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Trump's right. Where's Our "Thank You?" [1]
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Date: 2025-07-30
Brothers and sisters, boys and girls, I have seen the light!
Donald Trump is right!
x Trump: "You really want to at least have somebody say t 'Thank you!'...We gave $60 million two weeks ago for food to Gaza. Nobody acknowledged it. Nobody talks about it. And it makes you feel a little bad when you do that...and nobody said 'Thank you very much.'" — The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2025-07-27T16:20:50.304Z
There should be a “Thank you!”
For too long donor states, which are a majority blue, have given more money for aid in welfare, disaster, etc. than we ever get back. It is the taker states, by in large red states, that have used that necessary money.
But we donor states have NEVER gotten a “Thank you.”
Indeed not only do we NOT get a thank you, we get named called, abused, poached from, and lies told about us in those red states and by the people they elect to the Senate and House of Representatives.
It is long past time that this “biting the hand that feeds you” stop and gratitude shown.
But instead, to use the words of our glorious, POTUS, Donald John Trump;
“Nobody acknowledged it. Nobody talks about it. And it makes you feel a little bad when you do that...and nobody said 'Thank you very much.'"
It’s high time that the taker states acknowledge what we donor states do for them!
Taker state governors need to tell us on national broadcast media, “Thank you” every year
Senators and Congresspeople from taker states need to each step to the microphone once a year and tell donor states “Thank you” for the SNAP, LIEAP, Section 8, and all other benefits that their states receive on the donor states’ dime.
On both those occasions donor states must all be named and a “Thank you,” given to each of the states. No blanket “thank you” that doesn’t name the donor states.
When they need special disaster assistance the governor, senators and congresspeople from taker states needing that help, must once again come to the mic and say “Thank you” (before the funds can be released) and huge signs at the disaster sites/zones will be raised acknowledging the generosity of the donor states and thanking them. One sign for every mile of the affected area.
On the rare occasions a donor state needs disaster assistance, no vote on getting that assistance will be needed. They will just get it without the necessary “Thank yous” or signage. One privilege of living in and representing a donor state.
There are other issues that will need to be worked out, like how big the benefit package a state gets will be proportionate to how much it’s representatives have lied about donor states. The more smack that has been spoken (like how all our cities are burning, etc.) about donor states (in the overall or just one or two) the smaller the package will be.
In a way it will reflect the size of other packages in that state.
Gone are the days of just doing it because it’s the right, humanitarian and brotherly/sisterly thing to do. Now appropriate gratitude MUST BE SHOWN!
Thank you President Trump for showing this liberal the way.
Say “Thank you!” damn it!
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