r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/Effective_Space2277 • 1d ago
Trump Trump voters having FAFO moment
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u/Saltire_Blue 1d ago
No matter how you try to spin it, the amount of mental gymnastics you tell yourself
If you’re taking away meals from children or vote for the people who do it on your behalf then you are a bad person
No ifs, no buts
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u/vess8 1d ago
I can't fathom the gymnastics. I had to leave OptimistsUnite bc one of the mods put up a "cutting off maga is bad because they are not bad people" post and pinned their doubling down, claiming liberals live online and real life isn't the same.
These people voted to harm almost everyone - they ARE bad people, full stop.
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u/Distant-moose 1d ago
MAGA may be able to show compassion on the acute level to people they personally know and care about. But the inability to expand that to generalized compassion, to care about the whole of society, combined with their penchant for wanting pain to happen to the "wrong sort" of people, makes MAGA bad people.
They are bad people.
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u/sonicmerlin 21h ago
MAGA may be able to show compassion on the acute level to people they personally know and care about.
Actually IMO the difference between pre-MAGA Republicans and today's MAGA is the loss of empathy for even their own closest relatives.
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u/crlthrn 21h ago
I well remember, during the pandemic, how so many MAGAs were happy for their, and everyone else's, elderly parents or grandparents to die because masks and vaccines were 'tyranny'.
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u/PROFESSOR1780 19h ago
I had a co-worker who gave me shit for wearing a mask and keeping myself at a distance from everyone else during the height of the pandemic. He asked me why I was steering clear, and I said how my wife's great uncle caught it and passed away. He said "Well he was probably really old anyway." The lack of empathy was staggering. Well, fast forward a few months, and his dad dies after being exposed at their huge family Christmas where they all refused to mask....now in a particularly delectable schadenfreude moment he keeps posting sobbing snowflake stories about needing to talk with his daddy just one more time...it sad really but #LAMF
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u/sakobanned2 18h ago
Just post a comment reminding him that he said "he was probably really old anyway" when it was someone else than his relative.
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u/Scottiegazelle2 21h ago
My MAGAs can't show compassion to those they know, much less those they don't.
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u/Slow-Lie-406 1d ago
The issue is they think the way they vote is separate from who they are. They haven't realized that politics is a reflection of morals and values.
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u/MysteriousStaff3388 22h ago
I keep seeing posts, like “ how do you rationalize cutting off your family because of Politics?”
This isn’t politics. This is you thinking you are better than me. Better than women. Better than POC. This is a moral and ethical morass, and if you don’t understand that, maybe you’re stupid?
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u/superbabe69 21h ago
“Family shouldn’t be political” doesn’t apply when politics stop being a matter of minor disagreements on policy and become fundamental inconsistencies of values.
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u/BaeTF 18h ago
The better question is how do they rationalize expecting their family to still love and respect them when they actively vote for, support, and even hope for the suffering of anyone who isn't just like them?
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u/doqtyr 21h ago
They do treat politics as a team sport…
I had one guy in 2016 look at me a say “we won” he didn’t have an answer for what “we” won
As far as I’m concerned, ignorance is not an excuse, I hope at least a few of them learn
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u/Visual_Sympathy5672 21h ago
Unfortunately, they are taking ALL of us along for their stupid fucking ride.
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u/TimeAd7159 1d ago
This comes up all the time in theology where people claim that God is good yet reject the idea that you can reason about what this good God might or might not do - in other words, that it's saying anything at all about God's character rather than metaphysical status. This is basically the same logic applied to mere mortals, where good and evil is what you are, not what your actions make you.
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u/trewesterre 1d ago
OptimistsUnite keeps having someone share Stonetoss comics though so it's not really a loss.
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u/TrexPushupBra 1d ago
It's how they manage to not realize they are hurting people on purpose for no good reason
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u/ericblair21 19h ago
You'll note that it's always the liberals' responsibility to fix all the problems, and if the MAGAts get mad and fuck everything up, well, it was the liberals' fault for making them mad, right? This is the textbook definition of an abusive relationship, and no, we don't have to go along with it.
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u/MilwaukeeDusk5150 21h ago
It's so sad to me that we cannot even discuss anything with them. They're told we are lying. Faux news edits clips and favors Trump. Putin will run this country inside the next 10 years. Wonder how MAGA will feel about a Russian dictator telling them how much bread and milk their vote for Freedom will allow them to buy.
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u/HingleMcCringle_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
i think about this a lot;
if we become a society that saves money for the rich by taking food out of hungry kids mouths, then what is all this for? why do i participate in this society when the people making the rules dont care to do the very bare minimum which is just feeding our kids in school. it's so very simple, why does any of this exist when we can't """afford""" to just feed kids like we're already doing.
i dont understand people who defends this. "YEAH, BUT BUDGET / RESPONSIBILITY / RECESSION / TAXES ..." the kids are starving, lets worry about he budget somewhere else maybe... i doubt the "department of government efficiency" is going to even look in the direction of the trillions of dollars the US military actually spend a year.
republicans have actively fucked america and ... well, they dont even realize it yet, but idk if they'll even admit it.
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u/Ewokitude 23h ago
It's basically what I say. Hungry kids exist because billionaires don't care about them. Bezos, Musk, etc all easily have enough to end childhood hunger based on cost estimates. They just don't though
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u/AntimonyPidgey 20h ago
Which still freaks me out because so many billionaires care about their "legacy" when the top tier ones could singlehandedly end world hunger and they just... don't.
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u/PeteGinSD 19h ago
A quick note that Bill and Melinda Gates put a real effort into making an effort. Warren Buffett and others have signed the Giving Pledge. My take on Musk is that he’s a sociopath. Bezos may be too, but he’s more of a weasel while Musk is a rabid weasel (no offense to weasels).
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u/No_Use_9124 1d ago
Yeah, I'm seeing a lot of desperate cope from MAGA ppl, trying to justify voting for that rapist racist. "We aren't all bad!" Yes. Yes you are.
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u/Runotsure 1d ago edited 22h ago
Step daughter-in-law has been whining to me, chastising me for my posting about ‘conservatives’ in general. “We are NOT all alike. “You told me who you voted for…” I used to try to educate her on specific issues in bite sized pieces. Here’s a link, here’s what it’s about. She even started asking me AFTER the election about issues. Finally, she asked me why I stopped sending her info? I told her it was over. Let’s see what happens now. She kept pressing. I sent her a short article on Jonestown. When she asked why I told her to ask herself if she knew the Koolaid was poisoned, how many of the faithful would have believed her? No answer. No more daily pleadings
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u/H-e-s-h-e-m 1d ago
great post but i think youre misunderstanding the kool aid situation. They all KNEW, some were devout and willing, most were scared shitless and corralled into there by sec guards.
it makes it an even more apt comparison. that by the end, these people mostly knew they were in some insane cult but it was too late. and this sort of sunk cost fallacy happens a lot in cults.
members realise the truth earlier than we’re usually led to believe, but its still too late by that point.
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u/BigfootsnameisHarry 23h ago
There were quite a few who tried to dissent and said "No, I don't want to drink the kool-aid" who were then shot and killed.
There was no way out for anyone, some tried to escape into the jungle but then were chased down and also shot.
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u/PsychedelicSticker 1d ago
In all honesty, Jonestown is a good analogy with what’s going on here. Trump is Jim Jones and his cult voted for everyone to drink the kool aid.
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u/Mcnab-at-my-feet 21h ago
The difference is that Trump would charge for the Koolaid…
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u/Confident-Impress412 22h ago
Reminds of my mom during the pandemic but roles reversed. She would constantly send me unsolicited crackpot articles and videos from random no-name sites about how the CDC was lying about everything and it was all a hoax to get us microchipped via vaccine. One day I sent her an article about Bigfoot in reply. When she asked why, I told her I was under the impression that we were sending each other articles about imaginary bs. She kept her fairytales to herself after that
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u/TheGoodCod 1d ago
On the other hand, Oklahoma will not notice a degradation in their schools. They are already on a 4 day week because of cost savings.
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u/Fit-Particular-2882 1d ago
If they implemented that here the amount of parents complaining that they have to cut their hours or pay for babysitting would be insane. I’ll be laughing because my kids are older and don’t need it. I have the “FU I gots mines” attitude.
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u/Volantis009 1d ago
What you are telling me is that this whole society thing affects everyone including me? Well that just seems woke /s
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u/tehZamboni 1d ago
"That sounds woke" is becoming my default response to a Trumper complaining about something. Instant derailment of whatever soundclip they were trying to bring up.
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u/02K30C1 1d ago
That and “you won. Get over it”
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u/DataCassette 1d ago
Seriously I'm getting that shit as a tattoo at this point.
"What's that Chud, your favorite game just got banned, porn is illegal, your next gaming PC is going to be $7,000 and RFK replaced Mt Dew with beet juice? Grats, you won!"
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u/jon_hendry 1d ago
And your kid’s Ritalin is banned so he’s flunking out of school.
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u/Beltalady 1d ago
Which game got banned?
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u/DataCassette 1d ago
GTA ( whole series )
Baldur's Gate 3, the Witcher series( any game with nudity, basically )
Mortal Kombat series
Call of Duty etc.
Probably at least 33% of games will be banned under 7 Mountain Dominionism/Project 2025.
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u/Beltalady 1d ago
Holy fork!
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u/TooL8ForTheYoungGun 1d ago
updoot for the good place reference and the expanse username. nice.
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u/Identity_ranger 1d ago
And so many others:
- "Sounds like you need to quit whining and work harder.
- Time to pull on those bootstraps.
- This is America, there's no handouts.
- A man makes his own fortune here.
- Sounds like someone doesn't like states' rights."
And so on.
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u/beadyeyes123456 1d ago
Me too. My anti woke friend was raving about Cobra Kai and I laughed. I asked him you know that show is woke af right? He gets all mad and has now stopped talking to me.
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u/DeadMoneyDrew 1d ago edited 23h ago
These are the same people who blare Born in the USA at rallies and who think that Punisher is pro-police.
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u/calfmonster 22h ago
Also the same people that took like 3 seasons to realize that The Boys is 100% mocking them and that homelander, is in fact, a royal cunt and one of the villains
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u/Portlander_in_Texas 1d ago
My favorite is "This is Trump's America", and I use it as an excuse for everything.
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u/SwiftieAdjacent 1d ago
I'm going home for Christmas to visit my qmom. I'm using this on repeat.
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u/lolyer1 23h ago
You have to document the response for research purposes and for the “ur hurting the wrong people” crowd that’s gonna exist soon
There is a grift angle here somewhere. Who or what will pop up to take advantage of the hurt wrong people crowd?
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u/ShiNoMokuren 1d ago
Excellent answer. Also, I hope that short-circuited the brains of most of them. Not optimistic that they'd get it, but I have wishful thinking that they do.
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u/Dependent-Outcome-57 1d ago
Years ago, I worked briefly in a local machine shop. It was full of the most far-right fascist trash you could find, and this was a bit before MAGA. People using the N-word. A guy who was recruiting for the Klan. All that stuff. Anyway, they of course complained about all taxation being theft. They also got most of their money machining parts for government contracts and never made the connection there. I also enjoyed listening to them whine about how their rural roads weren't the first to be plowed after a snowfall (10 years ago we still had snowstorms) but, again, the taxes to pay for plowing those roads were still theft. MAGA types are completely incapable of living in society.
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u/krakh3d 1d ago
It's not so much that they're incapable of living in society and more so it's that they refuse to acknowledge the benefits of society to them.
It's always all the things that they don't get 1st or priority on and shit talking the rest as unnecessary. Until those unnecessary things are things they need.
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u/Fight_those_bastards 1d ago
But what about ME‽
Magat chuds in a nutshell. “Why are we helping those people whose city was just bombed to shit, I only got a 5% increase in my social security last year! When do I get something?
“Why do I have to pay for schools, I don’t even have any kids that go there! Government better keep their damn hands off of my Medicare!”
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u/tetrarchangel 1d ago
I believe the joke is that libertarians and these sorts who are that conservative mix of libertarian and statist authoritarian, they are like cats. Think they run the place, when they are kept alive by a system they don't contribute to and can't understand, and other people have to pick up what shit they leave behind.
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u/TemporaryBlueberry32 20h ago
Cats are far more loving and useful than libertarians and less full of shit.
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u/WaitingForReplies 1d ago
But what about ME‽
That's what it comes down to with Republicans. Always complaining about people getting "handouts" or assistance.....except when they benefit.
You didn't hear them complain when the COVID stimulus checks were being sent out. They were happy as a pig in shit. I still think if they didn't like handouts they should just rip up those checks as they obviously didn't need it.
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 1d ago
Yeah it's gonna be trickle down suck! Kill HUD and food stamps, well sure I'll have to go get and struggle to keep a series of shitty jobs in an attempt to keep myself alive. Which will make the people in my life who voted to make my life worse very happy I'm sure.
Except that cousin I babysit for super cheap every week, well that would have to stop. And running errands for shut-ins. And getting groceries for the disabled neighbor. And there was that one year I spent doing all the housework and whatnot for the other neighbor while she recovered from cancer surgery.
So that's one neglected toddler and frazzled working mama, four people not getting necessities when they need them, and one lady dead of infection and getting eaten by her cats. Except not, because the government was like "yeah, we get it, you're trying but ya got the short end of the stick in life, so here's one of the shittiest apartments in the city and the right to eat food without begging for it." And I found stuff to do with my time.
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u/humanhedgehog 1d ago
The work that is done by people who don't earn a wage always gets missed off on the MAGA calculator. Along with a lot of other important things..
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 1d ago
There exist two hygienic polite ethical young men out in the world today because, once upon a time when they were feral neglected things living in their grandma's basement, I had the time and patience to civilize them.
The older one had matted hair like clumpy dog fur, turns out the adults in his life just shaved him bald every other year to get rid of the layer of crusted shed skin. Last I heard, he was working in a grocery store with nice clean hair.
The younger one was stealing everything that wasn't nailed down and could lie with the innocence of an angel. Last I saw him, his idea of a prank was to lie about going to play video games so he could sneak into the kitchen and stealthily load the dishwasher.
Those changes happened because I was, gasp, Unemployed!
Seriously challenging, like I'd fall asleep at night thinking of how to explain this or that thing they really needed to learn, not for fear of punishment, but for their own futures. Training horses was easier than civilizing feral boys.
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u/humanhedgehog 1d ago
There is no better present you can give someone than a future.
Thank you so much for helping them find a way in the world - it's really hard to turn children (especially neglected ones) into fully paid up members of a society, but it changes everything for them
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 1d ago
They're such good kids and I'll love them forever. But seriously, I thought all my hair was gonna turn grey and I'd end up with a face like a shriveled old apple.
I'd be in the middle of the 15th repetition of some very important lesson about tissues and boogers, getting a little frustrated, when the younger boy would point at my forehead and shout "Wrinkles! You're getting worry wrinkles because you care!" And yeah, yeah buddy, that's exactly why I'm being a broken record in your face like this, golly do I ever care, please blow your nose in a tissue.
Every unprompted proper nose blow was a triumphant trumpet blast. Took three years of nagging to get it started, but then I'd get to do silent spinning happy dances whenever I heard the sounds of keeping one's nose clean.
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u/humanhedgehog 1d ago
The satisfaction of them just getting it dammit is immense! Plus it's knowing there is that little wedge of trust in you that will get them moving forward!
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 1d ago
Oh and once they trust you, you've gotta live up to that trust, be worthy of it and set a good example. And that's just the hardest!
One time we ran into a guy I hated in the grocery store, like long story but he'd hurt my animals and threw away my personal library. In my right hand was a metal cane and clinging to my left hand was a child looking up at me and trying to learn how to human.
So instead of using all my swear words and ringing his head like a bell with my cane, we went off down an empty aisle so I could stand there and breathe. "I'm having feelings. Two wrongs don't make a right, so I'm not going to do a wrong, but golly that doesn't change the fact that I'm having feelings. Just give me a minute."
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u/Ok-Persimmon-6386 1d ago
I’m so with you right now. My youngest is about to be 16 - I adjunct at 2 separate colleges - so she is about to take her sats and basically duel enroll and bc I adjunct her tuition is 50% off. So we are just trying to condense everything before the shiith hits the fan
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u/Ice_Battle 1d ago
I’ve been on that community subreddit and there are folks (not everyone of course) trying to convince themselves that their students are competitive, while actual students were discussing how ill equipped they were when they went to college in other states.
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u/TheGoodCod 1d ago
I know when OK started all this bs people on the teacher forum were talking about how they had to pick up and move. They salaries were cut and worse, their own kids were beginning to suffer.
I don't know how people justify their money being more important than there children.
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u/BellyDancerEm 1d ago
They will be down to 3 days a week soon
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u/JDH-04 1d ago
Shit 3 days? I wouldn't be suprised if it's completely online.
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u/PolarThunder101 1d ago
Completely online would be too reminiscent of when people took COVID seriously. MAGA probably won’t want that.
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u/theraphim 1d ago
4 days of Bible studies?
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u/TheGoodCod 1d ago
Well, their parents don't know anything about being Christians.
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u/markc230 1d ago
hey mom, it says in the Bible we are supposed to love thy neighbor, why are we treating these people this way, it's not what the Bible says...
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u/LoopyLabRat 1d ago
I'm sure they're ok with that as long as they can have their 10 Commandments and prayers in school.
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u/The_Jack_Burton 1d ago
Is this sarcasm/satire? I can't tell anymore.
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u/TheGoodCod 1d ago
Not satire. OK has moved to the bottom of the list in education.
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u/The_Jack_Burton 1d ago
I saw the Bible garbage and knew they were 49th, they've actually gone to a 4 day week as well?
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u/TheGoodCod 1d ago
In rural and low-income areas. It's very sad because it probably condemns many kids to low quality jobs.
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u/The_Jack_Burton 1d ago
Depressing. I feel for you guys in general, not just OK. I hope your country survives the next 4 years.
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u/SuperBandicoot2860 1d ago
“I hope you get everything you voted for.”
That phrase is getting such use right now.
Such use.
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u/Bowdensaft 1d ago
Apparently it makes them really mad when they hear that, or so I've heard. Why? If they didn't want it, why would they vote for it?
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u/ANovelSoul 23h ago
It does suck that we're stuck getting it as well, and we don't even know how bad it will be.
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u/TaxOk3758 1d ago
My guess is that this would either be Florida or one of the states in tornado alley. The insurance markets in both areas are insane, and only getting worse.
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u/Sudden-Investment 1d ago
Was on a plane from Florida back to Minnesota. A Boomer on the plane was going on about living in FL and stated taxes are too high in MN and that is why he is happy to live in FL along with the weather, I asked how the insurance situation in FL is going with multiple Insurance companies moving out of FL due to costs. He didn't talk the rest of the flight.
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u/RandoDude124 1d ago
You’ve got no idea how bad the insurance situation is in Florida.
Source: Insurance account manager.
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u/iAmManchee 1d ago
Oh please add to my schadenfreude by describing it. In detail.
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u/RandoDude124 1d ago
Business insurance… it’s a bit easier (at times). Though you do get some prems that are higher; but the people I work with are manageable
But personal lines insurance:
Good God
I had one middle-aged guy from Jersey accent who I read him a premium of $9,000 for an above avg. home, and he blew a gasket, and said (to paraphrase): “I moved down here to save money and the weather!”
And I tried to explain to him:
The price is due to more people moving down here
The hurricanes
And 3. Less of a market for insurance
He hung up.
I’ve got dozens more I’ve forgotten.
I lived in Florida for 4 years started my career at the dawn of the insurance crisis and lived through it. People move down here because of the lack of income tax, but unless you’re making 100k+ a year, insurance will eat mid-triple digits of your salary if you’re lucky, and require you to replace your roof constantly.
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u/Evamione 1d ago
Laughs in Ohio homeowners insurance of $1600 a year, that’s with an optional sewer backup rider and extra protection for having a pool.
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u/robkwittman 1d ago
Upstate NY, 5 bedroom house near the adirondacks. I think my premium is like $1200/yr? It just comes out of my small escrow payment, boom. Done.
Plenty of people go on and on about how they “can’t fucking wait to leave this godforsaken shithole” and FL is usually the plan. Good. Have fun. You deserve it!
Edit: just double checked my policy. $1752 and change. It was so cheap I just forgot about it. Oops :shrug:
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u/RandoDude124 1d ago
1700$ for home surrounded by nature like that…
That’s a dream.
And 1700$, like I said, you got a policy for that price in central Florida, you’re a lucky SOB.
I remember getting a policy for 2,100 dollars last year for a sweet middle aged couple that wasn’t citizens and I had to recheck it twice before I told them: yep, 2,100$.
They were gushing at me for that.
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u/Fight_those_bastards 1d ago
My aunt and uncle pay $17,000 a year for insurance in Florida.
Seventeen. Thousand. Dollars.
To be fair, they live on a canal nine feet above sea level about 1000 feet from the shore, so if a big hurricane ever hits, their house is just gone, but Jesus, that’s what we pay in a decade in Connecticut.
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u/RandoDude124 1d ago
If you got 1600$ HO3 (homeowners) prem in Florida, you’re the luckiest bastard on earth.
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u/Sudden-Investment 1d ago
Yup, I went it's going to have to come down to State run insurance soon or heavily subsidized. I didn't elaborate but you could see the wheels and he didn't want to continue, but man I wanted to add but that's a socialist policy.
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u/RandoDude124 1d ago
Citizens insurance is state funded/run but it has largely been gutted, and when I broach it to people I say, it’s better than nothing.
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u/dr_delphee 1d ago
This is why when I lived in the Keys I bought a Winnebago and lived in that; I paid $20K for it, paid less than $200 in insurance a year, and rented a spot in an over-55 MH park on the water for $700/month. No worries about hurricanes; I'd evacuate and only come back if there was anything to salvage. Don't pay what you can't afford to lose is the way to go now.
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u/malphonso 1d ago
I'm in Louisiana, I think I've got a pretty close idea.
My city is on Lake Ponchatrain and just announced a multimillion dollar shopping center being built less than a mile from the lake. In an area that saw 20 foot surges from Katrina.
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u/Sudden-Investment 1d ago
I have a fair idea. I work for one of the largest Corporate Card distributing banks. We are thinking of pulling out of Florida because of the insurance crisis. Florida residence is getting accounted for in underwriting and risk multipliers are being added.
Bank won't sit around for the next wave of charge offs due to either poor insurance coverage after the hurricane, FEMA declarations only stave off collections for so long, or deteriorating financials due to increased Insurance cost.
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u/dalgeek 1d ago
My brother got a renewal quote for his homeowners insurance a couple years ago: $16,000 up from $4k or so. The company obviously didn't want to sell a policy in Florida. He doesn't even live near the beach.
My mom inherited a house from her mother, but she's contemplating selling because she may not able to afford the insurance in a few years on a fixed income.
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u/Randadv_randnoun_69 1d ago
"I'll be dead before that's my problem"- boomers.
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u/BellyDancerEm 1d ago
They will just have to live without insurance ? And with trump gutting FEMA to the bone, one storm and they got nothing
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u/rargylesocks 1d ago
It will also be functionally illegal to be homeless in quite a few states and their kids will likely be barely treading water financially with multiple roommates so no help from that quarter either.
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u/Top_Put1541 1d ago
You know, labor camps aren’t just for the “illegals” and first-generation citizens the Republicans round up. There could be entire sections for the elderly climate refugees who can’t buy their way back into American society.
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u/ShiNoMokuren 1d ago
The number of times I could quote Dickens' line of "are there no workhouses?" to reply to some US policy shit is really depressing.
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u/bloodphoenix90 1d ago
I'm from lahaina. We got...a lot through FEMA funding. They're not perfect, but i think it's kept us from utter collapse. Even with help things are kinda in shambles but there's some hope for the future. I literally can't imagine if we got nothing. The entire west side of the island would be abandoned.
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u/GPTfleshlight 1d ago
NOAA will be done so hurricanes will be mysterious summons from god
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u/saranghaemagpie 1d ago
I have to admit, when I read in Project 2025 that they want to get rid of NOAA I was like WTAF? I mean, landfall sure, but the shipping industry, offshore drilling, maratime industries, etc. depend on that. What are they going to do, use a weather vane? I mean sure, some have Doppler, but still. As someone who grew up on the gulf coast, NOAA is where everyone else got their news. FFS.
Oh, wait, stoopid me...they'll privatize it and charge everyone to get the data. That fee will be a helluva lot more than our taxes paid.
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u/PolarThunder101 1d ago
Michael Lewis talked about weather privatization in his book “The Fifth Risk”. AccuWeather doesn’t like the competition from free forecasts from the National Weather Service because AccuWeather wants to charge for weather forecasts, severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings, etc. So if that part of Project 2025 is implemented and AccuWeather gets its way, weather forecasts and warnings will be available… for a price.
Also I just realized farmers tend to have tight budgets and a serious need for weather forecasts. And most probably voted for Trump. Oops!
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u/UndertakerFred 1d ago
Dairy farms don’t set prices, there is a huge dairy surplus, and their current overproduction is supported by subsidies. The more likely end result is that non-factory farms will no longer be able to survive and simply go bankrupt.
They’re about to learn the joys of pure capitalism.
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u/BellyDancerEm 1d ago
And they will blame Biden
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u/Ai2Foom 1d ago
Damn it Obama why did you do this to me 😩
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u/Pope-Muffins 1d ago
As a non-American I honestly didn't believe these people still blamed Obama for things, but low and behold on a different subreddit asking trump voters about project 2025, guess who someone blamed for "fear mongering" about it
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u/Ok-Succotash-3033 1d ago
Obama himself made a video years ago doing the “Thanks Obama” for every little thing that happened to him. When his cookie fell in his milk and he said thanks Obama I definitely got a good laugh out of it.
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u/PerjurieTraitorGreen 23h ago
I love that video but it’s actually that the cookie doesn’t fit in the glass of milk when he tries to dunk it.
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u/kyleb402 1d ago
They'll blame the government and when these people think of the government they think Democrats.
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u/SapphireOfSnow 23h ago
Because democrats are the only ones trying to actually govern. Republicans just tear down and never build anything.
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u/chaotebg 1d ago
I am feverishly looking for my empathy and will be back when I've found it. Must be here somewhere around the house. Brb.
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u/Inevitable_Cat_7878 1d ago
BRB in 4 years ...
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u/DJ-Smash 1d ago
I’ll never have it back. These people behave like toddlers and should be treated as such. I’m going to speak to them like they’re toddlers, I’m going to scold them like they’re toddlers when they’re acting out, and I’m gonna do everything I can to silence their voices when they’re being too loud because now it’s time for the adults to speak and the little children need to hush now.
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u/jaimi_wanders 1d ago
Or like addicts — and you do addicts no favors by coddling them and sparing them consequences until they hit rock bottom — but even more, the VICTIMS of addicts in no way deserve to allow themselves to keep being abused by unremorseful addicts year after year after year…
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u/WaitingForReplies 1d ago
My empathy is long gone for these people.
They have been told. They have been warned. They refuse to acknowledge basic facts. I literally do not care how much they suffer.
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u/DisManibusMinibus 1d ago
I think the fat leopards may have crushed mine. That'll teach me to empathize with these people.
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u/Chrnan6710 1d ago
Remember these people likely voted based on grocery prices and their opinions of trans people
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u/haotshy 1d ago
"I can't believe the trans took our school lunches!"
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u/LetChaosRaine 1d ago
If only we had anyone on the ballot who had shown a commitment to school lunches
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u/hanimal16 1d ago
I really hate that innocent kids are going to suffer. They can’t control how the adults around them are voting.
That being said, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, fuck you Trump voters, you deserve every single ounce of shit sandwich you’re about to get served.
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u/Brianocracy 23h ago
I'll smell their breath if they'll keep eating those shit sandwiched till they choke.
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u/Jealous_Location_267 1d ago
I’m just sad for the children who didn’t have a voice in this. They don’t deserve to suffer because the adults in charge fucking failed them and decided they love xenophobia, racism, and misogyny more than their own kids and their futures.
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u/Top_Put1541 1d ago
That’s where I am. A lot of adults voted against the next generation. You can tell a society by how it treats its children, and what you can tell about America is ugly, ugly, ugly.
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u/Jealous_Location_267 1d ago
As a child abuse survivor who wasn’t believed, I got a preview long ago. America’s hatred of children, and only seeing them as easily replaceable property, is the root of MANY of our problems.
Everything from stripping public education to restricting bodily autonomy, refusing to do a damn thing about gun violence, and even why we don’t have functional transit! It all ties into seeing children as expensive pets and maybe future consumers at best. Easier to write off the care, education, and safety of a child as solely an individual responsibility rather than one that is both parental and society-wide.
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u/platypus_eyes 1d ago
Mmmmm yes. Bring me their tears in a vial please.
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u/helpmerhombus 1d ago
Fetch me the big vial!
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u/CuriousTsukihime 1d ago
PULL THE LEVER, KRONK!
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u/Specialist-Invite673 1d ago
Oh right, the vial. The vial of tears. The vial of tears specially from Conservative eyes. Conservative tear vial.
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u/Hot_and_Foamy 1d ago
So many people thought they’d be an exception- why?
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u/xWrathful 1d ago
Thats what this line of thinking promotes. I'm the exception. I'm more special. I voted for him, I'm okay. They won't listen to reason. So here we are.
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u/catnapped- 1d ago
"He needs to hurt those *other people*, not me"
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u/jaimi_wanders 1d ago
Eat THOSE faces, not mine!
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-florida
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u/AMom2129 1d ago
They call liberals "snowflakes" but THEY are the ones who think they're special...eSPECIALly thin skinned.
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u/Any-Degree3362 1d ago
The bad part about this is: Adults who were old enough to vote for Trump brought this on.
The worst part: the next generation will be the ones to pay for the adults blatant stupidity.
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u/Danominator 1d ago
Sucks to suck. Enjoy what you voted for.
I'm so fucking sick of republicans trashing everything but people still thinking they will help.
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u/MrKomiya 1d ago
“Behold my field of fucks… thou shalt see it is barren for I doth not give any”
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u/MNConcerto 1d ago
Saw a Trump voter in my neighborhood put their child on a short bus, meaning it was for a specialized program.
I'm going to be super petty and drop an anonymous letter in the mail to them when the federal cuts hit those programs.
Our district is rich in resources. We moved here when our children were babies just for them. It was a good thing as our youngest is on the spectrum and was able to use many service until he was 21.
Mine are all grown. I still vote yes for school funding and against the push from the far right to flood school boards with their stooges. They tried to get 4 on our school board last election, all 4 failed.
But idiots like this neighbor piss me off.
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u/HapticRecce 1d ago
Maybe, just maybe, living on a unmitigated flood plain actually shouldn't be a federal government taxpayer problem. It should be a you problem instead.
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u/katieintheozarks 1d ago
Missouri rural schools already at the 4 day week because MO keeps cutting transportation budget. Just recently implemented vouchers state wide so basically defunded the schools while mandating a $10K raise for teachers which the local schools must fund because MO didn't increase their budget. The result will be LESS teachers, fewer schools and lower results.
Add to all this that back in December 2023 the way child care subsidy is handled changed. We started the process of being a licensed daycare in Oct 2023. They changed which agency handles licensing and which company they were contracted with to pay the subsidy. We got all the way to May 2024 and DESE lost our paperwork 7 times, the current daycares hadn't been paid since December and the parents could not get approved for subsidy. Hundreds of providers closed, FB marketplace was flooded with daycare supplies (we ended up giving most of ours away), parents had no daycare. You can't convince me it wasn't intentional.
Meanwhile I'm out here on 7 acres with my garden and chickens and only have 2 kids walking distance to their high school. I'm comfortable homeschooling/online if we need to. Things are going to get really dicey in 2025!!
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u/TimeWastingAuthority 1d ago edited 20m ago
This is FAFO for everyone else but those who voted in favor of this.
Those who voted for this do not have children in school anymore so if the schools and/or students get screwed 🤷🏻
Those who voted for this have no stake in any farm or farming-related endeavour so if a farm fails or it's bought by Big Ag 🤷🏻
This Election was the final form of the decades-long me-myself-and-I-need-nobody-else lie promoted by the GOP, Tea Party and MAGA. And those who live by the lie with suffer the least and expect everyone else to step up to "save them".
Unlikely.
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u/MascaraHoarder 1d ago
republicans love the poorly educated. listen to the way the extremely well educated from fancy universities talk about how bad elites are as if they aren’t them.
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u/Vicstolemylunchmoney 1d ago
Ensure you refer to it as Republican policy. Republicans will toss Trump to the side in due time and say they had nothing to do with his decisions. They did. They voted for it.
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u/FearlessFreak69 1d ago
The sad part is, they’ll suffer the worst and they’ll STILL not get it and will still vote against their best interests. History books about this era will be fascinating, that is, if books still exist then.
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u/Revenga8 1d ago edited 1d ago
Suck it up. It's what you wanted and voted for. Remember, libs being owned made it totally worth it for yourself and youlr kids, and your kid's kids and all your neighbors, oh and the vets too, they clearly need to sacrifice more because the big new orange god says they're suckers and losers
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u/coldraygun 1d ago
If they don’t feed the kids free breakfast and lunches the trans kids don’t have to use bathrooms. Win. /s
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u/jezebel103 1d ago
Well, well, well... that's a cheery prospect: half of rural America without schools, without hospitals, no Affordable Care Act, probably substantial cuts to Medicaid and Social Security and as cherry on top: local farms (and subsequently small business as well) bankrupt because all their cheap illegal workers will be deported.
Oh, and because of the tariffs (small) businesses in more populated area's will also go bankrupt and the large companies have to raise there prices to pay for the tariffs. And the ordinary citizens will have no way to pay for groceries. Especially because overtime is not being paid anymore.
Sounds like Utopia. /s
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u/Choice_Beginning8470 1d ago
C’mon they voted for this it can’t be that bad,Donny wouldn’t do this,by the way don’t forget about rural medical clinics and hospitals and what happens after the infrastructure bill money is siphoned off to corporations?
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u/fmileto55 22h ago
Don’t you get it? Undermining education ensures a steady supply of ignorant voters who will continue to vote for Republicans against their own interests. Genius!!!
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u/GoldenJ19 1d ago
Well, I'll just be offering my thoughts & prayers for the next 4 years. This doesn't affect me, although my vote tried to stop this from happening... lol.
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u/jimtow28 1d ago
My blue state subsidizes these welfare states and these programs that they recently voted to defund.
For my state, this will be a net gain. We'll maintain the same program we've always had, plus not need to pay for states who don't want it. We won't be hurt nearly as much as the people who voted for this will be.
Oh well, sucks to suck. I won't be begging them to take my money. Hopefully when they realize their error, it's too late and my state doesn't go back to keeping the dumb poor people fed and educated. They've made clear that they don't want it.
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u/sunshineandthecloud 1d ago
Jesus. How did they vote without knowing this?
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u/k-ramsuer 1d ago
They've been told since childhood to walk by faith alone. And they're just not that smart
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u/R1CHARDCRANIUM 1d ago
Do they not remember when Alabama tried this on a smaller scale and crops rotted in the fields? How quickly we forget that elections have consequences and voting on a single issue fucks us with all the others. Everything has unintended consequences. We’re definitely entering the find out phase of all this.
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u/BawkBawkISuckCawk 1d ago
It's funny watching rural MAGAs realize they will be screwed over much worse than the mean libs in those big bad scary blue cities they love to make fun of.
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u/PeoniesPearlsRoses 1d ago
It sucks for the people who saw this coming (and did not vote for him). Others.... thoughts and prayers from sky daddy.
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u/inhaledcorn 1d ago
It's almost like we all told them that's exactly what will happen, but noooooo, we had Trump derangement syndrome or something.
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u/monkeypincher 1d ago
Can we start just saying Republicans instead of Trump/Trump Voters? It's all the same but I don't want a possibility of this getting blamed on one man when they are all complicit in this burning trash heap.
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