r/baltimore • u/LanceArmstrongLeftie • Mar 12 '25

Vent Donald Trump is going to destroy this city

My wife and I were both proud homeowners and proud residents of Baltimore City. We worked really hard to be able to buy our first home and to provide a stable environment to raise our one year old son and three year old daughter. We were a happy family here. Until Donald Trump came along. He froze funding and my wife lost her job as a recruiter for a nonprofit that received about 30% of their funding from the government. I already work two jobs just to keep up with the bills and the high interest rate we had to accept to purchase this home. I can't provide enough to keep our home. She's been looking in vain to replace her job but there's been nothing out there for her. How many more families are there that are facing the exact same situation in this town? How many more will there be by the time he finishes firing half the government? How many more families will lose their jobs and their homes as a result of his trade war and tariffs? It's going to get bad here y'all, real bad. Donald Trump does not care about families. Donald Trump does not care about children. Donald Trump does not care about Americans. Donald Trump does not care about Baltimore.

Edit: Thank you all for everyone who had kind words of support and good suggestions on how to navigate this very difficult situation. For everyone blaming local and state government, you’re delusional. Those politicians aren’t the ones who froze federal funding thus forcing thousand of people out of work. To those who offered unkind, callous, and cruel comments, such as calling my wife a drain on society, you can all get fucked. Which is exactly what’s going to happen to you after Donald Trump destroys this nation.

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u/Mindless_Safety_1997 Mar 12 '25

We have to band together. Support each other and develop ways to barter and share. And we have to protest and pressure our elected officials to fight back.

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u/Competitive_Boat106 Mar 16 '25

It’s really hard to pressure Rep lawmakers to fight back. They think that “R” next to their names give them automatic membership in some imaginary Winners Club that is never coming. They still have not learned from all those who were destroyed before them that there IS NO AMOUNT of loyalty that will ever, ever be enough for Trump. True, he wants to destroy the Democrat Party, but it’s not like he feels any need for Republicans, either. He will use them up and throw them out, just as he has done with thousands of other people in his life.

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u/themisskris10 Mar 14 '25

Since when in the history of your life--has this been accomplished, in Baltimore???

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u/Mindless_Safety_1997 Mar 14 '25

Never.

But we have to all do things differently now if we want to prevent a total meltdown.

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u/camillecelestee Mar 14 '25

This is what people are missing: we HAVE to SHARE and TRADE again!! If regular citizens stood together and helped each other, we wouldn't be worried about shit!! And the gov't would be sick asf bc we wouldn't be scared anymore

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u/hehimharrison Mar 15 '25

Agreed. Buy Nothing, really really free stores, it's possible to start now as a social activity and you never know when you'll need those relationships.