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I'm sure you'll be fine and it'll be even better when the system is rewritten in a month, you won't be lost or declared dead.

Just sit back and enjoy what you voted for.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Alright I'm just gonna say it. Yes I know a lot of people who voted for Kamala will be hurt to. It will hurt my parents, my grandparents, etc.

But it is a goddamn lie if I say I'm not excited about these people having their faces eaten. This is what stupidity gets you. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Fuck around and find out.

You fuckers all thought you were better than LGBTQ+, Black people, immigrants, union members, etc. Now you learn that nope, all of your teeth are just a cheap source of aquarium gravel.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Zero sympathy for the only state that went 100% to Trump. You literally asked for this, pray to your fucking orange god to save you

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Delays could be disastrous for many Americans. In one study, 42% of Americans aged 65-plus said they wouldn’t be able to afford basic necessities like food without their monthly check.

There are approximately 60 million Americans aged 65 and over.

42% of that is about 25 million people.

... And thats not counting those on Disability, SSDI, like myself.

Thats another roughly 11 million people, under 65, disabled and unable to work due to serious, debilitating injuries or medical conditions.

If these idiots actually do this, and fuck it up as much as they are likely to, we're looking at something approximating 5% to 10% of the country becoming homeless within months ... and then likely starve to death or die of exposure, we're talking about the eldery and disabled here.

... This would effectively be somewhere between, or comparable to, the varying estimates of avoidable deaths of Holodomor or the famine during the Great Leap Forward.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The suffering is the point.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

You won, get over it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Well well well, if that isn’t the consequences of your choices coming around to bite you in the ass. I am well aware that the individuals suffering are not individually to be blamed but I have zero sympathy in this particular case.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, it's the thing we said was going to happen!!?! Who would have thought we were right!!!

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Article is like, didn't make enough to save for retirement? How about you start saving now?

Retirement in America is going to involve cat food for many.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

No need to be alarmist about it. They can just apply for SNAP benef- oh wait nevermind. But there's still plenty of support for food banks which will- oh, right. But... uh, I'm sure they'll be fine if they have 401k or something, stocks are up and food prices are down again.... right?

[*whispering with unseen person*]

Really? Oh! Well shit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Have you seen how expensive cat food is now?

They better get good at dumpster diving.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You think they’ll be able to afford cat food? lol

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why are they Stressing? They LITERALLY Voted for this! President Musk LITERALLY told them he would do this! Which means this is FAKE NEWS!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of the few campaign promises he actually kept. But yes, it was obvious to anyone with half a brain that this administration would gut social security. So you get what you deserve.

The people I feel bad for are the minority of voters who actually saw this coming and didn't vote for him. They are stuck in this horrible situation because of all the stupid dipshits who are getting their faces eaten by leopards right now.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Simply put you get what you vote for

Which if I’m reading this correct

For project 2025 For hate For racism For fascism For literally anything and everything bad. No clue why people voted for this guy.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He said he wouldn't do Project 2025 and so people trusted the word of a guy convicted of 34 counts of fraud because he said that he was being treated unfairly by the justice system.

I dunno... people are dumb.

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