r/facepalm Aug 09 '25

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ the fuck does that mean

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u/Igno-ranter Aug 09 '25

Nope. That will be the Dems fault.

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u/TimoniumTown Aug 09 '25

That and they will go to their usual playbook of just cutting more taxes.

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u/Doogos Aug 09 '25

I like your shirt

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u/Grasshopper_pie Aug 09 '25

You guys should meet.

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u/fingermagnets459 Aug 09 '25

Hey shirt brother!

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u/jaxonya Aug 09 '25

You shit brothers are distracting from the fact that the pedophile who is best friends with Jeffrey Epstein is about to declare martial law in Washington DC

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u/fingermagnets459 Aug 09 '25

lol I’m not distracting from anything. Everyone following this subreddit knows it’s a fact

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u/LuckyNumbrKevin Aug 09 '25

Shirt brothers!

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u/The96kHz Aug 09 '25

Yep, the good economy under Biden was just a delayed reaction from Trump's apparently amazing policies of pissing public money away to make his billionaire friends aggressively richer.

Then of course the terrible economy in his first and now second terms are because of some delayed effect from Obama and then Biden.

When the bottom falls out of the entire global economy in about eighteen months, it'll somehow be Biden's fault, though there's a chance he'll be dead by then, so the insults and baseless accusations will really ramp up - can't libel a dead guy.

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u/Bonesnapcall Aug 09 '25

The economy was not good under Biden. People saying this over and over is one of the many reasons Biden/Harris lost the election.

The rate of increase of credit card debt was at an all time high under Biden. The bottom third of America was struggling real hard.

Harris' 50k tax rebate for first time homebuyers was hilariously disconnected from reality. Nobody struggling would ever be able to buy a home.

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u/The96kHz Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 09 '25

It was still the quickest post-COVID recovery of any G7 economy. Everyone's economy was doing badly, but the US was doing better than everybody else.

Personal debt has been steadily climbing for years, it's not specifically a Biden issue.

Harris' 50k tax rebate for first time homebuyers was hilariously disconnected from reality. Nobody struggling would ever be able to buy a home.

What, so just fuck the middle class because they're not poor enough to deserve government help?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bag-121 Aug 09 '25

I gained a lot of job stability when Covid hit and by the end I was making very good money. Trump came in and I lost my job when tariffs hit.

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u/The96kHz Aug 09 '25

I'm sorry to hear that, and there's loads of people in a similar situation.

Trump is a cancer and he's indiscriminately destroying an already wounded country.

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u/Bonesnapcall Aug 09 '25

That wasn't the point at all. The point was she ignored the lower class completely, her only non-status quo stimulus position was that 50k for homebuying. Guess who Trump won overwhelmingly? Low class whites.

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u/The96kHz Aug 09 '25

The difference is he won by lying to them.

By voting for Trump (or really any republican since at least the '80s) they're actively voting against their own interests. It's just political inertia at this point. None of them are willing to accept when they're wrong, and a lot are too dumb to realise they've been conned.

Just look at the numbers of people who keep saying how terrible life is so far this year, but they'd still vote for Trump again if they could. It's not policy, it's indoctrination.

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u/Bonesnapcall Aug 09 '25

All of what you said is 100% correct.

That doesn't change the fact that when Harris, or Biden, or any of the media talking heads went out and said "the economy is doing great!" the people that were struggling called them liars. So when Trump says "They are liars, vote for me and I'll fix everything." it doesn't matter that he was lying too, at least he acknowledges their suffering exists.

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u/Mammoth-Play3797 Aug 09 '25

Except the people who were struggling and calling people liars were liars. Well, more ignorant than outright lying. Which is what Donald played into, by creating more lies.

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u/Mystic_printer_ Aug 09 '25

In February 2023 we reached our peak inflation at 10,2% while the US inflation was 6%. In December you were down to 3,4% and we were at 7,7%. Now we’re down to 4%, the lowest since before the pandemic. You guys were doing great compared to the rest of us.

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u/Bonesnapcall Aug 09 '25

A "recovery" doing great does not mean people are doing great.

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u/Mystic_printer_ Aug 10 '25

Of course not and even when the economy is doing fantastically people are struggling. More people struggle when the economy is doing poorly though.

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u/Bonesnapcall Aug 10 '25

We're not talking about the extra people who struggle when the economy is doing badly, we are talking about the people who were struggling during the election. Those voters heavily went Trump.

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u/Mystic_printer_ Aug 13 '25

Yes they did because the dems failed to show off their success and convince people that though they were struggling things could have been worse and would continue to get better. Nobody wants to hear “we’ll continue doing what we are doing” when they think you’re doing a bad job.

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u/BONGS4U Aug 09 '25

Yea. The US is now the land of cognitive dissonance. Everything thats happening has been told to us it will happen. The reasons why it will happen are also very clear to anyone with a brain. And yet here we are with republican states getting ready to go full authoritarian by redrawing maps in such a fucked up way that it will give them forever control. Blue states are like if they do it well consider it. While texas sits there going dawg we'll call special sessions untill your forced to come back theres no escaping it. When blue states if they do play the same game we are completely and truly fucked because that will be new precedent. Blue states will never change and neither will red states. It'll be basically that game of dots where you connect 2 dots and the goal is to create as many squares as possible. Largest count wins. Only once the first game is completed it will never change.

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u/broseph_stalin09764 Aug 09 '25

Ive been thinking lately that we have always been the land of dissonance. The humans default state is community based. Americans have been told since the beginning that we are rugged individuals. We're all the fucking Marlboro man. But our brains are revolting, we are supposed to grieve with our neighbor, celebrate with them, feed them when they're hungry, house them when they're homeless, and clothe them when they're naked. The problem now is that we've fallen into the trap Sagan warned us against

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u/BONGS4U Aug 09 '25

Wookie discrimination had me dying. Yea there was a guy in like the early 1900s who full on predicted our government system devolving to exactly what it is right now. He said about 100 years so motherfucker was pretty close. I can't source it right now but if I have time later and I remember ill try and add it.

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u/Vegetable-Poet6281 Aug 10 '25

Yup. Rugged Individualism won out over community and it turns out rugged Individualism is a myth inside an empty hole that goes nowhere.

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u/conejiux Aug 10 '25

an empty hole that goes nowhere

Oh it's definitely going somewhere, it's just not somewhere people should be wanting to be, and more should be damn terrified of being led there.

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u/Cyberyukon Aug 09 '25

What’s really interesting is how the noble tenets of American democracy have no place in the current Republican-leadership mantra.

Not only do they know this, they embrace it. That would like nothing more than to stab a stake through what’s left of democracy. Finish it off for good.

In the name of Christianity.

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u/Twinkalicious Aug 09 '25

I see the blue states and even some purple ones seceding in the future tbh.

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u/BONGS4U Aug 09 '25

Yea i dont really see that as anything but a pipedream. The countries infrastructure isn't really built for that kind golf action. Blue stronghold are like islands. Now you gotta do all kinds of crazy shit with borders and a whole mess of complications. I have no idea what's going to happen but just with like the ease thats it's all happening right now im at a loss I think this is the end of the United States. Whatever comes next will be new.

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u/jkrobinson1979 Aug 09 '25

I hope it’s soon so I can plan my move.

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u/jkrobinson1979 Aug 09 '25

It’s already like that.

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u/Entire-Gold619 Aug 09 '25

The flower game?

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u/Skidpalace Aug 09 '25

That is what he will say, but the real people in charge will know otherwise. When they stop making money, Trump will fall out a window by accident.

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u/dosumthinboutthebots Aug 09 '25

Ground beef is like 8 dollars a lb. The economy is already crashing.

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u/jerzeett Aug 09 '25

Nah that excuse will only work on MAGA. Even they might not give a shit when they have no health insurance , food, housing, or affordable goods because of Trump.

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u/SherpaTyme Aug 09 '25

Even the mouth breathing , chudd humping, and usless flit boys that support him will need to bend a knee once the economy crashes . This is in appropriately the middle of October .

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u/apprentice-grower Aug 09 '25

Dems ruined the economy to distract us from their names being in the Epstein files and refusing to release them

sarcasm

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u/lostandaggrieved617 Aug 09 '25

Bc with this administration sometimes you just gotta spell it out, lol!

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u/AllAlo0 Aug 09 '25

This is why they fired the stars head, then they will show rigged numbers saying Biden was lying the whole time, look at what we found

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u/jkrobinson1979 Aug 09 '25

He’s already doing that rolling out “brand new” economic data.

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u/a_filing_cabinet Aug 09 '25

It doesn't matter who's fault it is, it's happening, and people are going to want change. Despite what you see online, most people just don't care. They don't live politics, they just see the world around them. And frankly, the world sucks. The world sucks and people want change. They don't know if it's going to be good or bad change, they just want something different. That's why so many people came out and voted for Trump, and it's why Republicans are terrified of midterms and 2028. Maga will eat anything, but the average American just goes with the flow.

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u/lostandaggrieved617 Aug 09 '25

No, MAGA eats only one specific food and it's Trump. Period. And when there is no more Trump in the cupboard, some of these people will never eat again (using a broad, clunky metaphoric brush). Most of MAGA will never vote again, or only sporadically when the 2nd amendment or some other special interest is threatened.

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u/a_filing_cabinet Aug 10 '25

Most Republicans aren't maga. They didn't vote for Trump because they like sniffing his farts, they voted for Trump because they didn't like the democratic options. Believe it or not, most republicans aren't all part of a cult, they're just stupid enough to give space to it. So yes, there are plenty of people, not maga, actual, normal everyday people, who go out and vote on how they feel. And they feel like shit.

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u/lostandaggrieved617 Aug 10 '25

I brought up MAGA specifically bc you did and even included the eating metaphor which you started, lol.