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[–] 143 points 2 years ago (37 children)

MAGA will blame this on Democrats.

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    [–] 98 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Well, he promised tax breaks. If anyone had the illusion that this would benefit lower income brackets, then congratulations: you have officially become senile. Because it follows the same path he did with the last tax breaks: More money for the rich, less for the rest.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Everyone has equal freedom to be rich, so these tax breaks actually benefit everyone while food stamps only benefit the true leeches of society! /s

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    [–] 86 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    This infuriates me more than anything else, but the Republicans were very clear on their intentions and were elected democratically.

    It sucks that we don't have a legit opposition party that actually cares about the poor and working class.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    During the campaign Trump repeatedly said he wouldn't mess with Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. Towards the end of the campaign he stopped saying Medicaid. But just last week he was asked about cuts and said he wouldn't touch Medicaid.

    I guess it's all true because Congress is going to cut all three.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    A bunch of trump admin people wrote project 2025 with the heritage foundation. Trump himself is a well known liar and was under criminal prosecution.

    We knew it would be tax cuts for the richest, again. At this point its still surprising that people are dumb enough to believe his words over his actions..

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

    We did, it was Bernie. And we burned him :(

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    [–] 75 points 2 years ago (21 children)

    America will get what they voted for. Fucked.

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

    I have no sympathy for anyone who ever voted Trump, but the point has to be made that until voting is mandatory and they actually hold genuine primaries that allow voters to have a say, it's taking things too far to blame every American for this outcome. The last few presidential elections have been laughably thin pretenses of democracy.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    I didn't vote for this everyone needs to stop putting us in a box...many of us did not want this and we're stuck with these jerks. Alot of Americans are good people we just got taken over. America needs help from other countries.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    I'm an American who works primarily with Canadians. Their opinions are very eye opening.

    The nuance you're missing is based in American exceptionalism. You are no different than a Russian citizen, stuck under a government you/I hate. Focus on what you and your family can control.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Yes.

    Your internal team sports are not owed consideration by other peoples affected by the actions of the USA on the international stage.

    I think everyone here would agree that most Americans don’t care who the Russian soldier voted for without all that freedom nor could even name the opposition parties let alone their overall platforms in most of the world.

    America is doing this. A purposeful second time. The parties are the internal machinations.

    There is a significant chance of invasion. The USA is dead to me. It’s people made a choice. Cold Vietnam or Guerrilla Austria? Time will tell.

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

    The United States has been collapsing for decades. A force like Trump became an inevitablity after you allowed education standards to be destroyed, right-wing propoganda to run rampant, and billionaires to be held unaccountable for their roles in crashing the U.S. economy.

    The number of Americans who have actually been fighting to prevent us from getting to this point is a very, very small group. You voted for this, regardless of whether or not you voted for the orange fascist or the controlled opposition. We're here now because the American people have consistently voted for this inevitability for decades.

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    [–] 60 points 2 years ago

    Who could have possibly foreseen this hilariously predictable outcome?!

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

    America had a class war. And Americans lost.

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    [–] 57 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What the fuck did people think would happen to all the cost savings that doge is supposedly doing? You think that money was just going to sit in government bank accounts or something?

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago

    "Well the 60yr old man that blew his body out working hard jobs to raise his family that are now unable to buy homes despite graduating college with tech degrees, can just rejoin the work force with his withering body and broken psyche." -Evil probably

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Everyday Americans will not stand for these games

    I got a bridge to sell this guy!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Good GOD how I wish that everyday Americans will not stand for it. If that was the case the 2A guys would show up fully kitted out AND the police and military would be by their side since it screws everyone over.

    But that is not going to happen.

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    American friends, what are you waiting for to deploy your guillotines?

    Sure we are getting fucked all over the world but it seems that you are having it way worse...

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ah yes, republicans with the ol’ trickle-down economics… always works, right?! Right?!

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

    My biggest frustration is not that Trump won, it's that as best i can tell these things are not even penetrating into the infosphere of maga. They are not only gleefully celebrating what they think he's doing, they are also seemingly completely ignorant of what they surely must not realize he's doing.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    ‘Want to be slightly richer, while we speed run a revolution?’

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

    I don't know what to think about that. I don't think that low income Republican voters will feel the face eating of the leopards they voted for as what it is.

    And I'm not even American, but I can see that this exact same thing is going to happen here in Europe/Germany as well. People will vote for the extreme right parties that have all their propaganda on how they are going to give money to the small people and make the country more secure - and at the same time their political programs and past behavior screams "we will give tax cuts mainly to the ultra rich and never cared about the low income people".

    And they still get voted for. We just love us some good old fashioned fascism. Maybe I need to change my mindset and just be like "let's gooooo"

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

    Time to fuckin do something

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Know how we can directly trace the enshitification of the United States in many ways back to the Reagan administration?

    Yeah, we just did that to ourselves again. But probably worse.

    Realistically, we're going to spend the remainder of our lives witnessing the further enshitification of this nation.

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    These Republicans are worse than locusts.

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