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"We don't want to be told what to do. We only want to tell other people what to do."
- every conservative
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My in-laws voted for him because - no joke - they didn’t want Kamala to give money to “poor people.” My in-laws are on social security and Medicare. They ARE the poor people. If they think we will be paying for their shit after benefits are cut, I’ve got news for them. FAFO.
"Those other people didn't earn it...like us. They are lazy welfare mommas. They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, like we did."
- your in-laws probably
I was going to ask if the in-laws just use "poor people" as coded language for non-whites.
of course… trump is hella racist and so is america and that’s why he won….
it’s just about impossible for someone to support him without being racist. that’s why when you pin a trump supporter down on “why trump though?” it’s always some bullshit reason, and if you break it down or disprove it, they eventually regress to “i don’t care”.
all their hypocritical outrage over supposed moral violations of the left? they don’t actually care about that… they just want to yell something at the anti-racist people and they can’t get away with overt racism just yet….
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This is what Trump ran on. This is what President Musk promised on Xitter pre-election.
Why would you think otherwise?
He also ran on 'i won't touch social security' and they heard the option they wanted to hear despite it being an obvious lie he will if he can.
Yes, but it was mapped out pre election. Project 2025. I get it, no one wants to even skim a 996 page document, but it was all right there.
I doubt even Trump himself read it. That's a lot of reading. Or, in other words...
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"they should steal the benefits of OTHERS not mine!!! 😡😡😡"
"others" often being Black people and immigrants…
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Have they tried not taking handouts and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps?
No, you see, their social support is ok, because they are down on their luck, through no fault of their own. Buts it's those other free loaders are the problem.
Take away everybody else’s social security & Medicaid, but leave ours alone!!!
Trump will not only cut their benefits and siphon off the money for his billionaire investors, he will convince them it's really better this way that they struggle to survive. Makes them stronger.
Ahhh... the old if you think this is bad, imagine how much worse the next/other guy/party will be if I can get away with this much.
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Sorry, guys. You voted for this so the billionaires can deliver austerity to you, an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of government largesse for themselves.
i look forward to witnessing every detail of these gullible fuck trump voters coming to the realization that trump actually fucking hates them, and it's NOT in fact the mexicans' fault that their lives are shit
I come from a family of Mexicans who are all Trump supporters. In this case it is the Mexicans fault too. If I recall Trump support among Hispanics is some of the highest in Republican history with 45% of Hispanics voting for Trump.
This is all tongue in cheek of course. They’re all too stupid to realize what can, and likely will, happen to them.
Yeah, he polled highly among Hispanics in 2020, too. I legitimately do not understand it.
guessing they fall into one of two main camps...
good catholics voting against women's rights and perhaps not understanding the other things that go along with voting that way, and 'got mine, fuck you' aimed squarely at others following behind them, legally or not.
In part, this is how "whiteness" works in the US. Once an immigrant community becomes established enough, they start to believe that licking the boot will finally grant them that status they crave.
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Fucking idiots. They deserve it. I don’t want them to suffer, but they deserve to. If only we all just didn’t shoot ourselves in the dick at every opportunity. Fuck them for doing this to themselves, and to you, and me. I hate this place so much.
This has some real "Jews for Hitler" energy, by the way.
"I'm going to have to dock your pay for speaking out of turn"
It’s not cutting government programs, it’s cutting the amount of people needed to run a program,” Tillia told the Post. “They are cutting staff, which could actually increase the amount of the programs that we get.
Back in reality the only way to realize substantial savings is to cut benefits, those people eliminated are needed for you to get benefits at all and only Congress can create new programs.
Here she is a poor person on community assistance thinking she can support throwing people just like herself out of a job and somehow end up with more free shit.
Anyone think she will learn when they change her address to a slab of cardboard on the corner?
Lessons learned from capitalism cyclically laying people off to boost the bottom line. I'm sure she's one of those that extolls how many people out would take to replace her.
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You get what you voted for. Kindly fuck off.
As intellectually consistent as some of these people think they are I'm sure they'll bend over backwards to defend benefits for the military and veterans. I mean if anyone knows how to pull up on bootstraps it's the military yeah?
I mean the US deep south has been voting for conservative policies for decades and those places just keep getting shittier, which just makes them vote for that shit even harder. The entire political framework is built on abstractions which demonize empiricism as a concept. They are trained from birth specifically not to connect cause and effect, but to wage emotional aggrievement warfare.
On the Professional Left Podcast, I've heard driftglass talk about conservatives and he compares them to USSR-era capital-C Communists - basically, Republicanism/conservatism can never fail. It's because we didn't do it HARD enough. Republicanism/conservatism can never fail people; it's people that fail Republicanism/conservatism.
It's a cult. A fucking cult.
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Why should he take care of you? You have nothing to offer him anymore.
you did your part, and now you'll be left behind. MAGA!
What part of Trump being a spoiled rich kid being fed with a silver spoon, taking a shit in a literal golden toilet on his private plane and surrounding himself with billionaires who are notorious for making their fortune by exploiting other people's work and thinking that their fortune is indication of their worth as human beings made you think he would ever, ever, ever give a single crap about the well-being of low income people?
They just want you to be even more miserable so you're too desperate to make it to your next paycheck to ask for better living and working conditions.
You voted for the robber baron with the LITERAL GOLDEN TOILET though
Said just before the leopard attack…
Maybe they will get so mad that they go Jan 6 on Mar A Lago.
Do you think they are smart enough to figure out where to Jan 6? They’ll probably mob a random house that someone online claimed was Hunter Biden’s.
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Leopards are going to eat better than those people over the next four years.
Zero empathy for people this stupid honestly. May your suffering teach you the lesson you so sorely need
HA HA HA! GET FUCKED YOU MAGA ASSHATS. FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT.
I guess this schadenfreude will sustain me for a while.
They're only just working this out now? Of course he's going to cut them.
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