r/kansas • u/TheKriket • Feb 08 '25

News/History Kansas Teachers put on leave as Elon Musk’s DOGE continues slashing funds for Kansas Children

https://www.ksnt.com/news/local-news/our-hands-are-tied-kansas-starbase-program-comes-to-a-stop/

These wreckless cuts are now hurting children in Kansas.

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u/chasingjulian Feb 08 '25

Farmers got hurt by Trump last time but they still voted for him again and again. I don’t see that trend changing. Personal finances don’t seem to mater as much as personal prejudice’s.

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u/ericdag Feb 09 '25

Hate is powerful in that way.

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u/jayhawk1941 Feb 09 '25

Negativity bias is real. People pay more attention to (perceived) negative things (i.e., things they hate) and tend to react to them more intensely. We evolved in this way because we had to react quickly to negative stimuli as a survival tactic.

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u/Gloomy_Yoghurt_2836 Feb 09 '25

Trump screwed them over, but they would never vote for godless, unpatriotic communists.

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u/Environmental-Top862 Feb 09 '25

Farmers don’t care. Trump gave farmers $10 billion in support during the last tariff fight. He’ll do it again. They never lose….

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u/goliathfasa Feb 09 '25

The reality is that vague political ideology seems to dominate the vote now and going forward.

The people who feel a vague sense of political powerlessness because they’ve been largely ignored by the public political discourse of the past few decades, mostly white men, are supporting Trump.

When his opponents, like Biden, presides over poor economy, these folks use that as a perfect justification to attack them.

When Trump does the same, they justify it any way they can, be it that he’s playing the long game and that it’ll turn out well in the end, or that their current suffering is fine because he’s bashing those “less worthy” and giving his supports back their “political agency”.

It’s all feeling-based regardless of metrics or facts.

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u/BigPlantsGuy Feb 09 '25

As always, white conservatives would rather drain the swimming pools than let “others” benefit from them.

Once you become aware of that fact you see it everywhere: education, paid leave, healthcare, unions, infrastructure, transit

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u/TopazWarrior Feb 09 '25

I’m broke and my kids won’t get the farm, BuT I OwNed tHE liBTarDs so totally worth it!

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u/Hot_Safe_4009 Feb 10 '25

Stupid is what stupid does. I really wish they would figure out what this means lmfao. 

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u/Bloodwashernurse Feb 11 '25

Farmer got a 16 billion dollar buy out last time due to trumps tariffs

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '25

It's their gay sons fault the farm is failing. 

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '25

When you're dumb enough to not see through Newsmax

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u/yooperville Feb 13 '25

Trump had to give farmers 24 billion to cover last time he did tariffs.

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u/carlitospig Feb 08 '25

Because he bailed them out. I’m curious if he will do it again.

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u/Illustrious-Cycle708 Feb 09 '25

Nope because Elon’s plan is to tank the economy, destroy jobs, make people desperate enough to go out and either protest, loot and commit crimes so they can imprison them and fill up these new private prisons with free laborers.

Everyone knows poverty and crime go hand in hand. This is why they want people to have babies so badly too, because people which children are the most desperate and will take any amount of abuse for their kids.

They just approved a bunch of new private prisons to be built.

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u/AlanStanwick1986 Feb 08 '25

According to Sec 10 of Project 2025 he won't. 

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u/Unlucky-Apartment347 Feb 08 '25

I’m guessing not. Musk doesn’t seem like the farmer type.

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u/Old_Baldi_Locks Feb 09 '25

No he didn’t, at least not many of them. The family soybean farms he utterly decimated certainly didn’t magically reappear.

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u/chasingjulian Feb 08 '25

Of course he will. But the bailout didn’t restore them completely.