"what did you vote for then?" name a Trump policy that influenced your vote, please!
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I bet he loves the burning cities and innocent people getting shot in the face because those things don’t affect him personally
"Dog ate my homework" ass motherfuckers
Yes you did.
They can get fucked. You wanted this. You got it.
Awww is someone having a hard time finding his bootstraps? 😁
You did vote for this & you were also warned.
You're just a sucker.
'I didn't vote this." Yes. Yes you did. You didn't want to hear others tell you what you were voting for. You wanted to believe your own fantasy version. Even now, most MEGA voters want to believe their own fantasy of what Trump will do for America over the truth of what he is actively doing.
thats why they fall for scams quite easily, they trump is just kidding or he suddenly reverses what he does, nope he doesnt. only the 1st term he had people preventing him from doing too much damage, this time no one is going to stop trump and his cronies, conservatives also want to blame democrats, but dems arnt in power anymore.
“You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,”
You consistently voted for this. Every time conservatives are in power they cut services and environmental protections. You voted for it over and over again but this time it actually hurt you and you're sad.
also cut TAXES for actual rich people, not for poors whom seem to think they will benefit from such tax cuts for the rich somehow.
this time it hurt you in a way that you noticed
Do people just not understand how voting works, or what the word means? Do they maybe think it's short for Devote?
The workers who lost their jobs weren’t desk-bound administrators. They were firefighters, trail maintenance crews, wildlife biologists, rangers, foresters, and seasonal workers who kept public lands accessible and safe. They were the people who made it possible for outfitters, guides, hunters, ranchers, and tourism operators to do business.
try doing that without desk-bound administrators and see how it goes
The betrayal is particularly acute because these workers weren’t making big government salaries. Forest Service seasonal workers typically earn $15 to $18 per hour. Park rangers make $35,000 to $50,000 annually. These were working-class jobs that supported working-class families in rural communities with few other options.
isn't this the same group of people who claim that minimum wage is too high?
Of course not. He voted for other people to lose their jobs.
Maybe he should reflect on what it's like to be "other people".
If they had empathy, they wouldn't be conservative.
His situation is a mistake that needs to be rectified, everyone else deserved it.
“You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,” Zink told Politico...
Right. You voted for other people to lose their jobs. In reality you voted for and deserve exactly what you're getting.
“You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,”
Ha, I grabbed that quote too.
Narrator Voice: But He did. He actually did vote for this.
honestly, what I hear when these nitwits say this is "I spent all my time being told what to think by people on TV (famous celebrities! Ooooo!) in the media that I was easily impressed by..."
It's the full flower of the Southern Strategy that Lee Atwater leveraged in 1980 to help Reagan take the election. The early 80's was also when Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Lee Atwater - broke into politics in the biggest way and cemented lying and couched racism as right wing political tools..
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/75/creatures-of-the-swamp/
It's been all downhill for the US since then.
Just because you're too dumb to understand the consequences doesn't mean you're shielded from them.
These are real jobs held by real people in small towns across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona—states that overwhelmingly voted for Trump.
Whoa whoa whoa, don't lump Colorado in with those states. We absolutely did NOT vote for that piece of shit - 3 times in a row.
So his business is built around serving federal government employees and federal spending, he voted to reduce federal spending and is upset that it negatively affected his business.
Whhhhhaaattt????

"I believed we were cutting waste in Washington,” Mitchell said in an interview with local news. “I didn’t think they’d fire the people actually fighting fires and maintaining trails. That’s not waste—that’s the actual work.”
It's all actual work. The relentless assault on all federal institutions for the last half century had the initial effect of making the vast majority of them the most efficient systems in existence. Both political parties initially agreed they should not be wasteful, and through several rounds of reform they became more efficient than private organizations doing the same job can even theoretically be. But it's never actually been about "waste," and they stated cutting bone by the early 2000s. The only federal jobs left do actual work, and better, more important work than the vast majority of private sector jobs.
The waste is in private contracts that don't fund public sector jobs. But DOGE didn't go for those.
I would argue they didn’t become more efficient. They just outsourced everything to private contractors. And private contractors have an overhead of needing to compete for contracts, so they’re all spending money on staff that writes up the bids. Additionally, they only hire the workers when they win the contract and those contracts usually expire after 5-10 years. This means there is no long term, institutional capacity building. It might be fine for small projects, but for large complex projects, tearing down an organization only to reassemble it under another contractor every 5-10 years is in fact terribly inefficient and produces worse outcomes. Organizations cannot become good at the work. I’ve seen it first hand. There are many contractors that specialize only in federal procurement regulations, but have almost no in house technical knowledge of how to run the projects they’re bidding on beyond what is they need to say to win. And, most importantly, knowing what to say to win is different than having a mature organization in place to do the work.

Yes, you did. Fucking idiot. Enjoy being homeless.
Especially in a country where criminalizing homelessness is literally a bipartisan issue.
We tried to fucking tell you chucklefucks what was going to happen if Trump was elected. Project 2025 laid it all out plain as day but you still fucking gargled his shit covered balls so fuck you fuck you fuck you.
Folks from rural areas prioritize cultural signaling for conservativism over economic growth. I'd hazard that Mr. Zink would probably vote Trump again, given the opportunity, if the opposite candidate publicly supported trans rights or was just a Democratic black woman.
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Goosechase.jpg "You won't meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn't vote for this"
"WHAT DID YOU VOTE FOR THEN"
"WHAT DID YOU VOTE FOR THEN"
Conservatives: "We voted for the child rapist."
“WHAT DID YOU VOTE FOR THEN”
for white unarmed mother of 3 to be murdered and called a terrorist because she was murdered
God people in rural communities are so stupid when they vote. I live in a very lopsided state. Just for ease of understanding, about 80% of the state is rural, but also 80% of the people live in the cities. Rural folks often forget just how many more people live in cities.
So they get resentful and say "why are MAH tax dollars going to all them city folks"! I've had this talk so many times with them, why should they pay (like pennies or their salary) to my city improvements just because they're state taxes?
Well, rural guy, because in actuality "us city folk" subsidize all of the rural state. They think they're paying for our stuff but turns out density is way cheaper and way more economically viable than rural. So we subsidize them all the time. I always remind them who do they think pays for the roads, the infrastructure, their state parks? It's not them and their low tax income. Their life depends on the city people
And then they vote to hurt us by cutting programs... And forget that we were paying for them to be on those programs.
"I love the poorly educated"- TRUMP and ever GOP ever.
"Smart people don't like me" -- Donald J Trump
Oh, Terry, you sweet summer child.
What did you expect would get cut when Donald told you he was going to take a saw to our government?
You wanted fascism, Zinky. Well, you got it. And you better thank Dear Leader and Jesus. You live in the Greatest Country In The World, and God gave you bootstraps!
Quit crying and get a job, weakling. Hail Trump.
I didn’t vote for this
Edit: Pardon the comma splice. I found such cheese.

It's like signing a contract, you have only yourself to blame if the contract sucks but didn't read it before putting your signature on it.
Here champ, you dropped this.
