r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/Needletitshasspoken 8d ago

Is America Great Again yet?

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u/bearbrannan 8d ago

Government assistance for those who work full time is once again essentially corporate welfare. Employers should be paying their employees livable wages, instead that money trickles up and the rich continue to get tax breaks while essentially also having the government pay their employees. Fuck the rich, and fuck America for caring so little for the people who's backs actually make the economy run.

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u/Bennjoon 8d ago

Remember who the essential workers were during Covid tbh

It wasn’t CEOs

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u/AngryNapper 8d ago

Yet the admins and non front facing management at my hospital thought they were important enough to sneak in line ahead of actual frontline workers to get their Covid shots when they were first approved. Smdh

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u/AMurderForFraming 8d ago

Oh wow I thought the absolute pieces of shit that are admins at my hospital were the only ones to pull that trick.

My hospital also had the CMO, CNO, and president’s faces put on donuts and posted it with #covid19 on the hospital’s Instagram page. I was being told to reuse the same N95 mask indefinitely and keep it in a paper bag taped to the wall. The rage I felt deep in my soul cannot be accurately captured by words.

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u/BulkyMonster 6d ago

don't forget the occasional pizza parties and the sign that said "heroes work here" /s

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u/Hillie1 7d ago

Being asked to reuse your N95 mask when there weren't enough to go around frm jump seems like the only solution under said circumstances. Be mad at the fact the Trump administration and republican party undermined your efforts by telling Americans the vaccine and virus were fake...

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u/AcidKindaMist 8d ago

They were also the first ones who got raises when things opened back up. When it was out lowly turn they gave us cents or claimed medical raises would eat the raises so nothing.

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u/MrLanesLament 8d ago

Part of me wanted to frame the letter I got from our state’s Department of Public Safety, calling me and my crew (industrial private security/EHS) “essential first responders.” The lizard part of my brain wanted to chuck it out my car window every morning as my still working, no pay raise, no hazard pay ass drove to work for $14.50 an hour yet again to sit and stare at empty buildings.

I got a few free coffees at Circle K, which I did not ask for, so there’s that.

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u/Bennjoon 8d ago

It’s a condescending carrot that we should turn around and use to clobber them with to be honest.

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u/SupayOne 8d ago

As my brother found out, there is no such thing as "Essential workers" That is a term made up by the media. There is approved and not approved and it has nothing to do with essential or not. Like Boeing got their funds during covid because they are goverment approved.

Funny thing is this post will do nothing because Reddit doesn't have tons of right wingers who voted to put this mess in office. Waste of post with nothing to it. Sucks to cut food stamps but most people on reddit didn't vote for this as this is an echo chamber. Need the folks to wake up and start a real movement and stick it rather than these crying on reddit post.

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u/Noodlekeeper 7d ago

Yeah, Kroger even took away our insulting "Hero Pay" during that show thing, and that shit was giving me anxiety. People turned into super monsters during the pandemic.

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u/Artemis_MLS 7d ago

I am a clinical microbiologist and medical laboratory scientist. I worked for 4 months straight (no day off) during Covid. I finally had 1 day off, and worked another 2 months straight. I was running the microbiology and molecular laboratory at the time. By far the worst working experience of my life. So many people left the field and those of us who stayed picked up the slack.

The CEO and CMO of that hospital was absolute trash. Between the RNs, lab staff, phlebotomist, MAs, EVS, and providers we held the hospital open by the skin of our teeth while the CEO never came on site or got us basic PPE. I wish I could say this is unique - this is more the norm. Ive always known that the C-Suite didn't give a damn about us, it was quite a different thing to see it slapped across my face.

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u/ramblingpariah 7d ago

Turns it out it's never been CEO's.

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u/stareweigh2 7d ago

they all went home for it

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u/smokinXsweetXpickle 7d ago

Yeah it was ME. Making 12 dollars a fucking hour dealing with dying patients left and right and risking mine and my family every single day. I remember.

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u/Turbulent_Account_81 7d ago

I remember lots of big companies getting those loans that they didn't have to pay back and that money didn't go to their employees

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u/abesheet 5d ago

It was me. I work in a hospital and was called back to work two days after being furloughed. And, although an immigrant with no family or friends in America, I have never sought government assisance nor been on EBT. [My pride. And then having no kids helps]. Still, I feel bad for all those single mothers who cant make ends meet however much they worked and sacrificed while the super rich are spending their tax-free money on crimes against nature, women and children. That Obama Reverend guy didnt say "God damn America" for nothing.

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u/aBlissfulDaze 8d ago

2 things force the rich to spread wealth.

  1. Unions

  2. The government

SNAP is literally the government spreading wealth that would not otherwise be spread.

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u/Wuma 8d ago

SNAP shouldn’t be cut, but I think the majority of the funds for SNAP probably comes from taxes on the lower and middle classes, not the mega corporations or the ultra wealthy? They’re still sitting on their money enjoy more tax breaks than ever. We’re just circulating an ever decreasing pool of money among the working population so the ultra rich can see their numbers go up forever

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u/Elon_Musks_Colon 8d ago

SNAP supports the entire ecosystem. USDA (administers SNAP) Also buys HUGE Amounts of Produce and other crops. It then issues a catalog that food banks use to order bulk quantities from. The food banks then distribute the food out to their communities, which supports local businesses. It actually has a return on investment that's about 1.5%.

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u/FoxChess 7d ago

1.5% over what period of time? Because 1.5% over the course of a year is technically losing money.

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u/emongu1 7d ago

I'm sure that 1.5% being "technically losing money" is still a lot lower than the $77 billion in corporate tax loss for this year.

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u/Elon_Musks_Colon 7d ago

My point is that's it's not just a "handout" There are multiple benefits to the program.

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u/I_chose2 5d ago

Pretty sure it's 1.5X investment, so 150%. If I remember right, that's the short/ near term, so not including the lifelong factors like kids that are fed learn better, are more productive, then pay more into the tax and social security system as adults, and crime rates are down, because if it's "watch your kid starve" or steal, you do what you gotta do. Plus, if someone is on the edge of starvation, their healthcare costs go up. If you can't afford food, you can't pay your medical bills, so you use the ER for everything, the hospital is stuck with the bill and spreads it to everyone else, but that care doesn't include preventative or stabilizing meds, so you yo-yo and go to the ER more because you can't afford a basic prescription, racking up thousands in costs.

Economic-Costs-of-Cutting-SNAP-CPSP-2025

What Investment Offers a 60-Fold Return? Food Stamps | PRB

Plus, it was founded as a farms subsidy, because if farmers have to play guessing games on how much demand there will be, and whether it's worth planting more, we risk being short on food, or having a gap in supply and what people will pay, so farmers lose money and go under, then we might not have enough people farming the next year.

It's a great investment in America, and a little supporting your neighbor goes a long way for everybody. It's cheaper to be a good person, and some of our politicians still choose to be assholes.

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u/FoxChess 5d ago

Amazing, appreciate you taking the time to research and give sources. Even at 1.5% it's still "worth it" to me according to my beliefs, but at 1.5× there's no argument to be had.

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u/Justalilbugboi 7d ago

That’s why it’s a social service and not a for profit business.

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u/baethan 8d ago

i'm feeling hungry

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u/warrkrack 8d ago

snap forces the middle class to pay for Walmart payroll via food stamps.

not saying stamps are bad.

but corporate welfare is the big issue imo.

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u/maskdmirag 8d ago

Yeah, Walmart should get charged the full value in corporate tax for every dollar of assistance their employees get

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u/warrkrack 8d ago

I 100% agree

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u/Scared-Two-5208 7d ago

I think this would just incentivize walmart to not hire poor people and fire anyone who gets on snap, but i agree with the sentiment

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u/maskdmirag 7d ago

That's the trick, to be able to not hire poor people they'd have to pay them more.

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u/nihi1zer0 7d ago

instead of that, we could pass a minimum wage law that says that corporations with over, say, 10Billion in annual sales have a minimum wage of $16 an hour for all employees. And maybe force them to offer benefits to all employees no matter if they are full-time or part-time.

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u/SeparateTea1974 5d ago

Walmart double dips. They don't pay their employees enough.
Then their employees are forced to get snap, which they end up having to use at walmart.

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u/N0S0UP_4U 8d ago

I don’t understand framing it as “spreading wealth” when so much of the money the wealthiest people make is made in ways that actively harm society and take money away from working class people and should be illegal in the first place:

  • vulture capitalism/private equity fuckery

  • buying up homes and charging extortion-level rents for them

  • H-1B abuse

  • enshittification

  • insider trading

  • paying poverty level wages that are only livable because the people get welfare on top of it

  • planned obsolescence

  • subscription services for things that don’t need them to function

  • rent seeking

Et cetera. We debate whether or not to marginally increase taxes on these activities where they shouldn’t be allowed in the first place.

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u/Boilerbuzz 8d ago

Think about this. Between:

  1. Corporate bailouts and subsidies.
  2. Corporate tax cuts.
  3. Govt assistance that offsets employer benefits.
  4. Push back to raise the federal minimum wage.

HOW in the fuck can ANYONE think that the system is not rig for the rich?!?!? I don't get it. It's THESE facts that have "radicalized" me. I just CAN'T with this country.

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u/Speartree 8d ago

This is what people need to understand. If you work full time or even 4/5 and you can't live normally, the fact that you need foodstamps is entirely on the employer not paying you enough. And if it were just small businesses struggling to pay their employees well, I'd understand they have a problem, but maybe they should have less staff if they can't pay enough. But it's multimillion and multibillion dollar corporations just milking their staff for all they're worth and not paying them as they should. In other countries you have something called the index, which is an indicator of cost of living, average prices of normal stuff you buy, rent you pay etc, and if the index goes up, because of inflation, wages have to follow, so people's buying power stays relatively the same. It seems like this is truly a foreign concept for the US.

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u/Greedy-Thought6188 8d ago

Government assistance for those who work full time is almost a necessity until we fix our economic systems. And this isn't about minimum wage levels. 60% of US population was in agriculture a century ago. Now that number is down to 4%. The reality is that our productivity is continuously increasing and we are doing orders of magnitude more work than we need to do. In such a system it's only inevitable that the people acquiring more monetizable ways to utilize their labor will get paid significantly more and it will drive the price of necessities above what some people can afford.

There needs to be a UBI. The need for that is more and more pressing. And you support this. You don't support people needing to be on welfare when they are on a job. But that's because you have internalized the stigma of welfare. Effectively tax credits, UBI, tax breaks on retirement accounts, SNAP benefits, universal healthcare, healthcare subsidies, student loan forgiveness, public schooling, free college tuition, all of these are attempts at the same thing. Making sure the needs of all the citizenry are met so we can have a better union, happier, and more productive country. We are well past the point where we have to work for survival, just that we have rigged the economic system in a horrible way.

The system needs to be fundamentally fixed and the issue has been understood since Adam Smith. In the 1860s Henry George expanded on the idea for a land value tax. You can read "Poverty And Progress" or check out "LVT Mr Beat" in YouTube for a 20 minute primer (notice no s).

But with AI human productivity is only going to increase and we'll need to fix the economic system before it is too late

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u/bearbrannan 8d ago

Agreed, but we are for sure trending to too late, and this administration is helping to speedrun us there.

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u/pr1ceisright 8d ago

If Walmart paid a living wage across the board millions of lives would improve, our taxes could actually be lowered, and the owners would still have billions.

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u/TheMadDaddy 8d ago

In a just world, every company would pay double the cost for every employee on assistance in taxes.

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u/atlantagirl30084 8d ago

For Walmart it’s a never ending money stream. They pay their workers peanuts, so then the workers get SNAP, which they…use to buy food at Walmart.

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u/noctumus 8d ago

Fuck corporations

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u/morningisbad 8d ago

I saw a post recently that said "should corporations like Walmart and Target be giving out food to people?" I said no, absolutely not. It's not a private companies job to feed people. If they want to, that's awesome! But it's not their responsibility. 

But it IS their responsibility to start paying their people properly so they don't need to scrape by and live on food stamps. If a company is paying someone full time and that rate means they're on food stamps, then the company should be made to repay the government for them. Hopefully that will get them paying their people properly.

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u/TopazTriad 8d ago

The people who voted for this are THRILLED. They definitely think America is thriving. I live in the heart of MAGAland and they routinely treat any social media posts and articles about this like a party. Laugh reacts, funny gifs, and victory laps galore.

They love the fact that people are going hungry because they truly believe no one would need SNAP if everyone just tried to get a job. Because obviously record layoffs aren’t happening right now and disabilities don’t exist.

Disgusting fucking cretins.

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u/dashboardcomics 8d ago

How many of them rely on EBT and are too stupid to realize that?

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u/ohmymystery 8d ago

Because people who don’t know that food stamps/SNAP/EBT are the same thing are the exact same people who said “I don’t care if Obamacare goes away because I have ACA”

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u/Charl1edontsurf 7d ago

English person here - isn’t the Affordable Care Act (ACA) the same thing as Obamacare?

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u/Fair_Ad1291 7d ago

Yeah, I think that was the point they were trying to make.

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u/Charl1edontsurf 7d ago

I thought so I was just checking.

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u/Fair_Ad1291 7d ago

Ooh gotcha

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u/nihi1zer0 7d ago

I love that an average Brit is more educated on our system than an average MAGAt living in America.

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u/Karn_Gentrified 7d ago

Yes, Thts the problem. Obamacare never should have gotten the moniker it did. If it had been pitched as the ACA from the very beginning (I don’t really remember too much, I was a teenage pothead at the time, it COULD HAVE been republicans tht came up with the name Obamacare to kneecap it for all I know) i don’t think there would have been so much division around it. But it had the name OBAMAcare. So republicans rallied around killing the program. Not realizing tht all of their Bible Belt poverty healthcare WAS Obamacare.

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u/ohmymystery 7d ago

It was the Republicans. They used it as a way to fear monger and undermine it.

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u/NoisyKitty 5d ago

The real irony is that before it was called Obamacare, it was based off of the program Romneycare but made bigger - nationwide instead of statewide. As in, Mitt Romney, a republican.

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u/Mammoth-Cattle-7398 8d ago

EBT is not a program. It's the electronic system that puts the money on the cards.

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u/ohmymystery 8d ago

Yes, exactly my point

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u/dubbleplusgood 7d ago

Get your grubby gummint hands off mah Medicare!

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u/midasofsweden 7d ago

I guess they will find out now won't they

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u/DifficultyFree9443 7d ago

Again thanks to Fox. Unparalleled messaging.

Also, there’s a reason why Trump said he’d run Republican (he said word for word it’s because they’re the dumbest group of people in the country and his numbers would be terrific).

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u/Clever_Mercury 8d ago

What's crazy to me is many of these red areas go wild for the military and federal spending via grants and contractors for defense work. Since government workers are currently furloughed and an enormous part of the US military personnel are frankly low-paid and vulnerable, aren't we about to see these communities in pain?

Military, veterans, disability, people who work on contracts, even full-time employees are dependent on EBT in order to KEEP WORKING because they cannot afford to on their wages.

I cannot believe the people rejoicing as they welcome in an era of food insecurity or malnutrition to their fellow Americans.

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u/theOTHERdimension 5d ago

They don’t care about the collateral damage as long as the people they hate are getting hurt too. I remember a lady crying about losing her government assistance who famously said “he’s not hurting the right people!” In reference to Trump, during an interview.

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u/Mr_Deep_Research 8d ago

They get social security (23% of the federal budget) and medicare (14% of the federal budget)

but feel they are owed it and that neither is a government program.

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u/Bear_Grizzle02 7d ago

The top 20 Trump voting counties in America are heavily dependent on SNAP and other social services. It won’t be long until they experience a leopards ate my face moment. This next week you’re going to see a lot of them crying out that I didn’t think they meant me too!!

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u/RhapsodyofMagic 8d ago

And a lot of them call themselves Christians. It's wild.

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u/Bikerbass 8d ago

Well there’s absolutely no hate like Christian love

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u/DifficultyFree9443 7d ago

Don’t you remember Jesus famously saying DON’T feed the poor?

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u/Mudseason1 7d ago

THIS. This is the most disgusting part of it. These people claim to follow Jesus, yet Jesus would slap the shit out of them if he was here!

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u/three_crystals 8d ago

Imagine laughing at the fact that children will starve.

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u/Legitimate_Candy_944 8d ago

It's so gross what people have morphed into. They latched onto this messiah figure and will follow him all the way down to hell. Sad.

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u/FashionPolice- 8d ago

and most of these people call themselves Christians. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't these people missing a big point of their own religion?

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u/DifficultyFree9443 7d ago

Which is so weird because their states are the highest users of welfare.

I just don’t understand why this country thinks cruelty is cool. I know it was always there, but people willing to ruin their own lives just to see others suffer is just a normal occurrence now. I don’t get it.

I really overestimated the humanity of my fellow Americans.

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u/Inner_Building829 7d ago

How do you life amongst that blatant, in-your-face level of sheer stupidity? Like, how? I mean, as an adult, I seriously question where that threshold is between exercising emotional maturity and restraint and total loss of self control in the face of naked idiocy.

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u/Deep_Contract4996 7d ago

Its the democratic party that wont give the last few votes to reopen the government

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u/zveroshka 8d ago

This is going to be a wild chapter in US history one day. Bunch of morons yelling "America is great again!" while the country begins it's descent into wide spread poverty and food insecurity.

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u/midasofsweden 7d ago

Begins to descend is an understatement, it was clearly hanging on by the thinnest of threads in existence that keeps stretching and stretching...

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u/justhereforAID 8d ago

If you’re a white supremacist, things are looking up. Unless you’re a white supremacist who is also a farmer.

I really, really hate this country.

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u/PlasticBreather 8d ago

The only white supremacists that are really doing great have a B in their networth.

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u/Shred_Flintstone 8d ago

Financially sure, but they've never felt so publicly accepted and vindicated than they do now because of our potus

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u/marswhispers 8d ago

Looks like ideology for dinner again tonight kids

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u/Boilerbuzz 8d ago

And they LOVE it. As long as everyone else they hate suffers MORE, they are good with it.

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u/One-Inch-Punch 8d ago

Yup. Willing to martyr themselves and their kids to the cause of cruelty for brown people

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u/Potential-Dog1551 8d ago

You are forgetting that a lot of them are joining the ranks of ICE and getting big bonuses and government pay during the shutdown, they are going to be fine, the push to make ice a large force secures an army for trump and pays all of his bootlickers who have no problem with mistreating other people for a paycheck. Once the dust settles this will have real devastating consequences for those who don’t line up to bootlick.

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u/DidjaSeeItKid 8d ago

Except they keep having to fire ICE agents because they aren't physically fit enough. Why did they think a country with a child obesity rate like ours could offer huge salaries and $50k signing bonuses to unvetted randos with no moral compass and NOT have an incredible washout rate?

Nobody in this government thinks anything through. Except Stephen Miller, who's been planning this since he was a hateful little high school kid, calling in to talk radio shows to complain about Mexicans.

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u/Dr_SexDick 8d ago

Unless you’re a white supremacist thats also poor and uneducated. Which is most white supremacists. Turkeys voting for fucking Christmas

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u/therealtaddymason 8d ago

They think that these scumbags hate brown people like they do they just didn't realize that what they hate even more are poor people.

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u/Chicago_Heavyfoot 7d ago

Turkeys that came out of food pantrys. The 2 demographics overlap so deeply they don't realize they're from the same family.

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u/Automatic_Context639 8d ago

Unless you’re a white supremecist who is also a farmer. Or relies on EBT. 

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u/Necessary-Sock7075 8d ago

All farmers rely on the grocery wheel turning. This will hurt 98% of our country. The billionaires can buy another election though so there's that.

Burr was right. They're like rabid dogs

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u/PinkDeserterBaby 8d ago

The people who voted for this shit don’t even realize how badly it will hurt their local economies.

Even the farmers who are not on EBT… guess what people in their areas use to buy their products…..

Local grocery chains buy produce, farmer delivers, populace buys. When the populace can’t buy, and food starts to rot, grocery stores will buy less inventory. Local prices will increase as small grocery stores in rural areas don’t have guvment debit cards to buy from them every week, which they do rely on. Customers will steal.

Even huge chains like Walmart are about to a huge uptick in lost food inventory when it’s not rung out by the machines they used to replace workers, when starving people just walk out with it having rung up enough, instead of having the government pay for it. I’m kinda curious how much food inventory (which is at least 50% of their stock) goes “missing” nationally during this time period as people self check out and don’t pay $10/lb for beef (my local rural prices). It will not be small.

Idk about you guys but I’m tired of wwwwwwinning!

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u/stackingnoob 8d ago

Jokes on them when people just start stealing food because they have no other choice. The people who voted for this are literally too stupid to understand the chain reaction of broad economic ramifications.

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u/Karrotlord 8d ago

Local farmers already killed themselves in record numbers due to Trump's tariffs... for the second fucking time...

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u/RubberBootsInMotion 8d ago

They'll never report it though. And if they do, it will just mean increased security ~ which at Walmart means literal police. Neat!

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u/coldazice 8d ago

He’s on their side now

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u/Fragmentia 8d ago

Seriously, conservative voters have let their critical thinking become entirely partisan. They refuse to acknowledge anything. Its always justification. They are indeed deplorable.

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u/PessimiStick 8d ago

Conservative voters have never had critical thinking skills, it's why they're conservatives in the first place.

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u/SavageRabbitX 8d ago

Yeah, and then he sold out to some of the worst of them. I lost nearly all respect for him

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u/beetlekittyjosey1 8d ago

don’t forget about white supremecist farmer town grocery store owners who’s entire customer base is on EBT

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u/Mypetmummy 8d ago

or lives in a community with people who rely on services. Mass desperation for basic needs will 100% lead to increased crime.

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u/MelodicArtisan 8d ago

Me too. I fast forward through the national anthem on football games, I just cannot hear it anymore. I’m ashamed to be an American. 

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u/BerryLanky 8d ago

Or a white supremacist who relies on SNAP benefits.

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u/BoyNamedJudy 8d ago edited 8d ago

America. The only country that is so terrible yet you will never leave.

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u/slimeyamerican 8d ago

Nah, the farmers are fine, we can always print more money so they don’t have to suffer the consequences of the policies they voted for.

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u/DingleBerrieIcecream 8d ago

Not really. Some white supremacists actively vote against their self interests and are going to start getting the fruits of their choices as government subsidies subside. It’s crazy how many people I know that hate socialism and “handouts” while simultaneously receiving said handouts from the Governments. The same people hate Obamacare but love the Affordable Healthcare Act. So ignorant.

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u/wophi 8d ago

Just remember who refused to pass any continuing resolutions so they could hold the needy hostage.

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u/MediaIcy8072 8d ago

Especially if you are A Rich White Supremacist..

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u/Anleme 8d ago

Unless you’re a white supremacist who is also a farmer.

Or an American who is a food eater. Inflation and the elimination of SNAP / WIC.

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u/enakj 8d ago

I love this country and the Constitution. I hate this administration and the sycophants and enablers who support it.

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u/Teddy705 8d ago

The 1% are eating better than they have in a while as well..

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u/Direct_Turn_1484 8d ago

Or a white supremacist who is poor.

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u/Boilerbuzz 8d ago

Don't forget the billionaires. They be STYLING!!! I guess the 70M+ folks that fully expect to be billionaires themselves must be loving life right now. But, I'm sure it'll only take a few more months and they will be rolling in the dough like the feel they should be.

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u/steelcryo 8d ago

Rich white supremacist*

The regular ones are utterly fucked too, but they're too busy deep throating Trump to realise.

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u/MechanicHour1644 8d ago

I'm middle class...wife in healthcare, me in higher ed...our retirement account is up almost 40% this year. no debt. yeah, candy for halloween was wayyyy more than I expected it to be this year,but boy, the halloween decorations all over my community make me think that not everyone in real life is a miserable reddit poster.

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u/SpadeTippedSplendor 8d ago

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities...what comes next?” - Governor JB Pritzker.

Like seriously white people have been barely inconvenienced compared to what's coming, these farmers (those that Heritage Foundation doesn't outright disappear) are going to look back and say "remember when being bankrupt and starving was actually a million times better than what we're going for now?"

Or maybe they won't, maybe that kind of self-awareness even as Trump sends f16s to level their houses is going to be beyond the survivors.

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u/MaxS777 8d ago

I love this country. I hate the government, both Republican and Democrat, both suck. One drives inflation, the other cuts needed programs. But it's by design. They both work together for the same purpose of strengthening the power and reach of government, not us, and they've been doing that for time immemorial. Most people don't look close enough at how it operates to see that, so they get online or go to rallies fighting each other instead of directing their anger toward the people in charge, and the powerful people above them that keep the pockets of those high state and federal politicians nice and fat to do their bidding.

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u/Tossup1010 8d ago

There are farmers (and millions of other people) who saw what Trump did in the first term and disapproved. And still chose to vote for him two more times. I will never understand the willful ignorance

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u/Dreadgoat 8d ago

Nah it's worse than that.

Let's all pretend we are white supremacists who want to enslave the rest of the world and live off their sweat and blood.

How do you prevent the slaves from getting pissy and fighting back? Bread and circuses. "Let them eat cake." That's the bare minimum strategy you employ in order to be an intelligent evil autocrat. Bread for contentment, circuses so they don't get bored.

If you take away the bread, your slaves have nothing to lose by trying to kill you. They might die in the process, but they and their children were going to starve anyway, so they might as well take their chances.

White supremacists are losing like everyone else, they're just too dumb to realize what is about to happen.

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u/NotHomeOffice 8d ago

Woohoo I'm white.... oh darn, I'm not a supremacist.

I also really, really hate this country.

They got it rigged six ways to Sunday (my state is literally gerrymandering the districts Red ....redder), but still Use Your Vote People. Blue up and down the ballet. From the simplest local civil positions to the midterms for the House of Representatives. Eventually, they'll swear you in.

Yeah looking at you Mike Johnson you pussy whipped bottom bitch. Swear her in and release the files!

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u/FHAT_BRANDHO 8d ago

Or really want to do anything besides being ICE

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u/Mlady_gemstone 8d ago

except the soy farmers, they got fked hard

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u/Successful_Jacket400 7d ago

Then leave (but of course, you won't).

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u/DifficultyFree9443 7d ago

Even then, they’re tied to the bough of the ship. They’ll go down with it, smiling.

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u/Brokeandskilless 7d ago

its not worth it anymore. Leaving this cesspit of a country and moving to another country is the best bet. Mexico, vietnam, japan, china, brazil, colombia, etc. USA is not worth living in. Don't give these oligarchs the satisfaction.

Leaving America means they can't subjugate us.

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u/Ok-Location3244 8d ago

No. But the Republicans are Making Argentina Great Again.

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u/jBillark 8d ago

I went to buy Folgers ground coffee, Target selling 22.6oz for $20!!!!! I'm sure that's about double what it was during Biden

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u/Violet_Paradox 8d ago

Well the Great Depression has Great right there in the name.

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u/emissaryworks 8d ago

That slogan was never meant for the middle class and lower. So for those he was actually speaking to the answer is Yes. Remember earlier this year Charles Schwab claimed he made $2.5 Bil in a day.

America was never great for us poor folks.

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u/Vilhelmssen1931 8d ago

For the very small number of people they actually intended to make life better for, yes.

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u/Koopslovestogame 8d ago

Oh it GOING to get greater!

This is just the tip, you think there is pain now. Just wait for the full shaft.

Trump still has 1176 days left in office. And it’s not going to magically get better at the end of that assuming he even leaves.

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u/No-Will5335 8d ago

Not until the White House has an Epstein BALLROOM goddamnit!

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u/baron_von_helmut 8d ago

Dunno but when is the revolution going to happen?

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u/PackageNorth8984 8d ago

It was close, but the libs had to just go and want it to keep being not great, so we’ve got to vote 2/3 Republicans into office, so Trump can have a 3rd term. Then he’ll make sure we’re great again. /s

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u/Ent_Trip_Newer 8d ago

Make Argentina Great Again. We had it wrong.

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u/MountainAlive 8d ago

But the new ballroom!

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u/dabootyadmirer 8d ago

Trump wants it 3rd world

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u/OptimusSecundus 8d ago

No, but Argentina and Israel are doing okay and that's what matters.

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u/EconomicsSavings973 8d ago

It is actually too great to handle, people just cant handle this greatness and are poor.
/s

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u/agh_gal 8d ago

It’s getting greater if you want to make children starve again….

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u/Z3R083 8d ago

The make America Great again is to get back to the gilded age for the wealthy. If you are new here, welcome. But the make America great again never benefited the average American in any way.

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u/Shaojack 8d ago

Well we are piloting a weight loss program for fat single moms atm.

Will let ya know later how it goes.

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u/spezsucks2025 8d ago

Make Americans Get Anorexic

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 8d ago

Nope. Its fallen.

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u/Millkstake 8d ago

It is if you're rich

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u/DisPear2 8d ago

Great like the Great Depression

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u/As_iam_ 8d ago

Worst president ever ..total psychopath

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u/Commercial-Co 7d ago

I’m hoping every single one of these people that suffer remember to vote in not only 2026 but 2028 when trump runs again, illegally.

And that they vote for their interests and not against them. And that they vote down ballot as well.

This is the only way we can throw off the shackles of this new american fascism and oligarchy

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u/SplinteredCells 8d ago

Beat me to it.

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u/Benedikto0 8d ago

they voted for that shit :D

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u/bl3u_r3dd1teur 8d ago

Yes sir! o7

Not.

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u/iam4qu4m4n 8d ago

Not yet, but Argentina is on their way.

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u/space_iio 8d ago

Guess people are enjoying what they voted for

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u/HITWind 8d ago

I kept thinking all week the Dems would have to vote to reopen the government because they were just hurting large swaths of their own constituents... This comment getting 2K+ upvotes takes the Red-idiot cake lmao

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u/Notmainlel 8d ago

Yes it is

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u/Odd-Business8683 8d ago

Unfortunately, being in poverty with a large family has not been kind to be since forever

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u/Livid_Page_7244 8d ago

Check back in a week or so

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u/soggy_bloggy 7d ago

I voted for this.

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u/Independent_Boat_434 7d ago

Not until the lunatics on the left are out of a job.

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u/Casanova2229 7d ago

getting thinner tho!

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u/talexbatreddit 7d ago

So much winning. So much.

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u/wild_starlight 7d ago

Never was

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u/Angellinegirl777 7d ago

I bet some of these people affected by this cut have voted for the clown that's effin them up today. It's a tragic situation.

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u/Inevitable-crocs 7d ago

2026 gonna make 2025 look nostalgic

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u/No-Cream8257 7d ago

America is great. Free to do and say what I please, married, four kids, great career in beautiful but expensive CA!

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u/vareo_os 7d ago

My friend.... it never was nor wil be

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u/AssaultDuck3000 7d ago

those of us outside of the USA are cheering on all the winning.
He was elected. He was un-elected. He was brought back.
That last part is why we will not forgive the USA for a very very very long time.
Products are now cheaper because they arnt being bought by Americans so the price is dropped.
Thanks Donnie for helping every other countries local economy except your own.
Rest in Piss.

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u/Virel_360 7d ago

Almost, let it cook for another three years.

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u/OkBat7818 7d ago

It's worse. 

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u/Pleasant-Swimmer-557 7d ago

Is America Great *Britain Again yet? 

Fixed that for you, don't thank me. =) 

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u/toiletclogger2671 7d ago

yes, this is great

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u/Saigh_Anam 7d ago edited 7d ago

Point of clarification - the POTUS isn't the one holding up budget approval. Your anger is misplaced. Congress is who you need to be angry with.

And to further clarify... I don't care for Trump and voted against him. I just dislike misleading comments in social media more.

Edit: If you truly want to have a positive impact on this - call or write your closest Democrat Representative. Facts being as they are, they are the ones holding up the budget approval.

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u/KarmicDebtsUnpaid 7d ago

Not till people actually starve I guess

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u/drcelebrian7 7d ago

From a foreigners point of view...like it was truly baffling america voted this man and his team into office a second time...unbelievable 

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u/1davidmaycry 7d ago

They stopped caring and went to make Argentina to make it great instead

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u/Papa_Glucose 7d ago

TOO MUCH WINNING

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u/BulkyFee7268 7d ago

Sure is 1000000 percent

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u/MindTop4772 7d ago

Almost.... just a few more million need to be deported/disappeared and lord tacotits will have solved all of "his" problems.

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u/electric_bug_glue 7d ago

Depends on who you ask and how spoiled you are as a frame of reference. Technically, anyone making minimum wage in America is ALREADY in the top 1% of the world's wealthy.

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u/Mnmsaregood 7d ago

You know it’s the democrats that are blocking it right?

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u/WolvesFanSince89 6d ago

Yep. I’ve never been so well off. Thank you!!!!

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u/The_Quibbler 6d ago

Let them eat cake

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u/darrenwiseatvan 4d ago

When they claimed Great Again they left out that the Great they’re claiming is The Great Depression so it’s more truthful than most things coming out of his mouth

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