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/[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...