status_sphereIt's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things. This is literally the opposite of what he ran on.
Anyone, and I truly mean anyone, who couldn’t see that he is completely driven by selfish reasons (ego/wealth/power) has Fetterman level brain damage.
At this point, I can’t even communicate with people that support trump. They are incapable of measured, honest, logical thought. We now have a full-blown cult that has grown to a frightening scale, we are watching the downfall of a superpower.
this was clear from back in 2016
millions of people knowingly voted for him.
millions of people didn’t vote cause of gaza (or cause both parties are the same)
his own VP called him a Nazi
now all these people will vote him out cause gas prices are high
i still won’t be able to talk to them
now all these people will vote him out cause gas prices are high
God i wish i had the hope you have.
you might be right. it’s known that Republicans increase unemployment and the national debt. but millions vote for them anyway.
SpaceBunniemy parents gleefully watch fox news and right wing talking heads all day everyday, they are completely insane, and all of their friends and a lot of my extended family are right there with them. everyday i hope the new extreme insane mask off thing that drops will have them changed and capable of interacting with me, but it never happens, they just become more and more discusting cheering it all on and dismissing the impact. they love trump today just as much as 2 years ago and will vote like the discusting pawns they are, and there are shit loads more people just like them and worse. They think the gas prices and other problem is something they bravely have to endure for their leaders master plan. They think the war is some important strategic part of making america great again. There is nothing i can say or do to help them either, they see me as a dumb animal who doesnt understand the real truth that they do no matter what i say or do. They have been cut off by beloved family members and still wont change and dont care. This is the reality of the maga cult i think people who dont have to be around it dont realize, i see it everyday because i am stuck living with them.
I’m sorry you have to live with them, sounds exhausting.
it absolutely sucks, not just because of them either, but i do have a lot to be greatful for to in the scheme of things and i mostly try to focus on those things, i have lost a lot of loved ones and i am very aware that life is fragile and short and the blessings we have are so important, not that we should ignore our feelings or the bullshit going on either, but i will say i am happy to use my voice and mind and speak up to anyone who will listen in the current state of hyper-fractured society and its highly curated choose your own custom reality services that keep people from understanding whats really going on with the people around them and counting on just waiting around for outcomes that are never going to happen
voidsignallet’s not equate USA with Humanity.
BarbarianWhere are you going? If it’s online, remember the people that run the major platforms have a vested interest in reducing your opinion of other human beings.
Tempus FugitPlenty of videos of English white nationalists being shitheads. The rise of the AfD party. Italy has a rising fascism problem and Meloni. Hungary with Orbán. I’m sure there are more examples. Face it, the western world is having an identity crisis.
Those people 100% exist and they are not an insignificant minority. All I’m saying is that platforms like YouTube, X, Facebook, etc are amplifying those voices. They have an outsized voice in online communication.
Oh for sure. I think if the Internet didn’t exist their voices would be much smaller.
Don’t kid yourselves guys, you will have a civil war to fight before it can get any better. And this time i hope you don’t “reconcile” with the traitors afterwards.
Short of France bankrupting itself again to fund an overseas militia would incentivise a revolution movement.
I screamed and pounded the keyboard back in 2020 at family. Those same family didn’t listen, posted their alternative facts, and voted for him again in 2024. I was a pile of raw nerves back then. Now I am numb. heartbroken and numb. Maybe this was how Cassandra felt when Apollo cursed her.
I have a coworker who I respect greatly because she is a nice person and she does great work. I have no reason not to like her and treat her as one of my best coworkers. We work in IT management for a large organization. She is educated, smart, coherent, and like I said, she is one of the best that I get to work with. I’m thankful for her.
But man is she brainwashed by Fox. We once got into a conversation on politics in 2024 and it became clear to me that she was voting for Trump. She thought Kamala couldn’t string a sentence together and that things had been better under Trump. We respectfully disagreed.
Politics came up again a couple of days ago. She offered that she was pissed that gas prices were so high. She offered that she felt betrayed, etc. I felt like it was progress in her opening up to the idea that Trump is a turd UNTIL she kept on with the What-About-ism with Kamala and then how both sides claim the other side cheated in elections, etc, yada yada. She has a Fox talking point for everything. So we drop it. Life goes on.
Trump’s supporters will give up a little in admitting that Trump is wrong in the Iran war because life has been made even more inconvenient and Trump has broken his campaign promises now time and time again, but it’s still a step too far for them to acknowledge that they couldn’t see this coming or that he really does smell like a turd despite it being so fucking obvious. I can agree that Kamala was going to be an another democratic establishment president, but at least she wouldn’t be terrorizing us all every day.
Our president is an evil dim-witted asshole.
He was elected by well-intentioned but equally dim-witted assholes.
Maybe this is a hot take but I think harris (or Biden) also would have ended up attacking Iran. I’ve seen no evidence that either one of them was willing to say “no” to Israel. Things would look different in a lot of ways but not this particular one.
A_norny_mousseTrump1.0 might have been excusable, but 2.0? I felt physically sick when they announced election results in ’24, halfway across the globe.
This is not about being conservative, or even politics anymore. This is an absence of basic decency & common sense. Decades of brainrot.
Oh, there were signs that Trump was lying:
- His mouth was moving.
Trump is the symptom of the disease that is the Dis-United States Located in North America (DUSLINA).
tomiantIt’s still the Confederate army, they never went away. They were defeated, then left alone. It’s basically a 160 year long insurgency, kind of like Afghanistan, rural uneducated land controlled by faith based extremism. The South never stopped fighting, after the war they just kept waging it by other means.
And currently they’re winning.
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NatakuNoxIt already was. Fun fact, Penn Wharton just came out with a full breakdown of federal spending as it pertains to civil benefits with regards to your age. In other words, how much the government spends on its citizens according to age. For fiscal year 2025, the federal government is spending $43,700 for every person over the age of 64. Conversely, it spends $4,300 on every person under the age of 26. That works out to the government spending 10x more on elderly people than children.
The full breakdown is here if anyone is interested. We’re great again!!
How Federal Spending is Distributed by Age | Penn Wharton Budget Model
American retirees receive over twice as much in total federal outlays as working-age adults and six times more than children and young adults. These ratios are even larger on a per-capita basis. Expenditures on retirees are projected to rise even more.
Representative democracy only represents those who vote and the olds have more incentive unfortunately.
Compulsory voting would be great except most folks are dumbasses.
Democracy is the lie that a million voices are smarter than one, but idk what a better alternative is tbh.
A war they started with no clear benefit at that. Its not like a foriegn nation unexpectedly invaded the US causing war which in the right circumstance could justify suspending these funds until peace.
I bet you eleven Internet points he’s invading Iran hoping to find some ancient magical artifact to make himself immortal.
Back in 2019 I was certain that putin only had a couple years left in him. He started stuttering, mixing up words, could barely walk by himself, always looked disoriented etc. And yet a pandemic, war and 7 years later he’s still fucking alive and relatively well.
If you have an unlimited budget, you can now extend your life by decades. Honestly trump may actually make it to 100 or something.
returningthedaySomething I said day one to some dumbass on reddit was “He’s a scam artist and you’ve been scammed. Again.”
I don’t know how people are so stupid that they fell for it a second time, but here we are. Just sucks that stupid people breed.
EMAGDNIMYou tired of winning yet, magats?
This isn’t even a meme. It’s more like a quote citation with a picture. He really said this folks!
dadarobotNo way he ran on healthcare and childcare. Maybe im dumb and dont remember, but maga is very much against aca and medicare for all, and any kind of socialized service.
If you were saying he ran on “no new wars”, sure.
Im pro medicare for all, but im anti aca. The ACA raised my health insurance massively. I paid 6k a year in 2012, and now i pay 36k a year.
Forcing everyone to pay into for profit health insurance doubled healthcare in a few years.
The average health insurance cost per person should not be 18k a year, no one should be paying 36k a year like i do.
My point is I really doubt he ran on a pro-healthcare pro-daycare platform. I could be wrong, but I would be shocked to learn otherwise.
He made statements that we’d have the money to pay for things if we didn’t go to war.
So to now say that we can’t pay for something because of war is in direct contrast.
How much did you pay in 2015 though?
How much of your increased payment is because of Trump et al?
These are rounded to the nearest 1k.
In 2012 i paid 6k a yr In 2015 i paid 12k In 2018 i paid 18k In 2021 i paid 23k In 2023 it was 29k This year is 36k.
From from 2004-2010 my plan went up about 5% a yr. After 2010, my insurance went up about 20% a year. The only difference was the ACA, and it was talked about a lot in the years. The trade off was people who could afford healthcare or has there own business should pay more to cover the subsidized people who couldn’t afford it. It actually caused a significant amount of people to take pay cuts, increased premiums, or refuse insurance and just take the tax penalty. I took the tax penalty for 2 years because i couldn’t afford the increase in rates at first. I assisted my rates i charge my customers and i was able to get back on after 2 years.
What has trump done to change healthcare prices? As far as me personally he got rid of the penalty which saved friends i know a few thousand a year. Other than that, not anything else because the prices have continued to go up faster than inflation. Biden was the same to, but the rates going up so much was probably due to covid because I’m not aware is any policies he did that would have effected the rates.
The Trump admin, for both terms, has attacked the ACA causing the prices to skyrocket by making it harder to get coverage.
This is by design.
Premiums are up as much as 150% in places.
It’s wild you’re saying he didn’t do anything to the prices but point at presidents who attempted to sure it up.
The ACA sucks relative to the idea of Medicare for all BUT it’s not the reason your insurance costs so much.