Leopards Ate My Face

Airbenders?

Aeroman.

We as normal humans from earth always speak like that, do we not?

It's Sarah Sanders, she hasn't been socialized with normal people yet.

Well it's the same as pulling yourself up by your bootstraps! Everyone worth any respect at all has gotta be a self-made man, a rugged individualist, a lone wolf! Help is for snowflakes and libtards, these patriots don't take handouts, they'd never be caught dead getting bailed out by Uncle Sam, they assume full responsibility! After the real adults solve the fucking crisis, anyway. And rinse and repeat.

It's cartoon language for cartoon people, from the politicians to the voters and back. Their world view is a 12 year old's embarrassingly shitty fanfic of reality. Just utterly shameful.

(I know you know all that, that passage just stuck out to me too as egregiously disingenuous double speak and it pissed me right off)

Edit: spewed more vitriol, lol

What it's saying is "Without this declaration, we'll have full responsibility for recovery, which would be difficult". The implication is that the declaration, and thus the aid, makes them not fully responsible, since they would also be receiving said aid.

Republicans don't ask for handouts, they ask for your confidence, faith, and trust to manage and grow an investment opportunity.

... It is literally just throw in some other Republican coded words that sound more 'small business entrepenuer', and this is sufficient to trick the lead brained, ivermectin enema'd, mouth breathing cult members that make up their core voter base.

I am serious about this, go find a tiktok compilation of Republican small business owners who've been fucked over by the tariffs, who either open their video with, or include the phrase 'I'm not asking for a handout, I'm asking for a handup' or some other such laughably sophomoric wordplay, when complaining they got what they asked for and now they don't want it.

The smarter ones know they are being disingenuous, but a shocking number of them really are so stupid that they think using a different phrase to describe the same thing, well that makes it a different thing.

They are so used to having thought terminating cliches and reframing certain discussion subjects with more rhetorically agreeable wordings... from their churches, their media, their political heroes... I really stuggle to describe it as anything other than a kind of learned mental disability.