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"We don't want to be told what to do. We only want to tell other people what to do."
- every conservative
Oh, they like being told what do. As long as it's by the right people, as long as they're told that they get to make others' lives worse.
That's the secret. Just about every "alpha" (with VERY few exceptions) is also a submissive "beta". They'll give up their morals, their daughters, their god, their freedom, whatever.
That's the fundamental difference between the left and the right. The left believes in cooperation, the right believes in the authority-submissive, alpha-beta dynamic.
These people just aren't in on the secret. As soon as they really start complaining they'll be told to fall in line.
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“Why is Trump doing exactly what we voted for?“
It’s getting harder and harder to enjoy the faces being eaten by these leopards, especially because it affects everyone else, too.
I guess the only hope is that there are fewer of them than there are of us. Eventually, we’ll be the only ones left.
Hopefully…
Nah, see, y'all are leeches sucking off of the real producers like Musk and Bezos. We'll never get to 0% unemployment and 100% labor participation with those "disability checks" and "food stamps" keeping you fat and happy. /s
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It’s getting harder and harder to enjoy the faces being eaten by these leopards,
Not for me.
This is what they voted for three fucking times. If I have to get what they deserve, then I'm damned well going to enjoy watching them get it too.
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My in-laws voted for him because - no joke - they didn’t want Kamala to give money to “poor people.” My in-laws are on social security and Medicare. They ARE the poor people. If they think we will be paying for their shit after benefits are cut, I’ve got news for them. FAFO.
"Those other people didn't earn it...like us. They are lazy welfare mommas. They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, like we did."
- your in-laws probably
I was going to ask if the in-laws just use "poor people" as coded language for non-whites.
of course… trump is hella racist and so is america and that’s why he won….
it’s just about impossible for someone to support him without being racist. that’s why when you pin a trump supporter down on “why trump though?” it’s always some bullshit reason, and if you break it down or disprove it, they eventually regress to “i don’t care”.
all their hypocritical outrage over supposed moral violations of the left? they don’t actually care about that… they just want to yell something at the anti-racist people and they can’t get away with overt racism just yet….
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This is what Trump ran on. This is what President Musk promised on Xitter pre-election.
Why would you think otherwise?
He also ran on 'i won't touch social security' and they heard the option they wanted to hear despite it being an obvious lie he will if he can.
Yes, but it was mapped out pre election. Project 2025. I get it, no one wants to even skim a 996 page document, but it was all right there.
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Have they tried not taking handouts and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps?
No, you see, their social support is ok, because they are down on their luck, through no fault of their own. Buts it's those other free loaders are the problem.
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Get fukt
Trump will not only cut their benefits and siphon off the money for his billionaire investors, he will convince them it's really better this way that they struggle to survive. Makes them stronger.
Ahhh... the old if you think this is bad, imagine how much worse the next/other guy/party will be if I can get away with this much.
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i look forward to witnessing every detail of these gullible fuck trump voters coming to the realization that trump actually fucking hates them, and it's NOT in fact the mexicans' fault that their lives are shit
We moved back to Ohio recently (born there then moved out to California for over a decade for work and now back to Ohio so we can be near family). The amount of fucking shacks festooned with trump shit is wild. Doesn’t really seem like he did so great for you the first time Cletus, given that you live in a rundown shanty in the middle of one of the cheapest places to buy land and real estate…
My favorite though is there is some sort of steel recycler / wholesaler. His sign cycles between his business name the cost for a ton of steel and “you’re fired! trump 2024.”
I can not wait for the tariffs to absolutely destroy his business and for that reader board to say “thank you for 27 years of business”
I’m a pretty well off leftist, so now I guess I’ll sit back and watch these poor rubes get fucked. It’s the only solace left.
I come from a family of Mexicans who are all Trump supporters. In this case it is the Mexicans fault too. If I recall Trump support among Hispanics is some of the highest in Republican history with 45% of Hispanics voting for Trump.
This is all tongue in cheek of course. They’re all too stupid to realize what can, and likely will, happen to them.
Yeah, he polled highly among Hispanics in 2020, too. I legitimately do not understand it.
guessing they fall into one of two main camps...
good catholics voting against women's rights and perhaps not understanding the other things that go along with voting that way, and 'got mine, fuck you' aimed squarely at others following behind them, legally or not.
It's stupidity and racism
Ive lived in California my whole life and have known many illegal immigrants and their families
The second most racist group of people I've ever fucking met are Mexican immigrants (legal or not) already here who think the ones who haven't come here for whatever reason are "empty headed wetback rapists who make us all look bad, that's why we're here!" (their words almost exactly)
Pointed out to one guy I knew in 2016 that if the wall was what he wanted then he and his family wouldn't even fucking be here and he responded with "we were smart enough to get here before the wall!"
These are the same morons who will call someone born there but raised here "unpure" as well so you can kinda tell they're not the best of people already
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Sorry, guys. You voted for this so the billionaires can deliver austerity to you, an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of government largesse for themselves.
Fucking idiots. They deserve it. I don’t want them to suffer, but they deserve to. If only we all just didn’t shoot ourselves in the dick at every opportunity. Fuck them for doing this to themselves, and to you, and me. I hate this place so much.
This has some real "Jews for Hitler" energy, by the way.
People are so gullible 🙄
My parents, who are (legal) immigrants (just like everyone in my family) are worried that "illegal immigrants" are taking away too much resources, also blames "Democrats" for the "migrant crisis". Says "illegal immigrants" shouldn't be "getting so much welfare" because then they (my parents) have less.
I'm like: Bitch, when they say "illegal immigrants" is a dogwhistle against people like us, they just don't see this BS. They don't want any immigration at all, "illegal immigrant" is just a cover used to justify any actions against all immigrants, legal or illegal.
It’s not cutting government programs, it’s cutting the amount of people needed to run a program,” Tillia told the Post. “They are cutting staff, which could actually increase the amount of the programs that we get.
Back in reality the only way to realize substantial savings is to cut benefits, those people eliminated are needed for you to get benefits at all and only Congress can create new programs.
Here she is a poor person on community assistance thinking she can support throwing people just like herself out of a job and somehow end up with more free shit.
Anyone think she will learn when they change her address to a slab of cardboard on the corner?
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"I'm going to have to dock your pay for speaking out of turn"
You get what you voted for. Kindly fuck off.
He will cut them.
No need to worry about it. Benefits will definitely be cut.
...and blamed on Democrats (and/or women, POC, Teh Gheyz, liberals, immigrants...).
you did your part, and now you'll be left behind. MAGA!
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?
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Why should he take care of you? You have nothing to offer him anymore.
Wut?
That's literally his platform. May the dildo of consequences arrive with no lube and wrapped in sandpaper.
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.
And for next 4 years, responsibility for the resulting hardships will somehow be laid at the feet of Joe Biden and the Democrats.
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You voted for the robber baron with the LITERAL GOLDEN TOILET though
Said just before the leopard attack…
Leopards are going to eat better than those people over the next four years.
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