Goober Posted February 26 Posted February 26 He voted to take out the trash only to find out he was the trash: https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1iwb866/rodney_in_nashville_didnt_expect_his_job_to_be/?rdt=51759 Stable Genius and stevenkesslar 2 Quote
Stable Genius Posted February 27 Posted February 27 If you voted for Trump and you're losing your job to Elon's gleeful and sadistic chainsawing, you're getting exactly what you deserve. Trump has told this nation, many times, exactly who he is and what he wants to do. Now you're whining about losing your government livelihood. Sorry, zero sympathy here. Your votes for Trump tossed our country to the wolves, and now you can contemplate your error as you visit the unemployment office and apply for food stamps....oh, wait, Trump's Republican Congress is cutting those too. Next election - if there ever is another one - do a little intelligent research and read or listen to something other than X, Fakebook and Fox News. Goober, Raposa and stevenkesslar 2 1 Quote
Goober Posted February 27 Author Posted February 27 12 hours ago, Stable Genius said: If you voted for Trump and you're losing your job to Elon's gleeful and sadistic chainsawing, you're getting exactly what you deserve. Trump has told this nation, many times, exactly who he is and what he wants to do. Now you're whining about losing your government livelihood. Sorry, zero sympathy here. Your votes for Trump tossed our country to the wolves, and now you can contemplate your error as you visit the unemployment office and apply for food stamps....oh, wait, Trump's Republican Congress is cutting those too. Next election - if there ever is another one - do a little intelligent research and read or listen to something other than X, Fakebook and Fox News. donOLD thinks his supporters are stupid, and I can't disagree with his assessment. I do feel a little (very little) sympathy for them because of their stupidity, but their accompanying hatred for their perceived enemies (immigrants, gays, trans, nonwhites) far outweighs their stupidity, and they deserve the brunt of donOLD's cruel policies. MAGAts that lose their jobs due to donOLD's policies should be publicly humiliated when they apply for "socialist" programs they railed against such as welfare, unemployment and SNAP benefits. Stable Genius 1 Quote
Stable Genius Posted February 27 Posted February 27 I am just amazed by the really incredible stupidity all around. How do low income people vote for billionaires who have never spent a cent of their own money trying to help the poor? How do black and brown people vote for a white supremacist party which openly hates them? How do government workers vote for a party that wants to traumatize and eliminate them? How does a forest ranger vote for a party that thinks our natural resources should be exploited and destroyed by the 1 percent, and that climate change is a hoax? How does a victim of sex abuse vote for a party that celebrates sexual abusers? Goober 1 Quote
Members stevenkesslar Posted February 27 Members Posted February 27 6 hours ago, Stable Genius said: How do low income people vote for billionaires who have never spent a cent of their own money trying to help the poor? It's the inflation, stupid. In Mexico they voted for the person who actually fought for the working class in a landslide. 6 hours ago, Stable Genius said: How do black and brown people vote for a white supremacist party which openly hates them? It's the inflation, stupid. In Mexico they voted for the party that actually fought for working class brown and black people in a landslide. 6 hours ago, Stable Genius said: How does a forest ranger vote for a party that thinks our natural resources should be exploited and destroyed by the 1 percent, and that climate change is a hoax? Yeah, that is pretty stupid I have changed my view of 2016 and 2020 and now have a revisionist history. I was a bit of a confused mess both times. In 2016 I voted for Hillary in the 2016 primary, because it seemed like she would win. Even though my heart was with Bernie. In 2020 I voted for Bernie in the primary. I was a Warren fan boy, but she was pretty much dead by early 2020. And I knew Biden would be nominated. So I wanted to send a message for him to veer left and economic populist. Which he did. Looking back now that Trump barely won on a populist agenda, I now think that both times the Democratic Party had a chance to embrace working class economic populism. In a way that Sanders and Warren really wanted. Instead we embraced Joe Biden as a soft and comfortable choice. And it seemed like a good choice at the time. I will defend a lot of what he did until I die. But when I compare what AMLO fought for in Mexico to what Biden did in the US, I think it is very clear why one party won in a landslide and one lost narrowly. The advantage of the Trump Party was it was simply that: Trump in 2016, Trump in 2020, Trump in 2024. Trump was kind of a fluke in 2016. But not really. Because he did lead a right wing authoritarian populist movement. But after 2016 it really was a simple choice. If you don't like the way things are, you have a choice: Trump, or Trump. In 2024 it was clearly the inflation stupid. And, to a lesser degree, immigration stupid. But inflation was probably sufficient. The way both got played together by Trump was that Democrats seemed to be more for illegal criminals than some Black DEI grandma on Medicaid. If DEI Granny did not like inflation, she had a choice: Trump. He'll lower your prices! Now, of course, MAGA is going for Black DEI Grannie and her Medicaid. DEI bitch! DEI Grannie stands for waste, fraud, and abuse. Dump the bitch! So maybe that is sufficient for Democrats to win back power in 2026 and 2028. But the REALLY BIG LESSON I take from the last decade is that Democrats will either figure out how to fight for the working class, or not. And that won't be like Biden presiding over that awful and mostly useless debate over Build Back Better. While that was happening in the US, AMLO was fighting for and winning specific things to help Mexico's working class. And he announced every fucking day what he was fighting for and what he won. If you repeat something 365 days a year, often several times a day, people eventually get the message. Trump is good at that. Biden sucked at it. Democrats should stop wondering what the fuck happened. Even a working class Trump voter who did not go to college can figure this one out. Democrats need to figure out whether they want to embrace an economic populist agenda- like raise taxes on their billionaire donors to help the working class. If we don't, we now know what the other choice is. Trump, Vance, MAGA, and a Putin-loyalist authoritarian government happy to break shit. And let Elon Musk and oligarchs have the low taxes and freedom from government they feel they earned. There is an obvious flaw in my logic. My binary choice assumes that one side can eventually win, maybe in a landslide. In fact, America is almost evenly divided. But the job of political leaders is to try to figure out how to build a majority movement. Democrats didn't ever figure that out. In part because being an FDR or Reagan is not easy. Biden was like a Band Aid that worked for a while. Two figures that I think maybe could crack the code are Ruben Gallego and Raphael Warnock. One is Brown, one is Black. Both managed to win in swing states. Both know how to play the center and avoid looking woke. Which, for a Black Rev in still right of center Georgia, took an enormous degree of tact and political skill. Or maybe some Guv like Bill Clinton in 1992 will pop up. We certainly have the talent to do it. We need the determination to do it, too. I think that is where we failed in both 2016 and 2020. But the anger and rage is building among the roughly half of America absolutely appalled by this shit. So Democrats need to decide what we will fight for that is better for the working class. Quote
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a-447 Posted February 28 Posted February 28 It's ironic that President Musk and VP Trump want to get rid of federal workers who they believe are not doing their job by working from home or being lazy and unproductive. Trump has spent 60% of his time on the golf course! Stable Genius, Bingo T Dog and Ruthrieston 3 Quote
Members Suckrates Posted February 28 Members Posted February 28 Perhaps, the problem with all MAGAts is that they have dead brain worms in their heads, like the new director of health, JFK Jr ? That could account for their Bad decision making, and endangering the Democracy of Americans AND their Health . stevenkesslar 1 Quote
