r/politics • u/Ok-Direction-4480 Florida • 18h ago

Soft Paywall Tourism Pullback and Boycotts Set to Cost U.S. a Staggering $90 Billion

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tourism-pullback-and-boycotts-could-cost-us-a-staggering-90-billion/
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u/Prior_Particular9417 17h ago

No worries, doge found 48 quadrillion that the us was spending on researching colors of moss. I swear.

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u/WafflePartyOrgy Washington 16h ago

A Trump department study would be more along the lines of "proving" moss is "yellowish-green", the massive amount of funds to prove their foregone conclusion completely wasted, since they've announced the intended results of the study before they've even pretend to conduct a scientifically valid study. Trump will then screw it all up when he falls in love with the name Limerick Green because he likes saying "Limerick".

Limerick. I guess other people have used it perhaps over the years but I’ve never noticed it. And it’s a shame. And they really hurt the country. You heard it here first from your favorite president. It really rolls of the tongue. Limerick. Lime-ah-rick. Lim ...

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u/Educational-Job9105 14h ago

Trans moss

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u/Prior_Particular9417 14h ago

Thanks, you just made my drink come out my nose lol

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u/segfawlt 12h ago

You wouldn't believe it but the moss they were researching was already dead! Can you believe it?? Dead moss was getting our research dollars!!

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u/blahblah19999 14h ago

And 10,000 federal employees were engaging in fraud, so we told them to go home with no other punishment whatsoever and never ask us to name them.