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[-] AllPintsNorth@lemm.ee 51 points 11 hours ago

Who could have possibly foreseen this hilariously predictable outcome?!

[-] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 67 points 12 hours ago

America will get what they voted for. Fucked.

[-] Surp@lemmy.world 26 points 9 hours ago

I didn't vote for this everyone needs to stop putting us in a box...many of us did not want this and we're stuck with these jerks. Alot of Americans are good people we just got taken over. America needs help from other countries.

[-] _____@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

get fucked

I hope Trump personally empties your 401k to thank your country's complacency

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[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 41 points 10 hours ago

I have no sympathy for anyone who ever voted Trump, but the point has to be made that until voting is mandatory and they actually hold genuine primaries that allow voters to have a say, it's taking things too far to blame every American for this outcome. The last few presidential elections have been laughably thin pretenses of democracy.

[-] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago

Time to fuckin do something

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 76 points 14 hours ago

Well, he promised tax breaks. If anyone had the illusion that this would benefit lower income brackets, then congratulations: you have officially become senile. Because it follows the same path he did with the last tax breaks: More money for the rich, less for the rest.

[-] Catma@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago

Everyone in America is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire/billionaire. This tax breaks will surely benefit me some day

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[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 13 hours ago

Everyone has equal freedom to be rich, so these tax breaks actually benefit everyone while food stamps only benefit the true leeches of society! /s

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago

A rising tide lifts all boats. Not really on me if you didn't buy your own boat.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 hours ago

I love that metafor. Very fitting for the current times.

[-] ModestMeme@lemm.ee 106 points 15 hours ago

MAGA will blame this on Democrats.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 25 points 15 hours ago

It is on the Democrats, they are also on team kleptocrat. It's past time to wake up!

[-] ModestMeme@lemm.ee 61 points 14 hours ago

Whatevs…. Democrats lost the election and Congress. It’s team fascists now. But sure, gripe about the people who very specifically didn’t do this shit.

[-] Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 33 points 11 hours ago

Dems lost due to their inability to rally the voters. 8 million stayed home because dems doubled down on their typical bullshit to protect their own status quo rather than fight for the working class. Failure to recognize this brought us here and until we can call it what it is were gonna stay here.

[-] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 24 points 11 hours ago

I understood the dem line on things, yet i voted to not make things significantly worse.

If only non-voters understood what they allowed.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago

They will understand too late, as usual.

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 hours ago

The irony of people that have been letting the Democrats get away with complacency for decades being all "you'll find out..."

They're an ineffective out of touch party because you keep letting them get away with "vote blue no matter who" as their only cohesive strategy.

If you joined the left in pushing back on the Democrat ratchtet effect many elections ago, we wouldn't be here. The second best time is now.

Keep voting blue no matter who. In 8 years when they parade the Trump family around in front of you as allies against the current Republican you'll be chastising us for not supporting Trump's party. It happened with Bush and Cheney.

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[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 11 points 13 hours ago

This is specifically why they lost the election. What benefit is there for you to defend it? Because of that, we're currently stuck with Trump, remember?

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago

This is about extending Trump's existing tax cuts. Cuts that were not cancelled by Biden throughout his mandate. So sure, they didn't enact them but they did inact on them once they had the power.

[-] ModestMeme@lemm.ee 24 points 14 hours ago

How was Biden going to cancel an act of Congress?

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago

Gestures wildly at the Trump administration

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

Didn't Democrats hold the house and senate for 2 years?

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[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

you must be one of the green voters!

[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 32 points 15 hours ago

That’s $4.5 trillion that will trickle down to all of us, any day now, just you wait, and wait, and wait, and wait, and wait…

[-] kahdbrixk@feddit.org 20 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I don't know what to think about that. I don't think that low income Republican voters will feel the face eating of the leopards they voted for as what it is.

And I'm not even American, but I can see that this exact same thing is going to happen here in Europe/Germany as well. People will vote for the extreme right parties that have all their propaganda on how they are going to give money to the small people and make the country more secure - and at the same time their political programs and past behavior screams "we will give tax cuts mainly to the ultra rich and never cared about the low income people".

And they still get voted for. We just love us some good old fashioned fascism. Maybe I need to change my mindset and just be like "let's gooooo"

[-] Sprokes@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago

Left parties are also to blame for this. I always vote for the left party but lately I am not OK with about 70% of their agenda.

A rising number of people are concerned about immigration but left parties just ignore that and pushes for more immigration.

Immigration causes lot of issues. You see many immigrants pick pocketers in touristic areas, you hear a lot of crime cases involving immigrants, many prostitutes are immigrants and are exploited. It is maybe few but why adding more crimes when we already have enough of it.

Many immigrants rely on welfare and are eligible as some immigrants do not allow their wives to work and having multiple children is a norm. Left parties always vote against any restrictions.

They push salaries down and causes unemployment. Many do not want to work on underpaid jobs like in restaurants. But immigrants are OK to take those jobs and push salaries down.

So people see that left parties are doing nothing for this, left parties do not want upset their base which contain a lot of people from immigration. So people go to right and far right parties.

[-] Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee 6 points 6 hours ago

Is this satire or is your brain really like this.

[-] Maeve@midwest.social 3 points 5 hours ago

I mean people feel this. Not think it. We need to listen to these concerns and talk about 93-98% tax rates for the wealthiest, individuals and corps.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

People, ALL people, including you, should be free to live and work where they please.

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[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago
[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Is this a new, shorter style season or an OG 15 week The Apprentice season?

AI is looping You’re_Fired.DALL-X.quicktime.mov and everyone else has been fired by mid season or flailing to compete offscreen every episode.

There’s a laugh track and commercials.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Maybe a shortened season without writers during the strike. Pretty sure we'll see Snooki in a cabinet position before it's all said and done.

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