My sense is Trump will try to make Snap benefits permanently end during the shutdown,” she said. “I’m dumbfounded by the cruelty.”
That’s the inevitable outcome of what they are doing, less money for billionaires is thier concern.
Grand Rapids, Michigan resident Bill predicted he “will have to go without many things that I ordinarily purchase” and borrow money from his family.
“How do I feel about it? I curse Donald Trump and his entire party of sycophants and lickspittles to the seven[th] circle of hell, now and for all time,” the 71-year-old said.
I like Bill’s attitude :)
Only MAGAt morons are dumbfounded over this. I mean, they were already dumb… hence why they voted for someone who SAID he didn’t care about them and only cared about their vote… but now, they are dumbfounded over learning he doesn’t fucking care for anyone but himself.
It really sucks that normal people have to suffer as well, but I will be watching with great joy at my neighbors and family complaining about this when we all know who they voted for. I’m lucky I’m insulated from this, but I can’t say the same for my cousin who just had a second kid, is reliant on this program, and is passively a maga idiot. I’ll cook for and feed her kids, but her and her Hispanic maga baby daddy can suck eggs.
Americans dumbfounded, still vote conservative to own the libs
I’ll believe Americans are dumbfounded until I see a change, otherwise it’s just opinion.
Someone dumbfounded by the actions of the current administration is almost by definition someone who struggles with coherent and consistent thought.
Honestly though, anyone surprised by this is a fucking idiot. This was in the plan that they wrote and made publicly available years ago. You are not allowed to be surprised by this.
This was in the plan
It’s also generally where our government operates. Under Clinton we watched the social safety net get cut. Under Dubya it was cut further. When the poors tried to revolt Obama stood by and let the NYPD brutalize them and let the banks con and rob them. Biden and Trump I also got in on the fun of making life harder for the poors, by standing by and doing nothing as the cost of living has doubled and tripled while wages stayed stagnant. (And for added fun, Biden and Trump have done nothing while homelessness is increasingly criminalized.)
It’s who we are at a cultural level. We ARE a cruel people.
They thought that he would only hurt the people that they don’t like. They have a hardon for cruelty. That is the defining characteristic of MAGA.
It’s easy to forget that Trump won the popular vote, and that this is his second term.
America has a cruel president because Americans are cruel. That’s what they want.
He didn’t win the popular vote the first time. He lost by 3 million votes, but a Democrat has to win by a lot more than that because of the handicap set up by Republicans to favour Republicans. He lost by 8 million to Biden and that was enough for a Democrat to be appointed by the “Electoral College”.
George W. Bush also lost the popular vote in 2000, but was appointed.
I don’t know if Trump actually won the popular vote in 2024. At this point it doesn’t really matter. The rich and powerful are just going to appoint who they want, they don’t give a fuck what the people vote for. The popular vote is an opinion at best, and it’s not considered. Americans don’t elect presidents, the ruling elite does.
I don’t know if Trump actually won the popular vote in 2024.
Trump - 77,302,580
Harris - 75,017,613
Yes, he did. “He didn’t win the popular vote” was a cold comfort I told myself often the first time, but this time there was no such thing. I had to accept that America is just made up of a larger than average percentage of horrible people.
Thanks. Crazy that “only” 2 million over means a Republican can win, but “only” 3 million over means a Democrat doesn’t have enough to win.
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And here I thought the ones that were removing your snap benefits, shutting down the government, kidnapping people off the street, …, … , … were the dangerous and cruel ones.
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People that are dumbfounded just haven’t been paying attention.
Yes, and we will be dumbfounded how quickly they forget.
Hard to forget when you can’t eat.
They’ll forget who was at fault and blame the dems while giving the fascists a free pass.
As is tradition.
Bingo.
On the way up to the next election (ha, if that ever happens) the Nazis will twist it that it all happened due to the shutdown, which was definitely not their fault. The others were the ones who wouldn’t agree to things.
Whilst the dumb-ocrats will just blissfully bumble along not defending themselves, and then wonder why they have lost to the Nazis once again.
Gotta kill’em all.
And were privileged enough to only pay attention now
We know totalitarian aren’t above starving their own people. History has many examples.
No we are not. I mean some of us are probably. They get dumbfounded by their car slowing down going up a hill.
I myself am dumbfounded, because the ballot box has failed and although I know how to use the ammo, I don’t want to die alone in a shootout with gravy seals
Anyone shocked by this: dm me to buy a bridge.
People vote for a convicted rapist and then are surprised when their country gets fucked.
I don’t believe anyone is actually dumbfounded by the cruelty. We’ve all heard the rhetoric, we all watched the speeches, the cruelty was there plain to see. Of course, some people didn’t think it would ever come for them, that they weren’t on the s*** list, but there was never any question about the cruelty itself.
Founded on dumb, Americans get snap benefits cut. Still vote against interests.
The cruelty is not a bug, its a feature.
Like all the money saved by hiring vibe coders cause they’re cheaper! The bugs are the point!!!
It’s not really like that at all.
Americans who voted for people to be killed dumbfounded as regime moves to kill more people.
I heard a take today that it’s a purposeful provocation, in an attempt to elicit the ability to use martial law, I assume to keep himself in power. He needs the people to revolt, with violence. I dunno what I think about it.
I think escalation and violence from one side or another is happening regardless.
On one hand, if this is the game he will play he can make things worse and worse and just say “but if you react, I get what I want”. Then he ruins programs and gets what he wants. On the other hand he has made things worse and more violent by lying and claiming that there is already a violent response… and he gets what he wants.
Win win for fascism either way.
