how did they go from “he’ll create more jobs!!! so good for the economy!!!” to “lol who cares if all these national park workers got laid off lol lmao”
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All rightwingers believe the average federal employee is working from home eating bonbons compared to reality where people bust ass on shoestring budgets while more funding gets funneled to the military industrial complex
They don't care as long as it doesn't affect them. So they gotta justify and cheer for everything he does because they want validation and won't admit they have supported the "swamp" this whole time
Keep in mind as well that the federal workforce was 30% veterans, largely in part due to DEI programs. But as long as he's getting poc and destroying woke, the mindless red hats will justify anything.
As you've mentioned in the past having noticed yourself, it's all a sport to them. As long as their "side" is winning, they don't actually care about anything else. It's that simple. As long as the other "side" is mad, they don't care about the facts of the matter.
Lying to people's faces has been the playbook of the MAGA movement (and frankly any far right movement inspired by it across the globe) from the start and I'm still surprised people try to reason in good faith with them.
There is so much wrong on every front. I'm from Poland. We're located between Germany and Ukraine. And this MF is endorsing Adf and appeasing russia making fun of Zelensky in the meanwhile. All of it is crazy, like a bad joke.
Because hate bred from low emotional intelligence unfortunately never has to make sense. The uneducated of this country really rallied for making everything worse for everyone out of spite, instead of trying to find ways to improve it for us as a whole
Americans are special that way. They don't care about something until it happens to them personally, then skrrrrrrrt. Judging by how things are going, they'll be finding out plenty soon.
I feel like the people that didn't vote for him don't realize that MAGA isn't just a political movement. I'm not even sure if other republicans or even people that voted for him realized it. But Trump / MAGA isn't a political party, it's a cult.
People on the left keep waiting for a goal post to rally around or, as someone said "waiting to swing for a pitch" and that shit isn't going to happen. We need to go hard left to counter this, and American Dems are completely unequipped except for maybe like AOC or Bernie to do anything
It's Cult of Personality + Sunk Cost Fallacy. Basically he's "Their Guy", so anything he does is excusable and justified. Because if it isn't, if anything he does might be wrong, then suddenly EVERYTHING else might be wrong. And the idea that Their Guy, and themselves, being wrong is unthinkable.
Because they used the economy and price of eggs as a veil for their racism and hatred of those different from them. It’s about preserving white, straight, Christian supremacy culture, but most won’t admit that.
The US has an uneducated populace that feels looked down upon by anyone with a college degree. Any job that requires a college degree is "not a real job" and any service that they don't personally partake in is useless and easy to dismiss out of hand. Hence why they can cheer this on.
Pointing out the hypocrisy to these people doesn't work, unfortunately. A large-scale right-wing media apparatus has been at work since before I was born, systematically brainwashing vulnerable populations. To these people, it's like a sports team, and all that matters is that "their" guy wins.
I do wonder if it's because this means they are "winning". People like to be comfy, looking at what's going on in the USA and most countries is very uncomfy. So I imagine they focus on the winning and it doesn't matter everything will get worse because they are on the winning side
The wild part is i don't think many people would care about sunsetting jobs in gov that can be automated. But like how about so forethought. Like just stop hiring positions that you want to sunset and over time you will get the desired effect without the massive upheaval
Some people are just so miserable in this world that they will try to bring anybody down with them and make them as miserable as they are. Like how can this guy not have any compassion? Or even any sense at all?
The thing out of the ordinary here is that the guy with a photo in a car wearing glasses as the profile picture is using prescription ones instead of sunglasses.
I think the hardest part to digest is that for too many of them, it wasn’t about the economy. My whole life I lived with the assumption that NO ONE would be okay with Nazi fascism. It is incredibly depressing to be wrong
Good news. They can start to work in the new agricultural field picking up strawberries. NO lunch, no vacations, no breaks, etc. get to it. They wanted them immigrant jobs.
How? Very simple, they lied about why they voted for him. For maga, it was never about the the economy, the price of eggs or jobs, it was about “owning the libtards”. They view politics like sports and right now their team is winning so they are shoving it down the losers throat. They are children
aren't national park workers known as a stereotypical "get your hands dirty" type job? istg these people don't actually care about politics they just want people to suffer.
A lot of these folks don't consider *any* publicly-funded work (aside from the military and emergency services like police, apparently) to be "real work".
I'm honestly not sure what a real job is to the "get a real job" people. I've seen it applied to fired public servants, fired work crews, fired programmers, fired entertainers... do they just mean "business owner"?
In their minds, making the government “smaller” is better. They don’t care how it’s done, who it affects, why some areas are being targeted specifically, etc. They’ve been told that their other of the week is federal employees so that’s who they’re going to hate. Doesn’t matter how much they make.
I really hope someone is keeping track, because even if one is being optimistic about privatizing every federal service that is being shuttered, I see no way that a private corporation will employ as many people.
Because it does not matter what it is about, some people will always praise Trumps actions no matter how dumb they are. Maybe even if it were their own job, it's for a "greater good".
Because, unfortunately, it seems politics is performative in the US and the only thing the fascist party care about is getting and keeping power so they can lower the top rate of tax, and divert public money into private pockets.
It was never about getting someone to do a better job, it never is with these people, it's just to ensure that everything can be mindlessly gutted and stay gutted.
They're lost people looking for community and they're afraid to lose it.
Western pop culture has twisted their version of reality to think they're the good side, therefore opposition MUST be the enemy/evil. You were never reasoning with them. It's been a culture war, and will end like a real war.
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They don’t personally use/value National Parks, so they think taxes going to it is a waste of money.
I guarantee there’s a group of Rs who like Parks that are now “shocked” because they didn’t think anything *they* liked would get cut
its about this weird cult leader worship
that and human suffering gets their proverbial dicks hard. because they're fascists
30 days in and this is the most I’ve ever paid for anything. Not only am I moving but if this keeps up hell I’d leave the country.
No amount of "hmm hypocritical and inconsistent" will ever matter cuz they never believed anything to start with.
nothing can be interpreted charitably
ugh
"Why doesn't anyone want to work any more?"
And money spent on them can be used for tax cuts.
Western pop culture has twisted their version of reality to think they're the good side, therefore opposition MUST be the enemy/evil. You were never reasoning with them. It's been a culture war, and will end like a real war.