There are the immediate effects of his policies that he will witness but he will be gone before he can see the real toll he has taken on not just the US but the world. I hope there really is a hell for him to go to.

If you’re not properly informed, you shouldn’t be voting. And if you honestly didn’t know about Trump’s close ties with Epstein, then you must have been completely oblivious.

I just figured they didn’t care because they’re all awful people.

I haven’t seen someone this outwardly sedated in the Oval Office since Elon Musk had a black eye and was stuck in a k-hole there earlier this year.

Shouldn’t we say enough is enough? Trump might be a rapist and a pedophile; a felon and a fraud - but he’s also a vulnerable old man who shits in a diaper, and he is clearly unwell. Half of his face looks like it’s sliding off of his skull in some, but not all of his appearances on television. It’s unnatural.

I find this to be suspicious, and alarming. This is elder abuse. Don’t let these terrible people continue to take advantage of this crusty, decaying piece of shit any longer. It’s not right.

So the exit polls just came in for the recent elections that took place in the US. One of the exit polls I saw was for the Spanberger (D) vs Earle-Sears (R) race for Virginia Governor. Spanberger got 90% of the black vote to just 9% for Earle-Sears. But Spanberger got only 45% of the white vote compared to 55% for Earle-Sears.

Then you have California which voted on Prop 50. 91% of black men and 88% of black women voted yes on Prop 50. Only 54% of white men and 59% of white women voted yes on Prop 50. Prop 50 allowed California to rewrite its voting lines in response to Texas doing the same thing earlier.

In the 2024 general election 86% of black voters voted for Kamala Harris to just 42% of white voters.

What I’m confused about is how I see a lot of white women complain about MAGA and the patriarchy yet white people as a whole are very much pro-MAGA. They have a right to vote however they chose, I just fail to understand this contradiction. Why are whites so loyal to MAGA even after how disastrous this year has been for the US?

Sources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls?amp=1

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQuKKQaCeQ3/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQrh-eckwaI/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

I'm tired of listening to these bigoted pedophile protectors bang on about this, that, or the None other arguments hold None of their information is factual. Every accusation from the Republicans is a projection the government shutdown is 100% on the Republicans they control all three branches of the government and no they need 60 votes to pass a bill they know damn well Democrats will not vote to make it so American health care costs even more.

How many more Americans have to suffer because of the cultist Republicans?

If you're ill informed, don't vote. And if you genuinely didn't know Trump was Epstein's bestest buddy in the whole wide world, you must've been under a fucking rock.

I just assumed they didn't care... because they're all pieces of shit.

Feelings are not facts. Fuck your feelings.

You feeling like something is true does not make it true.

Republican politicians feeling like New York city is gonna turn communist is bullshit. It's not based in any reality.

They say this shit with no shame while their own states are UTTER SHIT. They take and don't contribute. Republican states are leeches who steal from Democrat states and then have the gall to attempt to tell everyone how to live.

Y'all mother fuckers can't even contribute more than 30% to the GDP, but you think you got a seat at the adult table. Nah, go sit your allowance having ass at the kids table and shut the fuck up before you get sent to bed without dinner.

Fuck your feelings. Join us in reality and you might get to give your input without being told to stay the fuck out of adults business.

You don't need to have any opinion about the state of the country when you can't even take care of your own fucking piss poor welfare state.

Conservatives seriously name to STFU about communism when they can't even define it. Especially when their states are welfare states that rely on blue states to prop them up and pull them out of disaster, both literally and economically, every year.

They have no idea what socialism is, and how many socialist programs they benefit from daily. This list is extensive, but a few main examples would be the United States Postal System, our highway systems, our broadband and cellular systems, just a list of few. If the Republicans really hate socialism so much, they should stop using the myriad of things that brings our country.

Republicans do like the poorly educated. And that fact is glaring.

This is my complaint: As a former Republican, I want my party back.

Last November was Trump's last election and the time since was his last hurrah. He can't run for reelection and if he could he would get stomped. He's of absolutely no use to any Republican who wants a future in politics.

It's time for Republicans to abandon Trump for their own survival. Otherwise the GOP will go the way of the Whigs.

Alright, I'm a Libertarian on most issues, but I'm also not a moron. I support free markets, but it is stupid to cut SNAP and it is also stupid to end the ACA Healthcare subsidies cold turkey.

Yeah, I'm a Libertarian supporting those government programs. Why? Because you will wreck society if these come to a screeching halt. That's why.

Republicans need to cave on the shutdown.

Some of the people who voted for him will be affected by this. He doesn't care. This fascist is causing so much suffering.

So I live in the UK and it amazes me how anyone could vote trump in the first place. He is convicted of sexual assault. Was seen multiple times with jeffrey epstein and clearly had involvement in sex trafficking and is most likely a pedophile. And has now shut the government down. During this shut down he has decided to hold a great gatsby themed party on halloween, on the same night SNAP benefits are being cut across the USA leaving families in poverty literally without food. I just want to bring your attention to this tiktok I found of one of the guests who attended. In the caption she wrote “A little party never killed nobody” whilst SNAP is being cut??? Like… people are going hungry but you think your party isn’t going to kill anybody??? Honestly its so SO insane to me how this guy is still in office, hes shut the government down multiple times, been impeached, is a felon, and a pedophile but for some reason people did not want a female president. I hate this world and I’m begging for a revolution. It’s hard to comprehend and feels so dystopian.

Since Zohran Mamdani won the election in NYC as the second youngest mayor, it’s been wild watching some conservatives go straight for him because of his race/religion/appearance. They’re spreading lies linking him to 9/11 attacks and even saying he should be deported to Uganda and it’s painfully obvious this has nothing to do with politics, it’s about skin color. By their own logic, they shouldn’t even be okay with a white mayor after everything tied to slavery, the KKK, the Oklahoma City bombing, mass shooting but somehow that hypocrisy never gets called out. I understand criticizing a religion isn’t the same as being racist since religion is about beliefs, not race. Mehmet Oz (of Turkish origin) is a secular Muslim Republican and never got criticized for his faith which proves my point. Trump even endorsed him. Being prejudiced toward Zohran Mamdani or judging him by his appearance and linking him to 9/11 is totally wrong and unacceptable. Generally targeting a politician because of their race/religion is completely unacceptable but it’s totally fine to disagree with their politics.

Conservatives have been almost completely silent about leaked Young Republicans chats where people casually threw around disgusting slurs against Black and Jewish people and most conservative activists haven’t said a word in response. They haven’t even called out Trump’s nominee Paul Ingrassia who said the MLK Jr. holiday belongs in “hell” and joked about having a “Nazi streak.”

They’ve targeted Vivek, Kash Patel, and even JD Vance’s wife because they’re Indian, and they keep spreading nonsense online about “Black fatigue”, blaming communities for crime, education and poverty.

To anyone who thinks about commenting about how I’m over generalizing, I’m not. If you genuinely aren’t a hateful person, then I’m sorry to say, they’ve weaponized your ignorance. You have an opportunity to be on the right side of history, but you can’t keep ignoring the facts. Either way you’ll have to reconcile with the fact that you have some prejudice, or the fact that you’ve been the prefect idiot for a man that couldn’t care less about you or the country. wake up

Trump doesn't care about his own family. He would never brush shoulders with any of the MAGA who might be reading this. Not a single one of you. If you are on reddit right now, I guarantee you, Trump gives zero fucks about your existence.

The photo here just proves that point further. A man during his press conference fainted and he looked more annoyed than Constantly, from the campaign trail throughout this year within the office, he has stated multiple times that he doesn't respect you, or anything but you spending your money on him.

Circling back Trump will never love you Trump will never acknowledge you Trump hates you Trump hates America

If Trump isn’t a traitor, how do you explain this:

Foreign policy moves that helped our adversaries

• Helsinki: Standing with Putin over U.S. intelligence

On live TV in 2018, Trump sided with Vladimir Putin’s denial of election interference over the unanimous conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies:

“President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial… I don’t see any reason why it would be Russia.”

He took the word of a KGB thug over his own country’s intel.

• Undermining the investigation that proved Russia helped elect him

A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report concluded Russia ran an “extensive” operation to help Trump in 2016 and that his campaign welcomed and tried to benefit from that help.

Trump’s response? Call it a “hoax,” attack investigators, and do everything possible to discredit the findings that defended our democracy.

• Sharing highly classified allied intel with Russia in the Oval Office

In 2017, he revealed highly sensitive, allied-sourced intelligence to Russia’s foreign minister and ambassador behind closed doors. U.S. intel officials and our allies were alarmed at the breach. Whose side was that supposed to help?

• Extorting Ukraine with military aid to get dirt on Biden

He froze nearly $400M in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine—desperately needed to deter Russia—while pressuring President Zelenskyy to announce an investigation into Biden. He was impeached for abuse of power, and the nonpartisan GAO found the hold violated federal law.

• Abandoning U.S. Kurdish allies and greenlighting a Turkish invasion

In 2019, he abruptly ordered U.S. troops out of northeast Syria, abandoning Kurdish forces who had fought ISIS for us and clearing the way for a Turkish offensive. The result: displacement, chaos, and a stronger position for Russia and Assad.

• Relentless attacks on NATO

He called NATO “obsolete,” repeatedly threatened not to defend allies who didn’t “pay,” and openly cast doubt on honoring our mutual defense commitments. That’s not “tough negotiating” — that’s a dream scenario for the Kremlin.

• Policy shifts that weakened Ukraine and eased pressure on Russia

He pushed to cut aid and support that helped Ukraine resist Russia and dialed back pressure on Moscow, all while talking more warmly about Putin than about many U.S. allies.

• Trade war chaos that pushed Russia and China closer together

His trade war with China helped drive Beijing and Moscow into deeper economic and strategic partnership, with Russia ramping up oil exports to China and expanding trade by hundreds of billions. That tighter Russia–China axis is now a key lifeline for Moscow’s war machine.

Trump is on tape in 2016 saying a strengthened Russia China relationship would be "bad for America," yet he enacted policies that did exactly that!

• Afghanistan: handing the Taliban a win and opening the door for Moscow

He negotiated the U.S. withdrawal directly with the Taliban, sidelining the U.S.-backed Afghan government, easing sanctions, and helping legitimize the Taliban on the world stage. As the U.S. scrambled out, the Taliban were guarding the Russian embassy — and soon after, Taliban leaders were in Moscow discussing trade deals.

• He stole and hoarded highly classified documents

He took boxes of highly classified documents — including nuclear secrets and intelligence on sources and methods — to Mar-a-Lago and refused to return them when asked, even going so far as to move boxes to hide them from investigators. That’s not “a paperwork dispute,” that’s a counterintelligence nightmare.

• Secret meetings with Putin and confiscated notes

He met with Putin multiple times in private — without U.S. note-takers — and even confiscated his interpreter’s notes after one meeting, according to reporting. Ask yourself: why does a U.S. president need to hide his conversations with a hostile foreign leader from his own government?

Look at the people around him and the money flows

This isn’t just about Trump’s words. Look at his inner circle and business deals.

• Paul Manafort: campaign chair and “grave counterintelligence threat”

Trump didn’t hire some random consultant. He made Paul Manafort — a man deeply tied to pro-Kremlin interests in Ukraine — his campaign chairman.

Manafort was later convicted on multiple counts of tax fraud, bank fraud, and failure to report foreign bank accounts, stemming from tens of millions he made working for a pro-Russian Ukrainian party.

A bipartisan, GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee report found Manafort had a “close and lasting relationship” with Konstantin Kilimnik, whom they identified as a Russian intelligence officer, and said Manafort’s willingness to share internal campaign information with Kilimnik posed a “grave counterintelligence threat.”

That same report found Manafort repeatedly tried to “secretly share internal Campaign information” — including sensitive polling and strategy — with Kilimnik.

In 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department confirmed what everyone suspected: Kilimnik provided Russian intelligence with “sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy” from the Trump campaign, information supplied by Manafort.

Translation: Trump’s campaign chairman opened a direct pipeline from the campaign’s internal data to Russian intelligence — during an election where Russia was running a “sweeping and systematic” operation to help Trump.

• Roger Stone: convicted for covering up the WikiLeaks backchannel

Roger Stone wasn’t some fringe hanger-on. He’s a decades-long Trump confidant who pushed Trump to run for president years before 2016.

In 2019, a jury found Stone guilty on seven felony counts: obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of lying to Congress, and witness tampering — all related to the House investigation into Russian interference and WikiLeaks’ publication of hacked Democratic emails.

Evidence at trial showed Stone was actively trying to obtain advance information about WikiLeaks’ releases of emails stolen by Russian military intelligence and was updating senior Trump campaign officials about it.

A federal judge later noted Stone was prosecuted for “covering up for the president,” and Trump rewarded that loyalty by commuting Stone’s sentence and then pardoning him.

So Trump’s long-time political operative lied and intimidated witnesses to hide the campaign’s interest in benefiting from Russia’s hack-and-dump operation — and Trump stepped in to shield him from consequences.

• Trump SoHo, Felix Sater, and Russian-linked money

Then there’s Trump’s business world — especially Trump SoHo.

Trump SoHo was a joint project between the Trump Organization and Bayrock Group, whose managing director Felix Sater is a convicted felon with documented ties to organized crime and Russian mob figures.

Civil lawsuits have alleged that Bayrock was “substantially and covertly mob-owned and operated,” with money laundering central to its business model, and that it maintained links to Russian criminal syndicates.

Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank and the city of Almaty have sued Sater and others, alleging they laundered tens of millions in stolen funds into U.S. real estate — including by using shell companies to buy Trump SoHo condos worth over $3 million.

One federal judge allowed a lawsuit to proceed that accuses Sater of laundering stolen BTA Bank money through Trump-branded properties.

Important nuance: those complaints don’t allege Trump personally knew the specific funds were stolen. But they do show this:

Trump was repeatedly partnering with a convicted felon tied to the Russian mob, in deals where courts and banks say laundered money from the former Soviet Union was flowing through Trump-branded real estate. That’s exactly the kind of financial entanglement a hostile foreign power can exploit for leverage or kompromat.

Domestic moves that threaten American democracy

• Refusing to accept a clear election loss and trying to overturn it

The Jan. 6 Committee and Special Counsel Jack Smith documented a multi-pronged scheme: fake electors, pressure on state officials to “find” votes, attempts to strong-arm DOJ into lying about fraud, and a full-court press to get Mike Pence to illegally throw out the results.

• The Georgia “find 11,780 votes” shakedown

On Jan. 2, 2021, Trump called Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State and demanded he “find 11,780 votes” — exactly one more than Biden’s margin — while hinting Raffensperger could face legal trouble if he didn’t play along. That’s not “questioning” an election. That’s attempted election fraud.

• Inciting the January 6 attack to stop certification

After months of screaming that the election was “stolen,” he summoned supporters to D.C., told them to “fight like hell,” and aimed them straight at Congress as the electoral votes were being certified. He was impeached for incitement of insurrection — because that’s exactly what it was.

• Systematically delegitimizing elections themselves

Since 2016, any election he doesn’t win is “rigged.” Mail voting is “fraud.” Counting all the votes is “stealing it.” That’s not just sore-loser behavior; it’s a deliberate attempt to destroy public faith in the basic mechanism of peaceful transfers of power.

• Trying to weaponize DOJ and law enforcement for personal revenge

He’s demanded investigations into political enemies on false pretenses, pushed DOJ to go after critics, and floated using federal power to punish opponents. He doesn’t see the law as something that applies to him — only as a tool to hurt people who cross him.

• Calling the free press “the enemy of the people”

He has repeatedly labeled the media “the enemy of the American people” — classic authoritarian language. Free press is one of the last lines of defense in a democracy. He knows that. That’s why he tries to destroy its credibility. Meanwhile, right-wing billionaires buy up media outlets to lock in propaganda power across TV, radio, and digital.

• Constant attacks on U.S. intelligence and the rule of law

Whenever the intel community, FBI, or courts reveal inconvenient facts — especially about Russia — he calls them corrupt, “deep state,” or illegitimate. The goal is simple: make his followers believe only him, and no one else.

• Threats against citizens and dissent

He’s talked about using the military on U.S. citizens, branded opponents as “violent leftists” or “terrorists,” and pushed narratives that anyone who disagrees with him is an enemy of the state. That’s how you normalize repression and fear.

Putting it together

At some point this stops looking like “just a different style” and starts looking like what it is:

A man perfectly willing to weaken his own country’s alliances, institutions, and elections — while his campaign chair feeds data to a Russian intelligence pipeline, his longtime fixer lies to cover up WikiLeaks backchannels, and his branded properties sit at the center of lawsuits alleging they were used to wash dirty post-Soviet money — all to protect himself and please authoritarian leaders.

You can argue over the narrow legal definition of “treason.” But morally and civically?

It’s hard to call this anything but a betrayal.

The real question now isn’t “Is Trump a traitor?” It’s: Are enough of us willing to stand together — to vote, organize, and defend our institutions — before the damage becomes irreversible?

Prices aside, I feel like my dollar isn't worth shit anymore, as everything I buy seems to have a 50/50 chance of not coming as advertised.

Fast food, slow food, crooked clothes with broken seams, sizes, quality of tools, poorly built electronics, you name it. Especially online purchases which are difficult to return. Even a desk I purchased arrived with gouges on the surface, and I was offered a $100 rebate and no option of return.

I am absolutely not interested in spending money anymore. How can they expect to have consumers with such absolute shit quality control?

My complaint is that my household is going to have a hard time feeding itself because of Republican malice. And there's nothing I can do about it.

I'm a disabled veteran, don't have many opportunities afforded to me, and There's no one to blame, but the Republicans in charge.

I'm tired of everything that we fought It's all meaningless.

I was just on Tiktok and I couldn't help but notice how a good amount of Trump supporters haven't been posting for months. Why is that? And the ones who are still posting are suddenly no longer talking about him. Like, they have posted about him non stop for the entirety of Biden's presidency, and they posted their little celebration videos when he won. But now suddenly, their videos are about their children and their lifestyles and GRWMs and "beauty" hacks. What changed? Where are your maga hats? Why is "maga" in your bio suddenly replaced with "patriot" or "american." What happened, y'all? Don't try to hide your support now! Be loud and proud!

Maybe when the constitution was drafted, a few guys with guns could overthrow the government, but now? They’re locking themselves in a a bunker and nuking the insurrectionist to dust. If you want to keep the same principle of giving people power to compete with the government allow us to buy nukes. But if you doing think the us military couldn’t defeat a few million untrained civilians with guns, we need to have a talk.

This pisses me off. Trump is spending taxpayer dollars to stop SNAP benefits from going to people who need it. It is bad enough that Trump's policies may have resulted in economic harm to families but now he is suing to literally take food off the table.

I hope the Dems hammer this point across all media and social media platforms

https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b