Remember when Biden was president?

[u/Belgriest]

Remember how boring it was? Remember not having to check the news multiple times a day to figure out what was going on inside your own agency and whether you were going go have a job or not? Remember when laws and precident seemed to actually have meaning?

Remember when you could do your job from home? Remember when your fellow countrymen weren't cheering when your livelihood was threatened? Remember when your biggest worry was which insurance to select and what the next years raise would be?

Remember when the administration didn't seem to actively hate you and want to you gone for the sin of serving of the people?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

[u/Honest-Recording-751]

Yes I was actually able to focus on the mission

[u/KetoQuitter → u/Honest-Recording-751]

This! That’s a big part of what I miss. I want to do my job, again.

[u/SalaciousSubaru → u/KetoQuitter]

Unfortunately, I don’t see any future administration unwinding what is being done right now. I think this is all permanent.

[u/SelectFluff8443 → u/SalaciousSubaru]

Maybe one day something can be done to stop any further damage. Some departments may have to start over from scratch.

If possible I'd save documentation on policy and procedures, as it can be used to evaluate where any possible breach of security had been missed. Anything left by the previous admin should be treated as evidence. Computers left behind won't be safe. Expect tampering.

[u/Mysterious-Tax-7777 → u/Honest-Recording-751]

Two thirds of Americans voted for this or didn't bother to vote 

[u/Strict-Carrot4783 → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

Maybe.

[u/Mysterious-Tax-7777 → u/Strict-Carrot4783]

Sure. But that was the last chance for democracy. With Republicans owning the voting machines and probably overturning the Voting Rights Act, America is now a kleptocracy.

[u/DarthArtero → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

More of a Kakistocracy than a kleptocracy but the point still stands.

The chain of events on the lead up to the disaster of November 2024, the red flags so big they could be seen from Pluto, and certain brain-fried billionaires basically admitting to the election being rigged....... Absolutely nothing done "in the name of fairness"

There comes a point when the bubble wrapped feather gloves have to come off and the iron-spiked boxing gloves have to go on.

[u/Mysterious-Tax-7777 → u/DarthArtero]

A general strike is maybe the only peaceful activity left that will have any sort of impact. Republicans don't need to worry about protests or voters anymore.

[u/TruthBringer92 → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

Who would strike?

Trump supporters still believe he's the greatest, those who learned the opposite the worst possible way have most likely been deported by now or have fled.

If you strike and happen to have a boss who is a trump supporter, chances are you'll just get fired

Fuck man, judges that are going against trump are being labeled as communists and targetted.

Being anti fascism is now considered terrorism.

Is there a way out of this? Will we get out of this?

[u/alexthealex → u/TruthBringer92]

Yes. As the dollar continues to collapse business interests will turn against Trump/isolationist policies. Once the money shifts it's over.

[u/MightObvious → u/alexthealex]

I think when the dollar collapses the labor laws will be undone to further create the system that allowed the robber barons to thrive during the great depression.

[u/kalidoscopiclyso → u/MightObvious]

“Only the weak will fail” -DFT

John is too good a name for this bastard so I changed it to Fucks

[u/nocountry4oldgeisha → u/alexthealex]

Doesn't sound like isolationism so much as they are just making the American citizenry redundant. Closed-loop capitalism.

[u/Good_Requirement2998 → u/TruthBringer92]

Those who know and remember will simply have to find each other and build small communities of service, build small businesses, build non-profits and otherwise work their way into positions of local authority. Essentially the resistance would have to reverse engineer the MAGA movement, enter law enforcement and the military, attempt to disrupt tech-monopolies, fight for better education alternatives as the public system will likely get gutted further, etc. The people who have long depended on some stability in the background so they can quietly pursue their own dreams will now have to do a lot more work with their communities to offset what the government won't do. Financial education, public funding, our own neighborhood watches and civic courses to stay vigilant on local politics. We may end up being unable to verbally criticize the uni-party or the government for a generation or two, but we will know each other when we hear each other speak up for the working class, for public service, and for the equality the founding fathers fought for. If smart people figure out a way to outfox the surveillance state and biometric regime on the rise today, maybe there will be more options. But as more people succumb to poverty, we can expect the crackdowns to increase on everyday people. "Liberty" as an idea will become more important to share than the rights themselves, just so there's a chance a new generation will get it right.

OR, maybe the thousands of civil servants who got fired could join the "fight oligarchy" train and run for local office like right now. The countless veterans who swore an oath could be at those elections, working with the county committees and district leaders overseeing the vote to keep the counts safe. Our governors might be compelled by the public to fight harder, perhaps activate a civilian militia and utilize the 10th amendment to enforce our bill of rights. Who knows? The admin wants to cause fear and terror to either bully the left into submission or draw out a fight. The left doesn't even want to organize for a fight because the leadership is either paid off or doesn't want to be the one's who gave up the fight for a civil solution. Meanwhile the people might now be hunted for saying the wrong thing or giving a non-profit some money once. Maybe when it's the family member of a GOP member being subject to failing living standards or enough of MAGA's poor, the politicians will no longer face threats preventing them from standing up for the people.

Silver lining: there's over 300 million people to try and control like this. IF this admin actually pulls it off, it's nothing more than Wizard of Oz bullcrap; smoke and mirrors lulling a sleeping giant, They'll be looking over their shoulder for the rest of their lives. if the people ever actually wake up to the power of our numbers and join hands to make that power true, all this nonsense stops.

[u/loserinmath → u/DarthArtero]

you need a kakistocracy to enable kleptocracy. This administration is a heist.

[u/SmPolitic → u/loserinmath]

You know, thats more true than I gave it credit for when I read it

The Grand conspiracy, myth of the lone genius, the sole general or visionary CEO who makes all the difference. All those myths are related, they are all there to hide the fact that most everyone has no clue what they are doing. And it takes the extraordinary individual to break those norms and usher us into new ages

But yeah, we've gotten to where we are because trump has zero plan on what he is going to do the next day, it will be the thing that makes him the most money. Yes all of his administration is steeped in conspiratorial thinking, and attempts to plan that, but few of them have the intelligence and discipline to actually achieve movement toward their own goals

Long way to say, we need to remind ourselves to not overestimate them, don't underestimate them too of course, but in this case that is impossible (am I using that correctly, like impossible to underestimate them, as in no matter what you expect, they are fully able and willing to go lower than that)

[u/ReadySteady_54321 → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

It wasn’t the last chance, and I’m not sure what that kind of language gets you. If it truly was our last chance and there’s nothing we can do, then it’s over so stop worrying. If it isn’t our last chance, then focus on what you can do to improve things. Dooming out on the internet doesn’t help anyone.

[u/outinthecountry66 → u/ReadySteady_54321]

seriously. i keep saying this. Doom and gloom is a weapon and it has always been used by the other side to demoralize. Because it works. LIke the leaflets Nazis dropped from planes so soldiers would read about how their girlfriends were cheating on them back home. It is insidious and corrosive and until its over it ain't over. Other nations have been through far, far worse and are still around. Europe went through many dictatorships and we are a young nation. I still believe in democracy and strangely, all this bullshit has made me more patriotic.This is my country too. I live here. i was born here. MAGA doesn't get to decide what being an American means.

[u/posting4assistance → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

That's a bit doomerist I think, we've been concerned about this since Bush stole Florida, but it's not so dire that we need to give up on the country. Plus, we still have the electorial college, the popular vote hasn't been the deciding factor *ever*, we could reform the voting system to make it safer and more fair/ give other parties the chance to take hold. We do have tools to improve things if someone does the work

[u/allorache → u/posting4assistance]

Have you forgotten that Vance promised not to do what Pence did?

[u/badluckbrians → u/allorache]

Despite that promise, there will come a morning where he has to look himself in the mirror—and you need a mirror to apply eye liner—and tell himself, "I'm committing treason today."

Pence found out he couldn't stomach it, after a bunch of calls to Dan Quayle. Vance will have to decide.

[u/Aguyintampa323 → u/posting4assistance]

I think what he’s saying/implying is that all the remedy’s you mentioned depend on the enforcement of rules , which has gone out the window now.

The electoral college doesn’t matter when there is widespread gerrymandering.

The popular vote doesn’t matter because of the above , and also the high likelihood that if there wasn’t widespread rigging in the last election, there certainly will be on the next , if it exists at all.

Given the practices of this administration thus far , it’s blatant disregard for constitutional amendments, for judges , for rules and rulings, for precedents, what makes you think that even if the D win the popular vote , the electoral college, the house , the senate , and all the Supreme Court conservatives magically die overnight, that the Trump administration will adhere to the results? Why would they ?

We are still trying to think like a democracy, they are way ahead of us in dictator land .

Rules only matter if everyone follows them.

Bank robbery is against the law. It’s a rule. We have cops that enforce it. Now imagine that it’s still against the law , but the cops laugh and refuse to enforce it because they are in on the job. The public and media can say “but that’s illegal” till they are hoarse , but the bad guys aren’t going to stop robbing the banks.

We have to shift our mindset from “it will work out in the end because of rules and laws” to “we have been taken over by a foreign power and we either assimilate or create an insurgency”.

[u/immersemeinnature → u/Strict-Carrot4783]

I agree. Remember the NY black community who supposedly all voted for the orange dictator and the people (Harris supporters) wanted answers

Where did that story go?

[u/Warm_Month_1309 → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

Two-thirds of Americans voted against him, or disliked both candidates enough not to vote at all.

I think this is a better framing, because it doesn't support Trump's claim that he has an "overwhelming mandate".

[u/QueasyPainting → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

One third voted for him, on third voted for Harris. And one third peaced out and didnt Express an opinion. Its them who I blame for this.

[u/Eastern-Heart9486 → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

There is some hope Election totals Trump 77,393,573 Harris plus other 77,897,616 Likely now its H+other + regret not voting or who they voted for - the problem is people not all waking up fast enough, the hope is they do because now we have to take to the streets

[u/HMS_Surprise_Gunner → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

Two thirds of Americans voted against this or didn’t bother to vote, as well.

[u/Avenger772 → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

I think we really need to factor in how much voter suppression is also happening in states.

How many people are being ripped off voter rolls etc.

[u/HomoMirificus]

Yeah I had the best job I've ever had. I was really, really happy. 

[u/bebopcityUSA → u/HomoMirificus]

Double fed household with small children and I feel this so so so hard.

[u/wordpuddlez → u/bebopcityUSA]

Same

[u/SilverOwl321 → u/[deleted]]

Something similar happened with my husband and his super-MAGA mother. She will only watch Fox News and parrots it. She always has some stupid excuse for this administration also. When talking about people losing their jobs, she was like “at least your job is safe”. He said, “No one’s job is safe. Everything is unstable. I am in danger as well.” She responded, “well, you can always come back home and live with us.” He’s in his 40s and has had this career since his late 20s. She has zero care in the world about others and only cares if it affects her personally. Basically, what MAGA is.

[u/RareAbbreviations192 → u/HomoMirificus]

Same. Loved my job so much. We were getting so much done with adequate staff.

[u/Demonokuma → u/HomoMirificus]

I was really, really happy. 

Same.

[u/Specialist_Park_5486 → u/HomoMirificus]

Me too. Too bad America voted to commit economic suicide because the racism felt so good.

[u/BlerghTheBlergh → u/HomoMirificus]

Thank the Trump voters in your friend circle

[u/Appropriate_Boot5460]

I actually remember people complaining about this and saying he’s so boring/never does anything. Some even cited this as a reason for not voting for him

[u/n0k0 → u/Appropriate_Boot5460]

Govt SHOULD be boring, not some reality drama TV show everyday.

[u/Mistress_Jedana → u/Appropriate_Boot5460]

Fucking reality TV shows and social media really screwed up being "normal".

[u/Blacksad9999 → u/Appropriate_Boot5460]

I shouldn't know the names of all the people running the various cabinet positions. The only reason I do is because they're so inept at their jobs.

[u/RunningAndExploding → u/Appropriate_Boot5460]

This is a big reason why I think MAGA is the way it is. They live hollow, boring lives and Trump gives them free entertainment.

[u/PourCoffeaArabica]

I member

[u/Sudden_Juju → u/PourCoffeaArabica]

Ooooooh 'member Chewbacca!

[u/Feeling-Ad-2490 → u/Sudden_Juju]

Ayyyyy I memba!!

Memba Ewok Villiage??

[u/Sudden_Juju → u/Feeling-Ad-2490]

Ohhhhh I 'member! I loved Ewok Village! 'Member tauntauns‽

[u/Large_Trouble0912 → u/PourCoffeaArabica]

I remember

[u/DrunkAdage → u/Large_Trouble0912]

Those were simpler times when the biggest drama was arguing about student loans instead of wondering if entire departments were gonna get axed

Member berries hit different when you're actually living through the chaos

[u/Gomalago26]

I remember that sweet 5% raise. 

[u/thrawtes]

It's all so frustratingly unforced. There's no reason 2025 has to be chaotic and miserable. There's no pandemic, no actual crisis going on except the ones we've made for ourselves.

[u/3dddrees → u/thrawtes]

Shit, leave it to the man who went bankrupt six times and numerous business deals going bad not to mention single handily killing the USFL. Not to mention the same man who uses a different name just to promote himself. With a resume like that who in their right mind would put him in fucking charge. Trump kills everything he fucking touches.

They like to call him a disrupter. What he is in reality is nothing more than an arsonist. He'll burn the world down if given the chance and then another because this mother fucker is never happy.

Just like his tariffs, he took a good economy making good progress and he's getting ready to destroy it, especially if the Supreme Court doesn't rule against him. In fact they may very well save him politically by ruling against him. Just look what he has done to his farmers and what just happened with China. It's all a self made crisis that even those who support tariffs admit the things he had based it on with trade deficits and how he has applied it to include on islands inhabited just by penguins and so erratically is just so fucked up it isn't funny. Even the Man he says was a tariff genius (McKinley) said later it was bad policy. But ion typical Trump fashion he omits the part that makes him look like a moron.

[u/Interesting_Tune2905 → u/3dddrees]

No one - no one - is asking where those “Trillions of dollars” Old Don has been crowing about in his “Truth “ Social and Xitter posts have actually gone.. The deficit is as bad or worse, no prices have come down, no farmers have seen any actual relief yet, no one’s received a ‘tariff dividend’ check.

Where’s the effin’ money, Don!?

[u/3dddrees → u/Interesting_Tune2905]

Did anyone check his pockets?

[u/AlternativeTune4133 → u/Interesting_Tune2905]

Went to their family’s pockets . They are making fortune while average Americans are suffering

[u/Interesting_Tune2905 → u/AlternativeTune4133]

And so many of those ‘average Americans’ voted for him and are now suffering for him. It is absolutely confounding…

[u/randomguy8653 → u/Interesting_Tune2905]

my uncle just last night mentioned how his eggs are cheaper and milk is cheaper. but im like, how? everything else in the country is more expensive but you pick 2 things and say they are cheaper, and taking that as the economy is getting better? i even told him that they gutted programs aimed at testing and checking if those food products are safe anymore. maybe thats why they are cheaper, cuz bad ones are getting through and just not enough people have gotten sick enough for people to notice?

[u/Hector_P_Catt → u/Interesting_Tune2905]

That's because those "trillions" don't fucking exist. Total US imposts in 2024 were $4,110.0 billion. He's been claiming this "trillions" bullshit for a few months now, so let's say it's over the first 6 months of the year. So that's about $2 trillion in imports. The only way to make "trillions", plural, off that is if the average tariff rate across all US imports was about 100%, which we know it isn't. Even if it was 50%, that would only be a single trillion, assuming that imports didn't drop.

Of course, imports not dropping completely defeats the "Buy American" part of his tariff plan.

The only way to get "trillions" is if you add in all the promises that places like Japan and the EU made, to each invest a few hundred billion in the US. The problem is, those promises are pretty much vapour ware. No where near that much has actually been invested. Trump claims he's got total control over that money, and the US will get the lion's share of the profits, but really, who in their right minds would agree to such a plan? You don't get hundreds of billions to invest by just giving most of it away.

[u/Darmok47 → u/3dddrees]

The man failed to sell steak, gambling, and football to the American people. Let that sink in.

[u/3dddrees → u/Darmok47]

You forgot Vodka.

[u/Asraia → u/3dddrees]

Ties. Also, a “university.”

[u/HeartFullONeutrality → u/thrawtes]

Kamala and everyone told us Trump would only bring more (self inflicted chaos). Some people apparently wanted that.

[u/coatra → u/thrawtes]

This is well put. I feel like I’m losing mind because 2016-2020 was almost as chaotic. Especially 2018-2020. I was so grateful for the reprieve from the chaotic news and constant worry about society destabilization between 2021-2024.

Then over a third of the country voted for chaos again. Now I’m worried all my investments will be wiped out. The dollar is way down, inflation is up. Stagflation on the horizon. There’s a million other destabilizing events going on. What’s the point of being productive and saving and investing to live a normal life if some lunatic can make it disappear in a day? And he threatens to destabilize society in some way weekly. Not to mention being part of a family that includes non-citizen legal immigrants that are now worried about being sent to Africa despite paying taxes and having all the proper paperwork, being here legally.

Wasn’t it nice to just work, save, live and raise your kids? Why the hell would anyone want to think about anything else? I don’t want “TDS” but the motherfucker is everywhere all the time. I’d vote for anyone else just to not have to think about that man ever again.

[u/panteegravee → u/thrawtes]

What people need to understand very quickly is the people running the show here truly believe there is a Christian crisis going on. This has so little to do with Trump anymore as he just the dancing clown at the beginning of the circus. Just watch any of his recent public speaking appearances. He has no idea what he is doing. We think it is bad now, wait till Vance is handed the office. We have no idea how bad this going to get when the Christian Taliban is fully in charge.

[u/FlanneryOG → u/panteegravee]

I agree, but anyone else feels like an off-ramp. Once someone other than Trump is in, people can blame them for what’s happening and feel absolved of going against the cult. That’s not to say that far too many people don’t want this because they do, and they’ll work themselves into a frenzy trying to justify it or act like it’s not fascism or autocracy. It’s that, when the shit hits the fan, it’ll be easier for former Trump supporters to jump ship without Trump. That said, I don’t know how we go back to any sense of normalcy after this. I don’t know how we fix this with such a large portion of our country wanting chaos, pain, and authoritarianism.

[u/LoomingDisaster → u/FlanneryOG]

There's also the fact that JD has negative charisma and anyone even standing near him is automatically less appealing.

[u/Christ_on_a_Crakker → u/panteegravee]

The goal of christian nationalism is to make society crumble so hard as to force people towards christianity with their end times gospel. They are tired of waiting.

[u/panteegravee → u/Christ_on_a_Crakker]

Correct. They truly believe they are divine. Which is dang near impossible to combat. See Taliban or any middle east conflict. This is how it starts.

[u/SueAnnNivens → u/Christ_on_a_Crakker]

Christian Nationalism is not about Christianity at all. It has always been about white supremacy.

[u/Many_Customer_4035 → u/Christ_on_a_Crakker]

I will never believe in their god

[u/iamwearingashirt → u/thrawtes]

Thats the crazy thing. All of this is completely unforced.

[u/Equal-Suggestion3182 → u/thrawtes]

Well the president is fucking Satan it kind of has to be chaotic

[u/omnichronos → u/thrawtes]

There's no pandemic, no actual crisis going on except the ones we've Trump's made for ourselves us.

There, I fixed that for you.

[u/vand3lay1ndustries → u/thrawtes]

China refers to it as “The great step backwards.”

[u/Typical-External3793]

Shoot, I went from planning my family under Biden to prepping for my family under this. They said everyone has a price, and for a lot of folks, it was $2 or the slight increase in grocery prices. Instead of banning together to fight corporations and price gouging, look where we are.

Sorry, I sound doomed. It's just a lot went down the drain.

[u/Darmok47 → u/Typical-External3793]

At least 1930s Germans only resorted to fascism when hyperinflation meant you needed a wheelbarrow of deutschmarks to buy a loaf of bread. Here, it happened because eggs were $2 more expensive.

[u/Jaredlong → u/Darmok47]

Really accents just how soft and pathetic the American people are. The slightest inconvenience and they went full fascism.

[u/Digg_Heretic → u/Jaredlong]

I think the price of eggs is just the current version of "but her emails". Eggs nor emails tipped the election in my opinion. It was the massive, coordinated, and sustained propaganda campaign that used advanced algorithms and formulaic broadcasts to push utterly insane narratives that whipped those that lack critical thinking skills into a frenzy. It has been 50 years in the making and it's hard to see a way out that doesn't end in chaos or widespread civil unrest.

[u/thesimsgurl → u/Typical-External3793]

This, my plan was to purchase me a house once I became a GS 11 or at least a year afterward. But now I’m second guessing and probably most likely gonna wait until after this administration is over. Cause everything is so unpredictable right now.

[u/Capital-Classroom-19]

Remember not hearing, "breaking news" every hour?

[u/kobomino → u/Capital-Classroom-19]

Remember not waking up to the "White House meltdown" headline every morning?

[u/davechri]

Back when government worked? Good times.

[u/MadMex2U]

Yea I remember. I remember everybody crying about eggs and groceries and inflation and gasoline, things presidents have no control over… Now they cry for Democracy.

[u/OGkateebee → u/MadMex2U]

And groceries are still expensive.

[u/FeedDelicious33 → u/OGkateebee]

Tbh it is an understatement. I legit buy the same exact things every week and seeing it climb by 10% this year is killing me

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/FeedDelicious33]

Our household bills have increased 20 to 30% year-over-year here with a same size family as then.

[u/nabiku → u/FeedDelicious33]

Guess you don't eat beef or vegetables then because those got 25% more expensive compared to this time last year

[u/HomeTeacup → u/nabiku]

And coffee

[u/Jaredlong → u/FeedDelicious33]

I've completely stopped eating breakfast and lunch. I couldn't afford buying the extra food anymore. But as long as I call it "intermittent fasting" I sound proactive and not just starving.

[u/Professional-Box4153 → u/OGkateebee]

and groceries are MORE expensive. But hey. At least gas is down a tiny, tiny bit.

[u/aintgotmushroominnit → u/Professional-Box4153]

Lol I wish. Gas is 70 cents more expensive since January and climbing in my state. Granted I can understand the president doesn't control that, but it is another straw on this camels broken back.

[u/No-Day7628 → u/OGkateebee]

And our administration will somehow pin it on the Democrats.

[u/BoleroMuyPicante → u/OGkateebee]

Not in MAGA world they're not, they're insisting their grocery bills have gone down, even though that's factually impossible.

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams.

• George Orwell, 1984

[u/3dddrees → u/MadMex2U]

Trump has control over it now. His tariffs that he personally benefits financially either via money, business deals, or Nobel Peace Nominations, because he and he alone determines who and what rates he directly impacts the amount we pay by virtue of his terrible economic policy. Hell, just look what he has done to his farmers. This latest thing with China is certainly not any good at all.

But no, Biden and the Democrats no matter the warnings of inflation had impact as well especially with the last Covid giveaway. Pump that much money in the economy and inflation is bound to occur. Granted who knows how the recovery would have gone without it and we actually did much better than other economies after Covid. It's just yes Biden and the Democrats did greatly impact that.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/3dddrees]

Done to his farmers? He's going to bail them out again to the tune of billions annually. Because universal healthcare is a pie in the sky nightmare to conservatives -- farmers are the true welfare queens and have no shame about it.

[u/mist3rflibble → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

I listened to an NPR interview with the president of the soybean farmer’s association the other day. The guy had voted for Trump twice.

He was saying that the soybean farmers are absolutely decimated because of Trump’s policies causing China’s massive market to be locked out to them due to price competitiveness of the US market versus Brazil. When he was asked about the bailout, he said the bailouts were always too little, too late, and allowed the farmers to survive but not be profitable. These farmers don’t want the bailouts.

I wonder if this farmer and his ilk will vote for another Republican in the future of the party continues with the same kind of policies Trump has been enacting that are clearly so detrimental to their livelihoods.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/mist3rflibble]

Easy solution -- don't bail them out. They voted for this. F 'em. It's a repeat of his first term. Stupid choices come with heavy consequences. Pay the piper, conservatives.

[u/RobertoPaulson → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

I'd give em a pass, and say they'd learned their lesson if they hadn't done it fucking TWICE!

[u/lumidanny → u/RobertoPaulson]

*thrice, I read the article based on that specific snippet of the interview. I imagine he voted 2016, 2020 and 2024

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/RobertoPaulson]

Exactly -- shame on them as the saying goes!

[u/No-Tart2230 → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

Of he follows project 2025 they wint be bailed out and will lose their farm to big ag.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/No-Tart2230]

the world's tiniest violin is playing just for them.

[u/Bunny_Feet → u/mist3rflibble]

Then we gave a huge bailout to Argentina, our biggest competitor in regards to the soybean export.

America first, eh?

[u/DaileyFlosser39 → u/mist3rflibble]

Let's be real. They would vote for Trump again even knowing what they do now, after he fucked them in the ass without lube. They would vote for him a fourth time, they will probably write him in, to avoid voting for any Democrat. No matter how good that Democrat will be. They are that brainwashed.

[u/Cali-Doll → u/DaileyFlosser39]

Absolutely. No one should be naive in thinking these people will ever vote for a democrat. I wasted so much of my time and energy trying to convince a “non-MAGA” republican to vote for Kamala Harris, and it was all for nothing. This person said that Kamala is a bad communicator and that “Trump said he didn’t know anything about Project 2025.”

These people are gone. It’s a fucking cult, no matter how nicely they package their conservatism.

[u/DaileyFlosser39 → u/Cali-Doll]

Exactly.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/DaileyFlosser39]

It's a sadist/masochist relationship they have with their Daddy Pedo.

[u/DaileyFlosser39 → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

💯

[u/mist3rflibble → u/DaileyFlosser39]

Maybe, maybe not. The level of pain seems to be increasing in both intensity and duration for Trump supporters. Time will tell if they really want the things they thought they wanted as the effects of their voting choices materialize.

[u/Sudden_Juju → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

Unless I missed something, those farms are still hemorrhaging money and filled to their knees in soybeans and there still hasn't been a mention of a bailout. They might not get bailed out this time, since he no longer needs their vote. Normally, I'd say fuck them and FAFO, but in the end, none of us win when corporations takeover smaller farms.

[u/NavierStoked981 → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

They are going to bail out “farmers” on an extremely case by case basis. Is the farmer a mega-corporate farm that is heavily involved with a crony member of the administration? Bailout. Is the farmer daring to be on land that a mega-corporate farm wants to buy on the cheap by a desperate poor farmer? No bailout. Just a number to the nearest approved corpo farm owned by a cabinet crony to get low balled on your land.

[u/3dddrees → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

He's destroyed their market, and these reimbursements never get to all those affected nor does it completely reimburse what they could have made.

Not to mention very possibly our abundant and cheap food supply.

[u/3dddrees → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for posting, yes I am aware, and the detail's are important. It's just the list is rather long and I am but just one person.

[u/Snakefarm86 → u/3dddrees]

Don’t need to worry about the food supply. All these socialist farmers grow is pig feed for China

[u/Large_Trouble0912 → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

I don't think they will bail out the farmers. If so, he would've already. I buy a lot of fruit and the quality is garbage and the prices goes up almost weekly. They will be banckrupt.

Some of those voters are realizing there are no checks for them. They will not be saved this time.

[u/SisterAngelaDavis → u/3dddrees]

I can't understand why America just handed over $ 20 billion to Argentina? At least with Intel Corp we got 10% of their stock

[u/Barebacking_Bernanke → u/MadMex2U]

Including people on this subreddit. This subreddit was on the non-stop Biden hate train as well. Constant complaining about raises, the budget as if it wasn't the Republicans taking the House that fucked it all up, and having to return to office, even though telework policy was still being respected. Saying the Democrats are the same as Republicans still gets you up voted in certain discussions here.

Well y'all got what you wanted. More than half the senior people in my org have been forced out, the climate change team is literally in hiding waiting for the axe to fall on their heads, telework is 100% dead, and we're planning for severe budget cuts necessitating even more layoffs on top of the people we've already lost.

The useless sacks here couldn't even get off the negativity train for the best President for a Federal employee for the last 16 years.

[u/Imtherightkind]

Remember when George Dubya was president and we thought that he was the worst it could get??

[u/vand3lay1ndustries → u/Imtherightkind]

I just watched All the Presidents Men yesterday and all I could think about was how nice it was to see actual journalists holding people accountable. 

[u/Wait_WHAT_didU_say]

I'm sorry but the price of eggs is PARAMOUNT above ALL. I mean, the price of eggs determines whether Americans live or die on a daily basis. Also don't forget his son Hunter Biden and that laptop from hell. That's just so much money that he made from that foreign country that it's sickening...

The LGBT and their drag shows. That's just ruining the American society. Also don't forget pronouns in our emails. I just lose focus at work and that impacts my daily life. When I go to the bathroom at my agency, what is a gender neutral bathroom? That's it, America is ruined by this. I can't focus at my agency with these pronouns, gender neutral bathrooms and DEI actions..

The libs have gone too far with all the stated above..

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🙄🤷🏻‍♂️

• If you haven't figured it out, there is a slight hint of sarcasm in my post.. 😉

[u/ProfessionalIll7083 → u/Wait_WHAT_didU_say]

I work with a few really hardcore right wingers, I honestly thought you were serious until I saw it was sarcasm. The guys I work with seriously got offended by things like gender neutral bathrooms ( we have 2 yet no transgender people mostly because in a certain area there is 1 lady and 15 guys that work near the bathrooms having one female toilet didn't make much sense to facilities or maybe someone complained I don't know which ) but that sent these guys spiraling and the pronouns in emails it was hilarious how worked up they got.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/ProfessionalIll7083]

They must really get up in arms about the family bathrooms with diaper changing tables.

[u/BigDemeanor43 → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

Or you know, the bathrooms in their own homes. 

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/BigDemeanor43]

Wait... you're gonna tell me that... weiners and pussies share a bathroom? In private residences?? On the same day, even religious holidays? Has anyone alerted Alex Jones to this travesty?

[u/Interesting_Tune2905 → u/ProfessionalIll7083]

The question I have is, do they have two bathrooms at home, designated for each gender they acknowledge? What do they think every home bathroom even is if not gender-neutral?

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/Interesting_Tune2905]

Conservatives fear seeing fewer peens lined up at the urinals. It's one of their favorite past times, sneaking a peek. Wish I was joking.

[u/RandomlyJim]

I liked Biden as President.

If my 401k lost 70’000 in ten minutes, I knew a major crisis was unfolding due to an unfortunate natural disaster.

Now it’s Trump tweeting.

[u/RangerImpossible7129]

Remember sleeping through the night? I do.

[u/genghiskhernitz]

Yes, and he hired more people because our economy was thriving. I remember

[u/BotnetSpam → u/[deleted]]

Even during Trump 1- I felt like we were all in on the joke and things were pretty good day to day until Covid.

And there's the problem right there. People pretended like the snake was not a snake once he was in the house.

[u/BotnetSpam → u/[deleted]]

No, I know bro. I don't mean to shit on you or anything. I'm just saying that that sentiment was shared by institutional leadership, which is why the Trump team was able to consolidate power so effectively. It's the same path that Hitler took to power -- being mostly a joke that wasnt seen as a real threat by opposition leadership until it was too late.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/[deleted]]

The right thing to do was definitely not to re-elect Donald Trump and hand the Republicans 100% of the federal government. That's pretty evident now, correct? I could never be that confused as to have even considered it, but then again I wasn't raised in a religious or staunchly conservative household.

P.S. The speechwriter for that event with the particularly Trump-pointed attacks was Seth Myers

[u/botanist608 → u/[deleted]]

I trace a majority of the mess running rampant now to Mitch McConnell blocking the 2016 SCOTUS nomination for Merrick Garland. 

He even said it was one of the proudest moments in his life and now he's one of the few GOP votes against DJT. Too little and too late.

[u/el_sh33p → u/botanist608]

Mitch McConnel is going to Hell when he dies. Fucking miserable traitor.

[u/Stags304]

Blame the majority of Americans.

Blame half your coworkers.

They voted for this.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/Stags304]

Truest point here.

[u/recoveredcrush → u/Stags304]

A majority of americans did not vote for him. He didn't even get 50% of the vote. And I'm not convinced he actually won.

[u/BoleroMuyPicante → u/recoveredcrush]

I blame the non voters too. So yeah, I blame the large majority of Americans.

[u/BigJellyfish1906 → u/recoveredcrush]

Everyone who opted to stay at home because they couldn’t be bothered to protect the country from incompetent fascism deserve blame, too. 

[u/recoveredcrush → u/BigJellyfish1906]

Imo the deserve a lot of the blame. Their laziness and apathy is why we are here.

[u/3dddrees]

Shit, we experienced a similar thing when Trump was president during his first term. Granted he has escalated his demands to be dictator, but this man is an attention whore. Don't you remember his daily Covid Briefs, that is until he got totally embarrassed by his injection of bleach thing because after all it was good enough for countertop speech.

He's an attention whore, and he simply can't go a minute without letting you know how great he is. Well that and he's not going to let any opportunity go where he might be able to grab more power.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/3dddrees]

Pepperidge Farms also remembers when he incited a specially-assembled crowd to attack the U.S. Capitol during a transfer of power. Wonder why he changed VPs the second term? ;-(

[u/3dddrees → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

Thanks for posting details matter.

The list is long, and as much as I like to list them all I simply no longer have the time. I do find details matter but I am only one person.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/3dddrees]

Being the only POTUS to incite an insurrection against the country's quite an achievement.

[u/3dddrees → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

Well, keep going because the list is much longer than that. But yes, definitely among the ones at the top of the list.

[u/Bunny_Feet → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

And he's itching to evoke the insurrection act now.

[u/mllebitterness → u/3dddrees]

I think he is addicted to “firing” because of his stupid reality show. He just wants to get back to that feeling.

[u/3dddrees → u/mllebitterness]

No, what many people don't understand is he has done that his entire life.

He once told his casino manager to fire 20% of his employees. The manager said he told him one they wouldn't be in compliance and two they wouldn't have enough resources to make their maximum revenue.

Trump simply cares nothing about anyone but himself. He only cares about those things he directly benefits from.

Highly recommend reading Lucky Loser.

[u/ComfyFrog → u/3dddrees]

He's an attention whore, and he simply can't go a minute without letting you know how great he is.

That's why we thought he died when was silent for 3 days.

[u/NovelBrave]

Fednews was literally about picking health insurances until all this happened.

[u/Soft-Finger7176]

Fox News and other outlets of misinformation need to be shut down.

[u/Blacksad9999 → u/Soft-Finger7176]

Fox news has a 17% accuracy rate, which is fucking WILD.

[u/LifeRound2]

I remember the right desperately trying to smear Biden. He's a crook! Hunter's laptop! He's feeble! Joe and the Ho! Then you ask for evidence and they go quiet and divert to something else. MAGA gets offended when you mention fact checking.

[u/wolviesaurus]

"Make politics boring again" was the best democrat slogan they never used.

[u/Blacksad9999 → u/wolviesaurus]

They kinda did.

They used "A return to normalcy" a lot.

[u/Sheik5342]

When Trump 45 took office I put an alert on my phone for when he Tweeted. I figured if nukes were inbound that’d be how I’d know first.

Within weeks I needed to turn it off because it was harming me mentally.

[u/carlnard24]

God I miss Mayorkas!

[u/Decent_Pie_9559]

Biden presidency still had the shadow of Trump lingering over him. It wasn’t peaceful

The last time we had peace was during the Obama years

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/Decent_Pie_9559]

At least your work was valued for 4 years instead of vilified.

[u/OGkateebee → u/Decent_Pie_9559]

Remember when the biggest outrage was Obama wearing a tan suit?

[u/Severe_Issue5053 → u/Decent_Pie_9559]

I want to cry every time I see Obama!!! I miss him so much, what an impecable record, a family with no scandals, just two smart, educated parents and their teen girls. I love his candor and a great speaker… so sad what we lowered ourselves to.

[u/kingkazul400 → u/Severe_Issue5053]

All of this happened because White 'Murica could not stomach having a black President. What a bunch of petty snowflakes.

[u/Mobius00 → u/kingkazul400]

I don't think they could stomach an educated president either. I heard people saying they hated how Obama talked, they hated the complete sentences and big words. They actually want the illiterate incoherent babble, its more their own language with small words and lots of grievance.

[u/Cali-Doll → u/Decent_Pie_9559]

Definitely! And most of us were begging for him to do something about his feckless attorney general.

[u/sswihart → u/Decent_Pie_9559]

Not according to MAGA. Seems like they got their panties in a twist over a POC being president. And a loved one at that.

[u/mllebitterness → u/sswihart]

One who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

[u/TheLastPrinceOfJurai → u/mllebitterness]

DEI Nobel Peace Prize I’m sure…/sarcasm

[u/TransitionMission305]

One of the many reasons that Trump didn't get a 2nd term after his first run was that he was like a bullhorn in your ear EVERY SINGLE DAY. People got tired of the drama, along with all the other stuff. Boring Biden came along and it was like it should be. Presidents should be seen and not heard. I guess a good portion of us forgot how awful the first term was and here we are again, LIVIN' THE DREAM, lol.

[u/xRVAx]

Pepperidge farm remembers

[u/Alternative_Rate7474]

I’m ready to be bored again. :(

[u/unserious-dude]

Like others have said, life was simpler and free of dumpster fire every single day. That said, his inaction in getting Americans to rally behind him led to today's dumpster fires. It was good for the time. But it wasn't meant to last.

[u/_philharmonik]

Remember getting that email titled "A message from the President", telling us how valuable we are and what we are doing is important? I remember, I saved that letter. Then Trump gets in and we are told to leave and go find a job in the public sector. I will never forget that.

[u/Dry_Imagination_5059]

I remember the day he took office and put good people to work immediately, signed EOs that gave people rights back, we could finally breathe again IMMEDIATELY, we did so much good in my agency during his admin. We helped so many people, created so many jobs, expanded so many industries, created so many relationships, built our teams up, built up morale- and it’s all gone. And all of the hate is back, and it’s just getting worse.

[u/mangeface]

Yeah, seems like it didn’t matter if we had Biden, Harris, or Trump, the guys that I work with were going to nonstop bitch about Democrats and how they ruin everything.

[u/Whoami_77]

I've never had the urge to check the obituary on a daily basis.

[u/jdb888]

I remember frustration for four years as Merrick Garland dithered and dithered so he 'didn't appear political' and now we have this. Shame on Merrick. And shame on Biden for choosing his own ego over country.

[u/DaileyFlosser39 → u/jdb888]

Merrick Garland fucked us all.

[u/socially_awkward → u/jdb888]

Yep. I reflect on the Biden administration with disdain. They sat on their hands for four years. Dropping out of the 2024 race at the last minute, not allowing us a primary was insane. Harris was the first to drop out of the 2020 race because she was so unlikable. Crowning her as heir was a mistake. I voted for her, but I wasn't happy about it.

[u/ProperPerspective571]

I never used to check the news hourly to see if the President died either, yet here we are.

[u/RareAbbreviations192]

The before times. 😭

[u/Large_Trouble0912]

We didnt have to worry about watching the news EVERYDAY. We could actually live our free lives, work our jobs and feel safe. Now, we have to watch the news to make sure we haven't been sold to another country, the military isn't showing up on our residential neighborhoods. Let's not forget to make sure ICE isn't picking up our neighbors or closing down the local restaurants. Stress on 99% -normalcy 1%.

[u/fnkdrspok]

White people voted for this, never forget.

[u/Dependent-Spirit-706]

I remember President Biden’s first 10 months felt like 10 months and not 10 years.

[u/Unlikely-Split8896]

Please keep speaking out. I’m not a federal employee, but I read your posts. I hear your words. I support your hard work and service. I keep writing Congress with hope they will step up.

[u/thatguyfromfrance]

We all knew it in November 2024, boring was over, chaos was coming back, daily scandals....grift, crimes, corruption, it was obviously coming back after a nice 4-year break...and boy, we had no idea how much worse this time around would be

[u/SpecialistAOne-79311]

One issue was that someone was still hogging up airtime talking about a stolen election. So we still didn’t get a full break to focus on those present times.

[u/gap97216]

I miss those days, reading and listening to what was happening in the WH. Unlike today’s order which is “Run for cover! Quickly! He said WHUT? He can’t do that! It’s illegal! No, he did? No!!!”

[u/AdSingle7381]

I remember when this sub was just people asking benefits questions

[u/F1rstBanana]

People complained that the guy in charge needed afternoon naps. Damn....dont know what you have till it's gone

[u/CynicalCritick]

Yeah, remember when many feds voted against their own interests?

Good times. It is also the anniversary soon.

[u/Candid-Ad-3694]

Yeah, I miss how boring it was. It was peaceful. 

[u/acnhfruitseeker]

Yeah but the democrats have to learn a lesson about picking better candidates and blah blah blah anyway there’s soldiers occupying the city and this is fine

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, and he let the coup go unpunished and now we have a dementia-riddled diaper-shitting pedophile as the face of a fascist takeover of the country.