMGWTF]

27. Good work Corgigal! If more progressives moved to red states it would really help.

[True Blue American]

52. Peter King just called Moscow Mitch, " Marie Antoinette,"

For that remark!

[BadgerMom]

26. I have a fix.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/amymcgrathkentucky

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

34. As Gov. Cuomo said, "Letting states declare bankruptcy is a really dumb idea."

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/23/coronavirus-cuomo-rips-mcconnells-dumb-suggestion-to-let-states-go-bankrupt.html

[Goodheart]

35. I wonder how a Republican in New York feels about that shit?

[Blue_true]

48. Republicans in every blue state should be forced to take a stand.

Let people of their state see where they stand.

[SunSeeker]

38. GOP to majority of American population: Drop Dead. nt

[homegirl]

42. Does anyone else remember

the uproar the GOP created when the GOP Gov. of New Jersey, embraced and thanked Pres. Obama for the aid promised after Sandy. Anyone have and can post that photo?

[DinahMoeHum]

45. McConnell better STFU and face a few facts. . .

Ya know:

CA alone would be the 5th-6th largest world economy. Plus all that tech.

NYC is a global financial center.

The NY-NJ-CT region is a global corporate center.

Chicago is the center of US agribusiness, and the futures trading exchanges for grains are located there.

If McConnell and the GOP get any more cute with us in the blue states, well. . .they damn well better consider these possible blowbacks. . .

You need pharmaceuticals in Alabama? South Carolina? Kentucky? There will be a surcharge.

All that construction in Louisville? Birmingham? Spartanburg? Lexington? Your local banking system doesn't have the capacity to sustain it, so we'll continue lending to you...at 10% or more.

Those farms in Nebraska? Iowa? Missouri? Kentucky? We now own them, and you have one week to GTFO.

In short, McConnell and the GOP had fucking better well come to their senses, 'cause this is an extremely dangerous game they're playing with us; and it's not wise to attack someone unilaterally when they we have the power to ruin you, financially and otherwise.






#newrostrong

[scarletwoman]

51. LOVE your post!!

[Cha]

59. TY, Dinah!

[Nature Man]

62. Although I agree wholeheartedly

They know no one will fight back. They don't even suffer any blowback.

That's why they do this shit: it's because they know they can get away with whatever they conjure.

Is there anything good to bingewatch on television, tho?

[cstanleytech]

49. How about a Stopping The Welfare Red States document then?

After all the red states are essentially the states most dependent upon the federal government providing welfare funding.

[pwb]

50. Right off the Putin presses?

Figures.

[Scarsdale]

53. Maybe Moscow Mitch should be

informed that the Blue states support the Red states with the taxes that they pay. Since the Red states have more poor people than the Blue states, where does the money come from to help them out? The Red states have more unemployed and people living in poverty than the Blue states. Many of them reside in Moscow Mitch's own state. If the Blue states decide it is time to support their own residents, and let the Red states do likewise, Kentucky and other southern states would be in even worse shape than they are now.

[Blue Owl]

56. K&R for exposure

[Xolodno]

60. California had 16 Billion in its Rainy Day Fund...

...the largest in the country. And we'll probably exhaust it.

We literally did what the GOP says everyone should do, but don't do themselves. Prepare ourselves for dire circumstances so you don't have to rely on the Federal Government. But this is so bad, even we are going to get tapped out.