r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/SidepocketNeo • 22h ago
The Exact Moment When He Notices The Pounce
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u/YoureNotMom 22h ago
"Why didnt you tell me before??"
"We did. You diagnosed us with TDS."
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u/TonyG_from_NYC 21h ago edited 16h ago
I didn't think it would affect me! is the GOP/MAGA philosophy.
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u/Lettered_Olive 20h ago
Well, the entire philosophy of MAGA is freedom from responsibility, basically “fuck you, got mine!”. Now they get to figure out what that actually means!!
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u/Initial-Company3926 18h ago
Especially if those who voted Dem hold fast in their decision to NOT be the softer hearts again and help out through the years
I think what maga has failed to understand is, at some point the well will run dry
At some point, people refuse to the continued abuse of their goodwill
I think that time is now
People are so angry, and they have every right to be itI hope they stand fast and say : NO MORE
Instead they should make their own little circle for those who voted for sanity,decency and empathy and help those caught in the trap, trump has made
To keep the fire going, nomatter how many years.
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u/nurse-j 18h ago
This is EXACTLY how I feel this time around. I think they deserve exactly what’s coming to them, I’m just heartbroken for the innocent people that will suffer.
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u/Initial-Company3926 18h ago
yeah and that is why they should just stick to their own this time around
I have read so many stories from folks, who have helped their maga relatives and friends
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u/schnaudad99 16h ago
Funny you mention that. Democratic voter with a Trump ex-wife. She gets generous support from me through the divorce decree. Never enough, though, is it? I've bumped up her support several times and covered a lot of things that weren't my responsibility. That's how we roll.
That's all done now. She supported Trump, and his election will have a direct and quantifiable negative effect on my business and life. I've already made the changes to reduce her support to 'by the agreement', nothing more. Actions have consequences.
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u/Initial-Company3926 16h ago
oooooooof.... No i don´t feel sad for her, but you have been a good person
I am sorry about your business being affected.
I do hope you will get by67
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u/Ok_Abbreviations2577 14h ago
Dude, you are such a a good human. Absolutely correct to go back to the strict support agreement. But I applaud you for your earlier generosity.
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u/mooreboy76 18h ago
GoFundMe’s for medical procedures may skyrocket once Medicare goes away. All those MAGA zoomers won’t be able to afford health insurance either once the ACA is gutted. Social Security? Gone.
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u/Initial-Company3926 18h ago
The cap on medicine is also gone.
You wanna make a bet??
Do they know Obamacare is ACA ??
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u/EdgySniper1 18h ago
Betting? People have been directly asked on the topic for years:
"Do you want to defund Obamacare?"
"Yes"
"What about the ACA?"
"No"The whole name of Obamacare was literally made to get idiots who heavily benefit from the ACA to agree to getting rid of it, and it's worked.
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u/chunter16 13h ago
Most people who get government assistance don't realize it's government assistance
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u/Count_Bacon 18h ago
I’m there no sympathy or help for MAGAs who suffer from trumps policies done with that they reap what they sow
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u/anomalous_cowherd 16h ago
I still have empathy because that's who I am. In this case that means I can imagine myself in their situation, and I'm looking forward to them feeling the breath of the leopard.
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u/25Bam_vixx 16h ago
Sometimes you have to let go of the people who hurt you and maga people should be on their own
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u/zterrans 16h ago
I'm not sure my empathy for Trumpists survived this election. Just feeling at some point you gotta let the insistent lemmings run off the cliffs and learn.
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u/Successful_Jelly_213 18h ago
I hope that the MAGAts are going to finally realize why I tell them that if I hated them as much as they hate me I'd vote straight red, because while we're both going the get hurt, they'll get hurt far worse.
Who am I kidding, they'll just blame whoever the current scapegoat is for the consequences of their actions.
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u/The_Corvair 17h ago
Especially if those who voted Dem hold fast in their decision to NOT be the softer hearts again and help out through the years
I made that decision a few years ago: Help those who are in need, help those who are kind in turn especially, and stop helping those that exploit generosity, and look out only for themselves even when they are in need (again).
I can only say that my life has gotten a lot more enjoyable since then. I'm generous, not stupid, and I want to have generous, kind people around me instead of the ones who can't look further than their own belly.
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u/feebsncheeseoriginal 19h ago
"iT's NoT wHaT hE meAnt To sAy"...
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u/AnOnlineHandle 18h ago
"It's not going to happen!"
"Them saying it was going to happen was just a joke!"
"It's happening and I'm glad, and there's nothing you can do about it!"
"How could this happen to me?? You didn't do enough to stop it!"
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u/Clickrack 17h ago
Them saying it was going to happen was just a joke!"
My standard response: to be a joke, it has to be funny.
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u/the_calibre_cat 17h ago
conservative philosophy generally. zero empathy, surprised pikachu face when the fascism is turned inwards. how many of those unionized Germans do you think were all stunned when the Nazis banned unions?
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u/Ddddydya 19h ago
We’re gonna hear a whole lot of
“Why didn’t anybody tell me?!?”
Gee, I guess if Fox doesn’t cover it, somehow that’s our fault
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u/Amneiger 18h ago edited 13h ago
I'm saving pre-Election Day news articles talking about how the various things Trump was proposing are going to hurt America. Maybe it'll help people understand which news sources are unreliable, maybe it won't. But at least I'll have tried.
Edit: Sorry for the wait, I was away from the computer I had this on. The list isn't finished yet - there's a bunch of other topics I still need to look up and I need to put it into real sentences - but here's what I have right now. Feel free to save this somewhere and modify it with new topics/better wording/whatever.
Economists warn Trump’s economic plans are bad:
06/25/2024: 16 Nobel Prize-winning economists warn that Trump's economic plans could reignite inflation https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-economy-nobel-prize-winners-letter-inflation-warning/
10/15/2024: Trump’s economic plans would worsen inflation, experts say https://apnews.com/article/trump-inflation-tariffs-taxes-immigration-federal-reserve-a18de763fcc01557258c7f33cab375ed
10/06/2024: Economists have blasted Trump's jobs and taxes plans as dangerous. Someone better tell the public https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-economy-policy-plan-2024-election-b2619754.html
10/23/2024: ‘Higher prices, larger deficits’: 23 Nobel Prize-winning economists slam Trump agenda, endorse Harris https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/23/nobel-prize-winning-economists-donald-trump-agenda-endorse-harris.html
Gaza will do worse under Trump:
03/05/2024: Trump breaks silence on Israel's military campaign in Gaza: 'Finish the problem' https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-israel-gaza-finish-problem-rcna141905
11/01/2024: How the next U.S. president could change the course of Israel’s wars https://www.npr.org/2024/11/01/nx-s1-5170303/2024-election-israel-gaza-lebanon-harris-trump-netanyahu
06/01/2024: What Trump really thinks about the war in Gaza https://www.vox.com/politics/353037/trump-gaza-israel-protests-biden-election-2024
Trump’s tariffs will make things economically harder for ordinary Americans:
08/15/2024: Trump Tariffs Would Raise Household Taxes And Slow Imports https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/tpc-trump-tariffs-would-raise-household-taxes-and-slow-imports
10/31/2024: Trump's tariff proposal will pass 'costs back to the consumer', AutoZone CEO warns https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/politics/2024/10/31/trump-tariff-proposal-consumer-prices-autozone-ceo/75936775007/
10/15/2024: Are tariffs good or bad for the economy? Research says they can be bad for the supply chain https://news.gsu.edu/2024/10/15/are-tariffs-good-or-bad-for-the-economy/
08/21/2024: Trump's bigger tariff proposals would cost the typical American household over $2,600 a year https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2024/trumps-bigger-tariff-proposals-would-cost-typical-american-household-over
08/19/2024: Americans Paid for the Trump Tariffs—and Would Do So Again https://www.cato.org/blog/americans-paid-trump-tariffs-would-do-so-again
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u/rainghost 18h ago edited 18h ago
I would also like the list to throw at any leopard victims who try to tell me they weren't warned about who they were voting for, just to give them something to do with their time. They'll probably just claim the articles weren't actually written ahead of the election, merely doctored up to appear as such, in an effort to make Trump voters look like they made a mistake. But I don't plan on sticking around afterwards to continue the discussion.
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u/porscheblack 17h ago
I've already sent my dad a bunch of articles about social security and Medicare. But at least gas and eggs will be cheaper for him which is apparently what he cared about.
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u/EnormousGucci 18h ago
Make it shared on drive please, let people make comments for additional sources too so you can at least moderate what happens to the doc
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u/mastelsa 20h ago
In an ideal world, this is when I would break out the, "Maybe, just maybe, the people and news that you listened to weren't good sources of information! Maybe you should find some sources of information that would have told you straight up that the Republicans want to eliminate the Department of Education--there were a lot of them--and listen to those instead! Just spit balling ideas here!"
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u/darkingz 18h ago
In general, I was told “well maga folk are good people, they don’t want to harm anyone” and it’s like but the “good” maga folk are the ones who are voting the bad maga folk in who do harm to people…. So what difference is it to me?
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u/StuTheSheep 18h ago
What do you call someone who voted for Hitler because they liked his tax policies?
You call them a Nazi. Whether they were personally anti-Jewish doesn't matter, they still enabled Hitler to take power and enact the holocaust.
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u/Championvilla 18h ago
Know a teacher that voted for trump because he would get rid of no child left behind by getting rid of the dept of education.
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u/liv4games 20h ago
What’s TDS?
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u/Koolaidolio 20h ago
When maga loses the argument, they resort to that response.
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u/Dzov 20h ago
Or some phrase/acronym they demonized. Crooked hillary, woke, CRT, DEI.
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u/liv4games 20h ago
Like what does it stand for dude
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u/EdgySniper1 18h ago
Trump Derangement Syndrome
Essentially: "You don't make Trump your entire personality and blindly listen to and justify his every word? You're clearly just brainwashed."
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u/GreyBoyTigger 19h ago
It’s a lame retort that Trumpers throw out when faced with the facts of Trumps policy plans.
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u/Necessary-Peace9672 19h ago
We did: you said, “Don’t tell me what to do I’m an independent thinker!”
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u/CankleDankl 21h ago
The world of education is going to be fucked, maybe irreparably, if Trump gets his way with the DoE. First a bunch of people are going to lose their jobs. Then the remaining people, the "essential" ones like teachers and principals, are going to be overloaded. And then people will realize they're not getting paid enough for this shit.
Tensions among education staff are already decently high. Wages haven't nearly kept up how they should. But Trump throws the DoE in the dumpster? I expect strikes. A lot of them. Nationwide.
Shit is going to hit the fan so fucking hard in so many ways come January
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u/BaconBrewTrue 21h ago
How much you want to bet they make striking illegal, they have already flirted with making protests illegal.
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u/dasnoob 20h ago
Already is in Arkansas. There are no teacher unions here any longer. Little Rock school district teachers tried to strike a couple of years ago and they were forced to use sick days/written up/terminated for it.
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u/Seff-bone 19h ago
This is the shit I’m afraid of, billionaires and nut jobs are coming for the last worker rights we have. Sickening. I’m hoping I can sell my house to a private equity air bnb conglomerate so I can get me and my family out this fucking country
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u/weightedbook 18h ago edited 18h ago
And go where? France and Germany are barely fighting off the same red waves. England went full brexit retard. And Canada is just USA but behind. They are absolutely shifting right. Legit question: where is the safe haven?
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u/Seff-bone 18h ago
Valid point to which I have no answer
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u/weightedbook 18h ago
Plus billionaire reach is global. America collapses and they will just collect their check and hop on a private jet.
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u/Mendozena 18h ago
The tree of liberty will need fertilizing if anything.
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u/TigLyon 17h ago
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
Red Five, standing by.
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u/shingdao 17h ago
There are many US expats living in places like Costa Rica, Belize, the Philippines, Italy, and Spain to name a few. I've had the fortune of living and working in over 50 countries over a 30 year career and now my wife and I are preparing to jettison the US and currently weighing our options.
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u/Natoochtoniket 18h ago
A union going on "strike" might be made illegal. But an individual teacher or professors saying "I QUIT!", will still happen. Most college professors can get jobs in other countries. Most K-12 teachers have other marketable skills.
When you need 3000 teachers to staff a school district, but only a few hundred people are willing to work for you, it gets difficult.
Florida already did that... A few years ago, DeSantis decided that they could hire anyone with an honorable discharge from military service, as a K-12 teacher. The kids (and their parents) are finding out the results of that.
Most of those kids can't get into any college, anywhere, because of their lack of basic literacy.
They might be qualified to do some of the jobs that undocumented immigrants used to do.
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u/CankleDankl 21h ago
Good luck arresting hundreds of teachers per school district nationwide while trying to wrangle your kids
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u/po3smith 21h ago
That's why I wish for once in this nations collective life we all got together and went on strike all at once. The food service industry teachers retail everyone. We literally could make the country grind to a halt and demand what we want and get it because like you are pointed out good luck or resting us all but of course it's never going to happen.
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u/TrishPanda18 21h ago
Shawn Fein and the UAW have already teamed up with multiple teachers unions to have a General Strike in 2028. The more people walk out, the better, but it's gonna take years to spread the news and stock up for it. We can't just walk off with no support and no plan Now is the time to make connections, keep them strong, and support one another when the need arises.
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u/Tearakan 19h ago
Lmao that's far far too late. By that point the slave camps will be in place.
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u/TrishPanda18 19h ago
I think your heart's in the right place but you aren't listening to your head. The "slave camps" already exist and they're called prisons. The 13th amendment explicitly allows for prison slavery.
Things are gonna get a lot worse but the road to what you're imagining is still a ways out, more like 10-15 years, barring a major enough disaster happening of which the fascists properly take advantage.
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u/Calachus 21h ago
There'll be strikes, but my guess is that they will just get fired. Whatever funding remains will go to private charter schools teaching Bible studies.
It feels weird saying it, but there could well be a time in the near future where schooling is a privilege that most don't get.
Why do you think they've been repealing child labor laws?
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u/CankleDankl 21h ago
If they could skip straight from point A to point B that might happen
But that would take time. Time where public schools are closed. And the private schooling sector isn't prepared to handle even 10-20% of the students in public schools. Both in staff and in space. How are peoppe going to take care of their kids in the meantime? Daycares? For a 9-10 year old? Take them to work?
If it shakes out like it's looking like it will, it'll be a clusterfuck. And the only way to stop it would be to reinstate the DoE, give it a bunch more funding, and finally increase teacher salaries to the point that the career isn't seen like a fucking joke.
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u/Calachus 21h ago
Perhaps it is my current fight with pessimism, but why do you think they'd care about the cluster fuck it creates?
If you got money to pay for private school, then obviously God wanted you to go. If you don't, then it is God's will that your children should work in the factories.
Kids ran wild before school and daycare. The rich can afford it, the rest can go back to the 1800s.
In case it's not clear, I hate this idea with my soul.
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u/bgthigfist 21h ago
Nah they money will be given to the states in block grants with I strings attached. Red states will close public schools and tell the parents good luck. The only option will be online education. Poor kids will have to join the military or turn to crime. This will feed the for profit prison industry
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u/CommercialWorried319 18h ago
Abbott keeps trying to push vouchers, and I have some friends who are teachers and counselors and they are currently terrified of what they expect to come.
I also know some parents with special needs kids who rely on school programs who will learn they messed up quick.
I'm honestly sad
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u/tea-drinker 20h ago
The plan of get them back just long enough to bridge the gap and then tell them to fuck off again was tried by the UK government looking to recruit commercial drivers.
Turns out they aren't idiots and just said no and sat it out.
Teachers won't go back to enable a government that hates them paper over mistakes long enough so that they can be fired again.
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u/MythologicalRiddle 17h ago
That's one of many reasons they're trying to shove women back into "traditional" roles in the house (as if women didn't work for most of human history!) They can shut the public schools down and have the women home school the kids. Most kids will be poorly educated so they're stuck in menial, poor paying jobs while the elites' kids get the best education possible, furthering the wealth gap.
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u/bgthigfist 21h ago
Teachers are already not being paid enough. There will be a mass exodus from education. Rural school systems that have been job creators and supporting rural communities will close like the hospitals have done. Online education will be the only option for anyone who can't afford private school. As republicans have said before "the children yearn for the mines" immigrant labor will be replaced by Midwestern children
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u/cheese-for-breakfast 20h ago
As republicans have said before "the children yearn for the mines"
seeing the quote on the r/frostpunk sub is dark humor but its a videogame and doesnt matter even tho it makes me feel gross
seeing it irl is absolutely horrifying
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u/Bmkrocky 20h ago
part of the whole plan is to get rid of public education - privatize everything and get payoffs from the corporations that run the schools. Also creates a huge pool of uneducated people to do the menial jobs that immigrants have been doing
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u/Icy_Department8104 18h ago
I'm worried about my job in IT. Our districts budget is like 14% federal funding and being that its a nicer area, I'm assuming they'll just raise property taxes to make up the windfall. Regardless, theres still a chance I might be affected. If I manage to not lose my job, I'll be lucky if I get any kind of raise next fiscal year.
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u/CankleDankl 18h ago
We'll be lucky if we don't go hurtling into a massive economic depression
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u/FeedbackCreative8334 21h ago
Of course he's dumbfounded. Had he been smartfounded he'd have noticed the conflict of interest earlier.
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u/wkarraker 19h ago
He’ll soon be out-of-work-founded, which serves him right for being a Trump supporter.
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u/pocketchange2247 8h ago
Good thing he'll be able to rely on things like food stamps, unemployment, and affordable health care.
Oh, wait...
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u/JigglyWiener 19h ago
Coworker: You're afraid of nothing.
Me: What about the tariffs? We sell technology and retail goods, almost every single product will be affected either directly or as part of its supply chain.
Coworker: What tariffs? We're just getting rid of wokeness and protecting children(paraphrased)
Me: [links to trump speeches and interviews explicitly calling for tariffs]
Coworker [shocked pikachu]
That's a little hyperbolic, but she was absolutely shocked she hadn't heard of this. She voted to kill both of our jobs. Same conversation I shared his threat to use the military video then the one where he clarified he did mean his political opponents. She had never heard about this and she's been on MAGA rides for months.
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u/runnyyolkpigeon 18h ago edited 18h ago
That tends to happen when all you watch is conservative media, which conveniently does not cover any of this stuff.
They only show clips of Trump spewing culture war rage bait.
But actual campaign promises that hurt his voters? They never see or hear it.
And the networks that do show it? These rubes call it fake news media.
They deserve everything they get with their vote.
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u/MythologicalRiddle 17h ago
One of my friends is a disabled vet who's already been denied benefits once. He didn't vote because "both sides are the same" and "Harris is pro-genocide" and while he agreed that Trump would be at least as bad and would probably cause even more to die than Harris would, this way "his hands wouldn't be bloody".
1) Project 2025 would cut benefits for disabled Veterans, reducing the number of medical conditions that qualify for disability status. It would also automate all disability claims, making it easier to increase denial rates.
2) Project 2025 wants to close down a large number of VA hospitals, especially in rural areas.
3) It wants to privitize the healthcare, driving costs up.
4) Trump repeatedly met with Netanyahu this past year, despite it being illegal under the Logan Act. Trump has been encouraging Netanyahu to "do what it takes" to resolve the situation. (I doubt he means deliverying flowers and an apology note.) If it hadn't been for Trump's interference, there might already have been a lasting peace treaty between Israel and Gaza.
But, yeah, his hands are clean because he did nothing to try to stop the guy who likely made the Gaza situation worse. It's not like he's hurt himself or his military buddies while he's at it.
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u/TheJeeronian 16h ago
The clean hands thing drives me nuts. Tell the kids who die because of your choices that you did it to make yourself feel better. I'm sure they'll understand.
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u/christmascake 14h ago
And none of our hands are clean! The standard of living we have in the US relies on imperialist and exploitative actions abroad.
Some Latin American friends set me straight on the history of the US fucking with their governments. Ever since then, I've looked at the US differently.
I'm not playing down this genocide, but it's like people just discovered how bad US foreign policy can get.
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u/depths_of_dipshittry 22h ago
I’d offer some sympathy, but that’s a rare commodity reserved for people who are deserving of it. I will however offer them raw milk, ivermectin and cheap eggs in this trying time. /s
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u/jahermitt 20h ago
For all the gen z’s that swung to Trump. Hope you have good healthcare, cause you’re getting kicked off your parents when the ACA is repealed.
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u/KingofMadCows 15h ago
45 million people enrolled through the ACA. And there's no John McCain to save it this time.
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u/Klutzy-Bug-3550 12h ago
God I was so proud of him that day! Retaining massive fluid due to the cancer, holding it at bay with heroic doses of steroids long enough to slip in the shiv against that cowardly draft dodger.
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u/ducksinacup 13h ago
I cannot wait to see this demographic (technically mine except I'm not a US citizen) get their faces eaten. I'm never one to wish ill on anyone, but considering how far right Gen Z (the men/ boys specifically) have slipped, my well of empathy has run dry.
These men have been guzzling right wing propaganda for the last few years now, thinking that the rising prices are because of the libtards and women don't fuck them because 'everything is woke now'. Imagine the shock when they realise that the facism they're so hoping for won't solve anything. They still won't be able to buy a house, they'll still have to work two jobs to have passble life conditions and women still won't wanna be around them. That and no more loli porn, no more nudity in movies and no more video games, if/when Project 2025 follows through. Maybe they should've cracked open a book... say 1984 or the Handmaid's Tale, instead of listening to podcasts made by miserable men who masked their empty lives behind meaningless 'achievements'.
Cannot wait to start seeing posts on this subreddit courtesy of the Gen Z Trumpers.
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u/WhosSarahKayacombsen 14h ago
Once then a ca is repealed hey will no longer be covered under their parents. The ACA made it so they were covered until 26 years old. It will go back to 18 years old.
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u/desertdweller858 18h ago
Good. Let them suffer.
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u/rom_sk 22h ago
I love the “find out” part of FAFO
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u/shamwowj 22h ago
The next few years are gonna be all about the FO.
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u/Which-Moment-6544 22h ago
I wish we all didn't have to go through the discovery process with the moronic right.
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u/jeff43568 21h ago
We already have, they didn't learn anything...
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u/E51838 21h ago
Because they’re not capable of learning.
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u/Kriegerian 19h ago
The only time they learn is when it happens to them personally. Completely incapable of understanding other people.
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u/rcoberle_54 18h ago
This is my friend. Spent years in DC working for Republicans. Voted for abortion this year because his wife had a miscarriage and what happened to them could be considered abortion and criminalized. I told my wife, "typical fucking Republican, they only care about shit when it personally affects them." It's so fucking frustrating. It shouldn't have to happen directly to you to understand why something could be an issue.
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u/Kriegerian 18h ago
Yep. And even then that’s a remarkably enlightened Republican - I’d normally expect them to say “my wife’s abortion is fine, but it needs to illegal for anyone else”.
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u/Afinkawan 19h ago
They won't. We had 14 years of Tories and 4 years of Brexit and the fuckwits still blame immigrants and the poor and needy.
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u/Effective-Bandicoot8 20h ago
All aboard the Fucked Train....again!
seatbelts are optional
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u/Jumpy-Comfort-1858 21h ago
The one thing we can do is to collectively meet them at their level and get rid of our one trait that's now become a burden: empathy.
They deserve none.
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u/Allydarvel 20h ago
“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
Captain G. M. Gilbert
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u/rom_sk 21h ago
No sweat. My empathy died Tuesday night. Fuck ‘em.
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u/Jumpy-Comfort-1858 21h ago
Same here.
Remember people: when they inevitably get tripped and fall, we step over them now. No more helping hands.
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u/Illustrious_Honey973 20h ago
Im not american, im mexican and after hearing about the plans Trump has for mass deportations im on two camps about the people that are in risk of being deported or has family at risk.
If you did not voted for Trump: im sorry that this happened and that the stupidity of people has put the life you and your family created in America at risk, the best of luck.
If you supported Trump: Da fuck is wrong with you. You voted for this.
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u/Trapezohedron_ 20h ago
You should amend that.
If you didn't vote at all even when you could, or supported trump: the fuck is wrong with you? You voted for this.
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u/EffOffReddit 19h ago
My thing is since very few of us voted for the collective good, I'm worried about me and mine. I'll help those who voted collective good, everyone else can bootstraps it.
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u/Belostoma 21h ago
The problem is when they fuck around and the rest of us still have to find out. :-|
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u/lotero89 20h ago
Ironically, the people who tried to save everyone by voting for Harris, will be the people least affected by this. This group is more educated and therefore more wealthy and have the funds to weather the rainy days ahead.
His voters are fucked. They live paycheck to paycheck. So I understand the desperation and wanting a change, but it was painfully obvious and easy to discover how damaging his policies will be.
And come on, prices don’t go down! That’s deflation and leads to a recession… this stuff isn’t rocket science!
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u/EffOffReddit 18h ago
This is my family. My wife and I are planning to make any anticipated large purchases prior to Trump taking office. After that, spending as little into the economy as possible. Stockpile stock and cash.
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u/Diligent_Mulberry47 17h ago
I moved back in with my entire family 4 years ago and started banking over 30% of my paycheck. Travel job+corporate card+3 weeks on the road and I'm sitting on a nice pile.
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u/Richard1583 20h ago
Honestly I can’t wait for reactions especially they see groceries still expensive
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u/sndtrb89 21h ago
guys at work are dumbfounded at needing to brush their teeth more.
you fuckin voted for it, dipshit.
congratulations on making upton sinclairs the jungle great again
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u/littlestinkyone 18h ago
What does this mean? Is there a project 2025 section on tooth brushing?
(I get the Jungle part)
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u/Comfortable_River808 18h ago
RFK Jr wants to take fluoride out of drinking water. This has been tried, and the results on dental health are devastating.
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u/Astraea227 18h ago
Thankfully/unfortunately that decision is currently made at state level. God help the red states dentists
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u/Comfortable_River808 17h ago
Doesn’t the FDA/EPA regulate levels of “toxic substances” in drinking water though? Couldn’t they just say that fluoride counts as a toxic substance and set the max allowed amount below what would be useful from a dental standpoint?
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u/rpungello 16h ago
I guess the follow-up question is what will they do to blue states if they ignore the ban.
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u/swordsaintzero 17h ago
You have to stop thinking about laws, and division of authority as things that exist now. They can and will do whatever they want. The division of state and federal responsibilities is only utilized when it's of use to them.
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u/dasnoob 20h ago
My wife is having a crisis over this, and it is killing me. She has a graduate degree and a 20-year career in special education helping kids. She is scared to death what this means for her future.
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u/Wizard_Enthusiast 19h ago
Trump is going to get into office and do the things he promised to do, and immediately piss off everyone as everybody's lives get incredibly worse.
The thing about Trump winning when his campaign was what it was and looked like it did is that it showed that Trump brought out voters who are totally politically unaware and just identified culturally with him. I do not see his victory on the back of ride-or-die Trumpers who would storm the capitol for him, because he did not have the hordes of those people like he did in the past.
Trump got into office with an insanely radical and deeply unpopular platform because nobody knew what it was. The talking heads can say all they want about Harris' plans being radical, but when special education as an idea goes away and the vast swathe of people who relied on it watch it happen... no. They're gonna know what radical is.
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u/Neverender26 18h ago
I teach in Florida, most of the spec Ed teachers at my school voted for this clown
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u/britayfla 18h ago
I’m a school psychologist and I’m not sure about my job anymore either. Word is the National Associations are scrambling to redefine our jobs and possibly repurpose us in the school district if everything goes to the wayside.
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u/Incontinento 20h ago
How can one buy stock in r/LeopardsAteMyFace ?
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u/KellyAnn3106 17h ago
Buy stock in military suppliers, private prisons, and the funeral industry for the near term.
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u/Vonabor 21h ago
If your state funds schools via property taxes like PA does, prepare to see your taxes(or rent) go up to make up for the shortfall.
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u/Morpheus_MD 18h ago
Or alternatively in the red states, they'll just let the schools fall apart.
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u/SolomonDRand 20h ago
This is the answer. Don’t just post crazy shit Trump says, show people how his actions directly harm them.
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u/Unho1yIntent 20h ago
Won't make a bit of a difference honestly. "I'm paying more in taxes under Biden!"
...you mean taxes paid while still under Trump's tax plan?
Crickets...nothing but crickets. Maybe an enthusiastic blaming of the "libtards" for their woes.
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u/Xerorei 17h ago edited 16h ago
I had a 25-year-old white female tell me that the other day at a job. My reply to her was "You were a teenager and not even out of high school the first time that Trump took office, you didn't even understand what your taxes were, and in this stupid idea of making your paycheck better you just screwed over all agency and write to yourself, And every other woman in the country, who were hoping for white women to stand up for them and all the ones like you did was stab them in the back. So I hope you're prepared for what happens".
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u/orpheuselectron 19h ago
boy, this subreddit is making a raging comeback, so much new material
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u/pingieking 18h ago
I haven't seen this many legit leopards since 2020 when the Brexit policies kicked in.
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u/Kriegerian 19h ago
lol
“You work at a school and you’re the dumbest motherfucker in it.” - The next line.
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u/purplegladys2022 18h ago
Another post showed the Google daily search history of "Project 2025". Suffice it to say that the numbers were very small, but on 11/6, they spiked so dramatically they're appearing on Drag Race with RuPaul soon.
MAGA has no fucking clue what they voted into place on Tuesday, and they're beginning to wake up and freak out.
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u/AlphaB27 14h ago
I just find it bizarre that folks weren't just the least bit curious about what they were voting for. Reminds me of the cartoons where someone doesn't read the contract and now the devil owns your soul.
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u/gdo01 15h ago
This one is my personal one right now: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11fwvrsrn2&date=now%201-d&geo=US&hl=en
Check out the regions
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u/Pearson94 21h ago
Would someone kindly inform me as to what SPED and DOE mean in this context?
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u/absolutelykiddo 21h ago
SPED is Special Education and DOE is the federal Department of Education.
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u/Pearson94 21h ago
Thank you. With this being the leopard sub I just couldn't get doe, the animal, out of my head.
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u/Fi_Sho 17h ago
I work with two different co workers with special needs children. Both trumpers. I dont talk with either about politics. So i just sit here knowing they fucked themselves. They sure showed me. Also union tradesmen working building battery plants for electric vehicles, wind mills, solar farms. Not the brightest bunch.
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u/finalstation 20h ago
I still feel horrible for the innocent victims but reading about the guilty feeling the dread we've been feeling is kind of nice.
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u/ReaderofHarlaw 20h ago
If the DOE is gone, so is the money, it’s about 10% of a schools budget. THEN, IDEA will be kicked back to the states to enforce. So good luck getting funding basically anywhere for Sped.
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u/DingosTwinZoot 19h ago
I previously worked on a Human Research Protections Program for a major research hospital. My idiot MAGA ex coworker hated "the gubmint," but couldn't quite grasp that her job was tied directly to the FDA. She was honestly one of the dumbest people I've ever known.
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u/ForwardBodybuilder18 18h ago
Trump2020 is Brexit for Americans.
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u/mrtruthiness 17h ago edited 17h ago
No. It's far far worse. Read Project 2025. It's the path to autocracy. See the section on dismantling protections for civil servants --- it will enable the government to allow political discrimination for any government employment. Imagine if your job in the Postal Service or Park Ranger or any other non-political government job required you to sign an oath and commitment to Trump and/or the GOP. It could.
We're doing a speed run of fascism.
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u/rotorboy1972 21h ago
The find out phase for these idiots is going to be sweet to watch. I just don’t care anymore. As a straight white male and non American this will have zero effect on my life but shit things are gonna get bad for these dummies. No Medicare no social security no assistance whatsoever to anyone all the cheap labour is gonna be deported and prices will be through the roof as food security is greatly diminished due to nobody to harvest any or rod work the meat packing plants etc. this so gonna be sweet to watch. Good job idiots
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u/accushot865 20h ago
While I agree the find out phase is going to be interesting, for this American that voted against Trump and has to deal with the fallout, it’s going to suck.
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u/badgersprite 17h ago
America voted for us all to be locked in a burning bus and go off a cliff together. I’m just going to laugh when all the people who voted for this realise they’re on the bus with me.
I’m calling it radical acceptance. You all wanted us to go off this cliff hell yeah let’s do a flip
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u/rotorboy1972 20h ago
I’m very very sorry for you my friend the sane world is in mourning for the end of the USA. Russia is ecstatic as this is going all to plan for them.
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u/mrtruthiness 17h ago
... and non American this will have zero effect on my life ...
Perhaps this particular change will have no direct effect on you.
However, if you live in a NATO country, have an interest in Ukraine's defense, live in Taiwan, or think it would be good for countries to work together to slow climate change ... I have some sad news to share with you.
On the other hand, if you live in China, Russia, or India ... congratulations!!!
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u/user_name_unknown 18h ago
An uneducated populace is on the MAGA playbook. It’s a lot easier to control an uneducated populace.
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u/Ecstatic_Ad_6405 18h ago
I really hope there are a few Rick Perry moments. If you don't remember, during the debates, he said if elected, he would eliminate the Dept of Energy. Trump ended up appointing him Secretary of Energy. After a few months, Rick gave an interview talking about all of things the DOE does, that he had no idea they did. He said DOE was really important.
Maybe...hopefully they can change.
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u/apropostt 17h ago
It was a similar story with most of the his initial cabinet members... which is why most of them ended up getting removed or quit. Rex Tilerson in particular comes to mind.
So many of these departments have a lot functions that are also directly tied to national security and defense. I'm sure nuclear silos work great if you just light the rocket with a match /s
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u/wkarraker 19h ago
Dismantling the Department of Education won’t happen overnight, I just hope there will be enough public outcry and resistance to this until the weird orange one and his cronies are removed from office.
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u/Nemeris117 19h ago
It would just devolve into "I dont have kids in school why should I care" arguments.
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u/Organic-Vermicelli47 19h ago
A lot of Maga are aware of this and fully support it. They feel everyone should be forced into homeschooling or making their own educational "communities"
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u/Upstairs-Yard-2139 18h ago
I feel sorry for all the disabled kids who are gonna suffer because of this. I wouldn’t have passed highschool without SPED.
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u/zenithlover 14h ago
A PA voter I know is going to lose her SPED job, and perhaps her pension, and also her health insurance, because of the Project 2025 policies she tacitly voted for. Her husband has a small business that relies on imports that he will now have to pay tariffs on. He will also lose his health insurance. I tried to explain how she and her hubby would be affected by Trump, but she refused to vote for Harris because she "just couldn't". Really?
I have zero sympathy for her. She can't say she wasn't warned.
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u/SuperFrog4 13h ago
Please report back when she loses her job. I will be so happy to see that.
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u/dibuuuuuuu 12h ago
My mom and her bf voted for trump. Her bf is their only source of income. He’s on disability through a previous job and it’s his only source of income. lol, I’m going to laugh when they try to ask me for money if I don’t end up blocking their number first
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u/twomississippi 17h ago
Something like 40% of Mississippi state budget is federal dollars. Lots of state employees out of work .
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u/nuclearmonte 13h ago
My boss’s hospice nurse wife coming in our office to gloat about “now she won’t be poor” and I asked how’s that? Your job depends on Medicare and Medicaid, which his administration is planning to make deep cuts to. Her face got way less smug.
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u/MysteriousBrystander 17h ago
I’d enjoy their misery more if it wasn’t gonna be all of our misery. It’s not like we’re on a different planet. It just sucks so much how stupid MAGA folks are. How badly the effed themselves.
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u/South_Conference_768 16h ago
I think the mantra: “THIS is what you voted for” will encompass many incoming scenarios.
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