That is an occasional roundup of people that voted for Donald Trump and are shocked to seek out out nobody is immune from the harm and ache he causes. Many are actually grappling with the implications of their selection because it impacts them and their family members—and presumably regretting their vote.
Oh boy, the leopards actually feasted this previous week as even die-hard MAGA supporters started questioning if perhaps, simply perhaps, they voted for the unsuitable man. I already wrote in regards to the rank disgust in MAGA land over Donald Trump’s weird Gaza video, however there was way more. Let’s get to it!
On Thursday, Each day Kos lined the blowback to Lawyer Common Pam Bondi’s launch of closely redacted Jeffrey Epstein information, information that included a number of mentions of Trump himself (not new data, although conveniently ignored by MAGA). Our story has loads of conservative freakouts, however there’s so, so, a lot extra. For instance, right here’s right-wing bro Dave Portnoy, proprietor of the conservative web site Barstool Sports activities, on X:
If I’m gonna be truthful these questions must be requested at the moment.
Why is the discharge of the Epstein record all the time a shit present?
What’s the purpose of booting out illegals and criminals whereas one way or the other turning into a secure haven for the Tate brothers?
Why is Crypto in the bathroom if Trump is crypto king?
How far does Tsla inventory should crash earlier than Elon goes again to work?
Perhaps these questions might’ve been requested earlier than the election? Or maybe Portnoy might’ve paid consideration the final time Trump was president, and realized that 1) every little thing having to do with Trump is a shit present, 2) Trump isn’t simply answerable for sexual abuse but additionally surrounds himself with accused predators, and three) Trump has used crypto to rip-off his supporters. As for Musk, who is aware of the final time he really confirmed as much as work at his corporations.
The crypto bros are definitely having a tricky one.
Ideas and prayers.
Let’s head on over to Oklahoma, the place former Republican state Rep. Sheila Dills, a virulent transphobe and Trump supporter, was outraged by Trump’s cuts to the Nationwide Institute of Well being and their influence on Oklahoma universities. On a now-deleted touch upon native station KOTV’s Fb web page, she wrote:
The tales I’m listening to first hand are devastating. I’m all about environment friendly authorities and general assist the present administration, however environment friendly authorities does not matter if we do not fund LEGITIMATE analysis that protects us from lethal toxins. I do know a younger girl who has executed every little thing proper, poured her coronary heart and soul into her schooling, has gained each award attainable, is the highest of her PHD class at OU and whose analysis as a STUDENT will result in therapeutics for lethal illnesses. BUT, now she has watched fellow Doctoral college students be stripped of their funding (way more than “back office” prices, we’re speaking whole fellowships)and fears on a regular basis she shall be subsequent and the brilliant future she has earned at Vanderbilt for her Submit Doctoral research by means of whole sacrifice shall be taken away. A powerful economic system and army don’t matter if we’re all useless from infectious illnesses! That particular analysis scholar is my daughter!
It’s all the time “spending is bad unless it helps me” with these individuals. All that different analysis? Illegitimate. The stuff she cares about as a result of it impacts her daughter? Respectable. Identical to all these MAGA federal workers getting fired. Everybody else’s jobs? Inessential. Their very own jobs? Important.
What makes MAGA so harmful is its utter lack of empathy. We will’t get a strong progressive majority till we determine learn how to educate those who we’re all on this collectively.
Talking of, let’s go to Don Shotwell of Blue Mound, Texas. He’s an America-loving patriot. Loves Donald Trump. And fears “America is under attack by Marxists!!!” in keeping with his cowl picture on X. His bio there says, “2A Advocate, Anti-Marxist, Anti-Woke, Anti-Identity Politics, Anti-Establishment, Anti-Left.”
Boy, he certain should hate something remotely smelling of socialism, proper?
He posted this on Fb (now deleted):
I’m a conservative, and a Republican.
• • I voted for Trump in all three of the presidential elections that he is gained.
I even backed his cupboard picks, together with RFK. That being stated, I DISAGREE 100% with the proposed overhaul of the SNAP program. Why? Nicely, it is easy…
On common, research present that more healthy meals prices MORE than different choices some could contemplate “unhealthy.” People who find themselves on the Supplemental Diet Help Program (SNAP, colloquially known as, “food stamps”) are on this program as a result of they need assistance affording groceries because of the truth that they’re, let’s assume, “financially challenged.” I occur to be a kind of individuals, and I am on SNAP. So, I converse from expertise. We’re counting EVERY penny. Lengthy story brief: if the federal government desires the individuals on SNAP to purchase more healthy meals, then it must INCREASE the quantity we obtain in order that we are able to ACTUALLY AFFORD stated “healthy food.”
It’s a HUGE downside once you proceed to obtain the identical quantity of help, and but it does not purchase as a lot meals anymore. At that time, individuals begin lacking meals, and that REALLY is not wholesome.
Rant over. Every part else…DOGE, no males in girls’s sports activities, America regaining respectect from different nations, Gaza, Russia, and so forth…sustain the GREAT work.
Mainly: “I hate socialism, but I’m white, unlike those other people, so give me my free government money so I don’t starve, but fuck everyone else.” Has there ever been something extra “Republican” than this put up?
Fortunately, he’s in Texas. I’m certain he’s acquired some bootstraps mendacity round. He can pull himself up by them.
Right here’s one other a kind of ”I voted to screw everybody else as a result of Trump promised to assist me” tales. This story, revealed by The Washington Submit, is definitely heartbreaking: A younger girl in an economically depressed a part of Michigan is making an attempt to get pregnant and is suckered in by Trump’s promise of free IVF. Now her authorities job has been eradicated, and about that IVF …
4 days after Trump fired her, Cooper was in mattress along with her husband. She picked up her cellphone and noticed the information.
There was a brand new govt order to develop entry to IVF. She learn the White Home reality sheet, which talked about Trump’s request for coverage suggestions to scale back prices of the service.
However it nonetheless wasn’t free, and he or she was out of a job and out of a plan.
“Delivering on promises for American families,” learn the White Home’s announcement.
“That’s bulls—”, she recalled pondering, and put down her cellphone.
Bear in mind again in 2016, there have been individuals on the far left who needed Hillary Clinton to lose as a result of it might imply that folks would get up to the horrors of conservatism and usher within the wonderful employees’ revolution?
You suppose they’d have discovered their lesson, however they had been again in 2024, like author Sean Padraig McCarthy. Days earlier than November’s election, he tweeted, “I’ll be voting third party but it’s true that either Kamala or Trump wins. I have a slight preference for a Trump victory. This last year of genocide amid near total public indifference has broken something in me. At least him being there would wake some people up to the horror.”
After Home Republicans handed a finances blueprint that will intestine Medicaid, McCarthy had the gall to tweet, “$880 billion in Medicaid cuts is insane. A lot of people are going to die.”
Persons are waking as much as the horror, however it’s not the horror he imagined. This notion that “if people are exposed to the worst Republican excesses, it’ll help our cause” is so past misguided. I can’t even start. Elections have penalties.
I actually have over a dozen tabs open with extra examples, however I have to wrap this up, so I’ll simply finish with this:
Okay, yet one more:
Fuck these individuals.
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