• ambitious_bones@lemmy.world
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    “When you find out the North Pole is trying to bring more bureaucratic overreach & unfunded mandates down the chimney disguised as “Christmas cheer.” Not on my watch,” the Republican posted on his X account Thursday morning.

    “We The People run Indiana, not the bureaucrats,” he added. “Take it back to the North Pole big guy.”

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    “Lots of intolerance, swearing, and outrage on display over a few AI pics I had a blast designing with my kids,” Garten said. “Some of you clowns are just insufferable. Hopefully your negativity stays in the comments and not directed at your families.”

    “Merry Christmas, snowflakes!” he added.

    I don’t get it, what does Santa have to do with additional Bureaucracy?

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      I had a blast designing with my kids

      Hopefully your negativity stays in the comments and not directed at your families

      Every accusation a confession LMAO

      Imagine him screeching that his children are snowflakes for liking Santa Claus

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      You can’t even have unpaid immigrants doing manual labour in work camps anymore!

      It’s Elf and Safety gone mad!

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      As someone who has to interact with fundies regularly, I can explain. Fundies are opposed to secular ideology, which they associate with liberal bureaucrats. “Unfunded mandates” refers to social programs, something he’s opposed to because he feels that the government can’t or shouldn’t afford them, and which he associates with the spirit of giving that is central to the secularized christmas holiday. Santa is the mascot of that secular version of christmas.

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      I don’t get it either. Doesn’t Santa work on Christmas Eve? As in evening? As in night time? How is beating him up the next morning helpful at all? Why the holy fuck did this moron not make his stupid fucking pictures set at night?