House Republicans moved to reduce Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s salary to $1, as lawmakers debate spending bills ahead of the government funding deadline next week.
The salary cut for Buttigieg was put forth by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and adopted by voice vote as an amendment to the 2024 Transpiration and Housing and Urban Development spending bill.
“Pete Buttigieg doesn’t do his job. It’s all about fake photo ops and taxpayer-funded private jet trip to accept LGBTQ awards for him,” Green posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “I’m happy my amendment passed, but he doesn’t deserve a single penny.”
The underlying bill needs to be approved by the full House and is unlikely to be approved by the Senate.
Don't cut yourself on that edge, me boy.
It’s edgy to disbelieve in something that has no factual basis?
They probably think its equally edgy to say Santa, Buddha, Karma, Yahweh, Flying Spaghetti Monster, etc don’t exist. None have been proven not to exist, so by their logic they all simply MUST.
Flying Spaghetti Monster DOES exist! It's proven by the inverse relationship between the number of pirates in the world, especially ones of the Caribbean that aren't Johnny Depp, and global warming.
Reaching pretty hard on that "logic" there.
Needing to mention that Santa/FSM/etc doesn't exist every time it comes up is the height of edgy. Everyone knows, nobody cares cause it's rarely relevant.
So them being fake is a given, yet your god is somehow different?
No, that was my point.
God doesn't exist, the only people who feel the need to wrap their identity around it (or lack of it) are edgelord atheists and fundamentalist Christians.
sure, but don't equate 'obsessed edgelords' with people making simple factual statements online
most atheists don't think about religion much at all except for when it's presented to them in the form of people making illogical claims online. at that point it's fair to offer the contrary opinion so the people passing by the thread can make their judgement as to what is and is not crazy
it is completely reasonable to compare santa and the tooth fairy with god because they are all mythological, which presents the question of why people treat one as sacred and the others as simple stories. it highlights the irrationality of beleiving
Sorry, who exactly do you think are the perpetrators of basing their entire existence on it? The atheists…?? Fuck me, just look at what the religious right are up to in the US and then compare that with the atheists… Delusional
Literally nothing edgy about stating that magical sky daddy is a story made up by ancient bandits.
tips fedora
Agreed sir you are a gentleman and a scholar!
Stating a fact is edgy? Lmao
You don't believe in 199 gods, I don't believe in 200 gods
If your sky daddy was the "right" one, why would he even allow all these other "false" religions to exist and cause death and chaos? Seems like a dumb ass to me if so
He doesn't, all those people that believe in false gods are just damned to hell for all eternity.
Why is that the criteria for eternal damnation? Believe in the face of a total lack of evidence, that's the question upon which burning for ALL ETERNITY hinges on? That "God" is an evil psychopath and deserves nothing from us.
And if his power somehow comes from our belief, then all the better to rid ourselves of that belief. But if he's omnipotent, why does he require our belief and servitude? Seems like absolute insanity to believe in that to me.
And those people that believe in false gods are damned just because if where they're born? What a sick fucking god you worship.
We are on the same page here brother, fundies are fucking nuts. 👍
I was pointing out that all these religions are basically playing the lottery on whose strict beliefs turn out to actually save their soul. Not to mention they could all be wrong and there is no afterlife or at least no "final judgement". Or that the one "true" religion could not even exist yet, or it could have died off a long while ago. It's not worth playing.
Ah I see, sorry I misunderstood my dude! 👍