Summary

Rep. Chuck Edwards’ North Carolina town hall erupted in chaos as constituents furiously protested DOGE, a Trump administration initiative tied to mass federal job cuts and Elon Musk’s growing influence.

Attendees, including laid-off government workers, jeered at Edwards over employment losses and reduced federal funding.

Constituents raised concerns about federal job cuts affecting veterans' services, national parks, and Hurricane Helene recovery efforts.

Edwards struggled to respond but remained unfazed. The GOP downplayed the unrest, calling it staged, though independent voters like veteran Martin Downie say they feel directly targeted by their own government.

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[–] 87 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Where the fuck was all this rage in November, my fellow Americans? We already had four years of Trump, January 6 insurrection, a disastrous reduction in foreign relations. But I guess that wasn't enough???

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago

    These are MAGA morons, deplorables if you will, who are now upset that they're being affected by project 2025 because they had it in their heads that they would be spared as being good whites and it would only affect minorities and liberals because they're racist deplorables.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You do not understand the power of the dark side propaganda.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Marketing, as an industry, should be stamped out of existence. It's just professional lying.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    But this is what I don’t get - Trump isn’t even good at lying. Practically every word is a lie but fails on logic and he’ll usually say the opposite soon enough. How do people even fall for it? Do they actually listen to him?

    It must be just cherry-picking: if he says enough lies you can usually find one you like. But how could you reconcile that one thing you think you agree with out of a vast ocean of lies?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I understand where your anger is coming from here, as I was just recently raging about lies in modern day advertising, but I'm having trouble following the line here.

    Let's say we "stamp out of existence" all activities relating to marketing. Practically speaking, does this make all products commodities? When I walk into a grocery store, is every shelf just a plain brown box with a minimal description of its contents? "cane sugar 1lb", "laundry detergent", "vegetable soup"? Further, marketing includes identification of where there is demand for a certain good, so we should be shipping ice melt to Florida in July and sun screen to Montana in January?

    Can I suggest that perhaps what we actually need is better regulations around marketing practices and enforced penalties when companies go over the line?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No need to guess, it wasn’t enough. I think in hindsight, Covid is going to seem like a pleasant nostalgic time.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It already does.

    Especially the first part of it where we were baking bread or whatever.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I know a ton of people died, and countless more where hurt, and it hurt the economy, but as an introvert hermit, GOD DO I MISS LOCKDOWN.

    I do my best to keep up the life style, but I'm still expected to go into the office every once in a while for my wasted day as we all call it.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm told it's all the Democrats fault that the Republicans are fucking awful people trying to steer this country into a fascist dictatorship. I mean, just LOOK at what the Democrats made the Republicans do!

    If the DNC and the candidates had only listened to these arbiters of wisdom, all would be well, I am told.

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