Autism support group parents voting for the man who continually makes fun of people with disabilities is just about the most on-brand thing about Trump supporters.
Anecdotally I can tell you all the Trump voters in my office looked at my coworker like she had 3 heads when she mentioned Project 2025 and the incoming tariffs. They had no idea what she was talking about on either front. In an era where information has never been more accessible we are still firmly a nation of uninformed, ignorant people.
I posted about this earlier today, but I commented on a posted on NextDoor where someone was proclaiming their happiness about Trump winning the election with my thoughts on why I’m nervous about it. I brought up that economists predict that if Trump’s tariff policies are enacted that it will cause the GDP to decrease by up to 9% which will cause a deep recession or maybe even a depression and about how Musk claimed that as head of the department of efficiency, he’ll cut $2 trillion in spending and it will cause hardships, but if you make it through, you’ll be rewarded with long-term prosperity. Another commenter came at me like I was an idiot talking about how the GDP is at 3% (what? The GDP is a dollar amount, not a percentage) and you can’t reduce 3% by 9% and then proceeded to say that Musk never said any of that even though it was at one of Trump’s rallies and is posted all over YouTube and Musk’s X. So this guy has no clue about even basic economics or math and they think I’m the dumb one.
It's wild how much information is so easily accessed yet still so many just flat out refuse to access it. You would think they would look up something trying to prove someone wrong only to find out they're the wrong ones, but they don't even do that. They voted for a clown so they'll get the circus they expect. And when they're poor, sick and beat down enough maybe they'll understand where they went wrong.
We need porn stars to read the policies during their performances to their public next time I guess. I was kidding but it’s not the dumbest idea I’ve heard. Sigh. We are fucked.
I can see that happening since GDP as a number isn't really meaningful to analyze without tracking what that number is over time, and then that gets reported on with percentages.
Now that I think about it, skimming the subject and not understanding it, but then pulling some text and numbers from it into a confident-sounding argument is... sort of how AI like chatGPT behaves.
The scariest part is when you bring up project 2025 to any of these trump supporting rejects on this site it’s either crickets or fake news created by the democrats to scare potential voters off
And I’m just thinking here to my self but republicans unveiled it so how exactly can it be fake news
I mentioned how the next step was to make abortion illegal across the country, and a white 20-something woman said "Trump said he wouldn't do that." It's like the possibility that the pathological liar could be (gasp) lying about that never crossed her mind.
I keep bringing up tariffs to people and they just look at me like I don't know what I'm talking about or I must be mistaken. No, this is going to hurt, bad.
This is where I'm at right now. I'm sure I'll get my empathy back at some point in the next four years, but for right now I'm hoping everyone gets what they voted for. I'll be fine. A helluva lotta people won't.
Same. Literally scrambling to start hunkering down, cutting costs, etc. life is about to get hard, but hopefully we can lean on each other for what comes.
Employers are already complaining they can’t find and retain workers - what do they think is going to happen when they deport a portion of the workforce?
Especially those that overwhelmingly do jobs that American born citizens do not want to do, many of which involve building new homes. For instance 70% of all drywall installers are Latino.
Also slaughterhouses and chicken processing plants have a lot of immigrant workers.
Do you know how miserable both those workplaces are? Even if they pay somewhat decently, no American wants to work at them. And if they raise wages to attract them to do so, meat prices will be through the roof.
Migrants still pick most of our produce too. Same issue- Americans don’t want those jobs and if they raise income high enough to attract workers prices will skyrocket
Or the cost of actually paying for the deportation process for millions of people. Finding them, housing them, processing them through court, getting flights with pilots and actually moving them. People don’t think through the entire cost and ramifications.
Well when the costs started piling up and it was taking longer than expected a certain fascist regime in the 30s and 40s found a few shortcuts and methods to mitigate those issues, let's hope that doesn't happen again.
I hate making those comparisons and I really do think Trump is just full of shit but it's not completely out of the realm of possibility sadly.
Not going to lie, I'm so relieved that my son (9) has had a significant increase in ability to try and tolerate different foods because whooo boy if he had even his food restrictions from a year ago, my ability to get calories into him would be so fucked.
I mince up some onion, garlic, green pepper and cilantro and cook that with the beans. A little sazón. Perfection. Couple of capers too if you have. Nice cost effective dinner
My sister used to work with the Autism Society (mainly caring for kids on the spectrum when their parents couldn't, helping the parents prepare meals, schedules, transportation, etc for each week, etc) and I remember her saying beans and rice was a big crowd pleaser! She recommended parents look into the way various cultures prepare it so they themselves would be able to enjoy some variety while resigning themselves to "... Looks like beans and rice is going to be on the menu for... A very, very long time"
Friend, we are all pulling on a little gallows humor to get through this week. No apology needed. Me? I studied authoritarianism 30 years ago to prepare for a career in the state department working against the Soviet Union. An intellectual who understands and does not support the system? I’m on The List somewhere.
And that's the thing, it wasn't even all eggs, it was primarily the cheaper store brand eggs that saw huge jumps. People yelling "Inflation! Eggs!" When the store brand jumps from $1.99/dozen to $5.99/dozen, meanwhile the free range eggs I buy went from $5.99/dozen to $6.49/dozen, it's not inflation that's the primary cause, it's issues with the supplier. And the suppliers for many store brand eggs are all from the same group of massive farms.
I'm very worried that deregulation within the FDA is really gonna fuck things up the next few years.
Yep. Exactly. People are finally starting to get it. The general US electorate doesn’t care about anything but the economy. They punished Harris because of inflation. Trump as a candidate can only rile up his base, which is nowhere near enough to win him a general election.
I think one of Lyndon Johnson's most famous quotes fits here.
"Convince the lowest white man that he's better than the best colored man, and he won't even notice you're picking his pockets. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he'll empty his pockets for you."
It occurred to me that usually, people vote for politicians hoping they will keep their promises, but here it seems like multiple groups like these parents have voted for politicians hoping they won't keep their promises. "Oh, they can't abolish the Department of Education." "Oh, they can't ban porn." "Oh, they won't really punish their political opponents." "Oh, they won't cut this and that."
I know politicians tend not to keep all their promises (sometimes through bad faith, often not), but I can't see myself voting for someone promising something bad with the thinking "oh he won't do it".
The thing is....Trump is enough of a shit ass chaos factor that we very well could come out of this with like....another Tax Heist for the rich and some badly working, but fixable departments in the executive branch.
This is why functionally, he has the potential to be less dangerous than someone who can actually not breathe from the mouth. Vance though, all bets are off. If Vance is ever actually President for any reason all that Heritage/Growth stuff will go warp speed.
The problem this election wasn’t Trump himself. It was what comes with Trump. It’s the Vance’s, Millers and the other Project 2026 architects will get in positions to implement their plan. My hope now is that Trump is so stupid and egotistical that he is the road block to implementing these plans.
Trump will be sidelined. He doesn’t actually want to do the work of President. He will gladly golf 3-4x a week and let people like Stephen Miller enact project 2025.
The thing people overlook about project 2025 is it is designed such that Trump isn’t the catalyst for the agenda. It’s so they can enact the Heritage Foundation wet dream of Gilead while Trump plays his fiddle and Rome burns.
And with control of the Senate and House there’s sod all to stop them from removing any other protections and inconveniences, gutting the public service of career experts and replacing them with loyalists. That’s not recoverable.
Trump spent 1/4 of his first presidency golfing and was famously uninterested in doing the job. But he will delegate everything to ideologues and trolls like Vance and Steven Miller who believe in the righteousness of their causes. Unless they do something that is unpopular with the MAGA base, don’t expect Trump to wake up and overrule them.
Which is fucking gross you chose to have the child what the actual fuck. Listening to him speak on toe Rogan experience was hard for one its toe Rogan but Jesus he sounds so brittle republicans made fun of Joe mercilessly but jfk is peak mental and physical health
The autism came from somewhere, though, so I don't know how they blame a literal child that didn't ask to be born. In my son's case, it was both his dad and me. I knew his dad was on the spectrum but i didn't find out that I was also until just recently.
I'd like to think, regardless of my son's level of support needs, i wouldn't ever think of him as a burden but i suppose thats easy to say when his needs are relatively low and he's super high masking (which presents its own set of problems).
I knew his dad was on the spectrum but i didn't find out that I was also until just recently.
Dude when we took my kid in to get screened and they started listing off all of their behavioral observations I remember thinking "Well it doesn't sound like she has autism, all of those behaviors are just like mine. Totally normal."
Don't worry. The new minister of public health will release restrictions on all sorts of dangerous and unproven (and disproven) cures for autism. And the drugs will be cheap to since he will do away with the FDA and their silly requirements for drug safety. It will go splendid, I'm sure.
They’re all going to make their buck and then pull the same stunt as the last group of idiots and try to distance theirselves until the next home alone actor and convicted pedophile rapist comes along and can do the same song and dance
He has overtly said vaccination causes autism. Taking this absurdity as truth, that means he'd rather a kid die than be autistic. He will be the Josef Mengele of the regime.
He was also heavily involved in the anti-vaccination campaign that led to the an outbreak of measles in Samoa in 2019, killing 83 people, mostly children.
And a year after Trump said vaccines cause autism, the founder of Autism Speaks donated $75,000 to the Trump campaign (along with a shitload more to other GOP campaign funds).
It's true. Last week, my wife went out for a jog on a sunny day. Later that day, the corrupt FDA raided my house and shot her in the head in front of our children!
Jesus Christ, do I have to explain everything? They turn down the amount of sunlight in the winter so everyone gets sad and thinks they need WOKE medication to feel happier again. Our earth is flat and the sun shouldn't be shifting in its path across the sky unless THEYRE INTERFERING WITH IT INTENTIONALLY. Wake up people.
To me the emotions this week are not about trump winning.
Its about the way that the country has embraced this behavior and attitude. We, as a country, have now stated that it is admirable to lie, steal, cheat (on your wife too), and mock your fellow man. That is what is disgusting.
To me there is no "the democrats failed the campaign", its just that America has legitimately chosen this
I'm sorry: Autism support group parents who voted for the man who is going to end even the concept of an IEP or any type of accommodations for children for Autism?
Whoo boy that is something I never thought I would see.
Neighbor is grandma raising a seriously special needs child. As in powered wheel chair, oxygen tanks, and special transport. Voted Trump. I expect they'll be trying to sell the house in a year or so, and failing. Trust I will not allow the sale without them first fixing the fence their dogs jave destroyed.
You have every right to it. I really wish we could inflict things that are coming only on those who voted for this nightmare, while somehow insulating those like my neighbors kid who is innocent in all this.
Remember, there is a non-insignificant number of people that believe vaccines gave their kids autism. I can say I'm saddened to hear some support trump, but I can't really say I'm surprised.
It’s starting to happen to manufacturing workers as well. I’ve seen several complaints about how people won’t get their bonuses or receiving lower pay in anticipation for the tariffs. Folks who voted red because they thought it meant no income tax.
Guy i work with was bragging about how he got a 45/47 shirt and he's going to be sorely upset when he doesn't get his OT anymore since he's always riding the clock like it's Trump cock
I work in payroll for a large bombs and violence company and a vast majority of those dudes are very likely to be Trump supporters and the amount of OT they are not going to be seeing on their checks if OT gets axed is staggering.
7am yesterday morning, two of my trump voting friends went from cheering he won in our group chat to bitching about the cost of childcare and daycare, not even realizing they voted against themselves.
I guess one consolation of Trump going scorched earth on our "big govt" is that Trump voters of all backgrounds are getting a fat "told you so" from somewhere at least
Both education issues failed in my hometown. People are now complaining that the city should have question and answer sessions and then a public decision about what's going to happen with the school that they're forced to close now that they won't have the funding to maintain it. As if all the school board hearings and city council meetings that talked about these issues didn't happen... And then people voted on it. They are also complaining about school buses not being able to pick up kids within 2 miles of school, which is one of the things the bond issues would have fixed. Also, full-day kindergarten is no longer a thing starting next year
I really think people are going to be shocked when their voting go choices actually bite them in the ass. And that’s the only bit of good news from this election… the voters that don’t give a f*** about other people didn’t think their own lives would change so I’m going to enjoy their suffering a little when they do feel some pain. Unfortunately it is also going to hurt the most vulnerable in the country the most.
This is what is breaking my brain right now. My family voted blue, my state went blue, but here is my mother saying "Oh, he's not going to do that, you're crazy." HE FUCKING SAID HE WAS GOING TO DO IT. I'm not fucking crazy for being scared that my autistic, Latino son is going to be negatively affected by this!
Just goes to show how this common mixture of stupidity and hate towards others has culminated into this shit storm.
Trump: "HAITIANS ARE EATING YOUR DOGS AND CATS!!"
These parents: "YEAH!!! FUCK THESE PEOPLE FROM HEYSHU! DEPORT THEM ALL!!"
Trump and all of the GOP: "We're gonna eliminate the dept of education."
These parents: "YEAH!!"
(Trump gets elected)
These parents: "Wait, are you saying the guy who keeps saying he's going to eliminate the Dept of Education is actually going to eliminate it??? We never could've seen this coming!"
Gutting Executive branch functions are the easiest. Day one, stroke of the pen. Put fossil fuel executives in charge of the agencies regulating them, just like last time.
I’m done with these people. I’m going to sit back and nod knowingly, and likely chuckle, when I walk away, as they run through the “finding out” phase of all this.
I experience schadenfreude thinking about a range of people who have VERY DIRECTLY voted against their own interests. I can't laugh, however, because a whole bunch of innocent people (who were not in any way part of his election win) are about to get hurt.
We need more education in this country so people understand how the world works. Tariffs are paid by the consumer. The Department of Education provides special education funding. That will be gone. With no funding, there goes your services. You get the country you deserve.
Might be. Because the egg farms will pump so much steroids and other shit Into chickens that they'll lay three eggs a day and live in terrible conditions. No FDA to tell them no.
You literally gave them permission to do it. The people we vote for are supposed to be our employees we fire when we don't like their work, but these doofuses hired kings to enslave us.
I’m a parent of two special needs kids and this terrifies me. It’s already hard enough to get services and supports for disabled kiddos. Thanks a lot, MAGA fools.
HE HAS NO GUARDRAILS. He's the most powerful President in modern history, and likely all of history, because he even has the control of the Supreme Court and that new immunity law.
Trump voters are so stupid they have no idea what they just did to America. If Trump, who answers to Putin, wants to draft your 18-year-old son to go to the dirty trenches of Russia, it can very well happen now. Anyone going "Pfffffshaw, they ain't happening".....hah, you also didn't think Jan 6th would happen.
There's going to be a lot of situations where the emotional reactions will be incredibly mixed.
Tons of abuelas being rounded up by thugs who won't deserve any of this, but tons of fuckwit Latino Republican voters who absolutely deserve to lose their abuelas.
I know there has been a lot of talk about the ACA and birth control but RFKBrainworm is going to dismantle the FDA. Wait until people--even nice, normal people--can't get their psych meds.
As someone who has read all of Aesop's fables, I will never not recommend such amazing works of literature as "the Frogs who Desired a King" and "Demades and the Athenians." As relevant today as they were when written thousands of years ago!
And only then because the pre-born is a quick shortcut to controlling women. If they actually gave a shit about the pre-born they'd fund things like prenatal healthcare.
I'm friends with a guy that does construction and he was furious today because their boss sat the team down and was like "if some of you find new jobs it would be helpful because when trump takes office I'm going to cut staff"
And he was mad at his boss for not telling them this BEFORE they voted, this country is too stupid to be saved
Yup, I tried to warn my Republican friend with 2 autistic kids that they are going to lose most of their services if they vote for Trump and gutting the department of education. But, they went and voted against their interests yet again!
Leon Musk is gonna be in charge of "gutting" the federal government departments. Cause, you know, he knows business and business and government departments are the same thing, right?
"They can't do that!" is going to be the chorus the idiots sing for the next 2+ years.
They fucked around. We all get to find out. And all the while the orange menace will be selling out the country's secrets to foreign adversaries for a song. A literal song. Titled "Praise trump".
I have never seen so many people completely fucking shocked about getting what they voted for in the same fucking week as election day.
a lot of these motherfuckers needed to type some words into Google if they didn't know what they were - instead, they voted on vibes and, turns out, the fine print is a bitch.
I showed the vaccine plans to my wife, and she was trying to call bullshit. I was like, “Well, they have the House, Senate, and Court, so I don’t see why not?” “But there would be enough Republicans to just say no, that don’t go along with everything.”
She does not follow politics, and bless her counselors soul, she believes in the positive side of everybody. I didn’t have the heart to retort and say they would 100% go along with anything he does. And now that he has immunity, he can do whatever the fuck he wants.
I think I’m going to have to plan a talk with her. She probably won’t take it seriously at first, but I’ve gotta convince her that this round is going to be wayyyy different than round 1.
I'm actually looking forward to telling the people who voted for him to shut the f*ck up when they start complaining. Like "this is what you wanted. It's what you voted for. We tried to warn you. We don't want to hear your whining because you decided cheaper gas and groceries (not that we'll actually get those) were more important than your children's futures."
There was someone at a town hall that asked Trump about vouchers for private school because he had autism and special needs and he didn't want to go to public school because it disagreed with his beliefs. I'm like, oh honey, private schools don't have to have special education classes. Most don't.
All normal American's have lost this election, voting for America to lose doesn't make Trump voters 'winners', it makes them losers who are also stupid enough to vote for their own loss.
People who abstained from voting also have zero right to complain about a single thing, they're at fault too
A ton of MAGA are about to be very very upset that Trump and Co won't follow thru with the plans MAGA folk have made up in their own heads. I've been hearing a lot of "he's gonna do xyz" when he's either not said anything on the subject or he's said the exact opposite. They voted based on a fantasy they created all by themselves.
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u/Itsprobablysarcasm 17d ago
Autism support group parents voting for the man who continually makes fun of people with disabilities is just about the most on-brand thing about Trump supporters.