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I hope this guy's family suffers for all the suffering he's putting other families through.
This is the "FO" stage for the redhats voting for the dumbass game show host that promises to deport all the brown people and so they ignored the rest of the conservative platform...
Get ready for a lot of the not-the-sharpest-bulbs to start blaming Obama/Biden or "woke" for this.
And he'll blame immigrants for their problems, and they'll believe it.
Wow they already killed Direct File? To think we took the first of a thousand steps towards civilized tax handling.
Of course they treated it like Kristi Noem treats puppies.
I'm happy they killed it. Those poor Intuit executives would have had to sell their 4th summer home. 😭
H&R Block execs would have been moved to H&R Single Commercial Property, or H&R Cardboard Box :( :( :(
Surely they wont eat my face!
Remember, conservatived never even potentially care who gets fucked until it happens directly to them. And half the time not even then.
"And then they came for my neighbor. But I didn't care, because I'm not my neighbor. Then they came for me and I cried like a little removed about how unfair life is."
Well, they might care then, but they'll blame it on liberals, the Jews, POC, Teh Gheyz, Teh Woke, etc...but never on the shittastic conservative agenda.
Conservatism can never fail, only people can fail conservatism. Also, it's not that conservative policies are failures because they are terrible ideas that don't work in the real world; they only seem to have failed because we didn't go completely balls-deep on conservatism.
Rural communities should be wanting to ax Trump.
It's really easy (cheap) to manipulate people in rural America.
These are the same communities where large swathes of the population greedily apply for all the social safety net programs, often saying they need to get the benefits before the fictional welfare queens take them all, then immediately vote for the person saying they're running on a platform to get rid of all those same programs.
Source: And I made it out!
Yep. I grew up in deeply red, deeply rural area. Most of the small farms were propped up by tax dollars. Even the farmers I knew would point this out to me. Same for a whole lot of extremely poor people I grew up with - lunches were subsidized (free or reduced lunch depending on need) at school, and I think some kids didn't get a breakfast at home because things were tight.
Those people were living in utter desperation and absolutely needed and benefited from welfare, even if they didn't want to admit they were benefiting from the same programs that those OTHER, URBAN PEOPLE were...
They were still fiercely loyal to Ronnie Raygun (this was the 80s). What else ya gunna do? Vote for a LIEbural DEMONcrat? They are trying to turn 'merica commie and don't even want the BUY-BULL in our skoolz! 🤦♂️
What I still don't get is, where do they think all this "saved tax money" is going? Do they think it'll come back to them? Do they think the government, fat on (to use their verbiage) handouts, are going to ask less of them?
No, this "saved money" isn't paying off national debt, it's going straight into private pockets one way or another, followed only by another six trillion dollar aircraft carrier and Ai powered mega-proprietary vaporware jets nobody asked for.
They will cheer for cutting their own food stamps as they watch a half-assed military parade ramble through the Capitol, a display of ego that dwarfs their entire town's annual revenue within a mere couple of hours.
The power grid wavers, the bridges crumble, the un-rotated crops wither, the potholes grow, and the school's ceilings leak, but hey if you wanted a shot at education you could've just joined the Army in the first place, serf!
"We're all in this together" they say as they talk about "growing pains" and "pulling weight", as they shit in gilded thrones aboard their yachts and hold a Bible aloft whilst spitting down on their neighbor.
At least we're FREE(TM) unlike the latter days of Soviet Russia! /s
They absolutely should be but the only news source they trust is Fox News and Fox tells them what a great job Trump is doing, how all their problems are caused by liberals or dangerous illegal immigrants, and they believe every word. I work with a lot of these rural Trumpers and I don't think they're evil people, I just think they're gullible and not very bright.
Their evil, dont let them off because they are dumb. They are alsp racist it's why they are easy to convince that it's illegal and liberals ruining things. I have family that are mega and they are also not all stupid. Some just peices of shit.
Of course! It's because poverty is a personal moral failing in the United States of America.
Somebody go get the French and have them show us how to properly riot.
It’s because poverty is a personal moral failing in the United States of America.
I've noticed that when someone talks about everyone getting more vacation and a shorter work week, etc., that so very many people, even those in the working class, balk at this notion.
The circular reasoning seems to be that somehow, only those that somehow accrued enough wealth are the ones that deserve time off - the most parasitic idle rich are the ones that "deserve" leisure. Everyone else, due to the moral failing of being not-a-decamillionaire+, if they are lucky, has to work at least 40+ hours and be glad that they even get 2 weeks of vacation some form of health insurance, and praise Jeebus that they are not homeless or working 2-3 jobs, and/or "gigs" and "side-hustles" just to fucking pay the bills.
I mean, I get why the parasitic idle rich class, most especially if they just inherited their wealth, would parrot this kind of thinking. The fact that so many others parrot this shit is a testament to the unending amounts of propaganda and how well it fucking works. I cannot tell you how many times I've heard someone say, "well, that's just class warfare, d000d" to even the most matter-of-fact observations about how ridiculous this system is...
We already did that. It's how America was born. A bunch of grumpy rich upper class white dudes were pissed off about even more grumpy rich upperery class white dudes
So we asked the French to help fuck with them on a massive scale.
The French were all about it.
After reading this, I tried to find information on how to apply for one of these HOME grants. I was unsuccessful.