Summary
Low-income voters who supported Donald Trump are expressing concerns over potential cuts to government benefits as his administration pushes for aggressive spending reductions.
Trump’s newly announced “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is tasked with cutting programs, raising fears about impacts on social safety nets.
Trump also plans to shut down the Education Department, impose tariffs on imports from China, Mexico, and Canada, and has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health Secretary, signaling a focus on controversial health policies.
Voter anxieties about these shifts are growing.
I hate how this is always on fucking point. These people don’t have empathy until it affects them in a personal way, then all of a sudden it’s “who let this happen?!”
It was you, you fucking dipshits, by not having the emotional intelligence to be able to think for one second in another person’s shoes or think out the end conclusion to a piece of rhetoric.
“He is more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich,” Mosura, 55, said on a recent afternoon. “I think he knows it’s the poor people that got him elected, so I think Trump is going to do more to help us.”
Oh. My. God.
Voter anxieties about these shifts are growing.
Oh, NOW they’re concerned? Not when we were all beating the drum telling these morons that Trump was going to fuck the country again?
God.
Low income voters should demand taxing the wealthy, like multimillionaires and billionaires, more rather than just hoping for benefits
Leopards will become morbidly obese in 6-12 months. Being stupid is expensive.
I wish I could offer them some solace, but I can’t. They are absolutely fucked. We are all fucked. This is going to take decades to recover from, and that’s assuming we even can.
Wait, people are getting what they asked for? Colour me surprised.
Fuckem.
America’s version of Brexit is just starting. Wait to see what happens in 3 years’ time!
When our economy collapses due to the Musk/Trump “management” of it, then Musk/Trump/etc will need to start a hot war to put citizens to work and excuse vast new amounts of spending (financed with borrowing), mostly on the MIC. Just like Hitler did in the late 30s. Who the victim will be, I’ve no idea. The stupid little post-9/11 middle-eastern wars made MIC types richer but I don’t think they greatly affected the US economy otherwise. No, I think we’ll need a big war, against a fairly powerful opponent, to justify all of the “sacrifice” the domestic Poors are going to be asked to engage in. The opponent should be, ideally, a prime target for racial and cultural bigotry - a people that the Poors already think is gross. That’ll boost the enlistment rates among their young, who’ll be all too happy to sign up to murder whoever MAGA says is foul and hateable and responsible for the shit sandwiches that they’ve found on their plates. But will Musk/Trump try to take on a Russia or China or NK, opponents that might let fly with nukes? Wall St. won’t be keen on that I think, and the billionaires own MAGA now, but still there’ll be all those starving, diseased poors … how will we protect billionaire wealth while maximally leveraging the poors’ racism/bigotry and their desire to feel strong and important, to have a stage and to have at least a micro-MAGA-sized personal claim to glory?
We’re going to invade Latin America. Not a little bit, a LOT of it. It’ll be Socialists we invade.
I hope you’re wrong but I’m very afraid you could be right.
We lack the will and production to war this time round…the US is proper fucked
ignorance has a price
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it bothers me that so many commenters are excited about the idea of people suffering.
I’m not excited, but I lost all empathy for fellow Americans who voted Trump this election. They will get what they voted for.
I mean, this. The only way any average American is going to benefit from the Trump admin is if they are very active in the stock market and know what to look for. Most of the people that voted for Trump are barely making ends meet, and they’re going to be in for a rude awakening when the housing market crashes in 1-2 years, tariffs have driven up the prices of everything, and social safety nets have been eliminated.
I voted for the competent adult, who would have done things to benefit 99% of Americans, but others wanted the tantrum baby. The market is going to go up, because taxes and regulations will be more lax, and also, that’s what it tends to do, and I’ll personally benefit profusely from it.
I’m not a Trump supporter. He’s a fraud, idiot, and a national disgrace. But I have extensive savings, retirement accounts, stocks holdings, etc, so I’m going to benefit. That’s all that Trump ever does, is give more to the people that already have it, because those are the only people he interacts with.
His struggles are with getting lenders and ideal interest rates on multi million dollar loans, and on trying to shield his assets from taxes, because good forbid he pay his fair share on the obscene amount of wealth he receives from a trust fund, and never actually earned.
If those aren’t problems that you have, and you voted for Trump then you’re going to have a rude awakening in store. Unfortunately you dragged the rest of us into this mess with you.
i did not vote for Trump.
They took a risk because the economy was already good
https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/the-economy-has-been-great-under-biden-thats-why-trump-won
and you will suffer with them, most likely.
this is not the way to class solidarity.
my daughter said to me one day - you have to have more empathy for those who are oppressed than hatred for oppressors.
right now, i see a lot of people lumping those who are most vulnerable together with incoming leadership. indifference to those who are most vulnerable doesn’t help any of us.
I think it’s okay for them to learn what they voted for. Learning from their mistakes is the only way to prevent them from happening in the future.
some of the people who will suffer most are also people who are least likely to learn. and i still don’t want to see them homeless or starving.
To be honest, I’m more concerned about the people who didn’t vote for this yet will suffer the consequences. That’s what really has me worried.
