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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Wut?

That's literally his platform. May the dildo of consequences arrive with no lube and wrapped in sandpaper.

[–] xc2215x 17 points 1 day ago

He will cut them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Why should he take care of you? You have nothing to offer him anymore.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] CharlesDarwin 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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[–] APassenger 3 points 1 day ago

The bigger the sacrifice, the more there is to honor.

[–] StayDoomed 7 points 1 day ago

Eggs will be cheaper to buy with the food stamps that he will cut.....

[–] DaddleDew 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] Bsher8365 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And for next 4 years, responsibility for the resulting hardships will somehow be laid at the feet of Joe Biden and the Democrats.

[–] CharlesDarwin 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You know it. The perverse thing - donvict gets elected, and all of a sudden, the qons think the economy is the bestest evar, even when he hasn't even taken office, and has no coherent economic plan other than all kinds of fuckery around the edges, and of course huge tax cuts planned, most likely.

I bet if it hits the shitter because of all the craziness and the complete unhinged people he has surrounded himself with, the new narrative will be - "this has always been this bad, ever since Biden took over".

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Zero empathy for people this stupid honestly. May your suffering teach you the lesson you so sorely need

[–] ChonkyOwlbear 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe they will get so mad that they go Jan 6 on Mar A Lago.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CharlesDarwin 2 points 1 day ago

They are probably still trying to piece together the Q drops, waiting for "the Storm" to put Hillary away for trafficking children from the basement of a pizza parlor with no basement.

In other words, these people have been given all kinds of nonsense to occupy their time and keep them diverted, including Hunter Biden and his hard drive, oops, I mean, "laptop".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Leopards are going to eat better than those people over the next four years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hope they get exactly what they voted for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I hope they get what they deserve for their role in inflicting this kakistocracy on us.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I never thought the leopards would get a taste for human flesh and devour the rest of my body.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I guess this schadenfreude will sustain me for a while.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

They're only just working this out now? Of course he's going to cut them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

oh he loves them all right, as vote- and paypigs... idiots really ruin everything.

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