Leopards Ate My Face

Hurting minorities as always

He's been sold on a fundamentally holistic view of the economy. "This may be uncomfortable now, but I trust it will produce a large national windfall in the future".

It isn't a bad attitude to have on its face. People do need to accept certain short term discomforts in order to achieve long term economic benefits, whether that means working industrial jobs to produce new useful infrastructure or risking personal health/safety in military conflicts to establish national security or curbing consumption to avoid long term ecological harm.

But the mass media this guy is ingesting is bullshit. So the benign "we're investing in the future" perspective is corrupted into a gullible "my local neighborhood wallet inspector is just helping to remove these counterfeit bills from the money supply" political apathy.

He's the victim of an intense, industrial scale propaganda campaign.

Incidentally...

Trump could cut this guy’s nuts off and he’d still find a way to put a positive spin on it

There is a precedent.

What do you mean? There are plenty of gains to be had...

...for the already rich and powerful.

My bet is also on they wildly underestimated what employable means (or overestimated the value of their skills and experience).

I’m also laughing over here at “long terms gains” of Trump’s policies. Unless this person is one of the billionaire class, there are no long term gains. The people who will benefit from whatever Trump and co. are up to wouldn’t be “out of a job,” they’d just transition to a new role either at the same company or another or be immune from the whole thing altogether.

Dude my last 2 job changes were due to layoffs. I had to take the first job offer I got after about 50 job applications because the job market absolutely sucks right now, and honestly I'm not happy with the job I could land because availability forced me to accept some red flags and compromises that I could see from the get-go of the interview process. I'm going to keep applying but I'm not holding my breath at this stage of things

Average conservative.

They don't see what the problem is until they get face-eaten. The sad part is the ones who go "Well as long as those brown people get it worse!"

Millennial here, 100% agree. I'm very good at what I do in my field and have a chonky resume of experience. I used to get job offers unprompted on practically a weekly basis. Years ago my apply-to-interview-to-offer % was like 70%+.

In the last couple of years this has shifted dramatically. I do not receive job offers unprompted, because they simply aren't there. The number of listed jobs has tanked, the ones worth applying for i typically don't hear anything back from, not even a rejection. One the other day I was told it wasn't a real position that was open and was simply posted for some HR reason or some crap.

Layoffs across the board are on the rise so there are more people than ever looking and less jobs available.

It took my friend ~1yr to find a job after his last layoff.

This person is in for a world of hurt...and frankly, I have zero sympathy for them specifically.

The last position I interviewed (other people) for, we had over 2,000 total applicants, and this was before the huge swaths of layoffs that are currently happening and being planned.

The country is doomed, literally millions of people are about to be (many of which already are) out of work, while ALL public resources and support are being dissolved by the current regime.

Genuine answer is likely that it's not intended to be permanent. It's designed to make him look good when ultimately removed and secure some support for conservative talking points around stopping drugs and immigration across the borders.

It also distracts from the major damage they're doing internally to the government via OPM which is much more difficult to reverse.

Smells strongly of retrofitted justification BS to me.

The leopards are eating everyone's faces, including mine. While this is usually deadly to others, I'll be fine. I'm willing to take the gamble for everyone as a whole that if enough of their faces are eaten, things will be better long-term. The whiners need to grow a spine and let the leopards eat because the payoff will be worth it.

It is actually legitimately hard to wrap your head around how dumb they are.

You're still operating under the assumption that this administration will stay within the confinement of the constitution. Even then, his impact will be felt for years. He's destroying international relations far faster than they can be rebuilt and he's destroying the bureaucracy of the US on a fundamental level

I knew I would suffer, but I'll be okay. I'm also making everyone else suffer along with me, and I decided that was okay too.

The selfishness of the average voter everyone. Notice he didn't talk about anyone else there except in terms of "whiners" while in the same breath admitting he is causing more suffering.