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I work intimately with disability services for a state run, federally funded org.
To say we are on fire right now is an understatement. We may be closing applications altogether, funding is down like...80% from last year. And we are one of the top performing agencies in the country. There are whispers of layoffs. All my Trump voting family keeps telling me "oh, it won't be you guys, you do good work".
The water is on the ship, and it's up to our neck, and I'm being told that I'm safe from sinking because I'm responsible for mopping and keeping the floors dry, why would I sink?
You should bet them money. And you should make it explicit, both before and after you win your money, that you know that doing good work won't protect you because Trump is a big manbaby piece of shit who doesn't care if people are doing good work, and in fact mostly actively dislikes it.
(This is probably not good advice for your exact situation. It's just a satisfying thing to think through, the idea that you might do it and it manage to slap some sense into them, because they genuinely don't know what Trump is about. This is why I sometimes emphasize that it's not the Trump voters' fault, really, because their news is so backwards from reality that they really think he's a good person who's going to do good things. Seriously. I am 100% serious about that.)
Nah, the yearn for schadenfreude is large. I get it lol. I can't wait for the day I get arrested and I get to flip these people off, if not just to say "I told you so".
Oh, do bet them. Then instead of "I told you so" it'll be "You owe me $500, come use it to post my bail."