To everyone who voted for Trump and relies on social security, or ACA healthcare, or have pre-existing conditions, or has a child with special needs, or LGBT family, or undocumented friends and family, I have no sympathy for you. You got what you voted for, next time learn your candidate’s policies before the election. We tried to warn you, we tried to tell you his policies were radical or even dangerous. We tried to tell you he wanted to take all those things away. We tried to tell you we would be the ones paying for his tariffs; but you wouldn’t listen. He is not your friend, he does not care about you, all he wants to stay our of jail and make himself and his wealthy friends richer. The rest of us were willing to pay a little more for groceries if it meant our families would have healthcare, our friend’s children with special needs could get an education, our parents could collect their hard-earned social security. Instead we will all pay a lot more for everything when tariffs are imposed and the migrants who pick our fruits and vegetables are deported.

Now your penance: call your congressmen every day for the next four years, ask them to stand-up to Trump, to block his policies that will make life harder and more expensive for everyday Americans, to block his nominations, tell them you will vote them out in the next election if they don’t – and actually vote against them when they don’t. Write letters to the White House asking them not to do all the things he promised us he’d do. Write to the Supreme Court, and all the government agencies we rely on everyday asking them to resist rolling-back all the progress we’ve made as a country over the last century. If you don’t, it won’t just be the liberals paying the price, it will be your friends, your families, and even you.

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      One tax break doesn’t make up for wanting to shut down the Department of Education which sponsors special ed programs, or repeal the ACA and reduce medicaid that help people with disabilities get health care.

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        I’m assuming you’d write it off on your taxes. But we’ll get more details when he enactes the policy

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          So it wouldn’t help families who can’t afford help in the first place at all. And is just another tax write off for people who are already well off. Thanks for clarifying.

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            Um… no… it’s not for people who already have a paid caregiver. That wouldn’t even make any sense so i don’t know why the fuck you assumed that as ultimate truth and Factual concrete evidence based on your imagination. Maybe research it and get a grip?

            It’s for FAMILY MEMBERS WHO ARE AND HAVE BEEN, CARE GIVING FOR ANOTHER FAMILY MEMBER

            Jesus…

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              I’ll try it your way: HOW DOES THIS HELP PEOPLE WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO TAKE CARE OF A FAMILY MEMBER IN THE FIRST PLACE?

              You may not be aware of this, but things cost money. And to earn money you need a job. But taking care of other people takes time away from your job. Which means you have less money.

              This change does not help people who cannot afford to be a caregiver in the first place at all.

              Does dumbing it down a little help, you condescending asshole?

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    Too long and complicated for the average Trump voter. You admit they are stupid in your first paragraph, and still use words with more than three syllables…

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    To everyone who voted for Trump: I hope all your limbs turn necrotic from the diabeetus you can’t afford insulin for and you have to chop them off yourself because you don’t have money for the operation.

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      They might manage to knock gas prices down a few tens of cents in the short term as they “drill baby, drill”, but agreed everything else is going to go up, and of course, we get extra screwed in the long term.

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    Trump has his own think tank to develop policies called The America First Policy Institute.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Policy_Institute

    Their transition plan is described as a rival to Project 2025, it’s hard to say which is the true plan. But America First is chaired by Linda McMahon, who has know Trump a very long time.

    It has some stuff about special needs and disabled people, but who knows what will be implemented come the 20th of January.

    What is likely is that it will be some form of Unitary Executive Theory.

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    Posting on the internet doesn’t move the needle at all. Slacktivism does basically nothing. I know you want to believe so desperately that your voice on here does anything, but it doesn’t.

    We’re a niche (the perpetually online), within a niche (sitting on fractured clone of Reddit), within a niche (people who actually vote).

    Nothing said or done here will ever make a difference whatsoever.

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    Everyone keeps saying “it’s the economy” but there sure were a bunch of people out shopping today when I looked. Maybe it was just racism and misogyny combined with people mistakenly believing that Trump will lower their taxes.

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      I think the biggest “selling point” with Trump is quick fixes - he “sold” things getting instantly better. As far as the economy us concerned there is no such thing, let alone by introducing tarrifs, getting rid of productive people and cutting support for people. Which is funny because you can absolutely have a quick “fucked it and the planet up for generations”.

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      The economy is recovering, inflation is back down to normal levels, unemployment is low, GDP is continuing to grow. High tariffs and deporting migrants is only going to make prices go up.