Summary
Low-income voters who supported Donald Trump are expressing concerns over potential cuts to government benefits as his administration pushes for aggressive spending reductions.
Trump’s newly announced “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is tasked with cutting programs, raising fears about impacts on social safety nets.
Trump also plans to shut down the Education Department, impose tariffs on imports from China, Mexico, and Canada, and has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health Secretary, signaling a focus on controversial health policies.
Voter anxieties about these shifts are growing.
Voter anxieties about these shifts are growing.
Oh, NOW they’re concerned? Not when we were all beating the drum telling these morons that Trump was going to fuck the country again?
God.
Low income voters should demand taxing the wealthy, like multimillionaires and billionaires, more rather than just hoping for benefits
I hate how this is always on fucking point. These people don’t have empathy until it affects them in a personal way, then all of a sudden it’s “who let this happen?!”
It was you, you fucking dipshits, by not having the emotional intelligence to be able to think for one second in another person’s shoes or think out the end conclusion to a piece of rhetoric.
Fuck these people. May you reap what you sow.
The bad thing is we all reap what they sow.
Sigh. I know. But I’m not going into this shitstorm blind like these fools.
I bought goggles.
it bothers me that so many commenters are excited about the idea of people suffering.
I’m not excited, but I lost all empathy for fellow Americans who voted Trump this election. They will get what they voted for.
They took a risk because the economy was already good
https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/the-economy-has-been-great-under-biden-thats-why-trump-won
I mean, this. The only way any average American is going to benefit from the Trump admin is if they are very active in the stock market and know what to look for. Most of the people that voted for Trump are barely making ends meet, and they’re going to be in for a rude awakening when the housing market crashes in 1-2 years, tariffs have driven up the prices of everything, and social safety nets have been eliminated.
I voted for the competent adult, who would have done things to benefit 99% of Americans, but others wanted the tantrum baby. The market is going to go up, because taxes and regulations will be more lax, and also, that’s what it tends to do, and I’ll personally benefit profusely from it.
I’m not a Trump supporter. He’s a fraud, idiot, and a national disgrace. But I have extensive savings, retirement accounts, stocks holdings, etc, so I’m going to benefit. That’s all that Trump ever does, is give more to the people that already have it, because those are the only people he interacts with.
His struggles are with getting lenders and ideal interest rates on multi million dollar loans, and on trying to shield his assets from taxes, because good forbid he pay his fair share on the obscene amount of wealth he receives from a trust fund, and never actually earned.
If those aren’t problems that you have, and you voted for Trump then you’re going to have a rude awakening in store. Unfortunately you dragged the rest of us into this mess with you.
i did not vote for Trump.
and you will suffer with them, most likely.
this is not the way to class solidarity.
my daughter said to me one day - you have to have more empathy for those who are oppressed than hatred for oppressors.
right now, i see a lot of people lumping those who are most vulnerable together with incoming leadership. indifference to those who are most vulnerable doesn’t help any of us.
Fuckem.
ignorance has a price
Fucking eejits.
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All well and good to admire the leopard feast, but I’m worried about the fact that once these people are down and out, society is going to have to collectively carry them one way or another.
It’s concerning that many people near the edge will fall off it, regardless of their voting position.
It’s obviously concerning that since republican policy will be enacted, more will solely be covered via emergency services rather than collective safety nets, which is an overall cost increase to society.
Leopards will become morbidly obese in 6-12 months. Being stupid is expensive.
