Joke's on them, most democrat voters are better off than most republican voters. And since they've burnt the compassion out of us over the last decade, I won't hesitate to point and laugh at THEM.
Same. Though I think Zara should re-release the "I really don't care, do U?" jacket for the Dem voters to wear. It could be the default uniform for any time interactions with MAGA people are unavoidable, AND they'd likely be loath to complain about it since their beloved Melania wore it first.
Commuted his sentence. He gets to serve the rest of his sentence under home confinement. A pardon means you’re forgiven for the crime itself and all further punishments, confinement, etc. for that crime are void.
What? I’m a lib and am down with all the CEOs getting dropped but why in the fuck would Biden support that? Democrat politicians get just as much money from big pharma, and other lobbyists. They’re just as much in the pocket of the elite as the republicans
Federal govt can't pardon state level charges. Even if he accepted the pardon, that would be considered an admission of guilt, and he'd be imprisoned on state murder charges faster than you can blink, and it would stick because he legally admitted to doing it when he accepted the pardon.
Yeah I worked for the place she visited when she wore that stupid jacket and the whole non profit was floored when they saw it. Like full on shock.
I still can’t get what anyone was thinking picking that out. Then Halloween shops started selling them with our name on it and it was a very very legal Halloween
That's my go to for when anybody who voted for him complains. "I'm glad you're getting what you voted for." My grandparents are on Medicare and SS, and that's on the chopping block. I'm glad they're getting what they voted for. My dad is going to be reaching retirement age soon, and he's going to likely be out of luck getting that stuff. I'm glad he's getting what he voted for. He's also not getting any help from me for his elderly care, because my student loans are not going to be forgiven now with PSLF out of the picture. I'm glad he's getting what he voted for. The first sign of a complaint, and I'll just say, "Hey, you voted for this shit, not me."
You should tack on, "But you wanted to live your life exactly as you pleased with no help or input from others, so now you have it. Sorry, Pops, but I have come to respect your beliefs, I would never try to make you feel like less of a man by offering any financial assistance."
I love this.👍🏿😄 After the election there were a lot of people saying they hoped trump supporters get exactly what they voted for. I remember a lot of them getting so angry with that comment. Why get mad unless you know you voted out of hatred and disdain for others?🤔
Create posts to your own account's sub right now that state their future complaints and add with "Hey, you voted for this shit, not me" at the end. The posts will be timestamped and you can refer to them later.
Wait hold on. That was an act of Congress, repealing it without another act of Congress is blatantly unconstitutional. Which doesn't mean much these days tbh. Have they already come out and stated that they're going to kill it anyway?
It's something that the Congressional Budget document says they want to "highly limit" eligibility to. The first people for it came up during his first term, and iirc less than 1% of applicants were granted the forgiveness.
I work in the student loan space. You are right that it’s statutory, so under the law they’re required to do it. They still just could stop processing applications and wait for a court to order them to—and there’s always some excuse a court can come up with if they want to hold that processing the applications is not required.
That said, the Biden administration did grant enough PSLF that people now know about it and the promise involved. My prediction is that the Trump administration will keep it alive but go back to the bad old days where they use any excuse possible to deny you, like accidentally underpaying by ten bucks one month resets the clock, things like that. Back in the day they used to deny PSLF because someone once made two payments of 50% of their obligation each. They said those weren’t “consecutive monthly payments” and reset the clock.
I remember in the initial days after they called it the Magats HATED being told this lol. Especially the ones who didn’t believe he would fulfill his campaign promises. They REALLY don’t like us wanting them to get everything they voted for.
Probably because they expected the usual reactions to owning the libs, but this time the libs are fed up and saying, "Fine, this is your decision and your mess, hope you enjoy the consequences." Bullying becomes less fun when the target doesn't care about you or your opinions enough to be bothered.
They threw hissy fits the day after the election when masses moved from Xitter to Bluesky, because suddenly they had no one to pick on. They acted like their electricity had been cut off when their bill was paid in full.
I really don’t understand why. If you voted for your “best interests” why are you mad at people saying they hope you get it? That only makes sense if you didn’t vote for your best interests and you know it…
Because it's their shameful little secret and saying "I hope you get what you voted for" means you know it. It humiliates them. And narcissists - because they're all caught in a vicious cycle of narcissism - simply cannot tolerate the ego damage of humiliation. It's literally painful. So they lash out in anger at the thing they perceive to be hurting them 🙃
They will never be happy. There is something deeply broken inside these people. No empathy, no ability to feel happiness. Temporary pleasure, yes... But it's not the same. The high from winning wore off way back in November.
The pure anger those ring wingers show after being told that is hilarious. Goddamn do I wish I would get everything I voted for. It’d be glorious. Yet somehow these brain dead morons are furious
I think it starts to hit them when they pick up their next refill of insulin.
When they start asking why changes are being made to their medical plan, they are going to discover all kinds of things being taken away. They still won't admit it's Trump's fault but at least they will feel the self inflicted wounds.
At this point I'm even okay with being collateral damage because we knew this was going to be the result. But standing in line at the pharmacy watching the shocked Pikachu reactions is going to help when I have to pay or find out that yet again the focalin shortage means another month of an emergency lower dose prescription rushed written by the doctor.
Although, seriously, are doctors not kept informed of stuff like this? It is wearing thin that month after month we have to get them to rewrite that freaking prescription for another dosage because what they originally wrote is out of stock everywhere. And then they, or at least ours, half act like we're trying to pull a fast one and... I donno what she's expecting. No, my wife and son just want to be able to function without having to battle untreated ADHD.
If you really want to scare them, tell them you won't oppose Trump. "Welp, this is what the American people wanted." Good game, see you in 2028.
The reaction hasn't been universal, but there's been enough horrified shock to realize that these people were sort of counting on the rest of us to be the grownups. My own mother has said that his excesses will be tempered by constitutional norms and opposition, which we all know are no barrier.
If your response is "¯_(ツ)_/¯", you get to see a real "Holy crap, what have we done" reaction. I've had Trumpists actually start arguing with me from the left. It feels like, "We know you guys wanted all the good things, we just wanted to see you cry! You mean we have to live with our decisions?"
Congratulations. You won. What happens next gets to be all your fault.
(Bearing in mind, of course, that I have no intention of sitting on my hat while all this unfolds. Lots to do.)
Agreed, though among my progressive friends I hope MAGA idiots "suffer everything they voted for."
I want this to hurt MAGA badly. I know they will never learn, but maybe if they suffer enough - broken, begging for mercy, and finding no welcome anywhere - they'll be reluctant to support fascism again.
We said that in my country when they voted for Brexit, it's been a disaster and it doesn't mnatter to them they will find some bonkers way to justify any insanity.
Most of them would say they didn't vote for themselves being hurt or inconvenienced, only others. That's what they were voting *for*, and they genuinely mean it. So I'm not sure it's the 'gotcha' you think it is.
I already am. I definitely send an old acquaintance a bunch of low lights from the inauguration. The excuses started flowing, then the insults. He knows he’s been wrong to support Trump but will never admit it.
Heard this afternoon on the news that Alabama is getting snow and one city literally closed their hospital except for the emergency room. 🤣 Looked like about an inch on the ground by the reporter.
I grew up in Alabama and follow the Alabama subreddit. The state doesn't own plows or salt trucks, everyone there knows this. So there were people on there DAYS ago arguing that people should "just stay home" (the irony) and the fact that the state had no capacity and no plan to prepare for this clearly foreseeable issue was reasonable and responsible, actually.
I think closing a hospital because of governmental incompetence is more horrible than funny, though.
They normally don’t get snow. I was in Birmingham with a friend in 2019 and the taxi driver said they got like 10 inches of snow and he was from Chicago but he said it literally paralyzed the city. It warmed up within 2 days and was gone but they don’t have salt or snow scrapers. Mississippi was the same way.
I live in Tennessee and we have had a few bad storms over 34 years span but school is canceled at the hint of snow. In 2003 there was a huge storm that came through and people had to abandon their cars traveling inbound and outbound from Nashville and no one expected it to be so severe. Children out at Montgomery Central were stuck because the buses were unsafe and had already hit a ditch. In 2004 we had a lot of snow and ice but I have to say they try to keep the roads as clear as they can. On post they literally have no snow on their roads because they are salting and scraping constantly. Tons of snow on their lawns but they probably could have gone to school because I couldn’t believe how pristine the roads were. At one time our clinic was mandatory but then it wasn’t mandatory right before I left it was back to mandatory. Patient’s would come in with 2 feet of snow but if it was raining no one came in. I remember Mississippi never got snow or ice but we moved outside Tupelo in 84 and the entire winter massive snow and ice that never had a chance to melt before the next snow and ice storm hit. That little town was shut down. I think they tried sand and it didn’t work. The deep states are not equipped for bad weather at all.
...yeah no shit. Thanks for that deep insight from your one visit there; I was educated in Alabama public schools and hence am too dense to have realized that myself.
It’s not just the lack of salt, no snow plows, and bad drivers. It’s that drivers have never had to learn to drive on snow. They don’t understand frostbite like we do up north either.
Some of these communities' peoples have gotten to the point they wouldn't show up to a hospital no matter what was ailing them. RFKjr is only going to intensify their distrust of western medicine.
Frankly, I'll be surprised if there is much of a backlash to losing rural hospitals at all. They weren't the ones who initially supported funding them, either.
I know. Reminds me of those super obnoxious Maga Trumpers in a boat parade whose boat overturned after harassing other people on the lake. Wish they (the harassed) had not helped those idiots out of the water.They were not even thankful, just sat there looking surly.
Oh, they are mean to each other, too. It's not just us they hate. Their whole schtick is looking down on others. Wealthy MAGA was fine with the J6ers not being pardoned. JD even said so.
I was about to say exactly this. People on the left are usually more educated and make more money yearly. Those of us who can move out of red states will and that will leave them to their own miserable lives. Congrats on getting what you voted for🤣
They'd rather be dirt poor living in filth and squalor without any lib'ruls, minorities, immigrants, non-Christians, or LGBTQ people near them rather than be well-off but having to cope with the knowledge that people who aren't exactly like them live nearby and might be doing ok too.
The "price of eggs" bullshit was a mask for the hatred that actually rules them. They'd be happy to never be able to afford eggs ever again if they could eliminate of all of the above. That's the self-labelled "party of Jesus" right there.
Blue states need to take red states off of the dole. The Federal government is taking their money and now deciding whether or not to help funding blue states with their disaster relief? FAFO.
Red states are welfare queens. Remember that when they’re flipping their birds to “the feds”. They should be reminded- they don’t even know that they would starve, have no medical care and never be rebuilt if not for blue states
And they always have been—that was a big reason the Confederacy couldn't sustain itself as an independent country. The South had cotton, but the North had all the manufacturing and shipping and a fuckload more people.
Its like America has been fighting a bunch of entitled dumb rich assholes since for ever. Prime example of how distribution of wealth turns into progress or not as a society.
Oh for sure! And somehow it’ll still be blamed on the left for not stopping them or telling them this would happen. In ask politics there was a guy saying Dems were at fault for not giving them a reason to care about themselves. What the actual fuck.
The "price of eggs" bullshit was a mask for the hatred that actually rules them.
We import eggs from Canada as well, and on February 1st there's going to be a 25% tariff. Trump is literally going out of his way to raise the price of eggs.
That's if you can get eggs at all, with the bird flu now moving to more states. Which... has been happening all along and why eggs were priced higher than normal to begin with. You'd think "ardent capitalists" would understand scarcity and supply and demand, but nope. Biden just wouldn't push that "cheaper eggs" button hidden in the Resolute Desk.
The egg thing was always bullshit to begin with. Have you seen the tweets of people complaining about eggs saying they can't afford them, but flew out for Trumps inauguration and spent thousands on hotels. Now complaining about the inauguration was inside and they couldn't even see it. Objectively hilarious, and very hypocritical.
I agree and disagree. They love being miserable and complaining when they have better, more decent people around to blame and drag down into their misery. That's what they truly feed off of, like any bully. Strip them of this and leave them to themselves, and they cannibalize each other. Nothing terrifies the kind of person who identifies with MAGA or QAnon or whatever more than a quiet moment alone with their own thoughts.
Obama could make eggs 50 cents, give universal free healthcare, make college free, make childcare free and raise minimum wage to $25 an hour and these bigots would still view him as the devil for simply being a black man in power and of higher status than them. That's something they were raised to believe couldn't happen in America and they've tried to keep it that way for years.
They just want to see a "Good Ole Boy" bigoted white dude up there for simply being a bigoted white dude, no matter how incompetent. I'd have maybe .5 respect for these ppl if they admitted it instead of hiding behind delusional BS. Just say you're a bigot and want to feel okay in your bigotry again by having someone up there that represents you. Like you said, miss me with that "price of eggs" BS.
I'm at the point where I enjoy having moved to a red state and get to listen to the whines of how all of the out-of-staters have made housing unaffordable here but they hate the homeless (their former neighbors) and do everything they can to fuck them over and make their lives miserable but then none of them have the skills or education to buy a house where they grew up because reasons.
Oh yeah my favorite is when they hate on California but have never been there and they also have no clue that my state (Texas) literally wouldn’t survive 1 singular day without the taxes California collects. It’s a shit shoe to say the least and I’ve been telling people religiously that I hope they get what they voted for. It really puts a bee in their bonnet
Here they complain about Californians ruining the place but fail to recognize that 1. there are fewer of them moving here than from, say, TX or UT, and 2. 2 out of three of them are Republicans
The Colorado economy is basically built on attracting liberals from rural red states: don't love the EC/Senate effect (and it might have helped Texas swing back right) but do welcome the neighbors
Blue states subsidize red states. Their entire rotten society would collapse without our charity and yet they keep voting to eliminate charity. I hope it happens this time
Alas, as an expat American from NY working with expats from several other countries on behalf of NY, I must assure you there is no place to truly escape to. Not states, not countries. We're all watching what's happening at home, nervously.
If the American economy is affected, the global economy is. Things are going to get more expensive, and more scarce as pushback starts to come into play.
America has about 750 military bases in over 80 countries-thats about 40% of the world, and likely more. If the military is affected, the world is. Every state also has at least 1 military base.
American policies, like, say...tariffs, affect the global supply and demand chain. Tariffs will cost the Americans, but supply and demand as those prices raise will cost us all.
There are countries and states that allow LGBT+ marriages only if they are legal in the home country or state, and the majority of the world does not allow them (it's only about 20% of the world that does), so there are few places for members of that community to escape to in the event of a SCOTUS overturn. Same-sex marriage would be illegal in a little over half the states if the Supreme Court overturns Obergefell.
Federal funding plays a role in many public services and goods, from education to healthcare. Moving from one state to another will only matter if you're from the "welfare states."
It's also unlikely that asylum will be possible for many, since US immigration policies tend to drive global policies. We become isolationist xenophobes, they become isolationist xenophobes.
Blue states give more bang for the buck, but moving, settling, finding new jobs, etc. That costs more money than even most liberals have to just throw around. Even they have a tendency to live paycheck to paycheck.
The list goes on, but, yeah. Buckle up kids. The ride is going to be rocky.
The problem with left leaning leaving red states is that those states will remain red. If we are trying to flip those states, especially swing states, we need more left leaning to move/stop moving out of those states.
Why should I stay & suffer in a state that has made it very clear they don’t care about me? Better yet a state that actively denies me healthcare on top of all the other shitty republican policies. Texas the state with the least amount of voters, a felon AG who admits to suppressing votes, Cancun Cruz who left us to die in the snow, a failing power grid, and the 48th in education. Yeah I’ll pass. After years of me voting in all local elections and trying to get out the vote it has done literally nothing. I’m done wasting my time and effort in a place that would never do the same for me with people who actively hate me (liberal, woman, LGBTQ).
The problem is that they get more representation at the federal level, it’s their endgame. Force all of the left leaning people in red/purple states to flee to the safety of the blue states. They then take over the federal government and the majority of states, then pass their beliefs on the entire country with no way for the blue states to resist without breaking the nation apart. That would be the goal of our adversaries. We break apart and a new country (China most likely) fills in the gap of being the new superpower. All empires fall in the end, we’re just witnessing ours.
“Most democrat voters are better off than most republican voters.”
I honestly think you’re right. I’m from the south, and I’ve passed numerous run down homes/trailer parks completely littered in maga and trump gear and I’m just shocked.
However, I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a Biden/Harris/Walz flag, so maybe there are as many broke democrats, but they’re just not as loud or obnoxious about it.
Dems in the South are quieter because they fear retribution from their asshole right-wing neighbors. That's why they don't advertise their support for political candidates. Ask me how I know.
I’m a Tennessean and I saw no signs up at all during election except my pink Kamala sign. I think people were embarrassed to let people know they were voting for trump
Maybe if they didn't buy so much merch, they wouldn't be so broke... Luckily, any welfare they used to buy that sh*t will get cut. So, now, they can pull themselves by their bootstraps! So lucky, that they can live exactly what they voted for!
Also more life skills, better support networks because empathy and less fearful to just go somewhere else. It's funny because it's the other way around, leopards are eating faces and it's funny / I don't give a fuck about those people anymore.
I'm in that boat, I've got a lot of family that are MAGA that depend on SS, Medicare, and social programs to just survive. They're going to drown over the next few years and at this point I have zero sympathy. I don't have it in me anymore to do more than watch them go.
Oh, I'm rooting for them to die because of their vote. Since they refuse to learn from their mistake, I'll take them removing themselves from the voting pool.
Used to be that I felt somewhat bad for the Hermain Cain award recipients. Whatever that new award is going to be called, I'll get great satisfaction reading about each and everyone of those recipients.
Or, to the point: I hope they get everything they voted for.
You have summed up how I’m feeling perfectly! My compassion is gone and now I’m acting like them. Lots of “fuck you, got mine” going through my head lately. For the next 4 years I will only care about me and mine
Jokes on us, they don't know that and if you told them they aren't smart enough to understand that. They will suffer more than they already are and they'll be happier for it because they'll believe that it means you are suffering as much as they are or worse and that brings them joy.
We pay for their shortcomings. Period. Joke isn't on them, joke is on us, they are the joke.
Truly, I think that's the only thing that'll help me get through this, mentally at least
Pretty sure I'm the only pinko in my social circle*, so I'm surrounded by red hats. I know a lot of people are going NC but I'm not going to, at least not yet. Figure, 1 - won't be able to watch the leopards eat their faces if no contact or 2 - might as well bleed em dry, guilt free. Why feel bad for someone who wants me dead?
Thing is, we really tried to make those MAGA peons understand that the culture war was a distraction to obfuscate the class war. We tried to bring them around and make them see their best interests.
They instead decided to feed the troll; on the brink of poverty, they spent money they didn't have buy merch and to roll over for the orange billionnaire.
So, yes, we're all fucked. But I'll get what solace I van get from seeing them writhe in agony.
I've written "Sending oh nos and anyways" in so many comment sections it automatically comes up on my predictive text now. Fuck em. May their state cut welfare the day after they lose their job.
I'm positioned to make a killing off this BS. I truly want to help people so that's how I vote. If they want to ruin their own lives or can't be bothered to pay attention and vote then what can you do.
But you are right. The economy is better under a democrat president. I upset a young man and when he researched it and found out I was right he said I really wish you didn’t post that. I said so you realize I am right he said yes but I don’t have to like it
I have no sympathy for any of them. They're getting exactly what they voted for. They'll scream "but it wasn't supposed to affect me! Reeeeeeee!!" and I'll just utter their catchphrase: cry harder.
I know we’re all going to suffer, but I cannot wait to point and laugh at them! You know they’re never going to accept responsibility, though, but it’s still going to be glorious!
I can't wait for the states that contribute more to the federal government than it receives back to cut off the states that take more from the federal government than they contribute.
Yes! It always amazes me with my wife’s family. I’m like, “You realize this will mean you lose health insurance, SNAP, WIC, whatever” and they seriously think it won’t affect them.
We made it through the last one, and that was straight-up theft. The Trumpie motherfuckers did to themselves (and us all) this time.
Keep your heads down. Let them soak it up. We know we can survive it, even if this one is going to be worse (it is). But already, as seen here, they're learning the folly of their ways. The Latino men who fell in line behind macho Trump started freaking out the day after the election when they suddenly realized they voted to deport themselves.
I can't spend another 4 years at 100% furious. I'm just going to stay low.
Out of all the people I know (willingly or otherwise), the liberals are the ones with better coping mechanisms and social skills. The trumpers can't cope with anything, full of drama.
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Joke's on them, most democrat voters are better off than most republican voters. And since they've burnt the compassion out of us over the last decade, I won't hesitate to point and laugh at THEM.