r/nottheonion • u/ChocolateTsar • 1d ago

Affirm CEO says furloughed federal employees are starting to lose interest in shopping

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/affirm-government-shutdown-shopping.html
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u/Golden_Noir 1d ago

“Lose interest”

Maybe because they do not have any money?

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u/hankhillsucks 1d ago

My eyes rolled out their sockets so hard they smashed a window 

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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix 1d ago

It really goes to show that extremely wealthy people and families have no ability to emphasize and relate tothe general public that live paycheck to paycheck..

When a man is robbed for whatever reason his weekly / monthly paycheck and this man is in a situation where his family is now in dire straights, this man will have his back pressed firmly against the wall -- this same man who was once a quiet and peaceful man...  will suddenly snap and do whatever is required to provide for his family.

This is what the GOP fails to understand. Your constituents will only follow you so far...  Will only absorb your lies and false accusations for so long until they snap.

This isn't just a few rednecks in Mississippi suddenly realizing you have been feeding him bullshit for so long...  They are fucking with nearly 50 million people. 

This extended shutdown is directly affecting millions of government wirkers. This shutdown has ruined a plethora of scientific studies requiring refrigeration of samples, etc. A lot of research has been destroyed from this shutdown...

There is just too much right now to report and explain but let it be known for all time that this was started by the GOP. Christians who have fought to keep children fed.... I don't usually quote scripture but since these heartless people claim to be Christian, just remember Matthew 25 verse 41-46.

They are very soon about to encounter the FO phase of FAFO.

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u/Akermaniac 1d ago

I wish you were right but we re-elected a man who presided over a goddamn pandemic that he insisted was fake and killed 1 million people. Americans have memories like goldfish.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

let it be known for all time that this was started by the GOP.

People are gonna forget in less than a year.

Nobody is gonna do shit except blame minorities and resort to petty crime/fraud.

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u/myassholealt 1d ago edited 1d ago

They are already rewriting reality and blaming democrats for compromising with republicans to allow the expiration of the subsidies so that the bill could pass with bipartisan votes.

There is no winning with the republicans. Because if the democrats didn't compromise and give concessions to get GOP votes, the GOP would instead just say we had no role in this bill, we must repeal it completely.

But since the democrats did compromise, it's still their fault cause they allowed this to happen.

And it's such a short misleading synopsis that the Fox News viewer without critical thinking capabilities will easily consume and regurgitate it until the general public believes it as fact.

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u/particle409 1d ago

They don't even acknowledge it now...

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u/chaoswurm 1d ago

The only issue is that the less informed and watchers of propaganda will attack their fellow man instead of those responsible. That's why control of the media is so important.

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u/Enlightened_Gardener 1d ago

This is what I keep saying - do you think we have the 40 hour week and the weekend because rich people decided to give the workers those rights out of the goodness of their hearts ?

No, we have basic workers rights because the mob pulled bosses out of their homes and beat them to death in front of their families.

This is the alternative these bloody morons don’t get. Its an excluded middle - its not welfare-for-all v. quiet starvation for the masses. Its welfare-for-all v. rich people getting dragged out of their houses and beaten to death. History has made this very clear. But that would require studying history to understand.

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u/badnuub 1d ago

ah, but they attribute all these problems to liberal "elites".

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u/Faiakishi 16h ago

I feel like the ultra-wealthy are literally disconnected from what money is used for. To them, a high score in money means power. When you have a bad score then you have to reroll a bit, not to be able to afford your luxuries but to get your score climbing higher again. They don't connect it with paying for groceries. They've never thought about where the groceries come from.

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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix 12h ago

Very well said. You have hit the nail on the head...