Dark, soulless, cruel energy taking over the USA

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Right. Because how people behave in public among strangers absolutely reflects what they’re thinking and feeling in private. Humans have never put on a brave face or tried to make themselves look happier/healthier/richer/smarter than they actually are.

Someone’s out of touch, and I strongly suspect it’s you.

As noted above, it’s really telling and typical of DCUMs out-of-touch wealthy white liberals that you assume that I don’t speak Spanish and this isn’t my community and that I am with people that are family and friends.

Pull yourself together.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

I live in rural Real America (TM) and people are freaking out. Speak for yourself ahole.

Your drum circle in Oberlin doesn’t reflect the Midwest.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Do you think we hide under our beds and cower? We still do normal life things. But I am also preparing my exit plan.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Right. Because how people behave in public among strangers absolutely reflects what they’re thinking and feeling in private. Humans have never put on a brave face or tried to make themselves look happier/healthier/richer/smarter than they actually are.

Someone’s out of touch, and I strongly suspect it’s you.

As noted above, it’s really telling and typical of DCUMs out-of-touch wealthy white liberals that you assume that I don’t speak Spanish and this isn’t my community and that I am with people that are family and friends.

Pull yourself together.

Well, if you do, I'd make sure to carry that passport around. Don't want the wrong people to hear you speaking Spanish. ICE has detained US citizens recently.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

Yeah, no. The fact that you don't understand why people are anxious about what is going on since Trump took office says otherwise.

[Anonymous]

I can’t tell if things are actually this bad or if this site is making me lose my mind. I spend hours doom scrolling on here and am beyond depressed and scared.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

Yeah, no. The fact that you don't understand why people are anxious about what is going on since Trump took office says otherwise.

I absolutely understand it. I share some of the concerns. But I am not having apocalyptic fantasies about what is going on like a lot of people in this thread. The level of panicking in this thread (and on DCUM in general) does not match what the rest of the country is experiencing. It just doesn’t. And the sooner DCUM’s out-of-touch wealthy liberals can understand that, the closer we are to a Democratic Party that might have a chance of ever winning an election again.

What you do not seem to understand, what a lot of DCUM doesn’t understand, is that much of the country, including blue states, are doing okay right now. And this constant doomerism is just shutting down discussion. Plus, the DCUM Democrats are just too much like the boy who cried wolf. You have been calling Trump “Hitler” for eight years now. Normal people just tune you out at this point.

I think there are serious issues going on with Trump. But DCUM’s brand of solipsistic and indulgent screaming about Hitler is useless.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

I live in rural Real America (TM) and people are freaking out. Speak for yourself ahole.

Your drum circle in Oberlin doesn’t reflect the Midwest.

Not even close to where I live or what I do. But please keep making a fool of yourself by all means.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

Yeah, no. The fact that you don't understand why people are anxious about what is going on since Trump took office says otherwise.

I absolutely understand it. I share some of the concerns. But I am not having apocalyptic fantasies about what is going on like a lot of people in this thread. The level of panicking in this thread (and on DCUM in general) does not match what the rest of the country is experiencing. It just doesn’t. And the sooner DCUM’s out-of-touch wealthy liberals can understand that, the closer we are to a Democratic Party that might have a chance of ever winning an election again.

What you do not seem to understand, what a lot of DCUM doesn’t understand, is that much of the country, including blue states, are doing okay right now. And this constant doomerism is just shutting down discussion. Plus, the DCUM Democrats are just too much like the boy who cried wolf. You have been calling Trump “Hitler” for eight years now. Normal people just tune you out at this point.

I think there are serious issues going on with Trump. But DCUM’s brand of solipsistic and indulgent screaming about Hitler is useless.

We’re more panicked because we’re more informed. It will take decades to undo this damage if we recover at all. SO much waste.

Just because Joe Smith in rural Kansas doesn’t understand that DOGE isn’t a real thing and Elon isn’t allowed to hack our systems doesn’t mean it’s not a problem.

Even now, so many people saying “I didn’t see this coming”. How? Lots of us did. Because we are informed and we read history and real news. So maybe stop writing these people off as “screaming” and listen to them.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

Yeah, no. The fact that you don't understand why people are anxious about what is going on since Trump took office says otherwise.

I absolutely understand it. I share some of the concerns. But I am not having apocalyptic fantasies about what is going on like a lot of people in this thread. The level of panicking in this thread (and on DCUM in general) does not match what the rest of the country is experiencing. It just doesn’t. And the sooner DCUM’s out-of-touch wealthy liberals can understand that, the closer we are to a Democratic Party that might have a chance of ever winning an election again.

What you do not seem to understand, what a lot of DCUM doesn’t understand, is that much of the country, including blue states, are doing okay right now. And this constant doomerism is just shutting down discussion. Plus, the DCUM Democrats are just too much like the boy who cried wolf. You have been calling Trump “Hitler” for eight years now. Normal people just tune you out at this point.

I think there are serious issues going on with Trump. But DCUM’s brand of solipsistic and indulgent screaming about Hitler is useless.

We’re more panicked because we’re more informed. It will take decades to undo this damage if we recover at all. SO much waste.

Just because Joe Smith in rural Kansas doesn’t understand that DOGE isn’t a real thing and Elon isn’t allowed to hack our systems doesn’t mean it’s not a problem.

Even now, so many people saying “I didn’t see this coming”. How? Lots of us did. Because we are informed and we read history and real news. So maybe stop writing these people off as “screaming” and listen to them.

You are hopeless. The Democrats are just useless at this point. It is utterly depressing how the party loyalists cannot see how out-of-touch they are with the country.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

Yeah, no. The fact that you don't understand why people are anxious about what is going on since Trump took office says otherwise.

I absolutely understand it. I share some of the concerns. But I am not having apocalyptic fantasies about what is going on like a lot of people in this thread. The level of panicking in this thread (and on DCUM in general) does not match what the rest of the country is experiencing. It just doesn’t. And the sooner DCUM’s out-of-touch wealthy liberals can understand that, the closer we are to a Democratic Party that might have a chance of ever winning an election again.

What you do not seem to understand, what a lot of DCUM doesn’t understand, is that much of the country, including blue states, are doing okay right now. And this constant doomerism is just shutting down discussion. Plus, the DCUM Democrats are just too much like the boy who cried wolf. You have been calling Trump “Hitler” for eight years now. Normal people just tune you out at this point.

I think there are serious issues going on with Trump. But DCUM’s brand of solipsistic and indulgent screaming about Hitler is useless.

We’re more panicked because we’re more informed. It will take decades to undo this damage if we recover at all. SO much waste.

Just because Joe Smith in rural Kansas doesn’t understand that DOGE isn’t a real thing and Elon isn’t allowed to hack our systems doesn’t mean it’s not a problem.

Even now, so many people saying “I didn’t see this coming”. How? Lots of us did. Because we are informed and we read history and real news. So maybe stop writing these people off as “screaming” and listen to them.

You are hopeless. The Democrats are just useless at this point. It is utterly depressing how the party loyalists cannot see how out-of-touch they are with the country.

In 1939 there was a motto, "Germany is Hitler, Hitler is Germany.” I bet that they wished that more “out of touch” Germans had spoken up.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in a little bubble. The country overwhelmingly favors gutting the federal gov and that support has materially increased since Elon and Big Balls have revealed the craziness of where the taxpayer dollars are going. Do you think black females in inner city communities that vote blue support spending tens of billions on illegals when our their own people are sleeping in the street?

This is silly.

I live outside the Beltway.

I’m a straight cis person with a house of worship.

None of the people in my circle has a government job. I’m the lowest-income person I know, but I’m the most familiar with and the most sympathetic toward libertarian arguments. I can respect the idea of Elon Musk or someone like that trying to analyze and streamline spending, with some freedom from the usual red tape.

But my friends are all completely terrified by what the Trump-Musk-Vance tri-archs are doing to federal employees, the way they’re ignoring ALL federal laws and procedures, and what the tri-archs are doing to the Treasury, our military and iur relationship with the EU.

We’re petrified about what this means for other kinds of everyday freedoms.

If we seem quiet, I think that’s because the assumption is that the tri-archs have probably hacked all of our phones and have us under surveillance. I don’t think this is a situation where people can participate much in meaningful demonstrations and stay alive. I think the only possible hope is that patriotic Republicans in Washington figure something out.

This is crazy. I live in a deep blue area across the country from DC and nobody I know thinks or believes this. You need anxiety treatment.

DP... You are either deeply out of touch or are trying a futile gaslighting attempt. I have friends all over the country, most of whom are not federal employees and there are significant ripples of concern and anxiety rippling all across the nation right now. Tonight one friend just posted a heartbreaking story about how she packed up and fled her own hometown in Wisconsin because of a flood of anti-LGBTQ messages that she suddenly started getting. People are scared, angry, upset in ways I have never seen before in my 55+ years as an American.

Well, let’s see. Today I went to a community soccer game where the dominant language by far was Spanish. I bought elote from a cart as usual. I then met friends for dinner in a super packed restaurant. Nobody was freaking out the entire time.

What I read on DCUM bears no resemblance to what I live every day. And I suspect I am far more in touch with ordinary Americans than you are.

Dp here.
The simple-mindedness of maga is what got us in this situation. Sure, people are trying to go about their lives. That doesn’t mean they aren’t extremely worried. I bet if you had gone around and interviewed people, you would have found most of them to be very concerned. The fact that you made it out of your house and that there appears to be Spanish-speaking people still able to function and run their taco truck does not mean all is well. What a weird take.

It’s extremely typical of DCUM’s wealthy isolated Democrats that you assumed the folks at the game with me aren’t my friends and I wasn’t having extensive conversations in Spanish with them. You can’t actually imagine being friends with Latino immigrants, can you? That’s so far out of your realm of understanding that it didn’t even cross your mind.

The point is that I’m in a community that’s far more vulnerable than you and your other fellow DCUM headcases are, and they are not freaked out the way you are. Get yourself together. The solipsism of this thread is embarrassing.

Your comments are actually sad b/c it's coming for them and they don't even realize it.

Ah, yes. The wealthy white liberal DCUM poster definitely knows better than impacted community members themselves. They should just listen to your superior wisdom.

God, do you even hear yourselves?

Do you hear YOURSELF? Why do you assume the poster is liberal or wealthy? Lots of people are speaking out. Listen to farmers. Listen to service workers. Listen to low paid fed, 85% of which live outside of the DC area. You have literally no idea what Yorkers talking about. I'm so sick of you loud mouth idiots telling the rest of us what to think.

I’m not telling anyone what to think. I am saying the navel-gazing and solipsism in this thread are embarrassing and typical of out-of-touch wealthy liberals, so that is a reasonable guess.

You know what? This is why I am happy to see Trumpers suffer. The irony about MAGA talking about navel gazing. LOLOLOL. DP.

I’m the PP and I voted for Harris. I despise most of what Trump is doing (but like many Americans, not all). But I also knew Trump was going to win months in advance, precisely because of Democratic navel-gazing.

Whatever. You’d think DCUM Democrats would have learned just how wildly out-of-touch and sealed off they are on election night, but apparently not. Carry on, I guess.

Yeah, no. The fact that you don't understand why people are anxious about what is going on since Trump took office says otherwise.

I absolutely understand it. I share some of the concerns. But I am not having apocalyptic fantasies about what is going on like a lot of people in this thread. The level of panicking in this thread (and on DCUM in general) does not match what the rest of the country is experiencing. It just doesn’t. And the sooner DCUM’s out-of-touch wealthy liberals can understand that, the closer we are to a Democratic Party that might have a chance of ever winning an election again.

What you do not seem to understand, what a lot of DCUM doesn’t understand, is that much of the country, including blue states, are doing okay right now. And this constant doomerism is just shutting down discussion. Plus, the DCUM Democrats are just too much like the boy who cried wolf. You have been calling Trump “Hitler” for eight years now. Normal people just tune you out at this point.

I think there are serious issues going on with Trump. But DCUM’s brand of solipsistic and indulgent screaming about Hitler is useless.

We’re more panicked because we’re more informed. It will take decades to undo this damage if we recover at all. SO much waste.

Just because Joe Smith in rural Kansas doesn’t understand that DOGE isn’t a real thing and Elon isn’t allowed to hack our systems doesn’t mean it’s not a problem.

Even now, so many people saying “I didn’t see this coming”. How? Lots of us did. Because we are informed and we read history and real news. So maybe stop writing these people off as “screaming” and listen to them.

You are hopeless. The Democrats are just useless at this point. It is utterly depressing how the party loyalists cannot see how out-of-touch they are with the country.

In 1939 there was a motto, "Germany is Hitler, Hitler is Germany.” I bet that they wished that more “out of touch” Germans had spoken up.

Oh for Pete’s sake. Seek help.